Flora Solís

Nayara Alarcón (paternal aunt)

Vasti Alarcón (paternal first cousin)

Teo Alarcón (paternal first cousin)

Sergio Alarcón (paternal uncle)

Serafina Alarcón (paternal first cousin)

Carlos Alarcón (paternal uncle)

Jacinta Alarcón (paternal first cousin)

Jacelia Alarcón (paternal first cousin)

Ithaysa Solís (maternal grandmother)

> “People who think so lightly of their own lives, don't have the right to protect anyone.”
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> ― Jun Mochizuki, Pandora Hearts, Volume 6
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**Madonna** **Flora Atenai de Alarcón y de Solís** is the illegitimate daughter between nobleman Juliano Alarcón and his former paramour Azula Solís, she is also the maternal half-sister of Felice.

Flora is the current partner of Hermes Uclés, grandson of Admiral Saviel Uclés.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Flora was born ***Madonna Flora Atenai de Alarcón y de Solís*** on August 27, 2964 between Juliano Alarcón and his mistress Azula Solís and is the only child between them. Her mother was a xeno-zoologist who was accidentally killed during one of her experiments in front of Flora when she was nine years old, her maternal grandmother Ithaysa then raised her and forbid her father from being involved with Flora.

Her grandmother then moved her from Hesperia to Lipara where Flora grew up and was later sent to the Lipari Academy where Flora was top in her class and graduated early. With her grandmother's blessing Flora then went to Androdamia Academy where she majored in Xenobiology and Xenozoology.

## Personality

Flora is shown to be a very calm, soft-spoken, caring, sweet, shy and genuine girl who loves plants and vegetation of all kinds. Being interested in experimenting with her plants, Flora became the potion master of the group who specializes in brewing and creating remedies and medicines from the uses of her magical plants. Due to her gentle and caring personality, Flora is strongly connected to nature and loves helping people. She is shown to have a sensitive personality to the point where she would instinctively care for her friends as well as her plants when they are in distress.

Flora is the most mature member of the girls as she possesses a deep sense of love, peace, happiness and tranquility. However, it is shown that Flora has an insecure side to her personality as she would have problems believing in herself at times. Her insecurity would sometimes cause her to hide most of her feelings to the point where she would have problems expressing them. Although she has a kind-hearted side, she at times gets very angry at her enemies which can cause her to act quickly and show a more aggressive side of herself.

## Appearance

Flora is young women in her late twenties with tan skin, long deep reddish brown that reaches her hips, and narrow hazel eyes. She is quite short with a slender body and tiny feet.

When on-duty she had her uniform custom made, she wears a sleeveless black unitard that reaches her knees along with a choker connecting to the bodysuit is a mesh lining. Over she wears a dark green UAF unifrom by is cut like a dress with off the shoulder elbow length sleeves and is silted starting at the middle of her thigh going down below her knee. She also wears eight comfortable sneakers when on field missions and when she is on the ship she wears platformed sandals.

Flora off-duty wears skirts, pants, and simple shirts and comfortable shoes. She also wears her hair loose and flowing, were as on-duty she wears her hair in a bun.

## Powers & Abilities

**Gifted Intelligence -** Flora is exceptionally gifted academically, as she possesses all A's in her classes. Flora has multiple Ph.D.'s in Botany, Chemistry, and Toxicology.

* **Master Biochemist** - Sara has described Flora as being a "genius biochemist".

**Expert Combatant** - Flora is an accomplished fighter despite being a pacifist, having learned several techniques form Mari during their time together.

**Potion Making** - Flora due to her time studying on the International Hesperian Academy of Education she majored in the occult subject of potion crafting and the non-occult subject of botany and chemistry.

### Arcane

**Lifeblood of Ostara** - Flora possesses a parasite-type Arcane power, as with many possessing parasite-types her physical appearance has permanently changed she has green lips, her veins are plant-like and green, her blood is also green now.

* **Nature Manipulation** - Through her Arcane Power she possesses the very powerful and useful ability as she is connected directly to the natural world and thus can communicate, influence, manipulate and control nature: all living beings and plants and natural phenomena, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed.
	+ **Chlorokinesis** - Flora is able to manipulate and animate plants. However, she cannot control certain mutated plants.
	+ **Regeneration** - As a human-plant hybrid, Flora is able to completely heal herself from even the most fatal of wounds and injuries, provided that she's been buried in fresh soil.
		- **Toxin Immunity**: Poisons and toxins have no effect on Flora.
	+ **Pheromones** - Flora pheromones lets her render people unconscious or fall in love with her before transforming into trees and dying. Flora can extract these pheromones into potions that she can dispense.

## Weaknesses

* **Lack of Plants** - Flora's most prominent weakness is a lack of nearby plants to control. Flora's chlorokinesis has a range of fifty feet.
* **Fire** -One of Flora's biggest weaknesses is fire, which was exploited by (\*&\*), who used flamethrowers to burn her plants.

## Etymology

* Madonna is from a title of the Virgin Mary meaning "my lady" in Italian.
* Flora is derived from Latin *flos* meaning "flower". Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, the wife of Zephyr the west wind. It has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, starting in France. In Scotland it was sometimes used as an Anglicized form of *Fionnghuala*.
* Atenai is from Guanche *\*aḍănay*, meaning "recipient". This was the name of a goddess worshipped in Gran Canaria. She was represented as a black and red clay bowl.
* Alarcón means "the fort" in Arabic. Alarcón was a fort owned by the Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula, and the Spaniards had the goal of owning it during the Spanish Reconquista. After 9 months of siege, Fernán Martínez de Ceballos climbed the walls of the fort using only two daggers and opened the gates from the inside allowing the Castilian army to come in and conquer Alarcón. After hearing this, king Alfonso VIII of Castille gave Fernán Martínez de Ceballos the surname "Alarcón" and changed his name to "Fernán Martínez de Alarcón".
* Solís is a Spanish name derived from the Latin *Sol*, literally meaning sun.

## Trivia

* Flora's familiar is a talking mutated Venus flytrap named Frank.
* Her hobbies are reading, taking care of plants and flowers, and listening to classical music of all planets.
* Her favorite dish is fried rice with a fried banana and a fried egg on top with empanadas and a fresh bowl of crème brûlée.
* She is the most cleanly out of her roommates.
* Flora when she retires plays on becoming a kindergarten teacher.