Fiore

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Character Information
Name: Fiore
Name (kanji/kana): フィオレ
Alignment: Xenian Flower
Species: Unknown
Gender: Male
Lives: Asteroid; briefly in Tokyo, Japan
Occupation: None
Family: Unknown
Associates: Mamoru Chiba
Aliases: None
First Anime Appearance: Sailor Moon R movie
First Manga Appearance: N/A
First PGSM Appearance: N/A
English Name: Fiore
Actors: Hikaru Midorikawa, Tomoko Maruo (anime); Joel Feeney, Mary Long (dub)
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Fiore with the
Xenian Flower

Fiore was a character whose first and only appearance was in the Sailor Moon R movie.

Background

As a child, he wandered the universe alone until finally, exhausted, he ended up on Earth. Mamoru Chiba found him lying on the ground outside the hospital (where he was staying after the car accident that killed his parents). Fiore soon had to leave again, however, because his alien physiology was not compatible with the Earth's environment. Before he left, Mamoru gave him a rose, and Fiore promised to return the favor. He resumed his travels through space, resolving to find the most beautiful flowers to give to Mamoru. During his search, he discovered the malevolent Xenian Flower, an unassuming but extremely dangerous form of Flower Youma that preyed upon the emotionally vulnerable. The flower latched onto Fiore, turning his sadness at Mamoru's plight into an obsessive hatred of the people of Earth who had let such a thing happen.
Upon returning to Earth, Fiore discovered Mamoru's relationship with Usagi and jealously attacked her. He and the Xenian Flower attacked Earth, but in a battle with the Sailor Senshi, Fiore accidentally wounded Tuxedo Mask when he took a blow for Sailor Moon. Distressed, he took Mamoru away with him to the asteroid heading towards earth that was covered with Flower Youma. He placed Mamoru inside a large fluid-filled crystal to heal him.

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Young Fiore

The Sailor Senshi also made their way to the asteroid and a massive battle with Fiore ensued. In his determination to protect Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask escaped from the crystal and, even though still badly injured, sided against Fiore. Believing that everything he loved had been taken away from him, Fiore decided to crash the asteroid into earth. After a vision revealed to him that the rose Mamoru gave him originally came from Usagi, he repented and the flower's hold on him was broken. When Sailor Moon died after using the Silver Crystal to stop the asteroid, Fiore used his own life force to revive her, turning back into his child form in the process.

Notes

  • Fiore's physical resemblance to Ail and An has spurred fan speculation over whether he is one of the same species. Like Ail and An, he struggles to adapt to the Earth's ecosystem, although Ail and An were seemingly dependent upon the Makaiju, while Fiore appears to have no such limitation. Fiore and Ail share the same voice artist (Hikaru Midorikawa), and Kunihiko Ikuhara commented in the movie's memorial album that Fiore's full name should be "Fioreail," provoking further speculation about Fiore and Ail possibly being related.
  • Despite speculation by the Sailor Senshi in the movie, and fans in real life, Fiore's feelings for Mamoru are never made explictly clear, and could be construed as a deep friendship or a homosexual love depending on the viewer's opinion. This relationship was, however, played down significantly in the English dub.