Kara

**Kara** is the leading protagonist of Pokémon: Claire, Mistress of Magick. She is the 14 year-old Crown Princess of the Obakeneko Kingdom, and after being sent to Earth to prevent danger, she is given the Earth name **Claire Perkins** (クレア・パーキンス *Kurea Pākinsu*) by the Perkins family, who found her in the Slumbering Weald and adopted her soon thereafter. She transforms into the Legendary Magical Warrior of Hope, Magic, Death and Rebirth, **Magician Esmeralda** (マジシャンエスメラルダ *Majishan Esumeraruda*). Also, she is one of the current Incarnations of the Great One, with the other being Allister.

As a Magick Stardom idol, she is a Cool-type Idol whose preferred Label is Spectre Princess.

## Personal information

### Aliases

Claire Perkins (Earth name)Cara Lucia Medea Angelina of Obakeneko (birth name)

My Little Monster (Leila)

### Affiliations

Perkins familyMistresses of Magick

Dream Stars Academy

### Relationship (s)

Veronica Anna-Maria of Obakeneko (mother)Erik of Obakeneko (father)

 Toby of Obakeneko (younger brother, deceased (?))

Stefania of Obakeneko (younger sister)

 Damien of Cabraforesta (love interest, deceased (?))

Leila (older half-sister)

Hermione Perkins (adoptive mother)

Nikos Perkins (adoptive father)

Clara Perkins (Doppelganger / adoptive sister, deceased)

### Theme color (s)

Green (Legendary Magical Warrior)Red (main)

## Appearance

Kara is a teenage girl who has medium-length chestnut-brown hair that is styled into a choppy chin-length bob, ruby-colored eyes, peach skin, and black cat ears that are the trait of most Majuunekos. She wears a forest green-colored turtleneck jumper with a smaller and darker green heart shape on the chest, a beige miniskirt, a pair of knee-length white socks with golden top rims, and black Mary Janes. She also wears the Valentine Medalion around her neck, as a memorabilia for her relationship with her deceased boyfriend, Damien.

As Magician Esmeralda, her hair grows longer and is tied into two pigtails curled at the end, and she wears a white shirt with white-and-fern green puffed sleeves, covered by a sleeveless forest green jacket with pockets and golden buttons on it. Underneath the jacket, she wears a green belt with a golden buckle. She also wears a emerald green skirt with white bottom frill, a single white sock that almost reach her thigh, and a pair of star-patterned neon green boots with white top rims that is decorated by a single forest green ribbon on the sides that face outwards. Also, she wears a single elbow-length shamrock green glove, and a small black witch hat with a mint green band and bow. On her chest there is a jade green ribbon with a white badge with the Mistresses of Magick's insignia, the Delphic Glyph, in the center.

## Personality

Being in a royal family and has been the centre of attention in her kingdom since her childhood, Kara is a rather spoiled girl with an arrogant personality. According to Jane, Cara exhibits the same narcissistic view on her body image as her, albeit she still mind the uniqueness of the body image of every person.

She also is a mysterious, cool and taciturn girl who appears to be hard to befriend by others. In fact, as according to Allister in one episode, he states that she does that in order to keep her identity as one of the current Incarnations of the Great One as a secret, and to make the existence of the Incarnations becomes a legend, similar to him and the previous Incarnations. She also displays traits of an archetypical tsundere, being aloof at the beginning but then reveals a bashful personality and romantic feelings for someone, especially when near people she likes (e.g. Ryo Hika, Weisslune (when assuming the form of Damien, her deceased boyfriend)).

