Jun Sakurada ||Mercurius Knight
Biography
Civilian Form
Name and Meaning
Jun Sakurada. His surname is written with the kanji meaning "cherry blossom" and "field, rice paddy".
Age and Birthday
14, May 23rd
Appearance
He has green eyes, spiky black hair, and a slightly tanned complexion. When he transforms, he regains his true-blue eyes from his past life.
Nationality
Japanese
Ethnicity
Japanese
Personality
Jun is extremely skilled at crafts and sewing. Although he is arrogant and occasionally cold and rude but he does care for others although he typically refuses to let his feelings show. Jun is also interested in cars and collecting miniature cars. He is a good artist as he is excellent at designing clothes. He is extremely intelligent as he is ranked third in the nation academically. He is the class representative who stands at the top of his accelerated placement classes academically and is afraid of anyone outside of his sister, girlfriend, and girlfriend's family finding out about his talents.
He can think quickly and is capable of figuring out things that people would find confounding but has trouble with not worrying about how others think of him.
Later on, he pursues the path of becoming a doll fashion designer at the company owned by his lover's father, Rozen Maiden.
Mottos
"If you always do your best, nothing is impossible."
Sexual Preferences
Heteroromantic / Heterosexual
Likes
anything related to cars particularly miniature cars, surfing the internet, riding his bike.
Dislikes
People finding out about his talents, teasing, noise
Hobbies
surfing the internet, biking, drawing, sewing, watching TV
Committees
He is the student representative of his class.
Specialties
Aside from being ranked third in the nation academically, Jun is a good artist, clothes designer (for regular clothes and doll clothes), and good at sewing and crafts. He can also fall asleep easily in 5 seconds.
Background
N/A
Relationships
Family
Parents, Nori Sakurada (elder sister), Junpei Hyūga (elder paternal cousin)
Friends
N/A
Rivals
N/A
Love Interests
Shinku Rozen
Jun Sakurada’s paternal grandfather was a butler for the Rozen family, leading Shinku and Jun to be childhood friends and Shinku assuming Jun was a servant. Jun Sakurada’s older cousin is whose mother is the sister of Jun’s father. At 8 years old, the Rozen family moves to France and Jun does not see Shinku until 5 years later. They end up dating and maintain a long-distance relationship even when Shinku and her family has to move to America. Jun often does video calls with Shinku in the morning as he is aware that she usually goes to bed early. Shinku eventually learns of his alter ego and promises to keep it a secret.
Player He Has Her Eyes On
N/A
Guardian Form
Name
Mercurius Knight
Guardian Starseed
As a Solar System Celestial Knight, his starseed possesses the same amount of power as a Sailor Crystal but he does not possess a Sailor Crystal as celestial bodies only have one Sailor Crystal.
Mission
To protect Mercury (formerly), to protect Earth, and protect Prince Apollon
Realm of Influence
Mercury, water manipulation, ice manipulation, subspace manipuation
Past Life
His past incarnation was Euscopus, the Mercurian prince and second child of Hermes and Daeira as well the former Mercurius Knight. His alter ego is Mercurius Knight.
Guardian Animal
His steed is a Mercurian Pegasus, his past incarnation owned during the Silver Millennium named Mercutio.
Allies and Teammates
The Solar System Celestial Knights
Satoshi "Ash" Ketchum aka Neptunus Knight
He was reborn as a Gemini since his past incarnation, Asphaleios, was as close as brothers with the son of Hermes, Euskopos, back when Asphaleios lived on Mercury. His current-day incarnation also has spiky hair because Asphaleios thought Euskopos’s hair was cool. Their birthdays are one day apart as proof of their close sibling-like bond in their previous bonds. Satoshi is amazed by Jun's ability to sew and design clothes as he draws as well as his intelligence. Jun is amazed by Satoshi's courage and enthusiasm aside from his strength as a Celestial Knight who wields the power of oceans. Satoshi helps Jun overcome his fear of heights during training. They bond over toy cars and car models. Satoshi likes to race Jun in Battle Lapp at the Crown Arcade.
