Harmony Mark

A **Harmony Mark** (Japanese: **ハーモニーシンボル** *Harmony Symbol*) are what make all of CheerfulSteekip's OCs and canon character counterparts very special. The term is a play on "beauty mark", and it is also reminiscent of "quarter mark". The mark itself is usually positioned on someone's clothing, usually on the bottoms or skirt, but some characters have them on their top instead. Unlike Cutie Marks, Harmony Marks are *not* related to the personality, proclivity, or talent of their owners, but rather their owners' *powers*.

## Depiction

Harmony Marks are obtained when potential humans discover a unique kind of magic that sets themselves apart from normal people. The meanings of Harmony Marks are not always literal.

Harmony Marks typically appear on somebody's pants/skirt/bottom edge of dresses or on the bottom edge of outer clothes such as jackets or costumes if they're currently wearing them. Some characters (such as Nicole and Alessandra), however, have them on the chest of the current outfit they're wearing, while others such as Elizabeth have them on the bottom edge of the top they're wearing or on their waist for outfits like dresses. This makes it impossible to conceal a Harmony Mark using clothing as they will always appear on the outermost visible layer of the clothing the person is wearing. If somebody is not wearing clothes, such as if they're bathing, the mark will always be placed on their thigh regardless of where it's normally placed on their clothing.

Even after a Magic Warrior retires from heroics or has their transformation item destroyed, their Harmony Mark remains for life, and their ability to learn and perform spells remains as well. When entering Equestria, since all humans entering Equestria will become ponies (though the reverse is not true for ponies leaving Equestria to enter human-populated worlds, such as the Pokémon world), the Harmony Mark will become a Cutie Mark.

## Design

Harmony Marks come in a wide variety of shapes and colors, and unlike Cutie Marks, are very detailed in design.

One of the things they are *not* permitted to be of, however, are faces of any kind due to them looking creepy when used as a Harmony Mark - if a Pokémon's head, for example, is used as a Harmony Mark, it must be a silhouette and not include the face. Emojis, however, can be used as long as they're simple and styilized enough to actually look like an emoji and not a detailed face, as shown with Sakura Gumball whose Harmony Mark is an emoji blowing a bubble of gum.

## Removal

A few spells and accidents can cause a Harmony Mark to be removed from their owner, and sometimes their magic too. If turned evil or brainwashed, the mark will be removed and the magic will be corrupted, as shown with characters such as Event Horizon, also Glorysia at the end of episode *The Pony Derby and a Darkness Nightmare*. The Harmony Mark also disappeared when its owner is transformed, but with the introduction of Elemaximum, it instead acts similar to the Mankai Gauge, the Elemental Gauge.

## Acquisitions

For a full list of acquisitions, see the series listed on this page.

