Nijino Nijiko

**Elizabeth Storybook** (Japanese: **ニジノニジコ** *Nijino Nijiko*) is one of the main characters of Pokémon Legends. She is a 13 year-old first-year middle school student in Momotaro-sensei's class at Hau'oli Virtual Public Middle School. Her signature color is blue.

## Appearance

Nijiko has light skin and brown eyes, and has curly chest-length multicolored hair that she normally straightens and wears in a partial topknot bun. Her main casual outfit in this series is a pale blue t-shirt under a navy blue jumper dress with white flower print at the edge and black Mary Janes with light gray frilly socks.

Occasionally, during times of great crisis or when the other heroes need extra help dealing with particularly difficult situations, the Light of Hope residing in everybody's heart will grant her a winged form consisting of giant white angel wings on her back, a star marking on her forehead, and no clothes (due to it being a symbol of purity in Japan); but in the 4Kids dub, the wings are smaller and she wears a sparkly white dress with a sky blue bow tied to it, long sky blue gloves, and barefoot sandles. However, she is unable to activate this form herself unless the Light of Hope bestows it upon her when more help is needed than what they can deal with themselves, and it is only temporary.

## Personality

Nijiko is very kind and understanding, but has poor social skills since her overprotective mother will not let her attend an actual school building. She typically maintains a very positive and cheerful attitude; however, she is sometimes rude, childish, blunt, and stubborn. She can be a "deadpan snarker" at times, but since Dragonet, Yume and Cheren are already the designated snarkers of the main cast, it is downplayed compared to them.

Unless powered up, she is the "muggle" of the main characters, being like Yui or Miyuki from *Go! Princess Pretty Cure* and *Fresh Pretty Cure.*

## Etymology

* "Nijino" is a combination of "niji," meaning "rainbow," and "no," which has no meaning by itself and is a common component in Japanese surnames. "Nijiko" is a combination of the same kanji and "ko," meaning "child."
* Her dub surname, "Storybook," originates from when she was originally planned to be a *Super Why!* character in the earliest concepts for her, where characters often have equally odd last names like "Beanstalk" and "Pea."

## History

### **Season 1**

Nijiko makes her debut in "*Nice to Meet You! We're Asumi and Elizabeth*", where she bumps into Nonomi while they didn't notice. She was trying to retrieve Rotom, Dragonet, Castform and Bluey from running off after they saw a cupcake stall.

## Magical Abilities

Only accessed if the Light of Hope powers her up, Nijiko has light-based powers. She can shoot rainbow-colored beams of light to attack an enemy. Her magic aura when powered-up is sky blue in color. She is otherwise an ordinary girl without powers as her creator has forbidden her from having them as an everyday thing.

To avoid ordinary civilians connecting the dots when she is seen with a bunch of superheroes who have magic face and voice blurs, and for the same reason everyone else keeps their identities secret, the Light of Hope's powers also come packaged with blurring her face and making her voice unrecognizable. This also puts the additional responsibility on her of having a secret identity, however, so she has to use an alias while powered up, Angel Wing, and pretend they're different people. The built-in disguise magic, however, also has a more basic reason behind it as well: since she's naked while powered up, nobody will be able to find and get whoever is behind the blur in trouble for this since the heroes fight out in the open while relying on their blurs and transforming somewhere hidden. Luckily, she doesn't have to worry about any of this that often.

## Relationships

* Haruna: Her mother. She loves her mother dearly, but hates that she forces her to attend online school instead of going to an actual school building. Her mother is strict and overprotective of her since her ex-husband divorced her just a month after Nijiko was born, and she does not like seeing her only child walk out of her apartment since it reminds her of her husband ditching her.
* Rotom: Rotom is her best friend and first-ever Pokémon she adopted when she found it abandoned behind buildings.

* Dragonet: Her other best friend and secondary Pokémon she took in since Ninja Dragonets are entirely domesticated and cannot survive without human care.
* Momoka, Fubuki, and Yume: Her three best friends.

## Pokémon

* Rotom
* Ninja Dragonet (named Bubbles/Dragonet)/Ash-Dragonet
* Castform
* Cherrim (Bluey)

## Recurring gags involving her traveling outside of a tropical climate

* Asking why the ice cream shop does not have coconut or Pinap ice cream.
* Complaining that it's freezing, even when it's sunny out.
* Being amazed at dramatic seasonal changes and snow whearas those don't happen very much if at all where she lives.
* Expressing horror at Exeguutor being so short and Diglett and Dugtrio being bald.
* Complaining that the grocery stores never carry POG (Pinap-Oran-Grepa) juice, and have potato chips instead of taro chips.
* Being weirded out that people wear so many layers of clothing and don't wear shorts or tank tops, while where she lives almost everybody wears shorts, miniskirts, or tank tops. She also seems to be not used to the lack of people wearing sunglasses.
* Always fawning over Ice-type Pokémon.

## Trivia

* Much like Sailor Moon, she is subject to a fair degree of artistic nudity which represents her pure heart.
* Her winged form is not a power of *hers,* but is rather temporarily bestowed upon her in dire circumstances since the Light of Hope recognizes her pure heart as being worthy of it. She cannot access it otherwise since she is a normal human without powers.
* She shares her love of the song Moonlight Densetsu with her creator. She even has a sped-up instrumental version of it as the ringtone on her phone, which is changed in the dub.
* In her creator's art style, her eyes appear round like all of their other drawings. However, in her properly proportioned art and in-universe, she has pointy *tsurime* eyes, much like Jessie and James in a way.
* Whenever somebody (such as one of her Pokémon) tells her an obvious lie, she puts her hands on her hips and gives them an "I'm not buying your Tauroscrap" glare. Compared to the designated deadpan snarkers of the main cast (Dragonet, Yume and Cheren), however, she doesn't do this as often compared to them.
* Her two signature Pokémon alternate positions every episode: in odd-numbered episodes, Rotom will always be in her arms and Dragonet will always be riding on her head or shoulder, while in even-numbered episodes Dragonet will always be in her arms and Rotom will always be on her head or shoulder. This is never mentioned or commented on in-show, and it is unknown on the animators' part why this is the case.
* In *Got Miltank?*, Nijiko and her Pokémon were absolutely horrified at seeing short Exeguuttor and thought they had been horribly deformed by radiation. She was also horrified by the bald Dugtrio in the same episode and thought that they had male-pattern baldness.

## Gallery

Nijiko powered up as Angel Wing in her creator's art style.Elizabeth powered up as Angel Wing in the 4Kids dub, in her creator's art style.