Meri Nicole Evian

* Meri
* Aqua Lotus

**Meri Nicole Evian** is the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Water and Shiro Hama's fourth great-grandmother. She is also Mifuyu's third great-grandmother.

Meri's alter ego is **Aqua Lotus** and the Sapphire of Aqua Pura is in the form of a brooch attached to her hat.

## Biography

### Appearance

Meri is a young woman with pale skin and blue eyes. She has long, light blue hair that reaches her waist, and styled in a ponytail, topped with a Victorian-styled hat, with a piece of ruffled cloth and the Sapphire of Aqua Pura attached to the brim around the hat. Her outfit consists of a blue Victorian-style dressed with elbow-length sleeve, the ruffled skirt reaching above her ankles, white and blue frills and a low-cut white bodice. Lastly, she wears a pair of white heels with straps around her ankles.

As **Aqua Lotus**, her hair turns light blue and grows long with a purple ombré, worn like her civilian form, but held by a braid of hair. On her head, she retains her Victorian-styled hat. Her dress is pale blue with frill sleeve cuffs, a low-cut bodice forming a ripple pattern around the collar, and a brown corset top over her dress. Her skirt reaches above her ankles with a layer of flowing water underneath the skirt. She also wears a pair of brown ankle heeled boots with light blue frills and a blue cloak that is wrapped around her arms and chest.

### Personality

Meri is a caring and sincere young woman. Though she despises the living style that she has with her family, especially with her mother, she has a short-temper and can easily get into arguments with her mother or anyone in her family, but most of her arguments are against her mother. However, she maintains a calm composure and is really family-oriented, despite her rough relationship with her mother. She enjoys making a bunch of plans for herself in the future and can easily make her excited about it, but tends to keep quiet about as to not upset and cause another argument within her family.

Meri is often underestimated by the people around herm but she always keeps an open mind and big heart to take on any challenge and showing equality for women and their capabilities. However, there are times were she is scared about what could happen to her because of her status as a woman in her country, but she tries to overcome this fear and face them head-on, even if there are consequences that would lead her into different situations.

As Aqua Lotus, she doesn't hesitate to help those in need of helping. Meri becomes more serious and gains a lot of confidence in herself as she faces her enemies, along with strengthening her mentality for herself.

## Background

Not much is known about past life, but Meri is Shiro's 4th great-grandmother and the 5th Generation's Angel Goddess of Water. When she was still alive, Meri is a born into a middle-class family, where she was the youngest child and grew up with three older sisters. She tends to appear in Shiro's dreams -- a few times in Asahi's dreams and one time in Kohana's dreams -- first appearing in a snow-filled land.

Behind the planning of the series and working on Season Two, when Eodo was helping with the series' plans, Meri belongs in a middle-class family and the youngest child, born and raised in a small town in England. She has three older sisters and Meri is closest to her father as she is a father's girl, while she didn't have a good relationship with her mother, who wanted everything and make the decisions for her daughters, including Meri. She goes against her mother's wishes and would make her own choices, thus leading to multiple arguments between her and the latter. After disobeying her mother's rules, Meri runs off from home and unexpectedly meets an unnamed man who comforted her about her problems at home and her family. She later falls in love with the man, forms a relationship with him and later gets engaged. For her birthday, she receives a new hat with the **Sapphire of Aqua Pura**, but Meri didn't know what it was until later.

After hearing about Meri's engagement to her family, her older sisters were jealous of her because she's the youngest in the family and is the first to get married. But after their announcement, another problem arises. Meri and her fiancé were having problems on either ends of their relationship, especially Meri's suspicions for her fiancé, that would eventually lead her to leave him behind and runs away from him and her family. She gets onto a ship and rides, leaving her hometown and country of England.

From taking the ship ride, Meri soon finds herself in the country Japan and felt rather because she didn't know what to do or where to go. Eventually, she meets Chiharu Masuyo, a hostess at the Masuyo Hot Springs, and takes her in to care for her. After getting to know each other, Meri later hears the story about the "Legend of the Angel Goddesses" from Chiharu and soon finds out that the stone on her hat is one of the stones that would her into becoming an Angel Goddess. Therefore, Meri is the newest holder for the Sapphire of Aqua Pura and its powers.

After Chiharu welcomed Meri into their village, a Darkalia monster appears and attacks the village, scaring the people. Chiharu transforms into Luminous Rose and catches Meri by surprise, but after learning about the Legend of the Angel Goddesses, she learns what she has to do and soon transforms into Aqua Lotus, fighting by Chiharu's side and protecting the people in the village. Therefore, fate leading them to meet each other and later works together until their complete their generation with the Angel Goddesses of Wind and Earth, later passing their powers onto the next generation.

## Relationships

* Shiro Hama - First meeting in the Dream World, Shiro first refuses to believe that she and Meri are related. However, after Shiro recovers from the effects of Dark Corruption, she later accepts Meri as her 4th great-grandmother and soon starts asking for questions.
* Mifuyu Nagisa - Though, they not have met in the Dream World, Meri knows about Mifuyu. She cares for her and knew that she had a big heart to care for Shiro.
* Chiharu Masuyo - Meri's best friend, after running away from England from her fiancé and landing in Japan. Chiharu took her in to care for her and learns about the "Legend of the Angel Goddesses", as well as learning about the Sapphire of Aqua Pura and its powers. Together, they became best friends.

## Aqua Lotus

> "**Set afloat the Ocean's Surface, Aqua Lotus!**"

**Aqua Lotus** is the Angel Goddess of Water of the 5th Generation and Meri's alter ego. In order to transform, she requires the Sapphire of Aqua Pura that would be in the form of an accessory, like her hat brooch.

Meri has the ability to create water powers with her own hands, as well as forming glyphs to be used as platforms and shields. Her powers grants her the ability to breathe underwater and swim faster than a normal swimmer. She is capable of performing water spells and as part of her generation's contribution, Meri is also capable of casting "Blizzard Breaker", a spell based on the Four Seasons as she represents the Season of Winter. Meri is able to perform the spells from 4th Generation down to the 1st Generation.

## Trivia

* Meri's given name means "mirthful; joyous", as well as an abbreviation of Meredith, while her family name "Evian" derives from a French spa town of Évian-les-Bains, which ultimately derives from aqua, the Latin word for water. Her middle name "Nicole" means "people's victory".
	+ "Meri" is also a nickname given by Asahi to Shiro.
* Meri and Chiharu's friendship shares a similar a concept with Shiro and Kohana's friendship
	+ Both are good friends from meeting each other.
	+ Chiharu and Kohana shares about the "Legend of the Angel Goddesses" to Meri and Shiro, eventually learning more about the legend.
	+ Both are the Angel Goddesses in the 5th and 9th Generation, respectively.
* Meri is the only Angel Goddesses, in her generation, that doesn't fly and uses glyphs as platforms to keep her in the air.