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Karma Nichols is an all-around character introduced in 2020. She is a student at Rainbow High that focuses in Digital Media.
Character Description
Karma always knew she be attending Rainbow High, because literally her whole family went there, including her older sisters. Karma often feels like she's living in her older sisters' shadow, so Rainbow High is her chance to make a name for herself and stand out. And the best way to do that? On her wildly popular vlog, Kontent with Karma. She is also part of The SCENE as a reporter for the magazine.
Looks
Physical Appearance[]
Karma is a teenage girl with a medium build and a medium skin tone. She has knee-length, straight, neon green hair that is parted down the middle and light brown eyes. Her makeup consists of warm brown eyeshadow, with graphic neon green liner, and red lipstick topped with iridescent green glitter. Her preferred style is described as being trendy and fashion-forward.
Outfits[]
Karma mainly wears a Mindoro green mesh top with white straps printed with the word "RAINBOW." She wears a three-layered skirt, the first layer being ripped lime leather with a black belt, the second being lime-colored sparkly tulle gong down below her knees, and the third layer being a plain lime, mini-pencil skirt. Her short fishnet socks are white with the word "rainbow" written on top, and pairs of lime heels with black and lime straps.
Karma's second outfit consists of a white cropped top that says "RAINBOW" underlined with a rainbow strip over her lime fishnet jacket. She wears a lime vinyl miniskirt with zippers and a lime belt. Her shoes are black heels with mindaro green accents and white straps.
Personality
Karma's personality is shown to be rather mysterious, not being very well touched upon. She does show off a rather trendy and cool personality though, always wanting to stay up to date on everything she can through the school. She however can also spread false rumors.
Relationships
Friends[]
Bella Parker[]
After Bella returned to Rainbow High, Karma was one of the few students that casually and respectfully welcomed her back, even offering for her to tell her own story on her show, Kontent with Karma.
Stella Monroe[]
While not much has been shown in depth, Karma and Stella are seen very often interacting together in the background and in the school. In particular they are shown to both be on the cheerleading team and are both passionate about it. They also talk to each other in the background a lot. It is assumed they are close friends.
Other[]
Reina Crowne[]
Karma seems to be a big fan of Reina "Glitch" Crowne, because she asked her if she could do in interview of her on her show, Kontent With Karma.
Timeline
- November 14th, 2020: An Amazon link to Karma was leaked online.
- November 17th, 2020: A photo of her was teased on the official Rainbow High Instagram page.
- November 30th, 2020: Stock photos of her doll are revealed.
- December 8th, 2020: Karma's doll was released at Target.
- January 21st, 2021: Karma Nichols became available on Amazon.
- January 22nd, 2021: Karma makes her first official animated cameo in "Amaya's Discovery".
- February 5th, 2021: Karma makes her official animated debut with speaking lines in "Bring On Rainbow Cheer".
- July 29th, 2022: An image of her Rainbow Junior High Series 2 doll is leaked.
- August 15th, 2022: Her Junior High doll officially released to purchase.
Etymology
Karma[]
Karma is a girls name of Indian (Sanskrit) origin meaning "fate or destiny". The name "Karma" developed in ancient India and comes from the Sanskrit word "कर्म", meaning "action, effect" from the root "kwer-" meaning "to make".
Nichols[]
Nichols is a surname that comes from the Greek "Nikolaos".
Trivia
- Jade Hunter's original prototype doll bears a strong resemblance to Karma, leading some fans to speculate that the prototype's design was eventually reworked into Karma.
- Her Junior High artwork's hair is darker than her Series 2 artwork's hair.
- Despite her promotional artwork giving her dark roots, her doll's hair is a neon green color.
- Karma comes from a family of Rainbow High graduates.[2]
- Karma was the first doll released to have brown eyes and she was also the first to have glittery lipstick.
- She's a new member of The SCENE's writing team.
- Her original design includes a basketball hat like Ruby's, but was later removed.
- Some of the real-life inspirations for Karma's outfits include:
- Her first outfit's design resembles a blue sparkly sequined pencil-skirt dress with tulle gong in Christian Dior's Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear Collection. Karma's outfit has the sequins appearing on the tulle gong rather than the top, unlike in the collection, which had the reverse, and Karma's is colored neon green.
- The leather skirt that comes with her second outfit resembles the Zipper Front Flap Detail Buckle Belted PU Leather Skirt found at Romwe.
- Oddly enough, her CGI model’s head is not tilted like her artwork.
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