Kara

* Regular
* Nurse

**Kara** is a recurring character in **Season 2** and Season 3 of *Tuca and Bertie*. She is a nurse who Tuca meets in *Nighttime Friend* and they eventually begin dating until the end of the season, when Kara's toxic behavior leads her to ghost and later dump Tuca in *The Flood*.

## Bio

### Physical Appearance

Kara is a female seagull. She has white feathers and a tuft of bangs going across her forehead and a ponytail, with grey specks on her cheeks, a pale orange beak, light purple eye shadow, and her body is a bit on the heavier side.

She normally wears a mid-sleeve purple sweater with a salmon pink collar and two white stripes on each of the cuffs, high waisted burgundy jeans, a watch on her left wrist, and black high heeled shoes.

As a nurse she wears light blue nurse scrubs with a dark teal long sleeved undershirt with the sleeves rolled up, and dark shoes. She keeps a stethoscope in the left front pocket.

### Personality

Kara on the surface appears as laid back, warm, and friendly. She works as a nurse, something that she brags about a lot, although in reality she’s has some questionable ethics as she talks about the crazy stories and patients she’s seen there, even showing photos, possibly without permission and violating their privacy and multiple patients she’s worked with have even died.

After inviting Tuca to her place for the first time, she sings her a lullaby as the former lays her head down in her lap. She’s also quite sociable and extroverted, seeing as she has multiple female friends that she refers to as "her girls."

However, in Sleepovers after she and Tuca start dating, her toxic side slowly starts to creep out.

Kara disregards Tuca's feelings after she unintentionally makes an insensitive "joke" asking "Who raised you?" and doesn’t apologize when Tuca says it hurt her feelings, with Kara assuring herself she’s in the right because she said it in a joking manner.

Kara generally acts emotionally manipulative and looks down on others, getting upset at Tuca for wanting to go to a music show with Bertie when the latter invites her. She goes on telling Tuca she wants to be able to spend her free time with her since she works long hours as a nurse, and retorts that Tuca doesn’t have a job when Tuca asks if she expects her to work around her schedule. She later "apologizes" by saying she doesn’t want things to be weird with them, and giving Tuca a strawberry milkshake pin for her fanny pack.

Kara's emotional abuse becomes more apparent in *Dance* where it’s shown Tuca has been attempting to change everything about herself, ranging from her clothing choices to her personality in order to please her. Kara is openly shown being condescending and showing disdain towards Tuca and for her friends and interests, and the carnival itself. Her more pretentious side is also shown when she constantly has to point out that the carnival is full of germs and repeatedly reminds everyone she's a nurse. She does not even attempt to act like she wants to be at the carnival, despite Tuca always doing what she wants to do and generally does not reciprocate, agreeing to participate in something Tuca enjoys in return.

It’s also revealed Kara has been giving Tuca pins every time they have a "disagreement," and it’s shown Tuca's fanny pack is now covered in the collection she has acquired. After Tuca finally stands up for herself Kara blames her attitude on being busy as a nurse, and says she's had issues with other partners in the past since she's not good at compromising, or "bending," for them, but claims she'll try to change for Tuca.

Kara ends up ghosting Tuca and doesn’t contact her for two days, even when the flood begins, likely due to the fact Tuca tried to set boundaries and called Kara out for her behavior. After Tuca risks her life to swim to her light house, the hospital cruise ship Kara is on coincidentally sails by, but when Tuca calls out to Kara the latter ignores her, and when she does make eye contact with Tuca, she opens her mouth to say something and looks down for a second as if she feels remorse , but instead smiles and shrugs at Tuca and quickly turns her back, as a means of dumping her.

Kara's appearance and confrontation by Bertie in *The Pain Garden* shows that she has no remorse for how she treated Tuca, claiming she was “too much" for her and she had to think of herself, and she doesn’t even remember Bertie’s name, calling her Georgette.

However, it’s revaled by her new frog girlfriend Beth in "Somebirdy's Getting Married" that when they started dating she started repeating the same controlling behaviors, and was even about to ghost her too but she revealed to Beth she couldn’t go through with it, and she decided to go to therapy with her and work though her issues, as on the inside she actually does care about peoples feelings but but just doesn’t show it.

She even shows concern for Tuca’s severe cramps and calls an ambulance for her, and continues to aid her after its revealed at Dr. Mole's office her ovary develops a growth , including letting Bertie (who she still misnamed as Georgette) go inside Tuca's body with Figgy and Speckle monitoring her.

## Background

### History

Kara works night shift at the hospital as a nurse. She rents a room in the local lighthouse to live in, and the search light doesn’t bother her since she’s at work all night anyways.

## Episode Appearances

### Season 2

* Nighttime Friend
* Vibe Check
* Sleepovers
* Corpse Week *(pictured/mentioned)*
* Dance
* The Flood *(non-speaking)*

### Season 3

* The Pain Garden
* Somebirdy's Getting Married
* The Mole

## Trivia

* Her Instagram username is its\_Kara87 :
	+ This might hint her birth year is 1987.
* Kara living in a lighthouse may be a metaphor for her toxic personality, as boats are supposed to avoid lighthouses because their presence signifies dangerous coasts.
* It revealed that Kara only has a cloaca in *The Pain Garden*. When Bertie told Kara to "Get Bent," Kara literally bent over and she straightened out again Bertie realized that she's only got a cloaca.
* Kara is the second female to find Tuca’s true personality annoying the first is the female eagle car mechanic and third is Bunny.