Charity Howell

## Charity Howell / Cure Swell

"The Sea Dragon, bringing waves of upheaval! Cure Swell!"

Water

The Ocean

Superspeed Swimming

Heightened Accuracy

Heightened Strength

Charity Howell is a main character in and Pretty Cure on the team of **Roar! Mighty Dragon Precure**. Her theme colors are navy & light blue.

She is the reincarnation of the Elder One, Leviathan.

## Appearance

### General Appearance

Charity is a slim, somewhat tall young woman who is considered conventionally attractive. She has long, wavy blonde hair down to her calves, which she has never cut. Her eyes are a dark blue, and she has rounded, delicate features. She tends to wear clothes that cover as much as possible, only wearing casual clothes when she's alone or with her friends. She doesn't wear any makeup, and doesn't like making herself stand out appearance-wise. She is never seen without her hair clips, which are actually her Gilded Scales. She also has reading glasses, which are sometimes seen.

### Cure Swell

As Cure Swell, her hair actually becomes shorter, down to her waist, with the lower half dyed blue. Her eyes become a brighter blue, and her ears become webbed and fin-like, with navy-blue spines. She also has white spots on her legs resembling bubbles or sea foam, and when she is in the water, she gains gills on her neck and waist. In her powered-up form, she gains scales around her eyes and fangs, as well as webbing down the sides of her neck.

## Personality

*"I... I want to help! I want to be my own person, so please... let me help."*

Charity is a quiet, anxious and uptight, always worried about doing the wrong thing and scared of the people around her. She has very low self-esteem and views herself as an outcast, and beats herself up over the littlest things. Once she finally relaxes around her new friends, she becomes soft-spoken but kind, and always wants to be useful to others. She is a genuine person who wears her heart on her sleeve, and has trouble keeping secrets. She's kind of gullible and naive when it comes to certain things due to being sheltered as a child, but her friends are always looking out for her. She also has a hidden temper, but keeps it well-hidden from other people, only expressing it when she's alone.

Charity enjoys reading and collecting books, and loves strolls by bodies of water, whether it be the beach or a lake. She also enjoys learning about new things she was sheltered form previously. Charity fluently speaks English, but desires to learn Mandarin from Zhilan.

As Cure Swell, she becomes calmer, more self-assured, and outgoing. She's also more aggressive, and prefers to take the offensive in battle and has a tendency to lose her cool more often.

## History

Charity grew up as an only child of two overbearing, micro-managing parents. They dictated everything about her life, down to what she could see or talk about, what she could wear, who she was friends with, and just about everything else in her life. She wasn't allowed to talk to boys outside of school, and her parents never deemed anybody fit to be friends with her, s she was fairly ostracized from her peers growing up. However, at school, she had one friend - Zhilan, who protected her from being picked on as they grew up. She would sneak out of her house just to see them, and she was the first person they told about being non-binary. However, she had to move in middle school, so Zhilan promised to throw her a big party while they could still hang out. Charity brought Zhilan bracelets with flame-shaped charms on them, and Zhilan brought her water-drop shaped hairclips, which turned out to be each others' Gilded Scales. When she went home with them, her parents found out she had been going out without their permission, and became even more restrictive after they moved.

She felt even more lonely than ever, and throughout her middle school and early high school years, she was effectively by herself, not allowed to leave the house for any reasons besides school or the occasional doctor's visits. Her parents began to tell her mean things disguised as guidance as she got older, like "you shouldn't eat so much," and "you'll never be a good person unless you do as we say," etc. This led to her poor self image, and why she has such a desire to be useful. Eventually, in her junior year of high school, she moves back to Freedom's Grove for her parents' work. She meets Zhilan again, but is afraid of talking to them for fear of getting in trouble with her parents. Eventually, after seeing how Zhilan lives and acts with Fayre and the others, and learning that she is a reincarnation, she breaks down and expresses a desire to be normal, to have her own life and be her own person. She becomes a Cure to experience this, to become more independent and make her own decisions for her life.

## Cure Swell

*"Roar, the Heart of a Dragon! ... The Sea Dragon, bringing waves of upheaval! Cure Swell!"*

### Transformation

* **Transformation Item**: Sea Scales
* **Transformation Call**: “Roar, the heart of a dragon!”
* **Tagline**: “The Sea Dragon, bringing waves of upheaval! Cure Swell!”

### Powers

**Abilities**

* **Heightened Strength**: As Cure Swell, her power is unmatched, even by Cure Torch. She is the physically strongest Cure on the team, able to accomplish feats like kicking clean through multiple trees and crushing rocks as big as a house even on her first transformation.
* **Heightened Accuracy**: She also has impeccable aim, able to throw or shoot things at their intended target nearly all of the time.
* **Water Manipulation**: She is able to manipulate and use bodies of water like an extension of herself, even being able to create massive waves or fire droplets like bullets.
* **Underwater Breathing & Super Speed Swimming**: When in the water, Cure Swell gains gills on her neck and waist, and is able to swim at impossible speeds.

**Finishing Attacks**

* **Sea Surge**
	+ **Call**: "Change with the tides! Precure... Sea Surge!"
	+ Swell turns her hairclips (scales) into a heart-shaped tip of an arrow, and attaches it to a harpoon gun she summons with Numen. She takes aim at the Panoply, and fires, lodging it into its armor. The bolt explodes into a torrent of water, dissolving and purifying it.
* **Sea Tsunami**
	+ **Call**: "Change with the tides! Precure... Sea Tsunami!"
	+ Swell fires bolts from her harpoon gun, pinning the Panoply in place. She then summons a massive wave of Numen, almost resembling water, and it purifies the Panoply.

## Relationships

* **Fayre McCoy**: She views Fayre as a strong, capable leader, and looks up to her greatly as a role model for how she should strive to be. She is happy to be around her, and grateful for her guidance and friendship. She enjoys being around her, and loves being introduced new things from her.
* **Yaretzi Vasquez**: She and Yaretzi get along very well, and enjoy spending quiet time together. They relate to one another in terms of anxiety and self esteem issues, and bond over their shared experience of wanting to get better. Charity considers Yaretzi like a sibling, and they become very close friends.
* **Zhilan Ouyang**: She and Zhilan are inseparable childhood friends. They like each other, but they're both oblivious to it. She feels protective of Zhilan, but doesn't know how to show it since she's usually the one being protected outside of being a Cure. She really cares for them, and would do anything to stay by their side.
* **Josie Laghari**: She enjoys Josie's company, although she's a little intimidated by her go-getting demeanor and mother hen personality. She secretly enjoys being fawned over, though she'd never tell Josie, and simply lets her do as she pleases. They get along well, and in battle, the two actually make a great tag-team.
* **Tarragon Drake**: Charity is quite intimidated by Tarragon at first, and even afraid of him. She worries about messing up in front of the King, but once she realizes he's really not that different from them, she relaxes and finally opens up to him. She is a bit distant from him, but considers him a strong King and somebody to look up to.

## Trivia

* Charity was originally designed to wear glasses all the time, but this was scrapped for just reading glasses.
* Charity was also originally designed with a streak of dyed blue hair in defiance of her parents, but it didn't quite fit with her design or personality so it was scrapped.
* Cure Swell's original design had multi-layered boots instead of ombre ones.