Cherry Lovedream

> My friends, my time in this world will be up in a few moments. But... I still believe that one day, Valie-chan's good heart will shine through again. (...) Just know that I'll always be with you and the future Magis that protect the Shinju-sama. (...) Thank you, everycreature, for being my friend. I love you all more than anything. [passes away]
>
> - Cherry Lovedream's last words, before passing away and becoming a Perserver

**Cherry Lovedream** (Japanese: **愛夢 友奈** *Aiyume Yuuna*) is one of the main characters of *Magicae Amicitiae et Harmoniae: Cherry Magica*. She is the leader of the first Magi team, officially known as the Hero Club and nicknamed the "Harmonic 9."

## Bio

### Appearance

**Cherry** has dark pink eyes and back-length dark pink hair with long bangs. Her Harmony Mark is a pink flower with heart-shaped petals. After she gets Stage 3, her Harmony Mark gains green leaves around it, and her hair is sparkly, slightly longer, and gains a fade of hot pink. As a civilian, she wears a light pink cloth garment with a white undershirt underneath, and wooden geta sandals.

As an adult in the series finale, she is seen wearing a desaturated pink coat with two hot pink pockets, a pale pink skirt reaching her knees, and magenta flats with white socks.

She has had multiple versions of her outfit as a **magical girl**. In each version, her hair turns light pink and her eyes turn pinkish-red. She has white angel wings on her back. Her Harmony Gem, shaped like a sphere, is located on her chest while her Elemaximum Gauge is on her skirt. Her terminal/phone is in a carrying case on her waist.

* Her starting outfit consists of a hot pink, vest-like top over a pale pink top and a light pink tutu-like skirt, as well as black Mary Janes with white socks. Her hair is worn in odango buns.
* After gaining Stage 3, her outfit changes. Her white gloves are now fluffy and light pink while the white fabric pieces on her waist are replaced with a wine red fabric train on the back of her skirt (the petticoat of which now has two layers). The bottom edges of her vest become smooth and now has two bottom edges that curve outward while she gains T-shirt like sleeves as part of the light pink top under the vest, the opening in the center becomes flower-shaped, and her shoes become dark mulberry purple high heels and lose the socks. In her hair (which is now a Yuuna-like ponytail) are small white sakura flowers, and her wings now have a fade of light pink.

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

In her **Elemaximum** form, she gains a white robe with a fade of light pink. Her hair is worn mostly down but with a topknot bun on top, and she has reddish-pink fingerless gloves. Her earrings become light pink flowers with spring green leaves and she gains knee-length rose pink chunky wedge heel boots.

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

When achieving **Harmony Mark Magic**, she retains her civilian appearance, but with her eye shine changed to match her post-Stage 1 form and the markings from her the same form. After gaining Stage 2 as a Magi, whenever she activates this powerup, she has the markings from said form.

### Personality

Cherry is kind, cheerful, and optimistic, always looking on the bright side. She cares about her friends deeply and always looks out for them, and is a believer in second chances, which can be either a strength or a flaw depending on the situstion. She is always willing to help somecreature who is in trouble or feeling down. However, she is also overly trusting and quite easily tricked due to being reluctant to believe somecreature could be truly evil, and can be *quite* stubborn at times, but is very confident, determined, and always believes in herself. Her stubborn nature is best shown at the end of *Cherry Magica* when Valerie becomes bitter and turns evil, and Cherry is in denial and decides to believe that her best friend has simply been brainwashed.

### Relationships

* **Valerie Harper**: Her best friend, who she also enjoys singing with. Eventually, when she becomes evil at the end of *Cherry Magica*, Cherry remains in denial and insists that she has been brainwashed. Before passing away and ascending to her Perserver form, she tells her friends that she still believes her good heart will resurface one day.
* **Michelle Brooks, Bryce Forrest, Eric Nightfall,** **Jasper, Rei Diamond, Akari Berlitz,** and **Ella Weber**: Her other teammates who quickly become her close friends, and despite one having no combat power, one being a Messiah, one being a Darkness Elemental, and another being a nonhuman, she refuses to judge them. She is especially very saddened when Michelle decides to disband the team despite Cherry's protests because she is in deep denial and can't accept reality. Despite this, before passing away and automatically becoming a Perserver as a result, she tells them that she loves them more than anything.