* Addison/Hilda: As an 8 year-old, during her magic exam in a camp, she becomes nervous in front of the examiners and nearly fails. The flashback of the vision about the Great Unovan War suddenly awakens Addison's/Hilda's magic, and she loses control, even attracting her friends' attention. Professor Juniper calms her and compliments her on her raw ability, offering to take her and select few as personal students. Addison/Hilda celebrates both this and the acquisition of her Harmony Mark (resembling a pink six-pointed star with a fade of orange in the middle on top of white wings with a fade of light blue), much to the embarrassment of Cheren, Bianca, Nate, Hilbert and Natalie/Rosa, all 5 who later decide to accept the role of being one of the Professor's personal students.
* Bailey: As a 5 year-old, Bailey disobeyed her mother and wandered into Illex Forest after she somehow felt it "calling" her. Suddenly, she saw the very same Celebi that her mother had healed years ago and while she had no idea what it was, she felt some kind of connection with it. The Celebi directed her to a tree stump that a greedy logger had wrongly cut down in the sacred ground and taught her a spell to restore the tree. Upon realizing that her special power was life itself, she earned her Harmony Mark, resembling a plant sprout surrounded by a circle of tiny clovers.
* Nanette: As a 4 year-old, during her first day at a camp, Nanette got lost in a forest while looking for a Mew. However, once she got out, she didn't realize that she was going to fall over a cliff, and when she tripped, she realized her mistake. Her cry for help attracted Marina and Abigail M., and as a result of her own refusal to die, Nanette's eyes suddenly glow completely white, not only making her earn her Harmony Mark resembling a 4-pointed purple (main) and white (sub) on top of cyan wings with 6-pointed magenta stars on the edges, but she ended up getting a total magic outburst that transformed her for the very first time.
* Elizabeth (in MHA): A week before meeting Bailey and becoming Angel Skylight, she was walking in Hau'oli City when she suddenly heard a distressed scream coming from a nearby building. She went to check it out and noticed a badly beaten up Rotom that had been abandoned by its Trainer. Thus, she took it to the Pokémon Center, but was afraid that it was not going to make it. She calmed herself by telling herself that having hope can make a difference, and that suddenly awakened her magic, and Rotom pulled through and got better. Upon her magic awakening because of that realization, she earned her Harmony Mark, resembling a sun partially coming out from behind a sky blue cloud.
* Mallow Floris: As a 4 year-old, 3 years before she met Lana, she was walking with her mother in the forest near the Pokémon School when the two suddenly encountered a wild Bounsweet. Mallow's mother caught it and gave it to the 4 year-old, naming the Fruit Pokémon "Aki." However, when the mother collapses and coughs, Mallow realized that she needed to get back to the hospital right away and makes a crude tea to cheer her up made by mixing water and Aki's sweat and then microwaving it, unknowingly awakening her magic due to her kindness. A non-Pokémon-esque monster, though, has targeted the two, and out of rage, Mallow suddenly unleashes a huge outburst of aura that knocked her out. When she saw her mother for the last time, she tells her that she found something on her shirt. It turns out that Mallow gained a Harmony Mark, resembling a pink and white rose with green leaves.
* Lana: When Lana was 7, she was looking for something to give to her mother. Suddenly, she found a Lapras being threatened by a non-Pokémon-esque monster (actually the same monster that attacked Mallow). Lana became so mad that her powers awakened, her hair briefly changed into long yellow hair, and she unleashed a massive Hydro Pump that defeated the monster. A while later, Lana's mother found out and after introducing Harper and Sarah to the Davis family, Lana says they and the Lapras, now a PokéPet named "Laps," will be added to the household, causing her to gain her Harmony Mark: a golden teardrop in a winged blue heart.
* Lillie: When Lillie was 6, after the incident that made her unable to touch Pokémon, Lillie went to a Pokémon petting zoo to try and get over her fear. She almost managed to touch a Vulpix, but could not bring herself to. After the petting zoo got attacked, however, she saved one of the Vulpix from being attacked and managed to get over her fear for that specific Pokémon. During the attack, her magic awakened and she suddenly shooted a beam of blue ice from her hand to freeze the poacher. After the incident, despite not wanting to go out for some time, she managed to state that taking care of a Vulpix would be the best choice for her, and her Harmony Mark appears: a blue snowflake in a white heart. Little did she know, she was still eventually going to have a challenge raising an Alolan Vulpix she would get as an egg and own once it hatched.
