Thanks!
Incase anyone else ever reading this has this problem with a weird story with their kobo, Symbola worked,
http://xahlee.info/comp/i/Symbola.zip
Nothing else actually had all the special characters AND the emojis.
But in the end I liked the blackness of the
https://github.com/MorbZ/OpenSansEmoji font.
Symbola looked a bit gray on my kobo, and the only thing the snowflake was used for was scene breaks so I just did a global find and replace it to regular ***