Dakota Reed

**Dakota Reed** is a snotty, but popular girl in her class, and the frenemy of Phoebe, though Marigold doesn't mind her much. Dakota tries to be secret friends with Phoebe because she has nobody to talk to about magical creatures except Phoebe in Dana Simpson's most recent books at the end of the book of Camping with Unicorns and Unicorn Famous.

Dakota's name means, "friend," or, "ally". Ironically, Phoebe and Dakota are hardly ever friends, however, Phoebe once called Dakota her "frenemy," which means an enemy who pretends to be a friend. Although, most people don't really mind Dakota.

Like Phoebe, Dakota can also be considered a "tsundere," the anime girl type that seems annoying and stubborn on the outside, but is really sweet if you get to know them. Dakota is often considered meaner than Phoebe, bratty, and spoiled. But deep down inside, she's actually really shy and insecure, just as Phoebe is.

## Appearance

Dakota has long, curly red hair and is usually seen wearing a pink shirt and navy blue jeans. She wears sneakers and a pink headband most of the time.

When she is invited to Phoebe and Marigold's Halloween party, she wears a sleeveless pink princess dress and her headband is replaced with a princess hat. She was wearing pink high heels.

At Todd the candy breathing dragon's Halloween party, she wears a darker pink dress with long sleeves, her hair is tied in a braid and she wore a tiara. It is unknown what her shoes looked like then, since her long dress was covering them.

## Metub

Dakota is a vlogger for Metub, a Youtube-like website on SoDakota, her video blog. The only known episodes are a list of the following below.

Magic hair: Dakota made a vlog episode about her hair. Marigold cut off her hair as a punishment for stealing Phoebe's elephant pencil topper, and Marigold had to magically grow it back.

Magic hair part 2: Dakota couldn't control her hair, so she had to wrap it up in wire so it would stay still.

Goblins: Dakota made an episode about the goblins she met.

Christmas: Dakota made a vlog about the stuff she got for Christmas.

Phoebe: Dakota talked about Phoebe in an episode of her vlog. She made negative descriptions about Phoebe's clothes, and when Phoebe saw the video, she went in her room to change her clothes and ended up wearing her mom's clothes in Phoebe's size (a long-sleeved black shirt, long gray pants and black shoes.)

Ice storm: In The Magic Storm, Phoebe watches Dakota's vlog while Dakota talks about the goblins and Phoebe compares them to Marigold.

### Trivia

* It's possible her favorite color is pink because all of her outfits have at least a little bit of pink in them.
* Even though Phoebe calls Dakota her "arch-enemy", they were nice once in a while (possibly due to their chemistry), so in addition to being enemies they were also frenemies.
* Dakota is the first character in the Phoebe and her Unicorn book series to have red hair (in front of Sue).
* In the first few books of the series, Dakota seemed a little snotty, but as Dana Simpson created more books of the series, she started to get more friendly but she was still bossy and rude sometimes. Though many people don't know it, she is actually really nice on the inside, just like Phoebe.