Kiara Takanashi

Artwork from the hololive website

**Kiara Takanashi** (小鳥遊キアラ; たかなしきあら, ***Kiara Takanashi***?) is one of the main characters of the first season, and the third central to be introduced. She is a very open-hearted girl who will be the future Phoenix Warrior of Equestria.

She is secretly a phoenix who was born before creatures like people and Pokémon even existed.

## Bio

### Appearance

Kiara has pink eyes and orange shoulder-length hair that has a fade of mint aqua. Her Harmony Mark is a gold phoenix in orange flames.

As a civilian, she wears (???), along with poofy white arm bands. This remains in all seasons, although the shoes she wore in Season 1 were different (being ???).

As a Guardian of Harmony, her hair becomes bright yellow with a few orange streaks and grows down to her knees, with part of it being worn in a half-bun/topknot, decorated with a small gold crown. Her eyes turn bright cyan. She has a bright red, sleeveless button-up dress with gold swirl designs on the chest and the collar being shaped like pointy gold flames bordered in red. The skirt is a bright orange knee-length skirt with a single yellow line each going down both the left and right side of it. On the sides of her waist are also flame-shaped flaps. She has deep orange stiletto heels combined with calf-length white stockings, orange and red gloves, and gold feather earrings. Fitting for her phoenix theme, she has orange wings made of flames on her back (which surprisingly don't burn anything).

### Personality

Kiara is enthusiastic and friendly, and is open with her feelings. She cares strongly for her friends and family, and misses them a great deal while she is abroad. Although energetic and sometimes chaotic in nature, and eager to collab with other members, she is secretly quite shy. She is sometimes bird-brained, being forgetful or having a short attention span. She prefers video games with fixed goals, such as RPGs, rather than open-world games like Minecraft.

On a graph ranking members in purity and intelligence, Kiara was rated "bottom left"—maximum lewd and foolish, much to her bemusement. However, she often surprises viewers with moments of gentleness, compassion, and insightful wisdom.

Amelia Watson, in her debut stream, described Kiara as having a "positive attitude and lovely voice". Calliope Mori described her as a hard worker and an incredible singer with a great personality, and praised her fluency with Japanese.

Kiara has a particular fondness for Calliope Mori. Kiara, a phoenix who has been continuously reborn, always meets Calliope each time she dies. However, it is not within Calliope's power to keep a phoenix in the Underworld.

Kiara also brings lots of laughs to her teammates and ships Victoria and Arcturus a lot of times, even though she does not represent the Element of Laughter.

## Guardian of Harmony

Kiara is the Guardian of the Phoenix Fire. She is a Fire/Air Elemental whose Element of Harmony is Honesty, and her theme color is orange. Her weapons are a sword for offense and a shield for defense, which are disguised as a single badge in her civilian form.

### Transformation

Kiara holds her Harmony Gem and shouts "Miracle Engage!", causing the Gem to glow and activate. She then puts the Harmony Gem close to her Power Necklace and as soon as the Necklace activates as well, the screen is engulfed in a white light.

## Pokémon

* Cindy the Cyndaquil (partner Pokémon)
* Chonkers the Orange Litten
* Smoothie the Green Litten

## GoH Analysis Profile

The Guardian of the Phoenix Fire, with a caring and honest nature. Being a phoenix who hatched from an egg at the beginning of the Multiverse, she disguises herself as a human in order to not freak others out, even though everycreature already knows she's a phoenix. She is also very enthusiastic, friendly, and caring.... and sometimes brutally honest or a bit birdbrained. Her Element of Harmony is Honesty.

