Characters / hololive - Takanashi Kiara Ch.

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Character subpage for characters that originated from Kiara's channel.

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Takanashi Kiara [JP: 小鳥遊キアラ/たかなしきあら; CN: 小鸟游琪亚拉]

"Kikkeriki!"

Debut date: September 12th, 2020
Birthday: July 6th
Height: 165 cm
Fanbase name: Kiara Fan Club (collectively), KFP Employees (individually)
Illustrator: huke (main); Walfie (Smol); SeafoamBoi (Smol 3D VR); Priichu ("School Girl" 3D VR); _SWAV_ (Kiara alter)
Channel: Youtube, German channel
Social Media: Twitter

Alias: Tenchou ^translation(Store) Manager, Kusotori ^translationShit bird (by Calli only ^note As in, Kiara has made it clear that Calli is the only one whom she will allow to call her Kusotori.), Kiwawa
Age: Eternal
Species: Phoenix (in human form) / Cat (in her alternate outfit)
Affiliation: Kiara Fried Phoenix (KFP), HoloTori
Occupation (bar idol): Store Manager (Tenchou) of KFP
Languages spoken: German (specifically Austrian German, native), Japanese (fluent), English (fluent), Italian (conversational)

Burning passion pours like rain from the sky
Chaotic red blooms a scarlet rouge
Through a multitude of ordeals, over and over, I will survive
I will live to keep on fighting till the dawn

— HINOTORI

Part idol, part warrior, part fast food manager, all phoenix; Kiara is very excitable, extroverted, always full of energy, and usually rather perverted. She's trilingual with a grasp of English, Japanese, and German, and is able to communicate with her Japanese senpais pretty well. Her preferred genre of games to stream are JRPGs. She is the host of Holotalk, where she interviews her senpais for a better insight at how the holomembers operate.

Associated characters: JEnMa-chan (manager), Tiara (Hunter: The Vigil character)

