Magic of Friendship

The **Magic of Friendship** (Japanese: *Tomodachi no Maho*) is one of the sentient cosmic forces featured in *Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae*. It permeates the entire Multiverse, and is the exact opposite to the Magic of Animosity, which is created from the animosity of living beings.

## Overview

The Magic of Friendship manifests in response to strong acts of friendship or love between Creatures. Like other sentient cosmic forces, it has a mind and will of its own and is sentient as it is the one who carefully selects young Creatures to be Magis and chooses their Elements. Sometimes, however, some of its Chosen Ones aren't able to transform freely, but Creatures are unable to comprehend the reason for this. Mikos are also able to freely communicate with it when transformed.

The Magic of Friendship also appears to be the driving force behind the move Return and the ability Battle Bond. If a Magi is having doubts about themselves, the Magic of Friendship will withhold their ability to transform until their confidence comes back up, and it will also withhold their ability to transform if they must be with a partner to transform and gets into a serious unresolved argument with said partner. It does not appreciate villains at all, but is willing to forgive villains that have sincerely changed their ways (such as Nicole) or ones that were forced to be evil against their will (such as Katrina), sometimes even giving them the ability to become a Magi in their own right as a reward.

In order to become a Chosen One, a Creature must typically be in their teens and possess exceptional positive personality traits. With a few exceptions, adults generally are not chosen due to the MoF wanting those it chooses to be as fit and healthy as possible when running and jumping around and not past their physical prime, as well as the fact that youth are more likely to enjoy fighting in cute/fancy costumes, heels, accessories, hairstyles, and wings, though Magis already chosen when they were teenagers/youth growing into adulthood are allowed to stay and keep their cute frilly outfits. A Magi's transformed appearance is based on their subconscious tastes and desires they want for their appearance, as well as their favorite color.

Like other sentient cosmic forces and the Shinju-sama, some of its decisions and the ways it thinks are sometimes unable to be understood by Humans, Creatures and Pokémon, such as its reason for not reviving Melody and Katy's other friends after they start dying one by one. It is implied at least in the former case, however, that it is because it knows reviving her would be cruel due to how badly she misses her friends and family.

## Trivia

* In some circumstances, for somebody's own safety, the MOF sometimes will withold a character's ability to use powers even if they do not involve self-doubts or arguments - for example, it would not would not let Dragonet use her powerup, even blocking her ability to use *any* moves or attacks *at all*, while she was pregnant.
* Similar to how the Light of Hope has a counterpart called the Darkness of Despair or better known as Chaos, the MOF has an exact polar opposite called the Magic of Animosity, which is what villains use and which cannot be destroyed just like the MOF, due to negative emotions such as hate, fear, apathy, anger, and sadness also always existing. This force specifically arises from the animosity and enemyships of living beings. Both will also never go away due to even the nicest creatures not being perfect.
* All those picked by the MOF have the ability to hear Pokémon talk. Event Horizon can still hear Pokémon talk even in her villain form due to being a Chosen One who is brainwashed against her will, but Necrosis, Demencia, and Black Hat can't. Nicole, however, gains the ability to hear Pokémon talk upon permanently turning into a human since she became a Chosen One.
* If somecreature's close friends or loved ones die because they are immortal and can't bear the pain of outliving them and losing them any longer, they can ask the Magic of Friendship to peacefully end their life so they can be with their friends and loved ones in the afterlife. However, it will *only* grant such a request if ending their life is truly in their best interest - it won't just let somecreature commit suicide for any reason, for example.
	+ In the rewritten timeline, however, this is no longer an issue since all Chosen Ones and their Pokémon are semi-immortal from the start. In the series finale, it is also confirmed that the Chosen One system has *not* ceased - as Katrina mentions, it can still choose new Chosen Ones if it wants to, but just hasn't for several years because the AoTA (the main antagonists) and the Vertexes have been defeated for good.

* Unlike *Pretty Cure*, Chosen Ones are not required to show determination in order to make a contract with Kyubey or gain their powers.
* In an unknown chapter, Melody says "(...) And the magic I carry inside me is.... ***the Magic of Friendship!***" It is unknown, however, if this is simply metaphorical in regards to her friends or if she actually is the MoF's wielder.
* The MoF is the one that created the Crystal Lighthouse in *Amber Magica*, after it was restored. However, it also creates the interior completely messy and disorganized with the bedrooms completely blank as a test to see if the Magis and their Pokémon can cooperate to organize it. In a flashback in an unknown chapter, it is seen rising out of the ground similar to how Twilight's Castle of Friendship appeared in MLP:FIM.