| Character Statistics | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age Group: | Around Jake's age[1] |
| Hair and Eye Color: | First season: Red (Kara & Sara) Second season: Blonde (Sara), Black (Kara) |
| Created by: | Jeff Goode |
| Relationships | |
| Friends: | Jake Long Luong Lao Shi Fu Dog Trixie Carter Arthur Spudinski Rose Veronica Tooth Minions Tooth Fairy |
| Nemesis: | Huntsman Huntsclan Dark Dragon Councilor Chang Herbert the Goblin |
| Production Info | |
| Portrayed by: | Tara Strong (both)[2][3][4] |
| First Appearance: | "Dragon Breath" |
| Last Appearance: | "Being Human" |
Sara[5] and Kara[6][7][8] are identical twin Oracles. The two are friends of Jake's. They are descendants of the Oracle of Delphi of ancient Greece.
History
Because of their ability to see the future, Sara and Kara are considered a part of the magical realm and live there along with other magical creatures. But, aside from that, they are perfectly normal teenage girls. Sara sees the bad stuff, while Kara sees the good stuff.
Appearances
Season One
Season Two
- The Academy
- Being Human (final appearance)
Physical Appearance
Sara
Initially, Sara looks identical to her sister Kara. Both are natural redheads, and Sara ties her wavy hair in a ponytail. She wears a long green dress and a pair of summer sandals. She also has a purple flower in her hair.
However, in later encounters, Sara appears as a blonde with blue eyes and wears a more feminine outfit: a long and frilly blue skirt with purple flowers, a pink tank top, and a purple cardigan that she ties around her neck. The only detail that remained from before is the purple flower in her hair. This change in appearance makes her bubbly and happy-go-lucky attitude stand out more than ever before. She 1 minutes older than Kara
Kara
Initially, Kara is identical to sister, making their blood relation evident. She has straight natural red hair and wears a blue vest over an orange-brown dress and a pair of boots. She also has a collar around her neck.
In later encounters, Kara changes her look drastically. Apparently embracing Emo and Goth, she now has dark hair, probably dyed, and wears dark lipstick and mascara. She wears a burgundy vest over a dark shirt that goes down past her waist. She also wears an almost ankle-long grey skirt and a pair of tall black shoes. The only detail that remains roughly the same is the collar around her neck. This change in appearance makes her negative and grim attitude stand out more than before. She 1 minutes younger than Sara
Personality
Due to Sara and Kara being born as twins, their Oracle power was divided between the two of them. Sara can only see the negative things while Kara only sees the positive things. Because of this, both have very different personalities.
Sara
Because she can only see bad things, Sara has learned to overcome the negative aspects of life and to seize every good moment she can get. The smallest amount of good news makes her extremely happy. She's constantly in a good mood, and even her own misfortune doesn't get her down. She was nicknamed "Little Miss Sunshine" by Fu Dog.
Kara
Because Kara can only see good things, she feels like there's nothing more she can get out of life. There are no pleasant surprises anymore and everything becomes dull to her. She is never in a good mood and always sounds serious and uninterested. She was nicknamed "Miss Doom n' Gloom" and "Dame Downer" by Fu Dog.
Seer Ability
Unlike popular belief, Oracles cannot control when they will have visions or what it is, exactly, that they will see. The premonitions will always come without warning to Sara and Kara, after which they will instinctively blurt out what they saw. As Oracles, it is physically impossible for them to not to say what they've seen. They also cannot lie about their visions, which are 100% certain to happen. Whenever they get a glimpse of the future, their eyes will glow a golden color.
Although Sara and Kara will always tell their premonitions, they do not always do so in a very forward manner. Most often, they will simply imply a certain outcome. For example, Sara warns Jake to have a mole on his hand checked but does not say exactly why[9]. Kara later mentions that most of the time, they will just know something is going to happen but cannot tell what or how[10].
Also, when their visions are taken out of context, they may not happen the way others expected them to. This happens when Sara tells Jake that he was going to be hit by a boulder going as fast as 180 miles per hour; it turns out Jake, in his Dragon form, was flying at 179 miles per hour when this occurred, so the boulder only hit him with a relative speed of one mile per hour, which equals to a harmless tap[9].
Another interesting thing to note is that some predictions may be negative in the eyes of some but can be positive in the eyes of others. A good example of this would be when Sara has a vision of a dumpster full of dead fish overwhelming the alley they are currently in[9]. It is indeed a negative situation for the Goblins who tried to kidnap them, but the stench is too much for their sensitive nose, yet it is positive for Jake who manages to save the Oracles and escape.