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A-D

• Abhorrent Admirer: She wants Calliope to love her and teases her constantly, but Calliope finds her repulsive because of her immortality. While she has calmed down significantly over time and the two have a much more openly friendly relationship, Kiara still can't help but slip in a few flirty remarks or innuendo here or there, much to Callie's ire.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Shitbird (くそ鳥, Kuso tori), used by Calli. Featured in Calli's debut stream, this is what Calli labeled her as during said stream. Without context, this name appears to be an insult, but later streams such as Kiara's debut stream revealed that there is no real bad blood between the two and it's just a nickname Calli has affectionately given her, due to her penchant for annoying her whenever she can.
  • Kiara's mother has taken to referring to calling her "Birdie" on stream with no small amount of affection.
  • As part of their mother-daughter dynamic, Kobo would refer to her as "Mommy Kiwawa".
• Aggressive Submissive:
  • Despite Kiara's penchant for making a lot of dirty jokes as well as incredibly suggestive statements in regards to other girls (especially Calli,) Kiara has also stated that if anything were to happen, she is completely unable to take the lead. When describing such a theoretical situation involving Calli, Kiara immediately started getting flustered, acting much more timid than she normally does; Kiara has also stated in regards to Shamir from Fire Emblem: Three Houses that even though she wasn't her type, if Shamir were to initiate a Wall Pin of Love against Kiara, she would go along with it.
  • During her first German Class stream, Kiara gave a guide on how she would like guys to flirt with her, painting herself as an easily-flustered Shoujo female lead.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Downplayed. In the weeks leading up to her moving back to Europe, Kiara was faced with the problem of how to get her new desktop packed safely for air travel. With time running out and no solutions coming to mind, Kiara turns to her fans and asks them for advice, only for them to deflect the question and unanimously respond "Ask Botan". Understandably, Kiara didn't want her first interaction with her senpai to be asking to help pack a desktop instead of something friendly, but with no other option available, she went ahead and got help from Botan.
• Alternate Character Reading: "Takanashi" is a real but fairly rare Japanese surname, but for Kiara it's written with the kanji 小鳥遊, which reads as "little birds playing" (kotori asobe). "Takanashi" can be interpreted as meaning "there are no hawks" ^note Which would be written 鷹無し — in other words, the little birds can play because the hawks (their natural predators) aren't around to hunt them.
• Alternate Self: The lore behind her "Kiara alter" outfit is that she's an alternate Kiara from a fantasy universe who traded places with the mainline Kiara.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Mamatori, who likes to tell embarrassing childhood stories of, snark at, and one-up Kiara during their Minecraft stream in front of her gen mates. Her case is largely downplayed compared to the usual examples of this trope however, as she is still very nice to the chat and the members she meets, as well as shaping up to be a real Cool Old Lady with her engrossing storytelling and deep knowledge of videogames, which endeared her to Kiara's audience.
• Ambiguously Bi: Kiara is attracted to women, but she's shown signs of swinging in both directions.
  • Kiara seems to prefer girls. Her repeated flirting with other Hololive talents (namely Calli and Kronii) and her Fangirl behavior towards Pekora borders on obsessive at times. Most of Kiara's childhood crushes were other girls, according to Kiara's own stories and Mamatori; boys are absent from these anecdotes. While on-stream, Kiara also tends to react more strongly towards attractive female characters than attractive male characters. Kiara wholeheartedly agreed with Aqua on an episode of Holo Talk that she would "prefer to have a good wife like Asuna instead of a husband like Kirito".
  • On the other hand, she found Claude from Fire Emblem: Three Houses pretty charming. Also, when HoloMinistry (Council's Spear Counterparts) "debuted", Kiara took to gushing over the boys, and also tried pairing both Ministry and Myth members on hypothetical dates, using rather impressive character analysis. Naturally, she shipped herself with Krono.
• Amicable Exes: In-universe Kayfabe, with the decline of the Takamori ship Calli and Kiara interact freely as friends without the shipping baggage. In particular, their dynamic resembles amicable exes most when co-parenting their adopted child, Kobo
• Amnesiac Lover: After her Surprisingly Sudden Death and subsequent resurrection in December 2020, Kiara re-did her debut stream, having forgotten everything during her previous life. This included confusion as to why she had superchats, membership enabled, and five hundred thousand subscribers despite just "debuting", and referring to her gen-mates and even members of holo ID Gen 2 (who made their debut after Kiara) as her senpais. When told by the chat to not forget Calli, Kiara's response was a confused "Who's Calli?". After a few moments of Wistful Amnesia pondering the connection between death and "Calli-senpai", Kiara suddenly regained her memories and declared she could never forget Calli. Based on Calli's responses, these bouts of temporary amnesia are a regular occurrence when Kiara dies and comes back to life.
• Animal Motifs:
  • Phoenixes. And chickens. Or possibly phoenix chickens? ^note As it happens, there's a German-Japanese chicken breed with that name
  • During her casual outfit reveal stream, she gained cat as an alternate motif.
• Baby Don't Got Back: A recurring cause for frustration in her case, where Kiara would constantly bemoan the small size of her character model's butt, especially in 3D, despite having been "upgraded" several times by her artist.
• Bad Boss: At her worst, Kiara's mismanagement of her employees can get them killed and served in people's food. She apparently sees this as normal business.
• Been There, Shaped History: Apparently, she was friends with Mozart during his lifetime. This is because one of her previous incarnations was Marie Antoinette.
• Berserk Button: Being called a chicken, or "Henchou", both of which are used with impunity by her viewers and Superchats to get a rise out of her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While generally quite kind and friendly, she can be quick to switch to aggression when things don't go her way. So far she's threatened to incinerate someone and their entire family for failing and embarrassing her (Mario), fired her KFP employees when they won't let her win Mario Kart races, and once threatened a group of Among Us players after hilariously getting caught killing after jumping into line of sight. It worked.
• Big-Breast Pride: She is proud of her boing-boings, which she often makes to bounce with energetic movements. She tried to talk Calli into bouncing her boing-boings with her on a stream, only to get a flat refusal.
• Big Eater: Says she eats 53 chicken nuggets a day and that she stays fit by working it off.
• Bird People: Played with. She is an anthropomorphic phoenix, but looks like a normal human being.
• Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Talked at length about the reproductive process for phoenixes when explaining that she does not lay eggs; instead, two phoenixes get so hot that they burn each other, and the resulting ashes will have both reborn along with the birth of a new phoenix.
• Black Comedy Cannibalism: She's an avian who eats chicken and sells chicken products. Being a phoenix, it should be no more cannibalistic than, say, a hawk eating a smaller bird, but then the standing joke with her is that she's not a phoenix but a chicken.
• Blatant Lies: During one of her Super Mario 64 videos, after she ended up 'eating' her hats after failing some self-made challenges, she declared herself 'naked' and told her chat not to look at her naked body because "I'm an innocent maiden."
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Kiara tends to be the most open about the behind the scenes stuff of Hololive, and she makes no bones that just because it looks like a fun and easy job, it is by no means true. Talking about things from rules that most normal streamers would never have to deal with, to the fact that the sudden fame also bring more than a fair share of haters, that you are judged by a completely different standard from normal streamers, and that if you don't have thick skin it can easily become overwhelming.
  • On a more particular note, she says during her "Will You Press the Button?" stream that she firmly believes that the afterlife doesn't exist and one simply ceases to exist upon death.
• Cat Girl: Kiara's summer outfit lets her transform into a catgirl, with wiggling cat ears and a fluffy tail. The chat immediately latched onto the nickname of "Nekotori". The In-Universe explanation for this given by Kiara is that repeated inhalation of cat hairs caused her to turn into a cat somehow.
• Catchphrase:
  • Begins her streams with a boisterous cry of "Kikkeriki!" ^note The German onomatopoeia for a rooster's crow, equivalent to "Cock-a-doodle-doo!"
  • Also expect her to trot out the line "You little shit!" on various occasions. She would later accumulate enough moments to put them in song form.
• Chaotic Stupid: Played for Laughs. During a collab stream where all members of Hololive EN were ranked on a graph according to their purity (in terms of the lewdness they display, tendency to use swear words, etc.) and intelligence, Kiara's character designer said she should be ranked at the bottom left of the graph - maximum impurity and stupidity. Naturally, the phrase "bottom left" invokedwent memetic immediately. Months later, it became so ubiquitous and overused that Kiara felt it had distorted her image, and she had to ask fans to tone it down.
• Chivalrous Pervert: She makes her attraction towards the other girls very clear, but she means no harm and tones it down when they start to feel uncomfortable.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Kiara very frequently becomes aggressively jealous when any other girls get too affectionate to Calli. She has admitted that she was jealous when Calli did a collab with Korone, despite the fact that not only does Kiara do far more collabs with other members than Calli does, but Calli's collab with Korone was completely platonic and wholesome, while Kiara is, well, Kiara. She also became angry at chat for suggesting Calli ships other than Takamori, with her going so far as banning the word "Amemori" from her chat.
  • When Kiara was playing Minecraft with Pekora and Moona suddenly logged in, Kiara was not happy, to the point that she eventually picked a fight with Moona despite being vastly outgunned (Kiara had a diamond sword and no armor, Moona had an enchanted diamond sword and full diamond armor), although Pekora egging the both of them on probably didn't help. Played for Laughs, as Moona later clarified that the entire scene was improvised (as Moona didn't even know that Kiara and Pekora were streaming at the time) and said that Kiara had DM'd her later to thank her for playing along when Kiara started going "Don't take my senpai from me".
  • Kiara is openly dismissive of the idea of Calli being shipped with anyone but herself. She is shown to be visibly offended when the chat tells her they are shipping Calli with someone other than her, or when someone asks her what hypothetical non-Kiara Calli ship she would prefer.
  • Calli herself even told Kiara that she is too clingy when Kiara asked why Calli is nicer and more open to their fellow Hololive members when she collabs with them and not Kiara. Calli also says that Kiara takes it way too personally when it does happen.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Ina asked about what goes on in "the usual room," Kiara responded that two of the punishments were walking around barefoot with the floor covered in Legos and being forced to assemble a 1 million piece jigsaw with a single piece missing.
• Cowardly Lion: During her punishment stream of Outlast with Gura, she made it abundantly clear that she does NOT like anything pertaining to the horror genre. She's never actually watched any type of horror movie from start to finish, and was a blubbering, whimpering, coughing, sweating mess of panic before anything even properly happened. The first Jump Scare, which even Gura admits is pretty harsh to start a game with, instantly set her heart rate from 72 bpm to 122 in roughly 10 seconds. She pressed on anyway, despite Gura's teasing.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Kiara believes that if there was ever a reason for her to graduate, it would be to resign herself to giving more love and attention that her cats demand of her.
• Cringe Comedy: A significant amount of Kiara's content can be rather cringy for those not named Kiara, especially when it comes to her almost obsessive attraction to Calli. This is highlighted in her Sims 4 stream where she dedicated most of her time trying to gets into the pants of the facsimile of Calli that she had made for it.
• Cry into Chest: During a karaoke collab with Calli before moving back to Austr(al)ia, Kiara broke down crying at the tail end of singing "Leaving on a Jetplane," and from the sound of things this ended up happening, with Calli assuring her in a muffled voice that "It's okay to be sad."
• Cult: Parodied. As a result of her slight yandere tendencies towards the chat and her being a Mean Boss to KFP, one popular Reddit post describing the fanbases of the five Myth talents stated that, contrarily to the Tentacult, who are just chilling and vibing, the KFP Employees are an actual cult. Kiara has run with this, with the official WELCOME TO KFP video posted on her channel featuring a crowd of KFP Employees wearing hooded cloaks chanting "VIVA LA KIARA, WE ARE NOT A CULT".
• Curse Cut Short:
  • During a stream of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Kiara was so upset over Jeralt's death at the hands of Kronya that the second she saw her in a follow-up scene, was about to call her a "fucking whore" but cut herself off at the second word since it would be a bit too extreme, even for her.
  • During another stream of the same game, she was incensed when she learned about Bernadetta's father tying her to a chair to get her to be a good submissive wife.
  Kiara: I'm gonna KILL that mother-!
• Cute, but Cacophonic: She tends to make high-pitched screams whenever she panics such as when enemies creep up on her. It doesn't take away from her natural charm though.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • She gets absolutely infatuated with Pat from Later Alligator, cooing and squeeing over everything he says or does.
  • She also squees over Kobo of Indonesia Gen 3 even wanting to protect her like a mother.
• Damned by Faint Praise: During a cross-generation stream with Choco, Kiara fared abysmally during the general knowledge test ^note Many of the questions are complex and full of non-daily terms that a foreigner like Kiara wouldn't know, so she'd be forgiven for not understanding half of the questions; Choco didn't want to give the test, either, but managed to score two points... which is double of Aqua's. For this, Choco ends up calling Kiara a genius.
  Choco: By the way, you aren't the lowest.
• Darkest Hour: Kiara had traveled to Japan originally to work as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (as the torch) and possibly find a long-term career while abroad. When asked about the worst timed moment in her life, she cites it being the obtaining of her visa and travel since it was just before the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown measures were put in place and the eventual cancellation of the event, leaving her essentially stuck in Japan with no career prospects. During that time she had fallen into the Hololive rabbit hole and when auditions opened up for the English generation, auditioned out of desperation. She mentions that joining possibly saved her life since without it, she would have returned from Japan without a purpose.
• Death Amnesia: After dying and coming back to life (due to her channel getting temporarily terminated for a few hours), Kiara held a second "debut stream" where she appeared to have no memories of her previous experiences at Hololive. She addressed her fellow Hololive EN members and the second generation Hololive ID members as her "senpais", despite that the latter group debuted after she did. In addition, Kiara asked "who's Calli?" when the KFP employees asked if Kiara remembered her. Judging by Calli's calmness (and referring to the chat's panic as "growing pains"), it's implied that this temporary amnesia after coming back from the dead is normal for Kiara. Indeed, Kiara had some Wistful Amnesia after seeing Calli's name enough times, then regained her memories and declared her love for Calli once again, much to the chat's delight.
• Didn't Think This Through: Much of her Cringe Comedy comes from her occasional inability to plan ahead or strategize and instead act on her most primal impulses. If she does fail to plan ahead, expect her to explicitly point it out.
• Does Not Like Spam:
  • When discussing a full English breakfast in her Kobo drawing stream, she mentions a strong disdain for mushrooms.
  • And in her VR Collab with Reine, she mentions that she actually doesn't like sushi, despite having once lived in Japan for a while.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: A downplayed example. In the first week or so of Kiara's career, her fans were worried about her emotional state thanks to her being a slow starter and having bouts of Heroic Self-Deprecation, to the point where the hololive Subreddit had multiple "Poor Kiara needs our help" posts every day. During one stream she asked her fans to stop doing these "pity posts", saying that while she appreciated their concern, it made her look weak-willed and fragile to newcomers and explained that she needs to stand on her own two feet. The fans listened, Kiara thankfully found her confidence soon after, and everything ended on a happy note.
• Double Entendre: During the "Welcome to Kiwawa Airlines!" video.
  Kiara: All exits on the airplane are marked, but I decide when you get off.
• Drives Like Crazy: She does not follow traffic regulations when playing Grand Theft Auto V, though it's not like she has to considering the protagonists are criminals. Still, she pretty much always crashes or drives at incredibly high speeds, and is prone to road rage.
• Dual Wielding: One of her pose options has her wielding a pair of chicken drumsticks, which are apparently plastic and not edible. This is carried over onto her Walfie chibi model.

