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Sweet! Dreaming Precure

Hi!  My name is Ellie and I am creating a Precure fan series.  I discovered Precure over the summer and was instantly drawn to the colorful optimism that the show presents.  I recently thought of the idea of making my closest friends and me into Cures!  This started off as a powerpoint presentation with ideas, names, reference pictures, and small bios.  I’m not an artist, otherwise, I would have just drawn them.  But when talking to a friend about this, she suggested that I turn it into a school project where I can learn to draw and animate a show.  I immediately took this to the independent study teacher and signed up.  So now, here I am!  This blog may become part of my final project even!  I’m going to talk about what I know so far, and put it below the cut!

Basics

Sweet! Dreaming Precure has the typical dream theme.  Following your dreams no matter what, because that’s just what inspires me.  Other themes are creativity, self-expression, and candy!  There are 6 main characters: Cal, Elle, Amira, Lizzie, Sabrina, and Hannah.  (Sweet! Dreaming Precure will be in English, located in the town where my friends and I live, simply because it’s what we all know best.)  

Characters 

Please note that I do not know some of the finer details just yet, or have drawings for these characters.

Cal/Cure Aria - Cal is non-binary/agender.  The bubbly, outgoing, cheery protagonist!  Loves to visit the candy store and share candy with their friends!  Civilian wear, they dress pretty casual, somewhat edgy.  Often wears a headband and sometimes even a cat ear headband!  Hair is short, straight and light brown.  Cal is an actor!  They love being in musicals and singing and dancing on stage!  Cure Aria - The Pink Cure!!! Hair turns bright magenta and grows a bit longer too.  Two little pigtails?  Undecided.  But definitely a feminine outfit.  Fancy ruffle skirt, pretty lace things, and pink!  

Elle/Cure Candy - Elle is happy and extroverted but also a crybaby and very pouty.  Elle is a dancer!  She loves ballet the most.  She works at the candy store and loves to hang out with the kiddos that come by.  She loves kids!  Her civilian wear is very pastel and soft.  She wears cute sneakers and skirts and little hair barrettes!  She has dark brown curly hair, that she wears in two pigtails!  She has bangs too!  Cure Candy - The Yellow Cure!  Hair turns yellow, like a pastel yellow and grows longer but sticks with the pigtail & bangs look.  She gets a kind of ballet tutu/bubble skirt and bubble sleeves.  Lots of tulle accents in pink.  Pink hints and candy bows!  Ballet slipper shoes!

The Cure Candy & Cure Crystal friendship.  Elle and Amira have been best friends since 2nd grade and are basically inseparable.  So naturally, they kinda have a duo transformation.  That’s just the thing.  Their outfits aren’t too too matchy but that’s alright.  They’re kind of opposites so it doesn’t make sense for them to be perfectly matching all the time.

Amira/Cure Crystal - Amira is quiet, friendly, artistic and rather introverted.  She loves art!  She’s really good at all art forms and loves to make art for her friends.  She looooves her little Civilian wear, she wears loose, flowy clothes usually, sometimes cuffed jeans and converse.  Glasses.  Amira wears a hijab in the civilian and Cure form because she is Muslim.  Cure Crystal - The Blue Cure!  Still has her hijab!  Angelic vibes, very flowy, soft and pretty.  Light blue, tulle accents.  

Lizzie/Cure Flower - Lizzie is pretty serious on the outside, caring, quiet and friendly.  Secretly, she is very sassy and sarcastic.  She loves baking!  Long, light brown hair, always kept up in a messy bun.  Sweaters and turtlenecks, flowy dresses.  Floral!!!  Cure Flower - The Green Cure!  Hair turns a light green and one very long braid with flowers!  Flowy, off the shoulders and elegant.  Kinda floral, nature-ish themed.

