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Ruby Sulphur Trio (Boscha Urodela [Boschazens]) | The Boiling Isles (Skara Brae, Amity Blight) | Infinity Train (Denizens, The Apex, Red Lotus Trio [Koharu Sakuragi], Zenith Fantasy, Hazel) | Pokémon World | Azura The Good Witch

Skara Brae

A Hexside student who studies in the Bard track, and is also Boscha's Only Friend.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: This is more or less the reason behind people's perception of her as an extension of Boscha; since when she's not blindlingly following orders, she's standing at the sidelines with a little smile. Skara's guilty of not doing anything to stop Boscha, therefore she's just as bad as her.
• Ace Custom: Sometime between Chapters 3 and 4, she created some kind of wand-flute hybrid that she uses for her Bard track exam.
• Achilles' Heel: As a Bard, Skara's main method of magic is by playing her flute. Take that away from her, and she's effectively helpless.
• Achievements in Ignorance: In trying to summon a mandragora for Willow, she accidentally summons its bigger, meaner, Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever version, the Dire Mandragora.
• Action Survivor: She doesn't have the physical prowess of someone like Boscha, so the most she can do is dodge and provide support.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: She's got a lot more baggage on herself here than in canon, in no small part because of her connection with Boscha; she's demeaned, insulted, and just all around treated badly because of it to the point she quits the Boiling Isles to get a break.
  • And then Chapter 22 reveals her mother was raped by Amity's father, Alador Blight, meaning she's not only related to the Blight family, but that the person who hurt her the most and drove her out of the Isles was her own sister.
• Adaptational Badass: Not only does she sport her canon self's musical prowess, but after her Forced Transformation into a half-Griffin monster, she gains avian wings that allow her to fly, alongside a Palisman.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Somewhat. In canon, she calls Boscha and Amity both "her besties" and seems to be oblivious to the vitriol between Boscha and Amity, and the latter's dislike of her. In here, she's well aware of both the vitriol and dislike, though she's still too ignorant for her own good.
• Adaptational Karma: By the end of season one, Skara and her friends never really paid any consequences for pulling their pranks under Boscha's orders. In here, Skara and the posse were eventually tracked back as the source of the tentacle bombs, although Skara's the only one who was sent to detention.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original series, she claimed Boscha and Amity were both her besties while inviting them to her birthday party. In this story, Boscha's her only bestie, and she can barely even stand being near Amity.
• All of the Other Reindeer: She's not particularly popular among her classmates, primarily because she chooses to associate with Boscha of all people.
• All Webbed Up: Her half-Griffin form lets her shoot webs, which she uses to cover and capture everybody in the hallway when she transforms.
• Ambiguously Gay: She doesn't interact with guys very often, and when she does, it's strictly in a platonic sense. Meanwhile, not only does she have no problem kissing Luz, but she also confesses her love for Boscha when the latter contacts them after being brought back to life, with the implication that it's romantic in nature.
• An Arm and a Leg: While she doesn't outright lose it, Amity accidentally breaks Skara's arm when trying to get her to stop ignoring her. Needless to say, this further sours her when Amity tries to apologize later.
• An Ice Person: She has Luz give her one of her ice glyphs to create some icy structures to strike the Salamanders. She latter makes an even bigger wall of ice to keep the Salamanderoids away from her and King as they search for what they were looking for.
• Animal Motifs: Birds. Her Palisman is shaped like a bird, she gains bird wings after her Griffinization wears off, and the doll she's gifted during Chapter 20 is said to look like a bird.
• Artificial Hybrid: She's transformed into a half-Griffin creature after drinking the Healing Potion meant for Puddles, and then becomes a Witch-Griffin hybrid once it wears off.
• Armor-Piercing Response: During Chapter 19, Prometheus tries to convince Skara to stop her little street music shows, arguing that they can't help save both the Weaks and Nothings of the Boiling Underworld. Skara shoots back she's at least trying to help them, causing Prometheus to pause before taking a sterner tone of voice.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Gives one to Amity when the Blight becomes rather upset when her apology is rejected; asking her if she'd ever bother to apologize to her properly if Luz and Willow weren't there to push her to it. Amity has no response.
• Assurance Backfire: She tries to cheer Luz up while she's angsting about the exclusive books of the Azura series by claiming she can always claim to be the second biggest fan. Luz doesn't take it well.
• Ascended Extra: She was even more of an extra than Boscha in canon, lacking A Day in the Limelight like her. In here, she's pretty much the Deuteragonist for the Boiling Isles' half of the story, either playing a big role or being the one the side focuses on.
• Awful Truth: Her mother was raped by Alador Blight, Amity's father, making her and Amity half-sisters. Not only that, but Persephone was so traumatized by the ordeal that, once Skara was old enough, not only did she relinquish custody to Warden Wrath, but used Mind Magic to make her forget who she was, and take on a brand new identity.
  • The Origin Story Car adds that not only is she descended from Azura, but that she created the Heinz Hybrid that is Boscha and then had Persephone brand her with a servitude glyph, ensuring she'd be essentially a slave to the Brae family and Skara.
• Bastard Angst: As she eventually reveals to Alador, the nature of her birth ( Alador raped Skara's mother, Persephone, and she was born out of wedlock) makes her believe that he might see her as lesser, especially compared to Amity. Alador is quick to say otherwise.
