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* WalkingSpoiler: Needless to say, it is ''very'' difficult to discuss Kieran without going into the dramatic shifts he undergoes in his character arc.
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* WalkingSpoiler: Kieran's character arc is so important in the [=DLCs=] that trailers for ''The Indigo Disk'' already have to give away LateArrivalSpoiler, his ExpositoryHairstyleChange included. Needless to say, it is ''very'' difficult to discuss Kieran without going into the dramatic shifts he undergoes in his character arc.undergoes.
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To bother by the book means to follow exact rules for the purpose of screwing someone over. Not the case here.
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* BotheringByTheBook: She votes against letting the player take on the BB League since it goes against the Academy's rules, but ultimately agrees to it only because she and Lacey get outvoted and the Academy allowed the exception.
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* RulesLawyer: She votes against letting the player take on the BB League since it goes against the Academy's rules, but ultimately agrees to it when she and Lacey are outvoted and the Academy allows the exception.
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Carmine admits fault toward the end of the first DLC, even outright trying to apologize. Kieran just doesn't acknowledge it, and Carmine is ignorant of how disturbed he has become. Kieran calling her out" on it is more just him pointing out how even she befriended the player character, more a support of his point that we get everything rather than a condemnation of her.
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* NeverMyFault: For most of both DLCs, she wholeheartedly refuses to believe she played any role in [[StartOfDarkness Kieran's decent,]] Often blaming it on other things. It isn't until the climax of the Indigo Disc story that Kieran finally [[CallingTheOldManOut calls her out on it.]]
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* NeverMyFault: For most of both DLCs, she wholeheartedly refuses to believe she played any role in [[StartOfDarkness Kieran's decent,]] Often blaming it on other things. It isn't until the climax of the Indigo Disc story that Kieran finally [[CallingTheOldManOut calls her out on it.]]
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** Camerupt has the Solid Rock ability to reduce the damage received from Water or Ground-type moves, though it still takes 3x damage. It's also holding the Expert Belt to boost its wide move coverage's damage.
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* HiddenDepths: At first he appears to be a battle-hungry trainer who wastes little time in agreeing with Drayton to induct you into BB League so that he can battle you, but when you challenge him, he reveals that he zealously throws himself into battling and cooking to take his mind off from stressing about the drama currently happening in BB League. He may be an enthusiastic battler, but even he doesn't like the current state of the club with Kieran shoving power-hungry mentality onto everyone, and fussing over such a complex situation stresses him out.
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* HiddenDepths: At first he appears to be a battle-hungry trainer who wastes little time in agreeing with Drayton to induct you into BB League so that he can battle you, but when you challenge him, he reveals that he zealously throws himself into battling and cooking to take his mind off from stressing about the drama currently happening in BB League. He may be an enthusiastic battler, but even he doesn't like the current state of the club with Kieran shoving a power-hungry mentality onto everyone, and fussing over such a complex situation stresses him out.
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* ArtificialBrilliance: As an ally during [[spoiler:the quest to take down the "Loyal" Three, her Morpeko packs a Focus Sash and always starts each battle with Thunder Wave, ensuring that the ensuing bosses will have to struggle with paralysis throughout each fight]]. Moreover, [[spoiler:she never starts with Sinistcha, greatly increasing the chance that the player's Pokemon will be healed by Hospitality.]]
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* ArtificialBrilliance: As an ally during [[spoiler:the quest to take down the "Loyal" Three, her Morpeko packs a Focus Sash and always starts each battle with Thunder Wave, ensuring that the ensuing bosses will have to struggle with paralysis throughout each fight]]. Moreover, [[spoiler:she never starts with Sinistcha, greatly increasing the chance that the player's Pokemon Pokémon will be healed by Hospitality.]]
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** By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes this to [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally]], specifically his ''[=Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire=]'' incarnation. Both of them are introverts who become deeply affected and inspired by the protagonist to become stronger in their own ways, and both of them have signature Pokemon that represent their character growth. However, while Wally is physically frail but has a keen aptitude and focused mindset for strategy, Kieran is perfectly healthy physically, but ''not'' mentally due to his severe insecurities over being bullied and teased by his older sister. This is especially reflected in their choice of Pokémon, and how they handle their teams -- Wally stays loyal to his team and his ace is Ralts, a Pokémon that senses the emotions of others and actively seeks out those who express positive emotions and eventually evolves into either Gardevoir or Gallade depending on the version [[note]]his Ralts evolves into Gardevoir in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and its remake ''Emerald'' as Gallade didn't exist at the time until Gen IV, he ends up being retconned to evolving his Ralts into Gallade in the remakes of said games[[/note]], both of which will do whatever it takes to defend their beloved trainer. Kieran constantly swaps his team around in his obsession to beat the protagonist and his ace is Applin, a Pokémon that hides within the shell of an apple to protect itself from those it sees as threats and can take many different forms depending on the type of apple it eats, representing Kieran's lack of stability; instead of evolving into its lesser final forms, however, it eventually becomes a Hydrapple, the line's strongest final form, which represents Kieran's desire to be undefeatable.
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** By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes this to [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally]], specifically his ''[=Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire=]'' incarnation. Both of them are introverts who become deeply affected and inspired by the protagonist to become stronger in their own ways, and both of them have signature Pokemon Pokémon that represent their character growth. However, while Wally is physically frail but has a keen aptitude and focused mindset for strategy, Kieran is perfectly healthy physically, but ''not'' mentally due to his severe insecurities over being bullied and teased by his older sister. This is especially reflected in their choice of Pokémon, and how they handle their teams -- Wally stays loyal to his team and his ace is Ralts, a Pokémon that senses the emotions of others and actively seeks out those who express positive emotions and eventually evolves into either Gardevoir or Gallade depending on the version [[note]]his Ralts evolves into Gardevoir in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and its remake ''Emerald'' as Gallade didn't exist at the time until Gen IV, he ends up being retconned to evolving his Ralts into Gallade in the remakes of said games[[/note]], both of which will do whatever it takes to defend their beloved trainer. Kieran constantly swaps his team around in his obsession to beat the protagonist and his ace is Applin, a Pokémon that hides within the shell of an apple to protect itself from those it sees as threats and can take many different forms depending on the type of apple it eats, representing Kieran's lack of stability; instead of evolving into its lesser final forms, however, it eventually becomes a Hydrapple, the line's strongest final form, which represents Kieran's desire to be undefeatable.
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** Nearly everything about her sidequest is a reference to ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', from her being Adaman's descendant,[[note]]Perrin quotes Adaman with "Time wasted is lost.", stating it is a common saying in her family.[[/note]] to the Hisuian Pokémon she both travels with and searches for, to the boss battle music for Bloodmoon Ursaluna, etc. Even one of her battling Pokemon is a Leafeon, which was also Adaman's SignatureMon.
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** Nearly everything about her sidequest is a reference to ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', from her being Adaman's descendant,[[note]]Perrin quotes Adaman with "Time wasted is lost.", stating it is a common saying in her family.[[/note]] to the Hisuian Pokémon she both travels with and searches for, to the boss battle music for Bloodmoon Ursaluna, etc. Even one of her battling Pokemon Pokémon is a Leafeon, which was also Adaman's SignatureMon.
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* ChildProdigy: Heavily implied as her information blurb during the League Challenge describes her as having been battling and training pokemon since she could walk and talk.
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* ChildProdigy: Heavily implied as her information blurb during the League Challenge describes her as having been battling and training pokemon Pokémon since she could walk and talk.
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* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Kieran, as shown by her having an odd feeling when she thinks about him and her reaction if the player says they know him from Kitakami. She also seems to be fond of apples from Kitakami, seeing that when Carmine offered to bring other delicacies like mochi, Amarys insisted to bring only apples. When you remember Kieran's [[SignatureMon ace pokemon]], it's not hard to see a connection.
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* ShipTease: It's implied she has a thing for Kieran, as shown by her having an odd feeling when she thinks about him and her reaction if the player says they know him from Kitakami. She also seems to be fond of apples from Kitakami, seeing that when Carmine offered to bring other delicacies like mochi, Amarys insisted to bring only apples. When you remember Kieran's [[SignatureMon ace pokemon]], Pokémon]], it's not hard to see a connection.
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** Given his reputation for being a slacker, his trial is by far the most involved, requiring the player to raise a team of Terarium caught Pokemon.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: The cool kid to Carmine's loser. Amarys is one of the most popular girls in Blueberry Academy while Carmine is barely tolerated by her classmates because of her abrasive personality. A student from their classroom sums it up well.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: The cool kid to Carmine's loser. Amarys is one of the most popular girls in Blueberry Academy while Carmine is barely tolerated by her classmates because of her abrasive personality. A student from their classroom sums it up well.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: The cool kid to Carmine's loser. Amarys is one of the most popular girls in Blueberry Academy while Carmine is barely tolerated by her classmates because of her abrasive personality. A student from their classroom sums it up well.
->'''Classmate''': Our class has Amarys, the student council prez...and Carmine, the student body pest!
->'''Classmate''': Our class has Amarys, the student council prez...and Carmine, the student body pest!
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** {{Invoked|Trope}}. He tries so hard to get Ogerpon to like him the most because he absolutely adores her and feels like she shares a similar background like him, but to his chagrin, she ends up liking the player far more. He gets another dosage of this trope when his efforts to have Terapagos fails when one, it already takes a liking to the player character upon awakening and two, him Terastalizing it causes it to go berserk and it destroys the Master Ball he used to catch it.
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** {{Invoked|Trope}}. He tries so hard to get Ogerpon to like him the most because he absolutely adores her and feels like she shares a similar background like him, but to his chagrin, she ends up liking the player far more. He gets another dosage of this trope when his efforts to have Terapagos fails fail when one, it already takes a liking to the player character upon awakening and two, him Terastalizing it causes it to go berserk and it destroys the Master Ball he used to catch it.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: This man was never indicated to be anything more than a normal human, and yet he was strong and capable enough to actually taken on two legendaries in a fight and actually compelled them to flee instead of taking the fourth mask. It [[UncertainDoom may have]] been at the cost of his life, but it's an incredible feat nonetheless.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: This man was never indicated to be anything more than a normal human, and yet he was strong and capable enough to actually taken take on two legendaries in a fight and actually compelled them to flee instead of taking the fourth mask. It [[UncertainDoom may have]] been at the cost of his life, but it's an incredible feat nonetheless.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: This man was never indicated to be anything more than a normal human, and yet he was strong and capable enough to actually taken on two legendaries in a fight and actually compelled them to flee instead of taking the fourth mask. It [[UncertainDoom may have]] been at the cost of his life, but it's an incredible feat nonetheless.
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* PosthumousCharacter: He's most likely been dead for many generations.
* UncertainDoom: It's noted that Ogerpon returned to their cave to find him missing and the masks stolen. It's unclear what happened to him, although the implications are unpleasant.
* UncertainDoom: It's noted that Ogerpon returned to their cave to find him missing and the masks stolen. It's unclear what happened to him, although the implications are unpleasant.
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* PosthumousCharacter: He's most likely been dead for many generations.
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* UncertainDoom: It's noted that Ogerpon returned to their cave to find him missing and the masks stolen. It's unclear what happened to him, although the implications are unpleasant. It's revealed that the Loyal Three either killed him or left him unconscious when he caught them stealing Ogerpon's masks, but this does not explain why Ogerpon couldn't find him in the aftermath of the incident.
* UncertainDoom: It's noted that Ogerpon returned to their cave to find him missing and the masks stolen. It's unclear what happened to him, although the implications are unpleasant. It's revealed that the Loyal Three either killed him or left him unconscious when he caught them stealing Ogerpon's masks, but this does not explain why Ogerpon couldn't find him in the aftermath of the incident.
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Perrin quotes Adaman with "Time wasted is lost.", stating it is a common saying in her family. That line alone confirms that the two are related.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: She heavily resembles Adaman from ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus''; they have similar hairstyles, hair colors, and eye shapes/colors. However, she hasn't been officialy stated to be his descendent.
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* SweetTooth: During the Festival of Masks, he says that he loves candy apples, and brings up how Dipplin resembles one. His [[https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/ca/SV_Kieran-1.png character sheet art]] also notes that he loves sweets in general, and shows that his bag is full of them, and much like Carmine, he has a boX of chocolates in his room.
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* SweetTooth: During the Festival of Masks, he says that he loves candy apples, and brings up how Dipplin resembles one. His [[https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/ca/SV_Kieran-1.png character sheet art]] also notes that he loves sweets in general, and shows that his bag is full of them.
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* ExposedToTheElements: They take a trip to Glaseado Mountain while wearing their usual skin-baring outfits. Billy cheekily lampshades this, mentioning that their high-quality clothing (somehow) still keeps them warm.
