Kiro

Herb (Deceased)

Son. (Deceased)

Antfrost

Kiri

Kuya

Big F\*\*\*ing Tree (Burned Down)

The Honorace (A.K.A The Funeral Tower)

Actias

Kiro is a resident of The Hoard, living on an island made primarily of a dark forest not far from The Drylands.

## Appearance

Kiro is a humanoid pink and yellow moth, covered in a thick layer of soft scales that look and feel akin to fur. She lacks any proper clothes for this reason, though wears armor at nearly all times to compensate. She has two small pink antennas and sky blue eyes, along with a mouth that’s not visible beneath the pink scales that cover it. Kiro also has wings, which are not much longer than her arms and stay folded against her back unless being used to emote. She also has a second pair of arms, though they're usually under her armor and go unused due to her poor control of them.

During her time in Icecaine, parts of her limbs are black from frost, and her wings are tattered. This is usually hidden beneath her armor.

After becoming infected with Void and becoming a vessel for it, her body was taken over by dark tendrils, sprouting from her previous wounds caused by the ice, which were turned into condensed, bright white crystals. Her wings, mostly repaired by the Void, became twice her size, trailing along the ground behind her.

## Personality

### Main Personality

Kiro is rather skittish, and more often will put her own life above the importance of others, even when she doesn’t intend to. She’s always willing to help if there’s little danger involved in the task however, which usually entail delivery jobs. Even when in the presence of close friends however, she always wears her armor, terrified by the thought of death despite her soul piece.

She's also rather open about herself, and has no thought for her safety around other players due to a naïve sort of trust. Anyone she meets she is immediately friendly with, though usually only when approached. Kiro even holds little regard for how connected her life is to her soul piece, and will hand it off to those she only began to trust even a day ago if need be.

As of recent, she's grown more clingy and desperate for interaction with others, due to recent events. This pushed her mental state into a spiral, and as such has caused her to be more complacent, but erratic. Surprisingly, she's also become less terrified monsters, but more cautious around people.

She died, sometime after becoming infected with Void and being used as a temporary vessel. Some believe that she may have been consumed by it in the end, though only one had seen the remains.

## Ideology

She has the ultimate goal to thrive in her environment, and the events with Icecaine and her tree home being burnt down have made her far more reclusive. She believes that almost everyone around her, save for Wilbur, has wronged her in some way, mostly by abandoning her and leaving her to die alone with her declining health, and thus holds distrust for most others.

## History

### Embryonic

Kiro began as a member of a subspecies of Glitterwing in the Aether dimension, originating from a line of the species that became a hostile variation after a vicious corruption exclusive to the dimension took hold of some members. At some point The Blight lost hold of some members of the new subspecies, which caused them to begin turning into a docile, but nocturnal, over the course of many generations. Kiro herself had no advanced abilities at the time, and simply appeared as a small, moth-like bug that wandered aimlessly.

Being something that wanders without much of a goal, at some point Kiro may have wandered into a portal to the Overworld, or had flown too far beneath the islands that made up The Aether and been spit out somewhere random in the world below. Either way, she had happened to exit the dimension shortly before any and all methods to make contact with the dimension suddenly ceased entirely. The dimension has been presumed destroyed, though Kiro fails to recall any of it to offer any chance at an explanation, if anyone even remembers the world.

### Metamorphosis

It took a while for Kiro to truly go beyond being a mindless little insect. For months she’d wandered the world, not thinking much of her new surroundings (or thinking much at all, for that matter) and being quick to grow used to them. However, as she wandered, the Aether’s magic still clung to her tightly. And even though it took some time for her to reach the Hoardlands, the magic of her homeland and this new land began to conflict with one another, subsequently impacting her body and soul.

It was slow, but as time went on Kiro began to grow larger, gaining more humanoid characteristics over the course of several more months. It was slow, and Kiro has scattered memories of this time, but it eventually turned her into a humanoid moth, and it didn’t take very long after taking the size and shape of the average person for Kiro to gain sentience.

### Emergence

As soon as she gained sentience, it was clear to her that she needed to begin surviving differently. There were no flowers that were large enough for her anymore, and monstrous creatures had begun to attack her when she was spotted. There was a slot of time where her wings were large enough to allow her to continue flying, making it much easier for her to travel through the Hoardlands. This is about the time that she learned how to survive, creating tools and procuring armor. However, it took some time for Kiro to find a new method of gaining sustenance, and it took much trial and error for her to find that she could ingest only apples, and honey, the latter becoming her main form of nourishment.

Her appearance at the Hoard was not a choice she made herself. The moment she was first discovered, Kiro’s wings finally couldn’t keep up with the rest of her body’s size, proportions now more comparable to an enderman than a human. She’d masked any ill feelings she had on the matter at the time though, and still does, having instead focused on the community she’d suddenly found herself in that greeted her with such open arms.

