Katrina Moonshade (Shining Bonds)

**Katrina Moonshade** (Japanese: **黒月木関** *Kurotsuki Kiseki*) is the secondary antagonist in *Shining Bonds a La Mode* working for Queen Vera under the alias of **Event Horizon** (Japanese: **イベントホライズン**). She is in truth brainwashed by her in order to serve as her right-hand woman with Black Hat and Necrosis in order to revive greatest evil and was not truly evil, eventually being freed when Shining Joestar, the ultra-powered team leads and Angel Wing grabs her hand (at the same time) to heal her using the Light of Hope.

Katrina's real alter ego is **Glitter Starburst** (Japanese: **キュアスパノバ** *Cure Supernova*), a Glitter Warrior who is the successor of the Divinity's powers. She is a Light Elemental, but is a Darkness Elemental as Event Horizon, and her theme color is purple as Glitter Starburst or magenta as Event Horizon.

## Bio

### Appearance

As a villain, Event Horizon has light magenta skin, pointy *tsurime* hot pink eyes accented with purple eyeshadow, and thigh-length purple hair worn in a ponytail, with a thin gold headband. She has a black leotard with a row of yellow star decorations on the right side of it and a row of purple decorations on the left side of it. She also has pointy yellow sleeves. She has knee-length gray boots with silver metal spikes on the sides. On her arms are maroon armwarmers.

As a civilian, Katrina has mulberry purple hair reaching just barely above her shoulders and light pink eyes. She wears a long orchid purple tank top dress with white stripes that reaches down to her calves, with light pink Mary Janes and mulberry purple socks. Her Harmony Mark, positioned on the skirt or bottoms of whatever outfit she is wearing, is a yellow sphere surrounded by rays of purple light, resembling a styilized exploding star.

As Glitter Starburst, her eyes darken while her hair turns lavender and reaches down to her knees, with her bangs having pink and blue highlights and she has a gold headband with a star gem in the middle. She wears a long dress with a light purple bodice, flower petal-shaped sleeves, and an ice blue chest bow with a pale yellow crescent moon gem in the center. Her skirt is bright electric violet with another ice blue bow on the back of her waist similar to the one on the front. On her skirt is pink and blue glitter, and her earrings are two purple spheres on top of one another. Her boots are long gold lace-up wedge heels with shooting star designs. Her gloves are dark purple with white bands at the ends. While not drawn, her ChanMirror is in a carrying case on her waist.

### Personality

Katrina is very sweet, polite, and gentle, being very friendly and helpful. However, she is also a perfectionist who believes she has to be perfect at everything and is also a bit lazy, often not doing her homework because she doesn't feel like it and often running away from problems instead of fixing them. This stress is also what caused Queen Vera to target her, as she brainwashed her when she was very stressed out over a math problem on her homework and emotionally at her weakest. Sometimes, she breaks down under the stress of being both a normal 15 year-old teenager living with her parents and her responsibilities as essentially a corporeal goddess at the same time, while also having to keep being Glitter Starburst a secret from them.

Katrina can also be a bit gluttonous and greedy sometimes, as she needs food to fuel her powers.

As a villain, however, she was arrogant, prideful, sadistic, and ruthless, not caring about the harm she caused to others and enjoying watching others suffer. She enjoyed announcing how evil she was and was extremely loyal to Queen Vera, oblivious to the fact she never actually cared about her. She was not afraid to invade people's privacy or harm their loved ones if it meant accomplishing Queen Vera's goals, such as directly targeting Dragonet with her Nightmare while she was giving birth and thus very vulnerable. Despite this, Event Horizon could sometimes show a kinder side, such as teaching Carol how to apply cosmetics or when she agreed to keep the noise down when she summoned a Nightmare near a daycare, and often buys coffee and applies makeup in her free time. After being de-brainwashed, she has little to no memory of her actions as Event Horizon, but demonstrates a remorseful side as after waking up from being unconscious, she was horrified when the heroes told her that she was brainwashed and caused huge amounts of damage and immediately apologized for everything she did.

## History

### Pre-Series

Katrina was chosen by the Divinity to be her successor about a year before the story started, after she passed her first "old beggar disguise" test, and since she had noticed her Harmony Mark. The Divinity watched her interact with people for several months and periodically gave her "broken" spells to fix before finally deeming her worthy enough and giving her her powers.

