Sandbox / League of Legends: Seraphine

Seraphine, the Starry-Eyed Songstress

"Let's change the world!"

Voiced by: Michele Panu (English), Leslie Gil (Mexican Spanish), Reina Ueda (Japanese), Luiza Caspary (Brazilian Portuguese), Min-Ji Chae (Korean)
Appears In: K/DA, Legends of Runeterra

"This one's for you!"

Born in Piltover to Zaunite parents, Seraphine can hear the souls of others—the world sings to her, and she sings back. Though these sounds overwhelmed her in her youth, she now draws on them for inspiration, turning the chaos into a symphony. She performs for the sister cities to remind their citizens that they’re not alone, that they’re stronger together, and that, in her eyes, their potential is limitless.

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Seraphine is a Burst Mage/Enchanter hybrid champion who uses her music to strike down foes and support friends, her power growing stronger the more allies join in her performance.

• Her passive, Stage Presence, has two separate effects:
  • Echo replicates every third basic ability used by Seraphine, casting it again at no additional mana cost.
  • Harmony grants Seraphine and any nearby allied champions a Note when she uses an ability, up to four per champion. Seraphine's next basic attack consumes all Notes, gaining bonus range and damage for each one.
• With her first ability, High Note, Seraphine sends out a musical note that explodes at a target location, dealing damage to enemies inside based on their missing health.
• Her second ability, Surround Sound, inspires Seraphine and nearby allied champions with song, shielding them and briefly increasing their movement speed. If Seraphine is already shielded, all targets will also be healed based on their missing health, with the healing growing stronger for each ally affected by the song.
• Her third ability, Beat Drop, fires a soundwave in a target direction that damages and slows enemies it passes through. Already slowed targets will instead be immobilized, and already immobilized ones will be stunned.
• With her ultimate ability, Encore, Seraphine takes to the stage and unleashes a captivating melody in target direction that damages and briefly charms enemies in its path, forcing them to harmlessly walk towards Seraphine; the range of the melody is increased for each champion it collides with, both allied and enemy. Any allied champions struck by the melody are hyped up, instantly receiving maximum Notes.

Her alternate skins include K/DA ALL OUT Seraphine, Graceful Phoenix Seraphine, Ocean Song Seraphine, and Faerie Court Seraphine. Legends of Runeterra exclusively includes Arclight Seraphine, and Wild Rift exclusively includes Star Guardian and Mythmaker Seraphine.

In season 6 of Teamfight Tactics, Seraphine is a Tier 4 Socialite Innovator. Her Encore ability projects her song in a line towards the largest cluster of units, dealing magic damage to enemies hit while healing and increasing the attack speed of allies it passes through. She was initially removed in season 7, but returns in the Uncharted Realms mid-set update using her Prestige Ocean Song Seraphine skin as a Tier 3 Lagoon Evoker Mystic. Her Serenade of the Seas ability shields all allies in a 2-hex radius and grants their basic attacks bonus magic damage on-hit for a few seconds.

In Legends of Runeterra, Seraphine is a 2-mana 1/4 Piltover & Zaun Champion that, when summoned, creates a random new 2-cost spell (one that you haven't already played) in hand. Once you've played 9+ different spells, Seraphine levels up, gaining +1/+1 and when you play a new spell that costs 2 or less, she plays a copy of it with the same targets. Her Champion Spell is Seraphine's High Note.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Her father, the Acoustician, tenderly calls her "Ser-Bear" and Scratch, The Zaun Diva, nicknames her "Songbird", sometimes in an affectionate way, sometimes to belittle her.
• Air Guitar: Implied. While waiting for the opponent to make a play in Legends of Runeterra, she will make fun guitar noises.
• Alliterative Name: Seraphine, the Starry-Eyed Songstress, and her ability Surround Sound.
