Kylie Reynolds

"Growing up, my parents traveled a lot, sometimes taking me and my brother. Because of that, and not knowing when I'd be in the country or out, I didn't like making friends. Jesse is the only one I befriended, he understood my parents' jobs."

- Kylie Reynolds

Kylie Regine Reynolds is an Obelisk Blue Student at Duel Academy and duels with a solar system-inspired dragon deck called the "Dracosmos". She is the daughter of Devon and Freya Reynolds, archaeologists, the granddaughter of Katheryn Reynolds, and the younger sister of Blake Reynolds, a professional duelist.

Due to her parents' work, Kylie could never be sure when she would be traveling or staying in one place. Because of that, she resisted forging any lifelong friendships, knowing it would be pointless. The only friendship she was able to keep was with Jesse Anderson, not only she met in Norway, but was the son of her father's childhood best friend, Reanna Anderson.

Physical description
Kylie is a slim girl of average height and weight with black hair with various shades of blue highlights, which she later reveals is dyed, and dark red eyes, which she inherited from her mother. She later reveals that her original hair color, is a pale, blonde-white, inheriting it from her father, showing she is a mixture of her parents. Her ears are pierced, which she has a pair of Nordic, light twisted hoop earrings, and a double winged necklace, which she inherited from her mother, Freya.

At Duel Academy, she wears a slightly modified version of the Obelisk Blue Girls' uniform: a black sleeveless turtleneck shirt, an Obelisk Blue vest, which she leaves open, dark blue-grey pants, and dark boots. She also wears a slanted black vest, with her Deck Case attached to it. At the beginning, Kylie wore the standard uniform, but later changed, after finding it uncomfortable in wearing the skirt.

When not wearing the School Uniform, Kylie goes for casual clothing. One of her outfits is a sleeveless, silver-white hooded jacket over a black, elbow-length sleeved shirt with a picture of the moon and stars, black jeans, and brown boots.

During the time she's with the Society of Light, Kylie initially wears the white-and-lavender-colored Obelisk Blue Uniform. The outfit doesn't last long, and eventually, she switches to a white-and-lavender-colored of her modified variation. When she is under the control of "Cosmic Dragon Stellaris", Kylie wears a black-and-gold-lined, hooded, sleeveless jacket over a black sleeveless shirt, dark pants, and black and-gold trimmed, slight, high-heeled boots. She continues wearing her dark belt and multi-colored Deck case. Following being freed by "Cosmic Dragon Stellaris", she continues wearing the outfit, only having it silver and dark purple.

While traveling through the Dark World, Kylie adds a long, black traveling cloak to help her keep hidden in the shadows. Around this time, her Duel Disk has been destroyed and she starts using the custom-made Duel Disk she received before coming for her final year.

Personality
Kylie is an independent, insightful and determined girl, though she can be quiet at times and is prone to getting lost in her own thoughts. She has a fascination with ancient history, mythology, astronomy, and, of course, Duel Monsters. Wanting to learn all that she can, she can often be found reading books on those subjects in her free time.

With her ability to see Duel Monster spirits, Kylie is extremely close to her cards. She is most often seen speaking with "Halley, Dracosmos of Transiency", but is able to communicate with all of her spirit friends. Having spent years with a dragon-based deck, Kylie has come to develop a skill where she can understand what her dragons' growls, roars, and sounds mean.

While she can be personable enough when she needs to be, she won’t go out of her way to make people like or befriend her, and she doesn't like to get overly attached to others outside of her family, either. This is mostly due to her upbringing. Since both of her parents had jobs that required her family to travel and move around constantly when she was growing up, she didn’t see the point of forming bonds with others if they were just going to get severed once she had to relocate somewhere else. The only person she really let herself get close to outside of her family was the son of her father’s best friend, a boy named Jesse Anderson, since they met when they were kids and she was able to spend time with him more often than most.

When it comes to those she cares about, Kylie can be pretty selfless and sympathetic and is loyal and protective towards them, always willing to be there for them in time of need and put their well being before her own.

Conversely, she has a noticeable disdain for people who act entitled and like flaunting their privilege around and tries to avoid those types at all costs. She also dislikes it when people act lazy, careless, or don’t even bother to apply themselves at all.

Despite her lack of social skills, dueling seems to make it slightly easier for Kylie to interact with her peers and begin to open up to them a bit more since she is better able to express herself through her cards, in part thanks to her brother’s teachings.

Kylie appears to be very confident in her own capabilities. She doesn't back down from anyone and isn’t afraid to speak her mind, though she will readily admit when she messes up. She does her best to keep herself calm, collected and level-headed at all times but doesn't always succeed. When embarrassed or stressed, she often gets her thoughts jumbled and reverts to speaking her native language, though she has learned how to calm herself down fairly quickly after being overwhelmed.

