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Name - Yumehara Nozomi - Cure Dream. At one point in a non-canonical movie she becomes Shining Dream, but these are the only two names she'll be using.
Canon - Yes! Precure 5
Point taken from canon - The beginning of Yes! Precure 5GoGo!
History - Nozomi is the child of a hairdresser and a children's author, and grew up with her best friend, Natsuki Rin, always looking after her. The Yumehara house was rather lax, with Nozomi having to remind her mother to go to the salon just as often as her parents had to remind her to go to school. Rin was pretty much the only normal one she hung around, and was always telling her to quit being afraid of monsters under the bed or hurry up and get on the school bus. (YPC5 is set in a very strange version of Minato that looks more like someplace in Europe, school buses included.) She had a lot of acquaintances at school, but despite her winning personality, she was also extremely clumsy, impulsive, and generally full of fail, and she drove away as many people as she drew in after making messes and ruining things.
By her second year at L'Ecole des Cinqs Lumieres, Nozomi still hadn't figured out what she wanted to do with her life. She tried joining all the campus clubs, but got kicked out of every single one for making a mess or wrecking the materials. One day, after being distracted by a pretty butterfly on the way to school, she met a cute older guy calling himself Cocoda Kouji -- real name: Coco, true form: a small fluffy creature and the prince of the Palmier kingdom on another world -- who appeared to be searching for something. She saw him at school later that day, followed him into the library, and found a magical item called the Dream Collet hidden inside a false book. Turns out it's his, he needs it to grant his wish to restore his country, and an evil organization called the Nightmare Corporation wants it to grant their leader's own wish. With the return of the sparkly butterfly, Nozomi became Cure Dream, magical transforming schoolgirl.
Nozomi was startled at first, but immediately attached to the idea, bringing four other girls together to form Pretty Cure (Precure for short). She was insistent that this was her calling in life, and worked together with the others to protect the incomplete Dream Collet, fill it with runaway spirits called Pinkies, and fight off the Nightmare Corporation. Nozomi helped the other four girls reach their dreams, as well as Coco (with whom she was falling in love, despite the fact that he had become their homeroom teacher) and their other friends.
Then something went terribly wrong. One minute, Nozomi had caught the last Pinky after it just floated up to her. The next, the Nightmare Corporation had stolen it. Nozomi, eternally hopeful, friendship-speeched her friends to not give up, and they went to confront the CEO, Despariah. They were too late, though; Despariah held them back as she wasted the one wish on eternal beauty, rendering the Dream Collet useless forever. Precure had failed.
They fought anyway -- fought and won, shattering the masks that had been controlling the Board of Directors and convincing Despariah to give up and redeem herself. Cures and mascots alike were disappointed that they hadn't gotten their wish, but Coco and friends decided to start up the Palmier Kingdom relief effort the old-fashioned way. They went home, and Precure sadly gave up their powers and went back to a normal life.
Until, that is, the new school year began. Nozomi ran into another boy, this time named Amai Shirou. He, too, was an escaping mascot creature, named Syrup, and he, too, was carrying a precious, mysterious and pink item, called the Rose Pact, and being pursued by a monstrous businessman -- okay, this time it was a monstrous museum employee. Still, come on. Nozomi and friends instinctively tried to transform to protect him, realized they couldn't, and ran -- until a princeps ex machina showed up. Coco, that is, and his best friend and fellow prince Nuts, too. And, of course, the pretty CGI butterflies that once again gave Precure powers. They had actual nice uniforms, stronger attacks, and different transformation items, and they swore now to protect the Rose Pact and complete it by collecting little creatures. No, it doesn't grant wishes. It restores a garden and a Sleeping Beauty-cursed MacGuffin Woman to life. Why do you ask?
Personality - You know shoujo main characters, right? Ditzy, pure-hearted, clumsy, romantic and failget? Nozomi is this cranked up all the way. The entire series happens because she got distracted by a pretty shiny butterfly and thought she should run after it. She's also incredibly energetic, and she has a habit of shouting "It's decided!" and dragging people off to solve their problems without giving them a choice in the matter. Usually, this outsider's perspective actually really does help people, and she'll listen if she's got it wrong, but she'll also be stubborn if she's sure that the other person's reasons aren't good enough. Her life's ambition is to help other people reach their dreams, and she won't let them give up, no matter what.
Her vision of her own life is a little odd in comparison. She didn't realize what she wanted to do with herself until she met Coco, and then she decided that she wanted to be a teacher like him. She also goes along with other people's suggestions just as easily as she ropes people into her own, if it sounds like it'll be fun and help everyone. At the same time, she does have a few rigid, unbreakable ideas for her future: her first kiss had to be in the town square and it had to be on Christmas when the big tree was up and it had to be night and it had to be lightly snowing, and anything else would get a slap for ruining her well-laid plans. (It turned out exactly as she imagined, by the way.) So Nozomi can plan for things; they just have to be really important to her, enough that she's actually concentrating.
