Cree Zealand

Render of Cree Zealand

### Personality

Happy, optimistic, exuberant, sweet, kind, nice, friendly, energetic, warm-hearted, empathetic, sympathetic, cuddly, cute, feminine, smart, sparkly, girly, wise, caring, caretaking, helpful, autistic, imaginative, naive

### Goal

* Make the world a better, happier and safer place
* Make new friends

### Family

* Sion Zealand (younger brother)
* Noon Zealand (mother)
* Yang Zealand (father)

### Friends

* Monday Chates (best and closest friend)
* August Chates
* Ortega Moore
* Kylie Nelson
* Jaylee Cruz
* Tatianna Gressley
* Rowan McAfee
* Victoria Pyang
* Tyrone Cruz
* Carol Cruz
* Zeck Cruz
* Carrie Cash
* Cairo Tyler-Norris

### Enemies

* Antigua Covington
* Luanda Jackson
* Sofia Vienna-Quinn

### Likes

* Her family
* Her friends
* Playing with Sion
* Interacting with her friends
* Making friends
* Making people happy
* Making the world a better, happier and safer place
* Waving
* Greeting
* Saying the words "hi" and "hello"
* Hugging
* Singing
* Music
* Dancing
* K-Pop
* Helping
* Ending bad causes
* Pizzas
* Birthdays
* Holidays
* African cultures
* Sleepovers
* Volunteering
* Animals
* Korean cultures
* New Zealand cultures

### Dislikes

* Making people sad
* Bullies
* Bullying
* Mean people
* Social isolation
* Loneliness
* Sion getting hurt (emotionally and physically)
* Monday being separated from her
* Rock 'n' roll music
* Too much cheese
* Cheating
* Shortcuts
* Revenge
* Taking advantages
* Violence
* Protests
* Spiders
* Scary movies
* Inequality

### Abilities

* Spreading joy
* Eliminating sadness
* Gathering people together

### Quote

"*I think of myself as a role model who loves to make the world a better, happier, and safer place. I love my friends, especially Monday, my brother Sion, my Mom and Dad, and making people happy. Oh, and one more thing. Greeting and hugging is my major hobby!*" – Cree Zealand's voiceover on promo

**Cree Zealand** is the main titular character and a protagonist in the Sintopia animated television series *Cree*. She is the older sister of Sion Zealand and daughter of Noon Zealand and Yang Zealand. She is also a best and closest friend of Monday Chates and a friend of August Chates and Ortega Moore.

## Background

Cree Zealand is an 11-year-old happy and optimistic girl who is part American, part South Korean and part New Zealander (Kiwi). She is sweet, kind, nice, friendly, energetic, and a huge fan of hugging. She is warm-hearted, a waver who loves saying "hi" and "hello", and lives to make new friends. Cree lives to make the world a better, happier and safer place. She is an older sister of Sion Zealand and a daughter of Noon Zealand and Yang Zealand. Cree is a sixth-grade student attending Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.) with her brother Sion and her friends Monday Chates, her little brother August Chates, Ortega Moore, Kylie Nelson, and Victoria Pyang.

## Biography

Cree Zealand is an 11-year-old South Korean-New Zealand (Kiwi)-American girl. She is an older sister of Sion Zealand, a daughter of Noon Zealand (mother) and Yang Zealand (father), a best friend of Monday Chates, and a friend of August Chates and Ortega Moore. Cree is a sixth-grade student attending Laketown Academy and lives in Laketown, Florida.

## Appearance

### **Body**

Cree has light pale skin, light yellow blonde hair, and blue eyes with a pair of three set of eyelashes. Like her brother Sion, she has a slender body.

### **Clothing and attire**

Cree wears a lavender sleeveless shirt with three set of buttons over a black short-sleeved shirt. a purple-pink skirt, magenta/fuchsia knee-high socks, and black slipper shoes. Her jewelry attire includes two white pearl earrings, three purple scrunchies (two of them create braided pigtails, one makes a three-pointed tuft pointing upwards), and she wears a pink heart-shaped watch around her left wrist, and a yellow bracelet around her right wrist.

## Personality

Cree Zealand is an exuberant, optimistic, sparkly, cuddly and sweet young girl. She has a very warm heart which makes her the sweetest, nicest girl in Laketown. Cree is a perfect role model to the Mayor of Laketown, the Vice Mayor of Laketown, the townspeople, her schoolmates, her classmates, the teachers, the principal, a good daughter to her parents. a good sister to Sion Zealand, and a good friend to Monday Chates, August Chates, Ortega Moore, and a few, several others.

Cree likes to make everyone feel happy by helping other people get through their problems, achieve their goals, and help them learn that there is more to life than everything, which makes her a philosopher, too. She is very wise, a caretaker and she dislike helping other people get the easy way out of their situations such as cheating, taking shortcuts, getting revenge, and taking advantage of things and other people.

## Trivia

* Cree Zealand is named after a singer and voice actress Cree So, elder sister of Jordon So, the creator of the TV series *Cree*.
	+ They are both born in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.
* Cree Zealand is voiced by Violet Jeol, an American-born actress of Korean descent.
* The character's first name is inspired from the indigenous **Cree** tribes in northern North America, most specifically and geographically in southern Canada (in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and some of the Atlantic provinces) while her last name is named after **New Zealand**, an island country in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean across the Tasman Sea from Australia.

* Cree Zealand is similar to Molly McGee from the Disney Channel animated series *The Ghost and Molly McGee* in terms of personality and ethnicity.
	+ In terms of nationality:
		- They are both American-born half-Asians. Cree Zealand is half-Korean and also half-Kiwi (New Zealand) while Molly McGee is half-Thai and also half-Irish.
	+ In terms of personality:
		- They are both optimistic and lives to make the world a better place, but the only difference in that is that Cree lives to make the world a happier and safer place.
		- They love to give warm and strong hugs.
		- They are very imaginative beings, and both try to fix their own mistakes.
		- They are energetic and caring to their friends and family, but also very accident-prone.
		- They are not very good at sports.
		- Due to their imaginative nature, they show senses of naivety, like Molly seems to believe in wizards and unicorns while Cree often shows to think leprechauns and mermaids are real, all despite being tweens.
		- They can both overthink, become selfish, take things personally, and lose their enthusiasms at times in occasional episodes.
		- They both dislike and have an irrational fear of spiders.
		- They both dislike social isolation.

## Gallery

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