## Items

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

## History

### Backstory

As a 10 year-old girl, after being evacuated to the nearest shelter, Cherry was checking with everyone in the shelter. Although she noticed three girls talking among each other, them noticing her made them quiet down. Suddenly, an 8 year-old brown-haired girl nervously walked to Cherry, asking for something. The pink-haired girl introduces herself, and the brown-haired girl introduces herself as Valerie Harper, thus beginning their friendship. However, 30 minutes later, a huge tremor occurred, and Vertexes appeared from the sky. The monsters killed innocent people (some of which included her friends from half an hour ago), and Cherry gets so angry that her magic awakened due to her feelings. She easily defeats all the Vertex in the area, and a symbol that looks like a pink flower appears on the bottom of her dress. After the Taisha's formation, this symbol became known as a Harmony Mark, and Cherry has since become the first Human to have a Harmony Mark after awakening their magic.CM01

### Becoming a Puella Magi

On her sixteenth birthday, after greeting her best friend Valerie, she is troubled by the Vertex first appearing on the same day six years ago (and Valerie reminds her that if she hadn't saved her, she would be a goner for sure) just as Kyubey approaches, knowing what she's thinking.CM01

## Magical Abilities

As a Puella Magi, Cherry possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility and invulnerability to physical damage. Her magic aura is pink in color.

## Magical Warrior

Cherry is the Warrior of Sakuras. She is a Flower/Fighting/Fairy/Light Elemental whose Element of Harmony is Magic, and her theme color is pink. Her weapons are a crossbow and a staff.

### Attacks

* **Flower Petal Shoot** - One of her purification finishers. It borrows power from Ayame.
* **Ai no Blaster** - One of her purification finishers. It borrows power from an unknown Dream Pixie.
* **Hero Punch** - One of her purification finishers. It borrows power from an unknown Dream Pixie.
* **Hero Kick** - One of her purification finishers. It borrows power from an unknown Dream Pixie.
* **Petal Machine Gun** - One of her damaging sub-attacks.
* **Sakura Melody Shower** - A purification attack that she must perform with Valerie Harper. It borrows power from Ayame and Akira.
* **Full Bloom Storm** - A purification attack that she must perform with Akari Berliz. It borrows power from two unknown Dream Pixies, one from each girl.

## Forms of Address

 Valerie Harper | Koto-chan (コトちゃん)
 Michelle Brooks | Mizuki-chan (みゆきちゃん)
 Bryce Forrest | Hayashi-kun
 Akari Berliz | Shō-chan (ショウちゃん)

## Taking care of

### Dream Pixies

* **Ayame** - A rodent-like Dream Pixie who is colored light pink. She is Cherry's first Dream Pixie, and is said to be an immature troublemaker whenever she is not teaching other Dream Pixies. She grants her a crossbow and the ability to use Flower Petal Shoot with said crossbow.
* **???** - A (TBA)-like Dream Pixie who is colored (TBA). She is Cherry's second Dream Pixie, and grants her a staff and the ability to use Ai no Blaster with said staff.
* **???** - A (TBA)-like Dream Pixie who is colored white. He is Cherry's third Dream Pixie, and allows her to condense energy in her fist and release it in a punch, her signature technique which she calls the "Hero Punch."
* **???** - A (TBA)-like Dream Pixie who is colored (TBA). She is Cherry's fourth Dream Pixie, and allows her to gather energy in her foot and release it in a fiery explosion, a technique which she dubs the "Hero Kick."

