Emi Laughlin (GHK)

**Emi Laughlin** (Japanese: *Nijibayashi Emiko*) is the central main character of *Guardian of Harmony Kiratto!.* She is a hyperactive, immature, and eccentric 14 year-old girl from Kaorigoaka who nonetheless cares deeply for her friends.

Emi's alter ego is **Warrior Laughter**, the Harmony Warrior of smiles and joy whose theme color is pink. She is a Fairy/Air/Sound Elemental who represents the Elementals of Magic and Laughter.

## Appearance

As a civilian, Emi has dark pink hair worn in twin odango buns and dark pink eyes with round glasses. She also has freckles. She wears a light pink sleeveless top, light purple leggings, and ice blue flats. Her Harmony Mark is a hot pink balloon next to a purple star bordered in white.

As Warrior Laughter, her hair turns cotton candy pink and grows longer, being mostly worn loose with some of it tied up in a partial ponytail secured with purple beads, and she has star earrings. Her eyes turn a brighter shade of pink. She has a hot pink top with long, flared white sleeves, wrist-length pink and lavender gloves, pale pink leggings, and white chunky wedge heels with hot pink soles. On her back is a pair of pink fairy wings with purple tips. While not drawn, her Elemaximum Gauge is placed on her belly.

## Personality

Emi is a cheerful, joyful, and hyperactive girl who loves making others smile. She is also rather immature, for her age, eccentric, annoying, and sometimes dense, has the attention span of a Rotom, and often unintentionally causes trouble when she pisses someone off. Despite her immaturity, she does care deeply about her friends and is almost always brimming with positive energy, but despite her usual positivity, she has a tendency to fake being cheerful when she is upset so the others don't get worried.

In "Sweet Miracles," she was also shown to be very fond of cute things and seems to be nosy as well, since she tried to hug Sugar 2 minutes after she was born, only to anger and be severely injured by her mother using Wake-Up-Slap. Earlier in the episode, she constantly nagged Dragonet about when the baby was going to be born, much to her annoyance.

### Relationships

* Amia Chandler: Amia is Emi's childhood best friend who usually has to keep her in line and keep her immaturity for causing trouble. Emi, however, is also terrified of the thought of her growing up to be a doctor who slices people open to operate on their heart, but still supports her dream.
* Avvy Both: Avvy and Emi get along well due to both of them having immature, wacky, Pinkie Pie-like personalities.
* Pinkie Pie: Emi is also best friends with Pinkie Pie and often bakes with her, even though they often end up causing trouble or pissing people off unintentionally.
* Coconut Milk: Coconut Milk is one of the Pokémon Emi is closest to, due to her having found her and Pearly both abandoned on the side of the road to starve. She constantly has to have her parents buy shredded coconut to satisfy her ravenous appetite for it, but they sometimes fight over it since shredded coconut is also *Emi's* favorite food as well.
* Elizabeth: The two usually get along well, but Emi often makes fun of her for not being able to transform and having only a few spells, even though when Emi and friends went to Alfea in "The Winx Club" to find more Chosen Ones, she could cross the barrier that only allows magical beings through.

## Pokémon

* Popplio (nicknamed Pearly)
* Ninja Dragonet (nicknamed Coconut Milk)
* Eevee (nicknamed Holly)
* Comfey (nicknamed Francine)

## Magical abilities

Warrior Laughter poseses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly. She is considered a very powerful and "top tier" Magic Warrior due to having won the "superpower lottery."

Warrior Laughter can release shockwaves that cause the enemy to laugh uncontrollably, immobilizing them. She can also sing a soothing lullaby that lulls the enemy to sleep. Laughter, in her transformed state, has demonstrated the power to freely alter the pitch of her voice, being able to make it extremely high or extremely low and anything in between, even being able to do a perfect impression of anyone else's voice as long as she has heard their voice.

Besides her distracting abilities, Warrior Laughter can also manipulate air, being able to whip up massive hurricane-level gusts of wind or tornadoes as well as attack with concentrated blasts of air resembling Cure March's March Shoot. Laughter can also compress air to form it into sharp projectiles. Like Mermaid Venus, Laughter can create air-filled bubbles to put over her or someone else's head to allow them to breathe safely, but unlike Venus, this is not necessarily just for underwater situations. She has shown the ability to sense vibrations in the air and in the ground.

Her other power is the manipulation of sound, as she can attack with sonic waves, screech at over 300 decibels to stun the enemy (like Cure Gelato's roar), and create huge sonic booms just by clapping.

## Trivia

* The star portion of her Harmony Mark is based on the G3 pony Starsong's Cutie Mark.
* Warrior Laughter is one of the few female Magic Warriors who doesn't wear a skirt or dress at all, not counting Cure La Mer who has a small skirt along with her leggings. She shares this trait with Alessandra Summers/Angel Sunset, who has a skintight bodysuit instead of a dress.
* Emi is the main 4th-wall-breaker of the series, getting everyone into trouble.
* Her first English name is the same as Ellie Porter's Japanese first name.
* Like all other characters who wear glasses, such as Nicole (after turning human), Cheren, and Ella, her glasses disappear onscreen at the beginning of her transformation sequence instead of being already off when the sequence starts. Emi's, however, disappear in a burst of confetti instead of simply a burst of white light like everyone else.
* Her protagonist-exclusive powerup is called **Happy Birthday Laughter**.
* She is yet another immature character inspired by Pinkie Pie. As a bonus, part of her Harmony Mark is a balloon.