Aoba Chaya

**Aoba Chaya** (**Chelsea Gardener** in the English dubs except Viz; unknown Italian name) is a recurring character in Pokémon Legends and joins the main cast starting in season 4. With her Bulbasaur choker and Budd, her alias is **Bulbina,** first appearing in *Island of the Giant Pokémon.* Her signature color is green.

## Appearances

### Debut

Island of the Giant Pokémon (as Bulbina)TBA (as Chaya)

## Appearance

Chaya is a 14 year-old girl with back-length wavy light brown hair and colbalt blue eyes. Her casual outfit consists of a purple top with elbow-length sleeves, light blue shorts, and mint green sneakers. In civilian form, her choker appears disguised as a plain dark green inverted triangle-shaped choker.

As Bulbina, her hair gains bright green dyed tips and gains two small odango buns, but otherwise looks the same. She has a turquoise green mask and her Bulbasaur choker is now bright green with a bulb-shaped pendant that has 5 cyan sections. Her outfit consists of a green dress with short sleeves and the skirt flares out, with mint green bike shorts underneath. She has teal gloves with light green spots and has her rope shooter gun (not drawn) tied around her waist, and light blue lace-up boots with heels.

## Personality

Chaya is quite calm, flexible, and levelheaded, but is not above being snarky occasionally. She also sometimes refuses to heed others' advice and thinks she always knows best. She takes her duties as Bulbina very seriously, and is much more confident as her alter ego than her civilian form.

## Magical abilities

Bulbina has enhanced physical skills such as speed, strength, agility, and invulnerability to physical damage. Her special superpower given by the Bulbasaur choker is Restraining Order, which allows her to shoot a tight band or rope made of vines from her rope shooter gun to tie the opponent up, no matter how big they are. The vine restraints remain even if she detransforms, but they can be easily cut with a sharp object. However, she must use it wisely, as she can only use it once before detransforming after 5 minutes. She will then need to feed Budd to transform again. The rope shooter gun can function as a communication device and access the Internet, as shown when she splits it in half to reveal a screen.

She also has to say "Bud open!" to transform and "Bud close!" to detransform.

## Pokémon

* Bulbasaur
* Oddish -> Gloom -> Bellossom
* Dragonettwo
* Pumpkinbreadtwo

### Not a Pokémon

* Budd: Chaya's Kwami, who is the Kwami of restraint. Despite not being a Pokémon, she often includes him when she is talking about her Pokémon.

## Trivia

* In the canon version, Chaya joins in "The Birth of the Heroes of Friendship!", but reveals her true identity in "Ivysaur's Mysterious Tower", her debut episode. This means that the heroes knew her before the series even started.
	+ Her Bulbasaur choaker is replaced witn an ÉléChanMirror and her alias changes to "Warrior Bulbina" while Budd and the other Kwamis are removed from the versiom.

* Chaya owns Dragonettwo (really named Bubblestwo) and Pumpkinbreadtwo, who were cloned from Dragonet and Pumpkin Bread back in the first movie but Mewtwo had to give them up to the domestic Pokémon shelter to be adopted since they couldn't just fly away and live in the wild like the other clones. The heroes are well aware of their origin after Mewtwo brought back everybody's memories of the first movie in *Mewtwo Returns.*

* She is the only character who wears a mask (that is magically glued to her face) in her hero form, but the mask is redundant considering she already has a magic blur to disguise her identity like all the other heroes, even Nijiko when she is powered up. Despite not using a Miraculous in the canon version, she still has the mask in the canon version's opening (being fixed in the episodes themselves).
* Although her outfit resembles a traditional magical girl outfit rather than a skintight bodysuit, it is just the design she wanted subconsciously. She is still shown to be invulnerable to physical damage even on her bare skin, something the others' costumes provide and what Nijiko also has when powered up (which is obviously necessary when fighting naked, as Bulbina points out.)