Xenian /

Name Romanization: KI SE N I A N

Name Origin: The word "flower" after this name is redundant because the credits in Japanese at the end of the movie don't specifically include it; the name is written as simply "kisenian" in Japanese Katakana. In botany, any effect produced on the endosperm of an angiosperm by pollen from a plant having a different kind of endosperm is called "xenia." The word "xenia" comes from the Greek word "xenia" which means "gifts of friendship," and ultimately from the word "xenos" which means "strange." A xenophobe is a person who has an unhealthy fear of outsiders, strangers, or aliens. The original Greek word "xenia" was pronounced something like "kseen-ee-ah" and not "zeen-ee-ah." The reason why the Japanese spell the name with the "ki" and the "se" instead of a "ze" is because they want to stay as true to the pronunciation of the original Greek as possible with their writing system (though doing so is difficult due to the syllabic nature of the Japanese Katakana script). Takeuchi, in the same way, wrote the Katakana characters for "eriosu" ("Elios") for Helios because there is no letter for the English "h" sound in the Greek alphabet.

DESCRIPTION: Xenian is the most feared plant in the universe because it draws on the life force of all living things. It can't do anything on it's own, though, so it needs a person with a weak will to possess and carry our it's work. Fiore, unfortuately filled her needs and possessed him and he took her to Earth with him.