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* AccentAdaptation: Kieran speaks with a noticeable [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Tohoku regional accent]] in the Japanese version. His [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]], "wowzers", is a rough approximation of ''wayaja'', for example.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Though everyone in Kitakami fears and shuns Ogerpon, Kieran admires it because it's strong and doesn't depend on anyone, traits that he wishes to relate in full. Then again, the history about Ogerpon is all backwards, so it's not abominable in the least.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He believes himself to be the reindeer in this case when he finds out that his sister and the player kept him in the dark about their meeting with Ogerpon and trying to fix her mask, because his sister didn't want him to get upset that they met the ogre before he -- who adores it a lot -- did. He even complains to them that he's being ostracized just like the ogre, though it's all in his head.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Near the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', he has a MotiveRant where he reveals he wanted to be just like the player because of their strength and how easy it was for them to become friends with anyone. He even complained to his sister that she went from being rude to very friendly with them.
* AmbiguouslyBi: The player character's gender has no apparent bearing on his ShipTease with them. Amarys will even misinterpret your excursion partnership as a FreudianSlip before realizing what the player actually meant.
* AmbiguousSituation: In regards to any relation he has to Pecharunt before ''Mochi Mayhem'', all we have are inferences or hints at best, most of which have alternative explanations. Namely, he begins to act "off" from his usual self after meeting with the player character where Pecharunt's dormant body rests, and upon punching the Loyal Three's monument a purple aura is briefly seen around his fist, an aura that is identical (if much smaller) to the effect used on people possessed by Pecharunt's mochi. Even the eerie sounds that play during some of his more intense scenes mirror the sounds made when Carmine first shows up possessed in ''Mochi Mayhem''. However, while his aggressive behavior and growth as a trainer does have some connection to a dex entry that states those effected by Pecharunt's powers have their "desires and capabilities" drawn out, it does not resemble at all the behavior of the people possessed by Pecharunt during ''Mochi Mayhem'' itself, and the characters make no mention of any connection (albeit, none of them seem to have any knowledge of Pecharunt's powers or it existing at all, Kieran even noting he assumes there is nothing history-related going on since Ogerpon and the Loyal Three's conflict was already resolved). Lastly, Pecharunt's lore video reveals that it was entirely dormant until the events of Mochi Mayhem, and explains it can only influence people through the mochi and wrapping of its chains, neither of which happen to Kieran at all, supporting the idea that Pecharunt and Kieran had no connection at all.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: After [[BreakTheCutie his snapping]] at the end of ''The Teal Mask'', Kieran becomes one in ''The Indigo Disk'': he stormed through the BB League ranks to become the Champion, bullies his classmates, abuses his newfound position, and is dismissive and disrespectful of everyone he crosses paths with. It takes Drayton, the previous champ, to concoct the plan of you joining the BB League to finally knock Kiki off his high horse.
* BerserkButton:
** In any of his matches against him before the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', landing super-effective and critical hits will cause him to lash out at the player. Bringing [[EntitledToHaveYou Ogerpon]] for his Championship match, however, causes a much more choleric reaction from him.
--->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
** Later, he gets a personal one from Drayton, who keeps calling him "ex-Champion" until he's had enough of making things even with Kieran (who had constantly rubbed in to Drayton's face how he beat him before).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kieran initially comes off as a shy but sweet boy put-upon by his sister, but when he lashes out at Carmine and the player for keeping the truth about Ogerpon's folktale from him, he comes off as distressingly unhinged, and Carmine even notes afterwards that he actually scared her.
* BigBad: For all effective intents and purposes, he's the main antagonist of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero''. His grudge against the protagonist, a result of ''The Teal Mask'''s ending, drives the entire story of ''The Indigo Disk'' and ends up triggering the final conflict when he tries to get his hands on Terapagos to finally one-up you.
* BigBadSlippage: He starts off as a friend to the player in ''The Teal Mask'', but gradually becomes more antagonistic as a result of his building resentment and desire to get stronger. By ''The Indigo Disk'', he has become BB League Champion, with the plot focusing on taking him down freeing the club from his control. Even after his defeat, he triggers the climax of the DLC by trying to claim Terapagos in a last ditch effort for power.
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** He likes to compare himself to Ogerpon as he thinks they both feel like they're alone in the world, though Kieran admires that Ogerpon has the strength to fend for herself and wishes to fully be as independent as her. However, his belief that she did not care about being shunned turns out to have been misplaced.
** In ''Mochi Mayhem'', Penny is quick to connect with him because they're both introverts who took a break from their schools for stressful reasons. Their introvert attitude is the subject of their League Club conversations.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: His troubled childhood and issues from his sister's bullying and lack of friends has built in him an outwardly shy meek demeanor that conceals a legitimately resentful and selfish streak. He becomes increasingly jealous of the protagonist due to their battle prowess and tries to take Ogerpon for himself despite having done basically nothing to bond with her, treating her as a prize to be won rather than a sentient being with legitimate feelings. When he loses, he becomes dangerously fixated on defeating the protagonist, and as the BB League Champion he becomes downright tyrannical towards the other members of the League Club, enforcing strict rules and throwing one member out when he can't follow them.
* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: The player isn't ever given the option to tell him the truth about Ogerpon, with the game even forcing you to lie to his face. This ends up being the catalyst for him [[TookALevelInJerkass getting worse as the story goes on]] and he gets mad at you for lying. Similarly, he gets mad because of you going around with Carmine instead of him, meeting Ogerpon in the process; again, you have to do this to progress -- though PoorCommunicationKills also plays a role.
* BreakTheCutie: Kieran seriously can't catch a break in ''The Teal Mask''. He's often harassed by his sister, has his desire to become stronger constantly put out by you beating him left and right, and just when something finally goes his way when he proves once and for all that Ogerpon was the good guy of the legends all along, his dreams of having Ogerpon for a partner Pokémon get crushed when she picks you instead. This last hit against him sends him over the edge and he drags you into a battle against him with Ogerpon as the prize, and when that ends in his failure, he can only run off in tears and lock himself in his room afterwards. It's frankly no wonder that his last showing in the story has him going completely nuts as he keeps muttering about getting stronger and flashing a dark smile that implies that [[FaceHeelTurn their next meeting with him won't be so friendly]]...
* BrokenPedestal: He starts off being wowed with the player's skill in battle and is quick to latch onto them as a friend, but being beaten by them so consistently, in addition to them lying to him about how Ogerpon is actually the victim of the folktale causes him to lash out at them in anger. The final straw comes when Ogerpon chooses the player as her trainer instead of him, which causes him to break down in tears, lock himself in his room, and not come out to say goodbye to the player when they leave. Interestingly enough, it's inverted in the sense that ''Kieran'' was the one who broke the pedestal due to his fragile psyche and misunderstanding rather than any intentionally malicious actions performed by the player. This is later subverted at the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', where Kieran acknowledges his mistakes, apologizes for his actions, and asks the player if they can start over.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Wowzers!"
* CharacterDevelopment:
** His ShrinkingViolet traits become less of a problem to him as his story progresses, leading to him convincing all the villagers that Ogerpon is not dangerous as the wrong histories said. His rather small team becomes a fully evolved team of 6 when he challenges the player to claim Ogerpon. On the other hand, he takes a turn for the worse when he falls into his SoreLoser attitude and becomes obsessed with trying to beat the player the next time they meet. However, Kieran's character development eventually loops back around to positive, after he's able to put his obsession behind him and apologize to the player for all he put them through.
** By ''Mochi Mayhem'', Kieran is once again as friendly as the first time the player meets him but more confident and no longer a SoreLoser. Case in point, he gets soundly beaten by Nemona when they first meet, but while a little saddened, he accepts his defeat much more gracefully than before, and Nemona wastes no time cheering him up after that by telling him that he does not need to win to enjoy Pokémon battles at their fullest.
* CrazyPrepared: During Briar's expedition to the depths of Area Zero, when Terapagos appears, he notices that it is approaching the player, and reveals that he had brought a Master Ball (presumably the one given to him when he became the BB league Champion) to decisively capture it for himself, before any attempt is made for Terapagos to bond with the player. Unfortunately for him, charging up Terapagos through Terastallizing it causes it to go on a rampage and ''shatters the Master Ball'', indirectly setting itself free.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The harassment of his [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], [[BigBrotherBully older]] sister, already causes Kieran problems from the get-go, and the player besting him in battle multiple times only serves to further put him down. His sister lies to him (with good justification) about the ogre's story due to concern for him, and the player is forced to contribute to said lie, upsetting Kieran. Then, having convinced the villagers that Ogerpon isn't evil, once Ogerpon chooses the player as their trainer over him (due to bonding with the player for more time), he battles the player for her and ends up losing again, [[StartOfDarkness sending him further lower and fueling his desire to best the player in battle]] once ''The Teal Mask'''s story ends. By the start of ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran becomes the DLC story's ArcVillain, with a fixation on being the very best and proving his strength to the player.
* DarkReprise: Kieran's initial battle music is light and bouncy, incorporating heavy use of strings and marimba to illustrate both his timid demeanor and fierce passion for Pokémon battling. But in your final battle with him in ''The Teal Mask'', the theme becomes much more urgent and menacing by replacing the marimba with electric guitar, showcasing his StartOfDarkness and the beginning of his SanitySlippage from trying to best the player. When he becomes BB League Champion, his battle music becomes foreboding and dominated by electric guitar and techno elements before ending on a frenzied descending piano scale, showing the heights he's reached, the awful things he's done in pursuit of strength, and his ego crashing down upon his defeat.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's the main human character of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero'', with his character arc being the main emotional centerpiece of the story.
* DevelopersForesight: Kieran has unique dialogue if you choose to use Ogerpon when fighting him in ''The Indigo Disk''.
-->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
* DidntThinkThisThrough: While staying behind in Mossui Town to educate the townsfolk about the truth regarding Ogerpon to clear her name is a noble goal, Kieran apparently didn't consider that leaving Ogerpon to mingle with the player character out of his sight may cause her to instead bond with and trust the player character more than him. Ogerpon's choice to join you thus is partially his own fault.
* DiscardAndDraw: He benches his Furret in exchange for a Gligar and a Cramorant in his fourth battle, and then benches his Cramorant for a Shiftry and a Probopass in his fifth. When the player battles him at Blueberry Academy, his original team is gone, except for his Dipplin, which he evolved into Hydrapple. This constant changing of his team may demonstrate his fixation on becoming stronger, at the cost of pushing away his connections to those around him. However, a League Club Room conversation indicates he simply has a lot of Pokémon in addition to the team he uses to battle you, and he values them all. Case in point -- as an ally during ''Mochi Mayhem'', he benches his Politoed and brings back his old Poliwrath.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
** Kieran idolizes the ogre for being independent, and is both awed by and jealous of the player character's battling skills. Therefore, once Ogerpon chooses the player over him and he loses one last battle with them, Kieran concludes that he just wasn't strong enough to be Ogerpon's trainer. In reality, Ogerpon chose the player because they spent more time with her than he did.
** When he catches Terapagos and uses it to battle the player, he's confused as to why this Pokémon [[WorfHadTheFlu isn't as strong as he initially believed]]. He's also still so hung up on beating the player character that he assumes catching a Legendary Pokémon will solve his problems. Thus, he still hasn't learned his lesson from Ogerpon, and goes a step ''further'' by outright capturing Terapagos instead of considering its feelings.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: His eyes reflect his mental state, losing their shine should he deteriorate into bitterness and rage. This is especially evident during his final battle to determine who gets to be Ogerpon's trainer. Even the final scene with him shows his eyes are vacant, indicating that he's becoming obsessed with beating the player. At the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', his HeelFaceTurn is displayed by the lights returning to his eyes. The change has stuck by the time of ''Mochi Mayhem'', though [[ZigZaggedTrope the lights sometimes vanish again]], no longer due to bitterness, but more so when focused in battles or under intense emotions, such as stress or fear.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite how Kieran acted to everyone, including the player, in ''The Indigo Disk'', he's still forgiven by the player and Carmine. When he asks if he and the player can be friends again, the player gives him a smile and the post-credit photo shows them and Carmine together. {{Justified|Trope}} through dialogue with the members of the Elite Four, who were aware of Keiran's change in character since returning from Kitakami and were more worried than angry, figuring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness something terrible had happened to bring about the change]]. That said, Drayton still calls Kieran ex-Champ post-epilogue for the sake of payback, much to Kieran's chagrin.
