Changes: Ran

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Ran (ラン) was Amu Hinamori's first Guardian Character to hatch. She represents Amu's desire to be more honest and athletic. Her fellow Guardian Characters are: Miki, Su, and Dia.

Appearance

Ran wears a pink cheerleading dress in combination with a red visor. Her pink hair is tied into a side ponytail with a red heart-shaped hair clip. Over her cheerleading outfit, Ran wears a red bandana. She appears to be wearing round, puffy-type shorts under her skirt. She wears pink trainers and pink with red outlining on the top socks. She has pink eyes. She tends to carry her cheerleading pom-poms with hearts on them everywhere, even when sleeping in her egg, and is rarely seen without them.

Personality

Ran is almost always cheerful and encouraging and rarely depressed, but since she doesn't have many abilities beyond her athletic skills, she is mostly seen cheering for her friends instead of helping. She sometimes uses random english like "yay!", and "go for it" when she cheers. She is also honest, as seen in her first character change with Amu. A very energetic and peppy character, she cannot seem to stay still for a long time. The Shugo Chara! Encyclopedia! describes Ran as "super athletic and full of spirit."

Egg

Ran's egg is red and pink plaid with a black stripe in the middle of the egg. Inside the stripe there are multiple light pink hearts.

Special Powers

Like the other Guardian Characters, Ran can sense the presence of X-Eggs and other Guardian Characters. She performs Character Change by saying "Hop, Step, Jump!".

Character Change

Ran's Character Change changes Amu's cross-shaped hairclip into that of a red heart and her athletic abilities are increased to superhuman levels as seen with her jumping extremely high in the air.

Amu also becomes energetic and more honest (Ran's first character change made her confess her love to Tadase Hotori) and tends to act more outgoing. However, the most used ability is the wings that can be generated on her ankles and wrists to make her fly.

Character Transformations

Amulet Heart

Ran is the first to Character Transform with Amu, becoming "Amulet Heart". This Character Transformation is first shown in episode 1 of the anime and chapter 5 of the manga.

Appearance:
As "Amulet Heart", Amu wears her hair in a side ponytail, much as Ran does and has a cheerleading outfit, including a pleated skirt, a pink top and leg warmers over her shoes, all with heart-shaped accesories and a hat.

Items:

Abilities:
"Amulet Heart" is incredibly athletic, and is able to jump so high and so far that she almost looks like she's flying. She generally uses her pom-poms to generate shields or deflect attacks, while her "Heart Rod" which is needed for her special attack, sprinkles a paralysing powder over the target. This attack is called "Spiral Heart," although she later uses this attack in conjunction with Tadase's "White Decoration.", calling it "Spiral Heart Special". She can also team up with Tadase to make "Platinum Heart". This attack is more powerful than the regular "Spiral Heart" and can cover a very wide area. She can use "Open Heart" to purify X-Eggs or X-Characters. She gains the power from the Humpty Lock sending glittering pink hearts over the target and purifies it. In the second season, "Amulet Heart" receives a pair of roller-skates, known as "Heart Speeders." She uses these to fly, since she couldn't jump high enough to reach her opponent. She literally skates in the air, as if she is skating on solid ground. She can use more powerful "Open Heart" to cleanse Wishing Eggs or corrupted Character Transformation. In Episode 113 of the anime, she generates her pom-poms for a distraction maneuver called "Pom-pom Pom Special " to produce sparkling stars from her cheerleading pom-poms to distract a crow from taking away Rikka's necklace..
Trivia:
In the live action segment of Shugo Chara! Party, Amulet Heart is portrayed by Mizuki Fukumura .

Amulet Fortune

In Chapter 38 of the manga and episode 100 of the anime, Amu opens her heart to Ikuto and activates the powers of the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key, allowing Ran, Miki, Su and Dia to character transform with her to turn into Amulet Fortune.

Appearance:
She wears a white bridal gown and veil, presenting a girl's desire to marry her one true love.

Abilities:
Her only ability is in the manga an up-graded Open Heart. She calls, "Open Heart Full Bloom". In the anime, her Open Heart is only upgraded in the same way by saying "Open Heart".

Trivia:
This is the first joint transformation.

Etymology

Ran's name have two different meanings, either "lily" or "orchid".

The second reference is that Ran's name is a past tense for the English word "run".

Trivia

Amu's guardians represent the four playing cards: Hearts (Ran), Spades (Miki), Clovers (Su) and Diamonds (Dia).
According to Peach-Pit, Ran's name was influenced from Candies member, Ran Ito.
In Shugo Chara! Pucchi Puchi!, she puts an X-Mark on her Heart, causing her to fall into a slumber-like trance, not moving and having no energy.

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