She also acts politely towards others, which is a trait that she inherited from the other members of the Obakeneko royalty. She often uses "watakushi" (わたくし) and "watashi" (私) when referring to herself (albeit she uses "jibun" (自分) when talking to her friends), and "anata" (あなた) when referring to others (albeit she uses "omae" (お前) when referring to her friends and more commonly her enemies). She also acts as a foil for both Jane and Leila, reduces Jane's keenness to boast about her sexual attractiveness, and preventing Leila to get into a fight or argument with her friends.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Pyrokinesis**: She possesses the ability to manipulate fire and heat, which allows her to create fires, *hitodama*, and generating heat from her body for many purposes.
* **Aerokinesis**: She possesses the ability to manipulate air and wind, which allows her to create gusts, tornadoes and air currents, as well as changing the movement of air and wind.
* **Manipulation of darkness and shadows**: She possesses the ability to manipulate shadows and darkness, which allows her to create vast areas of darkness, creating things (e.g. weapons, shields,...etc.) from shadows, teleporting herself through massive distances via shadows,..etc.
* **Photokinesis**: She possesses the ability to manipulate light, which allows her to create light beams, auras, balls of light energy, and creation of items using entirely light energy. This is not restricted to visible light, it even gains her the ability to manipulate all kinds of electromagnetic radiation, including ionizing radiation, infrared, micro-waves and radio waves. She is also the only character with the ability to handle ionizing radiation without being harmed by them.
* **Chlorokinesis**: She possesses the ability to manipulate plants, allowing her to create and shape plants (wood, vines, plants, moss, and (for practical reasons) fungus), and parts of the plants, such as leaves, seeds, fruits and flowers. She can cause plants grow, move/attack or even rise from the soil and "walk", mutate plants by rearranging their DNA scructure, and revive withered or dead plants. She gains this ability when she transforms into Magician Esmeralda.
* **Accelerated healing**: She is the host for a great concentration of Love and Willpower, the forces that make spirits to continue existing after death, and makes the power of her spirit strong enough to quickly accelerate the healing of every wounds she has, even that the wound (s) are normally fatal to Terra Humaniforms. It also even makes her Pneuma Core reassembles itself fully if it has broken. However, due to her immortality after exposure to her Pentagram Stone, the latter is inert at the moment.
* **Immortality and eternal youth**: This is her most powerful ability, gained after she exposed to her Pentagram Stone, the Hope Pentagram Stone. This abilty grants her the ability to live forever, stay at the same age as her age at the time of the exposure to the Stone forever, and most important, the ability to be invunerable from death by any causes. This is not only just unique to her, this even the ability that anyone else get when they are exposed to a Pentagram Stone.

## Relationships

* **Jane:** Her playmate since childhood, and her personal entertainer. Contradict to popular belief, they are a perfect match, as well as a foil to each other, for adding comic reliefs in the series. As stated above, Kara helps Jane to be less arrogant, preventing her exaggerating her sexual attractiveness. While that, Jane helps Kara to be more outgoing and witty, and sometimes cheer her up in distressful situations. The most common comic relief elements revolving around Kara and Jane are: putting whoopee cushions on each other's chairs, giving gag names to each other, pieing, and performing knock-knock jokes towards each other.
* **Astrid Bennett:** Despite she is not a friend of Kara since childhood, Astrid Bennett, the daughter of the previous Incarnation of the Great One, Aleister Bennett, had learned the existence of the Incarnations of the Great One after witnessing her father's death, and that she learned that her dead father has reincarnated into two separate beings, one of them is Allister, and the other one is still unknown at the time. At first, she worked for Allister, who told her about what the other Incarnation looks like, and when will they come. After she abandon her experiment of the "Purple Liquid" after she saw its negative effects on Hanako Reisou, she decided to wait in a makeshift hut located in Wedgehurst until the other Incarnation comes, hoping that they will save Hanako from the effects of her experiments.