* EntitledToHaveYou:
** A non-romantic example. He challenges the player for the right to catch Ogerpon after she expressed her desire to have them to be her trainer. Carmine even pleads for him to consider Ogerpon's feelings, but he dismisses her in favor of winning Ogerpon like a prize. Kieran acknowledges that he's being selfish and that he's in the wrong but he simply can't bring himself to give up on his dream without a fight. By the end of the DLC, his focus seems to have slipped from winning Ogerpon to the player character themselves, in a bit of a twisted parallel to Carmine's and Nemona's obsession with having the player as a rival to beat.
** He also ends up doing this to Terapagos as well, as when Terapagos notices the player and tries to approach them, Kieran flips out and catches it in a Master Ball to keep it away from the player, angrily yelling that Terapagos is his.
* EvilCounterpart:
** For Penny. Both are introverted and suffer bullying, resulting in them making mistakes and causing more harm than good in response. The difference is that Penny ultimately accepts her defeat and becomes better for it, while Kieran gets more and more frustrated over his losses and ultimately comes to resent the player.
** He is similar to but also contrasts heavily with Nemona. Both are the younger sibling in the family, lacking friends growing up, highly skilled in battle, and easily fixated on someone they fancy. The two also engage you in a climatic battle between Champions in their respective story arcs, with said climatic battle being spectated by trainers you've battled prior and the two giving you monologue in the cutscenes preceding and following said battle. However, Nemona grew up under hands-off parents and becomes a cheerful but socially-tone-deaf girl, and she's wants you to be a rival to match her prowess and is utterly ecstatic when you finally best her at the top of her game, and her climatic theme is a TriumphantReprise. Meanwhile, Kieran grew up with an oppressive sister and becomes a shy, sensitive, and judgmental young boy who can't handle losses well and becomes more and more determined to best you, eventually going into a meltdown after his defeat in the Championship battle, and his climatic theme is a DarkReprise of his previous already-DarkReprise.
** For the opposite gender rival in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Both get genuinely disheartened by how, no matter how hard they try, the protagonist is just better than them and gets the privilege of something they've been seeking. But while Calem or Serena learns to cope with the power gulf, Kieran sinks deeper and deeper into despair as he keeps losing and when he loses out on what he sees as his prize, Ogerpon's friendship, he snaps.
** By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes this to [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally]], specifically his ''[=Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire=]'' incarnation. Both of them are introverts who become deeply affected and inspired by the protagonist to become stronger in their own ways, and both of them have signature Pokemon that represent their character growth. However, while Wally is physically frail but has a keen aptitude and focused mindset for strategy, Kieran is perfectly healthy physically, but ''not'' mentally due to his severe insecurities over being bullied and teased by his older sister. This is especially reflected in their choice of Pokémon, and how they handle their teams -- Wally stays loyal to his team and his ace is Ralts, a Pokémon that senses the emotions of others and actively seeks out those who express positive emotions and eventually evolves into either Gardevoir or Gallade depending on the version [[note]]his Ralts evolves into Gardevoir in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and its remake ''Emerald'' as Gallade didn't exist at the time until Gen IV, he ends up being retconned to evolving his Ralts into Gallade in the remakes of said games[[/note]], both of which will do whatever it takes to defend their beloved trainer. Kieran constantly swaps his team around in his obsession to beat the protagonist and his ace is Applin, a Pokémon that hides within the shell of an apple to protect itself from those it sees as threats and can take many different forms depending on the type of apple it eats, representing Kieran's lack of stability; instead of evolving into its lesser final forms, however, it eventually becomes a Hydrapple, the line's strongest final form, which represents Kieran's desire to be undefeatable.
** He also has a fair amount in common with [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Hop]]. Both are rivals who have a crisis from constantly being beaten and eventually shelve their ComMon after said crisis, with both of their character arcs essentially boiling down to them realizing that [[TheUnchosenOne they aren't the main character of the game]]. While Hop eventually accepts he isn't going to beat the player and is still friends with them, Kieran keeps doubting his strength and eventually [[SanitySlippage goes crazy]], only wisening up after things go horribly wrong and he has to help make them right.
** Finally, he shares a close resemblance to Paulo from ''Pokémon Masters'', with one key difference. Both of them feel rather hopeless to beat the player and keep going at it despite the odds. Though Paulo keeps a sense of sanity about it for the most part and stays afloat (rockily) because of other people trying look after him, Kieran doesn't get as much help from his status as a loner (not helped by his BigSisterBully issues) and ends up being far more fixated on trouncing the player, and he falls into SanitySlippage for it.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Unlike the other villagers, he thinks Ogerpon is NotEvilJustMisunderstood. He's right on the money, though mistaken in some of his other beliefs about Ogerpon's character.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Kieran gets some noticeable ones during ''The Indigo Disk'' along with his vacant eyes, Carmine specifically points out that he's been so focused on getting stronger that he's been cutting back on sleep. He no longer has them once he fully recovers from his obsession and starts getting proper sleep.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: At the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he's shown pulling back his bangs as he fully falls into his obsession with beating the player. The final trailer for ''The Indigo Disk'' shows that he ended up pulling back all of his hair save for a single strand, resulting in his purple highlights now becoming the primary color of his hair. This is lampshaded by Drayton in ''The Indigo Disk'', who literally states he preferred Kieran when his hair was down, as while he was timid and hid behind Carmine, he at least enjoyed being a Pokémon trainer.
* FallenHero: It's safe to say that the SanitySlippage he experiences during ''The Teal Mask'' has sent him off the deep end, to the point he [[FaceHeelTurn becomes]] the ArcVillain of ''The Indigo Disk'' and thus the DLC as a whole. Fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn he gets better at the end]].
* FamilyEyeResemblance: His yellow eyes seem to come from Yukito.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Similar to Carmine, his casual outfit has a white stripe on the left leg and a blue stripe on the right leg, and he wears a red glove on only his right hand.
* FloralThemeNaming: He's named after the blackcurrant plant, connecting him thematically both to his sister Carmine (named after the redcurrant) and his school, Blueberry Academy (named after a similar berry fruit).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He starts out as the Responsible sibling to Carmine's Foolish, being shyer but friendlier and more respectful towards others. But as the story progresses, the player keeping secrets from him and constantly beating him in battles takes its toll on his sanity, to the point that by the end, he's purely acting on his own selfish whims; this, combined with Carmine's own CharacterDevelopment, effectively reverses their roles by the end, making him the Foolish one and her the Responsible one. After the events of ''Indigo Disk'', the roles are reversed again but in a more relaxed light, with Carmine being the foolish who likes to poke fun at people, and Kieran being the responsible for making amends for what he has done as a champion.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the Blueberry Academy promotional image for ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran's face is hidden from view. Not only does this foreshadow his ExpositoryHairstyleChange, this is also a hint that something will go wrong in ''The Teal Mask'' and cause a personality shift.
* FreudianExcuse: It's all but outright stated that Carmine being a BigSisterBully to him contributed to a lot of his issues, with the two of you keeping the truth about Ogerpon from him being the straw that broke the Camerupt's back.
* FriendlessBackground: Due to his loner status, he doesn't have a single friend in the village. When the player is called a friend of his, he feels giddy inside for having a friend. Unfortunately for him, his desperation to become stronger than the player and them getting Ogerpon's adoration makes him undergo SanitySlippage, implying that he has discarded his friendship with them and has gone back to being all alone again.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: By the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he has underwent SanitySlippage and developed an obsession with beating the player. When he returns to Blueberry Academy, he proceeds to beat the BB League and become the League Club's president and Champion. Still not sane, he starts to make sweeping changes by introducing strict rules to the club, causing unnecessary drama that can't be corrected because he's the boss of the joint.
* TheGift: It takes him only '''''three''''' days of meeting the player to fully raise his meager low-level team of average mons into powerhouses. That is the fastest '''anyone''' in the series has ever canonically raised their team that strong.
* GracefulLoser: After the events of ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes a lot more graceful upon losing to the player in postgame rematches or Nemona in ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] since he's not "evil" per se, but he's still unhinged enough. He [[FaceHeelTurn falls into rivalry]] after being bested by the player multiple times during ''The Teal Mask'' and losing on his chance to bond with Ogerpon, becoming the ArcVillain of ''The Indigo Disk''. However, he slowly recovers his kind personality while traveling through Area Zero during the second part of the story, and by the end he apologizes to the player and asks if they can be friends again. Said ending also has him acknowledging his faults during his reign as Blueberry Academy's champion and head of their League Club, vowing to make things right.
* HesBack: When convinced to help the player fight Terapagos at the climax of ''The Indigo Disk'', the shiny highlights finally return to his eyes, showing that he's at last pulled himself out of his funk.
* HellishPupils: Like his sister, his pupils narrow into slits when he gets riled up, as displayed at the start of his final battle in ''The Teal Mask''.
* HereditaryHairstyle: His bangs prior to his makeover in ''The Indigo Disk'' resemble those of his grandfather Yukito.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: Like Carmine, his default hairstyle involves his bangs being braided in a manner that partially "masks" the upper half of his face while still leaving slots for his eyes so his vision isn't obscured. However, by the end of ''The Teal Mask'' DLC, he's discarded the hairstyle as a sign of his StartOfDarkness and obsession with getting stronger than the player character.
* HiddenDepths: Like his sister, there's more to Kieran than meets the eye. Despite his shy, meek demeanor, he has quite an ego, evidenced by how poorly he takes his losses. He also has a bit of an obsession with power, evidenced by how he is [[TheUnfettered willing to do anything to become more powerful than the player]].
* HopeSpot:
** After a falling out during ''The Teal Mask'', Kieran and the protagonist apologize to each other and make up over stealing the mask and keeping him out of the loop respectively, but things deteriorate again when Ogerpon doesn't instantly warm up to him.
** In ''The Indigo Disk'', the trip to Area Zero shows several moments when his meek personality comes up to the surface before quickly trying to cover them up when the others notice it. At first, it seems like it doesn't stick by the time the group finds Terapagos when his emotions get the better of him once more, but ultimately the trope is {{subverted|Trope}} when Carmine's and the Player's encouragements manage to bring back his old self for good.
* HourglassPlot: Unlike Carmine, he's shown to be [[NiceGuy very friendly and welcoming]] to the player, while she is [[{{Jerkass}} ruder and acts like a bully]] towards them. However, as the story continues, he becomes colder and more distant from the player while Carmine [[TookALevelInKindness warms up to them and becomes much nicer]]. This is continued into ''The Indigo Disk'', when Kieran's obsession with becoming the strongest [[TookALevelInJerkass has made him rude and overbearing towards others]], and Carmine has become the quiet and withdrawn one, due to her worrying about Kieran's change of personality.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He idolizes the ogre, and after discovering that Ogerpon was actually a victim and the "Loyal" Three were actually mask thieves, he proceeds to steal a mask -- Ogerpon's only remaining one, which Carmine and the player were planning to repair and give back to Ogerpon after she dropped it.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Surprisingly inverted -- despite his timid personality, Carmine reveals that Kieran is actually somewhat egotistical, as proven by his SoreLoser reactions to being beaten by the player. In ''The Indigo Disk'', he admits that he's jealous of the player for both being able to make friends so easily and for having strong Pokémon, and that he's still upset about Ogerpon choosing the player over him. It plays a major role in him catching Terapagos with a Master Ball during the Indigo Disk climax when it looked like it had taken a liking to the player.
* InstantWinCondition: Played with. In desperation to catch a Legendary to defeat the player with, he uses a Master Ball to catch Terapagos instantly when it takes a liking to the player upon sight. It works as expected, however, Terapagos does ''not'' appreciate this and destroys the Master Ball. After all, that the ball always works to initially catch a Pokémon doesn't mean it can contain it afterward.
* IveComeTooFar: Despite Carmine's concerns about his behavior, Kieran is so obsessed with getting one up over the player that he's willing to unleash the power of Terapagos and capture it against its will in a desperate attempt to finally win. In his mind, everything he's done will be for nothing if he can't do that.
-->'''Kieran:''' I've got nothing... I worked so hard, and for what?! I STILL lost in the end! This... this is all I have left now!
* JerkassBall: By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes hit with this, with his obsession for drawing out power and defeating the player [[TookALevelInJerkass causing him to become utterly callous and rude to everyone else]]. Though at the end of the story, [[TookALevelInKindness he gets better]].
* KickTheDog: During the course of ''The Indigo Disk'''s story, he has no qualms on reminding [[NiceGuy Drayton]] of his defeat for the title of the BB League Champion and calling him weak for it.
* TheLancer: In ''Mochi Mayhem'', Kieran is this to the player, resolving the Pecharunt's crisis with them and watching their back.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** After becoming the Champion of the BB League as well as the League Club's president in ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes a MeanBoss who imposes unnecessarily strict rules, and expels a fellow club member over family issues that gave him little time for training. Upon his defeat, ''nobody'' in the student group aside from the rest of the League Club watching the match tries to comfort him after his loss, instead opting to just go; and to rub more salt in that wounded ego, Drayton [[TheDogBitesBack bites him back HARD]], with Kieran having taunted him over besting him in the past for the title of Champion. Once Kieran returns to the academy, Drayton is still mad enough at Kieran that he keeps annoying him until he's had enough to make things even, much to Kieran's chagrin.