• Beta Bitch: She's Boscha's Only Friend, and accompanies her wherever she goes, whether she's bullying someone or minding her own business. This has caused her fellow students to see her with distrust, believing she's just as bad as her friend.
• Berserk Button: Don't damage her flute. Amity learned this the hard way.
• Best Friend: Boscha claims Skara's this to her when she begs King Lartsa to teach her Astral Magic. Granted, she doesn't have much competition to begin with, being Boscha's Only Friend, but it's still significant given this is Boscha we're talking about.
• Best Friend Manual: If there's anybody in the Boiling Isles that understands Boscha, it's Skara, which she proves when she explains Luz how Boscha's thought process actually works.
• Beneath the Mask: In public, Skara carries herself as a cheerful Bard student to whom nothing can upset. Looking beyond this surface, however, reveals a deeply troubled girl who's got a lot of baggage on her shoulders.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Skara's one of the nicest students in Hexside, but that doesn't mean she's a pushover. Just ask Amity, who got a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from her.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason Skara's got such a high opinion of Boscha? Back when she was younger, she was just a "Nothing" in the Boiling Underworld that was set to be slaughtered with the rest of her group. Then the Urodelas arrived, and not only did Boscha pick Skara out of all of the Nothings there, but then did the seemingly Impossible Task of having her turn from a Nothing, into a Weak.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. People think that, because she's often seen around Boscha, she's just as bad as her. The truth is, while she's a little rough around the edges, she's as nice as she seems.
• Big Sister Bully: The reveal that she's Amity's half-sister retroactively makes her this, since even if Amity started, Skara herself kept fighting back, even mind controlling her at one point.
• Bifurcated Weapon: What her Ace Custom is; she can split and use the wand and flute separately.
• Blind Obedience: Going by what she tells Jerbo when he points out the tentacle balloon she threw landed at her house, Skara never really questioned Boscha's orders, instead simply doing whatever she was told to do with little regard for the consequences.
• Bookworm: Implied: while looking through the Mana Academy library, Boscha comes across a compendium of the Good Witch Azura series, and mentions Skara likes the series. Then confirmed when Skara decides to pass time by reading a book before entering Amity's memories.
• Boring, but Practical: Compared to Boscha's insane firepower, and Amity's prodigious control over Abominations, Skara's use of Magic Music via her flute is rather lackluster in comparison. However, she's skilled and creative enough to pull her weight around.
• Book Snap: Once Amity brings up Skara's mistakes after they had just had a nice moment, Skara slams the book she was reading shut and puts it on the table, at which point Amity realizes she messed up.
• Born Unlucky: She was born in the Boiling Underworld, which sucks on its own, but she was also born a "Nothing": AKA the caste of those in the Underworld who are the absolute weakest there is, and as she confesses, don't get past childhood before the Boiling Underworld melts them away. Luckily, the Urodelas and Boscha came along.
• Break the Cutie: Skara's entire arc in Act 1 is an exercise in agony: she not only loses her best friend, who was also the only reason people left her alone, but she becomes a Bully Magnet of great proportions, with just about everybody holding her responsible for Boscha's crimes. Then, she has to come face to face with the fact Amity, one of the most popular students in Hexside and also the only other person she considered a friend, not only wants nothing to do with her, but is the biggest abuser of the lot, constantly beating her up and demanding forgiveness from her for things that were Boscha's fault. By the end of Chapter 14, she's so broken that she decides enough is enough, and leaves the Boiling Isles so people stop harassing her.
• Brought Down to Normal: Her half-Griffin form is explicitly stated to be only temporary, and once it wears off, she turns back to normal. Well, mostly.
• Bully Magnet: Being best friends with Boscha + Boscha having over a dozen enemies + Boscha going missing = Skara becoming the target of her best friend's victims' Revenge by Proxy.
• Butt-Monkey: From being mocked and harassed, to nearly Eaten Alive, Skara just doesn't have the best of luck.
• Caged Bird Metaphor: Birds are her animal motif, and during Act 2, she's currently trapped in the Boiling Underworld, her original homeworld. There's also a side of Gilded Cage to it, since not only is she living with her mother, but the cell she's staying at is more or less a normal room rather than a prison cell.
• Calling the Old Man Out: During "Nothing is the Same", when Alador asks Skara to talk to him, she takes the opportunity to call him out on everything, from his rape of her mother, Persephone, to the passivity and silence he showed after the fact.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: She makes a point to always refer to her biological father, Alador Blight, by his first name alone.
• Child by Rape: Her mother, Persephone, was raped by Alador due to Odalia's machinations several years before the story happened.
• Comically Small Bribe: In order to get the herb she needs for a potion, Skara decides bribe the fairy at the counter by... promising not to reveal her latest food-based fanfiction to her father. Given who said father is, however, it's also a case of Shame If Something Happened.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: She was born and raised on the hellhole that's the Boiling Underworld, so she's barely even fazed when she's served organs from deceased people during lunch at the Urodela Mansion.
• Crazy Enough to Work: What does Skara do for her Bard track exam? Initially play one melody before mixing all three melodies she knows, bringing in fairies, elves, and Mandragoras so that the Bat Queen has a varied feast.