E-K

• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • She admitted that her Seiso proper idol personality in her first two streams that was suddenly dropped was an act that she had decided to put on, but later changed her mind to sticking to her real personality resulting in streams more akin to Matsuri and Marine with frequent vulgar humor, Too Much Information sex talk or jokes, and constant cursing in three different languages, because she says she would rather just do what she wants to do naturally.
  • Early on, her fanbase was referred to as the "Kiara Fan Club" for the acronym joke; however, she ended up having to request that fanworks not abbreviate the tag to "KFC" so she could more easily search it. Since she was already referring to her fans as her employees, "KFP employees" became the preferred fan term, and from late 2020 on, she has called the fans KFP employees and used the KFP tag as well.
  • At first, Kiara claimed to come from "Australia", which was clearly a joke meant to imply which European country she hailed from. Anyone who knows basic geography would know that a native German speaker such as herself was implying that she was Austrian. It's unknown why she chose to give that information in a roundabout way, but she continued to refer to her home as "Australia" for nearly a year. After Hololive Council's debut, which consists of two bona-fide Aussies with distinct Aussie accents, Kiara has since dropped this joke and just refers to Austria directly on stream instead.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Kiara noted that she had been a real life idol in her first myth collab, but later explained that it hadn't ended well. That although it had been her dream she eventually ended up giving up on it, and that her later attempt to launch a different career in Japan was ruined by the COVID pandemic. On joining Hololive she was understandably upset by being the lowest subbed member of her generation, and that the others had skills and talents that overshadowed hers. As a result the moment where she finally got on stage at "Hololive 3rd Festival" was the moment where she could really put her passion on display, and there was widespread agreement that she looked every inch the idol she dreamed of being.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Apparently, the end-goal of KFP is to blow up the Earth.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: A large ant climbing her microphone cable gave her such a scare that she momentarily switched to a different pitch and nearly ended the stream right there.
  Kiara: I'm not scared of ants! (shrieks in fright)
• Enraged by Idiocy: When explaining to Gura how the grade systems in Austria (called "Australia" on stream due to an ongoing joke) and Germany are 1-to-5 and 1-to-6 respectively, she's silenced in disbelief when Gura thinks she's saying 1-2-5 and 1-2-6 and asking where grades 3 and 4 are. Then, when asking Kobo to pick a number from 1 to 6, she makes the same mistake as Gura, with Kiara audibly losing her cool. Thankfully, Kobo realizes her mistake and picks 5, letting Kiara breathe a sigh of relief.
• Europeans Are Kinky: She's currently the only European member of HoloEN and is a chronic flirt and Lovable Sex Maniac.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She took some time to address concerns that people had regarding her interactions with Calli, namely that there were some people who genuinely believed that Kiara was being too pushy with her on-screen lusting and that Calli was starting to dislike her. Kiara assured her audience that she would never do anything to make Calli feel genuinely uncomfortable and they actually are good friends, paraphrased below.
    Kiara: First, if Calli really had a problem with me, she would tell me in private and I would knock it off. Second, she actually does like me a lot but is just really bad at expressing herself, that's just how she is. Third, if she really didn't like me, she wouldn't be going on a fucking spa date with me.
  • For as much of a Lovable Sex Maniac as she is, even she was hesitant to say that she "made babies with Calli's pussy", referring to how she bred Calli's cats in Minecraft. While she did eventually say it, Kiara took several tries to get that final word out.
  • When she gets a Superchat from someone wanting to marry her just to get a European visa, she (humorously) does not take it well.
    Kiara: [reading the superchat while struggling not to laugh] "Tencho will you please marry me? I know we denied [sic] once before but I just realized how much European citizenship will help my career opportunities". F you! That's a "hell no" from me! [snickers] You just want to use me for a visa! Oh my god! Rude! [laughs]
  • She is rather prone to having some odd or unconventional thoughts in general, but Trevor Philips from Grand Theft Auto V is a character who genuinely irritates her because of how much of a plain asshole he is, in comparison to Michael and Franklin, anyway.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Aside from the color being a very vibrant magenta, her pupils are noted by Calli to resemble skulls. Her illustrator, huke, denied this theory as he originally drew her pupils as standard black circles and it is simply the way that they're shaded which creates the resemblance.
• Fangirl: For Pekora, whom she listed as her favorite senpai, as well as a goal of hers being an official collaboration with her. Ever since Pekora visited her debut stream, Kiara would almost always lose all composure and begin Squeeing out loud whenever they get to interact with each other, to the point of exhibiting Extreme Doormat tendencies on occasion.
• Fanservice Pack: She spends at least the first eight months of her streams wearing her default fast food worker uniform (pictured above), but following her first outfit update, she starts to show how much of a Proud Beauty she actually is, wearing more revealing casual clothes instead.
• Fiery Redhead: Quite literally. Whenever she's incensed enough, her hair would spontaneously combust. One of her belt buckle's many functions is to prevent this from happening.
• Fire/Ice Duo: Ends up having this dynamic with Calli, with their original song "Fire N Ice" depicting Kiara as fire to Calli's ice.
• Flanderization: Kiara has discussed this in terms of her discomfort with how being "Bottom Left" and always chasing after Calli had come to dominate her image in the fandom and that she wants to avoid falling into this situation with regards to herself, to the point where she has become annoyed at the over-use of the "Bottom Left" meme outside of when she's actually acting that way as well as why she felt she had to move on from TakaMori shipping in order to allow her character to grow in other ways.
• Flipping the Bird: In her October 2023 Handcam Stream, she channels Peter Quill and Johnny Cage by pulling a few of these off using imaginary hand-crank.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: Not above unleashing strings of German expletives if she's gotten especially frustrated. For instance, after playing Plug & Play, she was evidently shaken up by the Mind Screw-y nature of the game. At the credits, she saw the names Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach and, thinking that they are German (Frei and Rickenbach are both Swiss), goes on a rant about the game in German.
• Friend to All Children: Despite having no experience with babies, she is surprisingly good with them. When she discovered her youngest fan was 4-month-old Baby Xander she spent the next portion of her stream playing with him and was delighted to find out said baby loved it.
• Full-Name Basis: Downplayed. For quite a while, she was the only EN member to consistently refer to Hakos Baelz by "Baelz" rather than "Bae". She didn't even use her surname like the JP members. Eventually, after interacting with her more, Kiara switched to "Bae" like everyone else. For a little while, before going back to consistently using "Baelz".
• Fun with Acronyms: Her fanbase name was initially officially Kiara Fan Club or KFC.
• The Gadfly: Due to Calli's dorkiness, Kiara loves taking every opportunity to flirt with her during collab streams.
• Genki Girl: Probably the most upbeat and excitable out of all the English girls along with Gura.
• George Jetson Job Security: She fires all her KFP employees for not throwing against her in Mario Kart 8 after making a private lobby for the explicit purpose of doing so. Everyone ends up rehired in the same stream though.
• The Glomp: According to Ame, Kiara straight-up tackled her when they went to hug each other during the June 2022 off-collab.
  Amelia: Kiara? Kiara like, threw herself at me. She'd like, almost tackled me, but good thing she's not that strong because I could have picked her up, like with the momentum, and like spun her around? She came at me, and she hugged me!
• Good Old Ways: In the stream where Kiara rated the contents of various Hololive members’ (and Pomu Rainpuff of Nijisanji EN) handbags, she kept getting triggered by the presence of wireless earbuds. She exclusively uses wired headphones, stating that she thinks that she would lose wireless ones too much and defends the tangling problem that comes with wired ones by calling it a game.
• Good Parents:
  • Kiara's illustrator, huke, is seen as this by fans since he is present for most of her streams in the chatroom showing support, though he isn't above trolling his daughter either.
  • After telling her (real) mother about her position as a vtuber, Kiara noted that she was surprisingly supportive and flattered that the fans were so kind in regards to Kiara's stories about her, now making it a point to catch up on all her archives.
• Gratuitous German: She is a native German speaker and uses several speech quirks associated with Bavarian dialect. She opens off streams with "Kikkeriki", the German onomatopoeia of a rooster's crow, and thanks superchats with "danke schön".
• Guilty Pleasure: Scene/emo music, namely because it was considered incredibly niche in the community she grew up in to the point that her friends would think she was weird for being into it.
• Guns Do Not Work That Way: She has a poor understanding of guns and ammunition. During their Hunter: The Vigil campaign, Kiara asked GM Calliope if she could reload the spent brass cartridges of a sniper rifle into her revolver to fire them again. In a later stream, Kiara admitted she assumed guns somehow just shot the whole cartridge out the barrel. Ironically, her Hunter character is specced almost entirely into guns. (Fans joke that the phoenix last saw guns during the black powder era.)