• Ambiguously Bi: She's been teasingly paired with several characters across different universes, but Riot hasn't confirmed or denied her sexuality as they're trying to build a non-heteronormative IP.
  • LoR reveals that Sera has a crush on Ekko, while her father comments she'll talk for hours about the Scratch, making the latter very flustered in response.
  • In K/DA, she seems to have some undisclosed feelings for Akali. The same week she went for a ride on Akali's motorcycle to watch the sunset and stood out all night for deep conversations with her, Sera released a cover of t.A.T.u.'s "All The Things She Said", a sapphic anthem about a girl who realized she might be into her best friend. The feelings implied weren't further explored.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: Seraphine's biography states both her parents helped her repurpose her hextech dampener into the platform, but only her father is seen working on it in LoR and her mother's status is left undisclosed.
• Animal Motifs: Swirling Pretty Butterflies are incorporated into High Note icon and projectile, and she wears wings on her back. Faerie Court predictably exploits this trait.
• Anti-Escape Mechanism: Beat Drop will slow, root and stun enemies hit, while Encore will charm them, forcing them to harmlessly walk towards her position.
• Ascended Fangirl: In K/DA, Seraphine was a next door girl posting covers on social media and working her way into stardom until she was discovered by her favorite Girl Group. She got the chance to work with her favorite artists in a dream collaboration for one song, an accompanying music video and a live performance.
• Ascended Meme: Star Guardian Seraphine owns a Skarner plushie, a nod to her former controversial connection to the brackern.
• Badass Fingersnap: Her basic attacks have her flicking sound magic at the enemy with a snap.
• Baroque Pop: Seraphine sings a gentle, emotional melody in her champion theme over an arrangement full of bowed strings, harps and harpsichords.
• Battle of the Bands: It's not clear whether it's an official competition or not, but in LoR she's seen making preparations to perform at The Underground, the grungiest club in Zaun. When she finally goes on stage, she dazzles everyone and not even her rival Scratch can help but to drop her jaw.
• Beach Episode: In Ocean Song, not only is she dressed in summertime aesthetics, but it's also implied this is the same girl from K/DA, taking a break from her successful breakout. Right now, she's all about resting under the sun and improvising tunes for the festival. Ocean Song was the perfect skinline to bare her midriff.
• Bilingual Bonus: K/DA Seraphine sings in English and Chinese in "Made Me This Way" and "MORE".
• Blessed with Suck: Subverted; at first she wasn't able to "turn off" her empathic senses on her own, leading her and her family to create a hextech dampener to compensate. However, as she started listening to more of the motivating songs of her hexcrystal, she found a new path in life where she can use her abilities more proactively.
• Charm Person: Her ultimate ability, Encore, unleashes a wave that captivates all enemies on contact, increasing in range if it hits any other champion.
• Child of Two Worlds: Seraphine was born in the City of Progress to two lifelong Zaunite, spending her childhood harmonizing to the sounds of the bustling Piltover, such as the shanties of the Sun Gates and the whistling of apprentinces, but feeling incomplete in some way. Once she resolved to seek perspective in her parent's homeland, she found the missing piece in Zaun's refrains of resilience and ambition, sensing the fear of the chem-barons and the hatred of the spoiled Pilties above too. Now, Sera's become the premier star in the region and hopes for her music to unite the crowds of the twin cities under one song, performing in the Entresol level where Piltover meets Zaun.
• Combos: Seraphine has several abilities that are perfectly functional on their own, but are drastically more so when combined with the right teammate:
  • Surround Sound normally only shields Seraphine and her surrounding allies, but if she already has a shield when it's casted, she also heals everyone shortly after. On its own, the healing will only trigger when she uses Echo to double-cast it^note or if she gives herself a shield with something like Barrier or Locket of the Iron Solari, but if another ally (e.g Janna) shields her before she casts, even the single-cast version will heal, while the Echoed version will heal twice.
