Terasu Kotone

S☆彡S☆TPC09 (as Cure Illumina)

**Terasu Kotone (テラス コトネ, *Terasu Kotone*)** is one of the six main characters in **Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle Pretty** **Cure**. She ends her sentences with "**~illumi** (〜イルミ, *〜irumi*)". Her alter ego is **Cure Illumina (キュアイルミナ, *Kyua Irumina*)**, whose theme color is greenish-cyan. She is an alien from a currently unknown planet.

## Biography

### Personality

Kotone is a first year middle school transfer. She is shy and soft-spoken, but extremely kind. She hopes to become a famous space idol someday in the future, but because of her fear of crowds, she thinks that something like that is impossible for her. She has a habit of ending her sentences with **~illumi** ( ~イルミ, *~irumi*). Kotone is very resourceful and experienced with space travel. She's very bad with social situations and wasn't able to speak Japanese until Hotaru helped her. She wants to understand Earth to the best of her ability. She's considered a young adult on her home planet, so she's not used to being treated as a kid on Earth. Kotone can get embarrassed or nervous easily and finds it hard to deal with large crowds and social situations, despite her dream. She's bad at taking compliments and is not great when attention is focused on her. When talking about what she likes, she can be become bright and energetic.

Kotone is very inexperienced with "going with the flow", as in her home planet it's common for everything, no matter how mundane to be carefully planned. Although she was told by Hotaru to keep the fact that she's an alien a secret, she often blurts it out without thinking.

After bonding with the Cures, **Fuwa** grants Kotone the ability to speak Japanese.

### Appearance

Although Kotone is an alien, she looks rather human except for a few features. She has abnormally pale skin for someone who goes outside as often as she does, and natural blush. Her ears are slightly pointed downwards, although its hard to notice as her ears are hidden underneath her hair. She has bright, purple eyes that seem to always be sparkling, with a small navy teardrop as her pupil. Kotone's white hair is very long, reaching far past her back. Her hair has an aqua ombre, and her blunt-cut bangs have aqua highlights at her sideburns. Underneath her bangs are two curled sections of hair. Kotone's hair is tied into low twintails. From the back of her head come her antenna, that resemble long pieces of hair and end in aqua hearts. The hearts on her antenna glow when she learns a new language or if she is receving info from her home planet. Her antenna work similar to a satellite in this sense. Kotone's ahoge resembles a spiral. She wears a light aqua ribbon at the left with a star charm clipped to her bangs. Her casual clothing consists of a semi-transparent light aqua tank top, with a white top over it that has aqua detailing. In the top center of her top is a big aqua bow, that her **Star Color Pendant** when she receives it falls right in the middle of. When she didn't have her Pendant, there was a gold star charm in the center of the bow instead. She has a light aqua pouch on the right side of her waisr, with a big aqua bow in the middle with a star charm clipped to the center that fastens this pouch closed. Inside the pouch is what she considers refreshments from her home planet. She puts her **Transformation Star Color Pen** in this pouch after receiving it. At the back of her top is a semi-transparent light aqua bow. Her top has short, transparent aqua sleeves. Kotone wears a skirt that is three layers over a fluffy white petticoat that resembles a cloud. The innermost layer of Kotone's skirt is light aqua, semi-transparent and pleated. Over this layer is an aqua tri-pleated skirt that is noticeably more rounded than the layer underneath it. The uppermost layer of her skirt is a frilly aqua blue piece of fabric with a white ribbon underneath that drapes softly over Kotone's skirt. Kotone wears semi-transparent brown tights and white ankle boots that have aqua blue detailing at the toes. Her boots appear to be rolled up at the top, and at the left and right sides of the top of her boots is an aqua bow with a gold star charm at the center. Kotone wears short, white gloves with an aqua blue ring. At the edge of this ring is an aqua bow with a gold star charm at the center.

## Etymology

**Terasu** (テラス, *****Terasu*****) - Written in Katakana, **Terasu** holds no meaning. If written in Kanji (照らす), **Terasu** means "to illuminate, to shine on". This refers to Kotone's Pretty Cure powers of light and illumination.

**Kotone** (コトネ, *****Kotone*****) - Written in Katakana, **Kotone** holds no meaning. If written in Kanji (琴音), "**Koto**" means "harp", and "**ne**" means sound, so altogether **Kotone** means "The sound of the harp". This refers to Kotone's heavy interest in music.