Because of their ability, the twins are often subject to abuse from greedy individuals. This is proven when they are kidnapped by a Goblin crime boss named Herbert[9]. He wants to use their power so he can bet on the winning team of the Ogre Bowl. Even Jake is guilty of using Sara and Kara's powers to his advantage when he asked them for the answers to his mythology test.
Quotes
Season One
Sara
- "Hi, you're cute. Want to know the exact time and day you're going to die?"
- (To Jake) "You should totally have that mole on your hand checked!" (giggles)
- "Hey, Jake! Remember us?" (Her eyes glow) "You will!"
- "You're gonna get a nasty case of poison ivy all over your head in July! A pox upon your face!" (giggles)
- (chipper) "I just get visions; horrible, disturbing visions that haunt my every waking moment. Not to mention my nightmares."
- "Nice to meet 'Cha! Tomorrow you're gonna get a massive zit on your fa-!" (Gets cut off by Jake)
- (chipper) "Someone's gonna steal your pudding!"
- (chipper) "Sorry about your nasty breakup next spring! And on prom night too!" (Whispers to girl) "Bring cab fare."
- (Tries to jump over a fence but trips and loses her sandal) "Oops! I should've seen that coming!" (giggles)
- "You know what is a good thing? Ice cream! I mean, seriously, yum! right?"
- "Life's too short to let a little bad news stop you from living." (Her eyes glow) "Ooh! Speaking of bad news, Goblins are gonna fall from the sky! I bet that will be exciting!"
- "The bad news is, we're gonna get nabbed by Herbert!" (giggles)
- "The bad news is, you're gonna get hit by a boulder going 180 miles per hour! Wow, that's gonna hurt!"
- (To Jake, eerily, about staying positive) "You should keep that in mind when you find out the dark, awful truth about Rose..." (becomes chipper again) "Well, 'night!"
- "Hi! We had a vision about the pageant! Pandarus is up to something; something unspeakably horrible!" (Claps hands eagerly)
- "Ooh, look at those heels! She's gonna have a tough time running for her life in those!"
Kara
- "You're going to get a Game Station 3000 for Christmas this year. Woop-de-tap dancing-doo for you."
- "You're cavity-free this year."
- (About her visions) "Mine always seem to have cinnamon rainbows with jumping puppies in 'em. I hate puppies."
- (To Trixie and Spud) "You and yo-yo boy are gonna tie the knot. Boring."
- "You! You're gonna be a Broadway star one day."
- (To Jake, about being kidnapped) "The good news is, you're gonna rescue us. My hero."
- "I'll take that."
Sara & Kara
- Sara: (to Chang, chipper) "You're going to prison!"
- Kara: "Where you'll meet lots of nice ladies with common interests and generic haircuts."
Season Two
- "Sara had a vision."
- "I wouldn't let this ruin your day or anything, it's just the Huntsman is putting together a plan that would mean the total annihilation of all magical creatures!" (giggles) "Oh! And you're gonna get a really huge zit next week."
- "The vision doesn't any specifics. I see a circle of skulls, magical creatures crying in agony. Oh, I love the design in this rug."
Trivia
- Sara and Kara make an appearance in the series' Season 2 intro.
- Sara and Kara's last name is Oracle.
- In Season 1[9], Sara and Kara pose as Jake's cousins from out of town.
- In Season 2[11], Sara appears in the yearbook, although she was not an official student. It is possible that, after Season 1[9], she enrolled at the school with her sister.
- Sara and Kara participated in the fight against the Dark Dragon[12].
- Sara and Kara have names composed of four letters like their voice actress Tara Strong. The three names also rhyme.
- Sara's name was originally planned to be spelled as 'Sarah'.
- Both Sara and Kara were originally going to wear different attires for season one.
Episode Appearances
Season One
- Dragon Breath (first appearance)
- Bodyguard Duty
- Eye of the Beholder
- Hong Kong Nights
Season Two
- The Academy
- Magic Enemy #1 (final appearance)
- Being Human (cameo)
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dragon Breath
- ↑ Sara on Behind the Voice Actors
- ↑ Kara on Behind the Voice Actors
- ↑ Tara Strong on IMDB
- ↑ Sara on Jeff Goode's Site
- ↑ Kara on Jeff Goode's Site
- ↑ Oracle Twins on Jeff Goode's Site
- ↑ Oracle Twins on IMDB
- ↑ a b c d e f Body Guard Duty
- ↑ Eye of the Beholder
- ↑ Being Human
- ↑ Hong Kong Nights