However, some time later, word had reached Queen Vera that the Divinity had chosen somebody to succeed her. Seeing this as the perfect opportunity to use her powers for her own selfish purposes, Queen Vera effortlessly followed the magic trail all the way back to the Moonshade household and noticed her struggling over a math problem on her homework due to the stress of also having a powerful alter-ego at such a young age.

She then tricked her into transforming, and due to her negative emotions, Queen Vera zapped her with a mind control beam. Starburst attempted to resist and said she wouldn't ever succumb to a villain like her. However, she exhausted herself trying to resist and knew she didn't have the willpower to fight the mind control, so she grabbed a nearby piece of paper and pen from her bedroom desk, quickly wrote a letter telling Queen Cosmica that Queen Vera is now a serious threat and that she needs to find Magic Warriors to fight her and protect the Multiverse ASAP, and used her spell Tele-Mail to teleport it to her. Seconds later, she gave up and turned into a villain, now brainwashed. Queen Vera then gave her a new name, "Event Horizon," while locking up her memories and pretending to be a nice, caring boss while in reality, she did not actually care for her and simply wanted her powers to help her with her plans. She then happily agreed to help Queen Vera with her plans to conquer the Multiverse. Her parents (and Katrina's Clefable, Comet), however, saw their daughter was missing and desperately attempted to find her, even calling Officer Jenny to send out a search party, but they could not find her and did not recognize Event Horizon. Her school received word of her going missing as well, and thus she was presumed dead, leaving her parents and Comet to mourn.

Luckily, however, Queen Cosmica had received the letter Starburst had written before turning into Event Horizon.

### Shining Bonds a la Mode Season 1 - 4

Event Horizon first appears in *A Shining Star is Born!* when she disguises herself as a green-haired Trainer named Jennifer, pretending to go to the lab to get her first Pokémon, while Black Hat watches her. A Snivy takes a liking to her and she "forgets" to ask for the Poké Ball, but then suddenly dispels her disguise and turns the Snivy's Plant Element Spirit into a Nightmare. Nanette rushes out to see what's going on, and Event Horizon forces Aurea to detransform while Nijimia is captured by Black Hat's Yume-Akumu. She mocks Nanette for not knowing what to do, and is about to strangle Marina as well in order to emotionally manipulate her younger sister into doing what she wants, but her plans are foiled when Nanette becomes Faith Idol for the first time. Furious, she and Black Hat retreats to the Nightmare Castle and swears revenge.

## Magical Abilities

As the successor of the Divinity's powers, Glitter Starburst is extremely powerful. She has primarily light-based powers and can fire extremely strong blasts of light to attack an enemy, as well as having very strong healing, restorative, and revival powers. She can also freely levitate and fly in the air and can grant and restore others' powers, either permanently or for a single use.

Like all magic characters, she also possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, and invulnerability to physical damage. Due to how strong her powers are, she requires large amounts of food to fuel them, so she is a big eater as a civilian and also as a villain. Her magic aura is **lavender** in color.

As Event Horizon, her powers remain extremely powerful, but are darkness and death-based. She could fire instant-kill death beams that could instantly turn anyone or anything they hit into a deceased corpse, being able to bypass magic characters' invulnerability. She could still levitate in the air and could summon Nightmares, as well as shapeshift into any form she wished (which, combined with her extremely thick cloaking spells, made her disguises foolproof and able to fool the heroes every time). It is also shown that, similar to Sailor Galaxia in her corrupted form, Event Horizon can fire purple lightning that can cause intense pain to a Magic Warrior despite their invulnerability to physical damage. She still retained her enhanced physical abilities, and was too dangerous for the heroes to confront directly until Angel Wing dared to do it and healed her with the Light of Hope by grabbing her hand. Her magic aura was **dark pink** in color.

Despite her incredible amount of power, Katrina does have several weaknesses and isn't completely invincible. She requires large amounts of food to fuel her powers (requiring about one and a half times the food a normal person eats every day), and while she won't die, she can become extremely exhausted from using her powers too much, and she is not immune to sanging. If she forgets to apply a cloaking spell due to her being too lazy to do so, the magic trail will be incredibly strong and it can be tracked back to her - if she had put on a cloaking spell before doing her homework, Queen Vera would not have tracked her and she would not have turned into Event Horizon.

## Glitter Starburst

**"In everyone's heart, a star is born! Glitter Starburst!"**

Glitter Starburst is Katrina's Glitter Warrior alias. In order to transform, she needs her ChanMirror, her Glitter Starburst ChanCards, and the phrase "Rolling Mirror Change!"