** His reason for joining the player, Carmine and Briar to Area Zero is to capture the Legendary Pokémon so that he can both make amends for not bonding with Ogerpon (another Legendary Pokémon) and to show his strength to the player. Not long after capturing Terapagos (with a Master Ball, no less), it ends up backfiring twice -- the player beats Terapagos with ease, and a [[OneWingedAngel full-power Terapagos]], having [[SuperMode Terastalized]], breaks the Master Ball with its power when Kieran attempts to recall it, removing it from his possession. This incident, fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn changes his ways for the better]].
* LonersAreFreaks: Due to his shyness and lack of confidence, he is seen as difficult to deal with by some in the village. In the end, though, he musters up the courage to make the villagers realize the truth about Ogerpon; unfortunately, the boost in confidence isn't enough to avert his SanitySlippage.
* LovingAShadow: He feels a connection to Ogerpon, but can't wrap his head around the fact that admiration for a legendary figure for her strength and independence doesn't translate to actually bonding with the real thing. Ultimately, Ogerpon chooses the protagonist --who she spent time bonding with-- over him, and he doesn't take it well, demanding a battle for the right to be Ogerpon's trainer and running away in tears when he loses. Ogerpon also turns out to have been a caring creature who greatly craved companionship and continued to attend the village's mask festival in secret, rather than the pillar of independence who didn't care about being shunned that he imagined her to be.
* MadnessMantra: At the end of ''The Teal Mask'', an unhinged Kieran mutters that he's going to become "a lot stronger. Stronger. Stronger! Stronger and stronger and stronger!"
* MeanBoss: Upon becoming the BB League Champion, things start to become far more strict due to his overbearing rules as the League Club's president, exemplified when he's first seen berating a fellow club member having family issues that make him unable to set time aside for training, before expelling them from the club entirely. The rest of the Elite Four dislike how rigid things have become since Kieran took over, with some of them wanting to spare the player from being another victim of the drama. Once Kieran is beaten and excuses himself entirely from being a club member, Lacey is happy to say that things have gone back to normal by scrapping all of the strict rules Kieran put in place.
* MeaningfulName: "Kieran" is named for a shade of purple, referencing both the purple highlights in his hair and ''Pokémon Violet'' as a whole (although he ironically ends up fielding the two returning Pokémon lines exclusive to ''Scarlet'').
* MightMakesRight: {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed. Kieran has this mindset simmering beneath the surface but breaks it out to desperately try and justify himself when he knows he's morally in the wrong, like when he steals the Teal Mask out of resentment for being left out (after he chose to not participate in Carmine's plan) or when he challenges the player for the right to be Ogerpon's trainer when Ogerpon already chose the player. When he ends up losing anyway, rather than reassess his behavior, he concludes that the problem was he simply wasn't strong enough to win these matches he forced. In the end, his forceful capture of Terapagos with a Master Ball in response to Terapagos taking a liking to the player just so that he can defeat them blows up in his face when he terastalizes Terapagos, causing it to go berserk and accidentally break the Master Ball.
* MonsAsCharacterization:
** His constantly changing his team members over the course of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero'' is meant to represent his fixation on becoming stronger at the cost of his connections with others. His final team is a mishmash of Pokémon with either strength to spare ([[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Adaptability]] Porygon-Z and Hydrapple), a history of real life competitive success ([[BattleInTheRain Drizzle]] Politoed, screen-setting [[ActionInitiative Prankster]] Grimmsnarl, and [[AscendedMeme Intimidate/Fake Out Incineroar]]), or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]] (a pseudo-legendary in [[InfinityMinusOneSword Dragonite]] with Multiscale), suggesting he became so obsessed with strength he discarded bonding altogether and straight-up netdecked his team.
** In ''The Indigo Disk'', he gains a Grimmsnarl on his team, a [[OurOgresAreHungrier fearsome, ogre-like]], Pokémon not unlike what Ogerpon was initially believed to be, as well as Incineroar, the {{Heel}} Pokémon, representing his FaceHeelTurn. Fittingly, both are {{Dark|Is Evil}}-types.
** His SignatureMon (and starter) is Dipplin in ''The Teal Mask'', which has evolved into a Hydrapple by the time of ''The Indigo Disk''. The former represents a shy boy in his shell, while its more monstrous evolution represents Kieran's own negative change to become stronger. Also, while the main syrpent in Hydrapple is its nominal leader, the other four heads only help it sparingly, which shows his damaged relationship with the Elite Four below him despite their care for him. Topping things off is the fact that Hydrapple Terastallizes into a Fighting-type, representing his obsession with battling. In fact, Hydrapple needs [[SupportPartyMember Dragon Cheer]] to evolve, but Kieran removed it for the Champion battle, reinforcing his unhealthy distancing when he wants nothing more than to be friends. When fighting the Terastalized Terapagos, Hydrapple regains Dragon Cheer temporarily, as the player needs his help more than his strength at that moment.
** In ''Mochi Mayhem'', he reintroduces his Poliwrath (a Pokémon he caught before he went off the deep end) to his team when you fight alongside him. It shows he is no longer concerned with power alone.
* MotiveRant: When trying to pull Terapagos out of its crystal in ''The Indigo Disk'', he rants about how the player character gets everything they want, how they have strong Pokémon, won over Ogerpon, makes friends instantly, and how even his own sister warmed up to them in record time, which is why he's so desperate to finally ''win'' against them.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this at the end of ''The Indigo Disk'' when he puts everyone in danger by Terastalizing Terapagos, causing it to go berserk, simply staring in shock as both the player and Carmine battle it. It's only with the player encouraging them that he steps in to help.
* NeverMyFault: He gets angry when Ogerpon bonds with the player more than himself. But part of that was self-inflicted; Kieran had previously refused to help with Carmine's plan to take back the masks from the "Loyal" Three, giving the player more time to bond with Ogerpon.
* NiceGuy: Before his [[TookALevelInJerkass turn to darkness]] and [[TookALevelInKindness after his return to the light]], Kieran is a good-natured boy who ultimately just wants friends.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: In ''The Indigo Disk'', when Terapagos first appears, he does not waste any time with preamble. He just comes right out with a Master Ball.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Once you sign up for the BB League, Kieran tells you not to lose to anyone else because he wants to be the one to defeat you.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Implied, as he and his sister live with their grandparents and no mention is made of their actual parents.
* RecurringBoss: He's fought five times during ''The Teal Mask'' and twice during ''The Indigo Disk''.
* RedHerring: Due to his SanitySlippage, one might assume that he was possessed or tempted by Pecharunt in some form or would end up being possessed by it. Instead, he's the only one of the player's friends who ''doesn't'' get brainwashed by Pecharunt in ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** During ''The Teal Mask'', he's the quieter, calmer and friendlier blue to Carmine's more expressive, hot-blooded, rude red.
** By the end of ''The Teal Mask'' and come ''The Indigo Disk'', the roles are reversed, with him being the strength-driven, unhinged, rude red to Carmine's friendlier, more withdrawn and personable blue.
* TheResenter: While he starts out as a shy yet genuinely good friend, he becomes increasingly frustrated from losing to the player over and over again. When Ogerpon chooses the player as her partner, he refuses to let them have her without a fight. Once they defeat him, he goes off the deep end, muttering himself to be stronger, and the events of ''The Teal Mask'''s story lead to him becoming the BB League Champion and training a new team in ''The Indigo Disk'' to beat them.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did the punch he threw at the Loyal Three's altar wake them up from their slumber, the energy-charged Pokémon battle, or was it the Teal Mask being in proximity? Or was it a combination of all three? Or something else? The game or Carmine doesn't make it clear how it happened.
* TheRival: Starts out as a {{friendly rival|ry}} to the player in ''The Teal Mask'', until his countless losses drive him deeper and deeper, to the point that by the end of the story he battles the player for Ogerpon's property. Come ''The Indigo Disk'', and he's firmly become this, still bitterly driven by his obsession to best the player. He gets better by the end of the DLC.
* RuleOfSymbolism: His hair is partly colored violet, which symbolizes his ShrinkingViolet personality and ''Pokémon Violet'' as a whole.
* SanitySlippage: He suffers this the more he loses to the player, culminating in a SlasherSmile and an ExpositoryHairstyleChange.
* ShipTease: Like Carmine, he grows quite attached to the player character. Which makes Ogerpon choosing you over him hurt even more.
* ShrinkingViolet: He's very shy, so much so that during his introduction in ''The Teal Mask'' DLC, he hides behind his sister. Bonus points for the highlights in his hair actually being a shade of violet.
* SignatureMon: While the position of his ace is inconsistent in ''The Teal Mask'' (with multiple Pokémon taking the role at different points and Yanma/Yanmega being the only one that's on all his teams), promotional material and ''The Indigo Disk'' solidified that his team ace is Dipplin/Hydrapple. A League Club Room conversation reveals that it was his first Pokémon, gotten back when it was an Applin.
* SixthRanger: He and Carmine both become this for The Player, Nemona, Arven and Penny at the end of ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* SlasherSmile: Gives a frightful smile at the end of ''The Teal Mask'' while musing he'll get stronger than the player. He becomes proner to flashing them in ''The Indigo Disk''.
* SoreLoser:
** Something he has in common with his sister, surprisingly: though he takes his first couple of losses to you relatively well, he gradually starts taking them harder and harder as he wonders why he can't beat you. Losing trainership of Ogerpon to you causes him to hit the breaking point, with the DLC ending on him muttering that he'll get stronger than you and sporting a SlasherSmile.
** He reacts this way again after the player beats him in the Blueberry League, dropping to his knees and becoming completely demoralized by the defeat. And when it looks like Terapagos has taken an interest in the player, he angrily yells that it belongs to him and catches it in a Master Ball, promptly using it in a battle against you right after. When he loses again, he is encouraged by Briar to Terastalize it, which he promptly does in order to defeat you, which ends up causing Terapagos to go berserk.
* StartOfDarkness: Kieran begins the story as a meek and kind boy who's often belittled by his big sister, but quickly latches onto the player as the first sympathetic ear to his admiration of Ogerpon. When the player and Carmine run into Ogerpon at the Festival of Masks without him, [[PoorCommunicationKills she impulsively lies to him about meeting her to spare his feelings]], and the player [[ButThouMust is forced to contribute to said lie]]. When their grandfather unveils the truth about Kitakami's legend to the player and Carmine, Kieran eavesdrops on it and begins to resent the player for betraying his trust. This, combined with back-to-back losses in Pokémon battles with the player, feeds his enmity and growing obsession with becoming stronger, and when Ogerpon ultimately chooses to be partners with the player instead of him and he is bested in combat once more, [[CreateYourOwnVillain it proves to be the final straw.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Kieran decides to return to Blueberry Academy after ''Mochi Mayhem'', he's behind on all school assignments because of his TenMinuteRetirement, though Lacey offers to help him.
* SympathyForTheDevil: He loves the ogre in the Loyal Three's folktale more than the Loyal Three themselves, believing it to be NotEvilJustMisunderstood and wanting to be friends with her. He turns out to be closer to the mark than expected.
* TaremeEyes: Kieran's eyes naturally droop downard, indicating his shy, timid personality. It also makes it startling when his eyes open wide in an unhinged DeathGlare aimed at the player as he TookALevelInJerkass.
* TemptingFate: In ''Mochi Mayhem'', he's briefly panicked that he'll be the next target to become [[spoiler:brainwashed by Pecharunt after seeing his grandparents falling to its mischief, though this is subverted when he (comically) avoids becoming another target.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Starts off as a chump with a couple of low-rent ComMons, but the final battle with him has him field a full team of six badasses who (if the DLC is done in the postgame) all carry useful items and are some of the highest leveled Pokémon fielded by any human in ''Scarlet and Violet'' at time of release. The ending makes it clear it's still not enough for him, and his desire for more power starts to unhinge him...
** By the time of ''The Indigo Disk'', he's dethroned Drayton as Blueberry's Champion and is the second-strongest Trainer at the school, only behind Cyrano. It's implied he did so with relative ease, too.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** He starts off as sweet and friendly towards the player, but as the player consistently defeats him in battle, combined with them and his sister lying to him about Ogerpon, he grows increasingly cold and distant, culminating in him snapping and muttering how he'll get much stronger with a dark smile on his face.