  • Similarly, Beat Drop normally only slows enemies hit. When it hits a target that's already slowed (such as when she double-casts with Echo), it will instead root them, or if they're already immobilized^note rooted, knocked up, stunned, feared, charmed or anything that prevents them from moving freely under their player's control or grounded ^note not prevented from moving, but stopped from using jumps, dashes or blinks by skills like Cassiopeia's Miasma or Singed's Mega Adhesive they're stunned instead. If an ally can slow the enemy for her, then a single hit can root them in place, while a double-cast can root them then stun them as well, while an enemy who can immobilize or ground the enemy (like Morgana or Singed) can set them up for an additional stun even from a single cast.
  • Building on the above, Encore will charm enemies hit, rooting them for a duration, setting a follow-up Beat Drop to extend the crowd control. Additionally, if Seraphine builds Rylai's Crystal Scepter, one single cast of Beat Drop will root the targets as the item's slow is applied before the skill effect.
  • In Legends Of Runeterra, Seraphine and her related cards are a great addition to any spell-based deck as her main mechanic consists of copying new 2-cost spells.
• Cool Bike: She's seen riding a moped to Zaun in Acorn, the Hextechnician artwork.
• Cosmic Motifs: She's the starry-eyed rising star of Piltover and Zaun who decorates a single star under her right eye. Her clothing also draws inspiration from stars in a subtler way (see her cutoff shirt, gloves and white stocking, or the glittering texture of her dress) and the name Seraphine translates to "the burning one". Also, in Star Guardian, the Vibrant Orange of her palette works with splashes of purple to emulate the colors of twilight.
• Costume Evolution: Legends Of Runeterra shows Seraphine’s on and off stage looks in the beginning of her career. In her level 1 artwork, she’s seen in a casual, private setting tweaking her instruments and dressed in modest Piltie workwear, while her level 2 card depicts her performing in a Zaunite nightclub, wearing a preliminary prototype of her Iconic Outfit. In comparison to her current exuberant appearance, this style emphasizes the leather and simple fabrics of Piltover by adding belts, straps, gloves and a corset of such materials. Additionally, as it is implied her hextech platform is still in development, she relies on her guitar to perform.
• Crowd Pleaser: A wholesome take on this trope; gaining external approval is not her main motivation, but it is a great indication that the audience is having a good time. Seraphine wants everybody to enjoy the show and, thanks to her powers, they will. It's also the name of a related spell in LoR.
• Crowd Song: In the short story "Standing Room Only", by the end of her performance, Sera got the whole audience harmonizing to a made-in-the-moment song.
• The Cutie: Idealistic, loving and painfully caring, Sera's deeply empathetic and believes in the power of music to bring the people of Piltover and Zaun together. Additionally, she always plays the kind-hearted girl role in every skinline she's featured in.
• Daddy's Girl: The Acoustician once dreamed of becoming a musician and traveling around the world but now his little girl has become his whole world. Although he was initially reluctant to let her pursue her own musical dreams, the Acoustician now fully supports Seraphine's career, aiding to build her equipment and attending to her shows in Zaun. He's also been offered to the position of secretary in her fanclub.
• Diaries Are Girly: In K/DA, Seraphine pours her heart out on the pages of a journal, documenting the highs and lows of rising to fame. The pages are full of watercolor illustrations, doodles and handwritten song ideas. On the other hand (or universe), Star Guardian Sera runs a Vlog Series about the challenges of friendship, high school and saving the world from eldritch creatures.
• Disappears into Light: K/DA Seraphine doesn't leave a body behind upon dying, but a fading cloud of glitter.
• Distinctive Appearances: Her extremly long hair and the hextech platform she rides grant her a unique silhouette, which is core for any character. In fact, the team had Seraphine just flying around with her mic at first but they ran into clarity issues as her silhouette wasn't distinctive enough from previous floating champions such as Syndra, so they introduced the hoverboard.
