Tsuki Kimura

Portrait of Tsuki Kimura

Alexa Hale (half sister)

*> "Cheer up, it can always get worse"
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- Tsuki Kimura, motto

**Tsuki Kimura** is the main protagonist of the web-comic series *Skull & Candy*, alongside her boyfriend and roommate Midori Satou. Together, they have many lewd adventures living their everyday lives.

## Design

### Appearance

Tsuki, being a cat girl, features very distinct ears, a tail, and visible fangs. Her hair color, for both her head and tail, is a deep purple. Her most distinctive feature is her heterochromatic red (left) and blue (right) eyes.

Favoring a goth/punk aesthetic, she wears clothes heavily themed in black and purple. Her most common style features a black bow to keep her hair in a long ponytail as well as a black bow on the end of her tail, a black or grey top, and sleeves and thigh-socks with a black and purple stripe design. She has a taste for collars and earrings. She also commonly wears a skull hairpin that features her same red/blue eye pattern.

Her physique is short and distinctively feminine.

### Nekomimi (Cat Girl)

Tsuki, as can be told at first glance is a Nekomimi, one of the many hybrid humanoid genes in the Skull & Candy universe. She gained this gene from her mother's side just like her half sister gained it from her mother's side, her dad having no trace of any Nekomimi in his family. A Neko's usual traits are most often only cat ears and a cat tail, however it's not unheard of more traits to be passed on such as fangs, skin color, and feline behavior, all three being traits Tsuki adopted. A few other possible traits are claws, cat eyes, patches of fur, and even, in a few cases, whiskers.

## Personality

### Personality

Tsuki has a very complex personality that centers around her tomboy-ishness and her goth/punk aesthetics.

She loves the goth/punk aesthetic and lifestyle, with her favorite colors being black and purple. She loves chaos and anarchy and strives to live a lifestyle that exemplifies those qualities. Her personality can be classified as chaotic-neutral.

Despite her chaotic nature, though, she can be introverted and a bit shy.

She is very loving and protective of those close to her, but is at the same time quite needy, likely due to her rich and pampered background and a lack of parental attention in her childhood.

She has a childish side in how she can be messy, hates working, can be petty, and can filter out people's words to hear what she wants to hear. These two last traits are exemplified in how she interacts with Midori.

For fun, Tsuki enjoys riding her dad's motorcycle and she hopes to one day have her own. As hobbies, she collects trading cards, though she finds it nerdy and dumb, and anime, gaming, and goth themed posters.

She is skilled in singing and arguing. She has irrational fears of cucumbers and autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners. She has a strong disdain for formal wear.

Her favorite things are soup, punk-goth clothing, physical activities, melodic music, anime, and story games.

### Colors

Purple - Represents her childish and bratty tomboy side, her natural response to having grown up and been raised in a very strict and linear way. Also signs of her "higher worth" side of her family, coming from a very renowned business family.

Black - Shows her hidden and held back side of her personality, hiding her very sexual and suggestive side from her otherwise held back and strict family where rules and structure are A and B.

Grey and White - These represents her pure side and transition after having been raised with little to no exposure to the "real" and "raw" world. She very quickly transitioned and changed her personality after finding out about the delicate parts of life.

Red and Blue - Her eye colors are a very close representation of her soul, with red for her passion, ambition, and determination, while blue is her loyalty and trust.

### Sexual Background

Tsuki is a highly sexual person, and her sexuality is a key factor to her personality. This primarily takes shape in how she approaches Midori, noting in her diary many innuendos and suggestions of his and her physical relationship. However, there are many more scribbled out lines of text and other suggestions in the diary of her general sexual proclivities. Among such innuendos are her love for 'banana shaped objects' and for 'misbehaving fantasy lizards'.

Tsuki has had plenty of sexual experience in her past. One example is her doing of 'favors' for other student in her school and those who had the power to influence her grades, ensuring she had some of the highest grades in her class without much studying, among many other examples.

Tsuki still has many sexual fantasies yet to be fulfilled.

## Tsuki's Diary

Tsuki's Diary is a notebook in which Tsuki writes her thoughts about her life and the world. she doesn't plan how she writes the entries, instead saying she acts on 'organized chaos and anarchy'. There are many errors, and scribbled out words and doodles across the pages, in addition to many paperclipped photos and other papers. Many of the pages refence Midori.

## Biography

### Childhood

Tsuki Kimura was born 1999. During her childhood she was raised and lived in her family's mansion in the outskirts of Yokohama. During her childhood she wasn't offered much freedom; her childhood consisted mainly of education, and learning proper manners and behavior based on their family's occupation with being a renowned business family. She began being taught both English and French as early as 8 years old. English came very naturally to her as playing video games was really the only activity she was able to get her hands on during her childhood, not really having any proper or close friends outside of her small family of a single half sister.
During her childhood, she didn't have that much time with her parents compared to other children. Her closest friends were her half sister Alexa and their private family servants who also served as her teachers.