## Relationships

Hoshina Hotaru - Good friends. Their relationship was rather strained at first, because Kotone was confused and uncomfortable at how excited Hotaru seemed to be around her, and she didn't like how bossy she was. However, after Hotaru saves her as Cure Comet and helps Kotone awaken her Pretty Cure powers, Kotone warms up to Hotaru and they become better friends.
Hagoromo Lulu
Hagoromo Raki
Amano Sabrina
Hoshishima Hitomi

## Pretty Cure

### Cure Illumina

**"Glimmer brightly within the starry sky! Illuminate my imagination, Cure Illumina!"**
星空の中できらめく！イマジネーションを照らしてくれ、キュアイルミナ！
*Hoshizora no naka de kirameku! Imajineeshon o terashite kure, Kyua Irumina!*

**Cure Illumina** (キュアイルミナ, *Kyua Irumina*) is the *Pretty Cure* alter ego of Kotone. In order to transform, she needs her **Star Color Pendant** and her **Transformation Star Color Pen** and to say the phrase "**Color Charge!**". As a Cure, she represents the power of the starry sky and galaxy, as well as light and illumination and space, and her theme color is **Turquoise**.

### Transformation

Kotone's pendant top pops up, allowing her to insert her Star Color Pen. She shouts the phrase, and then draws a teardrop that bursts into many smaller floating platforms. She jumps down on the first platform, starting to sing. She touches the center of her pendant, and draws various swirls, lifting her hand upwards with each swirls. The swirls explode into various small stars that fly down from the sky that create her shoes, twirling around to create the design. She touches the pendant again, drawing a teardrop shape that turns into her gloves. Kotone draws a star, that becomes a shooting star, swirling around her torso to form her top. She places her hands on her chest, drawing a heart shape that becomes her bow. She dances around for a brief time, flying around with teardrop shaped magic wings behind her. She draws various shapes that create her multi-layered skirt. Kotone reaches her arms out as she sings, before placing them on her chest. She then reaches out again to draw a big star that she hops inside, creating the back layer of her skirt that trails behind her, her bow in the back, and her pouch that holds her **Star Color Pen**. She twirls around, drawing a large teardrop that explodes into a string of music notes, lifting her hair up and twirling around it, changing it's style, color, and lengthening her hair. She claps her hands, drawing a star that creates the large bow at the back of her hair, as well as her hair accessories. She draws an eighth note that flies upwards and splits into two, changing the ends of her antenna into large, gold stars with two shimmering strings of musical notes around them. Kotone presses her pen to her pendant one last time, and then reaches her hands outwards as she sings, then places a hand near her cheek and winks, brightening her eye color, making her eyes appear more pink, and adding a star on her cheek. She stops singing, hopping on the descending platforms until she flips down onto a stage. She twirls around as she introduces herself, and winks as a star comes out before striking a pose.

### Attacks

* **Illumina Spark** (イルミナスパーク) - Cure Illumina's first solo attack that is first used in **Episode 10** of *Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure*. This attack requires her **Star Color Pendant** and her transformation **Star Color Pen**.
	+ **Vega Illumina Spark** (ベガ・イルミナスパーク) - The upgraded version of Cure Illumina's first solo attack. This attack requires her **Star Color Pendant** and the **Vega Princess Star Color Pen**. it is first used in episode (TBA).
* **Illumina Aurora Song** (イルミナ・オーロラソング, *****Illumina Aurora Song*****) - Cure Illumina's second solo attack. This attack requires her **Star Color Pendant**, transformation **Star Color Pen**, and her **Cosmos Illumina Baton** (used as a microphone). It is first used in episode 9, although unnamed.
* **Interstellar Star Rhapsody** (インターステラー・スター・ラプソディー) - Cure Illumina and Cure Astral's duo attack. This attack requires their **Star Color Pendants** and their respective **Princess Star Color Pens**. (Vega/TBA/TBA for Illumina, TBA for Astral). It is first used in episode (TBA).
* **Twinkle Stellar Supernova** (トゥインクル・ステラー・スーパーノヴァ, *****Twinkle Stellar Supernova*****) - The first group attack performed by the *Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle* Cures. It requires their **Star Color Pendants** and their (TBA). It is first used in episode (TBA).

## Songs

### Solo

* **Color Charge!** (Illumina version)
* **Glittering Love Song☆**
* **Sparkle☆ ARIA of the Starry Sky**

### Group

* **Color Charge!** (Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure version)

## Trivia

* Her birthday is March 8.
* Kotone is the second **Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle** Cure to be an alien, following **Lulu**.
* Kotone is the only **Sparkle☆彡Star☆Twinkle** Cure to have her name written fully in Katakana. This alludes to her status as an alien, because her name would be seen as foreign.
* After Fuwa grants her the ability to speak human language, Kotone gains an interest in learning other languages. In some episodes, she can be seen studying other languages through books.
* Her antenna move depending on her mood.
* Kotone, much like Cure Honey, debuts her Cure form in episode 9 and only transforms an episode or two later. (Cure Honey/Yuko transforms in episode 11, Cure Illumina/Kotone transforms in episode 10). Both are also seen as somewhat mysterious when they first debut.

## Gallery

Main article: Terasu Kotone/Image Gallery