• Early-Bird Cameo: K/DA ALL OUT Seraphine came out into the world for the first time in June 2020, nearly four months prior her official champion reveal.
• Elemental Barrier: Surround Sound is a sound-based shield and heal in-game.
• The Empath: Seraphine has the strange ability to hear the "songs" of those around her, something she originally treated as a burden, as it manifested as constantly Hearing Voices. However, this allowed her to hear a "song" hidden deep within hexcrystals, and now embracing its call to harmony and peace, she's moved onto using her ability to make songs of her own to help sway the world in unity. Several of her in-game interactions have her commenting on the songs she hears in other champions — for example, she describes Lux as sounding "like a rainbow", and Jinx as being unpredictable, but fun.
• Everything Is an Instrument: Her champion theme incorporates the clock ticking from Schala's academic setting in Piltover and the sounds of blacksmithing from Roland's workshop in Zaun as percussion.
• Facial Markings: She has a light blue star under her right eye, which translates into different markings depending on the skin.
• Famed In-Story: A young, rising star in Piltover and Zaun with a dedicated fanclub to her name. She even got noticed by powerful personalities like Caitlyn, The Sheriff of Piltover.
• Fan Community Nicknames: In-Universe; just ask her "Sera-fans".
  The Zaun Diva: No chem barons, no wardens, and NO Sera-fans!
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her skirt is cut unevenly revealing a petticoat and her stockings are different in length, color and fabric. Justified as she handmade her outfit to try and mimic Zaunite punks' style.
• The Fashionista: In the heavily political Winged Reign of Faerie Court, Lady Seraphine of the Summer Court is a master of courtly manners, and is known for her skillful makeover talents. She's seen yassifying a beetle during her recall animation.
• First-Name Basis: She calls a lot of characters by their first names, including Piltover's sheriff, the intimidating Zaun Diva and the president of her fanclub.
• Flowers of Femininity: She wears flower pins on her cutoff shirt and brass vines over her stockings, and her speakers are shaped after flowers too.
• For Happiness: She wishes she could sing about rainbows and smiles and everyone would sing and be happy. She's a hopeless romantic in Star Guardian and really, really wants Xayah to save Rakan, too.
• Gadgeteer Genius: The exact extent is unclear, but Seraphine is generally pointed to be very good with tech. Her parents were "hextech acousticians" who designed the "hexcoustic" device to dampen her out-of-control telepathy, and all three were involved in turning it into her hovering stage. In Legends Of Runeterra, she's seen tinkering with a hextech guitar as her instrument, and related artwork implies she's greatly involved in the backstage technical aspects of her performances.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Seraphine takes the stage as a melodic mid-lane mage whose potential only increases when allies are around, especially strong in team fights. She's perfectly designed for team players who enjoy helping others and bringing people together.
  • Players can hear each other's souls thanks to the sound indicator for Harmony, and Seraphine can project these songs in the form of Surround Sound to make everyone feel good and ease their pains.
  • Any player hit by Encore will be captivated, for better or for worse. Allies will harmonize to the song, extending the skill range; enemies will drop their weapons and become friendly, hypnotized by the beauty of Seraphine's words.
  • When her hovering stage gets overloaded with hextech energy, it will replicate the latest spell she casts. And that's how Echo works.
• Genki Girl: The bubbliest and brightest performer in Piltover and Zaun. To an annoying extent, some might add.
• Girly Girl: As one of the most feminine female champions in the game, you'll find a lot of Femininity Tropes here. Also, she's always this when paired with the strong, rebellious personalities of Akali in K/DA and Scratch in LoR.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Considering it's a color traditionally associated with wealth and royalty, it's not surprising for a Piltovan to wear a one-piece purple dress in a similar fashion to Caitlyn.

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• Hard-Work Montage: Her level up animation for Legends Of Runeterra shows her tuning her guitar and testing the equalizer in preparation for a performance at The Underground.