• Crippling Overspecialization: As a Bard student, Skara primarily uses Magic Music as a Magical Flutist who's creative and knowledgeable enough about music to make up her weakness. However, due to the way magic is enforced in the Boiling Isles, this is the only thing she can do. If she, for some reason, can't play her flute fast enough, she's practically helpless.
• Cute Bookworm: Like said above, she's a fan of the Azura the Good Witch series, and she's as cute as a button.
• Daddy's Girl: She gets along really well with her adoptive father, Warden Wrath. It gets downplayed with her biological father, Alador Blight, who she gets along with just fine.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • Of the Innocent Beta Bitch. Skara acts like Boscha's Beta Bitch after Amity left the posse, which caused people to assume she was just as bad as Boscha because nobody else could stand her. However, Skara is a legitimate Nice Girl, but this ultimately means nothing to most of her classmates because they just assume she's lying, especially because she refuses to cut ties with Boscha.
  • Also of the Satellite Character. Skara spent so much time near Boscha that people eventually began to see her as nothing but an extension of her, which was then used as an excuse to bully her as a roundabout way to get back at Boscha.
  • And of course, she deconstructs the Neutral Female. Whenever Boscha and Amity had an argument, or just didn't get along, Skara would stand at the sidelines and not get involved. This, naturally, leads to her getting called out by everybody, who declare her an Accomplice by Inaction.
  • In-Universe Catharsis is also deconstructed. Everybody who Boscha's ever hurt decides to use Skara as their stress relief. Naturally, having the entire world against her becomes incredibly stressful for Skara, to the point she outright leaves the Isles to get away from it all.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Skara's been through the wringer so much without Boscha nor any support by her side that she goes as far as go to the black market and risk her academic career just for a chance to have somebody see her as herself, and not an extension of Boscha.
• Delayed Reaction: It takes her a moment to reply (as in scream) to Willow after nearly being swallowed by the Dire Mandragora.
• Desk Sweep of Rage: After her Book Snap and Amity tries to ignore her Kick the Dog moment, Skara promptly sweeps the table clean of contents before snapping at Amity.
• Dissonant Serenity: It's quite morbid to think she talks about her horrific past (being born as a Nothing in a world that melts and kills them before they get past childhood) with a rather calm tone.
• Don't Look At Me: Skara covering herself with her wings once she recognizes Luz in her half-Griffin form has shades of this.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Skara struggles to understand why people are willing to give Amity a chance to improve, but not her or Boscha. She never stops to consider that Amity is capable of actually ACTING sorry for what she’s done. Boscha is basically a Person of Mass Destruction and such a Social Darwinist that the BEST result someone could by confronting her is smug satisfaction that she obviously succeeded in toughening her victims up. Skara, meanwhile, has no excuse except that she was Just Following Orders in bullying people, and keeps trying to paint Boscha as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold no matter how many people tell Skara she’s a monster.
• Dumb Is Good: Skara's more oblivious than outright dumb, but she does have a bad habit of making some boneheaded decisions, and is a genuine Nice Girl in comparison to Boscha. She gets a reality check in Chapter 14.
• Dumbass No More: After being incredibly oblivious though the entire story, Chapter 14 has her get a reality check in that the Boiling Isles isn't the best place to stay at right now, and that Amity simply isn't worth the trouble to befriend, causing her to not only drop her obliviousness, but grow a spine as well.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Just about nobody gives her the time of day due to her connection with Boscha, and because they'd rather use her as In-Universe Catharsis instead, which she takes a clear issue with. This is one of the many factors that convinces her to leave the Boiling Isles at the end of Chapter 14.

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• Eaten Alive: Narrowly Averted. After accidentally summoning a Dire Mandragora, she's swallowed by it before she can drive it away and is in the process of being digested before Willow kills the beast.
• Eating Lunch Alone: This is how Willie finds her, eating all by herself with... a few bruises.
• Eye Scream: Amity shoves an icicle right into her eye during their fight.
• Expy: Considering how the story is based on Blossoming Trail, she also carries many of Chloe Cerise's traits too: bullied, eats lunch alone, being an only friend (Goh for Chloe, her for Boscha) and is unable to forgive others.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes turn pidgeon-like when she transforms into a half-Griffin.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After deciding to leave the Boiling Isles Skara removes her headband and lets her hair down, proving she's not staying on the Isles anymore.
• Famous Ancestor: As revealed in The Origin Story Car, she's q descendant of Azura. Unfortunately, she finds this out in the worst way possible...
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Loyalty: Once Boscha helped her go from a Nothing to a Weak and treated her nicely afterwards, Skara stuck to her side ever since. Not only did this give Boscha a lot of heartache when she realized what a terrible person she was, but Skara became targeted by those she hurt as a makeshift scapegoat for all her crimes.
  • Obedience: Whatever Boscha said, Skara would do it without question, no matter how morally reprehensible it actually was. This just served as further fuel to make her into a scapegoat for those Boscha wronged.
  • Ignorance: It's no secret that Skara's as oblivious as she's nice. She not only failed to see the bad blood developing between Amity and Boscha, but also turned out to be a Horrible Judge of Character, believing Boscha was a Nice Girl and Amity wanted to be friends with her, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
  • Denial: Alongside being oblivious, unless given absolutely irrefutable evidence, Skara will deny any claims given to her, especially if they paint Boscha in an unflattering manner.