* Molly: When Molly's mother passed away from cancer when she was 6, leaving her and her then 1 year-old sister to be raised by their father, she threw a tantrum at her funeral and thought her mom only died because she didn't love her and didn't want to be with her anymore. Her Luvdisc, however, that her mom had owned and her dad was officially owning until she was 10, however, assured her that she *did* love her and was just sick, so she had to spend most of her time in the hospital. Molly, moved by Luvdisc's speech, then decided that she would spread love to anybody who had been deprived of it. This awakened her magic, allowing her to hug and comfort an 8 year-old girl whose father had recently died, and she earned her Harmony Mark: a trio of pink hearts bordered in white and surrounded by a gold halo.
* Alessandra: When Alessandra was 5, she only played video games all day and never wanted to go outside, not having any friends. Her parents, however, told her to go outside and get some fresh air under the Kalos sun. She refused, but decided to try it, and was amazed at how the warm sun felt on her skin. Later that evening, she saw a sunset for the first time and declared it was the most beautiful thing she ever saw. She decided that she wanted to go make some friends with her warm personality, and this awakened her magic of the Sun, giving her a Harmony Mark of a bright orange sun setting behind two mountains.
* Ruby: When Ruby was 15, a year before meeting Bailey and becoming Angel Fieldflower, she became seriously injured during a soccer game and got a bleeding gash on her knee. The other players quickly went to get help, but they were taking a very long time to come back and Ruby knew that it would be dangerous and she could bleed to death from such a large wound without quick treatment. She noticed some poppies growing nearby and decided to crush one of the green pods and use the juice inside to numb the pain while she waited for help. However, as she reached to pick one of the flowers, she remembered that the flowers may be an effective painkiller, but they were also a very dangerous one, so she decided not to use them. Her refusal to give in to the temptation awakened her magic and healed her wound, giving her a Harmony Mark of two entwined poppy flowers.
* Autumn Baker: When Autumn was 3, she started helping her parents in their Lumiose City donut bakery for the first time. Her parents, however, were trying to come up with a new donut recipe to sell, but were extremely short on ideas. They asked Autumn to try and think of one, and she ended up accidentally dropping a typical ring-shaped donut in a jar of jelly, which she found tasted delicious. This awakened her magic and transformed the donut into a non ring-shaped jelly *filled* donut, which she showed to her parents, and they decided that it would be perfect to sell. She thus earned her Harmony Mark: a jelly donut with jelly spilling out.
* Hannah Winters: When Hannah was 9, she went ice skating with a friend in the middle of winter and the two were having a snowball fight. The two then came across a frozen pond, unaware the ice was very thin, and decided to skate on it. Suddenly, the ice cracked and Hannah's friend fell through it into the pond, not knowing how to swim. Hannah knew that her friend would drown quickly if she didn't do something fast, and at that moment, her magic awakened, resulting in her shooting a blast of ice from her hands that froze the rest of the lake's water completely solid, allowing her friend to climb up and safely walk across the ice to safety. This caused her to earn her Harmony Mark of a snowdrop plant in bloom.
* Mallow Blanc: On a winter camping trip in Pinwheel Forest with her parents and older sister when she was 7, Mallow ended up getting lost while going to collect firewood. She could not find her way back to the campsite and it had started to snow, causing her to get mild hypothermia. Mallow then suddenly noticed a Poké Ball lying in the snow and opened it, revealing it to contain a white and cream-colored Ninja Dragonet who had also gotten lost from her Trainer. The white fish transformed into a Torchic in order to warm Mallow up and kept her warm until her parents finally found her. As a result of her refusal to give up despite almost freezing and the awakening of her magic turning the raw marshmallows into freshly-roasted s'mores, her Harmony Mark appeared, resembling two flaming marshmallows on sticks. Mallow also kept the Ninja Dragonet she found and has had her ever since, naming her Mashed Potato.
* Carol: When Carol was 6, she and her younger sister often explored the reefs around Seafolk Village, filled with many tropical marine Pokémon. While she was swimming by the Corsola that hold up Seafolk Village, she noticed a diver grabbing the Corsola and painfully ripping off their pink branches so they could be sold for jewelry, instead of letting them shed naturally. This caused her to think twice about the Corsola branch necklace she had worn since she was a year old, the difference being that her necklace had been shed naturally. Carol yelled at the diver to stop and collect already-shed branches instead of torturing the Pokémon, but he started grabbing Luvdisc and tearing off their scales for jewelry as well. Her outburst awakened her magic and created a pink shockwave that scared away the diver, healed the Corsola and Luvdisc, and rebuilt the non-Corsola coral that the diver had broken. She then decided to protect the reefs from then on, earning her Harmony Mark of an orange fan coral.
* Brook:
