Kibohoshi Megumi

**Kibohoshi Megumi** (or **Lydia Dàire** in the English dubs except Viz) is a recurring character in Pokémon Legends who eventually joins the cast starting in season 3, a whole season before Bulbina does. With Hoippu and her strawberry barette, her alias is **Buttercream Whip.**

## Kibohoshi Megumi

### Relatives

Kibohoshi Kurumi (mother)Kibohoshi Akira (father)

## Appearance

Megumi is an 11 year-old with porcelain pale skin dusted with freckles, hot pink eyes, and brown hair tied in looped pigtails. She wears a pale pink dress that has purple stripes and cream-colored polka dots between the stripes, along with cream-colored heels with cyan socks. On the right side of her hair is her strawberry-shaped barette.

As Buttercream Whip, her hair remains in the same style but turns white with thin pink streaks while the loops become much thicker and longer and she also has a poofy swirl of hair on top resembling an Alcremie's "hair." Her eyes turn red and she gains a white mask with pale pink accents. She wears a white skintight bodysuit with cream-colored patches on each side of her torso, red and pink neck fabric, and magenta flat boots. She has her whisk attached to her hip and her barette turns bright red while gaining 5 tan spots resembling the seeds of a strawberry.

## Personality

Megumi tends to be sweet, cheerful, and is almost perpetually happy, thinking the world is all sunshine and rainbows and often being way too optimistic for her own good, which is always pointed out by characters leaning more on the pessimist side such as Dragonet, Yume, and Cheren.

## Etymology

* "Kibohoshi" is a combination of "kibo," meaning "hope," and "hoshi," meanjng "star." "Megumi" means "blessing."
* Her alias "Buttercream Whip" refers to the fact she is an Alcremie-themed hero.

## Magical abilities

Like the other magical characters, Buttercream Whip has enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, and invulnerability to physical damage. Her special superpower is Sweet Dreams, which creates a giant dessert of her choosing that attracts the enemy to start eating it. The enemy will then become so addicted to the delicious taste they become extremely sluggish and their head swims. However, she must use it wisely, as she can only use it once before detransforming 5 minutes after using it. She will then have to feed Hoippu to transform again. Buttercream Whip can also use her whisk as a weapon as well as a communicator and smartphone.

She also has to say "Stiff peaks" to transform and "Soft peaks" to detransform.

## Pokémon

* Alcremie (Icing)
* Slurpuff (Crepe)

### Not a Pokémon

* Hoippu: Megumi's Kwami, who is the Kwami of Pleasantness (an awkward synonym for pleasure, as in pleasure in general such as eating delicious food like sweets, due to the unfortunate existence of a massive amount of inappropriate Alcremie art in the fandom). She loves eating and making sweets just like Megumi. It is shown that when she uses Sweet Dreams without filtering her power through the Miraculous first, the dessert she creates is the size of an 11-story building, as opposed to Buttercream Whip who can create a cake of a reasonably large size.

## Trivia

* In the canon version, her name is changed to Warrior Frosting, and she lacks the mask and barette, but her outfit is still the same bodysuit and her eyes still turn red. She is also a Fee/Lune Èlèmen.
* Her 4Kids surname originates from Irish (due to her mother being from Galar whose real life counterpart is next to Ireland) and means "fruitful," fitting her sweets theme.
* She is this series' replacement for Cure Saccharine, Sugar's human Pretty Cure alter ego in Foodyeater's *SpongeBob SquarePants*-esque slice-of-life Pokémon series, as it was decided that Sugar being a Cure or even being her civilian identity Donatsu Stella didn't seem quite right in this series and her alter ego was instead replaced with the canon version gag of her transforming into inanimate objects that suddenly grow a face and talk. Not coincidentally, both of them have white hair in pigtails in hero mode, a white and pink color scheme, boots with no heels, and a sweets theme.
* Megumi is 11 years old, unlike most of her creator's characters who almost always tend to be 13 at minimum. This is due to her being an "expy" of Cure Saccharine who is 6 years old in human form, so Megumi was made to be younger than average as well.
* It has been pointed out on several occasions that her hairstyle resembles a Nurse Joy, most notably when the heroes had to run the Hau'oli Pokémon Center when Nurse Joy was sick.
* She is partially based on Rose Lallivant from *Miraculous Ladybug,* being similar in personality and her dress is also very similar to Rose's (despite her signature color still being considered white, which she does casually wear in the canon version.).