  • Neutrality: Skara generally stays in the sidelines without picking a side if she can't take Boscha's, and even when she does, she still remains neutral unless she's told to do something.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: At the start of the story, we're lead to believe that Warden Wrath is her father. This is only half right; he's her adoptive father, with her biological father being Alador Blight.
• Fell Asleep Crying: At the end of Chapter 3, we cut back to Warden Wrath's house to see Skara asleep, with visible tear trails down her cheeks.
• Foil:
  • To Willow. Both of them are talented witches whose tracks weren't their initial choice: Willow got stuck in the Abomination track, where she did terribly, and it was only when Luz pulled some strings that she entered the Plant track, where her powers could bloom. Skara, meanwhile, wanted to go to the Healing track, but not only is she stuck in the Bard track, but she doesn't seem to be doing too bad there. They both also hold some anger and resentment towards Amity, but while Willow kept it bottled up to the point it boiled over, Skara doesn't even bother hiding her dislike towards her, even relishing it at times.
  • To Luz. Both of them are powerful magic casters with a sunny disposition who are associated with a controversial witch. Luz is the Token Human of Hexside, while Skara is allegedly a witch. Luz studies every single track at Hexside, while Skara sticks to one. Luz uses Wild Magic in the form of glyphs, while Skara uses Magic Music with her flute. Finally, Luz associates with Amity and is well-liked by her peers, while Skara associates with Boscha and is heavily disliked by them.
  • To Amity. While Amity was born into wealth and power, Skara was born a "Nothing" in a world that literally consumed those who weren't strong enough to live. Skara's first meeting with Boscha was relatively civil, and it made her idolize her, while Amity's first meeting with Boscha was so traumatic it's implied she blocked the memory of it, and it convinced her that Boscha was a hopeless psychopath. While both flak for their failed friendship with Boscha, but while Skara's flak comes from doing nothing, Amity's flak comes from doing something that only made things worse. And while both assume a Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid form, Amity's wasn't intentional, and it took a few moments for it to appear, with it being implied that it can be undone. Skara, meanwhile, willingly drank the potion meant for Puddles and transformed immediately, and Even after turning back to normal, Eda says she's gonna retain Griffin traits for the rest of her life.
  • To Daiki Chienen from the prequel story, "Melancholy Afterlife". Both of them are devoted to one person in particular, and they both have avian companions. But while Skara's a mentally stable individual, and her companion's a Palisman she has yet to awaken, Daiki is implied to be disturbed somehow, and his companion is a Pidove he calls Rosie.
• Forgiveness: Has an... interesting relationship with this trope.
  • She doesn't give Luz crap over the chapter 14 fiasco, arguing that what she learned from that she would've learned eventually anyway, but without any of the good intentions she had.
  • She's not so forgiving towards Amity, however. After the brutal treatment she gave her, up to and including shoving an icicle through her head and giving her a Breaking Speech, Skara winds up so sick and tired from dealing with her she states matter-of-factly that she can't bear stand near her.
  • She has no interest in forgiving Alador anytime soon, partially because she still needs time to process it, but also because he not only raped her mother, even if he was brainwashed into doing it, but never even lifted a finger to help in the decade and a half of her life. She later extends this to her mother after finding out how she enslaved Boscha.
  • Eventually, however, she make peace with all of the above and forgives them for what happened once she realizes the situation isn't as black and white as initially perceived.
• Foreign Farewell: Coupled with "Shut Up" Kiss, this is how she says goodbye to Luz right before she tells them You Are Better Than You Think You Are and Amity arrives.
• Freak Out: She completely flips out when she returns from the Elemental Isles and retreats to her room, only to run into Azura paraphernalia that reminds her of the woman who essentially enslaved her friend.
• Friendless Background: It's implied she's just as friendless as Boscha, in this case because she associates with her.
• Fusion Dance: She's the one who shows how to use Poglypherization in the chapter of the same name, merging with a Healing glyph to heal Luz after she breaks her teeth biting an apple that turns out to be a paperweight.
• Gale-Force Sound: Her half-Griffin form upgrades her voice to such an extent that just a single roar sends Cat and Amelia packing.
• Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Downplayed. While Skara's no worse for wear after nearly being digested by the Dire Mandragora she's clearly traumatized by the experience.
• Gilded Cage: While trapped at the Boiling Underworld, Skara gets to stay in the nicest dungeon cell with her mother, who loves her dearly, and she can leave the dungeons whenever she wants for a while and interact with the people there. But she's still trapped in the Boiling Underworld, where death is a constant reminder, and the people she interacts with? Unless they're Strong, they'll either grow weak or die young.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: After being Brought Down to Normal after her transformation into a half-Griffin Skara becomes a Winged Humanoid with bird wings.
• Grew a Spine: She grows one in the second half of Chapter 14, not only deciding to spoiler: no longer be used as a stress relieving toy by everybody around her, but leave the Boiling Isles once she comes to realize how horribly toxic the place is for somebody like her.
• Guilt by Association Gag: Despite the tentacle balloon prank being traced back to Boscha's posse as a whole, Skara herself's noted to be the only one to be sent to detention.