** When he's first seen again in the ''Indigo Disk'' DLC he's berating a member of his school club for being weak because they've been having troubles at home and haven't had time to train their Pokémon, going so far as to expel them from the club. Near the end of the DLC, he is outraged when he sees Terapagos smiling and trying to walk to the player, provoking him to catch it in a Master Ball while screaming that Terapagos is his.
* TookALevelInKindness: {{Double subver|sion}}ted at the end of ''The Indigo Disk''. The excitement of traveling through the beautiful and dangerous terrain of [[ForbiddenZone Area Zero]] starts to bring out his old kind personality, comparing their trek to an action movie and showing consideration for the personal effects found in the Zero Lab, mildly becoming exasperated when Ms. Briar starts snooping through them. However, he has a breakdown after finally encountering Terapagos and lapses back into his inferiority complex with the prospect of finally beating the player with it, then captures Terapagos without its knowledge or consent simply to have a chance to best the player in battle, but Terapagos ends up going berserk (destroying the Master Ball he used to catch it) and ends up endangering everyone, leaving him in [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified shock at what he had caused]]. The player encourages him by telling him they need his help, and he finally realizes how low he has fallen, resolving for good to change for the better. This continues on with the epilogue ''Mochi Mayhem'', where he's back to his friendlier self.
* {{Tsundere}}: Of the classic Harsh variety, late in ''The Indigo Disk''; during the trip to Area Zero, he starts to show some of the empathy and wonder he previously buried. When called out on it by Carmine, he gets defensive.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Upon wrestling the position of BB League champion and thus president from Drayton, Kieran turns the League into a battle-centric club where everyone is obligated to push themselves to be as strong as he wants them to, personal issues and preferences be damned.
* TheUnchosenOne:
** {{Invoked|Trope}}. He tries so hard to get Ogerpon to like him the most because he absolutely adores her and feels like she shares a similar background like him, but to his chagrin, she ends up liking the player far more. He gets another dosage of this trope when his efforts to have Terapagos fails when one, it already takes a liking to the player character upon awakening and two, him Terastalizing it causes it to go berserk and it destroys the Master Ball he used to catch it.
** In general, the main reason for his jealousy towards the player, Ogerpon aside, is how everything seems to fall into place for them -- in short, how they're the main character of the game. His prickly sister quickly befriends them, they overcome every challenge they meet and become a hero almost overnight, end up quickly befriending almost everyone in the Blueberry League, and instantly bond with two Legendary Pokémon to boot. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in some of his dialogues where he becomes enraged when you land a critical hit on him in some of his fights, ranting that even luck has chosen the player, with an especially blatant line for when you land a crit on Terapagos when he uses it against you.
--->'''Kieran:''' How can you get critical hits, even at a time like this... [[LampshadeHanging What are you, the hero of this story?!]]
* TheUnfettered: Post FaceHeelTurn, he [[DiscardAndDraw replaces many of the members of his team]], which make for a decent team but don't synergize much, with [[TookALevelInBadass much stronger Pokémon that synergize well with each other]], all in an attempt to become the BB League Champion and show his power to the player. And after that, he resorts to catching [[OlympusMons Terapagos]] ''with a Master Ball'', showing how far he could go just to claim a single victory against [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter his biggest hurdle]].
* UnknownRival: Though [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou his desire to beat the player]] is front and center, it's only during his Championship match when he shows how fixated on defeating the player he has become. No one, not even Drayton, realizes how everything that led to him being the BB Academy's Champion was only to one-up the player (though Drayton does hope you can bring an end to his new self).
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Nothing says you can't bring Ogerpon to Kieran's Championship battle at Blueberry Academy and beat him with her.
-->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
* VillainousBreakdown: When he is defeated by the player for the title of BB League Champion, he falls to his knees, shocked about the turn of events.
-->'''Kieran:''' No... why?! [[ThisCannotBe This wasn't supposed to happen!]] Urgh! [[RapidFireNo No... no, no, no!]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Needless to say, it is ''very'' difficult to discuss Kieran without going into the dramatic shifts he undergoes in his character arc.
* WeWillMeetAgain: While obsessing over his perceived lack of strength, he dramatically declares "Just you wait, [player's name]..."
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's motivated by a ''huge'' superiority complex, with his [[BigBrotherBully rude older sister's treatment of his]] doing nothing to help. By the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he goes off the deep end once he ruins his chance to bond with Ogerpon, and becomes fixated on beating the protagonist no matter the cost. Because of this, Kieran's fall into rivalry makes him the BigBad of the DLC as a whole.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: {{Double subver|sion}}ted. This is something he shares with Carmine, though while not the case at first due to being the nicer one of the two siblings, it is played depressingly straight by the end, when it's shown he's undergone a FaceHeelTurn.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Though everyone in Kitakami fears and shuns Ogerpon, Kieran admires it because it's strong and doesn't depend on anyone, traits that he wishes to relate in full. Then again, the history about Ogerpon is all backwards, so it's not abominable in the least.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He believes himself to be the reindeer in this case when he finds out that his sister and the player kept him in the dark about their meeting with Ogerpon and trying to fix her mask, because his sister didn't want him to get upset that they met the ogre before he -- who adores it a lot -- did. He even complains to them that he's being ostracized just like the ogre, though it's all in his head.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Near the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', he has a MotiveRant where he reveals he wanted to be just like the player because of their strength and how easy it was for them to become friends with anyone. He even complained to his sister that she went from being rude to very friendly with them.
* AmbiguouslyBi: The player character's gender has no apparent bearing on his ShipTease with them. Amarys will even misinterpret your excursion partnership as a FreudianSlip before realizing what the player actually meant.
* AmbiguousSituation: In regards to any relation he has to Pecharunt before ''Mochi Mayhem'', all we have are inferences or hints at best, most of which have alternative explanations. Namely, he begins to act "off" from his usual self after meeting with the player character where Pecharunt's dormant body rests, and upon punching the Loyal Three's monument a purple aura is briefly seen around his fist, an aura that is identical (if much smaller) to the effect used on people possessed by Pecharunt's mochi. Even the eerie sounds that play during some of his more intense scenes mirror the sounds made when Carmine first shows up possessed in ''Mochi Mayhem''. However, while his aggressive behavior and growth as a trainer does have some connection to a dex entry that states those effected by Pecharunt's powers have their "desires and capabilities" drawn out, it does not resemble at all the behavior of the people possessed by Pecharunt during ''Mochi Mayhem'' itself, and the characters make no mention of any connection (albeit, none of them seem to have any knowledge of Pecharunt's powers or it existing at all, Kieran even noting he assumes there is nothing history-related going on since Ogerpon and the Loyal Three's conflict was already resolved). Lastly, Pecharunt's lore video reveals that it was entirely dormant until the events of Mochi Mayhem, and explains it can only influence people through the mochi and wrapping of its chains, neither of which happen to Kieran at all, supporting the idea that Pecharunt and Kieran had no connection at all.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: After [[BreakTheCutie his snapping]] at the end of ''The Teal Mask'', Kieran becomes one in ''The Indigo Disk'': he stormed through the BB League ranks to become the Champion, bullies his classmates, abuses his newfound position, and is dismissive and disrespectful of everyone he crosses paths with. It takes Drayton, the previous champ, to concoct the plan of you joining the BB League to finally knock Kiki off his high horse.
* BerserkButton:
** In any of his matches against him before the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', landing super-effective and critical hits will cause him to lash out at the player. Bringing [[EntitledToHaveYou Ogerpon]] for his Championship match, however, causes a much more choleric reaction from him.
--->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
** Later, he gets a personal one from Drayton, who keeps calling him "ex-Champion" until he's had enough of making things even with Kieran (who had constantly rubbed in to Drayton's face how he beat him before).
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kieran initially comes off as a shy but sweet boy put-upon by his sister, but when he lashes out at Carmine and the player for keeping the truth about Ogerpon's folktale from him, he comes off as distressingly unhinged, and Carmine even notes afterwards that he actually scared her.
* BigBad: For all effective intents and purposes, he's the main antagonist of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero''. His grudge against the protagonist, a result of ''The Teal Mask'''s ending, drives the entire story of ''The Indigo Disk'' and ends up triggering the final conflict when he tries to get his hands on Terapagos to finally one-up you.
* BigBadSlippage: He starts off as a friend to the player in ''The Teal Mask'', but gradually becomes more antagonistic as a result of his building resentment and desire to get stronger. By ''The Indigo Disk'', he has become BB League Champion, with the plot focusing on taking him down freeing the club from his control. Even after his defeat, he triggers the climax of the DLC by trying to claim Terapagos in a last ditch effort for power.
* BirdsOfAFeather:
** He likes to compare himself to Ogerpon as he thinks they both feel like they're alone in the world, though Kieran admires that Ogerpon has the strength to fend for herself and wishes to fully be as independent as her. However, his belief that she did not care about being shunned turns out to have been misplaced.
** In ''Mochi Mayhem'', Penny is quick to connect with him because they're both introverts who took a break from their schools for stressful reasons. Their introvert attitude is the subject of their League Club conversations.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: His troubled childhood and issues from his sister's bullying and lack of friends has built in him an outwardly shy meek demeanor that conceals a legitimately resentful and selfish streak. He becomes increasingly jealous of the protagonist due to their battle prowess and tries to take Ogerpon for himself despite having done basically nothing to bond with her, treating her as a prize to be won rather than a sentient being with legitimate feelings. When he loses, he becomes dangerously fixated on defeating the protagonist, and as the BB League Champion he becomes downright tyrannical towards the other members of the League Club, enforcing strict rules and throwing one member out when he can't follow them.
* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: The player isn't ever given the option to tell him the truth about Ogerpon, with the game even forcing you to lie to his face. This ends up being the catalyst for him [[TookALevelInJerkass getting worse as the story goes on]] and he gets mad at you for lying. Similarly, he gets mad because of you going around with Carmine instead of him, meeting Ogerpon in the process; again, you have to do this to progress -- though PoorCommunicationKills also plays a role.
* BreakTheCutie: Kieran seriously can't catch a break in ''The Teal Mask''. He's often harassed by his sister, has his desire to become stronger constantly put out by you beating him left and right, and just when something finally goes his way when he proves once and for all that Ogerpon was the good guy of the legends all along, his dreams of having Ogerpon for a partner Pokémon get crushed when she picks you instead. This last hit against him sends him over the edge and he drags you into a battle against him with Ogerpon as the prize, and when that ends in his failure, he can only run off in tears and lock himself in his room afterwards. It's frankly no wonder that his last showing in the story has him going completely nuts as he keeps muttering about getting stronger and flashing a dark smile that implies that [[FaceHeelTurn their next meeting with him won't be so friendly]]...
* BrokenPedestal: He starts off being wowed with the player's skill in battle and is quick to latch onto them as a friend, but being beaten by them so consistently, in addition to them lying to him about how Ogerpon is actually the victim of the folktale causes him to lash out at them in anger. The final straw comes when Ogerpon chooses the player as her trainer instead of him, which causes him to break down in tears, lock himself in his room, and not come out to say goodbye to the player when they leave. Interestingly enough, it's inverted in the sense that ''Kieran'' was the one who broke the pedestal due to his fragile psyche and misunderstanding rather than any intentionally malicious actions performed by the player. This is later subverted at the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', where Kieran acknowledges his mistakes, apologizes for his actions, and asks the player if they can start over.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Wowzers!"
* CharacterDevelopment:
** His ShrinkingViolet traits become less of a problem to him as his story progresses, leading to him convincing all the villagers that Ogerpon is not dangerous as the wrong histories said. His rather small team becomes a fully evolved team of 6 when he challenges the player to claim Ogerpon. On the other hand, he takes a turn for the worse when he falls into his SoreLoser attitude and becomes obsessed with trying to beat the player the next time they meet. However, Kieran's character development eventually loops back around to positive, after he's able to put his obsession behind him and apologize to the player for all he put them through.
** By ''Mochi Mayhem'', Kieran is once again as friendly as the first time the player meets him but more confident and no longer a SoreLoser. Case in point, he gets soundly beaten by Nemona when they first meet, but while a little saddened, he accepts his defeat much more gracefully than before, and Nemona wastes no time cheering him up after that by telling him that he does not need to win to enjoy Pokémon battles at their fullest.
