ManaLaura

SuMer is the femslash ship between Manatsu and Laura from the Pretty Cure fandom.

Canon
On the way to Aozora city, Manatsu drops a stick of lipstick her mother had given to her. Laura finds it. The two first meet on a deserted beach while Laura tries to desperately flee from Manatsu, Manatsu exited to see a real life mermaid. Laura ends up telling Manatsu that her home (Grand Ocean) is in danger and that she's looking for the legendary Pretty Cure in Aozora city with hopes that doing so would make her the queen of Grand Ocean. Manatsu leaves her alone so that she can continue to look around the city, it is once Manatsu leaves that Laura gets captured by Yaraneeda and the ring on Manatsu's finger starts to glow.

The ring leads her to Laura, it is then that she turns into Cure Summer (one of the Pretty Cure) and saves Laura. In episode two Manatsu catches Laura swimming in her bathtub while she is at school so she takes Laura to her mothers aquarium and lets her swim in an unused pool, later on they have a fight about Manatsu struggling to balance her life as a Precure and a middle school student, this fight is resolved after Laura again gets captures by Yaraneeda and Cure Sumer saves her.

In episode fifteen Laura and Minori (Cure Papaya) accidentally switch bodies, this causes Laura to think about how much she wants to be human, this leads to episode sixteen where Laura gets captured by Yaraneeda before the precure can save her. She is sent to the 'witch of delays' where she explains to Laura that she will let her turn into a human if she betrays the precure. Laura has a fight with the 'witch of delays' butler which causes her to pass out, Kururun saves her and sends her to the queen of Grand Ocean. The queen congratulates Laura on finding all four of the pretty cure and tells her she can stay in grand ocean forever if she likes. Laura says she would like to go back on land to see her friends again, stating that by spending time with the precure she feels valued.

The queen gifts Laura an ancient artifact but doesn't tell Laura it will help her become a precure. Laura and Kururun swim away to look for the precure, she finds Cure Summer fighting with one of the Witch of Delays' henchmen, Cure Summer passes out and falls into Laura's arms. Before she can turn back into Manatsu she says "Thank goodness your okay" Laura swims up to a boat where all the other Cure's are fighting and transforms into Cure La Mer. Once the five of the precure come back to land Asuka is the first to notice Laura's new legs. It is revealed right at the end of the episode that Laura will move in with Manatsu and her mother.

In episode twenty-one Manatsu is too excited to go to sleep so she asks to sleep in Laura's bed, Laura tries to tell Manatsu something but before she can Manatsu is fast asleep. In episode 30 the two have a talk in Laura's room together about Laura's mirror, Manatsu says that the two are the most Tropica shining in the world.

In Episode 37, it was revealed that Manatsu and Laura had met each other when they were kids However, Laura memories were erased by the grand ocean while Manatsu had regretted not asking for her name.

In episode 46, During the play, Manatsu gets too emotional and hugs Laura due to the fact that she was going to leave and her memories where going to be erased, she begs Laura not to go and stay so they could do tropical activities together, study together, sleep in the same bed at night and eat breakfast together in the morning and eat melon bread with the rest of the group after telling her this Manatsu starts crying uncontrollably and Laura hugs her and thanks her. During the song, Manatsu gets ready to sing and accidently hits Laura with the cardboard and when she tries to get it up, it ends up falling on her head again.

During the goodbye, when Laura is wishing Asuka good luck in Highschool, Manatsu butts in and puts her lipstick on Laura's lips and tells her to keep it. as Laura leaves, she does one more trick which triggers Manatsu to run and call her name.

Later it is seen that Manatsu including Laura and everyone that met her memories were erased. Laura is then sent back to the human world to find Manatsu Thinking she would remember her but when she bumps into Manatsu, they have no idea it's each other until, Laura brings out Manatsu's lipstick and Manatsu asks Laura where she got it while Laura asks how she knew her name, This causes the Aquapot to trigger out memories and they remember each other.

Fanon
SuMer popularity increased in the fandom during the first episode as many fans knew that Toei was going to the the type of ship they do almost every year, many people in the fandom had begged that Manatsu and Laura should end up by the end and many fan art had been made.

Laura is often portrayed swimming in Manatsu's bathtub as well as Laura and Manatsu both becoming the queens of Grand Ocean.

Fandom
FAN FICTION