Snow Dancer

These slender humanoids are sculpted entirely from ice, with clear blue eyes and short, flowing hair that falls to the nose at the front. Semi-transparent skirts reach down to their ankles, and small beads cap the ends of their fingers as well as the toes of their heeled shoes.

Princess Snow Kaguya conjures the Snow Dancers by blowing a strong wind from her mouth, then sends them down to Earth to encase its people in ice and blanket the ground in frost wherever they pass. They are ultimately undone alongside their mistress by the power of the Imperium Silver Crystal. Naoko Takeuchi based their design on a ballerina sculpture she once purchased, later identified as Theo Vos's 1927 piece The Ballerina, made for the Hutschenreuther porcelain house; she has recalled her sadness at losing the original before tracking down an identical copy. The Snow Dancers also turn up as foes in the game Sailor Moon: Another Story.

Versatile despite their frailty, the Snow Dancers can fly and keep fighting even once their bodies have been torn apart. They freeze targets into solid blocks and spin up illusory duplicates to bewilder opponents. Because their icy makeup shatters easily, any single dancer is delicate, yet in large numbers they turn formidable. Identical to one another, they carry no personalities or distinguishing quirks.