Nikorin

Nikorin (ニコリン) is a main character of the next generation season PikaPika☆Pretty Cure A La Mode. Nikorin has the ability to take a human form. As human she takes the name Kuroki Nikko (黒樹ニッコ). Nikko is said to be looking for excitement just like a butterfly looks for flowers.

Her alter ego is Cure Vanilla (キュアバニラ). She is represented by vanilla sweets and butterflies. Her theme color is creamy white.

Personality
Nikorin is an outgoing and very cheerful young fairy, who enjoys being around humans and loves to learn from them. She usually seems to be in a good mood. She has a confident nature and tends to get excited over most things very fast. Most of times, she acts like an energetic tomboy. Like everyone else in her family, Nikorin is very skilled at cooking and making sweets. However, she tends to hide the fact from others as connects some of her fears with sweets. One fear is that people might only like her for the sweets she makes. Her family usually compares Nikorin's search for excitement with a butterfly that is looking for a flower.

Appearance
Nikorin is a small fairy with white fur. She has blue colored eyes that show a yellow star in the center. She has an orange-colored ribbon tied around her neck, which is tied to a big bow. Her hair and tail is bright yellow-colored and appears to be blonde. She wears a little ornament consisting of an orange colored pearl and two small green-colored leaves in her hair.

In human form, Nikko has hazel colored hair, that she has braided into a low side pontytail. She has blue colored eyes. In summer, she wears a pale yellow top with poofy sleeves and an orange-colored ribbon tied around her chest. She wears a double layered skirt. The skirt is blue colored, while the upper layer is slightly darker than the other. Under the second layer of the skirt, white frills are attached to the skirt. She wears red sneakers with black laces and orange colored socks.

Cure Vanilla has blonde colored hair, that reaches over her shoulders. She has some of her hair styled into a bun at the back of her head. She wears a small vanilla blossom in her hair. She wears a creamy yellow colored vest with yellow colored trims. The vest is closed by two buttons on the side and two bows are attached to trims of the vest. Underneath the vest, she wears a white blouse with poofy sleeves. An orange bow is attached to the blouse at the upper trim. She wears a creamy yellow colored poofy skirt, with frills underneath. Over the skirt, she wears a leaf-shaped over skirt. She wears creamy yellow colored boots with orange trims. She wears white colored gloves with orange trims. Her sweets pact is attached to the left of the bows attached to her vest.

Etymology
Nikorin (ニコリン) - Nikorin, and also her human alias Nikko (ニッコ), comes from the Japanese ニコニコ which can be translated to "to smile" or "smiling".

Kuroki (黒樹) - Kuroki comes from Kuro (黒) meaning "black" or "dark", combined with Ki (樹) meaning "plant" or "tree". So Kuroki either means "black tree" or "dark plant".

Cure Vanilla (キュアバニラ) - Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla. The word vanilla, derived from vainilla, the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina is translated simply as "little pod".