• Harem Seeker: While not quite to the extent of Ollie, Kiara is also known to be a serial-flirt to various senpais, genmates, and kouhais that she admires and often becomes a Clingy Jealous Girl over another girl making a move on them.
• Has a Type: Although Kiara hasn't claimed to have one, her aggressive flirting with Pekora, Calli, and Kronii seems to imply that she has a thing for people who appear to be The Stoic, but are actually shy and awkward dorks when flustered.
• The Heart: Kiara's caring nature, strong bonds with her genmates, and mentions of her family showcase her role as the emotional center of her group.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Early on Kiara was quite critical of herself since she felt that her fluency with languages wasn't nearly as good a talent as the other HoloMyth girls' skills, like Calli's singing and Ina's drawing. However, her ability to speak three languages not only lets her communicate with fans all over the world, but it makes her the prime candidate for collaborations with the original hololive girls and allows her to translate for them on the fly. As an example, many identified her as the MVP during the collaboration between EN and 5th Gen in Among Us, as her translation was invaluable in keeping both teams up to date with each other.
• Henshin Hero: Her gear, especially her belt, gives off this vibe; observers have drawn a lot of comparisons to Kamen Rider OOO Tajador Combo and Hou'ou Soldier, two phoenix-themed Toku heroes. However, she has admitted that she herself has zero knowledge of, or interest in, Toku shows.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation:
  • While she's usually upbeat, she tends to beat herself up when she doesn't do well at games, especially if it's something she knows the audience is going to be more knowledgeable in. In her first stream of Fire Emblem: Three Houses stream, she almost lost the Mock Battle (as in, the second fight in the game), and only won because of her last character being strong enough to secure the win. She apologized heavily for it, calling herself "bird for brains" even as the chat told her not to worry ^note Given how she had never played a Fire Emblem game before, it isn't too hard to imagine why she'd have trouble.
  • As noted elsewhere, Kiara claimed early on that her "only" talent was for translation and that she felt inadequate compared to the other HoloMyth girls. Since then, she's proven herself to be a very talented singer and artist, and comparisons to professional-level talents like Calli and Ina are doing her a disservice.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In the second EN collaboration stream, Kiara revealed that before her current incarnation in our universe, she had been a flight attendant, professional trainer, and (non-virtual) idol. She also shared to Nene that she worked as an actual Miko for a time.
  • Shortly after finally finding her stride and acknowledging how invaluable her conversational and translation skills are, she proposed the idea of hosting a semi-regular talk show with other members of Hololive (including YAGOO) as guests. She has also noted that despite her normal irreverence, her intent with these is to provide actual insightful looks into the lives of her colleagues and will be taking a more serious tone when compared to her other content; this would culminate in the creation of the Holotalk show, which she hosts every two weeks.
  • During the first "KFP Dance School" collab with Ame and Gura, she revealed that she used to dance and that dancing was (and still is) a very important part of who she is. Her 3D Debut (with full body tracking) and a choreography by Kianna^note She's the one who made the original Dreamin' Chu Chu Choreography pretty much confirmed that she still has the moves and that she is still an amazing dancer.
• The Hilarity of Hats:
  • Despite wearing two hats already, she asked Ina for a third one during a drawing stream (to no avail since Ina was too focused on drawing). After said stream, Ina uploaded a drawing of Kiara wearing a towering stack of hats to which she responded enthusiastically.
  • During Amelia's second stream of Super Mario Odyssey, Kiara had demanded Amelia to give her the hat she just purchased from the game's cosmetic shop.
• History Repeats: Discussed. Prior to Pavolia Reine's debut, Kiara mentioned how fitting it would be if Reine's first senpai collab after the one-month collab ban period was her, just as Subaru was her first senpai collab after one month, due to all three being bird-themed. Played straight one month after Reine's debut where Kiara would indeed be her first cross-branch collab partner, even reusing the same hashtag Kiara used for her first collab with Subaru, #holobirds.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Downplayed, as the "ethics" part doesn't particularly apply. Her role in-universe is supposed to be that of a fast food manager, running a restaurant called "Kiara Fried Phoenix"; her fans are supposed to be her employees. Aside from Mean Boss tendencies, she is in fact taking up the job for the sake of other people and isn't doing so for profit.
• Humanity Ensues: She's a phoenix who has been turned into a human by her magic belt. According to her, taking it off would change her back.
• Hypocrite:
  • She had made fun of Nene's assertion that Kid Com shows were mature dramas, only to reveal several days later that she had found very old and poorly produced World of Warcraft music videos set to emo/scene music to be emotionally impactful.
  • Counting as a Double Standard, while Kiara opposes the idea of Calliope being shipped with anyone other than herself, she herself casually flirts with several other members of Hololive and even jokingly proposed to Burger King on Twitter. She has also admitted that she was jealous when Calli did a collab with Korone, despite the fact that not only does Kiara do far more collabs with other members than Calli does, but Calli's collab with Korone was completely platonic and wholesome, while Kiara is, well, a Lovable Sex Maniac.
  • When collabing with Reine, she claimed that it would be impossible to create a hololive turducken since while Reine and Subaru are a turkey and a duck, respectively, Kiara is a phoenix and not a chicken, seemingly ignoring the fact that Reine is a peahen and not a turkey (not to mention that Subaru's status as a duck is also... complicated, to say the least). She also humorously chewed out Reine for claiming otherwise and not doing her research. Kiara later clarified that she only called Reine a turkey because she saw others doing it and she had genuinely forgotten that it wasn't true, and apologized.
• Hypocrisy Nod: During her stream when she played Minecraft with her IRL mother, Gura logged in and greeted the latter in German. When Kiara's mother responded, also in German, she used a word that Kiara didn't know, which made her joke "learn german Kiara". A flustered Kiara could only respond with "you learn English first, i saw all your typos". After sulking for a few minutes, Kiara admitted that her mother had a point, and that she should at least know her own native language.
• If It's You, It's Okay:
  • Kiara is willing (read: absolutely craving) to go through a lot of things as long as Pekora is the one doing them to her, usually those humiliating in nature, like being shot in the face in Minecraft, or being called an idiot. Apparently, she derives a lot of pleasure from experiencing those, much to Calli's chagrin if she's present. Pekora for the most part isn't interested in all that sketchy business.
  • The Insult of Endearment from Calli, "Kusotori", is Japanese for "shit bird". Kiara doesn't mind it at all, but only if it's Calli saying it. If anyone else calls Kiara by that name, she politely but firmly tells them to stop.
• Implausible Deniability: During a Superchat readout, Kiara spent a significant amount of time going through her entries on this page and attempting to deny the more egregious claims that have been made ^note Including some which have links attached as evidence; she states that the editors of her entry must be watching all of her content in order to catalog it thoroughly, tacitly admitting to some of the claims.
• In the Blood: Kiara says that her Lady Swears-a-Lot tendencies run in the family, which her mother ably demonstrates when she was a guest in the August 19, 2021 Minecraft stream.
• The Insomniac: Her sleep schedule could be best described as "nonexistent." Her streams will always go long over time and into the night, and even after she's done streaming she has admitted to spending hours afterwards on social media and watching Netflix.
• Insult of Endearment: She seems to be quite fond of calling certain characters, members of the chat, or even her fellow idols "little shits", but without any actual malice in her words. She also has her own, where Calli (and only Calli) usually refers to her as "Kusotori" (lit. "shit bird") as an Affectionate Nickname of sorts.
• Irony: Owns her own fast food chain. Has gone on record saying that her favorite fast food is from Burger King.
• Jack of All Stats: In terms of streamer talents, while Kiara isn't the top in any particular area (aside from being multilingual), she is accomplished in the most amount of fields compared to the other girls. Her singing and song creation skills while incredible, fall short of Gura, Calli, and later IRyS. She is easily the second best artist in Myth, only behind Ina who is The Ace in this area. Her gaming skills show in her preference for Nintendo games, especially the Mario franchise, as well as Eastern RPGs like the Atelier Series and Like a Dragon series, though she falls short of the gaming skills in some collab games like Mario Kart. Overall, while Kiara isn't the best at any one thing, she is one of the most versatile talents among her generation.
• Jaw Drop: Unlike her Genmates, Kiara's default expression has her mouth hanging open and tends to stay that way whether she's actually talking or not.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Kiara has lived with her two cats for the whole two years when she lived in Japan, but her two roommates weren't too fond about letting them into their own rooms for fear of shedding cat hair. The cats would often have to stay in the living room for most of her stay, except for when Kiara let them sleep in her room. Kiara mentioned that during her first after moving back to Austria, it took all of 5 minutes for her cats to adjust to their new home and they slept beside her on her bed. She was too tired for her usual routine of watching Netflix before falling asleep because she was just so tired, and was really happy that her cats gave her that moment of happiness.
• Knightly Sword and Shield: Wields a shield and shortsword, the latter able to fit inside the former for storage.

