Michelle Brooks

**Michelle Brooks** (Japanese: **水星 みゆき***Mizuhoshi Miyuki*) is one of the main characters of *Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae*: *Cherry Magica*. She is a shy and down-to-earth young girl from Federal Unova, and the Miko of the Harmonic 9.

## Bio

### Appearance

**Michelle** is a young girl with chest-length dark blue hair and matching *tareme* eyes. After getting Stage 3, her hair is sparkly, slightly longer, and gains a fade of somewhat brighter blue. Her Harmony Mark is a snowflake with a six-point star in the middle of it and surrounded by water drops. As a civilian, she wears a light blue cloth-like garment with a ribbon tied at the waist and wooden geta sandals.

She has had multiple versions of her outfit as a **magical girl**. In each version, her hair grows slightly longer, brightens to sea blue, and turns curly and is partially worn in a ponytail. On her back is a pair of wings resembling oyster shells. Her Harmony Gem (shaped like a teardrop with two ovals to the side of it) is located on her silver circlet headband while she has no Elemaximum Gauge.

* Her starting outfit consists of a white and sea blue *Heartcatch Pretty Cure*/*Ojamajo Doremi*-like puffy-sleeved dress with a cyan/light green bow on the back of her waist. She has blue elf-like boots with pointy toes that have thick pale green wedge heels. Her flared gloves are combined with dark blue "arm stockings."
* After getting Stage 3, her outfit changes. The blue "petals" on her skirt become a bit lighter and become longer while the white upper "petals" also become longer. Her gloves are replaced with armwrappers resembling those of Cure Blossom's, but colored sea blue and baby blue. Her boots change to resemble Super Cure Marine's with white stockings, but the boots are brighter blue. She also gains a *Heartcatch Pretty Cure*-like bow on her chest. The outfit change overall resembles the Super Silhouette upgrade from said series.

In her **Stage 5** form, (???)

In her **Rainbow Power** form, (???)

When achieving **Harmony Mark Magic**, (???)

### Personality

Michelle is a shy (even more so than Eric) girl with a down-to-earth personality. She gets scared easily and sometimes lacks confidence in herself, especially since she has no combat power even in the three powerups. She doesn't like loud noises at all, often prefers being alone, and loves water Pokémon a lot, and also meditates quite often. Unlike Aurora from *Nina Magica*, she shows emotion much more often. Despite her shyness, she is very kindhearted and gentle, but as she overcomes her shyness, she often gives the team instructions and advice from the Taisha even if she admits they're incompetent cowards and is more confident in delivering her oracles.

### Relationships

* **Cherry Lovedream**: Michelle was initially scared to work with Cherry as a magical girl, but soon warms up to her and they become great friends. She is *especially* scared at first of her loud voice and motormouth. At the end of *Cherry Magica*, she writes in the Magi diary that she is thankful for teaching her so much and helping her overcome her shyness.

### Etymology

* Her Japanese name **Mizuhoshi** means "water star," while her Japanese name **Miyuki** is written in hiragana, so it has no particular meaning.

## Items

* **Power Necklace**
* **Harmony Gem** *(is stored in the Magical Warrior System app when unused)*

## History

### Backstory

Two months after the incident that caused Cherry to earn her Harmony Mark, a 6 year-old Michelle became so scarred over the sky that she closed herself away from the world. One day, however, she wanders outside, but because she refused to look at the sky, she somehow wandered into a portal leading to the Magical Dimension. She ends up wandering too far and ends up in the Golden Kingdom, and comes across several gooey star-like objects. Thinking they are food, she takes a bite out of one and ends up swallowing the bite (not the whole thing), though it tastes terrible and causes her eyes to glow and her magic to awaken, as well as giving her a "copy" of the essence of the Water Stars on top of it. Unfortunately, she gets chased out by one of the lords for trespassing, who forcibly takes back the Water Stars and sends her back home, but when she gets back home she finds that she had earned her Harmony Mark: a cattail plant with waves and a snowflake.

## Magical Abilities

As a magical girl, Michelle possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly. Untransformed, she has shown the ability to use spells that instantly make water safe to drink, create ice, and heal herself completely in minutes by immersing herself in any body of freshwater. She also contains a "copy" of the essence of the Water Stars and thus is able to extinguish the Dragon's Flame (which does come in handy during the Kalos War when AZ steals a spark of the Dragon Flame from Domino and uses it as an "ingredient" in his Ultimate Weapon), though she obviously cannot use this for direct damage. Her magic aura is sea blue in color.

While she does not have combat power, Michelle is able to predict enemy attacks such as witches, Vertexes, and other villains, has the Dimensional Scream ability, and can communicate with and have direct conversations with the Shinju-sama, the Magic of Friendship, and the Light of Hope. She can also remove blight inflicted on the Shinju-sama by the Vertexes.

## Magical Warrior

Michelle is the Warrior of Rivers and Lakes. She is a Water/Ice Elemental who represents the Element of Kindness. Her theme color is sea blue, and she has no weapons.

## Forms of Address

 Cherry Lovedream | Yuuna-san (友奈さん)
 Valerie Harper | Kotone-san (琴音さん)
 Bryce Forrest | Hayashi-kun
 Akari Berliz | Shō-san (ショウさん)

## Taking care of

### Dream Pixies

* Kai - A sealion-like Dream Pixie who is colored sea blue. She is Michelle's only known Dream Pixie.

### Pokémon

* Pollie - A Tympole that Michelle befriends after becoming a magical girl in "Sprouting."

## Trivia

*For this character's tropes, see here.*
* Michelle bears a vague resemblance to Aurora Starsapphire. However, they are not related, especially since the latter was obviously created by the Divinity. She also bears a vague resemblance to Marina Daisy from the present-day, although Marina has pigtails instead.
* Most of her diary entries are very heavily censored by the Taisha, even more so than her teammates.
* In the Japanese version, she refers to her magic self-refilling cup as a "grail." In the English dub, it is instead simply referred to as a cup, most likely to avoid religious implications.
* She often gets Sheldron jokes due to her Japanese surname meaning "water star," which is the only power that can extinguish the Dragon Flame and which she has a "copy" of the essence of due to the incident that caused her to earn her Harmony Mark (though in "Cherry Magica 3," Ghetsis manages to get his hands on one after stealing it from Arcadia in the Golden Kingdom in Magic Dimension and uses to put out Hilda's Dragon Flame - but not her Reshiram powers as he needs them for his plan- although she gets it back when she is freed and the Water Star is returned to its rightful place.).
* After Valerie becomes evil, Michelle is the one to disband the team. She is also the one to write the final diary entry of *Cherry Magica*.
* In the series finale, she is confirmed to work as a dermatologist.
* After her death (in the original timeline), the magic cup she wished for is donated to the Memorial of Magis, but it is prohibited to drink from it for obvious hygiene reasons. In the far future, however, since there is no magic, it is little more than regular goblet and its magic is just thought of as "something out of a wizard movie" (which is also a Shout-Out to *Harry Potter*).
* Her Japanese name originally fluctuated between "Mizuki" and "Miyuki," before the latter was finally settled on.
* In concept art, her Harmony Mark was originally going to be waves below a cattail plant with a snowflake next to it, but it was changed due to it being too complicated and the fact it would be a nightmare to try to draw on her Power Necklace.
* Pollie never evolves due to the fact that a shy girl who's very calm would *not* look right at all with its fully evolved form.