## Trivia

* In Japanese, her name is written 「小鳥遊キアラ」.
	+ Her surname, "Takanashi", is written with the kanji for 小鳥, "kotori", meaning "little bird", and "遊", the root of "asobu", meaning "to play"; together meaning "little bird at play". It is read "takanashi", literally meaning "no hawks", a pun meaning that there must be no hawks for the little bird to play. It is an example of *nanori*, or idiosyncratic readings of kanji which only appear in names.
	+ This kanji spelling of Takanashi is uncommon, ranked the 50,808th most popular Japanese surname in 2013. It is shared with anime characters including Takanashi Rikka, protagonist of the animated series "Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai", and Takanashi Yomi from Black Rock Shooter, a series created by Kiara's character designer Huke.
	+ Her first name, "Kiara", is written in katakana, normally used for foreign words or names.
	+ She gives her surname-first, Japanese style, even when speaking in English. Ninomae Ina'nis and Gawr Gura also do this, while Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson use the English name order when speaking in English. This doesn't apply in this series, as they all instead give out their names in English.
* She likes fast food, adventures and hats. Kiara insists that fast food is healthy, and chicken in particular is very healthy. She claims to eat 53 pieces of chicken per day.
	+ This has gotten her a lot of disagreements mulitple times, and in the series, she eventually cutted it out and stopped her chicken gag.
* Her hobbies include singing, drawing, eating and fighting.
* She dislikes scary stuff and one-sided feelings. It is no wonder she ships Victoria and Arcturus together.
* In her introduction, her backstory stated that she would be reborn in a different dimension every time she dies, however on 10 December 2020 during her "re-debut" stream, Kiara claimed to have mastered revival, as she was reborn again in the same dimension, which is fine by her as long as Calli is there.
* Her birthday, 6 July, is National Fried Chicken Day in the United States.
* Her loading screen, introduction video and narration were made by Mori Calliope, while Kiara made the art. An alternate version of the intro video was later released with narration by Kiara. A special GoH version of the introduction video, done differently unlike the hololive versions, will be soon released by CheerfulSteekip.
* She is left handed.
* Kiara is multilingual, speaking English, Japanese, German (native speaker), and "Bird". She (in the Japanese dub) has stated that her English is not perfect (reversed to bad Japanese in the official English dub), and has corrected Mori Calliope's Japanese. She has also promised to do some Japanese only streams. She shares languages with the Evangelion character Asuka Langley Soryu, a Japanese-American who also speaks English, Japanese and German.
	+ Kiara revealed that "bird" language is actually a pun that only works in Japanese. The Japanese for "trilingual", 「トリリンガル」, begins with "tori", meaning "bird".
* Her favorite senior hololive member is Usada Pekora. Pekora noticed Kiara on her introduction stream, leaving her speechless. Kiara has watched every one of Pekora's archived streams. One of Kiara's objectives is to collab with the Japanese members, but especially Pekora. Her collab with Pekora finally happened on 27 November 2020, in which Pekora took Kiara for a tour on the Japanese branch Minecraft server.
* Kiara's favorite games include the Tales of series, Atelier series, Arknights, Super Mario games and The Legend of Zelda.
* As revealed during her "Karaoke till 500k subs!!!" stream her favorite anime is Bakemonogatari. Her second is A Certain Scientific Railgun, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is in her top five.
	+ Her other favorite anime include A Certain Magical Index, Nichijou, Working!!, Minami-ke, Steins;Gate, Kannagi and Re:Zero.
	+ This isn't the case in season 1 since advanced technology didn't exist back then.
* Kiara's goals are to open a fast food restaurant, release original music, for people to make fanart or cosplay of her, collaborations with games, anime or conventions among others. Her series-exclusive goals are:
	+ Protecting the Multiverse from harm
	+ Making sure that every Guardian of Harmony has a good life
	+ Stop Lecousia from making everycreature fall into despair
* Her belt can turn her back into her phoenix form; as such, she is prohibited from using it.
	+ Kiara's hair can ignite into flames when she's angry, which would eventually become a running gag with other characters. In school, she would handle this by running to the bathroom and dunking her head in the toilet, while in the Federal Past, Arcturus had Samu use Water Gun on her before things could get worse. She can control this better as an adult, and her belt helps prevent this from happening.
	+ Kiara has €500,000 in debt from unpaid fines for accidentally setting off fire alarms. Despite this, she managed to secure investment to launch KFP by just not telling anyone.