• Harp of Femininity: Arclight Seraphine vocalizes over a heavenly golden harp, weaving the people's dreams and fears into song and heralding a promised paradise.
• Headphones Equal Isolation: Unable to bear the cacophony of voices in her head anymore, Seraphine's parents devised a hextech dampener in the form of headphones. In peace and silence, however, she met a mysterious voice within the crystal. Some time later, after getting a hold over her powers, the dampener was repurposed into a hextech platform to serve as its polar opposite; instead of shutting down the music around her, it now serves as an amplifier to project it.
• Hearing Voices: A musical variation. She can sense people's emotions and hear their souls in the form of songs. It's actually Played Straight when she finally makes contact with voice within the hexcrystal of her dampeners; in reality, a hexcrystal is the crystallized collective consciousness of a species that communicates by telepathically singing.
• Hidden Depths: LoR is widely recognized in the community for its contributions to Character Development, and Seraphine's one of the lucky champions to get a place among the cards. The early stages of her career are explored through the various artworks, revealing some details about her character that were previously underdeveloped or only implied as she prepares for her first gig in Zaun;
  • She is a skilled tinkerer, building her own instruments and brainstorming about her hextech stage. She also plays the guitar and uses it as her primary performing tool when playing in Zaun.
  • When she travels between Piltover and Zaun, Seraphine uses a moped for transportation.
  • She has a pet squirrel, Acorn, who helps with the repairs of her performance equipment.
• Hover Board: She rides a hovering hextech platform, functioning as a stage that she either sits or stands on, not only as a nifty means of transportation but also as an amplifier to project her singing. Designed by Seraphine and her father, it was built from her hextech dampeners after she gained control over her powers.
• Iconic Outfit: A controversial one. Loved and hated, Seraphine's appearance was probably the most broadly discussed topic in 2020 among the community. Critics of her looks state she doesn't fit in either Piltover or Zaun societies, whereas supporters argue that she must stand out as a popstar. Regardless of either opinion, the history of her outfit will follow her wherever she goes.
• I'm Your Biggest Fan: Seraphine really loves her followers.
  Fanclub President: Hi Seraphine, I'm Millie, I'm your biggest fan, OKAY BYE!.
  Seraphine: Hi Millie! I'm YOUR biggest fan! Okay, bye!
• Image Song: Her champion theme, unofficially titled "Perfect". In "Standing Room Only", Sera makes the lyrics as she connects with the audience, tapping on the souls of Schala, a Piltovan student whose thesis got rejected for the sixth time in a row, and Roland, a Zaunite silversmith with money issues. The result is an Self-Empowerment Anthem about accepting one's flaws and taking the time needed to overcome self-doubt and anxiety.
• Improv: Her songwriting technique by excellence. Sera goes on stage and allows herself to commune with the crowd's souls, making the melody and lyrics up as she feels.
  Seraphine: Some songs start with a rhyme, some with a rhythm... mine starts with the crowd.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Her flashy style really makes her stand out among Piltovan and Zaunite champions. Lady Gaga’s infamous meat dress and Elton John’s feathery attire were some inspirations behind her looks.
• Immigrant Parents: Upon learning of their pregnancy, Seraphine's Zaunite parents sought a better life for her in Piltover, leaving the Undercity behind.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She has huge blue eyes and a naive, hopeful personality.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Inverted; despite not making a proper appearance in the game, LoR Seraphine will refer to her hextech platform as a female, out of respect for the voice inside.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: K/DA ALL OUT Seraphine has different haircolors depending on the form you choose, representing different stages of her musical journey: she starts out with pink hair as an Indie artist; then it's half pink and half blue as a Rising Star; and it's finally mostly blue with purple tips once she reached Superstardom.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She’s the owner of a white cat named Bao in both K/DA and Star Guardian universes.