(Inuyasha) Yasuo Taishō aka Lunar Knight
Jun has often remarked that Inuyasha acts immaturely like a kid much to Inuyasha’s irritation. Inuyasha often retorts back to Jun’s comments that he’s a lot older than him despite how he looks. This makes Jun call Inuyasha an old man which leads Inuyasha to hitting him. Mercurius Knight is afraid of heights which leads to Lunar Knight giving him mid-air piggyback rides in battle even though Lunar Knight grumbles about it. The mid-air piggyback rides can freak Mercurius Knight out causing Lunar Knight to tell the boy to shut up. However, Mercurius Knight later is no longer dependent on the mid-air piggyback rides and acknowledges Lunar Knight’s strength.
Transformation Token
Mercury Brooch
His transformation item is a blue brooch with the astrological symbol of Mercury engraved in true blue.
Henshin Phrase
"Mercury Power, Knight Up!"
Henshin Sequence
He holds up his Mercury Brooch and his bare body is bathed in pale true blue light. True blue curtains are dropped and when the curtains are opened, he is fully transformed with water underneath his feet. Pale true blue sparkles appear near his eyes, turning his irises true blue and he poses with the Swift Caduceus in front of the planet, Mercury.
Symbol
The astrological symbol of Mercury.
Guardian Challenge
“Defender of Mercury, the planet of water. I am the Knight of Knowledge! Mercurius Knight!”
Guardian Fuku
He wears a long sleeved true blue shirt with blue trims on the collar and sleeves and a pale true blue breastplate. He wears pale true blue faulds over his true blue pants and wears short blue boots.
Weapon
Swift Caduceus
Guardian Forms
base, noble, imperial
Attacks
Bubble Blast!
Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus which summons a swift blast of bubbles containing magical energy that destroys the target.
Fog Raiment!
Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus and creates a fog that chills the target.
Subspace Field Generate!
Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus and creates a subspace pocket around his area.
Ice Needles!
Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus and creates large needles made of ice that propels themselves at the target.
Snowflake Lace!
Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus which creates a band of large snowflakes that attack the target.
Aqua Symphony!
(Achieved in his noble form.) Mercurius Knight waves his Swift Caduceus like an orchestra conductor’s baton which creates a large stream of water with musical notation.
Stats
Stats
N/A
Lei Motif
Voice Actors
Asami Sanada (Japanese), Mona Marshall (English)
Theme
Rozen Maiden OST - Change
Transformation Music
Battle Music
Romantic Theme
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
Since Jun is pretty much the character from Rozen Maiden, he had to have some music from the show in his soundtrack. Since Mercurius was a pen name used by Kurume Suri, it inspired me to be used for Jun's guardian name and it inspired the rest of the Solar System Celestial Knights having similar names as well. Thanks to the Rozen Maiden wikias for helping me describe his personality. Physically, my interpretation of Jun has the appearance of the 2013 anime / manga, but his personality takes his traits from the manga and from the 2004 anime adaptation. Thanks to this post for helping me realize that Jun can fall asleep easily. Junpei Hyūga from Kuroko's Basketball reminds me of an older Jun so I made him his paternal cousin as Junpei Hyūga's mother since in the 2004 Rozen Maiden, it seems like Jun physically resembles his father. His guardian fuku is somewhat inspired by the period clothing he was depicted in the opening of Rozen Maiden: Träumend. His attacks and abilities were inspired by Sailor Mercury's and from Rozen Maiden in that the N Field is constantly mentioned (Subspace Field Generate), he sarcastically told Shinku he would make her a celestial raiment (Fog Raiment), inspired by sewing and clothing in the attack names (Ice Needles), (Snowflake Lace), and that Shinku told him that when he sews, it's like his fingers are playing a melody (Aqua Melody.)