* CrazyPrepared: During Briar's expedition to the depths of Area Zero, when Terapagos appears, he notices that it is approaching the player, and reveals that he had brought a Master Ball (presumably the one given to him when he became the BB league Champion) to decisively capture it for himself, before any attempt is made for Terapagos to bond with the player. Unfortunately for him, charging up Terapagos through Terastallizing it causes it to go on a rampage and ''shatters the Master Ball'', indirectly setting itself free.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: The harassment of his [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], [[BigBrotherBully older]] sister, already causes Kieran problems from the get-go, and the player besting him in battle multiple times only serves to further put him down. His sister lies to him (with good justification) about the ogre's story due to concern for him, and the player is forced to contribute to said lie, upsetting Kieran. Then, having convinced the villagers that Ogerpon isn't evil, once Ogerpon chooses the player as their trainer over him (due to bonding with the player for more time), he battles the player for her and ends up losing again, [[StartOfDarkness sending him further lower and fueling his desire to best the player in battle]] once ''The Teal Mask'''s story ends. By the start of ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran becomes the DLC story's ArcVillain, with a fixation on being the very best and proving his strength to the player.
* DarkReprise: Kieran's initial battle music is light and bouncy, incorporating heavy use of strings and marimba to illustrate both his timid demeanor and fierce passion for Pokémon battling. But in your final battle with him in ''The Teal Mask'', the theme becomes much more urgent and menacing by replacing the marimba with electric guitar, showcasing his StartOfDarkness and the beginning of his SanitySlippage from trying to best the player. When he becomes BB League Champion, his battle music becomes foreboding and dominated by electric guitar and techno elements before ending on a frenzied descending piano scale, showing the heights he's reached, the awful things he's done in pursuit of strength, and his ego crashing down upon his defeat.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: He's the main human character of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero'', with his character arc being the main emotional centerpiece of the story.
* DevelopersForesight: Kieran has unique dialogue if you choose to use Ogerpon when fighting him in ''The Indigo Disk''.
-->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
* DidntThinkThisThrough: While staying behind in Mossui Town to educate the townsfolk about the truth regarding Ogerpon to clear her name is a noble goal, Kieran apparently didn't consider that leaving Ogerpon to mingle with the player character out of his sight may cause her to instead bond with and trust the player character more than him. Ogerpon's choice to join you thus is partially his own fault.
* DiscardAndDraw: He benches his Furret in exchange for a Gligar and a Cramorant in his fourth battle, and then benches his Cramorant for a Shiftry and a Probopass in his fifth. When the player battles him at Blueberry Academy, his original team is gone, except for his Dipplin, which he evolved into Hydrapple. This constant changing of his team may demonstrate his fixation on becoming stronger, at the cost of pushing away his connections to those around him. However, a League Club Room conversation indicates he simply has a lot of Pokémon in addition to the team he uses to battle you, and he values them all. Case in point -- as an ally during ''Mochi Mayhem'', he benches his Politoed and brings back his old Poliwrath.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
** Kieran idolizes the ogre for being independent, and is both awed by and jealous of the player character's battling skills. Therefore, once Ogerpon chooses the player over him and he loses one last battle with them, Kieran concludes that he just wasn't strong enough to be Ogerpon's trainer. In reality, Ogerpon chose the player because they spent more time with her than he did.
** When he catches Terapagos and uses it to battle the player, he's confused as to why this Pokémon [[WorfHadTheFlu isn't as strong as he initially believed]]. He's also still so hung up on beating the player character that he assumes catching a Legendary Pokémon will solve his problems. Thus, he still hasn't learned his lesson from Ogerpon, and goes a step ''further'' by outright capturing Terapagos instead of considering its feelings.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: His eyes reflect his mental state, losing their shine should he deteriorate into bitterness and rage. This is especially evident during his final battle to determine who gets to be Ogerpon's trainer. Even the final scene with him shows his eyes are vacant, indicating that he's becoming obsessed with beating the player. At the end of ''The Indigo Disk'', his HeelFaceTurn is displayed by the lights returning to his eyes. The change has stuck by the time of ''Mochi Mayhem'', though [[ZigZaggedTrope the lights sometimes vanish again]], no longer due to bitterness, but more so when focused in battles or under intense emotions, such as stress or fear.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite how Kieran acted to everyone, including the player, in ''The Indigo Disk'', he's still forgiven by the player and Carmine. When he asks if he and the player can be friends again, the player gives him a smile and the post-credit photo shows them and Carmine together. {{Justified|Trope}} through dialogue with the members of the Elite Four, who were aware of Keiran's change in character since returning from Kitakami and were more worried than angry, figuring that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness something terrible had happened to bring about the change]]. That said, Drayton still calls Kieran ex-Champ post-epilogue for the sake of payback, much to Kieran's chagrin.
* EntitledToHaveYou:
** A non-romantic example. He challenges the player for the right to catch Ogerpon after she expressed her desire to have them to be her trainer. Carmine even pleads for him to consider Ogerpon's feelings, but he dismisses her in favor of winning Ogerpon like a prize. Kieran acknowledges that he's being selfish and that he's in the wrong but he simply can't bring himself to give up on his dream without a fight. By the end of the DLC, his focus seems to have slipped from winning Ogerpon to the player character themselves, in a bit of a twisted parallel to Carmine's and Nemona's obsession with having the player as a rival to beat.
** He also ends up doing this to Terapagos as well, as when Terapagos notices the player and tries to approach them, Kieran flips out and catches it in a Master Ball to keep it away from the player, angrily yelling that Terapagos is his.
* EvilCounterpart:
** For Penny. Both are introverted and suffer bullying, resulting in them making mistakes and causing more harm than good in response. The difference is that Penny ultimately accepts her defeat and becomes better for it, while Kieran gets more and more frustrated over his losses and ultimately comes to resent the player.
** He is similar to but also contrasts heavily with Nemona. Both are the younger sibling in the family, lacking friends growing up, highly skilled in battle, and easily fixated on someone they fancy. The two also engage you in a climatic battle between Champions in their respective story arcs, with said climatic battle being spectated by trainers you've battled prior and the two giving you monologue in the cutscenes preceding and following said battle. However, Nemona grew up under hands-off parents and becomes a cheerful but socially-tone-deaf girl, and she's wants you to be a rival to match her prowess and is utterly ecstatic when you finally best her at the top of her game, and her climatic theme is a TriumphantReprise. Meanwhile, Kieran grew up with an oppressive sister and becomes a shy, sensitive, and judgmental young boy who can't handle losses well and becomes more and more determined to best you, eventually going into a meltdown after his defeat in the Championship battle, and his climatic theme is a DarkReprise of his previous already-DarkReprise.
** For the opposite gender rival in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Both get genuinely disheartened by how, no matter how hard they try, the protagonist is just better than them and gets the privilege of something they've been seeking. But while Calem or Serena learns to cope with the power gulf, Kieran sinks deeper and deeper into despair as he keeps losing and when he loses out on what he sees as his prize, Ogerpon's friendship, he snaps.
** By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes this to [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally]], specifically his ''[=Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire=]'' incarnation. Both of them are introverts who become deeply affected and inspired by the protagonist to become stronger in their own ways, and both of them have signature Pokemon that represent their character growth. However, while Wally is physically frail but has a keen aptitude and focused mindset for strategy, Kieran is perfectly healthy physically, but ''not'' mentally due to his severe insecurities over being bullied and teased by his older sister. This is especially reflected in their choice of Pokémon, and how they handle their teams -- Wally stays loyal to his team and his ace is Ralts, a Pokémon that senses the emotions of others and actively seeks out those who express positive emotions and eventually evolves into either Gardevoir or Gallade depending on the version [[note]]his Ralts evolves into Gardevoir in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and its remake ''Emerald'' as Gallade didn't exist at the time until Gen IV, he ends up being retconned to evolving his Ralts into Gallade in the remakes of said games[[/note]], both of which will do whatever it takes to defend their beloved trainer. Kieran constantly swaps his team around in his obsession to beat the protagonist and his ace is Applin, a Pokémon that hides within the shell of an apple to protect itself from those it sees as threats and can take many different forms depending on the type of apple it eats, representing Kieran's lack of stability; instead of evolving into its lesser final forms, however, it eventually becomes a Hydrapple, the line's strongest final form, which represents Kieran's desire to be undefeatable.
** He also has a fair amount in common with [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Hop]]. Both are rivals who have a crisis from constantly being beaten and eventually shelve their ComMon after said crisis, with both of their character arcs essentially boiling down to them realizing that [[TheUnchosenOne they aren't the main character of the game]]. While Hop eventually accepts he isn't going to beat the player and is still friends with them, Kieran keeps doubting his strength and eventually [[SanitySlippage goes crazy]], only wisening up after things go horribly wrong and he has to help make them right.
** Finally, he shares a close resemblance to Paulo from ''Pokémon Masters'', with one key difference. Both of them feel rather hopeless to beat the player and keep going at it despite the odds. Though Paulo keeps a sense of sanity about it for the most part and stays afloat (rockily) because of other people trying look after him, Kieran doesn't get as much help from his status as a loner (not helped by his BigSisterBully issues) and ends up being far more fixated on trouncing the player, and he falls into SanitySlippage for it.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Unlike the other villagers, he thinks Ogerpon is NotEvilJustMisunderstood. He's right on the money, though mistaken in some of his other beliefs about Ogerpon's character.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Kieran gets some noticeable ones during ''The Indigo Disk'' along with his vacant eyes, Carmine specifically points out that he's been so focused on getting stronger that he's been cutting back on sleep. He no longer has them once he fully recovers from his obsession and starts getting proper sleep.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: At the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he's shown pulling back his bangs as he fully falls into his obsession with beating the player. The final trailer for ''The Indigo Disk'' shows that he ended up pulling back all of his hair save for a single strand, resulting in his purple highlights now becoming the primary color of his hair. This is lampshaded by Drayton in ''The Indigo Disk'', who literally states he preferred Kieran when his hair was down, as while he was timid and hid behind Carmine, he at least enjoyed being a Pokémon trainer.
* FallenHero: It's safe to say that the SanitySlippage he experiences during ''The Teal Mask'' has sent him off the deep end, to the point he [[FaceHeelTurn becomes]] the ArcVillain of ''The Indigo Disk'' and thus the DLC as a whole. Fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn he gets better at the end]].
* FamilyEyeResemblance: His yellow eyes seem to come from Yukito.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Similar to Carmine, his casual outfit has a white stripe on the left leg and a blue stripe on the right leg, and he wears a red glove on only his right hand.
* FloralThemeNaming: He's named after the blackcurrant plant, connecting him thematically both to his sister Carmine (named after the redcurrant) and his school, Blueberry Academy (named after a similar berry fruit).
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He starts out as the Responsible sibling to Carmine's Foolish, being shyer but friendlier and more respectful towards others. But as the story progresses, the player keeping secrets from him and constantly beating him in battles takes its toll on his sanity, to the point that by the end, he's purely acting on his own selfish whims; this, combined with Carmine's own CharacterDevelopment, effectively reverses their roles by the end, making him the Foolish one and her the Responsible one. After the events of ''Indigo Disk'', the roles are reversed again but in a more relaxed light, with Carmine being the foolish who likes to poke fun at people, and Kieran being the responsible for making amends for what he has done as a champion.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the Blueberry Academy promotional image for ''The Indigo Disk'', Kieran's face is hidden from view. Not only does this foreshadow his ExpositoryHairstyleChange, this is also a hint that something will go wrong in ''The Teal Mask'' and cause a personality shift.
* FreudianExcuse: It's all but outright stated that Carmine being a BigSisterBully to him contributed to a lot of his issues, with the two of you keeping the truth about Ogerpon from him being the straw that broke the Camerupt's back.
* FriendlessBackground: Due to his loner status, he doesn't have a single friend in the village. When the player is called a friend of his, he feels giddy inside for having a friend. Unfortunately for him, his desperation to become stronger than the player and them getting Ogerpon's adoration makes him undergo SanitySlippage, implying that he has discarded his friendship with them and has gone back to being all alone again.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: By the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he has underwent SanitySlippage and developed an obsession with beating the player. When he returns to Blueberry Academy, he proceeds to beat the BB League and become the League Club's president and Champion. Still not sane, he starts to make sweeping changes by introducing strict rules to the club, causing unnecessary drama that can't be corrected because he's the boss of the joint.
* TheGift: It takes him only '''''three''''' days of meeting the player to fully raise his meager low-level team of average mons into powerhouses. That is the fastest '''anyone''' in the series has ever canonically raised their team that strong.
* GracefulLoser: After the events of ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes a lot more graceful upon losing to the player in postgame rematches or Nemona in ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] since he's not "evil" per se, but he's still unhinged enough. He [[FaceHeelTurn falls into rivalry]] after being bested by the player multiple times during ''The Teal Mask'' and losing on his chance to bond with Ogerpon, becoming the ArcVillain of ''The Indigo Disk''. However, he slowly recovers his kind personality while traveling through Area Zero during the second part of the story, and by the end he apologizes to the player and asks if they can be friends again. Said ending also has him acknowledging his faults during his reign as Blueberry Academy's champion and head of their League Club, vowing to make things right.
