Kyoko Sakura

### Catchphrase

If you are just living for your own sake, it's all up to you. No hard feelings. No regrets.

## Biographal Infomation

### Age

13 (S3)
14 (S4-S7)
15 (S8-S11)
17 (S12)
22 (S13; appearance in S14)

## Magic Information

### Harmony/Cutie Mark

A dark wine-red rhombus-shaped spear with two gems on the hilt

## Forms

### Witch Form

Ophelia

**Kyoko Sakura** (佐倉杏子, ***Kyoko Sakura***?) is one of the main characters of Seasons 3-13 of *Guardians of Harmony*. She is an aggressive, tomboyish, and self-centered "jerk with a heart of gold" who truly cares about her friends.

## Bio

### Appearance

Kyoko has long, raspberry red hair which is usually seen up in a high ponytail tied by a black ribbon. She has a set of risen bangs which frame her equally with *tsurime* red eyes. Her Harmony Mark is a dark wine-red rhombus-shaped spear with two gems on the hilt, one bright red and one gold.

In her debut season (Season 3), she is seen with a bright red sleeveless top, black shorts, a dark blue denim vest with silver fur around the collar, and olive green flats with tan socks. As a civilian from Seasons 4-7, she wears a red top with ruffled rust red sleeves, brown shorts, and orange sneakers with red and white socks. In Seasons 8-11, she wears a red and white tank top, vermillion sweatpants, and beige flats. In Season 12, she wears a black crop-top under a dark red hoodie which is unzipped at the bottom (leaving her belly button exposed), red leggings with white fur around the top of it and black below-the-knee boots. Her outfit is changed once more in Season 13 to a slightly dark red V-neck top with elbow-length sleeves, white leggings, and brown loafers.

In her Guardian of Harmony form, she wears a maroon dress with an opening for her Harmony Gem and a mandarin collar attached to it. The borders of her dress are covered with thick white frills that cover the opening of her dress and the back. She wears white bicep length sleeves with black buttoned cuffs around her wrists. Underneath, she wears a pleated magenta skirt and a black corset with white detailing. She wears tall red boots with white cuffs and white symbols just underneath which match the opening on her top, and black thigh-high tights. Her Harmony Gem. shaped like an oval, is located at her upper chest, while her Elemaximum Gauge, which takes on the shape of 5 triangles, is located on her belly.

In her Stage 5 form, her hair grows down to her ankles and she has an off shoulder, poofy dark red dress with ribbon loops on her shoulders and a black corset. She has opera-length red fingerless gloves, white tights underneath and black thigh-length boots with red diamond gems on the toes. She has the same wing style as Stage 5 Madoka, but colored red.

### Personality

Kyoko can be somewhat stubborn but she has a fiery and tomboyish personality. She can be self-centered when she wants to be, though this is just a facade she made to herself and to others. In reality, Kyoko is kind and sympathetic when she sees those who are close to her in trouble. After losing her entire family due to the wish she had made for her father, she promised to never sacrifice herself for others as she believes that it would only end in tragedy. It is thought that she was afraid of getting herself hurt again, as well as the people she cared for the most. Kyoko appeared to be very rude at first, and would often get into fights, almost killing Sayaka during a battle due to her own rage. However she proved she was actually someone with good intentions. Kyoko is initially threatening and vicious towards Sayaka, however this is later because Kyoko has made the same mistake Sayaka had made and is unable to watch her suffer any longer. Kyoko is very good at masking and internalizing her feelings to come off as a strong Guardian. If somecreature annoys her or does something stupid, she will not hesitate to try and attack them out of impulse.

After Kyoko's father lost supporters, she and her family almost starved, which is the believed reason she loves food so much and hates those who waste it. She also threatens to kill anyone who wastes food.