• Hated Hometown: A variation. While she wasn't born on the Boiling Isles, she spent long enough there to consider it a second home. Even so, the events of Chapter 14 has her realize how toxic an environment it is, and she decides to get the hell out of there.
• Hates Their Parent:
  • She comes to see her biological father, Alador Blight, with nothing but scorn once the truth about what happened is revealed to her. However, once she gets a better assesment of the situation, she decides to let go off her hatred and forgive him.
  • While it happens much later, she also comes to hate her mother when it turns out she's the one who branded Boscha with a Servitude glyph, effectively making her into a slave for the Brae family. Like with Alador, though, she eventually learns to let go and forgives her.
• HA HA HA—No: This is her reaction when Luz asks if she can use her wand-flute hybrid during the Bard exam.
• Harping on About Harpies: After her brief transformation into a half-Griffin wears off, Skara becomes a Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid take on this trope, gaining a pair of avian wings afterwards.
• Handshake Refusal: When Amity offers a handshake to forgive and forget her little accusation at her earlier, Skara simply turns around and walks away.
• Heroic Bastard: Downplayed, since she's more neutral than straight up good, but she was a Child by Rape between her mother, Persephone, and Alador Blight.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: She puts on this hairstyle in order to hide her bandaged eye, while she, her mother, and Amity are getting ready to go to the Blight Ball.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Of Boscha and Amity.
  • With Boscha, her kindness towards her caused her to become blind to her flaws and growing violence, instead only seeing the same girl that helped her get out of her awful lot in life. As a result, she stood by her side against all odds, bringing a lot of heartache for both of them.
  • With Amity, she was ignorant of the fact that not only did Amity want nothing to do with either her or Boscha, but that the tension between Boscha and Amity was growing more and more intense.
• Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury: Justified, since that's the place Boscha burned by accident. She holds it again when Luz accidentally hits it after their exam.
• Irony:
  • As Boscha's Morality Pet, she's practically the only person in the Isles who could get Boscha to tone down her meanness pre-Train, and yet she never did.
  • Out of the trio between her, Amity, and Boscha, she's easily got the worst backstory, having been born a Nothing in a world that killed them before they left childhood, being the child of rape, and having her memories altered against her will, and yet she's probably the most well adjusted of the three. Quite possibly because of the memory alteration letting her being raised by an actually decent parental figure unlike Boscha and Amity.
• Identity Amnesia: Up until Chapter 22, she had no idea that she's actually the daughter of the true ruler of the Boiling Underworld, Persephone, making her the actual heir to the world instead of Boscha.
• I Am a Humanitarian: Discussed. She reveals that she was born and raised in the Boiling Underworld, and most of the food there was body parts of those who were either "Weak" or "Nothing". Luz brings up the point that this is considered cannabilism, but Skara remarks that she couldn't be picky as it was either she lives or she becomes someone else's meal.
• It's All My Fault: Averted. She refuses to consider the Mandragora incident something she's responsible for, though this is mostly done to spite Amity.
• Informed Attribute: Deconstructed. People allegedly believe that Skara's just as mean as Boscha not because she actually acts mean, but because she associates with the sociopathic madwoman that is Boscha.
• Innocent Beta Bitch: Despite what everybody else would tell you, Skara's a genuine Nice Girl who just so happens to associate with the pyromaniac that is Boscha.
• It Can Think: Her half-Griffin form initially behaves like a wild animal, but once she recognizes Luz, she immediately backs away and covers herself with her wings in shame.
• Implausible Deniability: Downplayed. No matter how many times she's told or how much irrefutable proof she's shown, Skara refuses to see Boscha as the sociopath everybody else sees her as, instead seeing a kind but flawed witch.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Skara's been depraved of so much support after Boscha went missing and she became the Isles' In-Universe Catharsis that she Desperately Craves Affection, to the point she'll do anything just to try get somebody to not hate her for once. Eventually, however, she gives up, choosing to leave the Isles rather than keep going through their crap.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Chapter 14 reveals that Skara only ever wanted to become friends with Amity, as besides Boscha, she didn't really have any friends. However, the events of the chapter has her finally give up not only on her, but the Boiling Isles.
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Her letter makes it quite clear she's come to realize leaving the Boiling Isles for the Boiling Underworld was easily the worst decision she's ever made, as she's now trapped with no way out and needs to be rescued.
• Jerkass to One: Skara is consistently nice or at least civil towards everybody she meets except for Amity, who she holds a palpable disdain towards.
• Just Following Orders: She sheepishly tries to explain her throwing a tentacle bomb at Jerbo's house as her just following Boscha's lead with no question. Jerbo nearly throws a Botanical Abomination at her in response.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The "tentacle bomb" prank she and her friends did with Boscha eventually caught up to her and her posse, though it's noted that she was the only one who was sent to detention. In particular, the bomb she threw landed at Jerbo's house, giving the boy a beef with her.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Also doubles as Expository Hairstyle Change. She removes her headband before she leaves the Boiling Isles letting her hair loose for once.
• Loving a Shadow: The more Skara talks about Boscha, the clearer it becomes that she likes her idealized version of who Boscha is, rather than the psychopath she's in reality.
• Look Behind You: Tries to pull this trick on Principal Bump and the Potions class when she's spotted in their classroom. Keyword being tries.
