Nijino Nijiko

Nijino Nijiko is a character appearing in Forever All Stars and the Pocket Monster Set. In the English dub, she is known as Elizabeth Storybook.

Appearance
Nijiko has pale skin, brown eyes, and multicolored hair reaching her chest that is naturally very curly, but usually straightened, with a small partial bun. Most of the time, she wears a light cyan turtleneck sweater with a rainbow design, a midnight blue skirt and blue shoes, and a small rainbow-striped satchel around her shoulder to carry Dragonet in. She wears a different outfit every episode besides her primary one, but all of them include the color blue.

Personality
Although she has a very kind heart, Nijiko lacks basic social skills due to living as an only child with her divorced mom who refuses to let her attend school physically and instead forces her to go to online school. She is also rather klutzy, sometimes lacks common sense (such as not recognizing Cure Sandalwood as Fubuki), and isn't always the brightest star in the sky, but she is truly kind and gentle beneath her lonely exterior, although she can often be a bit gluttonous, rude, childish, and lazy.

Relationships

 * Rotom: Her first-ever Pokémon and best friend. She adopted it as hers after it had been abandoned behind a building by an extremely abusive and cruel family.
 * Dragonet: Her de-facto secondary Pokémon and her other best friend. She took her in after she was cruelly experimented on and knew that she could not live without human care.
 * Fubuki: One of Nijiko's closest human friends.
 * Haruna: While Nijiko loves her mother, she is commonly frustrated with her refusal to let her physically attend school instead of just online school, which has contributed to her lack of social skills.

Trivia

 * Due to her already having a quite powerful Pokémon (Ash-Dragonet), who also keeps her from simply stomping through opponents too easily with her lazy, narcoleptic personality, and a well-trained one (Primarina and Rotom to a lesser extent), the writers have forbidden her from ever posessing a Key Stone or Z-Ring as a tradeoff.
 * Despite this, she does have a Harmony Mark on the skirt of her redesign, but it never gave her powers.
 * Nijiko is HIV-positive and was born with it. This results in her getting out of breath easier than most people due to her immune system, which is also a tripwire to keep her from just using Dragonet's super mode to stomp through all her opponents, as it means she will pass out quickly if she isn't careful.
 * Despite being from Alola, she has a severe fear of Yungoos and Gumshoos, and she runs away screaming whenever she sees one as a running gag.
 * Unlike HMVJ, Nijiko and her creator's Cures travel with young Nanette and friends. This will also be the case in Pokémon Legends.
 * Her Pokémon typically refer to her as Nijiko-sama (a term of respect) once they get to know her, which in the dub is changed to them using simply her first name. Before they know her well, they typically use "Nijino-san" or "Nijino-senpai," which in the dub is changed to "Master."
 * Nijiko is subject to a fair degree of artistic nudity, such as in the theme song of seasons 10-17 where she, Cure Sandalwood, Cure Parfum, and Cure Spicy fly up towards the camera with a bird's-eye-view of their outfits appearing similarly to the opening of Sailor Moon SuperS, her battle against Event Horizon where she had wings and the Sealing Sword, and in the movie during the power drain. This is because in Japanese culture, it is considered pure and represents her pure heart. It was cut from the 4Kids dub, but was kept in the VIZ dub where the characters retain their Japanese names.