Sabrina/Cure Mystery - Grumpy, defensive and very protective of her friends!  She has a real soft spot for Elle.  Sabrina is a singer/songwriter!  She plays the guitar!  She also enjoys fashion and dressing up!  Civilian wear, she dresses very edgy, pop-punk.  With skirts and combat boots!  Black straight hair with bangs, kinda long?  But not too long.  She has a cat, named Kay, who is friends with Lucky.  Cure Mystery - The Purple Cure!  Hair turns galaxy and grows out longer and curlier.  Purple dress with black tulle accents.  Dramatic and long.  Edgy and mysterious.

Hannah/Cure Alchemy - Hannah is the 6th ranger.  Moves in town midway through the season.  She is sassy, serious, funny and memey.  Hannah likes photography/filmmaking.  Hannah’s biggest passion though is science.  She wants to be a scientist and make a change in the world.  Androgynous style.  Wears button-ups often, usually flannels or hawaiian shirts. Hair is similar to Cal’s but light blonde and straighter.  Cure Alchemy - The Red Cure!  Hair grows longer and the tips are dyed black.  She has a shorts/skirt look going on.  Pretty androgynous style still.  Epic boots.  Red with dark red tulle accents.

The Lore (ig)

Candyland is the world of Princess Emily and her lover, Prince Aaron.  When Queen Nightmare and her workers attacked, Princess Emily used up the last of her power to send her away, damage her health close to death and to send her prince and her cat fairy, Lucky, to earth to find the legendary Precure who can save Candyland. 

Queen Nightmare.  She wanted to make it big, make people proud.  But she failed and people laughed her off stage for because they didn’t like her idea.  She decided from that day on she would make sure that no one could express themselves, so no one can get hurt.  No one can reach their dreams because no one has dreams.  Her henchmen are as follows:

James: The edgy one, angsty, funny.  James so far is the only villain with a backstory.  I won’t say it here as for spoilers but let’s just say, he lost someone close to him.  Eventually, the Cures will befriend him and convince him that he doesn’t need to destroy the world’s dreams.

Alice: Genius one, smart ideas but backfires.  Wholesome.  She uses magic to lure the Cures into traps but it fails.

Nina: The one with history with the fairy/prince/princess, hates them

One aspect of Precure series that I love to see is a Cure Hangout!  So here ya go!

Elle’s candy store!!! Her boss (turns out her boss is Prince Aaron) doesn’t care that all her friends are over all the time, they all get along great with kids for the most part and can help out!  They all talk about things, the mysteries of Candyland, Princess Emily, and everything.  The kids sometimes overhear and they play it off as a make-believe story.  Prince Aaron also overhears and discovers their identities.

Random ideas for the series

- Sabrina is difficult to get to join the team.  She doesn’t want to do something like that with people, she’s kind of secretive and is worried about letting people in.  Elle is the key to getting her, she has a real soft spot for Elle.

- Lucky and Kay get along well.  Lucky decides that she likes Kay and does some magic and now Kay is able to talk.  Sabrina is shocked but not overly upset.  Kay is spunky, sassy and adorable.  Lucky is more serious.  The two of them make up the mascots.  

- An episode where Elle’s sister, Gale, will have an episode where she finds out about Elle’s powers and steals them.  She becomes Cure Calculous.  Everyone is shocked and Cure Calculous has to fight with them for a little bit.  Elle is upset with her sister and Gale learns that being a magical girl is harder than she thought.  She gives Elle her powers back.  Lucky though, isn’t satisfied.  Lucky wipes Gale’s memory of her sister being a magical girl.  

- Gale is a 5th-grade genius.  She is very smart, has read War and Peace and is on the high school Mathletes team.  

- An episode where everyone has a crisis about college.  The girls are seniors now and realize that when they all go to their own colleges, they won’t be able to fight as a team anymore or see each other.  This divides them for a little bit but eventually, in the midst of a fight, the remember that their friendship is stronger than distance and they become stronger.

- Each girl will have an episode near the end where they overcome a personal struggle and unlock a special power that ends up being the pieces to the puzzle to defeating Queen Nightmare.