Ari Jin

**Ari Jin** (진 아리) is the main character in the *Flowering Heart* series, along with Suha Woo and Min Sunwoo. She is the first one to be able to create Hopeful Energy. Her flower is the pink azalea, which symbolizes "greetings of love" and her gem is a ruby. Her theme color is pink. Her transformation item is the **Romantic Lips**. Her magical girl alter egos are Ari Song and Light Guardian Flowering Azalea. Her bonded fairy partner is Ruby Pink Azalea.

Her main and first love interest is Trump, but she shows signs of having a crush on Chess.

In *Flowering Heart: The Princess of Emotions*, Ari is revealed to be a princess of the Emotions Kingdom and is 5th in line for the throne even though she has no interest in becoming queen.

## Biography

### Appearance

As a child, Ari has short, curly pink hair and dark pink eyes with an azalea-shaped hair accessory. She wears a buttoned white shirt and a heart-shaped necklace. Over this is a pair of pink puffy short-style overalls with a white scalloped design at the bottom. There is also four buttons, two of them being blue and two of them being yellow. On her left hand is a gold beaded bracelet and on her right is a blue and pink rings. She wears turquoise and white striped socks with pink boots that have a white bow on each of them.

## Ari Jin

### Aliases

Ari Song (Adult Form)
Light Guardian Flowering Azalea
Princess Ari

### Relatives

Jiho Im (mother)
Victorio Jin (father)
Rina Hanasaki/Happy (pet dog/adopted younger sister)
Ami Jin/Flower Baby (future daughter)
Unnamed brother-in-law (future)
Unnamed adoptive nephew (future)
Rukia Hanasaki (future adoptive niece)
Unnamed grandmother
Unnamed grandfather
Jung Im (maternal aunt)
Unnamed maternal uncle (by marriage)
Rosalie Im (maternal cousin)
Rosalina Im (future maternal first cousin (once removed))
Unnamed cousin-in-law (future)
Queen Stella (maternal grandaunt)
The Heart King (maternal first cousin (once removed))
Queen Belita (maternal first cousin)
Princess Romi (maternal second cousin)
Princess Sarah (maternal second cousin)
Princess Jennie (maternal second cousin)
Jennie’s mother (maternal first cousin (once removed; presumably deceased)
Jennie’s father (maternal first cousin (once removed; presumably deceased)

### Affiliation

Flowering Girls
Flower Blossom Elementary School

### Occupation

Student
Magical Girl/Superhero
Princess of the Emotions Kingdom

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Single (currently)
Married (future)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Choi Dain (Korean; Child, First Season)
Soyeon (Korean; Adult, First Season Redub & Second Season)
Nancy Kim (English)

### Appears in

Flowering Heart
Flowering Heart (Manga)
Flowering Heart: The Princess of Emotions

### Debut

Crush at First Sight

Ari is an positive, affectionate and bubbly girl who has a passion for art, fashion, beauty, and helping people. Despite her liveliness, Ari acts somewhat childish (As evident with her occasional bickering with Chess). Nonetheless, Ari has a warm heart and likes to help people in need and make them happy.

Ari usually has a carefree and friendly and energetic personality but can be very depressed if one of her friends get involved in something serious, like how she was very broken when Happy (who was Rina reincarnated) was run over by a truck and had to be hospitalized, and also when she found out about Shuel's true side. But overall, she is a happy, hopeful, and positive person.

Ari would do anything for her kind and helpful friends. Although she can be quite naive, she truly cares about people. In Flowering Heart: The Princess of Emotions, Ari has become more mature but still retains her original personality.

Ari is the first child of Victorio Jin and Jiho Im. She also lives with her pet dog/adopted younger sister, Rina Hanasaki/Happy. She was an only child until Rina (in human form) got adopted by Jiho and Victorio.

## History

### Flowering Heart

During her first day of 5th grade, she overslept and bumped into Trump, one of the princes of Flowering Kingdom. Ari immediately falls in love with him. When she meets up with Min and Suha, they meet their shy teacher, and after school, they see Chess in the form of a blue hamster with bat wings. Ari finds the pink magnolia ring and puts it on, not knowing that it has magical powers. The next day, Ari changes in front of Chess who claims to be royalty. During recess, Suha, Min, and Ari meet up and, being caught up with the feeling of wanting to help her teacher, Ari transforms into an adult. Chess also explains the process of magic. After coming in as an observation teacher, Ari experiences the shy teacher's problems and hardships and exclaims in anger to the rest of the students, ending it all in shock. After the shy teacher has to leave for a meeting, Ari changes in as a substitute teacher and thanks to magic, she ends up successfully tutoring the students, even joking around with one of the students who usually annoys her. When Trump unleashes Hopeless Energy, a giant wasp flies around in the classroom, but in the moment of chaos, the shy teacher goes in and is filled with courage after seeing what Ari did with the students and returns with a more strict demeanor.