* **Leila:** Her older half-sister, personal bodyguard and playmate since childhood. Leila is steadfast and passionate in her actions and always be there to protect Kara. Her bravery and determination make Kara admire her heroic actions, but her aggressive behavior has led to Kara given her the derogatory nickname "BGcchi" (stands for "Belligerent Gal-cchi"). Like Jane, she and Kara act like a foil to each other. Similar to how Kara and Jane act as a foil to each other, Kara helps Leila to be less aggressive and delinquent, making her has more tolerance to the conditions and rules in the Dream Stars Academy, while that Leila helps Kara to be more determined when she has to make decisions in battle, and giving her advices for battle strategies when they're facing difficult and/or dangerous enemies.

* **Ryuuko Honetate:** Her rival in the Magick Celebdom.

## Magician Esmeralda

(**The infinite Cycle of Reincarnation, Shining the Light of Hope! Magician Esmeralda!**

「*無限の魔法の輪廻の周期、希望の光を輝く！マジシャンエスメラルダ！*」

(*Mugen no Mahō no Rinne no Shūki, Kibō no Hikari o kagayaku! Majishan Esumeraruda!*))

With the Hope MagiCard and her MagiMuna, Kara can transform into the Legendary Magical Warrior of Hope, Magic, Death and Rebirth, Magician Esmeralda.

**Transformations:**

* ***Magick Power, Magical Change!*** (default)

**Weapons:**

* **Hecelpis**: A Bowie knife-like weapon that is the weapon associated with the Spiritual Element of Hope.

**Armor:**

* **Corazón Medaglione**: A heart-shaped locket that is the defensive armor associated with the Spiritual Element of Hope.

## Trivia

She is an allusion to the character Chara in *Undertale*. Evidences include:

* Both characters are quite similar in appearance.
* Both of them have English names with somewhat similar spellings. However, Kara's name in Japanese are written as (カーラ *Kāra* (pronounced "KARR-ə", similar to one of Chara's most conventional spellings)), while that Chara's name in Japanese are written as (キャラ *Kyara* (pronounced "Kera", which is similar to the Japanese pronunciation for "character" (キャラクター)).
	+ Kara is named in a way similar to Kris from *Deltarune*. Her name can be a combination of the alternate form of Chara's name and Frisk's name (Cara being the C from Chara and the rest from Chara), with the K substituting the C from Cara.
	+ The name "Kara" can hold several meanings: It can mean "love" in Cornish, which refers to the high concentration of Love inside her. Another meaning is "empty" in Japanese, which alludes to the fact that she feels that she's just an empty body without a real soul, as revealed in the lyrics of her theme, *Empty Body Without a Soul*. Another meaning is "dark" or "courageous" in Turkish, the latter alludes to the fact that she has a determined personality, while that the former holds a similar meaning to that of Leila's name meaning (which means night and/or darkness in Hebrew and Arabic). Interestingly, the name "Leila is also used in Turkey.
* Both of them are sent to another world and become a foster child of a family there. However, Kara is sent to the Earth for good reasons, while that Chara is sent to the Underground for an unhappy reason.
* Both have vaguely similar personalities.
* Both use knives as weapons in battle.
* Both have heart-shaped lockets as their defensive armor, as well as having a heart-shaped locket in their possession, and in some fan artworks, Chara is seen wearing a heart-shaped locket, similar to Kara's casual outfit.
* Both are depicted with red eyes, albeit Chara is only depicted with red eyes in fan artwork.
* Both "life cores" (SOUL and Pneuma Core, respectively) have red as part of their coloration.
* Both of them like chocolate, albeit Chara is just implied to like chocolate, while that Kara is shown having a liking to chocolate explicitly.

Her star sign is Scorpio.

She shares her birthdate with the real-life painter Claude Monet, as well as numerous notable figures such as Astrid Lindgren, William Steig, Hussein of Jordan, the Crown Prince of Dubai, and most notably, Charles, Prince of Wales.

* This serves as the base for the fact that she is a royalty, the heir to the throne of her kingdom, as well as her fondness in literature and arts.
* Her birthday can have a demonic meaning: A common way to write her birthday is 11/14, which can be written as 12/14, and adding up these numbers (12 + 14), can get 15 (XV), the number of the Devil tarot card. Interestingly, Chara's tarot card is Major Arcana XV, the Devil. For more information of the image of the card, see here.

