Karma

**Karma** is one of the romance options in Cinderella Phenomenon. He is one of the people to have helped the main heroine come to the Marchen. Not much is known about him initially, as he enjoys keeping an air of mystery about himself. Even the name of his curse is not known by anyone, all that is known is that it forces him to dress as a woman.

## Appearance

Karma is an exceptionally attractive person whether appearing as a man or disguised as a woman, to the point that many woman have commented that his looks while disguised as Miss Karma makes the rest of them feel ugly in comparison. He has long red hair that falls to his elbows, with some strands that only fall to pass his shoulders to frame his face and long bangs constantly pushed to the side in a stylised messy fashion to semi-cover his left eye. His eyes are green with longer red lashes - notably longer than the other characters' eyelashes - and a tinge of pink to his eyelids that are present even when he isn't wearing any make-up from his Miss Karma disguise. The narrative of the game notes that he has high cheek bones and despite being the second shortest boy of the main cast, he has the longest legs.

In his usual appearance, he keeps his hair tied up into a high ponytail with only the shorter strands in front left lose. He dresses in a formal, almost military-like attire. He wears an extremely long navy blue tailcoat with a white material over his sleeves that appears like a cloth arm guard with golden lining. Under the tailcoat is a white dress shirt with gold lining, gold going down the front of the middle of the shirt and large golden buttons attached with golden fasteners. The collar of the shirt is high with a white puffy cravat stuffed into the shirt. The bottom of the shirt is untucked with a golden chain attached to the two ends of this shirt, and it goes over either an undershirt or a sash that appears to be navy blue with golden lining.

Draped over his shoulders is a deep red scarf with golden tassels on the end. It is unclear if the tassels are made of golden thread or if they're aiguillettes as fitting for the more military look with this outfit. The scarf is attached on his right shoulder by a golden metal shoulder, which also has a golden chained attached to it. At both ends of the chain are a small ruby or garnet, and the chain links up to a golden rose brooch pinned over the left breast of his coat. He wears white plain pants and black plain knee high boots with white switching at the top. He also has a rapier with a black handle and golden hand guard inside a black scabbard with gold at the tip and opening, which is attached to a thing black belt with a small golden buckle.

### Miss Karma

His disguise is that of the beautiful lady, **Miss Karma**. She is considered to be so inhumanly beautiful, that she must be a fairy with magic that can explain her looks. While pretending to be a woman, he keeps his long hair down with the exception of two strands that he plaits from the front then have the two plaits connect at the back of his head. He attaches his golden brooch to a hairpin with two pearls on it and clips to his hair on the right. He wears some jewellery like this, noticeably the golden earrings shaped as a large droplet, as well as wearing some make up, which all we can see of that is some red lipstick despite the narrative indicating he wears more than just lipstick.

He wears a dress comprised of a shirt and long skirt. The shirt is a dark yellow, looking almost gold, with a high neck and bell-shaped sleeves. Attached to the high neck is a dark red jabot with either yellow or golden lining on each ruffle. Both his sleeves and his jabot have three layers of ruffles. He wears a presumably long A-line maroon skirt with a laced waist cincher to give an allusion of a tinier waist than he normally has. He completes this look with a green shawl with a rose print pattern that hangs around his elbows. While he is seen shopping for other dresses and tells Lucette there is an importance in having a variety of dresses, this is the only dress we see him in.

## Personality

As soon as people meet him, they notice he is quite elegant and refined with an air of mystery to him. Then he opens his mouth and reveals he can be narcissistic and very vain, regularly praising his own beauty. He is extremely confident and takes any opportunity to brag about his skills, sometimes coming across as cocky as seen when he rescued Lucette from the two men in the first chapter. In that same scene, Karma also admits he does not like to show mercy, which is the first indication we get that he is a harsher person compared to the other love interests.

Both Delora and Parfait refer to Karma as barely working around the Marchen, implying he is quite lazy and doesn't want to work. When we're properly introduced to Karma, he has returned from a shopping trip with Waltz, where Waltz was stuck carrying all of the bags. This indicates that Karma's presumed laziness comes from him seeing himself as being too above doing menial labour. This is a sentiment that is shared with Lucette very early in her stay at the Marchen, and is one of the early indications that Karma may not be a commoner.

Choosing him as a partner reveals that Karma also struggles with being good. While he boasts that he could teach Lucette how to be good and is willing to present her opportunities so that she can break her curse, when asked if he has ever done anything for someone else he takes a very long pause before answering.

## Curse

*Main article: Fairytale Curse*
Karma has a Fairytale Curse that he refuses to divulge any information about, including the name of his curse. In the beginning, it is only known that he must dress as a woman because of the effects of his curse. He very gradually will share the information of his curse if he is chosen as a partner.

At that point, he reveals that his curse is **Beauty's** Curse and that it causes every woman to fall in love with him if they were to see him as a man. Thus, he is forced to make people believe he is a woman to stop people from falling in love with him. Which Fairytale the curse is based on and how to cure the curse are details he does not talk about.

## History

Not much of Karma's life is known from before he moved into the Marchen. All that is known is that he used to be a noble that had to adjust to living life as a commoner while cursed, much like Lucette.

He moved into the Marchen some while ago, making him one of the long time borders in the tavern. While it is not known if he found the Marchen or if someone from the Marchen found him, it could easily be possible that he moved in the moment he was cursed as the townspeople are very aware of Miss Karma's presence. There are rumours about how Miss Karma just appeared out of nowhere one day, mostly likely due to magical means as many suspect she must be a fairy with her inhuman beauty. He has since worked around the Marchen, most often buying supplies and running other errands around town, all the while making Waltz carry all the bags that are bought.