### Pokémon

* **Hanae** - A Cherubi that Cherry befriended after becoming a magical girl in "Sprouting."
* **Featherspark** - A Rowlet that Cherry befriended in "The First Magi Team." Oddly, she has the ability to use Electric-type moves and magic.
* **Hibiscus** - A Solar Form Petilil that Cherry befriends in an unknown chapter, who eventually evolves into a Lilligant.

## Trivia

*For this character's tropes, see here.*
* Cherry has an odd Elemental type combo.
* Like Cherry Miles of the present-day, she was born on March 21, making her sign Aries. This is ***VERY*** fitting since cherry blossoms are associated with spring in Japan.
* Despite being named Yuuna/Cherry, she did not start the Yuuna/Cherry Factor, and it is an in-universe coincidence.
* Cherry tempts fate by saying that her team will never be apart. However, she is proven wrong when her best friend becomes evil, though she chooses to believe she has been brainwashed and not by her own choice.
* It is confirmed by her creator that her and her human teammates' civilian outfits (and other civilians'), due to humans having yet to form partnerships with Pokémon and not yet realizing they can use the move String Shot without having to be killed, are made of silk collected from wild Silcoon that are killed, boiled, and unraveled, and then magically made into fabric by people who have magic weaving powers. This is *before* the move String Shot was discovered and before humans and Pokémon start working together, so humans do not yet realize that they do not need to kill the Silcoon.
* At the end of "The Ending of the End" as the Magis eat donuts and discuss the future after the battle, Cherry's and her five friends' spirits are shown in the Pokémon Center watching them from afar, and her best friend's spirit is also among them. The way they smile at each other and fade away back to the afterlife is also similar to the spirits of Sofu and Kiawe's grandfather fading away as they smile at each other at the end of "Run, Magis, Run!" (the adaptation of "Run, Heroes, Run!")
* Cherry learned how to sing from Valerie (especially after the latter's wish). Before then, she had a horrible screeching voice when trying to sing.
* She often transforms with Valerie despite them not being a true duo.
* After she gets Stage 3, her buns change into a Yuuki Yuuna-like ponytail, making her one of the few Magis whose transformed hairstyle changes after Stage 3. This was a compromise between her creator wanting her to have twin buns and the series creator wanting her to have a Yuuki Yuuna-like ponytail.
* In the series finale, she is confirmed to work as a midwife.
* The flower in her Harmony Mark is similar to Gyuuki's marking, indicating that although she didn't start the Cherry Factor, she *may* have something to do with the Shinju-sama. This is in fact due to the Ancestral Deities themselves agreeing with the Magic of Friendship to choose her since the former hadn't combined into the Shinju yet.
* The fabric flaps on her skirt resemble the fabric flaps on the Hero uniforms in YuYuYu.
* In the present-day, Cherry occasionally appears in Queen Vera's flashbacks, but she always brushes them off until she finally redeems herself. She and her teammates are also often alluded to in paintings and murals such as statues.
* Her witch form, Prunus Cerasifera, resembles a cherry tree, except that *eyes* replace the cherries (complete with them having stems like cherries).
* Cherry was the first human to ever earn a Harmony Mark. Previously, humans and ponies could use magic without the need of a Harmony or Cutie Mark, and even modern non-human, non-pony creatures still have to awaken their magic despite possessing neither.
* At the beginning of "Budding" (the chapter where Bryce and Akari debut), she can be heard singing to herself the spring-themed opening lyrics of the 1980s *My Little Pony* movie, except with the lyrics modified.
* Soon before dying and becoming a Perserver, she *loses an arm* to a Vertex. However, in her Perserver form and when shown as a spirit in "The Ending of the End," she has both arms intact.
	+ Right before the Vertex bites her arm off, she tearfully begs Valerie (who has not gained her dark magic yet, but is planning to) to help protect her since her foot is stuck under a rock and her phone is just out of reach, though Valerie refuses and leaves her to be attacked, even kicking her phone further away. This moment is a *Wham Shot* that cements her best friend's betrayal.
* After "Budding," in order to avoid spoilers, she does not use Elemaximum until "Cherry and Valerie," the second chapter from the second act of her arc.