### Relationships

* **Madoka Kamane**: Madoka and Kyoko have a weird relationship. They seem to get along more than the others do with the latter, but they don't seem to agree on most things. While Kyoko likes to battle things out, Madoka talks things out, making them contradicting opposites.
* **Mami Tomoe**: Mami and Kyoko are seen to be very close in Season 3, but they then got into a fight which led to the breakdown of their team and their separation, although the conflict wasn't resolved until Season 5. Kyoko does seem to care a little about her old friend, as seen where she manages to conjure a Grief Seed optical illusion to convince Mami that she has recovered from their second fight, saving Mami from a fall of despair into Candeloro. In "The Multiversal Crisis!", Kyoko flies into a rage when Mami is kidnapped and earns her Stage 5 for saving her, and refers to her as "[her] precious Mami-chan." Near the end of the same episode, she finally manages to confess her feelings to her.
* **Sayaka Miki**: These two fight a lot since they have completely different morals, ideologies and the ways of doing things, including their personalities. But they seem to resolve their broken relationship later after Homura Akemi and Madoka talked with them. Kyoko, as revealed in one episode, liked Sayaka because she reminded her of why she became a Guardian of Harmony: Kyoko loved stories where love and courage prevail.
* **Homura Akemi**: One way or another, these two are close behind their thick walls, with Homura being the first to actually talk some sense into Kyoko after their first actual conversation in the show's main timeline.
* **Rainbow Dash**: Kyoko and Rainbow Dash become friends in Season 13 due to their similar personalities, and quickly become best friends. They are often seen having informal racing competitions, though they sometimes clash and get into heated arguments, but always make up at the end of the day.
* **Ella Ticcster**: At first, they had a really hard time getting along, but eventually they become good friends. The two of them got into the same fight with Mami, however, that later caused them to break up their friendship and take seperate paths. This conflict was resolved in Season 6, after Mami remosely apologized to Ella.

### Etymology

* The first character for Sakura (佐) means "to help" while the second (倉) means "warehouse." Though, her last name sounds the same as (桜) "Cherry Blossoms."
* Her first name (杏子) means "Apricot tree".

## Magical Abilities

In her Guardian of Harmony form, Kyoko possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, and invulnerability to physical damage.

Kyoko's is able to magically use psychic powers to hypnotize enemies or put them into a trance-like state for a short time. She is able to create copies of herself to fool the enemy in combat (similar to Double Team) and this ability seems to carry over to her witch form, Ophelia, and can also create optical illusions. However, unlike her origin anime, her purification finisher Rosso Phantasma is separate from this. Her weapon, a spear, can be used to land strikes on the enemy or stab them, but it can also split apart into a chain-like state, which she can use to wrap up enemies and throw them around or simply hold them still. She is also able to create walls out of red diamonds which serve as a form of protection or as an ability to trap enemies. Kyoko can enchant inanimate objects (much like Flora's ability to bring stuffed animals and other objects to life) to use them for battle by granting them powers or granting them sentience, or both (as shown when she enchanted a pair of binoculars to turn them into a sentient binocular-shaped battle mecha).

## Guardian of Harmony

Kyoko is the Guardian of Acceptance. She is a Normal/Psychic/Ghost Elemental whose Element of Harmony is Loyalty, and her theme color is red. Her weapon is a spear.

### Transformation

Kyoko holds up her Harmony Gem and shouts "Miracle Engage!", causing them Gem to glow and activate. She then puts her Harmony Gem close to her Power Necklace and as soon as the Necklace activates as well, the screen is engulfed in a white light.

### Attacks

* **Rosso Phantasma** - Her main purification finisher.
* **Inanimate Enchantment** - A combat spell of hers used to enchant an inanimate object to help her fight.
* **Rain of Rhombuses** - A damaging sub-attack of hers.
* **Sguardo Ipnotico** - One of her combat spells used to hypnotize the enemy into a trance temporarily.

## Pokémon

* Gastly (Gretchen)
* Bisharp (Laurie)
* Ninja Dragonet (Radish)

## Trivia

* Her wish is to make everyone listen seriously to what her dad says.
* Like the GoH counterparts of her fellow magical girls, her hair and eyes don't change much.
* She is almost always seen eating something. As a running gag, this leads to a lot of close ups of her mouth.
* She can't swim.
* In one episode of Season 3, she brings a sack of apples, which she picks in the PMMM Cake Song.
* In Season 13, she becomes great friends with Rainbow Dash due to their similar personalities and having the same Element of Harmony.
* Kyoko was originally planned to be a Fire Elemental, but this was changed once it was realized her powers don't revolve around fire at all.
* She keeps an enormous stash of snacks, canned foods, and emergency foods such as powdered Moomoo Milk in her backpack, due to her extreme love of food. She doesn't like sharing it with others due to this, but will if she has to.
* She is usually seen with a Pocky (a type of Japanese snack) stick in her mouth,