Aurea Juniper

**Aurea Juniper** (アララギトリーナ, *Araragi Trina*?) is one of the main characters of Season 2 of *Guardians of Harmony* and the main central of the season. She is a very friendly and outgoing 14 year-old girl from Nuvema, Unova.

As of Season 4, she becomes a supporting character and the resident Pokémon Professor of Nuvema. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon. Prior to Season 14, she gave the role of Professor to Bianca Harkabune (since her children were too young at the time) before dying due to a monster attack.

## Bio

### Appearance

Aurea has light brown hair and cyan eyes. As a Professor from Seasons 4-12, she usually wears her light green lab coat, which has a fade of white on it, and her now-sparkly hair (starting in the S11 finale) is usually pulled into a bun. Her Harmony Mark is a light gray Minccino head surrounded by mint green wings.

As a civilian in Season 2, her outfit consists of a white and spring green pointy-sleeved, V-neck dress with mint green tights underneath and heels of the same color. Her hair is also worn down. In Seasons 4-11, this is changed to a white top, a spring green pencil skirt, and green and white sneakers. This remains the same in Season 12, except that she now has white leggings, mint green socks and her crown, as well as a mint green long-sleeved top under her lab coat. Her wardrobe is changed in Season 13 to a pastel green top with white leggings and a cyan skirt over them, complete with light blue slip-on shoes. While keeping the lab coat from the previous 9 seasons and the crown, her hair is now let loose and overflows down to just below her shoulders.

As a Guardian of Harmony, her hair changes into a spring green waist-length ponytail with a fade of light gray and she gains a pair of Minccino ears and a fluffy Minccino tail. Her outfit is similar to the canon Bloom's Cosmix form, but the star strands and the leggings are removed while the outfit is modified a bit. She has mint green wing earrings with a white heart in the middle and white gloves with a cyan heart design. Her wings are similar to the canon Bloom's Charmix wings, but are gray on the inside and green on the outside. Her eyelashes also turn green. Her Elemaximum Gauge is located in the center of her chest, and her Harmony Gem is not located on her person since it is on her Burst Wand (shaped like a sphere with two smaller spheres on top like ears, aka a "Mickey Mouse head.")

In her Elemaximum form, she has a long mint green and gray robe with detached sleeves while her eyes turn brown, and thick white fluff around the waist (in addition to her usual tail) as well as a gold ring behind her. Her hair is tied in two pigtails held close together, resembling both a Cinccino's head fur and Amber Witchhazel's hairstyle in her Guardian form. She has a long white boa scarf draped around her neck resembling that of a Cinccino, while her shoes change to paw-like heels resembling those in *Kirakira Pretty Cure a La Mode*.

As of the second part of "The Guardians' Unovian Crisis," the Minccino parts of her Guardian outfit have changed into Cinccino parts.

### Personality

Aurea is pleasant and mature. She willingly offers her assistance, even helping out fighting the monsters even as an adult and providing the Multiversal Guardians with ship tickets on some occasions. She has a particular interest in the origins of Pokémon. As a Professor, Aurea is often busy with multiple projects at any given time, all of which require extensive fieldwork and data analysis back at the lab. She can get upset if someone mentions her age being very old but calms down if she is complimented. She also admits that some Trainers may need to learn more on their journeys, yet can get *a lot* impulsive for a Professor who is also a Guardian of Harmony.

Aurea doesn't want to reveal things very early, as seen in *The Truth About Homura*, where she hung up from a video call out of embarrassment since she doesn't feel comfortable with Homura's actions following the titular character's backstory being revealed. In the third timeline shown in that episode, however, she *lashes out* at Mami before getting killed by accident, infuriating Nanette and Madoka. She also becomes ENRAGED at Dr. Zager, who she considers her number one enemy - such as when she exploded in absolute rage when he sent Meowth to fake having a change of heart, he kidnapped Meloetta, stole the data on Archeops, hacked the subway system, kidnapped and interrogated Alix Kubdel on how to open the Time Gate, and even started slowly *killing* a Carracosta. She often has to stop Nanette from attempting to kill somecreature who tricked them and who she thought she trusted, such as said aforementioned fake change of heart. Her temper is also shown again in "Coming Apart at the Dreams!" where after finding out that Melody, Ash, Elizabeth, Kyubey, and the former three's Pokémon were taken to Prism Tower by Team Flare, she proceeds to storm into a tool shop and steal a sledgehammer before angrily flying off. However, she *does* return the sledgehammer afterwards.

