Kari Skylark

**Kari Skylark** is an alternate future version of Sylvia's sister from Sleepless Domain.

## Powers

Kari's powers include the ability to manipulate cold wind. Most of the style she uses in her magic is directly evocative of Sylvia's abilities, although with her ice powers she's also able to momentarily freeze enemies and, on especially cold nights, materialize her winds to cut through monsters. The takes a great deal of concentration and energy though.

## Appearance

Kari is the tallest member of Team Weather, being slightly taller than most of her other classmates. Her long hair is a tinted blue and purple gradient which is tied up in pigtails in her Magical Girl form. In her Magical Girl form, she wears a long dark blue shawl with white decal along the trim. Her dress is mostly black, with the bottom petaling into icicle-like petals with a blue diamond emblem.

## History

As a child, Kari idolized her big sister Sylvia more than anyone in the world, and not just because she was a Magical Girl. She hoped that one day she could be as strong, influential and beautiful a Magical Girl as she was. That changed when Sylvia was killed on duty.

The Skylark family didn't have enough extra money to afford family therapy, nor did her single mother really have time to sit down with her two children and really talk over what happened. Due to this, Kari and her brother were left to process the trauma of Sylvia's death on their own. Kari had a lot of conflicting thoughts about this. On the one hand, she did appreciate what Sylvia had stood for, and the many lives she had no doubt saved, but she also began to hate her now deceased sister for leaving them alone. This complicated her perception of Magical Girls, especially ones that relied on media presence as much as Sylvia had.

Kari wasn't finished processing all of these difficult feelings when she herself got her powers. Like Claire, Kari was met with opposition when she decided to fight to protect others, but unlike Claire the opposition was much stronger and more vitriol. Kari ended up moving out of her family's house to spare herself their lectures, while also giving her mom one less mouth to feed, and moved into Future's Promise Boarding House. Although she started off going solo, she eventually met Claire and Nutmeg and occasionally decides to help them if only because she believed their carefree nature would get them killed. However, it's difficult to work alongside them when Claire looks so much like her late sister.

## Personality

Kari is of two minds when it comes to Magical Girls. One the one hand, she recognizes they are necessary to protecting the city, but the way they're marketed makes her think it's all propaganda and makes young girls view Magical Girls as a job equal to being an idol. For this reason, she hates all that marketed Magical Girls stand for, and believes that if she's to be a weapon for the city, that she won't glamorize it. Beyond this, Kari just comes off generally cold, and not just because of her ice powers. She often alienates herself from others so she won't have to worry about the fallout if something happens to them.

## Trivia

* Kari's name was chosen by fans. Although it was originally Karina, this was changed due to the already existing character Carina Thomsen, AKA Melty Frost.
	+ Kari's name comes from Kári, son of Fornjót and personification of the wind in Norse mythology.
	+ Other names that were considered for her were Vera (after Beira), Demi (after Demeter), and Jackie (after Jack Frost)