Malee Phlipitak

Jasmine Bloom AKA Malee Phlipitak, is weapon-based Magical Girl with shield-powers. While thematic with Team Bloom, she patrols The City solo due to reasons.

## Appearance

Malee has roughly neck-length very-slightly-reddish/scarletish-white (#fcf7f7) mostly-straight hair. When transformed, her hair goes up. Due to her ancestry as a Zoe knock-off, her bangs are split into three parts, however the middle bang does not curl in any direction but straight down. She has two weird anime long hair bangs in front of her ears, which are very anime. Her eyes are a pale pink (#e8c0bb), which only leads credence to the argument that she may be considered a "Pink" Leader-type Magical Girl.

At the start of her story and in present day, she is approximately thirteen and a half years old, only receiving The Dream™ 2-3 months prior.

Due to her Puberty Blockers and also genetics, she is a smol.

Transforming into her Magical Girl form, her outfit primarily has the same off-white color theme as her hair. It is partially-based off Traditional Thai Clothing and consists of a mid-thigh dress with ruffles on the hem.

Her top consists of a Sabai/Sbai on top of a non-visible cloth wrapping around her torso. The Sabai is a long wide sash/shawl that circles her waist goes from her the right of her waist diagonally up around her left shoulder, dropping behind her back. The sabai is approximate knee-length but may be vary in length for dramatic effect.

On the sabai is a design of her Symbol, a stylized large eight-pointed Jasmine flower (Jasminum Multiflorum), with three smaller flowers in both directions along the sash for a total of eight flowers. The number eight has no meaning. Her left arm has a cut-out vocaloid sleeve from her upper arm to her wrist, but the fact the the sleeve is detached is usually obscured.

Her lower half is based off a Thai Pha Nung/Pha Sin, but poofed out in a short bell skirt in the same aesthetic manner as the rest of Team Bloom, with ruffles on it's edge. The skirt has a segment at the front that folded and tucked up a notch over her fabric belt-sash, with her symbol of a stylized Jasmine Flower centered on her belt-sash. Her boots are almost knee-length, the opening is cut into a "V" shape, identical to the design of the other Members of Team Bloom.

## Powers

Jasmine Bloom has the power to summon vaguely flower shaped shields that she can control telekinetically. She is able to float them at a distance to defend allies from attack, but her grip on them weakens at distance, only allowing them mostly to work as a one-off block before getting swatted away.

By staying close to her allies and keeping her shields near her, she can exert more force on them and better control them, allowing her to more rapidly reposition to better catch attacks as well as sustain a more effective defense that can handle multiple blows. Instead she runs around stabbing monsters with the sharp edges of her flower shields.

## Personality

Some may describe her as coarse, vulgar, and a bit rude. However, she understands the importance of maintaining her image as an outstanding Magical Girl and tries to avoid swearing when she remembers to, replacing harsher expletives with less offensive alternatives. This does not extend to gestures, as she does not hesitate giving the finger when necessary, and prefers the double birds when both hands are free to do so.

Jasmine Bloom is a rather separate persona from Malee. A cutesy, bumbling lovable goofball for the cameras. It is persona she can turn on rapidly and resorts to whenever she accosted by Cameras, the public, or fans of Team Bloom. Said persona was decided on during her first night out when she eagerly went out fighting with her thematic teammates without any prior training or practice and ended up being a burden that led them to decide her marketing niche. She does not enjoy acting the part but generally reluctantly agrees with that she does it well.

She has a strong sense of duty as a Magical Girl and has a low opinion of those who get The Dream but refuse to fight.

## Biography

Prior to everything, Team Bloom was a group of four friends. Things changed when one of them had The Dream™ and became a Magical Girl. Two more followed, leaving only one of them behind as the non-magical friend. After a month of hoping, the three friends transferred away to Future's Promise. Promises to stay in touch were slowly forgotten and Malee was left alone.

Team Bloom, Chrysanthemum Bloom, Rose Bloom, and Violet Bloom, established themselves as relatively popular and successful Magical Girl team over the months. Malee had come to terms that she would not get the dream, when fate gave her an unexpected surprise. One day, she woke up and she was Magical Girl.

Her old friends gladly took their **Late Bloomer1** into their established team. She was swiftly integrated into their nightly patrols as well as their daytime business arrangements. Things looked up as they could be friends again, but the cracks rapidly made themselves shown. Her friends were no longer the same people she knew, and they were asking her to be someone she wasn't.

This culminated on one nightly patrol where frustrations mounted and tensions escalated to a climax. After that night, Malee no longer patrolled The City with Team Bloom, opting instead to go solo.

She still retains Jasmine Bloom as her Magical Girl title, keeping the "Bloom" in her name, much to the dismay of some members of the team.

## Appears In

* *Team Courier* chapter 10 (cameo, unnamed)
* untitled malee comi chapter 1 (Unfinished)

## Trivia

* **1**This is it. This is the entire reason. Yes, Team Bloom is called that because Malee's backstory as "Late Bloomer". That's it.
* Malee's given name is a variant / incorrect spelling of a more commonly accepted "Mali" (มะลิ) anglicization of which means "Jasmine (flower)" in Thai.
* Her family name was originally going to be Phanchaisuwan (พันชัยสุวรรณ) meaning "Thousand Golden Victories." Krekalie was not satisfied with this as it was completely non-thematic, so it was changed.
	+ Surname was further changed to Klibpitak (กลีบพิทักษ์) because the original change was actually confusing the words Phli (ผลี) and Phli (ผลิ) which have completely different meanings and the latter correct translation sounding like a terrible plopping noise not suited for a name.
	+ Then it was reverted back to Phlipitak (ผลีพิทักษ์) for reasons