Rarely, Aurea can act *exteremly* tsudenre, such as in the movie "Spell of the Unown," when she says (with a creepy face) that " NOCREATURE MESSES WITH [her] TEAMMATES AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!!" She has also gone berserk a few times. For several episodes after "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!", however, it is shown that Aurea can also be very quiet and *exteremly* shy at times, such as refusing to give out any Pokémon, because of her blaming herself for not being able to help Nanette, Hilda and Nina. In the side story "*My Very Best Friend*," it is also revealed that she used to be teased on liking Fennel as more than a friend, something that really pisses her off. She also once felt very insecure with the teasing, but she now knows that *nobody* is allowed to tease another person, especially on her watch.

### Relationships

* **Nanette and Marina Daisy**: Her goddaughters, who she has a close relationship with. The former refers to her as "Auntie Aurea." In a flashback in S14E1, she can even be heard saying "I love you, my dear goddaughters!" just before her death.
* **Nicole Messerli**: Her adoptive goddaughter.
* **Fennel Rosetta**: Her fellow Professor and best friend. Their bonds in Season 2 have allowed them to keep in touch when they can't see each other. She also admits that she loves Fennel, though in a non-romantic way (which still often gets her shipping jokes regardless).
* **Cedric Juniper**: Her father, who she is close to but sometimes fights with. She is also usually quite offended by his attitude, and sometimes even admits that he's sometimes a bit immature.
* **Dr. Zager**: Her number one enemy who she absolutely despises, especially during one of his Team Rocket operations. She becomes the most furious when Meowth reveals he was only faking having a change of heart as part of a mission from Dr. Zager to trick the heroes, hack the subway system, and steal the Pokémon from Nimbasa City. Even worse, the heroes starting to trust him was mostly at Elizabeth's insistence that they believe Meowth without question and bring him along (as everycreature else was suspicious and had a hunch it was a trick), making Aurea rightfully chew *her* out for being way too trusting and unintentionally letting Dr. Zager gain the upper hand.
* **Cina**: Her partner Pokémon who she loves dearly. She saved her from being gravely wounded after she found her in the forest when she was younger, and she has had her ever since that day.
* **Sonia Magnolia**: One of her good friends, but she can sometimes get annoyed by her bouts of silliness, such as when Sonia tried to cheer up a baby Nicole with a Buzz Lightyear doll after she forgot about Nicole's phobia of robots.
* **Catherine Porter**: While the two usually get along well, in S2 Aurea is sometimes annoyed when Catherine tries to spy on Jim.

### Etymology

* **Araragi** is a kind of Japanese yew.
* **Juniper** is a kind of tree.
* The name **Aurea** comes from the Chinese juniper cultiva.

## Magical Abilities

In her Guardian of Harmony form, Aurea has enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly.

Aurea can control the power of light. She is able to create shields of light, beams of sparkles, flashes, rays, and even twisters and tornadoes made out of light. Aurea is able to use punches of light energy or cloak her Minccino tail in light to do a Tail Slap-like attack, or even cloak her hair in light and use it to strike enemies. Notably, her light attacks are all green instead of gold/yellow. She also gains a heightened sense of hearing and smell when transformed and can instantly shake any dirt, pollution, or filth off herself, and is rather slippery as well, making it easy for her to get out of somecreature's grip. She can also create giant pawpad shapes in order to powerfully punch an enemy or slap them. Her magic aura is mint green in color. Following Kailee's death after Season 2, Aurea has also gained a part of her deceased teammate's Dragon Flame.

## Pokémon

### On Hand

* Cina the Minccino (partner Pokémon/Burst Partner)

### Gives to new Trainers

* Snivy
* Tepig
* Oshawott

### Gave away to Trainers

* Trip's Snivy (Chive)
* Ash's Oshawott (Osher)
* Nanette's Tepig (Gigi)
* Bianca's Snivy (Ivy)
* Hilda's Tepig (Charlotte)
* Cheren's Oshawott (Kazmar)
* Elisa's Snivy (Sniva)

### Gifted to Nanette

* Oshawott (Osharina)
* Snivy (Cana)
* Shiny Snivy (Cano)

## Guardian of Harmony

Aurea is the Burst Guardian of Light. She is an Light Elemental who represents the Element of Magic, and her theme color is mainly light gray with a sub of spring green. Like all Burst Guardians, her weapon is a Burst Wand.