### Teenage Years

During her teenage years when she began to study abroad and away from her family, she was very quickly exposed to a very different way of life. Far different from what she had experience during her childhood, this very new lifestyle of hers offered her a lot of new experiences and also formed and changed her a lot. She adopted the mixture of a tomboy and gothic lifestyle roughly after her first year around age 14. By the age of 16 she had fully adopted her nowadays iconic black and purple color theme.

## Synopsis

### *Milk* (minisode)

Tsuki demonstrates how she wants to be treated like a cat by Midori by refusing to drink milk unless it's in her favorite bowl.

### *The Visit*

Tsuki hides to force Midori to reveal the location of his secret chips. After nearly causing a lewd encounter, she is surprised by the fact that she's received a letter from her parents who are visiting that day. After struggling to disguise Midori as a girl to cover up a lie she told to her parents, they manage to make it through the encounter without need for the disguise. Tsuki is amazed when she sees Midori's custom website promotion stickers that also arrived in the mail.

### *Door & Tsuki* (minisode)

Tsuki answers the door for pizza and almost turns the encounter with the pizza man in a more lewd direction until Midori steps in.

### *Cake and 'Cake'* (minisode)

Tsuki receives a text from Midori about the cake he's expecting at the door. She's already received and eaten some of it, but she takes the opportunity to send him a butt pic. When Midori rushes home and complains about wanting to eat his cake, she mistakes him for referencing her butt. She's surprised to hear that his nickname for her butt is 's'mores'.

### *A Coffee Later*

A flashback showing Tsuki introducing herself to Midori at the Black Kitty cafe, where she was working at the time. She strikes off a conversation with him when serving him a coffee and discussing what he does for work. Later returning to the present day, with her and Midori asleep before the television.

### *Cat in the Park* (minisode)

Tsuki and Midori walk in a park within the city when the two bump into Dave Susman, the pizza man from Door & Tsuki, and his cat.

### *Tsuki's Morning* (minisode)

Tsuki tries on different clothes infront of a full length mirror in the morning, but decides on a different outfit entirely.

There are many more episodes and it is recommended to look at them, although the information they provide is considerably marginal compared to the massive amount within the pages. Good luck!

## Relationships

### Midori Satou

Midori is Tsuki's boyfriend who she met at her parents' coffee chain Black Kitty. She considers him a massive cutie who's good at fulfilling the needs of others, and the love of her life because she feels she's needed someone to take care of her—an experience she feels she missed from her parents. Tsuki finds Midori both adorable and attractive, and very amazing and unique as a person. She sees a femininity to him, and a shyness, and she finds that it makes him an adorable dork rather than stubborn, as he appears to other people.

Tsuki often borrows Midori's clothes, finding them very comfy and cute, and his glasses for reading. Tsuki doesn't understand his interests in freelancing. Tsuki can make a hassle of wanting to be treated like a cat when around him, but he is very tolerant of her.

### Ameilia Kimura

Tsuki's relationship with her mother, Ameilia Kimura, is a bit strained. Tsuki acts abrasive when Ameilia makes a surprise visit at her apartment, and is glad when she leaves. Tsuki feels Ameilia has been kept out of her life by her father and his focus on the Black Kitty chain, contributing to her loneliness.

### Andrew Kimura

Tsuki isn't on good terms with her father, Andrew Kimura. She blames him for keeping her mother away from her and focused on work at the Black Kitty coffee chain.
At one point, Andrew threatened to not give Tsuki her own apartment if she did not get her high school grades up.
Tsuki describes Andrew as having "always focused work over family". Despite their strained relationship, Tsuki does attribute the experience-seeking aspect of her personality to the pressure her father put on her. At certain times, Tsuki looks back to Andrews advice, showing how Tsuki does look up to Andrew in certain aspects. However, their past is the big divide separating the two.

### Alexa Hale

Alexa Hale is Tsuki's half sister, sharing the same father but different mothers. Introduced to each other at a young age, they grew up very close, with Alexa teaching Tsuki many life lessons her parents weren't there for. They've shared a lot of experiences together and view each other as regular sisters.

While there are only a few interactions seen between Tsuki and Alexa within the known lore, it shows the deep connection they have to each other. So far, there have been Letters related to the marriage Alexa and Akira had, as well as text messages a few days prior.

### Kim

While there is a connection between Kim and Tsuki, as seen by the repeated mentioning of Kim within the diary pages of Tsuki, it's still unknown what or how they know each other for.

### Jenna Rains

Tsuki's teacher at Hosamata High, and also considered to be her nemesis during her time in school.

## Trivia

* Tsuki shares many behavioral similarities with that of felines, a notorious example being catnip's effect on her.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skull & Candy Episode 1: "*Milk*"
2. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 3
3. ↑ 'Story Time With Tsuki' Letter
4. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 3
5. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 17
6. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 4
7. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 8
8. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, pages 15-16
9. ↑ The Visit
10. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 9
11. ↑ Tsuki's Diary, page 7