## Relationships

### Ruby Pink Azalea

Ruby is Ari’s bonded fairy partner. The two have fun together and both love fashion.

### Trump

Ari finds out that she has fell in love with Trump after accidentally bumping into him in front of their school. When Trump witnesses that his brother, Chess, was alive collecting hopeful energy with Ari he was in shock as he collected hopeless energy. He and Chess both gradually fell in love with Ari. Ari tries to give chocolates to Trump, he doesn't show up but he does in the end and sees she was comforted by Chess. Trump gets the wrong idea thinking Ari likes Chess.

### Chess

Min, Ari, and Suha were walking home one day when they spotted Chess (who was a blue tiny flying hamster at the time) on the ground, and after that, Ari brought Chess home. Chess claimed to be royalty, finally being able to show his true form when Ari and her friends collected hopeful energy which was able to turn Chess back into human form for a while. Despite their constant bickering, the two are friends, as Chess depends on Ari and her friends to help him collect hopeful energy in order to restore Flowering Kingdom. It's hinted that he has feelings for her. He proves this many times. For example, Chess thought Ari was going to ask HIM out, but it turns out he was wrong. Also, he started daydreaming about her. After many happenings, she ended up having a crush on Chess. Chess also gave Ari CPR in order for her air to come back. Chess also thanked Ari for taking care of his little sister Rina.

### Min Sunwoo

Min is the strong and athletic member of the problem solving club. She is a great contributor to the team. Without Min things really wouldn't be the same. Min is a big help when collecting hopeful energy. Whenever she transforms, she ends up doing a task that needs a lot of strength.

### Suha Woo

Suha is the smart one in the trio. She is like a walking textbook. When she transforms she is most likely a specialist in something. Suha helped Ari, Min and Chess collect hopeful energy. Suha's mum is an advertising agent her and Victorio Jin (Ari Jin's father) are a competition to one another in the advertising industry.

### Shuel

Princess Shuel is a girl who was summoned into the human world by Queen Canaby. The queen made her a promise that she would marry the heir to the throne Trump if she collected enough hopeless energy to make the heart tree wither. She went to the same school as Ari, her friends, and Trump as an exchange student. When Trump and Ari started showing hints of a relationship she got jealous of them because she wanted to marry him so she could be queen of Flowering Kingdom. She tried to put Ari in great despair by hiding her puppy, Happy for a while. However, things turned out wrong and Happy was sent to the vet because of a car accident. When Ari saw Shuel trying to hurt Happy even more she asked if Princess Shuel did it and Shuel said yes without the whole story. She was so sad because she thought of her as a good friend. Shuel used her remaining despair energy to help Happy recover, so she can make her friends happy. Now Shuel and Ari are good friends.

### Rina Hanasaki/Happy

Rina is the princess of Flowering Kingdom and Ari’s adopted younger sister and also her pet dog Happy.

### Chloe Lee-Park

Ari admired Chloe for her work and welcomed her to the Problem Solving Club. Ari hugs Chloe after the latter told the former and her friends about her past in North Korea and promises her everything will be okay.

### Flower Baby/Ami Jin

Flower Baby loves Ari and vice versa and Flower Baby calls her “Mama”. Flower Baby is later revealed to be Ari’s future daughter named Ami.

### Gichan Na

Gichan Na is Ari's classmate. He often teases Ari and plays pranks on her, making her angry. It's implied he has a crush on her. He blushed when his friend Joon said, "If I didn't know better I would think you had a crush on her with all these pranks!". Also while Happy was in surgery, he gave Ari a note signaling he is worried about her. Gichan would later develop a crush on Ari’s adopted younger sister Rina, much to Ari and Rina’s annoyance.

## Trivia

* Ari is represented by the Azalea (rhododendron), which symbolizes "greetings of love" in the Language of Flowers.
	+ She's also represented by the ruby, which symbolizes love, energy, and passion.
* Ari's blood type is O.
* Her star sign is Cancer.
* She is the oldest of the Flowering girls.
* She was 12 years old but turns 13 years old in *Flowering Heart: The Princess of Emotions*.
* Her favorite foods are ice cream and spicy rice cake (떡볶이 *tteokbokki*), a popular street food in Korea.
	+ She also dislikes carrots and cucumbers.
* Her EQ is very high but her IQ is low, so she can't think deeply. However, Ari’s IQ has improved, as shown in *Flowering Heart: The Princess of Emotions*.
* She is afraid of the dark and thunder lighting.
* Her English voice actress, Nancy Kim, also voices the Aliens from Season 2 and the current English voice of Harry since season 6 of Pororo the Little Penguin, Titipo from Titipo Titipo, Heartsping from Catch! Teenieping Season 2 and many more.