Sparkle
Sparkle is a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail and a member of the Masked Fools. A master of theatrics with countless masks and faces, she cares nothing for wealth, status or power. The only thing that interests her is amusement. She is voiced by Lizzie Freeman in English and Ueda Reina in Japanese.
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Other names | Miss Sparkle, Masked Genius (self-styled) |
Age | Not stated |
Affiliation | Masked Fools |
Home world | None; a cosmic drifter |
Path and type | Harmony, Quantum |
Voice actor (EN) | Lizzie Freeman |
Voice actor (JP) | Ueda Reina |
First appearance | Penacony story, version 2.0 |
Playable since | February 29, 2024 |
Appearance
Sparkle has dark brown hip-length twin tails with pink tips, pink eyes with a butterfly detail and red eyeliner. A fox mask sits on the left side of her head. She wears a short red kimono with cherry blossoms, bells, a black obi with a goldfish orb, a single black glove and black zori sandals.
Personality
Chaos agent: she wants only amusement and laughs at rules and moral codes.
Theatrical: she flips from cute to menacing to dramatic in one breath, and treats her own life as a stage.
Careful with gifts: behind the pranks she puts real care into presents, like ten nested boxes measured to the millimeter.
Afraid of being a side character: her deepest fear is ending up as a minor role in someone else's story.
Hard to read: she calls herself heartless while acting fond, and nobody knows which mask is real.
Background
Sparkle's true past is unknown by design. Her stories offer three versions: an orphan given her mask and name by a small troupe's actress, the last of a Puppet Clan who obeys her mask and became a playwright, and a faceless girl who built emotion masks from people's dreams. She tailors her past to whoever is listening.
Spoiler warning: the rest of this section covers Penacony and later.
At Penacony's Charmony Festival she pranked the Astral Express crew, then helped Aventurine and the crew expose The Family's plot. In secret, Silver Wolf had hired her to make Firefly's scripted deaths safe. Afterward she became a regular visitor on the Express. In Planarcadia, her own creation Sparxie, a streamer she designed on a whim, turns into a rival, and Sparkle points the crew to the World's End Tavern.
Abilities
Impersonation: she can disguise herself as almost anyone, and does so constantly.
Masks and illusions: she uses masks and theatrics to fool her targets.
"Mutually Assured Destruction" buttons: she builds doomsday buttons that she turns into party tricks.
Relationships
Trailblazer: she calls them "Gray Hair". Their running texting rivalry over who tricks whom next is the closest she comes to flirting.
Firefly: she crashed Firefly's Penacony tour and secretly worked to keep her safe.
Silver Wolf: hired her for the Firefly job.
Robin: she knocked Robin out of the dream and calls her "little songbird".
Aventurine: she calls him "little peacock". He turned down an invitation to the Fools.
March 7th: she calls her "Darling March".
Black Swan: her favorite frenemy.
Likes and dislikes
Likes:
Jokes, pranks and fireworks
Masks and crafting gifts
Naps on soft sofas
Dislikes:
Rules and moral codes
Repetition
People who spoil the fun
Trivia
Her name refers to fireworks.
She was released on February 29, a leap day, which suits her love of jokes.
Trash cans are a running gag for her: the Trashcan Kingdom, hiding in a bin, and lovesick trash-can texts.
She makes dolls of herself and leaves them everywhere.
She almost never texts as herself, posing instead as Black Swan, Pom-Pom or a race committee.
Frequently asked questions
What is Sparkle's real past?
Nobody knows. Her stories give three different origins, and she admits she changes her past to suit whoever is listening.
Who is Sparxie?
Sparxie is a Planarcadia streamer that Sparkle designed on a whim. She became a rival who calls Sparkle her "old model".
Did Sparkle work for the Stellaron Hunters?
Silver Wolf secretly hired her on Penacony to keep Firefly safe during her scripted deaths.
Who voices Sparkle?
Lizzie Freeman in English and Ueda Reina in Japanese.
Also known as Miss Sparkle, Masked Genius
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