She is left-handed.

Her blood type is type A+.

Her favorite food is chocolate, as hinted above.

* She shared this trait with all other Incarnations of the Great One (including Allister), due to the first Incarnation, Milu, an ancient Mayan priest, is fond of cocoa drinks, the precursor to hot chocolate, which in turn is the precursor to bar chocolates.

She shares many traits with most of the members from Team RWBY from *RWBY*.

Out of all members from Team RWBY, she shares most traits with Ruby Rose. Evidences of this include:

* Both characters share the same view of moral justice.
* Both characters wield red and black-colored bladed weapons. However, Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose, are entirely colored red and black and is a multi-purpose weapon that is most commonly depicted as a scythe, while that Kara's weapon, the Hecelpis, is a Bowie knife that also has a golden hilt, aside from a black handle and a red blade.
* Both have older half-sisters. And her older half-sister, Leila, shares many traits with Ruby's half-sister, Yang.
* Both have short neck-length hair that is colored in colors of the natural human hair colors group. However, Ruby's hair showed color gradient, while that Kara's doesn't. Their hairstyles are also somewhat different. However, Ruby's hair in the very first chapters of *RWBY* did not display color gradient, similar to Kara's.
* Both of them have a heroic lineage whose identification trait is their eye color. They also have lineages which is said to be originating from a deity.
* Both have the same sense of leadership towards their teammates.
* Both shares the same star sign, Scorpio. (Ruby's birthdate is on October 31st, while that Kara's is on November 14th, which fall under the star sign Scorpio).
* Both of their birthdays have negative cultral connotations: Ruby's birthday is on Halloween, a day which is associated with the supernatural and the evil, while that Kara's birthday is on November 14, which contains the number "4", a number that is considered unlucky by East Asians.
* Their height is almost the same, with Ruby at 162 cm (as of Volume 7), and Kara's at 163 cm.
* Both are fond of sweet things. In Ruby's case these are cookies and strawberries, while that Kara's is chocolate.
* Both are left-handed, albeit they can use their right hand as easy as their left hand for some reasons, in Ruby's case it is wielding her weapon, and in Kara's case is writing. This implies trained ambidexterity.
* Both are the leading protagonists of their respective series.
* Both are the leaders of their respective hero units.
* Both have red as their theme color.

She also shares the second most traits with Blake Belladonna. Evidences of this include:

* Both are half-cat animal humanoids.
* Both have short hair with the (somewhat) same length. However, Blake only have short hair starting from Volume 7.
* Both are introverts with cool personalities.
* Both are ostracized because of their animal traits.
* Both have the ability to create copies of theirselves.
* Both have the fond of books.
* Both of them only become conversant if anyone is discussing about a topic that they like.
* Both of their hair colors are of the colors that are in the natural human hair colors group.
* Both are children of the leaders of a nation, albeit that Blake's father, Ghira, is just the leader of a settlement for minorities, with the same purpose as a ghetto, as the Faunus, the race that Ghira and Blake belong to, are discriminated by humans, similar to how Jews are discriminated by many in world's history.

She shares the least traits with Weiss Schnee. Evidences of this include:

* Both are children of prestiguous families.
* Both have been taught about fighting skills since they were young.
* Both wears a pendant in their casual outfits. However, Weiss's pendant is only present in her original outfit, which she wore when she was still in Vale.
* Both have younger male siblings that have slightly similar appearances. However, Weiss' brother is still alive, while that Kara's brother had died shortly before the events of the series, but he could be considered alive again as now his Pneuma Core is placed inside the body of Rougelune, giving him a chance to live again.
* Both are left-handed.

She also shares some traits with Emerald Sustrai from *RWBY*. Evidences of this include:

* Both have short hair of the (somewhat) same length, and their hairstyles are quite similar to each other.
* Both have red eyes.
* Both have the ability to create hallucinations.
* Emerald's normal outfit resembles Kara's default Monster Slayer outfit.

