Editing Kaolinite

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| image                    = http://www.wikimoon.org/images/kaolinite.jpg
| color                    = #99cccc
| Name                     = Kaolinite
| JP Name                  = カオリナイト
| Alignment                = [[Death Busters]]
| Species                  = Humanoid
| Gender                   = Female
| Lives                    = The Tomoe mansion, [[Tokyo]]
| Occupation               = Tomoe household caretaker, secretary, [[Mugen Academy]] principal ([[Sailor Moon (manga)|manga]] and [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal|Crystal]] only)
| Family                   = Unknown
| Associates               = [[Professor Souichi Tomoe|Professor Tomoe]], [[Hotaru Tomoe]], [[Witches 5]], [[Death Nightmares]] ([[Sera Myu|musicals]] only)
| Aliases                  = Kaori; Kaori Kuromine, Magus (manga only)
| Anime                    = [[Usagi and the Girls' Resolve! Prelude to a New Battle]] (non-speaking), [[Premonition of World's End? Mysterious New Senshi]] (speaking)
| Manga                    = [[Act 27 Mugen 1 Yokan]]
| PGSM                     = N/A
| Dub Name                 = Kaori Knight, Kaorinite ([[Sailor Moon in North America#English Dub|dub]]); Kaolinite ([[Kodansha]] manga, [[Viz Media|Viz]] dub)
| Actors                   = [[Noriko Uemura]] ([[Sailor Moon (anime)|anime]]), [[Hikari Yono]] (Crystal), [[Kirsten Bishop]] (dub), [[Tara Platt]] (Viz dub)
}}
'''''Kaolinite''''' was a member of the [[Death Busters]] from the [[Sailor Moon S]] season of the [[Sailor Moon (anime)|anime]] and [[Sailor Moon (manga)#Mugen (Infinity)|Infinity arc]] of the [[Sailor Moon (manga)|manga]], and also appeared in some of the [[Sera Myu|musicals]]. 

She was the first main enemy to appear from the Death Busters, and was soon shown to hold an important position in their organization. She was also (she hoped) closest to the heart of her boss, [[Professor Souichi Tomoe]]. 

== Anime ==
In the anime, Kaolinite's most striking feature was her bust and the accompanying lack of clothing to cover it - her general attire was nothing more than a sleeveless red labcoat. She nevertheless held an important role in the Sailor Moon S season, as the second in command of the Death Busters, as well as potential lover of the Professor. She was primarily responsible with gathering the three [[Pure Heart Crystal]]s that held the [[talisman]]s, though later, her role in the Death Busters became more defined and complex as the dynamics of the organization became clearer.

Kaolinite was also the only enemy character in the anime to have been brought back from the dead. Hence, she had two incarnations: her first, original incarnation, and her second, "Kaori" incarnation.

=== First Incarnation ===
In her first incarnation, Kaolinite was charged only with finding the three talismans. Kaolinite would use her senses to select a victim and would target them very carefully, then would take a [[Daimon Egg]] provided by Professor Tomoe and fuse it with an item that her intended victim enjoyed. When the victim later touched the object, the egg would mature into a [[Daimon]], then would extract the Pure Heart Crystal slowly and painfully, usually with Kaolinite watching the process. If the [[Sailor Senshi]] intervened, she would sometimes leave or sometimes stay and fight using various powers. Among these powers were the ability to blast people with energy or to use her hair to choke them.

Despite the purity of her victims and the effectiveness of her attacks, Kaolinite did not find the talismans. Nor was she able to defeat the Sailor Senshi, though several times she came close to doing this - sometimes playing on the increasing tensions between the four [[Inner Senshi]] and [[Sailor Moon]], and [[Sailor Uranus]] and [[Sailor Neptune]]. In fact, of the eight Senshi known during her tenure, she unknowingly extracted the Crystals of [[Sailor Mercury]], [[Sailor Mars]], and [[Sailor Jupiter]]; she also extracted Sailor Moon's Crystal twice, during which she learned the Senshi's true identity.

It was during the second extraction of Sailor Moon's Heart Crystal that Kaolinite eventually met her death. After she gained and subsequently lost the Heart Crystal before she could examine it, Kaolinite learned who Sailor Moon was and blackmailed [[Usagi Tsukino|Usagi]] into meeting her at [[Tokyo Tower]] and giving herself up in exchange for the life of [[Tuxedo Mask]]. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, who drove Usagi to the tower, were the first to challenge Kaolinite, followed by the Inner Senshi, who attempted to trick Kaolinite and [[Cenicienta|her Daimon]] with "[[Sailor Venus Moon]]": Venus disguised as Sailor Moon in order to save their leader. 

In the end, the girls were all forced to confront Kaolinite and her Daimon's sword, which threw shards of glass that would crystallize her targets. Combining their powers, Sailor Moon and the Inner Senshi managed to weaken her with [[Sailor Planet Attack]], and Sailor Uranus' [[World Shaking]] reflected her attack back at her, encasing her in glass. Afterwards, parts of the building collapsed on her, and she was thrown off the side to Tokyo Tower and to her death.

After the Senshi left, though, Kaolinite's body was reanimated and transferred back to Professor Tomoe, to begin its second life.

=== Second Incarnation ===
"Kaori," as Kaolinite was then known, reappeared after [[Eudial]]'s death to a shocked Usagi and [[Chibiusa]] in [[A House Full of Evil Presence! The Secret of the Beautiful Girl, Hotaru|episode 113]]. Her memories of being a Death Buster were initially either gone or suppressed, though either way she eventually remembered her mission to the Professor. Her previous powers were also apparently nonexistant.