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• Lady Swears-a-Lot: Kiara swears much more casually compared to the rest of EN, which she put down to English being a second language for her; she has said that she specifically avoids vulgarity when speaking German. Except she admits in German in another stream that she was lying about that, as she later tried to teach Gura bad words and drops constant swears in German while playing against her fans at Mario Kart. She can also be fairly vulgar in Japanese.
  Kiara: [In German] I wonder how many people realize I'm swearing right now?
• Let's Meet the Meat: She views her audience, specifically her members, as chickens who also work for her. Of particular note is the progression of her subscriber badges which go through the life cycle of a chicken and end in a drumstick and later a bucket of fried chicken, implying that she is raising her viewers for the slaughter.
• Lonely Among People: While Kiara has nothing but praise most of the time for being a part of Hololive and having wonderful gen-mates, she sometimes laments that because she is so isolated, being the only Hololive member in all of Europe, she sometimes feels lonely and expresses a bit of jealousy of how close the JP and ID branches are and how much easier it is for them to collab off stream.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She even eclipses the almost perpetually horny Marine in this aspect:
  • Aside from her lusting after Calli while contemplating how she could convince her to procreate on a deserted island with her, she was once aroused by her joycons vibrating while playing Super Mario 64, became strangely fascinated with the idea of shoving random objects up her ass while playing Mario Kart, and wanted to marry every woman in Fire Emblem Three Houses at once to have a massive harem.
  • She also loves to make sex jokes. In both the collab stream and Calli's, she asks Ina and Calli about their "boing boings" without shame.
  • Her first Atelier Ryza stream is rife with moments where Kiara revels in the game's Male Gaze moments, taking a screenshot in just about every scene that has Ryza in it — doubly so when Ryza's thighs show up. Her second stream even lampshades this by having the title "Ryza thighs save lives". At one point she changes Lila's outfit to a swimsuit and she's just absolutely floored.
  • And then there's her The Sims 4 stream, where she spends half of her 2-and-a-half-hour stream carefully designing Sims representing herself and Calliope, and then spends the remaining half doing her utmost to court the Calliope-Sim, reveling in the flirting she's getting her Sim to do. When it starts to look like the Big Damn Kiss is happening, Kiara takes the time to savor the moment and tries to get the best shot she can get. After getting them to "woohoo" she ends the stream immediately, completely satisfied. This prompted shocked responses from Calli, huke, and Kiara's IRL sister.
    Calli: ...omfg
    huke: Kiara is now the lowest line of hololive.
    Kiara: My... My actual sister sent me this... (yes I have a sister) I.. I don't know what she means with this
  • When asked about the incident where the girls were testing their avatars prior to debuting and Gura accidentally loaded in naked, Kiara admitted that not only was her reaction to write "I wanna see everyone naked" on Discord, but she regrets not taking any screenshots or recording it.
  • During one Minecraft stream, Kiara bred Calli's cats to make a kitten. After intensely Squeeing about how she made a baby with Calli... 's cat, she suddenly realized the potential for a Double Entendre, saying that "I made babies with Calli's pussy" (after suddenly struggling for over thirty seconds to get out the last word).
  • During an off-collab with Marine, she actually manages to make the latter say that Kiara's being too straightforward when she says that she's going to do ecchi things with her senpai.
    Kiara: I'm going to have H with Marine-senpai after this!
    Marine: Oh my God! That's too straightforward.
• Love at First Sight: Her affinity for Calli appears to be this. She had noted when recounting her first impressions of all the other EN members that she found Calli to be quick-witted and naturally funny as well as physically appealing to all of her particular tastes before going on to comment on her kindness and helpfulness leading up to their debut.
  Kiara: When I first met all of them, the one that struck me was Calli... I was like, 'Damn, she hot, what a hot-ass chick!'
  • She's described her meeting Korone, of all Holomems, in real life at the New Years Eve 2022 collab as this. Kiara herself was surprised, as she didn't think they'd get along very well. But they couldn't stop staring at each other, and Korone was absolutely blown away by Kiara's natural beauty. After the collab ended and everyone had to go their separate ways, the two of them had to be physically pulled away from the other because they wouldn't stop hugging. Before this, Kiara was struggling to get Korone on Holotalk due to scheduling conflicts. Meeting each other at New Years has proven instrumental in finalizing that plan, as Korone is slated to be on Holotalk in early February 2023.
• Love Freak: One of the friendliest, most extroverted members of all of hololive.
  Calli: ([explaining why she assigned Kiara the Sun arcana in the music video for Red]): Kiara is a sunny, bright, and happy, cheerful being that is, just, basically, in my opinion, one of the big, I guess, sunshines of Hololive English. Um, she's so outgoing and friendly, [...] Kiara is this bubbly, sunny being of light and friendliness, [...] Kiara is just so happy and cheerful, I can't help but smile a little around her, [...] so, yeah, I would say, um, Kiara's always been really positive.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Can be argued to be playing this role to Calli's brooding stoic introvert.
• Mean Boss:
  • She has been jokingly accused of running her fast-food chain in such a manner. Her regular audience is acknowledged as and refers to themselves as her employees, and Kiara is nicknamed "Tenchou" by her fans, which is the Japanese term for a store manager. Due to the nature of streaming, she will often facetiously demand that people must pay her in order to stay employed, as well as make absurd requests (such as losing Mario Kart races to her) if they hope to keep their jobs. In a Minecraft stream with Subaru, she has also admitted to using KFP employees to vent her frustrations at as a form of stress relief.
  • Her Minecraft chicken farm is touted as being "free range" despite being pretty small and using methods of forced reproduction in order to maintain a steady supply of poultry.
  • She also will threaten her employees with a trip to "the usual room" in case they speak out of turn or threaten to reveal company secrets.
  • During her 1 Million Subscriber Celebration Outfit reveal, she directly states that she will not even contemplate the idea of insurance, and doesn't pay the KFP employees because she pockets the profits directly for taking care of Chonkers and Smoovie. In fact, it's her employees who pay a fee to stay employed to her (in the form of membership subscriptions).
• Medium Blending: Kiara is the one most likely to incorporate live-action segments into her videos, even if they are pre-recorded. She uses her own Kiara cosplay to show her arms and hands during cooking streams, and most prominently during her third outfit reveal.
• Mickey Mousing: Her Hologra Outro, which she now uses as her streaming intro, is specifically tailored to match with the clapping of her theme music. Kiara blinks twice, taps her foot twice, claps her hands twice, and then poses with open hands in time with the double claps.
• Miko: When she used to live in Japan, Kiara had a job as a shrine maiden, and was in charge of passing out goshuin stamps. It's this prior experience that got her excited when she learned that Ayame owns a goshuincho stamp book that she's been filling out for the longest time.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Upon transforming into a Cat Girl during her casual outfit reveal stream, she would meow instead of speaking English when attempting to talk. She then states that she eats lots of food, sleeps a lot, annoys her owner, and does some things that she's told not to do. Interestingly, she specifies that she doesn't catch mice because she's scared of them.
• Mirror Character: To Coco Kiryu, with fans and both girls themselves pointing out the immense similarities between them, with Kiara even suggesting they are sisters or the same person from different points in time.
  • Both have orange hair, amber eyes, are quite tall, and both are humanoid mythological creatures (a dragon and a phoenix).
  • Both run a morally ambiguous organization (Yakuza and KFP), both are referred to with a professional title (Kaichou and Tenchou). Both speak fluent Japanese and English, both host guest streams to reach out to foreign fans (Reddit Meme Review and Holotalk), and both use copious amounts of vulgar language in English.
  • Both are part of a branch that isn't an official language of their country of origin and were, at the time of their debut, the only member fluent in that country's official language (Coco being a member of the main branch born in America before the English branch existed and Kiara being Austrian), leading to them declaring themselves an unofficial "Gen 0" to another branch.^note In Kiara's case, said branch doesn't exist yet. She has created a separate channel for her German streams, making her the only member of the EN branch with a second channel.
  • Finally both have a waifu that Kiara points out is associated with life or death (Kanata an angel and Calli a reaper).