* She is the third hololive EN member and ninth hololive member overall to join the official Hololive Subreddit as a moderator.
* Kiara is arguably one of the oldest in hololive, and the series overall. According to her introduction video, she was born in a time before humans lived on Earth. This would make her even older than Kiryu Coco (3,501) and Gawr Gura (over 9,000), but not older than Mori Calliope, who is the personification of abstract concept and has no date of birth. However, as Kiara is technically reborn every few centuries, it could be argued that Kiara was only born relatively recently.
	+ Following her re-debut on 10 December 2020 JST, Kiara officially died and was reborn, making her the youngest hololive.
* Her catchphrase is 「キッケリキー!!」 (kikkerikii!). It is the german onomatopoeia for the cry of a rooster, but according to Kiara, it is the sound made by a phoenix. Calliope Mori drew Kiara as a chicken saying "kicky ricky or whatever," which once made Victoria laugh for a whole minute in the series.
	+ Her ending catchphrase is "Auf wiedersehen", a German farewell phrase.
	+ When thanking donators, she says "danke schön", German for "thank you very much". She also uses "vielen dank", German for "many thanks", which viewers misheard as "feelin' dank". In bird language, "thank you" is translated as "pipipi".
* Kiara is the first hololive member ever to have her channel terminated and then restored.
* On 17 September 2020, Kiara announced the menu for her fried chicken branch, Kiara Fried Phoenix. It included the Phoenix Burger (chicken meat, salad, pineapple, BBQ sauce, onions, tomato, bacon, and mozzarella cheese); and the Yagoo Burger (two beef patties, salad, pickles, egg, cheddar cheese, secret seiso sauce, and onion rings). Fans subsequently actually made both burgers. In the fanmade pilot movie, Layla also does the same and *ends up giving her the burgers*, causing Kiara to pass out.
* Kiara's blue feather "earrings" are in fact not earrings, but feathers which come from behind her ears. However, she also has a small blue stud piercing in her left ear.
* During Mori Calliope's second live stream (unknown episode in the series), Kiara expressed that she has a crush on Calli, much to Calli's dismay. This has to do with the fact that Kiara is immortal (unless she's eaten), so no matter how many times Calli would kill her, she'd always revive. This resulted in a ship later coined (in Japanese) by Kiara as "TakaMori".
* She noted that she has asthma.
* Kiara originally learned of hololive when she discovered Fubuki.
* Kiara mentioned that she has a sister who is aware of her VTuber activities as after Kiara played *The Sims 4* on stream, her sister sent her a meme about her.
* She uploaded her first meme video on 3 January 2021, even though she said once that she isn't the type of making these kind of videos.
* Kiara is currently the hololive English member with the most collabs due to her good Japanese speaking skills.
* Kiara is particularly fond of Rickrolling, a prank in which one tricks someone else into watching or singing Rick Astley's *Never Gonna Give You Up*.
	+ She tricked Gura into singing the song in Japanese during a lesson stream, and did the same again in German during a German language stream. She tricked her entire audience when she "released" her cover of Kanaria's "*KING"*, five of which included fellow members Kureiji Ollie, Anya Melfissa, Momosuzu Nene, Moona Hoshinova and Ayunda Risu falling victims of said tweet as well.
	+ In one episode of the series, she goes way too far when she tricked Victoria and Arcturus into dating for the day only for the latter to slap her (and the former to chase Joy for making things hard on them). She gets blamed for making Arcturus a witch as a result, much to her dismay.
* The chicken drumsticks which Kiara sometimes holds are plastic props, not real food.
* Kiara has two cats, which she calls Chonkers and Smoothie. Fanartists have depicted one as orange and the other mint or teal green, like Kiara's feathers, which Kiara declared canon in a Superchat reading. Kiara added them to her family in Sims 4, with Chonkers the orange cat and Smoothie the green cat.
	+ In the series, the cats were instead changed to unnaturally-colored Litten, although Kiara started with a Cyndaquil named Cindy.
* Although Kiara's art hashtag is #artsofashes (i.e. arts plural), fans often misspell it #artofashes.
* She hates being called "Featherbrain," but other characters such as Joy or a random passersby often call her that anyways as a running gag since everyone (secretly from her) knows about her true nature due to there being no need to keep it secret.
* Unlike her canon counterpart, her personality is *heavily* edited to be less sex-crazed, foul-mouthed, and showoffy due to the series being a kids' show.
* Her wish is for Cindy to be much nicer, even after she accepts Kiara as her Trainer.