* HesBack: When convinced to help the player fight Terapagos at the climax of ''The Indigo Disk'', the shiny highlights finally return to his eyes, showing that he's at last pulled himself out of his funk.
* HellishPupils: Like his sister, his pupils narrow into slits when he gets riled up, as displayed at the start of his final battle in ''The Teal Mask''.
* HereditaryHairstyle: His bangs prior to his makeover in ''The Indigo Disk'' resemble those of his grandfather Yukito.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: Like Carmine, his default hairstyle involves his bangs being braided in a manner that partially "masks" the upper half of his face while still leaving slots for his eyes so his vision isn't obscured. However, by the end of ''The Teal Mask'' DLC, he's discarded the hairstyle as a sign of his StartOfDarkness and obsession with getting stronger than the player character.
* HiddenDepths: Like his sister, there's more to Kieran than meets the eye. Despite his shy, meek demeanor, he has quite an ego, evidenced by how poorly he takes his losses. He also has a bit of an obsession with power, evidenced by how he is [[TheUnfettered willing to do anything to become more powerful than the player]].
* HopeSpot:
** After a falling out during ''The Teal Mask'', Kieran and the protagonist apologize to each other and make up over stealing the mask and keeping him out of the loop respectively, but things deteriorate again when Ogerpon doesn't instantly warm up to him.
** In ''The Indigo Disk'', the trip to Area Zero shows several moments when his meek personality comes up to the surface before quickly trying to cover them up when the others notice it. At first, it seems like it doesn't stick by the time the group finds Terapagos when his emotions get the better of him once more, but ultimately the trope is {{subverted|Trope}} when Carmine's and the Player's encouragements manage to bring back his old self for good.
* HourglassPlot: Unlike Carmine, he's shown to be [[NiceGuy very friendly and welcoming]] to the player, while she is [[{{Jerkass}} ruder and acts like a bully]] towards them. However, as the story continues, he becomes colder and more distant from the player while Carmine [[TookALevelInKindness warms up to them and becomes much nicer]]. This is continued into ''The Indigo Disk'', when Kieran's obsession with becoming the strongest [[TookALevelInJerkass has made him rude and overbearing towards others]], and Carmine has become the quiet and withdrawn one, due to her worrying about Kieran's change of personality.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He idolizes the ogre, and after discovering that Ogerpon was actually a victim and the "Loyal" Three were actually mask thieves, he proceeds to steal a mask -- Ogerpon's only remaining one, which Carmine and the player were planning to repair and give back to Ogerpon after she dropped it.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Surprisingly inverted -- despite his timid personality, Carmine reveals that Kieran is actually somewhat egotistical, as proven by his SoreLoser reactions to being beaten by the player. In ''The Indigo Disk'', he admits that he's jealous of the player for both being able to make friends so easily and for having strong Pokémon, and that he's still upset about Ogerpon choosing the player over him. It plays a major role in him catching Terapagos with a Master Ball during the Indigo Disk climax when it looked like it had taken a liking to the player.
* InstantWinCondition: Played with. In desperation to catch a Legendary to defeat the player with, he uses a Master Ball to catch Terapagos instantly when it takes a liking to the player upon sight. It works as expected, however, Terapagos does ''not'' appreciate this and destroys the Master Ball. After all, that the ball always works to initially catch a Pokémon doesn't mean it can contain it afterward.
* IveComeTooFar: Despite Carmine's concerns about his behavior, Kieran is so obsessed with getting one up over the player that he's willing to unleash the power of Terapagos and capture it against its will in a desperate attempt to finally win. In his mind, everything he's done will be for nothing if he can't do that.
-->'''Kieran:''' I've got nothing... I worked so hard, and for what?! I STILL lost in the end! This... this is all I have left now!
* JerkassBall: By ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes hit with this, with his obsession for drawing out power and defeating the player [[TookALevelInJerkass causing him to become utterly callous and rude to everyone else]]. Though at the end of the story, [[TookALevelInKindness he gets better]].
* KickTheDog: During the course of ''The Indigo Disk'''s story, he has no qualms on reminding [[NiceGuy Drayton]] of his defeat for the title of the BB League Champion and calling him weak for it.
* TheLancer: In ''Mochi Mayhem'', Kieran is this to the player, resolving the Pecharunt's crisis with them and watching their back.
* LaserGuidedKarma:
** After becoming the Champion of the BB League as well as the League Club's president in ''The Indigo Disk'', he becomes a MeanBoss who imposes unnecessarily strict rules, and expels a fellow club member over family issues that gave him little time for training. Upon his defeat, ''nobody'' in the student group aside from the rest of the League Club watching the match tries to comfort him after his loss, instead opting to just go; and to rub more salt in that wounded ego, Drayton [[TheDogBitesBack bites him back HARD]], with Kieran having taunted him over besting him in the past for the title of Champion. Once Kieran returns to the academy, Drayton is still mad enough at Kieran that he keeps annoying him until he's had enough to make things even, much to Kieran's chagrin.
** His reason for joining the player, Carmine and Briar to Area Zero is to capture the Legendary Pokémon so that he can both make amends for not bonding with Ogerpon (another Legendary Pokémon) and to show his strength to the player. Not long after capturing Terapagos (with a Master Ball, no less), it ends up backfiring twice -- the player beats Terapagos with ease, and a [[OneWingedAngel full-power Terapagos]], having [[SuperMode Terastalized]], breaks the Master Ball with its power when Kieran attempts to recall it, removing it from his possession. This incident, fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn changes his ways for the better]].
* LonersAreFreaks: Due to his shyness and lack of confidence, he is seen as difficult to deal with by some in the village. In the end, though, he musters up the courage to make the villagers realize the truth about Ogerpon; unfortunately, the boost in confidence isn't enough to avert his SanitySlippage.
* LovingAShadow: He feels a connection to Ogerpon, but can't wrap his head around the fact that admiration for a legendary figure for her strength and independence doesn't translate to actually bonding with the real thing. Ultimately, Ogerpon chooses the protagonist --who she spent time bonding with-- over him, and he doesn't take it well, demanding a battle for the right to be Ogerpon's trainer and running away in tears when he loses. Ogerpon also turns out to have been a caring creature who greatly craved companionship and continued to attend the village's mask festival in secret, rather than the pillar of independence who didn't care about being shunned that he imagined her to be.
* MadnessMantra: At the end of ''The Teal Mask'', an unhinged Kieran mutters that he's going to become "a lot stronger. Stronger. Stronger! Stronger and stronger and stronger!"
* MeanBoss: Upon becoming the BB League Champion, things start to become far more strict due to his overbearing rules as the League Club's president, exemplified when he's first seen berating a fellow club member having family issues that make him unable to set time aside for training, before expelling them from the club entirely. The rest of the Elite Four dislike how rigid things have become since Kieran took over, with some of them wanting to spare the player from being another victim of the drama. Once Kieran is beaten and excuses himself entirely from being a club member, Lacey is happy to say that things have gone back to normal by scrapping all of the strict rules Kieran put in place.
* MeaningfulName: "Kieran" is named for a shade of purple, referencing both the purple highlights in his hair and ''Pokémon Violet'' as a whole (although he ironically ends up fielding the two returning Pokémon lines exclusive to ''Scarlet'').
* MightMakesRight: {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed. Kieran has this mindset simmering beneath the surface but breaks it out to desperately try and justify himself when he knows he's morally in the wrong, like when he steals the Teal Mask out of resentment for being left out (after he chose to not participate in Carmine's plan) or when he challenges the player for the right to be Ogerpon's trainer when Ogerpon already chose the player. When he ends up losing anyway, rather than reassess his behavior, he concludes that the problem was he simply wasn't strong enough to win these matches he forced. In the end, his forceful capture of Terapagos with a Master Ball in response to Terapagos taking a liking to the player just so that he can defeat them blows up in his face when he terastalizes Terapagos, causing it to go berserk and accidentally break the Master Ball.
* MonsAsCharacterization:
** His constantly changing his team members over the course of ''The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero'' is meant to represent his fixation on becoming stronger at the cost of his connections with others. His final team is a mishmash of Pokémon with either strength to spare ([[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer Adaptability]] Porygon-Z and Hydrapple), a history of real life competitive success ([[BattleInTheRain Drizzle]] Politoed, screen-setting [[ActionInitiative Prankster]] Grimmsnarl, and [[AscendedMeme Intimidate/Fake Out Incineroar]]), or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs both]] (a pseudo-legendary in [[InfinityMinusOneSword Dragonite]] with Multiscale), suggesting he became so obsessed with strength he discarded bonding altogether and straight-up netdecked his team.
** In ''The Indigo Disk'', he gains a Grimmsnarl on his team, a [[OurOgresAreHungrier fearsome, ogre-like]], Pokémon not unlike what Ogerpon was initially believed to be, as well as Incineroar, the {{Heel}} Pokémon, representing his FaceHeelTurn. Fittingly, both are {{Dark|Is Evil}}-types.
** His SignatureMon (and starter) is Dipplin in ''The Teal Mask'', which has evolved into a Hydrapple by the time of ''The Indigo Disk''. The former represents a shy boy in his shell, while its more monstrous evolution represents Kieran's own negative change to become stronger. Also, while the main syrpent in Hydrapple is its nominal leader, the other four heads only help it sparingly, which shows his damaged relationship with the Elite Four below him despite their care for him. Topping things off is the fact that Hydrapple Terastallizes into a Fighting-type, representing his obsession with battling. In fact, Hydrapple needs [[SupportPartyMember Dragon Cheer]] to evolve, but Kieran removed it for the Champion battle, reinforcing his unhealthy distancing when he wants nothing more than to be friends. When fighting the Terastalized Terapagos, Hydrapple regains Dragon Cheer temporarily, as the player needs his help more than his strength at that moment.
** In ''Mochi Mayhem'', he reintroduces his Poliwrath (a Pokémon he caught before he went off the deep end) to his team when you fight alongside him. It shows he is no longer concerned with power alone.
* MotiveRant: When trying to pull Terapagos out of its crystal in ''The Indigo Disk'', he rants about how the player character gets everything they want, how they have strong Pokémon, won over Ogerpon, makes friends instantly, and how even his own sister warmed up to them in record time, which is why he's so desperate to finally ''win'' against them.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this at the end of ''The Indigo Disk'' when he puts everyone in danger by Terastalizing Terapagos, causing it to go berserk, simply staring in shock as both the player and Carmine battle it. It's only with the player encouraging them that he steps in to help.
* NeverMyFault: He gets angry when Ogerpon bonds with the player more than himself. But part of that was self-inflicted; Kieran had previously refused to help with Carmine's plan to take back the masks from the "Loyal" Three, giving the player more time to bond with Ogerpon.
* NiceGuy: Before his [[TookALevelInJerkass turn to darkness]] and [[TookALevelInKindness after his return to the light]], Kieran is a good-natured boy who ultimately just wants friends.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: In ''The Indigo Disk'', when Terapagos first appears, he does not waste any time with preamble. He just comes right out with a Master Ball.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Once you sign up for the BB League, Kieran tells you not to lose to anyone else because he wants to be the one to defeat you.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Implied, as he and his sister live with their grandparents and no mention is made of their actual parents.
* RecurringBoss: He's fought five times during ''The Teal Mask'' and twice during ''The Indigo Disk''.
* RedHerring: Due to his SanitySlippage, one might assume that he was possessed or tempted by Pecharunt in some form or would end up being possessed by it. Instead, he's the only one of the player's friends who ''doesn't'' get brainwashed by Pecharunt in ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** During ''The Teal Mask'', he's the quieter, calmer and friendlier blue to Carmine's more expressive, hot-blooded, rude red.
** By the end of ''The Teal Mask'' and come ''The Indigo Disk'', the roles are reversed, with him being the strength-driven, unhinged, rude red to Carmine's friendlier, more withdrawn and personable blue.
* TheResenter: While he starts out as a shy yet genuinely good friend, he becomes increasingly frustrated from losing to the player over and over again. When Ogerpon chooses the player as her partner, he refuses to let them have her without a fight. Once they defeat him, he goes off the deep end, muttering himself to be stronger, and the events of ''The Teal Mask'''s story lead to him becoming the BB League Champion and training a new team in ''The Indigo Disk'' to beat them.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did the punch he threw at the Loyal Three's altar wake them up from their slumber, the energy-charged Pokémon battle, or was it the Teal Mask being in proximity? Or was it a combination of all three? Or something else? The game or Carmine doesn't make it clear how it happened.
* TheRival: Starts out as a {{friendly rival|ry}} to the player in ''The Teal Mask'', until his countless losses drive him deeper and deeper, to the point that by the end of the story he battles the player for Ogerpon's property. Come ''The Indigo Disk'', and he's firmly become this, still bitterly driven by his obsession to best the player. He gets better by the end of the DLC.