* Ella: As a 2 year-old, Ella often had blurry vision since she hadn't gotten glasses yet and didn't know what was wrong with her. While playing a kiddie volleyball game with a friend (she hadn't met Annie yet at that point), they accidentally took the game too far and ended up playing by some cliffs. Her friend slipped and fell off, and Ella was desperate to save her. As she slipped out of her grip, Ella's magic awakened, slowing down time and temporarily clearing her vision so that she could grab her hand before she fell off. Her Harmony Mark then appeared, resembling a white analog clock with a purple border and purple hands.
* Julia: When Julia was 4, she threw a tantrum after being told by Fennel that rainbow-colored Munna don't exist and that she could only find a pink Munna or occasionally other colors due to mutations. She kept looking for a rainbow-colored one, but all the Munna in the Dreamyard were either the typical colors or one that was green and one that was brown. Fennel, however, told her that anything could exist within her imagination even if it couldn't in real life. Julia took Fennel's words to heart and decided that she could write a story about a rainbow Munna instead. As a result, her magic awakened and made a real rainbow Munna appear. This also gave her her Harmony Mark, resembling a purple perfume bottle spraying out pink mist. In the *Shining Bonds* franchise, this even lead Fennel to get an upgrade, due to how kind she was to Julia.
* Luna: When Luna was 8, she and her (then the family pet until she was 10) Lunatone were often bullied and ostracized by other kids, commonly being accused of secretly being a were-Mighteyena soley due to her blue-eyed, dark-haired appearance, hanging out with two physics and space nerds, having a Lunatone, and being fascinated by the Moon. She began to believe the comments about her, but Lunatone told her that they're simply judging a book by its cover and didn't even bother to get to know the real happy, cheerful Luna because they already had judged her by her appearance. Luna realized that darkness is just as important as light because without light, the word "light" would have no meaning since there'd be nothing to compare it to, and that plants only grow during the night, not during the day. This awakened her magic and caused a beautiful full moon to occur that night, granting her a Harmony Mark of a bright azure blue full moon with two silver clouds partially overlapping it.
* Melissa Sparkworks: When Melissa was 11, she wanted to do something for Unovan Independence Day despite living in Kalos. Her older brother told her that it would be pointless to celebrate a holiday not important to their region, but that rude response caused Melissa to run off crying. She came across a lone fireworks stand that night that was catering to people who *did* celebrate Unovan Independence Day or were fans of Unovan culture in general, but it was illegal to sell fireworks to somebody her age. At that moment, she realized she was a fan of Unovan culture as well, and her magic awakening suddenly caused her to create red, white, and blue blasts from her hands that shot up and created a brilliant display of fireworks in the night sky. Her Harmony Mark then appeared, resembling a red and orange striped firecracker with a blue star at the end of the fuse.
* Skye:
* Aurea: As a 9 year-old, one year before she met Fennel, she found a gravely injured Minccino in Pinwheel Forest and quickly took it to the Pokémon Center. After realizing it wouldn't make it, she become so angered that her magic suddenly awakens and she loses control and has a magical outburst that attracts her father's attention. Cedric calms her down and says the Minccino surprisingly made it because of the outburst. Aurea looks at her skirt and realizes she got a Harmony mark, which resembles a gray silhouette of a Minccino's face on top of cyan-green wings. She celebrates both the achievement and the adoption of her Minccino, to which she names it "Cina".
* Fennel: As an 8 year-old, two years before she met Aurea, she was always having terrible nightmares about an event that would happen in one of her future adventures. One day, she woke up to see a wild Munna trying to help her, but it was wounded. She tried to take to the Pokémon Center, but due to how much energy the nightmare she had took, she fell over and got severely hurt. That night, she said to the Munna that she needs to get proper rest and that it could help her. True of that, surprisingly, the Pokémon and her awakened magic manage to stop the nightmares from happening again, and when Fennel woke, she realized that the Munna, who she adopts and names "Musha", has been healed and that she herself got a Harmony Mark, which resembles three light purple and light pink flowers surrounded by a pink mist. Since then, she has also been seen wearing a purple and pink hair clip on her bangs as a way to celebrate her milestone.
* Sonia: When she was a 7 year-old, three years before her first journey (with Leon in that case), she found a sick Yamper all scratched and weakened in the wild. She quickly rushes it to the Pokémon Center, but learns that it would not make it. Deciding to play with it while it lives, she started being humorous, such as making silly jokes. The magic suddenly awakens when she makes the 5th joke and she and the Yamper shock each other so hard that the Pokémon makes it out alive. Sonia happily decides to adopt it after getting Nurse Joy's permission and names it "Boltzy," which leads her to get her Harmony Mark: a yellow thunderbolt with a winged pink heart placed on top.