Powers

 *  Spirit perception: Kylie inherited the Reynolds' family hereditary ability to see, hear, and be aware of spirits around her. She is mainly seen talking with her partner, "Halley, Dracosmos of Transiency", but can speak to all her Dragons and cards. Also, having spent many years communicating with her Dragon-type monsters, Kylie has come to an understanding of her dragons' growls and the noises they make, enabling her to understand them. She later hints that she could see more than Duel Spirits, but doesn't elaborate more.

Skills

 * Dueling proficiency: Having participated in various minor dueling tournaments, along with going up against her brother and Jesse, Kylie has become a very skilled duelist, able to work quickly and plan with whatever she had on hand. As her deck primarily consists of Dragon-type, monsters Kylie has developed a strategy that can counter the cards that can disable her deck, such as "Dragon Capture Jar".
 * Extensive knowledge of ancient history: Because of the constant travels, and her staying mainly in the library before she got into dueling, Kylie is well knowledgeable in some countries' ancient history. She is well knowledgeable in the history of Ancient Egypt and Norse (including Viking history), focusing on those two countries.
 * Multilingualism: With her parents' jobs, Kylie has heard various languages based on where they are staying. She is fluent in Norwegian, Canadian French, English, and can understand Egyptian hieroglyphics. It is known that if she is embarrassed or flustered, she will switch to either Norwegian or Canadian French into her speech . Her ability to read and understand Egyptian hieroglyphics are seen in, Ra's Raging Sunset, where she can read the text on the copy of the Winged Dragon of Ra card.

Equipment

 *  Duel Disks: Kylie possesses two types of Duel Disks.
 * Academy-issued: Upon arriving at Duel Academy, Kylie is given an Academy-issued one. She uses this throughout her first year and most of her second year until she starts rebelling from the Light. She returns to using this one after Jaden duels against "Cosmic Dragon Stellaris" and frees her.
 * KaibaCorp: During her time rebelling against The Light, Kylie reverts to her old, KaibaCorp Duel Disk, for unknown reasons.
 * Dragon Wing Disk: After her second year, Kylie receives a custom Duel Disk from her parents as a gift, dubbing it Dragon Wing. In Standby Mode, the Duel Disk takes the form of a silver-colored armband with a blue gemstone in the center with a dragon's head that holds her deck. In Duel Mode, a blade emerges from the armband, styled after a dragon's wing, with constellation-like designs. She reveals this Duel Disk after her Academy one is destroyed while in the Dark World.
 * Laptop: When in class, Kylie carries a laptop around that has downloaded textbooks when she took her online courses.
 * Double Winged-Necklace: Before coming to Duel Academy, Kylie received a double-winged necklace from her mother, thinking that it was nothing but an heirloom. It was later revealed to have some form of protection magic, given it protected her during her Shadow Duel with Gravekeeper Priestess, reducing her damage. She later gives her necklace to Brynhild who had surrendered her duel, realizing she would never be able to go home. To their surprise, the necklace protected Brynhild from the possible after effects had she lost the duel.

Pre-series
Born in Oslo, Norway, Kylie is the younger child and only daughter of Devon and Freya Reynolds, archaeologists in Ancient Egypt and Norse culture, respectively, the younger sister of Blake Reynolds, and the only granddaughter of Katheryn Reynolds.

Early in her childhood, Kylie befriended Jesse Anderson, the son of her father's childhood best friend, who would later become her only friend following her parents busy lives as archaeologists (resulting in them traveling at different times, and sometimes taking her and Blake with them). With her parents' work, and never knowing when they might be in the country or traveling, Kylie and Blake went to online learning, allowing them to be able to learn if they are ever traveling. To avoid having to end friendships, Kylie opted to not make friends when they traveled, usually staying where they were staying, or going to the local library.

As revealed in Trials of Light, Kylie and her family spent some time in Egypt, where they lived with a local tribe. A couple of times, Jesse went with them, and two spent time playing with the tribe children and also learning more about Ancient Egypt. It is also hinted that Kylie and Jesse met the Ishtars, who guarded the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh, but never confirmed. But given her father's job, it was very highly likely.

A few months before she was to turn twelve, Kylie, Jesse, and Blake (he's the only reason why Jesse and Kylie coule go) traveled to Europe, where Jesse was due to partake in a Duel Monsters Tournament. Near the end, Kylie got a very big surprise, but promised to keep quiet (which she has to this day).

While visiting her brother in Japan, Kylie got wind of Duel Academy and became interested in it. After getting permission from her parents, Kylie applied for Duel Academy.

Trials of Darkness
Though not shown, it is implied that Kylie studied countless hours for the Duel Academy Entrance Written Exams. It is later revealed that she passed with flying colors, scoring a solid 92%, allowing her to proceed to the Duel Portion.