Canon - Yes! Precure 5
Point taken from canon - The beginning of Yes! Precure 5GoGo!
History - Nozomi is the child of a hairdresser and a children's author, and grew up with her best friend, Natsuki Rin, always looking after her. The Yumehara house was rather lax, with Nozomi having to remind her mother to go to the salon just as often as her parents had to remind her to go to school. Rin was pretty much the only normal one she hung around, and was always telling her to quit being afraid of monsters under the bed or hurry up and get on the school bus. (YPC5 is set in a very strange version of Minato that looks more like someplace in Europe, school buses included.) She had a lot of acquaintances at school, but despite her winning personality, she was also extremely clumsy, impulsive, and generally full of fail, and she drove away as many people as she drew in after making messes and ruining things.
By her second year at L'Ecole des Cinqs Lumieres, Nozomi still hadn't figured out what she wanted to do with her life. She tried joining all the campus clubs, but got kicked out of every single one for making a mess or wrecking the materials. One day, after being distracted by a pretty butterfly on the way to school, she met a cute older guy calling himself Cocoda Kouji -- real name: Coco, true form: a small fluffy creature and the prince of the Palmier kingdom on another world -- who appeared to be searching for something. She saw him at school later that day, followed him into the library, and found a magical item called the Dream Collet hidden inside a false book. Turns out it's his, he needs it to grant his wish to restore his country, and an evil organization called the Nightmare Corporation wants it to grant their leader's own wish. With the return of the sparkly butterfly, Nozomi became Cure Dream, magical transforming schoolgirl.
Nozomi was startled at first, but immediately attached to the idea, bringing four other girls together to form Pretty Cure (Precure for short). She was insistent that this was her calling in life, and worked together with the others to protect the incomplete Dream Collet, fill it with runaway spirits called Pinkies, and fight off the Nightmare Corporation. Nozomi helped the other four girls reach their dreams, as well as Coco (with whom she was falling in love, despite the fact that he had become their homeroom teacher) and their other friends.
Then something went terribly wrong. One minute, Nozomi had caught the last Pinky after it just floated up to her. The next, the Nightmare Corporation had stolen it. Nozomi, eternally hopeful, friendship-speeched her friends to not give up, and they went to confront the CEO, Despariah. They were too late, though; Despariah held them back as she wasted the one wish on eternal beauty, rendering the Dream Collet useless forever. Precure had failed.
They fought anyway -- fought and won, shattering the masks that had been controlling the Board of Directors and convincing Despariah to give up and redeem herself. Cures and mascots alike were disappointed that they hadn't gotten their wish, but Coco and friends decided to start up the Palmier Kingdom relief effort the old-fashioned way. They went home, and Precure sadly gave up their powers and went back to a normal life.
Until, that is, the new school year began. Nozomi ran into another boy, this time named Amai Shirou. He, too, was an escaping mascot creature, named Syrup, and he, too, was carrying a precious, mysterious and pink item, called the Rose Pact, and being pursued by a monstrous businessman -- okay, this time it was a monstrous museum employee. Still, come on. Nozomi and friends instinctively tried to transform to protect him, realized they couldn't, and ran -- until a princeps ex machina showed up. Coco, that is, and his best friend and fellow prince Nuts, too. And, of course, the pretty CGI butterflies that once again gave Precure powers. They had actual nice uniforms, stronger attacks, and different transformation items, and they swore now to protect the Rose Pact and complete it by collecting little creatures. No, it doesn't grant wishes. It restores a garden and a Sleeping Beauty-cursed MacGuffin Woman to life. Why do you ask?
Personality - You know shoujo main characters, right? Ditzy, pure-hearted, clumsy, romantic and failget? Nozomi is this cranked up all the way. The entire series happens because she got distracted by a pretty shiny butterfly and thought she should run after it. She's also incredibly energetic, and she has a habit of shouting "It's decided!" and dragging people off to solve their problems without giving them a choice in the matter. Usually, this outsider's perspective actually really does help people, and she'll listen if she's got it wrong, but she'll also be stubborn if she's sure that the other person's reasons aren't good enough. Her life's ambition is to help other people reach their dreams, and she won't let them give up, no matter what.
Her vision of her own life is a little odd in comparison. She didn't realize what she wanted to do with herself until she met Coco, and then she decided that she wanted to be a teacher like him. She also goes along with other people's suggestions just as easily as she ropes people into her own, if it sounds like it'll be fun and help everyone. At the same time, she does have a few rigid, unbreakable ideas for her future: her first kiss had to be in the town square and it had to be on Christmas when the big tree was up and it had to be night and it had to be lightly snowing, and anything else would get a slap for ruining her well-laid plans. (It turned out exactly as she imagined, by the way.) So Nozomi can plan for things; they just have to be really important to her, enough that she's actually concentrating.