Kikimora

Kikimora is the former assistant of Emperor Belos who delivered his orders to other subordinates in or outside of the Emperor's Coven. Kikimora is a red-skinned demon of diminutive stature and shortstack proportions. She stands several heads shorter than her subordinates, with three-toed, talon-clad arms and legs similar to those of a bird's. Her talons are colored dark brown. Her left eye has yellow sclera and a brownish red iris; inversely, her right eye has red sclera and a yellow iris. Like many of the other creatures in the Boiling Isles, her ears are pointed and witch-like. Her mouth, usually hidden from view by her collar, features sharp yellowish teeth and a single upturned tusk.

Her most defining feature are the conjoined hands which make up her hair: one with fingers that form a fringe which hides her right eye from view, the other is clenched behind her head to form a bun-esque fist. It is shown in the second season intro that these hands are prehensile, and that the fingers can be used to cast spells, as first seen in "Eda's Requiem". The hands are dark blue with turquoise claws. "Clouds on the Horizon" shows that Kikimora has the sigil of the Emperor's Coven branded on her right wrist. Being a high-ranking affiliate of the Emperor's Coven, Kikimora wears robes reminiscent of Belos' regalia. These are a white tunic over a black ensemble, as well as a high-collared veil which shrouds the lower regions of her face. This veil is fastened by a triangular golden accessory. She typically walks barefoot.

Kikimora is a prim and professional individual, being exceptionally well versed in the accepted history of the Boiling Isles. As the personal attendant to Belos, Kikimora was immensely loyal to the Emperor and carried out his commandments with visible relish, encouraging a worshipful attitude towards Belos and his vision. Much like Belos, she appears to have a low tolerance for failure or for dissidence. She is particularly subtle in her hostilities, choosing to admonish those who displease her quietly. Regardless, it can be inferred that many of her subordinates are fearful of her.

Despite her high station and her loyalty to Belos, Kikimora appears to be somewhat cowardly when confronted head-on, as Luz is easily able to intimidate her into compliance by threatening her with a fire glyph. In that regard, she is also a hypocrite, angrily reprimanding Warden Wrath for failing to apprehend Luz and King beforehand, despite Wrath at least making an honest attempt to do so.

In "Hunting Palismen", Kikimora appeared to be jealous of the Golden Guard, and sabotaged his mission to get the Bat Queen's palismen so that she could deliver them to Belos herself and gain the Emperor's favor, while at the same time attempting to assassinate the Golden Guard outright, showing that she is willing to conspire against her colleagues and even kill them to remove them as rivals for Belos' favor. By the events of "Eclipse Lake", Kikimora's mental state has degraded, leading her to fits of immense aggression and paranoia, specifically over being outperformed by the Golden Guard. This translates to shortsightedness and abusive tendencies toward her underlings, often resulting in their injuries. At several points, she loses composure completely over the prospect.

She seems to value her family, as she fears her mother and being utterly distraught at the prospect of being disowned by her family back in her hometown if she failed to attend the family gathering while being torn by her duties with the Emperor's Coven. However, when Terra reveals that Belos wants to give her a promotion, she immediately disowns her family and heartlessly states that her family and hometown can burn, showing that despite her love for her family, she values her career more than them. kikimora appears in an audiovisual transmission to Lilith following her duel with Eda at the covention, softly admonishing her for her failure in subduing the Owl Lady. She advises Lilith to remember the reward that Emperor Belos has promised her for Eda's capture, but is nonetheless mollified by Lilith's renewed promise to succeed in her mission. Kikimora later eavesdrops in Lilith's soliloquy regarding her mission to capture Eda. She accuses the coven leader of protecting her sister, to which Lilith responds by summoning the troops she has gathered to ambush the Owl House. Later, when her attempted raid is foiled by Hooty, Kikimora summons Lilith before the Emperor after dryly remarking that a bird has perched on her head. Kikimora soon conducts a tour throughout the Emperor's Castle for the children of Hexside, among them Luz, whereupon she lambasts the era preceding the coven system, which she calls the "Savage Ages". She hails the Emperor for supposedly bringing order from this chaotic time. When a disheveled Lilith returns, Kikimora has her tour group unintentionally humiliate her further, telling them to "wish her luck" Before Eda's petrification, Kikimora announces the event to the crowdgoers. At the ceremony, she acts as executioner and operates the relic which accomplishes the procedure. She is startled by Luz's sudden disruption and subsequently intimidated into lowering the magical cage containing Eda. She is present for Belos' announcement afterwards that Eda was spared on the Titan's orders.