• Mundane Utility: Not herself, but the fact that she is immortal is treated like such by her fellow members. When both were asked which member of Hololive English they would rather be stuck on an island with, Gura and Amelia both placed Kiara higher than the others simply because she could be an endless food supply.
• Never Heard That One Before: She's grown quite tired of the "bottom left" meme due to people overusing it, stating that while she is a shameless pervert, even she has her own standards and lines that she will not cross. Said meme usually portrays her in a much more exaggerated light than she actually is, making it unfunny after a while.
• The Nicknamer: Has developed a tendency to create cute nicknames, in the vein of her own "Kiwawa" for other members, such as "Goobidiba" for Gura and "Kronini" for Kronii.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: She is a phoenix-cat-chicken streamer-warrior-idol-fast food restaurant owner. She even comes with a whole slew of secondary species such as frog and vampire in her 2021 Halloween collab.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: In a rare turn of events, she was actually the one to declare chat her husbands without any requests. The normally waifu-crazed chat politely but firmly turned her down.
• Not Actually the Ultimate Question: Of a list of four proposals of Usual Room additions ^note A powerbank with a bunch of cables of which only one works, but the powerbank is out of charge anyways; Kiaras stream audio getting desynced between the speakers; snack bags getting opened from the bottom and having 85% air over the usual 50%; a floor painting of the missing puzzle piece the only one that gets denied is the third one. Her reasoning?
  Kiara: You think there's gonna be snacks in the Usual Room?
• Oblivious to Love: It's commonly joked that while Kiara is crazy for Calli, whenever Calli shows even a hint of returning her affections, she doesn't notice it at all. Case in point.
• Older Than They Look: Kiara has mentioned on occasion how people in the US and her native Austria tend to mistake her for a teenager or even younger, especially if she's not wearing makeup, despite her being a legal adult. Curiously, Japanese people had the complete opposite impression of her for some reason.
  Kiara: It was at the airport when going home, at the passport check thingy, when going inside they were like "Are you alone?", and I'm like "Yeah?", and they're like "But you're under 18, right?".
• The One Guy: Her papa, huke, has the distinction of being the first male to play Minecraft with any of the female idols, having established farms in the EN server. Unfortunately, certain parts of the fanbase were not too happy about this, which lead to huke essentially being banned from playing with the girls.
• One-Winged Angel: Discussed and joked about during her introduction stream. She claims that she can shift into her true form after pressing the button on her belt, then asks if the audience would like to see it. When it seems like Kiara will transform into a massive, fiery phoenix, the transition instead cuts to her looking the same as she always does... but now holding two fried drumsticks in her hands. Later, during a Super Mario 64 stream, she threatens to unleash her true form on Mario and burn everything he loves to the ground, and mostly didn't do it because she asked her "papa" for permission and didn't get it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After seeing comments speculating that Calliope was genuinely bothered by her Abhorrent Admirer behavior, Kiara partially broke character to point out that she and Calliope are friends who've discussed these things off-stream. They've already established what is and isn't crossing the line, and if Kiara ever accidentally went too far Calli can just tell her and she'd stop.
• Orgasmically Delicious: Invoked Trope. During the stream where Kiara and Calli talked about their trip together, Kiara described the wagyu beef they ate together one night as "the best yakiniku I've ever freaking had. You know, while I was eating, I was constantly having an orgasm!"
  Calli: What.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: During her first Superchat reading streams, she admits that she feels lacking compared to the other members of Hololive English, who are all so talented while all she has is her mastery of Japanese.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Downplayed. When Mamatori was first introduced during a session of Minecraft, her chat started asking if Mamatori was single. Kiara got uncharacteristicly mad at her chat for asking the question.
• The Peeping Tom: Accused another player of being one while playing on the airship map on Among Us.
  Kiara: AHH! Oh, cute! You take a shower!
  [Notices another player walk in and stand there]
  Kiara: [gasps] He was watching me take a shower...
• The Phoenix: Part of her theme, with her profile noting that she'll be reborn from the ashes. After her channel was temporarily suspended, Kiara made a "rebirth" stream where she had died and come back to life in Kayfabe, complete with Death Amnesia about her fellow genmates.
• Phrase Catcher:
  • "Bottom left" (referring to her positioning on the dumb-smart / impure-pure chart, according to her character designer) whenever she is being stupid or horny. Which is often.
  • "Language, Kiara!" is stated whenever she is being particularly vulgar and is acutely aware that her viewers will call her out on it.
• Pocket Dimension: The Usual Room is apparently a combination of this and Prison Dimension, which means any detained employees are in their own copy.
• Politeness Judo: Has mentioned several times being fairly competent at it, as well as the classic Puppy-Dog Eyes maneuver.
• Polyglot: Fluent in Japanese, English, and German, with German being her first language, and knows enough Italian to use it for work purposes. There was also a time when she tried to learn Latin, Chinese and Korean. During streams, she makes an effort to self-dub herself into Japanese, is comfortable enough to do collaborations in Japanese, and sometimes holds some German learning streams with her fellow members.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: In-Universe. She and Calliope are referred to as Takamori, which is even given this hashtag when they collab.
• Power Limiter: Her belt buckle is one, as it normally serves to restrict her powers to a manageable level and keeps her in her human form, so long as Kiara doesn't mess with it, as its activation will turn her back into a phoenix.
• The Prankster: One of Kiara's favorite pranks is to rickroll either her fellow idols or her fans.
• Precision F-Strike: When she gets angry, she tends to call those who made her angry as a "little shit".
• Professional Slacker: Kiara is a fast food manager and The Phoenix, but is also incredibly lazy, by her own admission.
• Quality over Quantity: As of holo ID Gen 2's debut, Kiara expressed multiple times that the hololive production cast is in a great spot and she wouldn't mind if they held less frequent auditions.
• Really Gets Around: Non-sexual example. Due to having the strongest understanding of Japanese and her outgoing personality, she has the most contacts with the Japanese branch members and more 1-on-1 collaborations with them than her fellow branch members.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • She did a flight attendant skit accompanying her New Years kimono reveal. This was a few weeks after she revealed in a stream that she actually had worked as one for a while.
  • In December 2020, Kiara's YouTube channel was taken down for a few hours. After it was reinstated, Kiara did her debut stream all over again, forgetting everything she had known about her past life. However, during the stream, after ruminating over death and the name "Calli", Kiara go her memories back, and the channel otherwise continued as normal.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Calli's blue. Calli is gloomy, sarcastic and introverted, while Kiara is bubbly, cheerful and outgoing. Their contrasting personalities make for great comedic interaction.
• Resurrective Immortality:
  • According to her backstory, she has died and revived many times, each time reincarnating into a different reality. When asked if phoenix meat was part of her menu, she claims that eating her would kill her for good as she can only resurrect from ashes.
  • When her YouTube account got wrongfully suspended in December 2020, she took the opportunity to crack jokes of this being her first phoenix death. Once her account came back online, she held a "Revival" stream where she declared she had risen from the ashes and was reborn, even holding a second debut stream for herself and even having brief Death Amnesia.
  • In late February 2021, her channel got shadowbanned and she lost two months worth of streams and videos, including her second original song Heart Challenger. When the shadowban was lifted in March of that year, she took this opportunity to have a third debut stream, this time in German.
• Retractable Weapon: Her weapons appear to be shrunken down and worn like a badge when not in use.
• The Rival: Played for Laughs with Youtube of all things, with the site shadow-banning some of her streams, and even once getting straight up banned from it, fans have started joking how their rivalry is one of the most epic ones of all time.
• Room 101: Kiara has alluded to the existence of the "usual room", which is where she sends disobedient employees or those who discover company secrets to ensure their silence. She also uses it as a threat to get her employees to cater to her whims as well.
• Running Gagged: Had to retire her "Australia *wink*" joke after noticing that not enough people got the joke.

