Barbie

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## Name

**Barbie** (バービー, *Bābii*?) is one of the side characters of the *Shadows House* series. She is a Living Doll working in the mansion as a Star Bearer and acts as Barbara's "Face".

## Appearance

Despite her stature, Barbie is a girl in her late teens with long, fluffy teal hair and navy bows positioned on where her master has blue roses, sleepy-looking purple eyes, and freckles. Underneath her bangs is a slashed scar. Unlike the rest of the female Living Dolls, Barbie has sharp teeth. She wears a maid dress reminiscent of the Victorian style, with dark sleeves and a white apron and skirt. Barbie often carries a small bell around with her.

## Personality

Barbie is generally harsh to almost everyone. She comes across as intimidating with her horrid personality and intense glare. She is very inclined to violence when it comes to silencing someone who opposes her wishes or demands. In truth, she's just projecting a strong front to keep everyone in line and make Barbara seem stronger than she is. Deep down, Barbie doubts herself, and whenever Barbie observes Emilico's behavior, she realizes that she's thrown away a part of herself, a part that everyone loved.

## Plot

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### Introduction Arc

Barbie notices Emilico waving at her and Barbara from the window in Kate's room and shoots her a hostile glare.

### Phantom Incident Arc

She calls all the Living Dolls to the location of the Phantom and orders them to defeat it, insulting both Rosemary, her team and an unnamed Living Doll in the process.

After the initial incident, she interrupts the next day's Grand Cleaning to carry out a public hearing about the occurence, asking every team's leader about their teams experience during it. Once getting to Rosemary's team, she gets particularly hostile and accuses them for letting a Scorch slip by, judging that they might have alternative motives. She tells Rosemary off for "slacking off while cleaning" and kicks Mia in the stomach when she takes over explaining for Rosemary, calling her an intruder and proceeding to say that the whole team are idiots. Emilico calls her out on her actions, and when she turns around, ready to confront the newcomer, is pushed over by Shaun before any harm could be done. She is saved by Ricky, and yells at Shaun to watch where he's going before her attention is switched to another of the newcomers dropping her cleaning kit. Barbie then accuses Rum for being the cause of the Phantom disturbance, and after being interrupted by Emilico, sternly orders a late night patrol to be held with Shaun, Rum and Emilico to find the reason behind the Phantom. She then praises Ricky for being the only newcomer who shows promise.

Four days later, Barbie calls another meeting where she's forced to admit that the cause of the Phantom disturbance was Faulty Equipment, and she adds that the same thing will happen if anyone slacks off on cleaning.

### The Debut Arc

She is seen alongside Barbara at several moments, though she doesn't have her own role in this arc, acting as Barbara's face. See Barbara's page for information.

### Master Robe Arc

Barbie and Barbara interrupt Susanna's lesson on Soot Powers with Louise, John and Kate and she yells at them to get out of the Training Room, where she proceeds to insult and berate Barbara to get her to release soot. The next morning, she's by Barbara's bedside, holding her hand and asking if she's okay. Barbie admits she's been worried for Barbara's physical condition, but Barbara brushes it off by saying soot production is a Shadow's duty and starts saying something, for Barbie to fill in that everything is for Lord Grandfather's sake.

### Introduction Arc

Barbie notices Emilico waving at her and Barbara from the window in Kate's room and shoots her a hostile glare.

### Phantom Incident Arc

Barbie called all the living dolls and she ordered them to defeat the phantom and said one of them was lazy to clean and she said it caused of phantom mayhem. Barbie will question them until they get to the bottom of it. Barbie asked the team of Rosemary about it. Barbie was angry with them because she judged them that they let those scorches slip by. Rosemary hadn't finished explaining when Barbie judged Rosemary's team right away. Mia continued Rosemary's explanation. After Mia explained, Barbie kicked her in the stomach. She is annoyed with the three new living dolls Shaun, Emilico and Rum because she doesn't like their behavior. She called Emilico Sunshine. Black sheep to Shaun and Good for Nothing to Rum. She ordered them to be Night Patrol.

### The Debut Arc

Barbie called the living dolls and she said the phantom mayhen was caused by an equipment failure. So if they will slack off it will happen again. Mia laughs at Barbie's look. Mia said she didn't even know Rosemary about the soot equipment. Star bearers handle that but Barbie must have sleeping on that job.

Barbara, Barbie and other star bearers congratulate Lou and Louise (by ringing their bell) as they passed the debut. Barbara and Barbie caught Edward that he has something good not to do with those who are taking the debut. But Barbara allow him to do whatever he wants.

### Kidnapping Arc

Barbara and Barbie knocked at Patrick's room because they are hearing something from his room. When they enter the room they saw nothing but only Patrick and Ricky. They searched the room if there are people there but they found nothing. She told to Patrick that Edward ordered them to solve even the small problems and they left.

## Relationships

### Barbara

Barbie respects and cherishes Barbara, taking care of her in any way she can. She is very protective of her and is the one helping Barbara through her painful seizures, not letting anyone else get close. She doesn't seem to hold any ill feelings toward Barbara for injuring her. They seem to have a close relationship, with Barbara listening to Barbie's input and asking her for advice.

### Star Bearers

Barbie is the leader of the Star Bearers. They listen to her commands and follow them without hesitation. The Star Bearers respect her a lot.

### Emilico

Barbie despises Emilico for her cheery attitude, calling her both "flower garden" and "sunshine" as insults. This may be because she sees her past self in Emilico.

### Rosemary

Barbie is very harsh to Rosemary, often insulting both her and her team. In the past, they seemed to get along quite well.

### Ricky

Barbie acknowledged Ricky as "the only one of the newcomers showing promise", as he caught her when Shaun knocked her off her feet and showed respect for her status as a Star Bearer. After the events of the Hunt, Ricky angered Barbie by implying she was not doing a good enough job helping Barbara, which earned him a kick from her and a degrading nickname of "Presumptuous twat". He managed to smooth things over by talking about his experiences with Patrick and how he tried his best to make him look stronger than he is, which Barbie can relate to with her own shadow. Seemingly, his words touched her, as she spent the rest of the night thinking over how she ended up the way she is now.

### Patrick

It's not clear what Barbie thinks of Patrick, but, as noted by Barbie, his presence alone is enough to calm Barbara down, even during soot seizures, for which she is grateful.

## Etymology

* **Barbie** is a shortened form of "Barbara", originating from the Greek "barbaros", meaning "foreign", "strange", and "traveler".

## Gallery

**Image Gallery of Barbie**

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Barbie in the mangaBarbie's profileBarbie's scarBarbie kicks MiaBarbie's debut.Shadows House Episode 4 PreviewBarbie gathers everyone around her.Barbie and BarbaraYoung Barbie when she passed her debut
## References

1. ↑ Shadows House Height Comparation Sheet by Cloverworks