Ella Ticcster

**Ella Ticcster** (久川宙偲, *Hisakawa Sorashi*?) is one of the main characters of seasons 4-13 of *Guardians of Harmony*. She is a confident, intelligent girl from Mosdeep City with an interest in physics and is an experienced Guardian.

## Bio

### Appearance

Ella has chest-length dark mulberry purple hair worn in a ponytail and dark magenta-purple eyes. Her Harmony Mark is a white analog clock bordered in purple with purple hands and 12 hour marks. Oddly, the hands move like a real clock and can be used to tell the time. She wears glasses with purple rims matching her hair color.

As a civilian in season 3, she wears a white tank top with thick purple stripes, a knee-length gold and purple striped skirt, and white short boots. Her outfit in season 6 is a bright purple, turtleneck peplum top, knee-length dull purple leggings, and gold heels with white socks. As seen in the *Sword and Shield* four-parter finale of season 11, she wears an amethyst purple t-shirt, magenta shorts, and cream sneakers. In season 13, she wears a gold jacket over a pleated pale purple smock dress, navy blue boots, and white stockings.

As a Guardian of Harmony, her hair becomes long, thick lavender pigtails held with white bows and her eyes turn bright violet while her glasses disappear. She has a pale purple top with purple fabric on the chest with a bright purple gem and a bright purple skirt along with white chunky wedge heel boots with purple soles and laces and clock-shaped earrings. She has slightly dull lavender gloves with white hourglass shapes on the back. She has a pair of white angel wings on her back, and her Harmony Gem (shaped like an upward-pointing arrow) is at the base of her neck below her Power Necklace while her Elemaximum Gauge, shaped like a clock with 5 hour marks, is on the left edge of her skirt.

### Personality

Ella is very confident, and is also very forgiving and tolerant. She says whatever is on her mind and pessimistically views everybody as flawed and having the potential for evil but believing in their inherent goodness nonetheless and is very willing to help somecreature in need. She is a tomboyish, athletic adrenaline junkie and is a skilled volleyball player who is often in a hurry and loses track of time. Ella is also highly intelligent due to her studying frequently. She is very fascinated by physics (which is a separate thing from magic) and her dream is to one day be a physicist.

However, she also has a bad habit of keeping her emotions bottled up so that others don't get worried, can often be brash, rude, and hot-headed, is often burdened by making time for both studying frequently *and* being a volleyball player, and is also often snarky and prone to making snide (and sometimes unhelpful) remarks. As a running gag, she will often fight with other snarkers such as Dragonet and Cheren. Despite this, she does care for her friends and is a "jerk with a heart of gold."

### Relationships

* **Nanette Daisy**: While they usually get along just fine, they sometimes comically fight over sharing the same Element of Harmony.
* **Mami Tomoe**: Her best friend.

### Etymology

* The kanji for her Japanese surname "Hisakawa" mean "long time" and "river" while the kanji for her Japanese name "Sorashi" mean "infinite time and space" and "remember."

## Magical Abilities

In her Guardian of Harmony form, Ella possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly.

Ella has the ability to cloak her volleyball in purple energy and shoot it at the enemy that temporarily slows down time for them on contact, giving her and the other heroes time to purify it, though the main limitation to this is that the enemy is able to dodge them. Ella is able to selectively slow down and even selectively freeze time completely. However, the latter use will not kill her, but will cause her to detransform and faint from exhaustion. Ella, while transformed, is able to briefly move faster than the speed of light to attack an enemy, with her speed beating Rainbow Dash, Jim, and Elizabeth, but unlike them, can only move that fast for a few seconds compared to them who can fly at very high speeds for longer. She can also form balls of temporal energy and spike them at the enemy like her volleyball, similar to a Cinderace, and spike her actual volleyball at the enemy at high speed. Ella has the ability to tell exactly what time is and can tell exactly how long a battle has gone on for. Her magic aura is bright eggplant purple in color.

Ella is exceptionally gifted at magic and is considered a quite powerful Guardian who is very experienced and has already been a Guardian for 3 years prior to meeting the others, even being strong enough to perform age spells.

## Guardian of Harmony

Ella is the Guardian of Physics; she is a Time Elemental who represents the Element of Faith. Her theme color is cool purple, and her weapons are a volleyball, a wheel, and a hockey stick.

### Attacks

* **Chrono Ribbon Bind Strike** - Her main purification finisher.
* **Temporal Volleyball Spike** - Her main damaging sub-attack.
* **Temporal Sedative** - A non-damaging sub "attack" (combat spell) performed using her volleyball that lets her make the enemy move in slow motion so it is easier to purify.
* **Time Freeze** - A non-damaging sub "attack"/combat spell that lets her selectively freeze time, but using it will cause her to detransform and pass out for a few hours.

## Pokémon

* Hoothoot (Gear; partner Pokémon)
* Chingling (nicknamed Bell)

## Trivia

* Ella's ability to selectively freeze time is similar to Setsuna Meioh, but while Setsuna will die if she freezes time (though she will always be revived afterwards), Ella will not die but will detransform and faint for a few hours.
* Her being friends with Mami and Kyoko was part of the inspiration for season 3's plot points.
* Her characterization was heavily inspired by Skeeter from *Muppet Babies*, specifically the 2018 CGI reboot version of her, who wears a purple jacket and has a watch. However, her creator also admits that she was *also* inspired by Tickety Tock, a talking pink alarm clock from *Blue's Clues* who is obsessed with numbers.
* Ella's trademark favorite food is Reetos (a snack that's a parody of both Cheetos and Doritos).
* Her wish is to have an easy understanding of mathematics and quickly solve even complicated formulas and math problems, which makes sense considering physics utilizes quite a bit of math.
* She is a part-time student at Alfea (which is a general magic school in this series) in the Magic Dimension, though she has a lot of free time due to only attending part-time. However, as a result, she has quite the hectic and stressful life balancing her volleyball games, attending classes (which usually happen offscreen), studying, *and* fighting evil.