• Leitmotif: Her champion theme became this for gameplay needs. In-game, whenever an allied champion is nearby, an instrumental version will play as Background Music, indicating her passive Harmony will grant Notes for these allies. "Perfect" gets remixed for every skin to match the thematic vibe, with the exception of:
  • K/DA ALL OUT Indie, Rising Star and Superstar, which adapt "POP/STARS", "Made Me This Way" and "MORE".
  • Star Guardian, which adapts "Everything Goes On".
  • And Mythmaker, which adapts the Lunar Revel 2023 theme.
• LGBT Fanbase: In-Universe; so far, a good portion of the known self-proclaimed Sera-fans are on the queer spectrum. Caitlyn will gasp in fascination when encountering her in-game; Ambiguously Bi Ekko and his non-binary friend Shomi, the Dropboarder, were spotted in her shows; and CONV/RGENCE: A League of Legends Story introduces Hawk, a Zaunite who danced the night away in the front row at one show, and her partner Vox, who dyed her hair to mach Seraphine's. It might be a nod to the champion's target audience as well.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She made contact with a mysterious singing voice hidden within her hextech crystal, but she doesn't realize it's actually a "dreamsong", the manifestation of the brackern souls and consciousness.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: One of the longest hairstyles in the game; it's half her model.
• Loyal Animal Companion: Different Ridiculously Cute Critters in different universes:
  • In Legends Of Runeterra, it's her pet squirrel, Acorn, the Hextechnician. He is said to be the heart of the hexcoustic operations, even if one would never find his name credited in the blueprints or the songs.
  • Bao, her white cat, appears in K/DA and Star Guardian universes.
  • And in Star Guardian, she's aided by Treble and Bass, her Familiars. Like most magical pets in this universe, they are the embodiment of her dynamic personality.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Gathering enough Notes from her passive (up to 20) can result in a barrage of damage.
• Magic Idol Singer: An Idol Singer with Magical Girl powers. With her bright, colorful appearance, big musical theme and a massive in-universe following to her name, Seraphine is Runeterra's very first popstar and dedicated to entertain the crowds of Piltover and Zaun with her act, hitting many beats surrounding this trope.
• Magic Music: Much of what Seraphine gets done is through singing, amplified by her hexcoustic technology to impair enemies and rally together allies.
• Make Some Noise: While Seraphine ostensibly wields Magic Music, Rioters describe her powers as functionally more akin to this. Sera's abilities come from the sound waves of her voice, fingersnaps and other noises amplified by her hextech platform.
• Meaningful Appearance: In the spirit of reuniting the twin cities, Seraphine tailored her current stage costume in a mixture of their youthful fashions. It's specifically made off Piltovan garments and customized in a Zaunite sense of style. She turned a run-of-the-mill white puff sleeve shirt into a crop top with star-like edges, a motif present in her gloves and collar too. The skirt of her purple dress is cut unevenly to reveal a petticoat on the side, and both stockings are asymmetric in every way; the left one is purple covered in sequins, longer with a clean edge, whereas the right one is plain white, shorter with the starry edge. Accessories like the flower pins and the insect brooch on her shirt, the vines on her legs and the wings on her back draw inspiration from Zaun's organic style; on the other hand, her microphone and hoverboard display the neat geometry of Piltover. On top of it all, Sera dyes her hair like the undercity punks, except she goes for a lighter, pastel tone.
• Meaningful Name: In Judaism and Christianity, the seraph is a celestial being ranked amongst the highest choirs of the angelic hierarchy. The seraphim watch over God's throne as they continuously sing to His Holiness. Seraph, seraphim and Seraphine all come from the same Hebrew word, meaning "the burning ones" or "the glowing ones."
• Mic Drop: The taunt animation for her K/DA skins.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: As Seraphine's emphatic senses grew, she was able to "sense songs too private, too personal, for any ordinary person to hear," which only added to the overwhelming cacophony she was exposed to on a regular basis. For a specific example, she seems disturbed by Jhin's song in particular.
  Seraphine: Such a perfect four-four, but also... so wrong...
