Lumina Flowlight

"I am Lumina... Lumina Flowlight. It's nice to meet you!!"

- Lumina Flowlight, Sonic Shuffle

Lumina Flowlight (ルミナ・フロウライト) is one of the main characters in Sonic Shuffle. She is half of Maginaryworld's ruler, Illumina, and represents the positive feelings which give people the ability to dream. After her creation, Lumina served as the protector of the Perfect Precioustone. When it was shattered by Void, her other half, Lumina strived to restore it with the aid of Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, which ultimately led to her reuniting with Void.

History
Lumina was born when Illumina lost sight of herself and her dream which caused an internal turmoil that split her in two separate beings: Lumina, the representation of the positive aspects of dreams, and Void, the representation of the negative aspects. Lumina, however, could not recall her time as her original form and instead believed she was a subordinate of Illumina and that the two of them protected the Perfect Precioustone together.

Following her creation, Lumina assumed the role of Guardian Fairy. When the Perfect Precioustone was shattered by Void, Lumina believed this caused Illumina to lose her powers and become imprisoned in a faraway world. With Maginaryworld now in danger of being destroyed by Void's darkness without the Precioustone's power, Lumina send a message out to everybody in other worlds dreaming of Maginaryworld in search of a hero with courage and heart who could help restore Maginaryworld and save it from certain doom. As an answer to her message, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were transported to Maginaryworld. However, with only so few having come, Lumina feared people had forgotten about dreaming and Maginaryworld.

Meeting with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy in the Temple of Light, Lumina introduced herself and Maginaryworld while explaining why she had brought them here and everything that had happened. She then pleaded for their help to recover the Precioustones and restore the Perfect Precioustone. Fortunately, Sonic and his friends gave her their full support.

With Sonic and his friends behind her, Lumina took the group to the different dream worlds within Magiaryworld with the Precioustones and acted as their guide. In each of these worlds, Lumina and her friends found the Precioustone fragments when Void appeared and shattered the Precioustones further. Whenever they got a Precioustone, Lumina would appear in a vision before Sonic and his friends with Void where she would tell Void to stop his actions, explain about Illumina and Void, and express her doubt about the future of dreams.

After bringing all the Precioustones back to the Temple of Light, Lumina saw Void heading there to steal the Perfect Precioustone. When they got to the Temple to stop Void, Lumina wanted to know his motives, but could not understand that Void just wished to be whole again to fill out his loneliness. After they defeated Void, Lumina gave into despair as the Perfect Precioustone was not recovering and Illumina remained lost, and she questioned whether her actions were the right thing to do. However, Lumina was brought back to her senses after Sonic found Void as a gem, and he and his friends gave her a pep talk about the balance between positive and negative emotion being necessary for people to create and attain their dreams. Lumina then took Void's gem and entered the reformed Perfect Precioustone where Void is restored and Lumina accepts him, making them remerge into Illumina.

Personality
Lumina is a young girl who is full of energy. Despite her childish looks, she talks in a very mature and rational manner. She is stubborn and does not give up no matter how bad a situation is. After only a few answered her message, however, Lumina grew doubts about the future of dreams and Maginaryworld, fearing that people had given up dreaming and had forgot about Maginaryworld which would leave her alone. Over time, Lumina's doubts grew until she lost herself to despair, but she regained her faith with Sonic and the others' help.

Initially, Lumina rejected negative feelings as a part of dreams. However, she eventually came to accept negative feelings as a necessity for dreams to flourish, which in turn let her accept Void and become whole again.

Powers and Abilities
Lumina has the ability to open portals that lead to each of the different worlds within Maginaryworld. She is also capable of flight and teleportation.

Archie Comics
Lumina appears in the Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series and its spin off comics as a part of the comics' adaption of Sonic Shuffle. Like in the game, she enlisted the help of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy to help her restore the Master Precioustone after Void shattered it.

Trivia

 * Lumina bears a strong resemblance to NiGHTS, and they share many similarities.
 * When the date on the Dreamcast is set to December 24th (or when the Dreamcast's internal clock recognizes that day's arrival), NiGHTS replaces Lumina. Likewise, on April 1st, she is replaced by Reala.