Praline

**Praline** (プラリネ *Purarine*) is an original character created by *Yako Kureishi* in the **Somali and the Forest Spirit** manga and anime series. She is voiced by *Ayahi Takagaki* in the anime.

## Appearance

Praline is a thin young woman with a pale skin, short, light orange hair that she keeps in a pixie cut, bangs that cover the right side of her face, large amber eyes and eyelashes that match the colour of her hair.

**Clothing**

Her clothing consists of a blue blazer with long sleeves reaching down to her elbows. The shirt has a broad white collar, cuffs and matching zip lines with gold accessories. The zip lines go down the chest and the back. The shirt itself is slightly off the shoulders. Praline wears a long sleeved black shirt underneath, and blue shorts that blend in with her blazer. She also wears a golden necklace with three golden rings falling down her chest.

## Personality

Other than her sister, Praline seems to be rather laid-back and not too serious about the rules and responsibilities regarding the library. She can often be found eating in the basement, with her nose in between the pages of a book. Famously known as a, if not *the* bookworm, she also often forgets to put the books she reads back where they belong - much to the despise of her sister.

Compared to Hazel, Praline also appears to be much more extroverted as she immediately greats Golem with both excitement and curiosity.

## Story Overview

**The Witches' Village**

Praline is first introduced when Hazel, Golem and Somali enter into her room on their search for The Chronicles of Haraiso. She's sitting in-between piles of books, reading and eating cake. When she sees Golem, she immediately greets him with overbearing excitement and curiosity, but complies and agrees to help Golem and Somali search for the book they're looking for after being told off by her younger sister to behave herself accordingly.

As they are looking for the book, Praline starts to carelessly throw around other books from her collection, which shocks her sister.

After Somali finds the Chronicles and pulls them out of one of the shelves, Pescafish, a book-eating species of skeleton fish, appear and risk to destroy the Chronicles along with other books in the room. Using their magic wands and powers, Praline and her sister manage to fight off most of them. But when an unusually large fish appears, the sisters find themselves rather helpless in their efforts. The fish destroys the Chronicles and is about to attack Somali before Golem intervenes and kills the fish, which results in him loosing a significant portion of the bone structure surrounding his arm.

After the sisters witness how devastated Somali is after loosing the book and witnessing Golem being hurt, Praline hesitantly agrees to lend them her special book so that they can find the head librarian - the supposedly last person to have ever read The Chronicles of Haraiso. They say their goodbyes before Golem and Somali head off into one of the short cuts of the warehouse.

In the following episode, Praline and Hazel can be seen standing outside with their hands folded before their chests, praying after Isolde Nebsolv passed away.

## Relationships

### Hazel

Praline is Hazel's older sister. The two habe slightly opposite personalities, with Praline seeming rather careless and energetic while Hazel appears rather responsible, thoughtful and calm. Hazel seems a bit annoyed by Praline's tendency to lend out books from the library without putting them back where they belong. She calls her a "bookworm," referencing a thief known to take books without her knowledge.

Due to their differences, Hazel often takes on the responsibilities of an older sister, reminding Praline to be more careful with her surroundings. That is not only limited to books, but also to guests of the library. Nevertheless do both sisters compliment each other well, also during combat.

## Abilities

**Special Book**

Just like her sister, Praline posseses a special book that allows her to access special information about the library. That, for example, includes shortcuts to presumingly smuggle books without being caught by her sister.

**Unspecified Magic Powers**

Using her wand, Praline can cast a spell that allows her to cast an unknown number of identical magic birds that assist her during combat by attacking the target (mostly Pescafish). According to Praline, said spell is most effective over short distances.

## Trivia

1. ↑ https://natalie.mu/comic/news/355802