She also shares many traits with Anna Akagi from *Kiratto Pri Chan*. Evidences of this include:

* Both are the children and the heiresses to a wealthy family.
* Their fathers are intimidated by their wives.
* The style of the outfits in their brand is lolita-inspired.
* Their personalities make them seem like an archetypical *tsundere*.
* Both have red as one of their theme colors.

She also have some similarities with Yurika Toudou from *Aikatsu!*. Evidences of this include:

* Both of them believe that they are supernatural creatures. In fact, Cara is supernatural at start, while that Yurika is just pretending to be one.
* They have somewhat similar personalities, and can be *tsundere* at times.
* Both of them wears horror-themed outfits.

She also shares some similarities with Seira Otoshiro from *Aikatsu!*. Evidences of this include:

* Both have November birthdays, being just three days apart.
* Both share the same star sign, Scorpio.
* They both appear to be confident, but in fact shy and humble.
* Both have sweet things as their favorite food. In Seira's case it is baked cheesecake, while that Kara's is chocolate.
* Both of their names are written in katakana and end with "ra". Interestingly, their names have the same number of kana.

She shares many traits with Alicia Charlotte from *Aikatsu Friends!*. Evidences of this include:

* They are princesses of their respective kingdoms, and they are both heirs to the throne of their respective kingdoms.
* Both share the same blood type, type A.
* Both use gothic brands that have a regal motif.
* Both have short hair with the (somewhat) same length. Their hairstyles are somewhat similar.
* Alicia's surname, Charlotte, can be shortened into Chara, which in turn can also written as Cara, which can then be spelled as Kara, which is the name of Kara.
* Both are said to have a unique atmosphere of beauty.
* Both are born under Water signs.
* Both of their favorite food (s) are normally eaten by the rich. In Alicia's case it is fondue, and in Kara's case is chocolate. It alludes to the fact that fondue is often served at fancy parties and have its own etiquette rules about how to eat it, which makes people bring a fancy and regal atmosphere to mind, while that chocolate is used to be only affordable by the wealthy. Also, today, there are still some chocolate of certain brands and categories that are only affordable by the wealthy.
* Both have younger male siblings.
* Both shares their birthdate with a member of royalty. In Alicia's case it is The Emperor's Birthday, the birhday of the reigning Emperor of Japan, while that Kara's birthday is on November 14th, the birthdate of Charles, Prince of Wales, as said above.

She shares many traits with Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn from *Sailor Moon*. Evidences of this include:

* Both have short hair of somewhat the same length. Their hairstyles are also somewhat similar. However, Kara's hairstyle as a magical warrior is different from her civilian form, while that Hotaru's hairstyle is kept intact even when she transforms into a magical warrior.
* Kara's personality somewhat matches Hotaru's personality in *Sailor Moon S*.
* Both are the strongest members in their teams.
* Both have the same magical abilities, which is related to death and destruction.
* Both have bladed weapons as the weapon of their choice. In Hotaru's case it is a glaive, while that Kara's is a knife.
* Both are hosts of a powerful entity.
* Hotaru's fear of Mistress 9 taking control over her body is similar to Kara's fear of Allister (who is the other Incarnation of the Great One) taking control over her body.
* Both have aliases which have any form of the word "silence" in it.
* Both of their attacks, if used in full power, could bring great destruction to the surroundings.
* Hotaru's appearance is slightly similar to Allister's appearance, and her personality is somewhat similar to Allister. Allister also have a relationship with Kara, who has some similarities to Hotaru as said above, and thus this even supports the connection between Hotaru's and Kara's similarities.