* RuleOfSymbolism: His hair is partly colored violet, which symbolizes his ShrinkingViolet personality and ''Pokémon Violet'' as a whole.
* SanitySlippage: He suffers this the more he loses to the player, culminating in a SlasherSmile and an ExpositoryHairstyleChange.
* ShipTease: Like Carmine, he grows quite attached to the player character. Which makes Ogerpon choosing you over him hurt even more.
* ShrinkingViolet: He's very shy, so much so that during his introduction in ''The Teal Mask'' DLC, he hides behind his sister. Bonus points for the highlights in his hair actually being a shade of violet.
* SignatureMon: While the position of his ace is inconsistent in ''The Teal Mask'' (with multiple Pokémon taking the role at different points and Yanma/Yanmega being the only one that's on all his teams), promotional material and ''The Indigo Disk'' solidified that his team ace is Dipplin/Hydrapple. A League Club Room conversation reveals that it was his first Pokémon, gotten back when it was an Applin.
* SixthRanger: He and Carmine both become this for The Player, Nemona, Arven and Penny at the end of ''Mochi Mayhem''.
* SlasherSmile: Gives a frightful smile at the end of ''The Teal Mask'' while musing he'll get stronger than the player. He becomes proner to flashing them in ''The Indigo Disk''.
* SoreLoser:
** Something he has in common with his sister, surprisingly: though he takes his first couple of losses to you relatively well, he gradually starts taking them harder and harder as he wonders why he can't beat you. Losing trainership of Ogerpon to you causes him to hit the breaking point, with the DLC ending on him muttering that he'll get stronger than you and sporting a SlasherSmile.
** He reacts this way again after the player beats him in the Blueberry League, dropping to his knees and becoming completely demoralized by the defeat. And when it looks like Terapagos has taken an interest in the player, he angrily yells that it belongs to him and catches it in a Master Ball, promptly using it in a battle against you right after. When he loses again, he is encouraged by Briar to Terastalize it, which he promptly does in order to defeat you, which ends up causing Terapagos to go berserk.
* StartOfDarkness: Kieran begins the story as a meek and kind boy who's often belittled by his big sister, but quickly latches onto the player as the first sympathetic ear to his admiration of Ogerpon. When the player and Carmine run into Ogerpon at the Festival of Masks without him, [[PoorCommunicationKills she impulsively lies to him about meeting her to spare his feelings]], and the player [[ButThouMust is forced to contribute to said lie]]. When their grandfather unveils the truth about Kitakami's legend to the player and Carmine, Kieran eavesdrops on it and begins to resent the player for betraying his trust. This, combined with back-to-back losses in Pokémon battles with the player, feeds his enmity and growing obsession with becoming stronger, and when Ogerpon ultimately chooses to be partners with the player instead of him and he is bested in combat once more, [[CreateYourOwnVillain it proves to be the final straw.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Kieran decides to return to Blueberry Academy after ''Mochi Mayhem'', he's behind on all school assignments because of his TenMinuteRetirement, though Lacey offers to help him.
* SympathyForTheDevil: He loves the ogre in the Loyal Three's folktale more than the Loyal Three themselves, believing it to be NotEvilJustMisunderstood and wanting to be friends with her. He turns out to be closer to the mark than expected.
* TaremeEyes: Kieran's eyes naturally droop downard, indicating his shy, timid personality. It also makes it startling when his eyes open wide in an unhinged DeathGlare aimed at the player as he TookALevelInJerkass.
* TemptingFate: In ''Mochi Mayhem'', he's briefly panicked that he'll be the next target to become [[spoiler:brainwashed by Pecharunt after seeing his grandparents falling to its mischief, though this is subverted when he (comically) avoids becoming another target.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Starts off as a chump with a couple of low-rent ComMons, but the final battle with him has him field a full team of six badasses who (if the DLC is done in the postgame) all carry useful items and are some of the highest leveled Pokémon fielded by any human in ''Scarlet and Violet'' at time of release. The ending makes it clear it's still not enough for him, and his desire for more power starts to unhinge him...
** By the time of ''The Indigo Disk'', he's dethroned Drayton as Blueberry's Champion and is the second-strongest Trainer at the school, only behind Cyrano. It's implied he did so with relative ease, too.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** He starts off as sweet and friendly towards the player, but as the player consistently defeats him in battle, combined with them and his sister lying to him about Ogerpon, he grows increasingly cold and distant, culminating in him snapping and muttering how he'll get much stronger with a dark smile on his face.
** When he's first seen again in the ''Indigo Disk'' DLC he's berating a member of his school club for being weak because they've been having troubles at home and haven't had time to train their Pokémon, going so far as to expel them from the club. Near the end of the DLC, he is outraged when he sees Terapagos smiling and trying to walk to the player, provoking him to catch it in a Master Ball while screaming that Terapagos is his.
* TookALevelInKindness: {{Double subver|sion}}ted at the end of ''The Indigo Disk''. The excitement of traveling through the beautiful and dangerous terrain of [[ForbiddenZone Area Zero]] starts to bring out his old kind personality, comparing their trek to an action movie and showing consideration for the personal effects found in the Zero Lab, mildly becoming exasperated when Ms. Briar starts snooping through them. However, he has a breakdown after finally encountering Terapagos and lapses back into his inferiority complex with the prospect of finally beating the player with it, then captures Terapagos without its knowledge or consent simply to have a chance to best the player in battle, but Terapagos ends up going berserk (destroying the Master Ball he used to catch it) and ends up endangering everyone, leaving him in [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified shock at what he had caused]]. The player encourages him by telling him they need his help, and he finally realizes how low he has fallen, resolving for good to change for the better. This continues on with the epilogue ''Mochi Mayhem'', where he's back to his friendlier self.
* {{Tsundere}}: Of the classic Harsh variety, late in ''The Indigo Disk''; during the trip to Area Zero, he starts to show some of the empathy and wonder he previously buried. When called out on it by Carmine, he gets defensive.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Upon wrestling the position of BB League champion and thus president from Drayton, Kieran turns the League into a battle-centric club where everyone is obligated to push themselves to be as strong as he wants them to, personal issues and preferences be damned.
* TheUnchosenOne:
** {{Invoked|Trope}}. He tries so hard to get Ogerpon to like him the most because he absolutely adores her and feels like she shares a similar background like him, but to his chagrin, she ends up liking the player far more. He gets another dosage of this trope when his efforts to have Terapagos fails when one, it already takes a liking to the player character upon awakening and two, him Terastalizing it causes it to go berserk and it destroys the Master Ball he used to catch it.
** In general, the main reason for his jealousy towards the player, Ogerpon aside, is how everything seems to fall into place for them -- in short, how they're the main character of the game. His prickly sister quickly befriends them, they overcome every challenge they meet and become a hero almost overnight, end up quickly befriending almost everyone in the Blueberry League, and instantly bond with two Legendary Pokémon to boot. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in some of his dialogues where he becomes enraged when you land a critical hit on him in some of his fights, ranting that even luck has chosen the player, with an especially blatant line for when you land a crit on Terapagos when he uses it against you.
--->'''Kieran:''' How can you get critical hits, even at a time like this... [[LampshadeHanging What are you, the hero of this story?!]]
* TheUnfettered: Post FaceHeelTurn, he [[DiscardAndDraw replaces many of the members of his team]], which make for a decent team but don't synergize much, with [[TookALevelInBadass much stronger Pokémon that synergize well with each other]], all in an attempt to become the BB League Champion and show his power to the player. And after that, he resorts to catching [[OlympusMons Terapagos]] ''with a Master Ball'', showing how far he could go just to claim a single victory against [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter his biggest hurdle]].
* UnknownRival: Though [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou his desire to beat the player]] is front and center, it's only during his Championship match when he shows how fixated on defeating the player he has become. No one, not even Drayton, realizes how everything that led to him being the BB Academy's Champion was only to one-up the player (though Drayton does hope you can bring an end to his new self).
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Nothing says you can't bring Ogerpon to Kieran's Championship battle at Blueberry Academy and beat him with her.
-->'''Kieran:''' You've got some nerve... '''Bringing out the ogre NOW of all times?!'''
* VillainousBreakdown: When he is defeated by the player for the title of BB League Champion, he falls to his knees, shocked about the turn of events.
-->'''Kieran:''' No... why?! [[ThisCannotBe This wasn't supposed to happen!]] Urgh! [[RapidFireNo No... no, no, no!]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Needless to say, it is ''very'' difficult to discuss Kieran without going into the dramatic shifts he undergoes in his character arc.
* WeWillMeetAgain: While obsessing over his perceived lack of strength, he dramatically declares "Just you wait, [player's name]..."
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He's motivated by a ''huge'' superiority complex, with his [[BigBrotherBully rude older sister's treatment of his]] doing nothing to help. By the end of ''The Teal Mask'', he goes off the deep end once he ruins his chance to bond with Ogerpon, and becomes fixated on beating the protagonist no matter the cost. Because of this, Kieran's fall into rivalry makes him the BigBad of the DLC as a whole.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: {{Double subver|sion}}ted. This is something he shares with Carmine, though while not the case at first due to being the nicer one of the two siblings, it is played depressingly straight by the end, when it's shown he's undergone a FaceHeelTurn.
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** She leads off with Skarmory (ignores all Ground moves thanks to her flying-type) and Alolan Dugtrio (her high speed means she can outspeed almost anything that you might have thought of bringing). Both have means to [[LastChanceHitPoint survive with 1 HP]] (Sturdy for Skarmony and a Focus Sash for Dugtrio) so they will pull off at least one action on their end. Both of them will also punish you for using contact moves on them (Skarmony has Rocky Helmet if you attempt to use Rapid Spin on her to get rid of the Stealth Rocks she likes to set-up so have fun taking chip damage) while Dugtrio has Tangling Hair so you lose Speed, making it so you're unlikely to attack first next time. Also, Dugtrio is a Ground-type in case you thought using Fire-types would be an easy answer. Skarmory also has Whirlwind to force a switch into the Stealth Rocks she's set up.
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** She leads off with Skarmory (ignores all Ground moves thanks to her flying-type) and Alolan Dugtrio (her high speed means she can outspeed almost anything that you might have thought of bringing). Both have means to [[LastChanceHitPoint survive with 1 HP]] (Sturdy for Skarmony and a Focus Sash for Dugtrio) so they will pull off at least one action on their end. Both of them will also punish you for using contact moves on them (Skarmony has Rocky Helmet if you attempt to use Rapid Spin on her to get rid of the Stealth Rocks she likes to set-up so have fun taking chip damage) damage, while Dugtrio has Tangling Hair so you lose Speed, making it so you're unlikely to attack first next time.time). Also, Dugtrio is a Ground-type in case you thought using Fire-types would be an easy answer. Skarmory also has Whirlwind to force a switch into the Stealth Rocks she's set up.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's incredibly calm and poised which contributes to her popularity with many students at Blueberry Academy.
* ChildProdigy: Heavily implied as her information blurb during the League Challenge describes her as having been battling and training pokemon since she could walk and talk.
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* SchoolIdol: Amarys gets a lot of respect and admiration from not just her classmates, but various students throughout Blueberry Academy. Many [=NPCs=] seem to be gushing over her, calling her cool, and are in awe as they recall her role as the student council president. A lot of people put her on a pedestal. This is dialed up in the Japanese script as some of them will refer to her with the -Sama suffix.
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* SchoolIdol: Amarys gets a lot of respect and admiration from not just her classmates, but various students throughout Blueberry Academy.Academy, including the league club. Many [=NPCs=] seem to be gushing over her, calling her cool, and are in awe as they recall her role as the student council president. A lot of people put her on a pedestal. This is dialed up in the Japanese script as some of them will refer to her with the -Sama suffix.
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It was a few days canonically.
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* FriendlessBackground: Implied to be the case, since she's seen as difficult to deal with by the villagers and she's never seen bringing up anyone else she likes to hang out with. [[spoiler:It takes her a long while to see the player as a genuine friend that she eventually treasures. ''The Indigo Disk'' reveals she does have a friend at school in the also socially awkward Amarys, but that other students regard Carmine as annoyingly self-centered (though [[DownplayedTrope they also admit it is hard to hate her]]).]]
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* FriendlessBackground: Implied to be the case, since she's seen as difficult to deal with by the villagers and she's never seen bringing up anyone else she likes to hang out with. [[spoiler:It takes her a long while bit to see the player as a genuine friend that she eventually treasures. ''The Indigo Disk'' reveals she does have a friend at school in the also socially awkward Amarys, but that other students regard Carmine as annoyingly self-centered (though [[DownplayedTrope they also admit it is hard to hate her]]).]]
