Flora (Winx Club)
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| Flora | |
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| Voiced by | Kerry Williams |
| Associated Pixie: | Chatta |
| Age at first appearance: | 16 |
| Birthday: | March 1 (Original Italian) March 16 (4Kids)[1] |
| Origin: | Planet Linphea (Original Italian) Fifth moon of Marigold, All Green Fairylands (4Kids)[2] |
| Affiliation: | Alfea, Winx Club |
| Powers and abilities | Nature, Earth Magic |
| First appearance: | Benvenuti a Magix!/Welcome to Magix! |
Flora is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of the Winx Club animated series. Although she receives a small role in the first season, she has a larger storyline in the second one. Flora will also appear in the upcoming Winx Club movie, which will solve mysteries surrounding her and the other Winx girls. In addition to this, Flora has toys and other products made from Mattel and other companies. She also appears in the video games for the Winx Club. She is voiced by Kerry Williams.
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[edit] Personality profile
Flora is a sweet, shy, and calm seventeen year old girl. She loves plants and enjoys making flower perfumes. Flora is strongly connected to nature and loves helping people. She can be very sensitive and always wants the best for her friends and everyone around. She also loves peace, happiness, and tranquility. Although she tries to hide her true feelings, her friends help and encourage her to share all her ideas with everyone. Flora hardly gets nervous and even in the worst of situations, she manages to stay calm and reasonable. At times, she doesn't know how to express herself, because she doesn't want to start fights. She is a diligent student at Alfea and is cautious of her actions. Although she can be insecure, her friends boost her self-esteem. Flora is experimenting with plants, which, in the 4KIDS version, is trying to make them speak because she believes that if more plants talked, deforestation would be dramatically reduced.
Flora's birthday is March 1[1]. She is from Planet Linphea [2]. Because of this, she has the power of nature and has abilities deriving from it. Flora often does not use as many offensive attacks as the other Winx girls, but rather, she uses them for more strategic purposes. She can create binding vines and walls of vines, as well as blasts of flowers and pollen either as offensive attacks or for diversion. She can also control forests and has earth magic. In addition to this, she is able to hear the voice of nature speaking to her. When Flora calls upon her Charmix, it enhances her powers and also grants her new abilities. However, if she runs out of Winx, her Charmix disappears. If Flora uses her Winx, the power within the Charmix grows stronger, further enhancing her powers.
[edit] Season 1
In the first season of the Winx Club, Flora first appeared in episode 2, "More Than High School" as a sixteen-year-old girl. When Bloom came to Alfea, she discovered Flora was her roommate. Bloom was at first surprised that her whole room was a garden and that she had experimented with other plants, but later on, they become close friends. Throughout the season, the series focuses more on Bloom and Stella than her or the other Winx Girls. However, she does have bigger parts when Mirta is turned into a pumpkin by the Trix, and she has to change her back to normal, which she finally succeeds in doing later. At the end of the season, Flora is the only Winx girl without a love interest and sticks with Mirta at the celebration.
Throughout the series, Flora has had some mistakes in her design, such as missing bracelets, different colored bracelets, missing wings, and other accidents.[3] Her transformation was also sped up and shortened.
[edit] Season 2
In the second season of the Winx Club, Flora's role is increased. She receives a love interest, Helia, who she has trouble approaching. She also makes a new friend, a fairy called Layla, and her pixie, Chatta. Although Flora's relationship with Layla is somewhat distant at first, they later become closer when she offers to help her get together with Helia. Chatta also tries to get Flora to reveal her feelings to Helia. Consequently, the two do, and she discovers that they feel the same about each other. At the end of the series, she also assists the other Winx girls in defeating their foe, Lord Darkar. Flora is seventeen in this season.
[edit] Season 3
In the third season of the Winx Club, Flora, with the rest of the Winx girls, return to the Alfea School for Fairies. Although at first they don't know it, the new villain, Baltor, seems to be starting some trouble for them.
[edit] Appearance
Civilian
Flora has long, caramel colored hair with blonde streaks within her bangs, emerald colored eyes and a deep tawny complexion. Her daily outfit consists of a green-yellow midriff, off-the-shoulder top, a fuchsia colored, faux wrap, strawberry decorated short skirt, two sets of green-yellow bangle bracelets on each arm, and fuchsia colored platform sandals. She has recently been seen wearing other various types of clothing, but this one in particular is the outfit she seems to favor wearing most. Her other outfit is a pink midriff shirt with a pink-trimmed red skirt, pink socks, and red high-heels.
