Kira

**Kira** is one of the main characters, briefly becoming an antagonist in Dogs in Space Season 1.

## Appearance

#### Body

Kira is a Siberian Laika. She has mauve and white colored fur due to the environment of the planet she was stranded on alternating her genetic makeup. She has frosted blue eyes with a medium size snout and a black nose.

She is one of the only dogs without opposable thumbs up until episode 5 "Settle Down", where Stella uses the genetic enhancement machine on the crew to change them back to normal.

When she was a normal dog, she had amber colored fur (like Garbage's) and walked on all fours.

#### Clothing

Kira wears mustard colored boots, shoulder armor, a brown scarf, a navy jumpsuit, and an onyx belt.

In the episode *Settle Down,* as a puppy, she wore a navy onesie, and the same brown scarf.

## Personality

Kira is confident, fearless, and tough from having to keep herself alive while alone on an alien planet for around a decade. Under her rough exterior, Kira suffers from trust and abandonment issues that she struggles to overcome after being stranded and disconnected from anyone for so long. When the Pluto crew found her on her stranded planet in the episode *Here Girl*, she was convinced that humans, particularly her owner Olga, had forgotten about her. This caused her to view humans in a negative light, believing that they did not care about their dogs and only used them for something they could do themselves. She also had developed a sense of self-reliance, refusing any help from the crew and only going along with their offers to help so that they would leave her alone.

Once brought to the M-BARK, Kira's years of isolation shows to have had a profound impact on her. She displays more animals behaviors than the other dogs such as running on all fours, growling, lapping water, enjoying chewing on socks, and other actions that most of the other dogs regard as odd. Kira is shown to struggle with understanding technology due to it evolving in the time she was stranded, confusing a projection for real food and not understanding how virtual reality works. She most likely suffers from trauma due to being alone and unsafe for a long time, showing several symptoms of C-PTSD such as restlessness, a change in how she views others, aggression, difficulty trusting others, negative beliefs, and hypervigilance. Her desire to leave the M-BARK as soon as her arm healed also showed the belief she had gained over time that others could not be relied on to help her. She also shows rationality and concern for others, reasoning with Garbage that he should prioritize the safety of his crew above completing the M-BARK mission and saving him multiple times.

Although struggling to connect to the other dogs due to her diminished social skills, Kira eventually befriended the Pluto crew. As she got closer to Garbage, she began unconsciously projecting her views of her owner onto him and Chelsea's relationship. Her paranoia and negative view of humans led to her manipulating Garbage into helping her revert the other dogs to the primal state to sabotage the M-BARK's mission. Despite the state of these acts, Kira genuinely believed to be helping the other dogs, leading to her feeling deep regret for her actions once she learned that her owner had not abandoned her like she previously believed. Kira owned up to her actions, showing care for the Pluto crew even with the strain her actions caused on their relationship.

## Relationships

### Garbage

Upon first meeting, Garbage wanted Kira to come back to the M-BARK, being upset when she showed no interest in doing so. After being injured, Garbage convinced her to join his crew, which she only accepted so that they would leave her alone.

Kira appeared to be on good terms with Garbage, working with him despite their clashing opinions on humans. She also was the voice of reason in moments where Garbage prioritized the M-BARK's mission above the safety of his crew, as well as getting the Pluto crew to rescue him.

Once Kira began projecting her abandonment issues on Garbage and Chelsea's relationship, she began manipulating him into thinking that his owner had abandoned him as well, which she believed due to her own experiences. Garbage began sharing Kira's beliefs, thinking that dogs should find a planet of their own instead of completing the M-BARK's mission. They both began working together in secret, stealing technology for their plan much to Garbage's reluctance. However, when finding out Kira's plan was to revert all the dogs back to their original forms, Garbage was horrified as this was not the plan she had said. Garbage demanded that she had to stop, to which she refused as Jerry would then tell the council. Garbage proceded to break the tech rather than turning Happy into a dog when he had cornered them. Kira then tricked them into backing up into one of the ships, and shot the ship into space. Later, Garbage returns with Atlas, Nomi, Chonies, and Happy, infiltrating the M-BARK, which was under control of Kira. Even after learning that she had turned everyone but herself back into regular dogs, Garbage still refused to fight Kira and instead showed her Olga's message to Kira , showing his compassion towards her despite her actions. Once realizing her owner had not abandoned her, Kira showed immediate regret for her actions, breaking down into tears and letting the council take her away despite Garbage's protests. After fixing what she had done, Garbage and Kira showed to have a good relationship, with Garbage deciding to have her personally go back to Earth and them showing friendliness towards each other during their goodbye.

## Trivia

* Kira shows many parallels to Garbage, since she also had a lot of love for her owner and did everything to try to find a perfect planet with the intention of making her proud before she was shipwrecked on an unknown planet, something she shares with him.
* Although Kira is the main antagonist of the series, she never did her crimes with malicious intent and showed immediate regret for her actions once she realized her owner did not abandon her.
* During the alternative rendition of the opening song in "Settle Down", her title reads "Full of Bark" instead.
* She and Stella are the only dogs in the series with colored eyes.