Kikimora

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“
I don't need this wretched school to start my own empire. I'll make my own! And I'll start by taking you apart, piece by piece, brat by brat!
”

—Kikimora

**Kikimora** is an antagonistic character in *The Owl House*. She is the former assistant of Emperor Belos who delivered his orders to other subordinates in or outside of the Emperor's Coven.

After being tricked by Belos, Kikimora officially turns on him after finally having enough of his demeaning and abusive nature, helping King reach out to the Collector in order to subdue Belos and stop the draining spell. After the Day of Unity, she attempts to restructure the Boiling Isles with herself on top. After Belos's final defeat, she is reduced to menial work in construction.

## Appearance

### Body

Kikimora is a red-skinned demon of diminutive stature and child-like proportions. She stands several heads shorter than her subordinates, with three-toed, talon-clad arms and legs similar to those of a bird's. Her talons are colored dark brown. Her left eye has yellow sclera and a brownish red iris; inversely, her right eye has red sclera and a yellow iris. Like many of the other creatures in the Boiling Isles, her ears are pointed. Her mouth, hidden from view by her collar, features sharp yellowish teeth and a single upturned tusk.

Her most defining feature are the conjoined hands which make up her hair: one with fingers that form a fringe which hides her right eye from view, the other is clenched behind her head to form a bun/fist. It is shown in the second season intro that these hands are prehensile, and that the fingers can be used to cast spells, as first seen in "Eda's Requiem". The hands are dark blue with turquoise claws. "Clouds on the Horizon" shows Kikimora has the sigil of the Emperor's Coven branded in her right wrist.

### Clothes

Being a high-ranking affiliate of the Emperor's Coven, Kikimora wears robes reminiscent of Belos's regalia. These are a white tunic overtop a black ensemble, as well as a high-collared veil which shrouds the lower regions of her face. This veil is fastened by a triangular golden accessory. She typically walks barefoot.

Following her demotion, she wears a "Coven Crate" delivery uniform comprised of a yellow and white hat with the company's logo on it, a two-toned pale green veil with a paw at the end, a golden yellow short-sleeved shirt and brown shorts.

Under her guise as "Miki", her costume consists of a St. Epiderm abomination track uniform that hides most of her recognizable features. She wears a light pink wig with a ponytail that covers up her conjoined hands, as well as a pair of glasses to obscure her eyes. Unlike her usual attire, her mouth remains visible, showing an upturned tusk scarcely visible prior. She wears a dark blue cape over her arms, with a brown pauldron sitting atop her right shoulder. She is no longer barefoot, wearing gray boots. Upon revealing herself to Luz, she discards her wig and glasses.

## Personality

Kikimora is a prim and professional individual, being exceptionally well versed in the accepted history of the Boiling Isles. As the personal attendant to Belos, Kikimora was immensely loyal to the Emperor and carried out his commandments with visible relish, encouraging a worshipful attitude towards Belos and his vision. Much like Belos, she appears to have a low tolerance for failure or for dissidence. She is particularly subtle in her hostilities, choosing to admonish those who displease her quietly. Regardless, it can be inferred that many of her subordinates are fearful of her.

Despite her high station and her loyalty to Belos, Kikimora appears to be somewhat cowardly when confronted head-on, as Luz is easily able to intimidate her into compliance by threatening her with a fire glyph. In that regard, she is also a hypocrite, angrily reprimanding Warden Wrath for failing to apprehend Luz and King beforehand, despite Wrath at least making an honest attempt to do so.

In "Hunting Palismen", Kikimora appeared to be jealous of the Golden Guard, and sabotaged his mission to get the Bat Queen's palismen so that she could deliver them to Belos herself and gain the Emperor's favor, while at the same time attempting to assassinate the Golden Guard outright, showing that she is willing to conspire against her colleagues and even kill them to remove them as rivals for Belos' favor. By the events of "Eclipse Lake", Kikimora's mental state has degraded, leading her to fits of immense aggression and paranoia, specifically over being outperformed by the Golden Guard. This translates to short-sightedness and abusive tendencies toward her staff that results in them being injured. At several points, she loses composure completely over the prospect.