She also bears many similarities to Aroma Kurosu from *PriPara*. Evidences include:

* Both have similar personalities.
* Both of their birthdays bear a demonic meaning.
* Both have somewhat similar appearances: Both have brown hair (albeit Aroma's is darker than Kara's), and Aroma's eye color can be the color negative of Kara's (blue and red).
* Both prefer gothic-themed brands.
* Both are cool idols.
* Both are members of a trio. Unsurprisingly, the personalities of the members in their respective trios are similar to each other.

She also bears many similarities to Laura Sakuraba from *Aikatsu Stars!*. Evidences include:

* Both of them are Scorpios, with their birthdays are only ten days apart.
* Both are addressed differently from other characters by their friends.
* Their eye colors are colors that belonged to the primary colors group.
* Both of their names ended with the syllable "ra". Unsurprisngly, their names have the same number of kana.
* Their height are somewhat similar, with the difference at only 9 cm.
* Both have the same blood type, type A.
* Both are cool type idols.
* Both come from lines of V.I.P.s.

She also bears many similarities to the main protagonist of *The Legend of Korra*, Korra. Evidences include:

* Her appearance is similar to Korra's appearance in *Book Four: Balance*.
* Both have somewhat similar names.
* Both are incarnations of a deity or spirit.
* Both are females.
* Both have the ability to manipulate all four classical elements.
* Both have a relative that is antagonistic to them.
* Both are children of the leader of ehtnic groups.

She also bears many similarities to Mahiru Kasumi from *Aikatsu Stars!*. Evidences include:

* Both are Scorpios.
* Both have a mature personality.
* Both of them can be tsundere (cool at most times, but can show kindness at times).
* The difference between their height is just at 1 cm, with Mahiru at 162 cm, and Kara at 163 cm., and thus, their height is somewhat similar.
* Both have older female siblings.
* Both of their eye colors are in the warm color spectrum.
* Both of them like chocolate.
* Both them and their older sisters share their idol types, with the Kasumi sisters being sexy-type idols, and Kara and Leila are cool-type idols.
* Both are children of V.IP.s.
* Both their and their sisters' name have opposite meanings: Leila's name means "dark" or "night" in Hebrew and Arabic, while that Kara's name means "beloved" in Cornish, and thus symbolizes love. In Western culture, the night and darkness often represent hate, while that the daytime and light often represent love, which is the meaning of Kara's name. Similarly, Mahiru and Yozora's names also refers to day and night.

She bears some similarities to the *Touhou* character Youmu Konpaku. Evidences include:

* Youmu and Kara's appearances are somewhat similar: Both have short hair, having the appearance of that of a teen-aged girl, both wear black Mary Janes and white socks.
* Youmu and Kara are both half-human, half-supernatural beings.
* Both are skilled at fighting with bladed weapons, in Youmu's case, it is swordfighting, while that Kara's is fighting with a knife.
* Both have a ghost companion.

She also bears many similarities to the *Touhou* character Sakuya Izayoi. Evidences include:

* Her appearance seems to based on Sakuya's appearance in *Double Dealing Character*.
* Her eye color could be considered as a color negative of Sakuya's eye color. However, Sakuya is also depicted with red eyes in some situations, such as in some segments in her spell cards in *Embodiment of Scarlet Devil*, or in an illustration of Sakuya by ZUN, the creator of *Touhou Project*.
* Both fight with a knife/set of knives.
* Both have elegant personalities.
* Both uses humble speech when speaking to certain people, and less formal speech to others.

She also bears many similarities to the character Nezuko Kamado from *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba*. Evidences include:

* Both are part monstrous-beings. However, Nezuko is reverted back into a full human at the end of the *Kimetsu no Yaiba* manga.
* Both are known to have the ability to change from their human-like forms to their monstrous form. However, Kara is yet to be seen with this ability, and this ability of hers is set to appear in Season 2, not Season 1 of the anime.
* Both have an older sibling who cares for them and are members of a faction that kills monstrous beings.
* Both are mainly silent.
* Their heights are somewhat similar, with the difference only at 10 cm.