During this incarnation it was revealed that Kaolinite, who was then acting as the caretaker and maid of the Tomoe household, had previously been with the Professor as his secretary for at least ten years prior. She had always had an intense dislike of [[Hotaru Tomoe|Hotaru]], even from the time Hotaru was a toddler, mainly because Hotaru took the Professor's attention away from her. 

She was most likely the first person after Hotaru and the Professor to be implanted with the [[evil]] power of the Death Busters, and might have done this out of love for the Professor. One thing that dictated many of her thoughts and feelings was her unrequited crush on Professor Tomoe, and it became obvious that she was more than willing to do whatever it took to get him to acknowledge her in return.

As a result, the [[Witches 5]] (Tomoe's other helpers) disliked Kaolinite. For example, Eudial reveled in the fact that she was dead the first time, [[Viluy]] mocked her openly as dead weight to the cause, and [[Cyprine]] decided to replace Kaolinite in the Professor's attentions. There was some justification for this as, when a Witch appeared to talk to the Professor, Kaolinite was sometimes seen alongside the Professor, serving him tea or massaging him instead of searching for Heart Crystals.

This did not diminish the fact that the Professor needed "Kaori" at his side. On top of being Hotaru's caretaker, Kaolinite was still the most reliable warrior Tomoe had in finding heart crystals to feed to and revive the [[Messiah of Silence]]. This led to her to be re-powered in [[A Mystic Flower That Steals Hearts! The Third Witch, Tellu|episode 121]] in order to re-take Hotaru after she had escaped [[Mugen Academy]]. This time in Death Buster form, she took to wearing the black dress which she would wear as the Magus in the manga.

Finally, Kaolinite became desperate to keep the Professor's attention on herself, and she finally decided to take the initiative in [[Shadows of Destruction! The Awakening of the Messiah of Silence|episode 123]] by kidnapping Chibiusa for her heart crystal. Chibiusa's heart crystal was then fed to Hotaru during a revival ceremony, and Hotaru was transformed by its power into [[Mistress 9]]. For this, Kaolinite finally received some of the recognition she desired from the Professor, which seemed a stepping stone to her finally becoming the Professor's lover. 

As she expressed her own thanks, however, she was rewarded with a blast of lightning from Mistress 9 which sent her into the deadly electrocution field that was first used to repel the Sailor Senshi from the revival ceremony. This was the permanent end of Kaolinite, for, as Mistress 9 said, "she is no longer needed."

== Manga ==
According to the manga, Kaolinite was one of the first persons affected by a Daimon egg. Several years before the beginning of the series, she was struck by lightning during a powerful thunderstorm, which embedded the Daimon within her as [[Pharaoh 90]] arrived on [[Earth]]. This storm also caused the "accident" at Professor Tomoe's lab, at which time [[Keiko Tomoe|his wife]] was killed, his daughter severely wounded, and he himself became the host of [[Germatoid]].

As the manga story progressed, she was shown to be the Magus of the Death Busters, as well as the principal of Mugen Academy, and Tomoe's primary partner in creating Daimons. She directed the Witches 5, the most perfect Daimons, on their missions to revive Pharaoh 90 and the [[Taioron Crystal]]. She also gave them information about the Sailor Senshi, which Kaolinite received via a special water mirror outside the Taioron Temple, as well as from Pharaoh 90 himself. 

As Tomoe's assistant and Magus, Kaolinite was given special privileges that none of the other Death Busters had. She could communicate with Pharaoh 90, use a fragment of the Taioron Crystal, summon Daimons to aid the Witches 5, and with her water mirror could detect new threats or predict future events. She had access to the Mugen labs both on campus and at Tomoe's personal research facility, and she also spied on Hotaru for the Professor.

When Mistress 9 revived, a jealous Kaolinite was placed in charge of destroying the Sailor Senshi once and for all. Kaolinite showed herself to have a great deal of power as she revived the Witches 5, placed a spell on the five Inner Senshi through voodoo, and warped the time-space continuum inside Mugen to transform it into a labyrinth of empty rooms in order to trap the Senshi. Though she managed to capture four of them, she was unable to trick Sailor Moon, and the [[Outer Senshi]] helped to free her captives. 

Kaolinite's life ended when she was confronted by all nine Senshi in the principal's office. She turned into her Daimon form in order to try and kill the Senshi, but was destroyed by [[Super Sailor Moon]].

==Musicals==
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In the ''Sailor Moon'' musicals, Kaolinite was played by [[Keiko Hanayama]], [[Mutsumi Fukuma]], [[Miki Kawasaki]], and [[Kei Ohgi]].

===Attacks===

* ''[[Magus Freeze]]'' - Kaolinite's primary attack in the musicals.
* ''[[Magus Flash]]'' 
* ''[[Magus Zone]]'' 
* ''[[Pentagram]]'' - An attack that trapped her opponent.
* ''[[Nightmare Buster]]''
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==Trivia==
* Kaolinite is named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolinite a mineral of the same name], which is found in clay often used for ceramics.

* She was the only villain who died twice in the [[Sailor Moon (anime)|anime]].

* According to the now-defunct [http://sailormoon.channel.or.jp/ Sailor Moon Channel] mailbox, Kaolinite's approximate age was 28.

* In the [[Sailor Moon in France#Anime|French dub]] of the anime, Kaolinite was called "Carolina," while Kaori became "Carole."

* In the [[Sailor Moon in Germany#Anime|German dub]] of the anime, her name became "Kaorinite," but was still pronounced as if it were English. When [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal|Sailor Moon Crystal]] was dubbed, it remained the original "Kaolinite," but this time was pronounced as if it were German.

* She was also the only character to have died twice in the [[Sailor Moon (anime)|anime]].

[[Category: Affiliates of the Death Busters]]