Devon Reynolds
Kylie has somewhat normal father-daughter relationship with her father, Devon. Devon is protective over Kylie and does worry about her, especially during the time she didn't talk to other kids her age. Devon was the one who gave Kylie her "Dracosmos" cards. While in the United States for a work conference and a guest speaker at some universities, Devon sensed the spirit of "Blazar, the Shining Dracosmos". Though he wasn't fully sure that it was Blazar, he could sense something was calling him, which led him to a local Duel Monsters Shop, where the "Dracosmos" cards were being held. He managed to buy the cards from the buyer and later gave them to Kylie as a birthday present. It was there that Devon was able to see that the feeling was a Spirit, the spirit of "Blazar, the Shining Dracosmos".

Blake Reynolds
Blake is Kylie's older brother by eight years. As children, Blake and Kylie had the normal "I don't want you to hang out with me and my friends" relationship. However, as their parents' jobs required them to travel, they got closer as they had no other children to hang/play with. As Blake got older, and got more into Duel Monsters, he noticed Kylie closing off from people. He began to get worried, especially when Kylie began to show signs of being antisocial. In a last ditch effort, Blake took her to a Duel Monsters Tournament that was being held in the city near them. To his surprise, it was enough to get her to change her ways.

Jesse Anderson
Jesse is Kylie's childhood best friend, who they met through their parents, Rayne and Devon who are childhood best friends. They were placed in the same kindergarten class, and Jesse had to protect Kylie when she was getting bullied. Despite moving away when she was in the second grade because of her parents' work, Kylie and Jesse remained in contact. Jesse is Kylie's go-to person when she doesn't want to talk to her brother or parents about something. He is always there for Kylie and her for Jesse. She calls him every day and just talks about random things, and since starting Duel Academy, she talks about her days. Since she dyed her hair, people tend to mistake her for Jesse's sister (though they do consider each other as siblings so it wasn't too far). Before changing her hair color, people would think she was Jesse's girlfriend, considering how much time she spends with him and vice versa; both quickly dispel the thought and say they are best friends only.

In Trials of Dimensions, it is revealed that Kylie was present when Jesse bonded with the "Crystal Beasts". It's also implied, that Kylie could potentially use the "Crystal Beasts", though it's never mentioned or tried (Kylie usually claims she prefers her dragons over various beasts, no offense to the "Crystal Beasts" themselves).

While in the Duel Monster Spirit World, closeness of Kylie and Jesse's friendship is revealed, when he is willing to do anything to get Kylie the medicine she needs. Yubel also becomes known about their friendship even using it to try to trick Kylie during their Triangle Duel to free Jesse from Yubel.

"Halley, Dracosmos of Transiency"
Halley is Kylie's Duel Spirit and her main Spirit Partner.

Deck
Kylie utilizes a "Dracosmos" Deck, which focuses on Dragon-type monsters that are based on the planets of the solar system and astronomical objects. Her style of battling relies around on providing card advantage when the "Dracosmos" is Summoned and/or Banished.

At the start, Kylie doesn't try to summon anything higher than her Level 6 monsters, seeing no active reason to summon anything higher. It is only during the Gravekeeper's Incident does she start summoning her higher level monsters, needing to bring out her duo Ritual "Dracosmos" to win against the "Gravekeeper's Priestess". By the end of the Shadow Rider Arc, Kylie has summoned all of her "Dracosmos" monsters, saving, her most powerful card, "Unus, the First Dracosmos" for her Tag Duel with Jaden against Kagemaru.

During the Trials of Light, "Cosmic Dragon Stellaris" utilizes Kylie's "Dracosmos" cards through her. Though while Kylie used a more, calm, offensive/defensive, battle style, "Cosmic Dragon Stellaris" uses a more aggressive battling style, summoning the higher-level "Dracosmos" monsters very quickly.

Etymology
The name  Kylie  comes from the Irish surname "O’Kiely", which in turn derives from the Old Gaelic surname "O’Cadhla", meaning "graceful or beautiful". The name  Regine  is Norwegian for "Queen". It was chosen to match their mother's heritage. The name  Reynolds  is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Reynold", where the given name of the father, "Reynold", or "Reginald", was a Germanic name meaning "Powerful Ruler" (possibly an alteration of the Old French name Reinold).

Trivia

 * Like her father, Kylie is allergic to cats and is ambidextrous. Like Devon, she prefers using her left hand. Her custom duel disk that she receives later, is fitted for her right arm.
 * Because of her birthday being in December, technically, Kylie wouldn't have been able to apply for Duel Academy. However, thanks to her high test scores, she was able to enter Duel Academy earlier.
 * Kylie identifies as Asexual Demiromantic.