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|color={{dragon color}}

|corecolor={{dragon color light}}

|image=Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Zinnia.png

|caption=Art from {{pkmn|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}} by [[Megumi Mizutani]]<ref>[[a:File:ZinniaDragonMajesty64.jpg|Zinnia (Dragon Majesty 64)]]</ref>

|gender=Female

|region=[[Hoenn]]

|hometown=Unknown

|relatives=Unnamed grandmother

'''Zinnia''' (Japanese: '''ヒガナ''' ''Higana'') is a mysterious [[Draconid people|Draconid woman]] and a [[Pokémon Trainer]] from [[Hoenn]]. She is described as a special person who holds the key to the [[Delta Episode]] in {{pkmn|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}}, on a trip to accomplish her objectives.

Zinnia uses {{type|Dragon}} {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} in battle, including a {{p|Salamence}} she can [[Mega Evolution|Mega Evolve]] into {{me|Salamence}} using her [[Key Stone|Mega Anklet]]. She also travels with a female {{p|Whismur}} [[nickname]]d '''Aster''' (Japanese: '''シガナ''' ''Shigana''). She is the only character in the games to have the {{DL|Pokémon Trainer|Trainer class}} '''Lorekeeper''' (Japanese: '''でんしょうしゃ''' ''Lorekeeper'').

After the player defeats {{Steven}} and becomes {{pkmn|Champion}}, Zinnia is shown in a cutscene discarding her team's uniform. She then meets the player at their home before breaking into [[Professor Birch]]'s home and stealing {{ga|Brendan}}/{{ga|May}}'s [[Key Stone]]. Later, when the player visits [[Granite Cave]] looking for a [[Meteorite Shard]] on Steven's request, she appears studying the cave's ancient painting. After a short conversation, Zinnia asks to battle with the player.

Zinnia makes another appearance at [[Mossdeep Space Center]], listening in on [[Professor Cozmo]]'s plan to send the oncoming meteoroid to [[Pokémon multiverse|another dimension]] using technology powered by the Meteorite Shards. Believing this plan will doom the world of another dimension to destruction, she destroys the device, then steals the Key Stone from the head of the team she had joined and challenges the player to meet her at the [[Sky Pillar]].

After the player secures permission to enter the Sky Pillar from [[Wallace]], Zinnia explains the lore of the Draconids as they ascend the tower together. At the top floor, she uses the stolen Key Stones to summon Rayquaza to the Sky Pillar, but her plan fails when Rayquaza does not Mega Evolve despite her efforts. Just as she falls into despair, the Meteorite the player has been carrying for much of the game activates and is consumed by Rayquaza, granting it its missing power. Once the player has captured Rayquaza and added it to their party, Zinnia teaches it {{m|Dragon Ascent}}, then challenges the player to one last battle (which the player does not need to win to progress).

Once the player has gone into space with Mega Rayquaza, destroyed the meteoroid and battled {{p|Deoxys}}, Zinnia disappears from the Sky Pillar. She leaves behind a note with Aster thanking the player for their help. Later at Meteor Falls, her grandmother tells her that she should find her own purpose in life now that she is freed from her lifelong duty. She agrees and leaves her Salamencite with the player before departing. Zinnia's whereabouts after this point are unknown.

===Pokémon===

|gender=female

|type1=normal

|epnum=Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

|desc=When she is not in disguise, Zinnia is usually accompanied by a {{p|Whismur}} nicknamed '''Aster''' (Japanese: '''シガナ''' ''Shigana''). Zinnia occasionally addresses her like a daughter, and Aster occasionally makes cries of "Mum" (Japanese: '''ママー''' ''Mama'') to Zinnia.

None of Aster's moves are known.}}

====Second battle====

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==Quotes==

[[File:Draconids Adventures.png|thumb|270px|Zinnia in Pokémon Adventures]]

===Pokémon Adventures===

Zinnia was a member of the Draconid people and, like the rest, greatly admired Lorekeeper Aster. When Aster was killed during Devon's attempt to capture and subdue Rayquaza, Zinnia swore vengeance against the company and was later appointed as Aster's successor by the village elder. Most of the Draconid people, however, still mourning Aster and seeing Zinnia mixing her own agendas with the role, did not truly acknowledge her. As the prophecy of another great meteor was near, Zinnia became desperate and first sent her Salamance to the facility holding Rayquaza. Although it had the hiccup of attacking and being beaten by Ruby, Salamence was nonetheless able to accomplish its mission, and Rayquaza was released from the Pokémon Association's grip. Next, she intended to bring out both {{P|Kyogre}} and {{P|Groudon}} in order to lure out Rayquaza, so she could bond with it. To do so, she infiltrated [[Team Magma]] and tipped [[Maxie]] of the Blue and Red Orbs before departing. Unfortunately for her, Rayquaza would instead soar with Norman and Ruby temporarily in order to stop the catastrophic battle between the legendary Pokémon.

Zinnia realizes that the person who defeated her Salamence years ago in her attempt to free Rayquaza from the [[Pokémon Association]] must have actually been Ruby all along. She congratulates Ruby for his battling skills and agrees to tell him everything she knows. She reveals that in nine days time, a [[Grand Meteor Delta|meteoroid]] will hit the planet, destroying it and its inhabitants. Zinnia also reveals her hatred for the Devon Corporation due to its choice in using science and technology to prevent the meteoroid from falling. As she prepares to leave to focus on her mission to stop the meteoroid, Zinnia thanks Ruby for his assistance in freeing Rayquaza and flies off. Later, she muses over the fact that Ruby received his Mega Bracelet from Steven Stone, the son of the Devon Corporation's president and angrily wonders where Devon got [[Key Stone]]s from.

|img=Zinnia Aster Adventures.png

|epnum=PS598

|desc={{p|Whismur|Aster}} (Japanese: '''シガナ''' ''Shigana'') is  Zinnia's first known Pokémon. It was first seen at the Sky Pillar with Zinnia and watched as Zinnia battled against Ruby. Ruby exploited Aster's taste for sour-flavored Pokéblocks to lure it out in the open. When Zinnia tried to get Aster to come back, she was left wide open for Ruby to pull her out of hiding and reveal herself. It has a Relaxed nature.

|epname=The Beginning of the End with Kyogre & Groudon XIV

|desc={{p|Salamence}} is Zinnia's second known Pokémon. It was used to battle against {{adv|Ruby}} and {{p|Latios}} at the Sky Pillar. Although its Defense and power increased after Mega Evolving into Mega Salamence, Ruby defeated it by Mega Evolving Latios into Mega Latios and firing off a {{m|Luster Purge}}. Afterward, Zinnia revealed that her Salamence was the same one that attacked Ruby and {{adv|Sapphire}} as children in an attempt to free {{p|Rayquaza}} from its capture at the hands of the [[Pokémon Association]]. Later, it was used to battle Sapphire at Mossdeep City in order to get to the dimensional shifter.}}

{{TrainerPoké

|trainer=Zinnia

|img=Aster Noivern Adventures.png

|epnum=PS615

Noivern's only known move is {{m|Boomburst}}.}}

{{cardlist/header|Zinnia's Pokémon|Dragon|char=yes}}

{{cardlist/div|Other related cards|Dragon}}

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{{cardlist/footer|Dragon}}

|es=Cronista

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==Related articles==

* [[a:Category:Zinnia|Images on the Bulbagarden Archives]]

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