Later, in the shadow of the portal he is reconstructing, Belos waves aside Kikimora's offer to apprehend Luz and her companions herself before dismissing another emissary to keep watch over the Owl House. A few weeks later, Kikimora welcomes the Head Witches of the main covens to Belos' throne room and lauds their forthcoming "reward": a glimpse of the Day of Unity. During this ceremony, however, Belos is overcome by his illness and ushered away by Hunter, who insists that Kikimora not follow. This causes a spike of jealousy in Kikimora, who eavesdrops on their conversation and overhears Belos' desire for more palismen. She sends her dragon steed, Princess, to disrupt Hunter's mission and personally steals his quarry. She further leads a fraudulent search for the Golden Guard, during which she insists that he perished following the attack, presenting his mask as proof. She is later caught off guard by a glyph combo pieced together by Luz and Hunter which, coupled with sleeping nettles, creates a sleep-inducing smog which subdues her steed and disorients her, allowing Hunter to rob her of the whistle which commands her dragon. Delirious, she attempts to fight back, but is unable to resist the effect of the fog. When she awakes and returns to the Emperor's Castle, she is startled to see that Hunter survived, but grows suspicious when she notes his singed hair would correspond to those of her assailant Kikimora briefly appears during a broadcast of Raine's initiation as the head of the Bard Coven. After Raine is caught by Darius and Eberwolf, she uses her magic to incapacitate them using their own seal. She insists that it would be a waste of resources to kill them outright, as finding a replacement for the Day of Unity would take too long Kikimora would then replace Hunter as the leader of the operation at the Knee. During the operation, it becomes obvious that she desires revenge against the Golden Guard, even more so than she desires to serve Belos. Her increasingly aggressive and petulant tangents imply that her mentality is rapidly devolving under the strain of her ambitions. This translates to heightened acrimony toward her subordinates, namely the Guard Captain, whom she frequently castigates and even threatens. When her party locates Amity, her paranoia is supposedly validated, and she leads several scouts down an ill-fated plunge through a mining shaft towards Eclipse Lake. Though unseen, the resulting crash injures and incapacitates her and her subordinates, leading King to remark that mine cart chases are more "dangerous" than one might think As the Coven Day Parade approaches, Kikimora's mother threatens to disown her if she fails to show up to a family reunion. Hearing this, Luz convinces Kikimora to help her and Luz and her friends kidnap Raine, also agreeing to be "kidnapped" as well to get to the reunion. When Kikimora is taken by Luz, Terra Snapdragon starts to tail the two and claims that Kikimora is up for a promotion. After Amity joins the two, they make it to the dock where Princess is waiting, but she attacks the girls, growling that a promotion is better then a family reunion. Soon, Terra comes by to say Kikimora has passed her test and gets to live as a result. The head of the Plant Coven then takes her away. For her career in the Emperor’s Coven, Kikimora was loyal to Belos. She greatly devoted herself to him, to the point where she saw everyone around her as a potential rival for her next promotion. During the Day of Unity, Kikimora graciously presents the emperor with, who she thinks, is Hunter, and requests she become his new right hand.

or as long as she has known Hunter, Kikimora saw him as nothing more than a rival and an obstacle in her way of becoming Belos's right hand. When Hunter was tasked with retrieving palisman, she sent her dragon to attack the Golden Guard. After Kikimora declares him dead, she has her pet track him down to finish the job. The following morning she was shocked that he survived.

Kikimora could recognize Hunter by the sound of his voice, as she was able to use it to locate him at the Blight Industries factory. As Odalia taunted her daughter for trying to talk her out of helping Belos, Kikimora expressed her desire to get to Hunter as quick as possible. Originally, Kikimora saw Luz as nothing more then a student. However, after the human stops the petrification, Kikimora began to see her as more of a threat. During Coven Day, Kikimora vents her frustration with having to choose between work and family, causing Luz to help her fake Kikimora's kidnapping during the parade to get to her family reunion. However, after Terra Snapdragon flaunts a promotion while pursuing them, Kikimora betrays Luz and Amity, who helped them escape

Kikimora is a small demon with a bitter and cruel attitude, but she often camouflages it with formality. She hates everyone and everything but power, the Emperor, his will and his Coven, in which she’s a high ranking member. She also hates the Golden Guard, who is the Emperor’s right hand man. She conspires against him and tries to sabotage him or outshine him in mission performance to be promoted to an even higher rank in the organization. She calls him the, “golden brat.”

Kikimora is a prim and professional individual, being exceptionally well versed in the accepted history of the Boiling Isles and is immensely loyal but somewhat cowardly when confronted head-on. she is the emperor's assistant, she is from bonesborrow, in the boiling isles of the demon realm, she likes authority, rules, being popular, being high ranked, and hates being treated as a child