Myoudouin Nakiko

**Myoudouin Nakiko** (明堂院 なき子?) is one of the four main Cures in *Heartcatch 7 S!*. She is a second-year student at Mysta Academyand is also the student council president.

Nakiko's alter ego is **Cure Nakiko** (キュアナキコ?) and she represents the flower, sunflower. Her catchphrase is **"I will heal the darkness in your heart with my light!"** (その心の闇、私の光で照らしてみせる!?).

## Main information

### **Debut**

RECORD
7 S The Infinity 🖤
- Episode 23 (Cure Nakiko)

### **Power**

Flowers
Sunlight

### **HenshinItem**

Heart Perfume
Heart Seed

### **Weapon**

Shiny Tambourine
Heartcatch Mirage

### **Catchphrase**

I will heal the darkness in your heart with my light!|その心の闇、私の光で照らしてみせる!

### **PersonalPronoun**

She/Her oku|僕 (Myoudouin Nakiko)
watashi|私 (Cure Nakiko)

## Bio

### Appearance

uniform when she began growing out her hair. She also began to wear an outfit Manori and Izumi helped her make, a Lime Green tunic with Lime Green bow and ribbon designs, denim leggings and white sneakers.

As **Cure Nakiko**, her eyes turn Lime Green and her very long hair turns blonde, worn in curly twin-tails held by Lime Green bows with Lime Green flowers to match her earrings. Instead of a choker she has a Lime Green ribbon around her neck. Her attire resembles that of Izumi and Manori's, but is a two piece composed of a cropped blouse with Lime Green ribbon detail and a large Lime Green ribbon on the chest, adorned by a silver and cyan heart brooch. Her skirt has Lime Green petals and a pale Lime Green flower on each hip. She also gains white and Lime Green flower-shaped wrist pieces with a pale Lime Green flower, and matching colored boots with a ribbon tied on top.

### Personality

Befitting of her image and upbringing, Nakiko is a wise and princely young woman who is very formal with others. She is calm-tempered and kind, willing to help friend and stranger alike, but she can also be stern when it's necessary and has no problem stepping in to defend those weaker than her. She is brave and compassionate, but this will not stop her from unleashing rage on those who hurt the innocent. She is strongly admired by others for her strength in character and as a person, which played a part in her struggle to find a compromise between who she thought she had to be and who she wanted to be.

Nakiko has a fondness for anything cute and girly. While she is normally gentle and seems to be on the introverted side initially, she becomes excited by things like toys and clothing. When she realizes she can embrace this part of herself, she begins to show it more openly to others.

### Relationships

* + **Myoudouin Sakura:** Sakura is Nakiko's older sister and a source of inspiration for her. Her desire to protect Sakura allowed her to become Cure Nakiko and their relationship had a part in choosing her name.
* **Poppy:** Poppy is Nakiko's mascot partner. Nakiko initially thought Poppy was a cute toy. They eventually bonded when they realized they both want to protect people, but feel they can't do it alone.
* **Hanasaki Izumi:** Nakiko was unknowingly the object of Izumi's affections, which caused her a great deal of sadness when she found out that Nakiko was actually a girl. She seemed to take to Izumi fairly quick and is friendly around her since they met, and she is shown to comfort Izumi the way close friends would when she gets frightened.
* **Kurumi Manori:** They are on good terms with one-another, but Itsuki was forced to temporarily threaten to disband her club due to a lack of members. She was willing to let Erika try to keep it open though, and she was happy when she managed to succeed. She turned down Erika's request to join the fashion club until being convinced later. Since then she became a good friend of Erika's.
	+ **Tsukikage Masy:** Nakiko was originally unable to approach Masy, who chose to distance herself from Nakiko and the other girls. After Masy joins the team, Nakiko and Masy become close friends who have faith and work well with each other.

### Etymology

**Myoudouin (明堂院 *Myōdōin*?)**: *Myou* (明?) translates to *bright or light*, in reference to Itsuki's sunlight-based powers as Cure Sunshine. *Dou* (堂?) comes from the prefix to building meaning *magnificent*, and *in* (院?), meaning *institution, temple; mansion; school,* a reference to her connection to Myoudou Academy Junior High School Together, its meaning is roughly *bright magnificent school*.

**Nakiko (なき子?)**: A Japanese unisex name, it can have many different meanings depending on how it is written in kanji, however since Nakiko's name is written in hiragana, the meaning it is difficult to come up with an exact meaning for her name in particular. The most likely intended meaning is *timber trees* (**な** *Nakiko*?), which would fit with the theme of *Heartcatch 7 S!*.

**Cure Nakiko**: Nakiko's Cure alias is a name she chooses herself, after looking up and laying her eyes upon a sun. In-story, she chooses the name in inspiration for her brother, who used to cheer her up by using the sun.H7S23 It also reflects the kanji in her name, meaning "magnificent" and "light". Sunlight, like the name of Cure Manori, is something which flowers need to grow, implying her role as a supporter of Cure Izumi.

## History

The fairy summons the Shiny Perfume, and Nakiko transforms into 7 S. She is stunned, but when Poppy tells her to find a name, she sees the sun's shine and fights shortly with the Desertrian before claiming that her name is Cure Nakiko.H7S23

## Cure Nakiko

   **"A single flower bathed in light, Cure Nakiko!"**光を浴びる一輪の花、キュアナキコ！
*Hikari o abiru ichirin no hana, kyuanakiko!*

**Cure Nakiko** (キュアナキコ?) is the Cure identity Nakiko gains when she has to protect her older sister when he becomes a Desertrian.H7S22 She is very different from Cure Izumi and Cure Manori in the sense that her Heart Perfume is called the Shiny Perfume, she uses the Shiny Tambourine rather than the Flower Tacts and her attack is named Gold Forte Burst rather than the usual Pink, Blue, Silver and Dark Forte Wave. When facing the advanced Desertrian, Cure Izumi, Cure Manori and Cure Nakiko can also perform a group finisher called Shining Fortissimo.H7S31 Nakiko transforms by saying "7 S! Open My Heart!".

#### Attacks

* Finishers
* Sub-attacks

### Transformation

The sequence begins when she holds up her Shiny Perfume and the top part slides down. Her hair becomes longer, and Poppy creates her Heart Seed for her. Then Itsuki shouts "7 S! Open my Heart!". She inserts the seed into the Shiny Perfume and transformation begins. She then sprays the perfume all around, tossing it around as she goes. Her top, skirt, boots and bracelets appear. Then her hair color changes to bright Lime Green and becomes styled into twintails as her hair ornaments and earrings appear. She puts her perfume to her skirt and it transforms to little pink and white colored bag. She spins and kicks around and introduces herself.

## Trivia

* Nakiko is the first Cure to be:
	+ confused for a boy due to her clothes and mannerisms.
	+ an ordinary civilian as an addition during the midway of the season instead of a fairy, a villain or a humanoid coming from another world.
* Nakiko uses different personal pronouns for her civilian and Cure forms: Nakiko uses "boku" (僕), a male pronoun, while Cure Nakiko uses "watashi" (私), a gender-neutral pronoun used mostly by females.
	+ In her character songs, she uses the pronoun "watashi."
	+ 8th in "Favorite Pretty Cure"
	+ 6th in "The Pretty Cure you want to team up with most"
	+ 6th in "The Pretty Cure you want to be most"