She seems to value her family, as she fears her mother and being utterly distraught at the prospect of being disowned by her family back in her hometown if she failed to attend the family gathering while being torn by her duties with the Emperor's Coven. However, when Terra reveals that Belos wants to give her a promotion, she immediately disowns her family and heartlessly states that her family and hometown can burn, showing that despite her love for her family, she values her career more than them.

After Belos affected her with the draining spell and casted her away for a final time, Kikimora realizes her entire life quest in earning Belos's approval and climbing ranks were for nothing but her death. She then becomes willing to help Luz and her friends take down Belos by bringing King to the Collector, finally having had enough with Belos's ungrateful treatments toward her after many years of service and devotion.

Following the Day of Unity however, Kikimora fell back to her power-hungry tactics and wormed her way into Boscha's favor, disguising herself and her Abomitron as students from St. Epiderm named 'Miki' and 'Roka', manipulating Boscha into imposing her will over the students of Hexside. After Luz and her friends returned, Kikimora correctly suspected they would undermine her schemes and became psychotically obsessed with eliminating them once and for all so that no one would get in her way of forming her own empire. The facts that she does these things in spite of all that's going on (the Collector taking over and turning the people of the Boiling Isles into puppets for his own amusement) shows that regardless of the situation, Kikimora will always put her own self-interests and ambitions first, and has no sincere respect or consideration for anyone but herself.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Intimidation tactics:** Whilst not a magical ability, Kikimora seems to intimidate many members of the Emperor's Coven, mostly Lilith and the guards. This could possibly be because of her status; being so high ranked in the coven, she has more power over most.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magic:** As a biped demon, Kikimora is able to use magic via a magical bile sac attached to her heart.
	+ **Fire projection**: As an offensive weapon, Kikmora is able to fire purple bolts of magic from her hands.
	+ **Coven sealing:** Kikimora, using a finger on her head, can use the sigil on a witch's arm to seal them in a form of stasis and stifle their magic.

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## Trivia

* In the second season's main theme, Kikimora's claw-like hair opens, revealing that her right eye has a smaller iris and with the inverted colors of her left eye. This was later shown in the show itself in "Eda's Requiem".
* In Slavic folklore, the Kikimora is a household spirit whose role in the house is usually juxtaposed with that of the domovoy, where one of them is considered a "bad" spirit, and the other, a "good" one. When the Kikimora inhabits a house, she lives behind the stove or in the cellar, and usually produces noises similar to those made by the mice in order to obtain food. Kikimory (in plural) were the first traditional explanation for sleep paralysis in Russian folklore.
* Her imp-like appearance and hair resembling a hand, with one of her eyes covered, is similar to Midna from *The Legend of Zelda* series.
* In "Clouds on the Horizon", Odalia refers to Kikimora as a "gremlin", but it is unclear if that was simply a derisive slur or she meant that Kikimora is actually a gremlin demon.
* Kikimora has secretly eavesdropped Belos' conversations with The Collector in the past, enabling her to know about The Collector's existence. However, it is not clear how much she overheard of these conversations or if this means she knew all along what the Day of Unity's true purpose was.
* Prior to "For the Future", Kikimora's teeth were portrayed inconsistently. "Hunting Palismen" depicts a white tusk on the right side of her mouth instead of the left, extruding from her upper set of teeth as opposed to the lower. "Clouds on the Horizon" appears to show off no tusks at all, presenting a pair of fangs rather than consistently sharp teeth.
	+ In a clean line reference drawn by Saige Guevara for "Clouds on the Horizon", Kikimora has a blunt tusk on the right side of her mouth. Said tusk is not present in the final shot.
* Her parents live in a town called Palm Stings, likely a pun referencing Palm Springs, California.

## References

1. ↑ Guevara, Saige (May 22, 2022). some of the designs I got to do for O Titan and Clouds on the Horizon! 👀 best first tv credits :3 (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 22, 2022.