* Delia: As a 6 year-old, Delia became lost in the Pallet Woods in the evening and injured her leg after tripping over a log, with none of the Pokémon coming to her aid. A Mime Jr, however, notices her and reveals that it is also injured. It copies a wild Chansey's Heal Pulse and heals her, and Delia's magic suddenly awakens and allows her to heal the Mime Jr in return. Happy with what she did, she decides to adopt the Mime Jr., naming it "Mimey." This also gave her a Harmony Mark: a winged blue heart with a pink plus sign in the middle.
* Catherine: When Catherine was 10, she found a wild injured Popplio at her home. (Gary, any more ideas?)
* Elis: (Cheerful will be putting ideas soon!)
* Kailee: (Cheerful will be putting ideas soon!)
* June: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Chloe Porter: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Mirta Springriver: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Amelia Porter: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Lily Porter: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Ellie Porter: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Jane Springriver: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Brianna Porter: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Eli Smith: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Taylor Smith: (Gary, any ideas?)
* Katrina: When Katrina was 5, she went to watch a Minior shower with her parents on Starfall Hill. She befriended a purple-cored Minior and brought it back to them, begging them to let her keep it. Unfortunately, she was unaware that Minior die after their shells break and the Minior soon died. Her parents explained that is what happens to all Minior, and she cried at the loss of her friend but ultimately accepted it. This acceptance awakened her magic and allowed several new Minior to be born in her friend's place, earning her Harmony Mark of a yellow sphere surrounded by purple rays, representing a supernova.
* Glorysia: This was revealed it was in her pony form shows her cutie mark. When she was 6 years old, when she was joined the singing competition by her friends, she was worried that her past life that Treble and Bass bullied her 4 weeks before the competition. However, she couraged to enter the stage in order to bright her eyes, and started to singing. When she was singing half, she started fly high and showing her magical Starry Sky powers and music that she represented and influencing the crowds and unexpectly got her cutie mark of the big yellow star with a cleble and 2 four-pointed stars. By the way, Glorysia, in her human form, was revealed to be her harmony mark representing as the music and night.
* Katherine: When Katherine was 4, she started to get in to fashion and always begged her parents to buy her pretty dresses. Her parents and her identical twin sister Raven kept telling her that her appearance was simply on the outside and that true beauty comes from the inside, but she didn't listen. When a group of 5 year-olds started bullying her for not wearing a pretty dress or makeup (as she was only 4), she ran off crying and stole an expensive fancy dress from the Santalune City botique in order to prove to the bullies that she was beautiful. After recalling her parents' and sister's words, however, she returned the dress and declared to the bullies that her happy smile was much more important than a pricey dress. This caused the awakening of her magic and gave her a boost of confidence without altering her appearance, giving her a Harmony Mark of a bouquet of pink sweet pea flowers with a pink bow tied around the bundle of green stems.
* Nicole: After de-transforming from being Angel Surgeon for the first time, Nicole was having a very hard time adjusting to her new human body and was unsure if she was worthy of her ChanMirror and ChanCards or the powers she had just used. The heroes and their Pokémon took her to get a new outfit and she chose a new name for herself as well. After she got taught a miniature lesson by the heroes about how the human body works, she learned that surgeons go to school to learn all about the human body and regularly cut into people, so she decided she wanted to a surgeon one day to further her understanding of organic beings. This caused her Harmony Mark to appear: a scalpel.
* Tsukiko Hayashibara and Honoko Hayashibara: When Tsukiko and Honoko at first pretended to befriend Amber and her friends under civilian disguises (consisting of only changing their clothes, hair color, and just adding a surname, yet the heroes somehow didn't recognize them) in order to infiltrate and gather information on them, they did not gain Harmony Marks due to their friendship being fake and them not changing yet, showing the Magic of Frienship can tell if somebody really sees the error of their ways. When they watched how the heroes interacted, however, it soon led them to have a genuine change of heart and caused their Harmony Marks to appear, respectively of a white crescent moon with light blue fairy wings and surrounded by 3 blue stars, and a chibi smiling pink sun with orange rays.

