Aurea Juniper (Magical Heart)

**Professor Aurea Juniper** (Japanese: *Dr. Araragi Trina*) is the resident Pokémon Professor of Nuvema Town in the Unova region. She specializes in the origins of Pokémon.

Being the Starlix Elemen of Magic (and the leader of the Starlix Club as a whole), Aurea can, together with Cina, transform into the Burst Fairy of Minccino, **Burst Cino**, whose theme colors are gray and green.

## Bio

### **Appearance**

Aurea has light brown hair pulled into a bun and cyan eyes. She wears a light blue lab coat over a white top and a teal pencil skirt, and red and white sneakers.

As **Burst Cino**, her hairstyle changes into a waist-length ponytail and she gains a pair of Minccino ears. Her outfit is similar to Bloom's Cosmix form, but the star strands and the leggings are removed while the outfit has a few Minccino-like changes. The arm wrappers from said design is replaced with white gloves with a cyan heart design and she also gets a Minccino tail. Her wings are similar to Stella's Charmix wings, but are gray on the inside and green on the outside.

In her **Innocent Starlight** form, her hair turns pure white and becomes a pair of thick inward-curling twintails resembling a Cinccino's head fur. Her armwarmers and legwarmers are very fluffy while her torso fabric is very pale gray and her heeled boots resemble Cinccino paws. She has light gray star-shaped wings and a giant white bow while her tail becomes very fluffy and trailing. She also gains light green eyeshadow.

### **Personality**

Aurea is pleasant and mature. She willingly offers her assistance, even providing Nina's group with ship tickets on one occasion, in *Farewell, Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!*. She has a particular interest in the origins of Pokémon. 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.

Aurea doesn't want to reveal things very early, as seen in *A Sandile Gusher of Change!*, where she hung up out of embarrassment since she doesn't want to let anyone know of her alter ego completely just yet, especially since she doesn't want others to know that a grown adult has a fluffy Minccino-themed costume.

### **History**

#### **Magical Heart Beginnings**

Professor Juniper first appeared in *A New Beginning* where she was preparing the shipment of starter Pokémon to be given to new Trainers. She ended up getting a concussion and being strangled by a Nightmare once "Nina Weaver" revealed her true nature, but agreed to keep the existence of the Dream Pixies a secret. She appeared in a flashback in the next episode.

In *A Sandile Gusher of Change!*, Juniper is seen in a video call with Nina, but when she noticed Cina glowing, she reveals her PokéPilot and Dream Seed, though she doesn't transform until *Kiki Risks her Life*, after learning that Nina was severely wounded and her Patrat Kiki died. Enraged at Event Horizon, her students and their friends then learn of her secret identity. This did cause some issues when a *real* 10 year-old who was *actually* named Nina Weaver came to her lab asking for a starter Pokémon, being extremely confused when everybody started accusing her of being a villain until she proved her innocence.

### **Magical Abilities**

Aurea can control the power of light, as she once helped the heroes handle a Nightmare by shooting a beam of light at it. Her magic aura is **cyan** in color, the same color as her eyes.

## Burst Cino

**"Fluffy and cute! The twinkling star shining in the land! I'm Burst Cino!"**

**Burst Cino** is Aurea's Burst Fairy alias. In order to transform, she needs Cina, her Dream Seed, and her PokéPilot.

### **Transformation**

Aurea inserts her Dream Seed into the PokéPilot and taps the screen on it. Cina then jumps onto the (show's) screen, touching her paw to the PokéPilot to activate it. As she says the transformation phrase, she is wearing a long light gray dress as the PokéPilot's screen glows light gray.

As she spins around, she starts to gain her outfit, gaining her boots and armwarmers first. Her then top and skirt appear followed by her earrings, ribbons, scarf, and her hair changing length and gaining green highlights and a fade of white on the edge. Her fairy wings then sprout from her back. She and Cina cuddle before finally posing together and introducing themselves.

### **Attacks**

* **Sparkle Beam** - Used in *Farewell Unova! Setting Sail for New Adventures!* to save Nina from the Nightmare's grasp.

## Pokémon

* Cinncino (Cina)
* Minccino (Mi-chan)

## Trivia

* Whenever she's talking with Cina, Aurea often makes puns and end them with "~ci".
* 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 become the godmother of the Daisy Sisters.