Elfreda Thornbush (Shining Bonds)

**Elfreda Thornbush** (Japanese: **バラコエリカ** *Barako Erika*) is a major supporting character featured in the *Shining Bonds* franchise. She is a Pokémon Professor who was once a school girl.

## Bio

### **Appearance**

Elfreda has blonde hair and dark green eyes. She has freckles on her cheeks.

As seen in *Shining Bonds: Starlix Burst*, she is a 10 year-old girl whose hair is tied in a styled ponytail. Her outfit consists of an olive green sweater with light green jeans and dark blue slip-on shoes. While usually not seen, she wears contact lenses.

As seen in *Shining Bonds a la Mode* onwards, she is a 40 year-old woman whose hair is worn down. Her outfit consists of a white lab coat over a dark green shirt with leaf patterning, a khaki skirt, and cream-colored heels.

While she attended school in SBSB, her school uniform consisted of a light yellow sailor-collared blazer over a mint green dress shirt and an indigo tie. Her skirt was black while her shoes were silver with white stockings. She also wore a maroon headband with the school's logo.

### **Personality**

Being usually very shy, Elfreda was at first scared of making friends (especially since she was bullied), but by the time she discovers the Starlix Club's secret, she vows without a problem to be a secret-keeping ally of theirs, even managing to once stand up to her bullies and report them to the principal. She often suffers immensely from the death of her mother and (apparent) death of her father, not knowing the truth about Leo until an episode of season 9/10 of *Starlix Burst*, where she flies into a rage of fury.

She is also a huge fan of an in-universe version of the pony toyline produced for the Shining Bonds franchise. As an adult, she still secretly plays with them when nobody is looking.

### **Relationships**

* **Leo**: Her father, who she at first faced as a major villain. After she manages to free him, father and daughter become well known with each other, and he is even proud of her being grown up. They, as seen in "Father-Daughter Reconcilation," often spend time together to make up for the many years without him.

## History

### **Pre-Franchise**

At some point after her birth, her biological parents were lost to a group of armed men. As she was only little, she never knew her mother was the only one killed while her father was actually kidnapped, forcibly brainwashed, and transformed into the evil villain he is. Elfreda was eventually adopted by her guardian Professor Heather after two years in an orphanage.

### **Shining Bonds: Starlix Burst**

Elfreda first appeared in "The Chosen Starlix Club Warriors", where her guardian (Professor Heather) sees her off to school.

### **Shining Bonds a la Mode**

Elfreda now appears as a 40 year-old woman, and is revealed to have become a Pokémon Professor herself.

### **Shining Bonds a la Mode: 340 Years Later**

In "Stargaze's Special Talent", the spirit of Nanette mentions her when she scolds Amber and Whitely for thinking Elfreda wasn't some sort of ally to a certain team. Amber then asks if Elfreda is some sort of kingdom from a Disney movie, annoying her. She *then* asks if Elfreda is the name of the daughter of the Enderdragon from Minecraft, which pisses her off even more.

## Pokémon

* Fruity the Bounsweet
* Curly Fries the Ninja Dragonet

## Trivia

* Originally, her first Pokemon, Fruity, was going to be different species per series, but it was deemed too silly. In this case, Fruity was going to be originally changed to be a Ninja Dragonet. This idea was later reused for her Ninja Dragonet Curly Fries.
* Despite the fact that some Chosen Ones themselves have little or no magic, Elfreda is not a Chosen One, as she is a normal human who stumbled across the identities of actual Chosen Ones as opposed to being chosen by the Magic of Friendship. Because of her Starlix Dream Light, however, there is a chance she will transform (and gain a Harmony Mark of two intertwined vines shaped like a heart) when needed anyways.
	+ Her Dream Light is replaced with a Dream Phone in the games.
* Elfreda was originally not going to be related to a villain, but it was changed. She even had to wield the LOH to save him.
	+ In that way, she is similar to Tsukkikage Yuri from *Heartcatch Pretty Cure* - both of their fathers mysteriously disappear and turn out to be brainwashed. Unlike Sabaku, however, Leo doesn't die.

* In the episode of *Starlix Burst* where she discovers the Starlix Club's identities, Aurea threatens to "get [her] hands on a syringe of Forgeticin" if Elfreda doesn't keep her mouth shut about their identities. "Forgeticin" is a fictional drug used to erase the memories of normal people who discover the existence of fairy godparents in *The Fairly Oddparents*.
	+ This act ends up letting her school get targeted, however.
* Whether or not she will appear in the reborn Multiverse is unknown.
* In "The End of Necrosis! Another Chance and the Birth of Angel Surgeon!", Erika is the one who suggests that Nonomi attempt to just destroy Necrosis with Shining Star Origin Hurricane, which she is about to do before Marina rips the HarmonNecklace off of her so they can follow through with their plan. As a result, Nanette's sange in the episode is all Erika's fault and she is forced to apologize.