Kaori

## KaoriKaori Sara

* Kaori
* Reference

**Kaori** Sara, better known by her first name, **Kaori**, is an Octoling who resides in Inkopolis with her boyfriend, Kan. She is 19 years old.
She has pale skin, pale purple curly hair, and deep ocean blue eyes.

She is the protagonist in Divided. In order to get to Inkopolis, she had to escape her mother, who ruled her life. She took part in the uprising protests occurring in Octo Valley and was one of the first Octolings to commit to the 'Great Escape' where she would successfully get away from the underground and be able to live a normal life in Inkopolis.

## History

### Divided

**Note**: the novel's name "Divided" + this history is subject to change as it is in the works only as of recent.

Coming soon

## **Trivia**

### Interesting facts

* Her name, which is Japanese, translates roughly to "fragrance" in English.
* After becoming free from sanitisation - it was found her eyesight was very damaged from the hypnoshades. She now has to wear glasses to correct her impaired vision.
* She previously, while sanitised, worked in a laboratory for her mother, the head commander of the Sanitised Octoling forces.
	+ She wears bandages on her hands from an accident she had from working in the laboratory.
* Her mother, Urayamu, is her biological mother. She is a sanitised Octoling and it is unknown how she was able to have Kaori.
	+ In the early drafts, she was an experiment and had no biological parents.
	+ Urayamu and Kaori have a strained relationship and Urayamu was very verbally abusive to Kaori as a child. So, they do not keep in contact with each other. Especially ever since Kaori escaped to Inkopolis.
* Kaori wasn't fully desanitised in one go; she had heard small parts of Calamari Inkantation multiple times in the past - and with each brief listen she had become more self-aware but it was not till the third time where she fully regained sentience.

* Marsh would have to say **Kaori**'s theme song would be bullet train, by pizzagirl.
* Kaori's preferred coffee is a frappuccino.

## **Relationships**

### **Kan**

"*I tried to reach out to you, Kan. Numerous times. I never stopped trying.*"
—**Kaori** comforting Kan *Divided*, TBD
Kan and Kaori did not mesh well together at first and absolutely hated each-other's guts.
However, it was more of a one-sided hatred as Kaori simply just felt like he had unresolved problems with himself. Therefore, Kaori was a little more willing to converse but usually with Kan's cold attitude and stubbornness it didn't work.

Kaori doesn't have a lot of hatred within her system but Kan activated some sort of misunderstood anger within her due to his lack of ability to listen to her. His close-mindedness often conflicted with her open-mindedness and it caused a lot of mini squabbles.
But when Kaori saw his capability in battle; she started to develop feelings for someone who hated her. It messed with her mind a lot and Kaori often feels like she didn't properly understand what love was since she had never experienced such feeling in her time within the Octarian forces. She'd try and seek out Kan to get him to explain what was wrong with him, constantly, but he refused to open up.

When Kan broke up with Kioku; Kaori was one of the first to comfort him. This opened something in his eyes; he admired Kaori's patience to listen to him despite him pushing her away basically all the time.
There, he opened up about his past and talked about hearing his mother and father die to the Octarian forces. Kaori listened; and reaffirmed that she wasn't sanitised any longer and how Octolings and Sanitised Octolings are different. Then Kaori proceeded to tell him about how much she hated her mother for the things she did to her and various others.

From there on, Kan and Kaori grew more close and Kan didn't return his feelings for her until they were properly bonded. Kirei and Hana took notice of how close they had gotten and often teased them about it, seeing as Kan used to absolutely rip into Kaori when around her. Kaori would play off her feelings but Kan would just laugh about it. Once they actually got together, they found out how well they work with each-other and they couldn't be happier to be with each-other.

#### Trivia

* Kaori and Kan were never intended to be together, originally. It was going to be another character.
* Kaori and Kan's relationship theme song would probably be King by Lauren Aquilina.

### **Hana**

"*Hey, Kaori - serious talk. Thanks for taking care of my brother. I think you're the only one who can make my brother truly happy. He always seemed so down before he got with you. He's so different nowadays. I feel like you've opened another side to him I never got to see. Thank you, I'm proud to call you my sister-in-law.*"
—Hana to **Kaori** *Divided*, TBD
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### **Kirei**

"*Kaori, I'm so glad I met you. You're so willing to help others and listen no matter how much wrong they do you. I'm impressed as a fairly short-tempered person myself, heh.*"
—Kirei to **Kaori** *Divided*, TBD
From the moment they met, Kirei and **Kaori** have been on good terms and are practically best friends.
They empathise with each other very well, as they both faced similar situations facing unacceptance in regard to things they can't change about themselves. Kaori was even the one to help Kirei with her relationship problems and confess to Hana.

Kirei is a little wary of Kaori at times; more specifically when she's with Kan, as Kirei doesn't really fully trust Kan. However, she understands their relationship now and doesn't interfere, in fact, Kirei constantly confronted Kan in regards to why he didn't like Kaori and defended her for his prejudice.

## **Quotes**

**Kaori**: "*Look Kan, I'm not playing around for once. Usually I wouldn't worry when you mope around like this, since it's become normal behaviour for you. But this moping, this moping around of yours is entirely different and I'm sick of putting up with your unwillingness. What is the matter with you?*"

**Kan**: "*Fine. Since you want to pry so much... I found out my girlfriend cheated on me. So, we broke up. Over text. The whole situation is pissing me off. How could I not see through her terrible lies? I wasted so much time on her. So much time I'll never ever get back.*"

**Kaori**: "*Oh Kan..." [...] "Look, normally I'm mad at you for being inexplicably rude to me. But I see this reasoning as valid...*"

**Kan**: "*I don't need your sympathy, 'octo." [...] "I'm fine, okay? Just leave me alone. I know what you're going to say.*"
**Kaori**: "*No, no you don't." [...] "Hana always told me about your girlfr— I mean ex. She always said to me she had a terrible gut feeling about her. She would describe her and I think it's reasonable for me to say now she sounded like a stuck-up, ungrateful brat.*"

—Kan and **Kaori** bonding *Divided*, TBD

## **Personality & Traits**

Kaori is a very kind and caring, empathetic soul who usually takes her time to understand what may be going on in someone else's life before she passes judgement onto them. A perfect way to describe her is someone who follows their heart over their head. While she is very capable of herself, being smart and logical, she prefers to follow her heart as such.

However, Kaori can become conflicted when people misconstrue her or don't take her seriously. She fails to understand people who cannot co-operate with her and become easily frustrated (like she did with Kan). But a notable trait to Kaori is when it comes down to people she dislikes openly struggling, she can put aside pettiness to help them, making for new opportunities to see people in a different light.

She cares a lot for her friends but is very easily upset emotionally and usually gets into her own head about things.

## **Family**

### Members

**Boyfriend:**

Kan: Living (As of *Divided*)