## Trivia

* Most OCs made by others have Harmony Marks in the series made by CheerfulSteekip, such as Ellie Porter. They also appear in MHA.

* Some characters gain magic *without* the Harmony Mark and sometimes even the *other* way around. For example, as Angel Wing when powered-up by the Light of Hope, the Elizabeth outside of MHA has a rainbow flower as a Harmony Mark, having it untransformed as well. Tsukiko and Honoko from *Shining Bonds a La Mode: 340 Years Later* also have Harmony Marks following their change of heart, but are usually the "muggles" of the group.

* The Harmony Mark reappears whenever a character changes clothes. If somebody with a Harmony Mark on their bottoms (the most common place), for example, wears a two-piece swimsuit, the Harmony Mark will move to the bottoms, and if they wear a jacket or costume covering where the Harmony Mark is, it will move to the closest equivalent place on it.
	+ A smaller version appears on the cheek when in the Starlight Style and/or Innocent Harmony form. It is always shown when the two forms are combined.

* The Harmony Marks do not appear in MHB, MH and MH2.

* Not all Harmony Marks have literal meanings, and are often metaphorical instead:
	+ The MHA Elizabeth's Harmony Mark, a sun peeking out from behind a cloud, represents hope and "seeing the light."
	+ Julia's Harmony Mark is a perfume bottle with perfume spilling out.
	+ Mallow Blanc's Harmony Mark, two flaming marshmallows on sticks, symbolizes her refusal to let anything, even the freezing cold on a winter day, put out her fire.

* Whenever somebody is not wearing clothes for whatever reason (such as if they are bathing), their Harmony Mark does not just disappear, but is instead placed on their thigh (whether it is on the left or right matches their dominant hand) like a pony's Cutie Mark, even if their Harmony Mark normally appears on their top rather than pants/skirt.

* Twin characters (even identical ones) do not necessarily have to have the same Harmony Mark at all.

* Spirits retain their Harmony Marks when they die or lose their physical forms, which is weird.
	+ This confirms that anyone who is a deceased Magical Warrior can still transform, but only for a limited time, mainly when summoned. The only time in the *Shining Bonds* franchise where everyone (even the spirits) gained a one-time powerup is in the *340 Years Later* episode "Restore The Multiverse! The True Final Battle!", and it lasted until they used Forever Harmonic Miracle Finale as the "grand finale attack."

* When Sugar hugs her mother and tells her she loves her, and she tells her she loves her as well (in the episode *The Circle of Life!* when she comforts her over the Goldeen dying), Molly's Harmony Mark which is a trio of hearts suddenly starts glowing brightly. However, it doesn't glow in response to romantic love, as she is specifically the Angel of *platonic* love.
* A few characters' Harmony Marks have additional functions. Ella Ticcster's Harmony Mark (an analog clock), for example, actually has the hands move like a real clock to tell the time, Molly's Harmony Mark (a trio of white hearts bordered in pink with gold halos) lights up in response to very strong feelings of non-romantic love, and Elizabeth's Harmony Mark (a rainbow flower) can be used as a timer for how many minutes Dragonet has left of her powerup after using Return (there are 5 petals and one petal equals one minute.)
* Nicole is the only character to transform for the first time without previously posessing a Harmony Mark, as she only earned her Harmony Mark *after* transforming for the first time once she became an organic human, not before.
* Only humans, as well as demihumans such as natural (as in not just humans that are transformed - for example, Nanette is a human while Bloom is a natural fairy, Kylie is a human while Laura is a natural mermaid, and Bailey is a human while Nijimia is a natural angel) mermaids, fairies, non-evil or reformed humanoid sapient robots such as Ruru, angels, etc, can posess Harmony Marks. Pokémon and other creatures except ponies and zebras (who have Cutie Marks), even if they're connected to an Elemental of Harmony, cannot.