• Long-Lost Relative: Played for Drama. Act 2 reveals that Alador raped Skara's mother, Persephone, in order to give birth to her so Odalia could use her to gain connections to the Underworld. The drama comes from the fact that Amity and Skara learn about this not only after their relationship hit rock bottom due to their fight at Hexside, but while they're both in quite possibly the worst moment to learn about this: Skara's currently trapped in the Boiling Underworld alongside her mother, while Amity's being bombarded with Awful Truth after Awful Truth regarding everything she though she knew, while she's being kidnapped by Amirani.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Boscha didn't really let her in on the details of her plan in Chapter 1, so when said plan is put into motion, she's just as shocked about it as everybody else.
• Lost Orphaned Royalty: Skara was raised her whole life under Warden Wrath, which gave her a high position, but nothing close to royalty. It eventually turns out she's the wedlocked daughter of the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone, who was left so unwell by the rape that lead to Skara's birth that she not only abdicated the throne, but gave off Skara to be adopted by Warden Wrath, while using Mind Magic to ensure she could start anew from zero.
• Logical Weakness: As a Magical Flutist, Skara has the ability to cast Magic Music, but this comes with two obvious shortcomings:
  • She needs to know not only what type of melody she needs to play, but how to play it.
  • From the moment she remembered the melody until the tune takes effect, she's basically a sitting duck.
• Magical Flutist: She's studying in the Bard track, and a flute is her instrument of choice. Chapter 4 has her play a melody so good that she gets a Palisman from the Bat Queen herself as thanks for the feast.
• Major Injury Underreaction:
  • Boscha accidentally burns her shoulder badly enough that she needs a healing glyph and a day to rest to get better, and yet, besides grabbing her shoulder, she spends more time comforting Boscha and worrying for her safety than her burnt shoulder.
  • This returns with a vengeance in Chapter 14, where Amity unleashes an icicle right through her eye during their fight and not only does she rip it off rather casually, but manages to stand long enough to call out Amity on why she hated both she and Boscha before collapsing.
• Making a Splash: Gains the a ability to cast water magic for the Blight Ball, though unlike Amity's Shock and Awe powers, she rarely uses them, or does it more subtly (like making their thundercloud rain, or manipulating the water while she's flying with Amity.)
• Make Me Wanna Shout: Her half-Griffin form upgrades her voice to such an extent she can create a Gale-Force Sound just by roaring.
• Made of Iron: Chapter 14 makes this as clear as day: She gets an icicle thrown through her head, then messily rips it off to lose a ton of blood, then gets further beaten up physically and psychologically by Amity, who delivers a Breaking Speech that's just as savage as the one she gave Boscha. And even after all of that, she remains conscious long enough to reveal her real reasons for being so oblivious before falling unconscious.
• Mind-Control Music: She knows a few tunes that allows her to take control of certain magical creatures, like fairies and mandragoras.
• Missing Mom: We know her father's Warden Wrath (however that works), but there's no mention of her mother anywhere. We eventually do meet her in Act 2, and boy is it a whammy.
• Morality Pet: She's pretty much the only person Boscha's actually nice to. So when Boscha burns her, it stuns the fire user.
• Modest Royalty: Even after discovering she's the princess of the Boiling Underworld, Skara keeps her outfits simple and practical, with only an exposed back to cover for her new wings.

N-Z

• Nasal Trauma: When Willow finds her Eating Lunch Alone, she has both a black eye and a bleeding nose.
• Neutrality Backlash: Skara never really took a side during the tension between Boscha and Amity when they were younger. As a result, Amity's come to heavily dislike, if not outright hate her, because as the only person who Boscha listens to, she could've convinced her to stop or to cut her some slack, but didn't. Boscha's many victims follow suit, as Skara was just as neutral when they were bullied.
• Never My Fault: Skara can't seem to wrap it around her head that just because she followed Boscha's lead, doesn't mean she's completely innocent. Everytime it gets brought up, she either brings up how Boscha didn't mean to do it, or that she was Just Following Orders and didn't really mean anything.
• Nice Girl: A pretty clear contrast with Boscha, Skara's one of the most polite students in Hexside, to the point that when Boscha burns her shoulder, her first instinct is to tell her to run away.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: By the end of Act 1, Skara's essentially a griffon-winged harpy witch bard. After Chapter 22, you can also add princess to the list.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Skara has some rough edges, but she's nowhere near close to Boscha's level of malice. Unfortunately, her association with her is so prevalent that most people can't wrap their heads around it.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • Skara followed Boscha to the forest and stood by her side as she threw a temper tantrum. She got burned on her shoulder and is given no sympathy when this becomes a fact.
  • Despite thinking its a bad idea, Skara decides to help Willow train in order to prove herself. She's nearly Eaten Alive by a Dire Mandragora as a result.
  • Though she was coerced into doing it, Skara decided to try create a healing potion when she found out Boscha burned Puddles, Viney's griffin companion. She eventually drinks the potion so that Principal Bump doesn't trace it back to Viney and her friends, and she gets transformed into a half-Griffin and pelted by rocks before Viney interferes.
