Flora (Winx Club)

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Winx Club characters
Flora
Voiced by Kerry Williams (4kids version)

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Age at first appearance: 16
Birthday: March 1 (Original Italian)
March 16 (4Kids)[1]
Origin: Planet Linphea
The Fifth Moon of Marigold (4Kids version) [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 in the 4Kids version.

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[edit] Personality profile

Flora is a sweet, shy, and calm seventeen year old girl. She loves plants of all kinds 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. Flora is the most mature member of the Winx Club. 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 (4kids dub: March 16).[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.

[edit] Season 1

In the first season of the Winx Club, Flora first appeared in episode 2, 4kids title: "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 best friends.Flora and Bloom are true best friends. 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, but Flora has a kind heart, whether with a love or not. She is a kind-hearted person in the Winx Club, she is always loyal to her friends and really destructive with her enemies. She always helps her friends in any matter they need help. She helps and turns Mirta from a pumpkin back into a girl and they become close friends.

[edit] Season 2

In the second season of the Winx Club, Flora receives a love interest, Helia, who she has trouble approaching. She finds out that her bonded pixie is Chatta, the pixie of gossip. They make a lovely pair, giving a perfect example of the phrase, "opposites attract", as Flora, being very shy and quiet, is the exact opposite of Chatta, who is a noisy but likable chatterbox. She also makes a new friend, a fairy called Layla. Although Flora's relationship with Layla is a little far at first but they later become almost best friends when she offers to help her get together with Helia.Helia is boyfriend of Flora. 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 Alfea. Although at first they don't know it, the new villain, Valtor, seems to be starting some trouble for them. In this season they earn their full fledged fairy form, known as Enchantix. It is also revealed in this season that Flora has a sister named Miele (Rose in the 4kids version) when the group visits her planet, Linphea. She saves her sister Miele to gain her enchantix in episode 12.Valtor also thinks that Flora and Bloom are the strongest faires in the Magix.

[edit] Appearance

Flora in her Enchantix outfit
Flora in her Enchantix outfit

Civilian
Flora has long, caramel colored hair with blonde streaks within her bangs, emerald colored eyes and a tan skin tone. Her daily outfit consists of a green midriff, off-the-shoulder top, a fuchsia colored, faux wrap, strawberry decorated short skirt, two sets of 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-trim, puffy sleeves with pink polka- dots, a red skirt, pink socks, and red platforms shoes.

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 an upside down cursive letter l 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 (excluding 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. She is the 4th Winx Club member to earn her Enchantix. Her fairy dust bottle is a pink honey wand surrounded by a four petal flower.

She earned her Enchantix after saving her sister Miele (4Kids dub: Rose) from a poisoned stream in the 12th episode of the 3rd season.

[edit] Relationships

Flora, on the second row to the right, in her fairy form with her pixie, Chatta, and with the rest of her friends in their fairy forms with their pixies.
Flora, on the second row to the right, in her fairy form with her pixie, Chatta, and with the rest of her friends in their fairy forms with their pixies.

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 life 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, while Flora is shy, meek, and more gentle. However, because of this, Chatta can easily cheer up Flora and boosts her self-esteem. Flora is also friends with Helia, Sky, Riven and Timmy,List of minor Winx Club characters # The SpecialistslBrandon but not as strong as her other friends.

Flora is crushing on 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 (in the 4Kids dub, she also mentions a rule in her realm about girls not making the first move). 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. They are perfect together, it seems they would enjoy themselves.

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 The 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.

[edit] Magical abilities

She is from Planet Linphea. Because of this, she has the power of nature and has abilities deriving from it. For example, her attacks include Ninja Daisies, Venus Gobbler, and Ivy Vine Wraps. 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. Flora can cause plants to grow in any environment and is able to multiply any plant. She can also conjure vines which can move of there own will and can grant magic to them to grant them invulnerability. Flora can create storms of petals and gravel to entrap or attack. She can also control forests and has earth magic. Due to Flora having the power of nature, she is heavily weakened when there is no sun, light, or life present and her power's will not work. In addition to this, she is able to hear the voice of nature speaking to her.

Flora, being a fairy of nature, has a strong connection with nature. She can hear the Voice of Nature and understands 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. During this experiment, 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 sequence 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.

In her Enchantix transformation sequence firstly, she is seen with her hair floating. Then her tiara and eyelid makeup appear. Then her main outfit forms in sparkling light and her barefoot sandals form with flower petals. Then a giant flower bursts and Flora appears behind it, striking her final pose.

For Charmix she twirls around once and her pin appears another double spin and her bag is on. She was also the last one to get her Charmix.


[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b In the 4kids dub, Flora's birthday is changed from March 1 to March 16.
  2. ^ a b In the 4Kids dub, Flora's home planet, Planet Linphea, is renamed "The Fifth Moon of Marigold".

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