Chika Nijino

## 虹野 千花

Chika Nijino

Official art of Chika

Eleanor

Veronica Brown

Food

Sleeping

Her opinion

Herself

Samuel being sloppy

Reading

Studying

**Chika Nijino** (虹野 千花(にじの ちか), *Nijino Chika*) is a supporting character in ANSRF. Originally from Tokyo, Japan, she’s a former student at Dream Hill Academy who moved to Praitha because of her father’s work. She transferred to United Islands of Praitha School.

She is part of Samuel and Veronica’s love triangle and friend group. She is the only child of Taihei Nijino and Akira Nijino. She’s popular at school and is the class president.

## Appearance

She is a short girl with long brown hair tied into twin tails with pink ribbons, light skin, and brown eyes. Some boys describe her as “cute”. For her casual attire, she usually wears cute and feminine clothes that she pairs with ribbons.

## Personality

Chika is an energetic, kind, sensitive, passionate, and happy girl. She earned the nickname ‘Chihuahua’ at school because of her small figure and feisty personality. As the class representative, she’s very nice and supportive to her classmates and always wants the best for them, but she’s quick to scold and discipline people or report someone to a teacher. She’s popular at school especially with the boys because of her bubbly and funny attitude, and because she’s able to make friends fast. However, she has a hard time studying and gets bad grades.

Because she was bullied before, Chika finds it hard to trust people. She hates the idea of being disliked and always tries not to get too attached to people because she’s scared that they might leave her. She’s bossy, has a hard time being honest with her feelings and can be a bit of a “*tsundere*”. She sometimes pushes people away and can be snappy because she doesn’t like to show her feelings as she thinks she’ll be seen as “weak”.

Chika also is also very confident in her abilities. She’s very musical, good at singing and dancing, but bad at drawing, Like Ameliana and Alyanna, she’s very quick to defend those she cares about.

## Etymology

Her given name **Chika** means “thousand” (千) (**chi**) and “flower” (花) (**ka**). Her name can be taken to mean “a thousand flowers”. Her last name **Nijino** means “rainbow” (虹) (**niji**) and “field” (野) (**no**), and it collectively means “rainbow field”.

## Background

Chika was originally born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. However when she was 4, her father was given a job offer at Praitha, so most of her family moved there with her beloved cousins Ayako and Haru.

When Chika turned 5 she was enrolled at Dream Hill Academy for kindergarten, but she was bullied because of her heritage so she transferred schools 1 year later.

When she was 6 Chika transferred to Summerfield Academy. She was initially not allowed to transfer there because she came from a simple family and the school only allowed royalty. However, Queen Melissa was able to convince the school to allow her to enroll there as a special case, on one condition- that Chika must always do her best and never get in trouble.

From that day on her family had a good relationship with the Sterlings and she befriended the children. Chika quickly became popular at school and was elected as the class representative.

## Trivia

* Chika’s blood type is O.
* She is 3 months premature.
* She hates reading.