• Not Helping Your Case: Skara's a Nice Girl, but her insistence on following Boscha's orders, no questions asked, give people all the reason to believe she's just as bad as her. And in the case of Amity, her sassy attitude towards her gives her even more reason to believe the worst of her.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: In a moment of desperation, Skara drinks the potion meant for Puddles so Principal Bump doesn't catch her and gets Viney and her friends in trouble. This causes her to transform into a half-Griffin creature, giving her the wings, tail, and eyes of a griffin, as well as their associated powers.
• Non-Malicious Monster: The only reason she webs the Principal and several surrounding students in the hallway is because her fear of being caught and punished yet again transferred to her new form. Once she transforms and Luz and the students actually talk to her, she doesn't try to hurt anybody until she gets provoked.
• No-Respect Guy: People give her quite a lot of things, but respect is certainly not one of them. This eventually convinces her to quit the Boiling Isles.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: After her half-Griffin stage wears off, and as Eda states, Skara still retains some traits from that stage: namely, the avian wings on her back.
• Oblivious Adoption: She and Warden Wrath look so little alike it's a miracle it took so long for Skara to learn she was adopted.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: She loses so much blood after she removes the icicle Amity shot through her head it's a miracle she can still stand, let alone talk long enough to get a Breaking Speech from Amity and then get beat up even further before finally collapsing.
• Only Friend: She's Boscha's only friend, to the point that Boscha accidentally burning her is what gets Boscha onto the Infinity Train.
• Only Sane Man: Whether it's keeping Boscha from burning down the Boiling Isles, or letting Willow know how suicidal her plan actually is, Skara's quick to show she has some common sense compared to most people.
• Rage Breaking Point: Amity breaking her flute in two causes her to finally snap, and deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the Blight.
• Rags to Royalty: At the start of the story, while Skara's allegedly from a high profile family with Warden Wrath being her father and all, her standing appears to be above average at best. Come Act 2, and it's revealed she's the illegitimate daughter of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, as a result of Alador raping her. This effectively makes her the princess of the Underworld, giving her the second highest authority in the hellhole of a place beneath her mother.
• Rejected Apology: She has no interesting in accepting Amity's apology, partially because she's still sore from the whole "accusation" thing, partially because Amity's way to express it seem more backhanded than anything.
• Revenge by Proxy: The constant victim of this, since most of the people who hurt her have a beef with Boscha, and she's only seen as an extension of her.
• Refuge in Audacity: When cornered by Principal Bump and his illusions, Skara, in an attempt to stop him from tracing her potion back to Viney, drinks it right in front of him. And that's not all...
• Red Is Heroic: She wears the red uniform of the Bard track, and she's a Nice Girl compared to the Villain Protagonist that is Boscha.
• Related in the Adaptation: Her mother was raped by Alador thanks to Odalia, making her Amity, Emira, and Edric's half-sister.
• Really Royalty Reveal: Her mother, Persephone, is the actual ruler of the Boiling Underworld, making her, for all intents and purposes, a princess.
• Sassy Black Woman: She can get quite snippy and petty when she's in a sour mood, especially when Amity's involved.
• Saying Too Much: After being nearly Eaten Alive by the Dire Mandragora and getting to vent with Willow, she accidentally reveals Amity has some sort of role in Boscha becoming the massive bully she is today. However, she runs away before she reveals anything else.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Downplayed and Justified. The outfit she wears for her, Amity, and Persephone's big dance shows a bit of skin, but not as much as Persephone's, and the fact she has wings means that it needs to be backless so it doesn't get in the way.
• Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: As she eventually tells Luz, Skara was born a Nothing, practically the lowest standing in the Boiling Underworld, and Persephone outright states that she was so weak at birth she was believed to have been stillborn. Cue a visit from the Urodelas, and Boscha's encouragement and support, and Skara grew into a decent with impressive flute skills.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Chapter 14 has her finally realize how toxic an environment the Boiling Isles really is, and she decides to leave the place before it can further yank her chain.
• Shame If Something Happened: Since her father's Warden Wrath, and the fairy at the Black Market is the same one that was once imprisoned in the Conformatorium, her Comically Small Bribe to her is a very thinly veiled threat to snitch on her. And it works.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Gives one of these to Luz when she begins blaming herself for what happened at Hexside.
  • Much earlier, she gave one of these to Boscha when she was angsting about how it would be better if she left her, not only giving her Post-Kiss Catatonia, but telling her straight up that she wouldn't abandon her.
• Signature Instrument: A flute, which not only she carries around with her most of the time, but she even uses as the base for a wand-flute hybrid. Damaging it is a pretty big Berserk Button for her, as Amity can attest.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Before leaving the Boiling Isles at the end of Chapter 14, Skara ditches her Hexside uniform and instead dons a red and black dress.
• Stating the Simple Solution: When Amity asks Skara what she should do while Luz is talking with Willow and Gus, one of whom she doesn't get along with, Skara tells her point blank to just try talking to them.
• Stopped Caring: After Chapter 14, she's grown so sick and tired of Amity and the Boiling Isles' abuse of her that she simply cannot stand being near Amity's presence, or try to become her friend anymore.
• Street Musician: Has become this as a side gig as of Chapter 19. And from the looks of it, she's quite popular for it.
• Strong Family Resemblance: If she kept her eyes closed and dyed her hair completely grey, she'd be the splitting image of her mother, Persephone.