## Pokémon

* Clefable (nicknamed Comet) - Her partner Pokémon. After Katrina went missing, Comet stayed at home with Mr. and Mrs. Moonshade, but she was reunited with her Trainer after she came back home.

## Trivia

* Event Horizon's pink skin was inspired by the Krylorians from *Guardians of the Galaxy*.
	+ This was done on the creator's part to hide her true identity, and in-universe, Queen Vera magically made her skin pink and changed her eye shape so that nobody who knew her (even her own parents) would be able to recognize her and thus possibly save her.
* Her agreeing to keep quiet when fighting the heroes near a daycare despite being evil is a reference to Doctor Traum from *HUGtto Pretty Cure*, who bizarrely agreed to keep quiet when fighting the Cures near a nursery.
* There are several clues suggesting that Event Horizon and the Divinity's successor (which was revealed since the first episode to be Glitter Starburst who is seen in fantasies, pictures and flashbacks, but her whereabouts and her civilian form were both still kept hidden) are actually the same person before it was ultimately revealed:
	+ She talks about her a lot, implying a connection.
	+ When introducing herself to the heroes, she said "I am Event Horizon, the **divine** messenger of EVIL!
	+ Both Glitter Starburst and Event Horizon have purple hair (albeit different shades), pink eyes, are stated to be 15 years old, have similar facial structures, and have a space-related name.
	+ Until she is returned to normal, the show keeps Glitter Starburst's civilian identity a secret, implying that the writers are hiding something major about her.
	+ Event Horizon matches Glitter Starburst's power level, being even stronger than her master Queen Vera, without any explanation given as to how she became as powerful as Starburst or stronger than Queen Vera. Like Starburst, she also has enough power to easily floor characters like Nanette and Bailey in a direct confrontation even in their strongest upgrades, something that it was stated only Starburst could do.
	+ Kiseki's alias in the Japanese version, Cure *Supernova*, is also a hint that she and Event Horizon have a connection, as an "event horizon" is the point of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape, and black holes form from supernovas.
	+ The fact that she actually posesses an Element (Darkness), something other villains don't have, led many fans to (correctly) guess that she is a corrupted magical being.
	+ In SBALM087, while the quartet is discussing their plans at the beginning of the episode while eating ice cream, Black Hat's is very dark purple, Demencia's is red and lime green, Necrosis's is emerald green, and Event Horizon's is light purple with blue and hot pink chunks, resembling Glitter Starburst's hair color.
	+ In SBALM031, Event Horizon's Breezie disguise is bright violet purple with gold antennae, two prominent colors in Glitter Starburst's costume design.
	+ When asked what her real name is, she looks confused and doesn't respond.
	+ Both Event Horizon and Glitter Starburst posess the ability to levitate and fly without wings.
	+ As shown in SBALM019, Event Horizon is able to cross Alfea's forcefield that keeps all non-magical beings out (similar to how Nijiko can cross the forcefield as well despite not being able to transform).

* Unlike Nicole/Angel Surgeon, Katrina/Glitter Starburst does not retain memories of her actions as Event Horizon. While Nicole has full memories of her actions as Necrosis due to that in fact being her real self until she became human (thus meaning her memories are real), and she had no emotions of her own and was programmed to follow orders without question, Katrina does not due to her real memories being locked up and replaced with fake ones despite still having emotions and a will of her own - upon being freed, her real memories came back and all her fake memories, including all memories formed as a villain, disappeared. She describes it as feeling like she was in the middle of a terrible nightmare she can't remember.
* In many ways, she is similar to the Akumatized villains appearing in every episode of *Miraculous Ladybug*. Like the Akumatized villains, she has unnaturally colored skin, a villain alias, additional powers granted to her by her brainwasher, her Glitter Starburst outfit reappeared when she was freed and her civilian outfit reappeared after she detransformed after being freed, her de-brainwashing is animated like an Akumatized villain returning to normal, and she does not retain memories of her actions while brainwashed upon coming to her senses.
	+ She is also similar to the Dark Fairies from *Winx Club*.

* In *Shining Bonds a La Mode* *340 Years Later*, it is revealed that Katrina made a magic will stating that the Divinity's powers shall be passed on to the eldest living female descendant of her and that she shall automatically give it up to her eldest living daughter when she has children, but it will go to the next available female relative if she dies without children or has no daughters. Per this magic will, her descendant Anabelle Moonpath/Warrior Twinkle posesses it, and in *Jim Porter's Cyberpunk Adventure 2*, Anabelle's daughter Cynthia Moonpath/Warrior Aurora posesses it.