Vanilla

Vanilla Nighthawk (ヴァニラ・ナイトホーク, Vanira Naitohōku) is a character in Magical Vacation. She is Ganache's sister and plays a major role in the story, despite only being seen in cutscenes and flashback sequences.

Appearance
Vanilla has purple eyes and curly magenta hair, and two pigtails protruding from openings in her purple headscarf. Her attire is similar to Ganache's, but with a few color changes. While parts of her brother's clothes are orange and yellow, hers are various shades of blue.

Backstory
Vanilla and her brother Ganache come from a bloodline of Dark Magic-wielding warlocks.

Three years prior to the events of Magical Vacation, Vanilla was a student of Will-o'-Wisp Academy who went to the Valencia Beach Seaside School. She and her classmates were attacked by Enigmas during their stay, and their strength was barely enough to try and fight back. Vanilla, with the help of her extremely powerful Dark Magic, returned to Will-o'-Wisp alive with an Enigma lurking in her heart. The aftereffects of Enigma fusion caused her emotions to spiral out of control, which was very concerning to both Ganache and Chardonnay.

Not too long after her return, Vanilla clouded herself in the belief that she never had a place in the world. Chardonnay tried to talk Vanilla out of her misery, but she walked away unconvinced. Cabernet, his younger brother, apathetically told him that Vanilla's emotions were not worth his time, except Chardonnay knew something about her was not right.

Before departing from Will-o'-Wisp, Vanilla had one last series of conversations with Ganache. She asked if it was possible for her to defeat Principal Biscotti in a duel, to which Ganache answered with disapproval. She abandoned the academy later that day, and her name went unspoken ever since.

The Cashew-Garbanzo Nightmare
2 years following her desertion, Vanilla's heart was conquered by the darkness, releasing her powers for the whole world to see. From the nations of Cashew to Garbanzo, she thrashed soldiers of Nougat as they tried to stop her rampage, leaving a trail of over two hundred dead soldiers in her wake. Chardonnay, who joined the army post-graduation, was one of the soldiers stationed in Garbanzo, and he too was killed by Vanilla in the heat of battle.

Everything came to a tragic end when Biscotti and Miss Madeleine intervened, and the wise headmaster used his own almighty magic to seal Vanilla away in Chiboust Castle. Biscotti, Ganache, and Madeleine were the only people who knew Vanilla was the monster that had just been imprisoned. Cabernet was acutely aware of this as well, but to a lesser extent. Before drawing his final breath, Chardonnay asked for his bones to be buried in a place that looked over Chiboust Castle; a clue which Cabernet would not solve until much later.

Ganache, traumatized by the fate of his sister, isolated himself from everyone except Olive Tearclown, who empathized with him via her telepathic powers. He spent the next year dwelling over the Cashew-Garbanzo War, venting his frustrations through songs of melancholy on his harmonica.

Epilogue
"A rumor had spread amongst those possessed by Enigmas that Ganache had become a vessel for Kerendu. From the shadows, his followers grew, slowly plotting their aggressions towards the Kovomaka Monarchy. And yet, neither them nor his other classmates in the face of his rising numbers believed his magic to truly be gone.

In just under a year, Ganache would find himself leading the country’s many magicians who shared his burden. Not a soul dared challenge them with opposers to his movement quickly dwindling, as did the need for battle.

In custody, the word had even reached his sister. And before long, with the help of a group known as the Biscotti Sect leading the charge towards rebellion, Ganache alone would head to where his sister was interned.

On the day they finally reunited, Vanilla went in prepared for the worst. Instead, what appeared before her was not a beast of darkness, but a young man here of his own volition, without a single droplet of magic to claim.

His words were sparse, 'I may have lost everything, but I have grown to accept that.' Upon hearing these words, Vanilla’s eyes overflowed with tears. With her binds undone, she too would unite with the Biscotti Sect, and in time, her need for magic would come to a close. Thus, Kovomaka ushered in a peace that would last for over two centuries."

Knights of the Universe
In this continuity, Vanilla is a chief of Kovomaka's White Hawks Brigade; a legion of wizards who serve the Kingdom of Kovomaka.

Magical Starsign
Vanilla is briefly mentioned in Magical Starsign by a boy named Diecast in Chocomilk Caves, claiming she and her brother are legendary wizards of Kovomaka.

Name origin

 * Vanilla is a spice extracted from orchids of the Vanilla genus.
 * Her name in Japanese can be written as バニラ (Banira) or ヴァニラ (Vanira).

Quotes
"I'm not the one acting weird! The world's the one that's messed up! All of it! All of it is twisted!"

- Vanilla to Ganache upon returning from camp

"Hahaha! What a joke! I only have one target: Principal Biscotti. I'll destroy the country in a year."

- Vanilla boasting about her new powers to Ganache

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