• Symbolically Broken Object: Her flute, which served as her Signature Instrument, is broken right in front of her face by Amity, who she not only treated pretty badly, intentionally or not, but who she subjected to Mind-Control Music as a Kick the Dog moment to ensure she knew her place. This leads to them duking it out until Skara and Amity spill the beans to each other, with it ending pretty much like when Amity first struck Boscha, signaling the end of what little good terms they had between them. Notably, even after Mattholomule fixes it and hands it back, Skara and Amity's relationship remains thoroughly trashed.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Skara was always joyfully oblivious to many things, from Boscha and Amity's enmity, to Amity's outright refusal to befriend her. Chapter 14 has her be stabbed in the eye with an icicle from Amity, the same person she desperately tried to befriend for so long.
• The Scapegoat: If someone has been hurt by Boscha and are unable to match her power, Skara will always be used as an scapegoat for it. It gets so bad she decides to go to the Boiling Underworld just to catch a break from it.
• Silent Scapegoat: Nope. Skara is quite vocal in her refusal to let Amity paint her as a scapegoat for the Mandragora incident.
• Skyward Scream: Lets out one of these twice in Chapter 6, first while in the process of being swallowed by the Dire Mandragora and then after Willow kills it.
• Stepford Smiler: Skara carries a smile most of the time, but that only masks the pain she feels inside.
• Support Party Member: As a Bard, her primary power is the ability to cast melodies with her flute.
• Swallowed Whole: Gets swallowed by the Dire Mandragora before she can drive it away.
• Take a Third Option: While making a potion to heal Viney's griffin's wounds, Skara's cornered by Principal Bump and his illusions and is left with two choices: Hand over the potion so it can be traced back to Viney, which would only make her think she's just as bad as Boscha, or snitch on her group to save herself, which would do the same thing. She chooses to drink it instead.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Once she realizes that what Viney has planned involves something illegal. Namely, going to the Black Market.
• This Is Unforgivable!: While she doesn't say this outright, she, unlike her mother, is in no hurry to forgive Alador for not only raping Persephone, but staying completely separate from her for the past decade and a half, even when she really needed him.
• Trauma Conga Line: Chapter 14 is this to her, bar none: First, she and Amity get sent to the principal's office when an attempt at being civil with each other turns sour. Then, thanks to a blunder, Amity snaps her flute in half before demanding an apology from her earlier stunt. Shortly after, she gets a Hope Spot in being able to beat up Amity for a moment, until she gets an icicle shoved through her eye, which is then followed by a Breaking Speech all about the Awful Truth: How Boscha only cares about her, how Amity wanted nothing to do with her and Skara, and especially how Skara's reduced herself to a stress reliever by associating with a psycho by Boscha, all before collapsing from blood loss. Is it any wonder she's utterly done by the end of the Chapter?
• Tragic Dropout: Skara decides to leave Hexside and the Boiling Isles in Chapter 14, as her bout with Amity caused her to realize how if she stayed there, the only thing she'd get is further pain and misery from people who only see her as a convenient stress reliever.
• Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Warden Wrath's her adoptive father, so who's the biological one? Alador Blight, aka Amity's father.
• Water Is Womanly: She's a Girly Girl compared to Amity and especially Boscha, and she gains water powers before the Blight Ball.
• Weak, but Skilled: A clear contrast to Boscha, who's Strong and Skilled; Skara's not particularly strong magic-wise, as shown by her difficulty in awakening her Palisman, but she more than makes up for it with her skills and wit.
• We Will Meet Again: Tells this to Amity right before she leaves the Boiling Isles and heads to the Underworld.
• What You Are in the Dark: Initially, after rejecting Amity's sincere apology, Skara walks away coming across as someone who's unflappable and unwilling to take anybody's crap. Once Luz follows her deep into the woods, Skara begins crying over the terrible day she had, revealing herself as a Stepford Smiler with a load of issues.
• Winged Humanoid: Both before and after her half-Griffin stage she gains avian wings behind her back.
• Wing Shield: Does this twice while stuck as a half-Griffin: first to stop people from looking at her, and then to shield herself from rocks thrown by Amelia and Cat.
• Worf Had the Flu: The Dire Mandragora swallows her before she can play a melody to drive it away, forcing Willow to pick up the slack.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Viney's monologue is this for her, as she tells Skara, and everybody else around her, that she's a legitimate Nice Girl who's nothing like Boscha.
  • Later, before leaving the Boiling Isles to go to the Underworld, Skara does the same for Luz, telling her that even if her Zany Scheme failed, she had much better intentions that anybody she's ever met, and that what happened would've happened eventually anyway.
  • Skara gets the receiving end of this trope again from Alador after confessing how she feels lesser given the nature of her birth: Alador makes it clear that no, he doesn't see her as lesser because of it, and that he loves her all the same.
• You Can't Go Home Again: She was born on the Boiling Underworld, but she's implied to not be supposed to ever go back to it for some reason. It's eventually revealed she's the daughter of the true ruler of the Underworld, Persephone, but Skara was sent away with Warden Wrath (and amnesia to boot) to the Boiling Isles so she could grow up in an allegedly less toxic environment. Alas, Skara eventually decides to return once she grows sick of the Isles'crap.

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