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• Screw Yourself: When she plays Princess Connect! Re:Dive, she makes a point of putting the cursor on Pecorine's bust and clicking through all the dialogue there, right after speculating that Pecorine is an Alternate Universe version of Kiara herself.
• The Scrooge: In the 2023 Advent Calendar finale story, Kiara is place into this role as a Mean Boss CEO who overworks her employees and gets visited by the three Ghosts of Christmas. Amusingly, Kiara barely learns her lesson, being unphased by seeing the misery she ha$ inflicted on others, whereby Calli/Ghost of Christmas Future was forced to target her greed by lying about her company failing.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Much like Calli (who transitioned from Grim Reaper to rapper to party dress), Kiara's formal dress introduced in December 2021 goes for a more glamourous look than either her default and summer outfits, and includes more than one removable accessory (in this case, the blue shawl and the eye mask).
• Shipper on Deck: Seems to be on board with the KronMei pairing.
• Ship Tease: While for the first year-plus after their debuts, Kiara/Calli and Ame/Gura were the primary ships in EN, 2022 has seen a lot more Ame/Kiara Ship Tease.
  • It started with the music video to their cover of Dreamin ChuChu. The next couple of weeks, Kiara was frequently saying flirty things to Ame.
  • As noted above, her tackle-hug of Amelia during the off-collab.
  • Calli claims that Kiara is married to Ame when telling Kobo that she's adopted.
• Signature Laugh: Coincidentally, Kiara's laugh sounds just like Pekora's even if she isn't trying to imitate her. She can't seem to remember if she always laughed that way or she developed it after watching all of Pekora's streams. As a result, fansubbers have taken to accentuating her laughs with arrows as well, although unlike Pekora's case where they point all over the place, Kiara's arrows usually point towards the bottom left corner of the screen.
  HA ↙ HA ↙ HA ↙ HA ↙ HA ↙
• Significant Birth Date: July 6th is National Fried Chicken Day in the United States.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Rammstein when it comes to her karaoke streams. Kiara doesn't think too highly of the band but the chat keeps bringing them up and requesting their songs even in the completely wrong karaoke streams. She eventually capitulated and sang Du Hast. And then they egged her when she revealed she did not know the lyrics.
  Kiara: Not every german speaking person knows this song!
• Sleep Deprivation: Most of EN were dead tired by the time their first collab ran since they stayed awake for each other's debuts, but Kiara earns a special mention for scheduling and sticking with a Fall Guys stream soon after which brings her total time without sleep to 28 hours.
• Smart People Play Chess: Subverted. She was a member of her primary school's chess team, but was their absolute worst player to the point of not being brought along for a tournament they were attending. In a collab with Amelia, her absolute lack of skill was on full display (although Amelia wasn't much better.)
• So Proud of You:
  • During a collab stream with Gura, involving her giving the shark Japanese lessons, she was repeatedly impressed by Gura's aptitude to learning Japanese and how spot-on her pronunciation was, citing she was proud of her student.
  • In April 2022, Kiara would feel similarly proud for Gura organizing the Myth April Fools VR collab entirely on her own, with Gura coming up with all the ideas herself and reaching out to all the respective people to make it happen.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: On her profile, the list of languages she speaks starts with "Bird". She has demonstrated speaking chicken (in the form of clucking), and her greeting at the beginning of streams is the German onomatopoeia of a rooster's crow.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The wise guy to Calli's Straight Man, constantly flirting and saying outrageous things while Calli remains the Only Sane Man.
• Supreme Chef: Apt for a fast-food franchise owner, Kiara is very good cook and often has cooking streams as well as photos of her meals.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: On December 9th, 2020, Kiara's channel was taken down without any warning. She was as surprised as everyone else, and after some worry decided to meme on it like it's just one of many deaths to come, then setting up an "emergency meme contest" while she waited to rise from the ashes. Then when her channel was restored some hours later, she hosted a re-do of her debut stream, saying she'd been reborn.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • She will often remind her audiences that she is a phoenix and not a chicken. This (certainly deliberate) reminder of the confusion only ends up reinforcing it.
  • Calli ended up being late for a stream after having misplaced her keys following a business meeting with Kiara over dinner. Kiara, completely unprompted, responded to Calli's announcement about waiting for a locksmith by saying she was in no way responsible for her missing keys. While it may have been true, fan reaction was to pin the incident on Kiara as a bid to get Calli to spend the night at her place and stream from there instead.
  • In the "Welcome to KFP" short, part of the brainwashing technique Kiara uses on new employees is a repeated Madness Mantra of "We are not a cult."
• Swallowed Whole: The "Pomutori collab" reveals Frogiwawa ate her, and Kiara spent the entire week inside her stomach.
• Take Over the World: Her debut stream's storybook opening states she's attempting to take over the world differently in this life, apparently by opening a fast-food chain. Later clarified that it's first to take over, then to destroy the world.
• Talk Show: Hosts her own talk show, HoloTalk, where she interviews and translates the responses of her guests from hololive Productions.
• Technician Versus Performer: Occasionally shows shades of this making her come off very much as a technician type; as noted in a few places above, for all the gags she plays to Kiara takes her idol position quite seriously and from time to time has shown moments of anxiety when discussing her friends and co-workers who show themselves to be surprisingly naturally gifted in specific idol job skills (so to speak), playing down her own skills that she feels she needs to work towards.
• Team Mom: Though not to the memetic extent of say Mio or Lamy, Kiara definitely fills this role for Holo Myth.
  • She is the self-proclaimed "mom" of Gura, Amelia and Ina'nis, declaring Calliope as "dad" in the process, as shown in this tweet. Taken further in their six month anniversary stream where she openly expresses her desire to hug and comfort Gura when the latter got emotional talking about how far the group had come in those six months.
  • Ina was once two hours late for a scheduled Minecraft stream. Kiara's guerilla "Waiting for Ina" stream gives off the same vibe as a concerned mother staying up all night waiting for a daughter that missed curfew. (It helps that it was roughly 1:00 AM in Kiara's timezone when Ina finally woke up.) She did this again when Baelz was missing and implied that she enjoys doing these kinds of streams as a Running Gag. While they're undeniably entertaining content, given Kiara's personality, it's also quite likely she's trying to take some heat off her coworkers by keeping their fans entertained while they wait.
  • During the Anime Expo panels, she notices that Amelia was skipped over when the host was asking everyone about their new outfits. Since Amelia's pretty introverted, Kiara brought it up to her and wanted to make sure Amelia was included, and made sure to praise her creativity on the first day's panel and the second day's panel.
  • She has mentioned on several occasions that she tries to be there as much as possible for the EN generations after her (like Project Hope and Council) because she doesn't want them to have to go through the chaos and anxiety of their debut and the early days of being inexperienced and be nearly alone like holoMyth had to.
  • Around the time of the 4th HoloFes, some of the En girls, including Kronii and Kiara, took a trip to Universal Studios Japan. This being just shortly after the former's jaw surgery, the warden of time was having trouble eating large pieces of solid food at the park. So, while eating giant turkey legs outside the Jurassic Park ride, Kiara happily tore out tiny pieces of her turkey to hand feed to Kronii, in her words, "like a bird mom."
  • Kiara finally got her wish of being recognized as a mom by another girl in the form of Kobo from Hololive Indonesia Gen 3, who affectionately refers to her as "Kiara-mama".
• That Came Out Wrong: During a Minecraft stream with Ina, Kiara expressed her annoyance at her neighbors doing loud construction work next door. Unfortunately, her choice of words left much to the imagination.
  Kiara: Stupid neighbors are still banging, after all these hours they're still banging on something... wait, oh my god...
  Ina: ...Context?
  Kiara: I mean, I mean, they were really, ahem, for hours, I don't know man, I couldn't sleep, I woke up—
  Ina: Context?!
• The Teetotaler: She vehemently dislikes the taste of alcohol and cannot handle it well, and prefers to drink other things such as soda when out with social drinkers such as Calliope.
• Tempting Fate: She accurately called out that an entry would be made about her regarding the reading of her own list of entries, as with Implausible Deniability above.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Towards the end of a collaboration with Polka, she had started to address Kiara by her nickname of "kusotori" and making puns with her name such as "Shiny Smily Kusotori" or "Nonstop Kusotori." While Kiara found it humorous, she eventually attempted to tell Polka that only Calli had the privilege to call her that and asked her to just call her by her name.
• Time Abyss: Kiara's age is given as "Eternal" as she is an immortal phoenix who never stops reincarnating from death every few hundred years.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Calli, Kiara is the Girly Girl to Calli's Tomboy. Kiara is more into cute fashion and is more bubbly, while Calli is more butch, likes to drink and likes to wear street clothes.
• Torture Cellar: "The Usual Room" that Kiara loves to send her misbehaving employees too, was visualized by a commissioned artist for Kiara to use as a background for reading superchats. It's a sterile white room with forced reeducation terminals, a floor scattered with Lego pieces, flashing red lights, speakers that blare "Sparks" on loop, a giant blackboard that says "WATCH ONLY ME", and TV monitors with flickering static images of Kiara.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pineapples, enough that she loves putting them on pizza and burgers.
• Transformation Trinket: She has a Kamen Rider-esque belt, sealed with the message "Do Not Use"; according to her, activating it will make her turn into a phoenix again, which isn't really a good idea.
• Translator Buddy: Has quickly carved out a niche for this on the EN side of things. Due to the other members' comprehension level of Japanese being conversational at best, she functions as a go-between for any of the Hololive Japan members and her own audience, or between the EN members and other Japanese speakers. She was specifically invited to the remix party for Calliope's contest to work as the interpreter for K's, will live translate any Japanese member she collaborates with (as well as help them understand English), and helped keep the conversation flowing during a cross-generation Among Us stream, even in matches where she was eliminated and knew who the imposter was.
• Tranquil Fury: One of her big Minecraft projects for a while was restoring a Ghost Town by surrounding it with big, proper walls to prevent villagers from wandering off and bringing in new villagers from other places, whom she then forced to breed to repopulate the place. This led chat to dub her North Kiara. After the name kept getting spammed, she stated, in an atypically matter-of-fact way, that she doesn't think it's very funny and might just permaban anyone who keeps using it.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Played for Laughs. During an EN collab playing UNO. Kiara's punishment for loosing a round is to talk like a baby. Problem is, even as a baby, Kiara still swears all the time.
  Ina: Language, baby.
• Tsundere: As Calli has softened up in her on-screen interactions with Kiara, she has started talking more about wanting to spend time with her and how much she appreciates her company and friendship, likely due to Kiara's planned return home in early 2021. Kiara noted her behavior to be a bit clingy and playfully rebuffed Calli's desire for her to show up in her stream chat in a bit of odd role-reversal that saw Kiara becoming a Type A Tsundere out of sheer disbelief that Calli would be fishing for her attention that much.
• The Unmasking: Kiara's real mother explained that she may have learned about her daughter's career choice from her brother, to which Kiara immediately speculates that he might have heard about it through Reddit.
  Kiara's mom: He came to me out of the blue and told me you became a VTuber, and I sat there and I thought... "What the fuck is a VTuber?"
• Verbal Tic: As punishment for her poor performance against Ina and Calli in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Kiara had to end her sentences with "puyo" for her following stream.
• Vibrant Orange: She has bright orange hair (due to being a phoenix) and is very energetic.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • Has this kind of dynamic with Calli— after all, an undying being will get on the nerves of the grim reaper. Despite that, Calli is very supportive of Kiara, having produced her introduction animation and given her one of her spare microphones, which was of significantly higher quality than what Kiara previously had. Also, while Kiara likes to tease Calli, it's always good-natured ribbing, and it's obvious that she adores Calli.
  • Often times with Gura. While Kiara loves to bully all of her gen mates, the one who tends to bully back is the shark, especially when the two of them are being competitive in a game where one can expect to see lots of Volleying Insults.
• Vocal Evolution: Her earlier streams had her speaking in a quieter, more soft-spoken voice before it gradually becomes louder and more shrill over time.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting:
  • In the opening of her debut stream, it was stated that Kiara decided to take human form because she was lonely. Similar to traditional phoenixes, she appears to be able to transform at will, as she reveals later on that removing her belt will allow her to transform back into her phoenix form.
  • Her "am x" series which started with "am frog" seemingly shows that her ability to shapeshift extends to other animals, as these shorts are confirmed to be canon by implication from Kiara's response to the "Are you a bird or a frog?" question, specifically her comment on-screen at this time.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Invoked when she was reading her trope section here on stream, largely out of dismay from how many tropes have been recorded. Her assumption was that it was someone, singular, who "watched every one of [her] goddamn streams".
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: On par with Watame's, if not more-so, due to sharing the same Live2D Animator. This tends to happen whenever she's over-excited. During her revival stream she forgot to turn the setting off and was left with wide eyes for ages before she remarked her eyes were getting dry.
• Yandere:
  • She threatened to kill Polka once the latter said she wanted Calli for herself. Played for Laughs, as she almost immediately made it clear she was just joking.
  • When Calli started an English teaching stream themed around a date, she threatened the audience to not touch her or she would burn them herself.
• Yodel Land: Kiara's "1 million subscriber celebration" outfit combines an Office Lady blazer with a traditional German dirndl. This outfit reveal also came with the announcement that she was going to start a German-only subchannel to try and reach out to more of her audience in Europe.
• Your Other Left: The tied bow on Kiara's dirndl is on her right side, which traditionally signals that the wearer is married. That was not the intention according to her, but apparently something got mixed up when she had talked with huke about it.
• Yuri Fan:
  • She is a big one, if her Fire Emblem: Three Houses gameplay was any indication: While playing a female PC she gushes over the female characters in the game and repeatedly wonders if she can Marry Them All. When she found out that the girl she wanted to marry (Petra) was not available as a romance option for the female main character, Kiara had a minor Heroic BSoD, humorously (and apparently, completely by accident, judging by her subsequent realization) going through the Five Stages of Grief in the span of a few minutes.
  • When ranking waifus in Arknights with Ina, she dumps all but two male characters down into D tier.