### Transformation

Aurea holds her Harmony Gem and shouts "Cina, Miracle Engage!", causing the Gem to glow and activate. She then puts the Harmony Gem close to her Power Necklace and as soon as the Necklace activates as well, Cina touches the Gem and the screen is engulfed in a white light.

### Attacks

* Silky Glitter Illumination - Her main purification finisher, involving her and Cina creating several glowing bubbles with pawpad shapes inside that she fires at the enemy.
* Sparkle Beam - One of her sub-attacks.
* Pawpad Smash - Another one of her sub attacks.

## GoH Analysis Card Profile

The Burst Guardian of Light, with a helpful nature. Between helping out the other Guardians, fighting evil, handing out starter Pokémon and doing research and fieldwork, this Unovian Professor has quite a hectic life. However, she's always there to help if her goddaughters need her. Her Element of Harmony is Magic.

## Trivia

Her having Minccino ears and tail (later Cinccino ears and tail) when transformed is similar to the Mew Mews in their transformed state in *Tokyo Mew Mew*.

* Whenever she's talking with Cina, Aurea often makes puns and end them with "~ci". Whenever Nicole overhears this, she always gets embarrassed.
* Aurea and her father were once Backpackers.
* Her father Cedric was good friends with Lalia Daisy. When Liam died a day after Nanette's birth, Aurea officially became the godmother of the Daisy Sisters and later Nicole after the Daisies took her in.
* If not counting Elis, her team is the only group of Burst Guardians to have fairy wings when transformed, which may be odd.
* She gets very pissed whenever Nanette goes out of control.
	+ She became extremely upset when she went way too far in "*Archeops In The Modern World!*", and even *loses it completely* when she goes insane, only being stopped by a slap from Fennel. This resulted in everyone taking a chill-out in the next episode.
	+ In one episode,of Season 8 when Elis tells her that Nanette got kidnapped, she loses it and goes berserk, only being stopped by Fennel.
	+ In "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!", she and Elis get so furious that they angrily attempt to break out of the anti-magic cage Team Plasma put the Guardians in, only to injure themselves when they bash themselves against it, and Delia and June even have to *stop them* from attempting to escape since it is useless.
* When wielding her Element of Harmony transformed, her Minccino ears slightly droop to make room for the crown.
* Her mother is unknown. It is unknown if her parents are divorced or if she is deceased.
* She wears her canon outfit (a white top, a teal pencil skirt, and red and white sneakers) in the recap movies for Seasons 4-13.
* In the Meloetta Arc trailer from Season 8, her Guardian outfit is seen with more sparkles and appears to be different from her Stage 5/Elemaximum form. This implies that something very magical will happen to the Guardians.
	+ This also spoils Cina's evolution in a future season, which is in the end confirmed to be in the second part of the Season 12 episode "The Guardians' Unovian Crisis."
* In Season 13, Pinkie Pie often calls her "Mint Ice Cream," much to her annoyance. As a running gag, she inexplicably gets either a green ice cream cone or another dessert out of nowhere and throws it at Aurea's face.
* Instead of a red SUV like her canon anime counterpart, Aurea drives a spring green convertible Mustang matching her theme color. Fennel is also shown to have a light pink car matching her theme color while Sonia has a yellow one, June has a cyan one, and Catherine has a neon pink one.
* Despite Minccino and Cinccino primarily being gray, she is primarily associated with the color green.
* This quote from the Season 2 premiere is her wish: "I want to protect those I know and love! My bestie Fen (referring to Fennel) means more than anything to me!"
* Her canon counterpart in fact has no Japanese first name at all, so she was given the first name of "Trina" in Japanese.
* Her witch form resembles a Cinccino puppet with googly eyes who can attach herself to characters' hands and control them that way, despite only being a foot tall. In fact, Elfreda ends up being her first victim.
* She will lose it when ***ANYONE*** ever ships her with Fennel. The (platonic) shipping, however, is known as "MagicalProfessorShipping," and they *do* often nuzzle their cheeks and sometimes even blush.