Flora the Sprigatito

## Flora

Edited Sugimori artowrk

This Sprigatito, nicknamed **Flora** (Japanese: **ハナ** *Hana*), is the very first Pokémon Kimberly obtained during the course of CheerfulSteekip's *Pokémon Violet* experience. She is a pure Grass type, and she (when excluding most cutscenes in the fandub version) usually stays outside of her Poké Ball.

She was born a month prior to the events of the anime version and is very young.

## Bio

### Appearance

Like all Sprigatito, Flora is a quadrupedal feline Pokémon covered in pale green fur. She has green ears with pale green insides, a tuft of fur on the front of her chest and a green marking around her pink eyes and nose that resemble leaves. When her mouth is open, two pointed teeth can be seen in her upper jaw, although no fangs are shown at first. She has a fluffy tail and small paws with pink paw pads underneath and no visible toes. She also wears a sakura head accessory on her right ear.

As of debut in the anime, she is 1'05'' tall, and has notably stayed that way throughout the series (mainly due to her refusal to evolve).

### Personality

Flora is very loyal to Kimberly and is her best friend. She is very intelligent, proving to be a capable battler and managing to beat Pokémon twice her size and outsmarting her opponents. She also shares a strong bond of friendship with Thunders following his capture. One of her most noticeable features is her determination and unwillingness to give up whenever a situation gets tough.

Like her Trainer, Flora is always happy to battle. She often tries her very best, but when she loses, she doesn't complain or feel bad about herself, especially when Kimberly reassures him. However, like most Sprigatito (especially because of her young age), she can also be capricious and attention-seeking, and she tends to sulk if ignored by people (especially if her Trainer refuses to let her battle). Regardless, Kimberly and Flora are almost identical personality-wise, and thus are the perfect match for one another.

It is soon revealed that Flora is afraid of the change associated with evolving, as she didn't like the idea of evolving. Much like Ash's Bulbasaur and Dawn's Piplup from the *Pokémon* anime, she flat out refused to evolve by resisting the glow to stop the evolution process using a non-damaging version of Struggle. As a result of her refusal to evolve, Nemona decided that Kimberly should give her an Everstone to prevent her from evolving and stay cute forever.

As revealed in "*Itzal the School Poacher?! The Abandoned Sprigatito*," Flora dislikes grimdark stuff and will always return to her Poké Ball if someone mentions such things.

### Relationships

* **Kimberly**: Her Trainer and best friend.

## Skills

Flora can rub her paws together to unleash a sweet, therapeutic aroma that mesmerizes anyone near her and causes her foes to stop battling. The scent becomes more potent when Flora is exposed to sunlight. Due to her young age, however, she cannot absorb too much sunlight until she gets older.

Flora can also absorb moisture into her fur by grooming it, which helps her to perform photosynthesis. The fur's composition is similar to that of plants, allowing her to absorb sunlight for energy.

## Trivia

*For this character's tropes, see here.*
* In the anime...
	+ She is both the youngest member and the smallest member of Kimberly's team.
	+ Due to being too young to do so on her own, her Trainer has to be the one to wash her face regularly to avoid drying out, something which stressed her out the first time she did so.
	+ Alongside Donald, she is the *only* character to end her sentences with something (in this case, **"~meow"** in English and **「～ニャ」** *"~nya"* in Japanese).
* She is not voiced in the fandub.
* According to her Trainer, Flora will not evolve at all due to wanting her to stay cute forever, and she feels like evolving her may remove her cuteness. It is confirmed that, in the anime, Percy has a male Sprigatito that will evolve to make up for it.
	+ Because of this, in both versions of the series, she is equipped with an Everstone in order to prevent her from evolving.
* At any time Flora does not fight in a major battle, she and Thunders instead cheer their Trainer on.
* In the fandub, her sakura accessory is only seen on eyecatches. Animated 2D scenes, however, also depict her with it.