## Pets

### Mono

A black and gray Butterflyfish. Currently sits in a corner of Kiro's home in a 2 x 2 x 3 tank of water with her other pet, Seril.

### Seril

A red and white Red Snapper. Currently sits in a corner of Kiro's home in a 2 x 2 x 3 tank of water, with her other pet, Mono.

### Herb

The only chicken to hatch from 14 eggs given to her by Elix on her first day, having been hatched weeks after. Wandered around her house and likes to get stuck in boats. They died after two days due to constantly leaving eggs everywhere before exiting the house and Kiro getting annoyed by it.

### Son.

A chicken that happened to wander into Kiro's tree home, living in the top two floors. Causes Kiro to go into a hypnotized-like state when spotted by her, akin to her allure to the moon. These are not related. Died after Kiro's tree home burned down.

### Antfrost

A Siamese cat that Kiro found huddled inside the cabin Kiro rebuilt for herself at Icecaine. Was quickly tamed and is often close to Kiro so that they both can stay warm. Was previously named Icy, but was renamed once she got back to her burrow.

### Kiri

A sheep dyed purple, which wanders around at the top of Kiro's tree.

### Kuya

A sheep dyed blue, which lives in Kiro's tree.

## Relationships

### Elix

Due to meeting her upon first joining the Hoardlands and being aided by her often, Kiro feels a deep trust for Elix. Between Elix having been a main source for her stock of food for quite some time, acting as a mining partner during multiple trips into caves, and even lending the final four diamonds needed to complete her first set of armor, she also feels greatly indebted to her, and will even set aside her fear of death to aid her in whatever she may need. Kiro has a very positive opinion of her.

### Shy

They met only days after Elix's death, and Shy was the one to break it to Kiro that Elix had passed away. While Kiro barely knows her, she knows they were a close friend of Elix's, and thus are deserving of trust. Slightly positive opinion of her, but Kiro still is apprehensive of them.

### Grave

Kiro feels sympathetic for them, as they both had to endure being told a dear friend had died without much warning. She trusts him well enough, especially since they're neighbors, something she'd not known about for a long while. Overall, she has a positive opinion of them, and hopes to have a good friendship with him in the future.

### Wilbur

She has a high opinion of it, and often will be found nearby it, when possible. She's also afraid of hurting it due to their first meeting not going so well, but is slowly growing more accustomed to speaking with it in person, now that it can go where it wishes. Kiro finds herself heavily dependent upon it now, and hopes to protect it from the dangers others may pose.

### Light

Kiro holds an extreme animosity for Light, due to the events at Icecaine, and thus has a greatly negative opinion of him as a result. She firmly believed he had burned her house down, though never found a chance to take revenge on him about this.

### Wil

She feels iffy about Wil. On one hand, they're someone that seems kind enough, and if they come and go from Icecaine often, then they must be someone Light trusts, which is a good sign. However, they hold quite a bit of mystery, at least to Kiro. She Hopes to get along though, and be able to be better friends in the future.

### Honey

Kiro likes Honey, and feels keen on learning more about him. However, with his wish to travel, she has yet to know enough about him to fully trust him.

### Ghostdrew

Kiro has a greatly negative opinion of them, namely that they had abandoned her so quickly after coming to live at her home, as well as putting her life in danger for looking around in Icecaine for "the hell of it". She hopes not to see them again.

### Cyrus

She finds him... eccentric, though she does feel a need to protect him due to how new he is to The Hoard. While she knows little about him, she wishes to make sure that he has no bad experiences while living in Actias, and wishes not to let him experience what she has.

After his marriage proposal, she rather quickly realized her feelings for him, though they may have been misplaced as a form of romantic love, rather than friendship. She cared deeply for him, and was even spurred to live on via her exposure to the Void to try and let him be at peace.

### Milk

She has similar feelings for Milk as she does Cy, but does feel a deeper connection to them due to their apparent lack of awareness of the world, something she had experienced some time ago completely by herself. She wishes to make sure they're well protected from the dangers of The Hoard, and have a happy life in Actias.

## Quotes

*... Why do you think the place just stops, Elix? What do you think put that bedrock down there? What do you think ends our suffering, in the void?* - Kiro to Elix, while discussing the void that lies beneath The Overworld.

*She took care of me for so long. I have to repay the favor as best I can, now.* - Kiro to Shy, regarding her new, temporary ownership of Elix's remains.

## Trivia

* She’s based on multiple different species of moth, but the main inspiration was the Elephant Hawkmoth.
* Kiro lives solely on honey, and gets sick if she consumes anything else.
* It’s incredibly easy for her to get lost at night, due to her instincts as a moth leading her to go towards the moon's light.