• Musical Assassin: Seraphine's kit allows her to damage enemies with her music more than Sona or Bard, with one aspect of her passive allowing her to rally Notes around herself and her allies. Use abilities enough around enough teammates, and the bonus damage she can dish out through basic attacks can get pretty wild. On top of that, her weapon of choice is, well, her hextech stage.
• Must Have Caffeine: Her level 1 artwork for Legends of Runeterra shows her with no less than five cups of fresh coffee in her room as she's working.
• Never Say "Die": Despite being a killable unit in-game, her death voicelines sounds like fainting in the middle of a show, at worst. In LoR, she talks about disappointing her dad and ruining her act when killed or defeated. This reinforces the naive, innocent nature of her story.
• Nice Girl: Sera sees music as a means to bring the world together, and with her ability to hear the souls of those around her,and her talents in making songs of her own, she's determined to make it happen. Even when she decides to get sassy towards her opponents, her tone is more playful than salty.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Seraphine's natural hair is dark brown, but she dyes it pink in an act of artistic expression. Her iconic pastel, pink hair is also part of her costume, and a nod to the fashion in Zaun —the quintessential World of Technicolor Hair in Runeterra, unlike Piltover. This storytelling detail is meant to reinforce the feelings of authenticity and relatability.
• Not the Intended Use: Competitively, Seraphine ran into a similar quirk as Sona in that, while her supporting power was highly valued during mid-late game, her early game is so dangerous that she effectively needed babysitting just to scale to a practical degree. As a result, professionals often play her in the position of a bot carry, building support items, but having a strong early support of her own (usually a peeling tank like Braum, Alistar, or Galio) that could keep her safe.
• Odd Friendship: Seraphine is musical peers with Scratch, the Zaun Diva, a loud punk rocker with explosive stage presence. Despite appearing seemingly at odds with Seraphine's much softer tone and aesthetics, most of the interactions between the two are on the amicable side, at worst entailing a Friendly Rivalry of sorts, but more often featuring them being supportive of each others' careers.
  The Zaun Diva: You put on a real show, Songbird.
  Seraphine: You too, Scratch! Just think what we'd sound like together!
• Performance Anxiety: She began performing "nervous beyond words," and even as she's developed more of her outgoing persona, she appears to still have a bit of stage fright. One of her lines has her deny this... followed by a laugh that doesn't exactly exude confidence.
• Phlebotinum Overload: Whenever Sera's hoverboard overcharges with hextech energy, it'll allow her to double-cast the last spell she played.
• Pink Means Feminine: The dominant color of her design. It's the color of Seraphine’s super long hair. Its pastel tone conveys her nice and tender personality.
• Popularity Power: In-game, Harmony, Surround Sound and Encore work this way; the more people gather around, the more powerful. It's further explored in Star Guardian comics, where she's seen fighting shadow creatures by performing; as the crowd harmonizes to Seraphine's melodies, her power grows stronger.
• Power Floats: Even though her hovering platform allows her to take flight, this is ironically played straight in Arclight (where her platform was cut out), as Seraphine's seen glowing and floating as she channels the voice of the Ancient Entity in her level 2 artwork.
• Power Glows: Her hextech stage will glow when her Echo passive is up.
• The Red Mage: Designed as a Burst Mage/Enchanter hybrid, Seraphine's primarily meant to be played as a supportive midlaner; her gameplay is about landing wide Area of Effect abilities that can be bolstered when she's with her team to deal damage towards her enemies. However, her potential utility courtesy of Surround Sound has earned her a spot among the support players.
• Retcon: Upon release, her biography got tweaked to ensure the reader that no brackerns were harmed during the writing of this character and to make it clear it's the third person narrator who's aware of the whole hextech situation, not her. Some in-game lines were also removed from her voiceover due to their misleading connotations.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: A fairly nice and excitable Genki Girl with Cheery Pink hair and Innocent Blue Eyes in several iterations, including her classic design.
