The Coven/Hope Halko

* Fourth (Current) Hope
* First Hope
* Second Hope
* Third Hope

**Hope Halko** is a member of The Coven and a minor character in *Monster Prom*.

## Appearance

Hope is a short girl with short, black hair with bangs cut over her red eyes. Like the other members of the coven, she dresses in all black- although her dress has the cute flair of lace cuffs and a buttoned white collar, and a white sash at the waist. She wears a choker and nails, both red to match her eyes.

### First Hope

The first Hope is slightly taller than the most recent iteration. Her hair, while still short, was much fluffier and a little bit curly compared to the current iteration, with a small curl of hair hanging over her forehead. Her eyes are a different color - orange, and she has accessorized her choker and nail color to match. Her outfit is in a different style, with an asymmetrical layered skirt and lighter hosiery paired with boots.

### Second/Evil Hope

This iteration of Hope shares the most visual similarities with the current iteration, though she's the second-shortest of the four. This version of Hope is the first to have red eyes. Her eyes still have a wide, cute look to them like the first Hope. She wears lighter hosiery like the first hope, but her outfit is almost identical to the current hope, save for the lack of buttons or belt.

### Third Hope

This iteration of Hope is the shortest of the four. She has red eyes that are wide and round. She wears an identical outfit to the second Hope, and the most notable feature of her design is the bun gathered at the top of her head.

## Biography

### Seasons 1-3:

After the death of their origianl leader Grace, Hope and Faith met and recruited Joy to be their new leader, though she was initially hesitant.

In Season 3, Hope was killed by (villain), and with it the concept of hope itself that she embodied disappeared from the world.

### Seasons 3-5:

Joy and Faith had been surviving in a world without hope but found the Quantum Compass and traveled to a dimension where the coven was evil and had destroyed the very world as we know it. However the evil version of Hope had rescued them by betraying her own coven. After having rescued the coven, she brought hope back to the original reality. During her time in the coven she befriended a nightmare pup. While Joy and Faith were worried her double crossing nature may come back again, she proved them wrong by sacrificing her life for Faith when the High Puppeteer (who was controlling the main villain, Angelus since season 2) attacked her.

### Seasons 5-8:

The third Hope emerged from a cocoon weaved by the second Hopes nightmare pup. Ridden with grief for the second Hope, Angelus (renamed to Liam) had joined the coven in season 5. In season 6 episode 9 Liam had left the coven and rescued them in the season finale.

Meanwhile, Hope was developing and inferiority complex. She was kidnapped by the anti-witch in like season 7 and used as a slave girl, however Hope sacrificed herself and that somehow saved the coven again.

## Personality

Although seen as small and cute, Hope can be very mean and sassy at times; this stems from her second incarnation, the Hope that originally came from the evil dimension. She is bold, resolved, and unapologetically herself.

### First Hope

The First Hope was very sweet and cute, similar to Miranda Vanderbilt.

### Second/Evil Hope

The second Hope is responsible for the sassy, mean, and honestly violent side of the current Hope. Due to her evil nature, she double-crossed both her own coven. She was also courageous as seen by her sacrificing herself for the coven.

### Third Hope

The third Hope was regarded as being comic relief, however she was known to also be suffering from imposter syndrome and either brave or incredibly stupid (as shown when she followed in the seconds footsteps and sacrificed herself)

## Relationships

* **Damien LaVey**: During her first incarnation, Hope and Damien slow-danced together. Damien has had a crush on Hope ever since, being attracted to her cuteness, and regularly mails himself packages through her delivery service to create excuses to talk to her. Hope believes he spends so much time with Miranda Vanderbilt because of their similarities as the "discount version" of Hope.
* **Miranda Vanderbilt**: Miranda and Hope share a similar "cute" and "sweet" personality, which has endeared them both to Damien LaVey. Hope describes Miranda as the "discount version" and "evil counterpart" of her.

## Trivia

* The Coven are heavily based on the television series *Charmed*.
	+ Damien's crush on Hope may be a reference to the character Cole Turner, a demon who was in love with one of the protagonist sisters.
* When given the opportunity to have a genie grant their wish in a lunch event, Hope wants a secret hideout for the group with a mini-fridge and Foosball table.
* According to Univertica Junior, Hope's favorite color is blue.
* The individual Coven members have some voice lines that reference spells and incantations of popular culture. One of these references "Bibbidi Boddibi Boo" a spell used by the Fairy Godmother in Disney's *Cinderella*.
	+ Hope mispronounces the first word as "Bidibi".
* Three of Joy's evil ex-lovers in *Monster Camp* share their primary color scheme with members of the Coven. Gerard shares his association with red with Hope.
* Hope is the CEO (and only employee) of "Hope's Delivery Service". This is a reference to the Ghibli film *Kiki's Delivery Service*.
* Hope is the embodiment of humankind's hope; if she were to die, humanity would lose hope, "it (would) be the end of everything".
* The Fourth Hope is the only one who does not have a circular pendant on her choker necklace.
	+ She wears a circular pendant when attending Miranda's funeral.
* Hope's backstory bears resemblance to the popular magical girl anime *Puella Magi Madoka Magica,* in which the deuteragonist Homura Akemi repeatedly travels back in time to prevent the titular Madoka Kaname from becoming a Magical Girl (and eventually, a monster known as a Witch) or dying.
	+ Coincidentally, Joy and Hope share the English voice actresses of Homura and Madoka, respectively.
	+ Her backstory also bears similarities to that of Kazumi Subaru/Michiru Kazusa, the protagonist of the spin-off manga *Puella Magi Kazumi Magica*, who became a Witch and was repeatedly cloned by her friends in an attempt to bring her back, but whose incarnations always eventually went berserk and had to be replaced.
	+ As another potential connection, her surname Halko is the same as a variant of the Turkish word *halka*, meaning "circle" or "ring". This meaning is shared with Madoka's first name and the surname of Iroha Tamaki, protagonist of the spin-off *Magia Record*. In both instances, this meaning is used to refer to repeating cycles of events both within the magical girl system and of time itself. Here, it would also refer to Hope's repeated deaths and resurrections.
		- Halko is also a Finnish surname that means "firewood" or "split log", which may also refer to the fact that Hope both sacrificed her life and was split into multiple incarnations of herself.
* In her *Monster Camp* outfit, she wears a hairpin bearing the Roman numeral IV (4), referring to the fact that she is the fourth incarnation of herself.
	+ Coincidentally, in Kazumi's gacha introduction video for *Magia Record*, her hat also bears Roman numerals that similarly convey that she is the 13th clone of Michiru.

## Appearances

### *Monster Prom*

* ANGEL BLOOD
* CAGE
* GHOST
* LOCKET
* LORE COUPON
	+ FAITH
	+ HOPE
* VALERIE

## References

1. ↑ Spooky High Yearbook (see this image)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 LORE COUPON/HOPE
3. ↑ EEL (see this image)
4. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halka#Etymology\_1
5. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halko#Finnish
6. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=halko
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWMVUu93jN0 (see this image)