Winx
Flora's Winx outfit is primarily fuchsia and orchid in color, and consists of a sparkling one piece, bare shouldered top that modestly conceals a pair of mini shorts of the same color, and ankle-high boots also the same color. A delicate looking, orchid colored and shaped choker adorns her neck, while detached sleeves of the same color compliment her arms. Her wings are green-yellow in color. Her charmix is a the top half of a heart pin and a rose shoulder-bag.
Enchantix
Her Enchantix outfit is primarily fuchsia, with orchid, violet, powder blue and soft green trimming, thistle, above-the-elbow translucent gloves that are decorated with various pearl colored jewels, and soft green and light yellow, ample wings with orchid outlining that are bejeweled with pear shaped and colored decorations. Her hair is now styled into elegant pigtails like the other Winx girls (negating both Bloom and Tecna), and grows several inches in length. She has also discarded her fuchsia colored boots and dons strappy, cyan colored barefoot sandals, and wears a cyan tiara upon her head.
[edit] Relationships
At first, Flora has a somewhat weak relationship with her friends, Bloom, Layla, Musa, Stella, and Tecna, but it later grows into a stronger one. She cares deeply about them and would risk her lives for them. They support each other and stand up for each other, especially when it comes to fighting The Trix. Flora is especially close with Bloom, who stood up for her when the other girls were upset that her plants were crawling into their rooms, and Layla, who offered to help her get together with Helia. Flora also has a strong bond with her pixie, Chatta. The two are actually very different; while Chatta is sociable, talkative, aggressive, and bold, Flora is shyer, meeker, and more gentle. However, because of this, Chatta can easily cheer up Flora and boosts her self-esteem. Flora is also friends with Brandon, Sky, and Riven, but not as strong as her other friends.
Flora's love interest is Helia, the new Red Fountain boy. He is an eccentric daydreamer and enjoys writing poems. He is a pacifist and rarely uses offensive attacks. However, when Flora was in trouble, he had saved her with his laser string glove, causing her to fall in love with him. Despite her deep feelings for him, she has a hard time telling him how she feels. He returns her feelings, but being shy as well and unsure of how she feels, he has trouble telling her his feelings. Flora's attraction to him is quite obvious, as she doesn't pay attention in class and was doodling his name in her notebook. Layla and Chatta both try to get them together, which consequently leads to the two revealing their feelings to each other. Helia and Flora actually have a lot in common, such as their love for nature, their idealistic ways, and how they prefer to use strategic purposes instead of offensive ones.
Flora's enemies are the Trix and Lord Darkar. Flora thinks Lord Darkar is cunning and manipulative. She and the other Winx girls have to combine their powers to defeat him and banish him to the chaos that spawned him. Flora also dislikes how Mitzi, a girl from Earth, plays pranks on her and her friends and meanly teases Bloom. Although Flora thinks most of students in Cloud Tower harbor negative feelings for them, she believes that Mirta is her friend. Mirta, who is unlike the other witches, believes fairies aren't bad and has a sweet nature. At first, Flora doesn't talk to her as much, but when Trix turned Mirta into a pumpkin, Flora began to affectionately take of it and struggles to turn her back to normal. Flora's failure to revert her back to her true form at first caused some tension between her and the Winx girls, but after many attempts, she finally managed to turn Mirta back to normal. Later, Mirta hangs out with Flora at the celebration at the end of the first season and then transfers to Alfea.
Magical information
Flora, being a fairy of nature, has a strong connection with nature. She can hear the Voice of Nature and understand them. She strongly dislikes anyone hurting plants and wants to stop deforestation and extinction of plants. Flora's love for nature causes her to experiment with them, such as making speaking plants and carnivorous ones. One of her experiments helped the Junior League of the Swamp, when she multiplied a rare plant they ate from going extinct. Once, Flora's love for her plants conincided with her friendship with her friends when the other Winx girls were upset that her experimenting plants were crawling into their rooms. Eventually, Flora left with her plants to a forest, but Bloom later convinces her friends to take her back.
Her transformation is simple. She twirls her hair and jumps down before she crosses her fingers. There is a blue flash and her choker and dress comes in to place. Her sleeves twist up then she twirls and her boots appear.
For Charmix she twirls around once and her pin appears another double spin and her bag is on.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b In the 4kids dub, Flora's birthday is changed from March 1 to March 16.
- ^ a b In the 4kids dub, Flora's home planet, Linphea is renamed the "Fifth Moon of Marigold, All Green Fairylands".
- ^ Michael. Some of Flora's mistakes in her design and coloring. Retrieved on October 15, 2006.