• Self-Empowerment Anthem: In "Standing Room Only", Seraphine performed a Pep-Talk Song about overcoming one's insecurities and fears to enjoy life as flawed as it is. Whether you're a college student whose thesis was rejected six times, or a blacksmith struggling to make ends meet, remember: You Are Not Alone, The Future Will Be Better.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: The leather-based Piltovan outfit from LoR pales in comparison to the striking, stage costume she wears in League of Legends. As she became more and more popular in both cities, she ditched her previous garments in favor of the glittering, performative fit she's so controversially known for. It just makes sense for an artist's costumes to go crazier as they grow, doesn't it?
• Simple, yet Awesome: Downplayed. Seraphine's mechanics rely on landing wide and forgiving skillshots, allowing players to quickly understand her gameplay. With them, she has some very solid damage, healing/shielding, and crowd control to her name, all packaged in a fairly straightforward way. However, she's priced 3150 BE, a tier for champions with steeper learning curves before mastering them, in comparison to more approachable, accessible options. In other words, she has a pretty low skill floor and a medium-to-high skill ceiling.
• Singing Voice Dissonance: Michele Panu and every other voice actress only play Seraphine's in-game voices. Singers Jasmine Clarke and Lexie Liu provide singing vocals for her in Runeterra and K/DA universes; Sera borrows Jasmine's voice for her champion theme and solo singles, while Lexie collaborates with K/DA on "MORE". It's not that big of deal for English and Chinese audiences, but it becomes quite apparent in other regions.
• Snot Bubble: In a Wild Rift icon.
• Squishy Wizard: While she's a well-rounded long-range mage with some utility tools, she's also very easy to take down once the defensive power of Surround Sound is down.
• Stepford Smiler: Don't let her ever-present upbeat, cheerful personality fool you. It's all for show. In reality, she's constantly worrying about her audience's togetherness, doubting herself, her skills and capability to unite Piltover and Zaun. Of course, she can't let them know.
• Super-Scream: High Note and Encore are damaging abilities based on Seraphine's voice. Especially the latter, for which she takes a deep breath before delivering a lively long note.
• Tastes Like Purple: Sera’s magical hearing allows her to sense people’s souls as songs, and to see colors in sounds too.
• Textile Work Is Feminine: She doesn't only sing and dance, she also makes her own clothes!
• True Blue Femininity: Light blue is the recessive color of Sera's palette, present in her eyes, accessories and instruments. In LoR, shades of blue are more prominent in her design.
• Vibrant Orange: In Star Guardian, orange was chosen as Seraphine's main color to convey her cheerful disposition.
• Virtual Celebrity: All packed with social media accounts, a verified artist profile on Spotify and a music video collaboration. Seraphine's arrival to the game was very different from previous champion rollouts. She was added to the K/DA lineup as part of their transmedia comeback, being publicly established and extensively advertised via several social media. The community saw her evolve from bedroom artist to K/DA's confident collaborator in the span of four months, gaining a legitimate fanbase on her rise to fame and into the game.
• Weapon Twirling: During her channeling, she twirls her microphone for a few seconds.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Piltover and Zaun share deep historical, social and cultural connections, as the former rose from the foundations of the latter, literally and figuratively. Piltover's thriving economic and commercial development is, to a certain extent, the reason for Zaun's poor quality of life. Long story short, they don't truly get along. Enter Seraphine, who's convinced her music can bridge the gap eroded from years of corruption, brutality and neglect.
• Willing Channeler: Chosen to bear the voice of the Arclight and bring good fortune for all, the Ancient Entity occasionally speaks through Seraphine; in her level 2 artwork, she's seen unleashing her divine potential with all-white eyes.
• Wings Do Nothing: She has wings as part of her stage costume, which are just for show. Subverted in Faerie Court and Arclight, as they do appear to be functional in those universes.

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