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Other Characters

Frogiwawa

Frogiwawa

"My show now, bitch!"

First appearance: January 4th, 2021^note first appearance in Am Frog short , October 17th, 2022^note debut with her own live 2D model as a separate character

Appears in: Takanashi Kiara Ch.

Kiara in the form of a frog.

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• Arch-Enemy: It's evident in Kiara's strong vitriol against her that she utterly despises her frog counterpart, and she may as well be her primary enemy for her brand.
• Ascended Extra: Goes from a one time joke, to a Running Gag, to a full fledged character distinct from Kiara.
• Decomposite Character: Originally depicted as just Kiara mimicking a frog noise while dressed as a frog. Later, Frog Kiara was hinted at being a separate character when she appeared in an aquarium on Kiara’s desk in her stream layout. She fully split off into her own separate character after getting her own model, distinct from the main Kiara.
• Fun Size: Like Smol Kiara, she's very small and super-deformed (though her model takes more inspiration from traditional chibi art).
• Hostile Show Takeover: Took over Kiara's channel after shooting her in her office, mostly to play frog themed games for that week.
• Redhead In Green: She keeps Kiara's orange hair in her light green frog body.
• Sword and Gun: In Frogiwawa's 3D appearances, she's typically seen Dual Wielding a pink pistol and flyswatter.
• Verbal Tic: Tends to say "Kero" (the Japanese onomatopoeia for frog croaking) quite a lot.

KFP Employees

KFP Employees

Kiara's fanbase representation, who are depicted as chickens who are employees at KFP (Kiara Fried Phoenix). Given that the company also serves fried chicken as its main product, many of its employees end up becoming made into the food that gets served.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: A whole company of them who are at the whims of their Tenchou Kiara, who can be comically abusive towards them. Also, none of them get paid, with them paying Kiara to stay employed.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Kiara walking around in her revealing outfits are the main cause of injuries and work-time accidents of KFP employees. One such manager suggested that she tone it down a little.
• Let's Meet the Meat: KFP is a company that both employees and serves chickens as food. Naturally this means any casualties endured among the work force will end up in the next batch of produce.
• No OSHA Compliance: A Running Gag with the KFP employees is that her fast food restaurants and meat processing plants are complete hellholes where the employees are almost expected to be processed into the next line of product.
• We Have Reserves: It has been emphasized there is a very high fatality rate among the KFP workforce, with fallen employees typically ending up in the produce and manufactured into more food to be served.

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