Kaya

Café Employee

> "*Welcome to Chocolate Bar & Café. I'm Kaya, a chef and a café maid!*"
> ― **Kaya** to the Ninja
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**Kaya** is a recurring character in the first season of *LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life*. She is a café employee at Chocolate Bar & Café. She is also revealed that she is the Elemental Master of Sweets.

She will be voiced by Nicole Bouma and Tabitha St. Germain as her singing voice.

## Depictions in the Series

### Pony Life Shorts

#### Nice Blended

In her debut, Kaya teaches her first trainee, Lil' Cheesecake, to learn about making ice blended drinks. After Cheesecake failed making the ice blended drinks, she decided to give up, but Kaya asked her to make one together.

When they are done making ice blended drinks for the customers, Hot Fudge asked Kaya and Lil' Cheesecake to order one of the ice blended drinks, and he seems to enjoy one of its creations. However, when they encountered an injured Vanilla Swirl, Kaya attempt to recover her and gives an ice blended drink as a courtesy. The three enjoy drinking the ice blended drinks together, as she was elated that Cheesecake is now a café trainee.

#### The Okashi Revolt

When Kaya met the Sugar Infectors, she asked the question why they are working for Okashi. After several discussions, she, Cheesecake and Marmalade went on an undercover at the Caramel Castle, where Okashi lives. In Choose Kaya! ending, Kaya meets Unagami on Okashi's computer, and later she kicked out by Okashi due to being suspicious.

## Appearance

Kaya has an orange hairstyle with two ponytails, holded by the blue band. As a café employee, she wears a turquoise civilian dress with a yellow apron. When she joins the Ninja, she wears the teal Ninja gi with some elements like the ones in Rainbow Roadtrip. In the Prime Empire game, she has a Digi robe that is similar to the Ninja.

## Appearances

### LEGO Ninjago & My Little Pony: Living the Pony Life

#### Pony Life shorts

* 6. "Nice Blended"
* 13. "The Okashi Revolt"

#### Season 1: Sugarcube Gamer

* 9. "Nice to Meet You, Kaya"
* 10. "The Times I Love More Than Baking"
* 11. "The Magic Lollipop"
* 12. "A Sticky Problem"
* 13. "That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles!"
* 14. "The Gelatinous Protocol"
* 15. "Lies and Cakes"
* 21. "Do I Belong in the Prime Empire?"
* 22. "The Mysterious Island"
* 23. "The 13th Level"
* 24. "Digital Friends!"
* 28. "Pinkie Pie the Unicorn"
* 29. "Dance Magic!"
* 30. "Okino the Samurai"
* 31. "Terra Karana"
* 32. "Labyrinth of the Red Dragon"
* 33. "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
* 34. "The Speedway Five-Billion"
* 35. "Ambushed!"
* 36. "Stop, Drop and Side Scroll"
* 37. "Believing in Yourself"
* 38. "Old Enemy, New Friend"
* 39. "Rainbow Power!"
* 40. "Miracles"

## Trivia

* Kaya is the name of a coconut jam made from a base of coconut milk, eggs and sugar. It is popular in Southeast Asia, mainly in Brunei, Indonesia (especially in Palembang), Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
	+ Her name also means elder sister. In Japanese, it means resting place.
* Her relationship between her and Pinkie Pie becomes the main focus in the Candy Empire Chapter storyline.
* Kaya is good at baking, like Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Jay, Cole and Candy Sweetcake.
* In the Prime Empire Chapter of the first season, Kaya's key-tana can turn into Chocolate Speeder Cycle.
* Her voice actor, Nicole Bouma, is best known for voicing Blossom from *Powerpuff Girls Z* and Mint Blancmanche from the *Galaxy Angel series*. She is also the wife of Brent Miller, who voices Zane from both *Masters of Friendship* and *Living the Pony Life*.
* Kaya is the only character in the Candy Empire Chapter to enter the Prime Empire game.
* She owns a Chocolate Dragon using her own Elemental Power. It is a second dragon that is created by someone with Elemental abilities, the first is Boreal.