Kiriko Kumokawa

* Pre-timeskip
* Post-timeskip

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**Kiriko Kumokawa** (雲川霧子 *Kumokawa Kiriko*) is a 1st-year student at Karasuno High School. She plays as a backup-middle blocker. Before enrolling in Karasuno, she was motivated to play Volleyball at the age of 10 after witnessing the Little Giant play on TV. She is an Alpha Wolf with air-powers and disguises herself as a human.

## Appearance

Kiriko has pale whitish hair wavy hair that fades to a pale, sky blue with wavy bangs. Her eyes are unusual, being a bright-slightly tinted ocean yellow with a slightly dark blue samsara pupil. She has wolf ears with soft fur inside, and the tail has the same hair color and fade. When disguising as a normal human, she hides her ears, mark, eyes and tail (her normal eye color is orangish-brown). She typically wears the girls volleyball uniform during practice and official matches.

## Personality

Kiriko is a determined, ambitious, smart, cheerful girl who believes that losing is just a trial for a team to overcome with. She always refuses to give up, even if someone tells her to just give up easily. When it comes to her position as a beta in her pack, she is serious and extremely loyal to her friends and family. Kiriko often encourages her teammates to not give up when they lost their reputation and on the journey to restore the former glory of Karasuno. Aside from Volleyball, she plays archery and is skillful to the point of even practicing it in her kyudojo.

Hinata describes her to be a girl who never complains about her teammates skills unlike Kageyama, who always barks orders to his teammates in Kitagawa Daiichi. Most of the time, she rants about her obsession of her teammates and friends. Kiriko is an otaku, often reading manga in her spare time, gleeing and smiling. Since joining Karasuno, she becomes a more-open, caring, kind and forgiving girl. She is interested in practicing new things. Sometimes, she is lazy whenever she's tired due to weaknesses.

Kiriko doesn't tolerate impulsive behavior from other people, this is evident when Kageyama arrogantly yelled at her for her lack of spiking power and her timing being slow, she gives him an angry stare, telling him to get used to her disadvantages. Another example is when Coach Ukai scolded her for "stealing" Asahi's spike, giving him another angry stare, saying that she just wants to help.

She is harsh on punishments when Tsukishima and Kageyama blamed her for being too weak because of a battle she had to face and didn't had time to recover her strength, she became angered and had enough of getting scolded, immediately trapping the two in a veil of clouds as a punishment.

## Background

Born in the well known Air-element Kumokawa family, and considered an alpha wolf prodigy. She began playing volleyball at the age of 10 while practicing Archery at the same time. Raised as the future family leader, she finished her lessons of being a leader when she was 9. Her parents often go easy on her because their first child died because of overexhertion after training their first daughter too hard. Upon entering Yukigaoka, she joined Hinata's team and shocked Kitagawa Daiichi thanks to her skills.

At the nearly-end of the match, Kageyama angrily asked her what she had been doing for the past years before entering the team. She gave him an enraged stare, telling him to never complain about his teammate's performance and summoning a tropical cyclone to knock him out.

## Nomenclature

* The name **Kiriko** means "**Haze, fog and mist**" (霧 *kiri*) and "**child**" (子 *ko*)
* Kiriko's surname **Kumokawa** means "**cloud**" (雲 *kumo*) and "**river**" (川 *kawa*)

## Relationships

**Shoyo Hinata** - Kiriko gets along with Hinata since joining Hinata in his team during her time in junior high. Often comforting him when Karasuno lost to Aoba Johsai. After a battle that resulted in Kiriko lowering her jumping power, he was willing to teach Kiriko on restoring her jumping strength. Suzumi, her younger sister, describes her to have a sibling bond with Hinata.

**Tobio Kageyama** - Hinata and Kiriko ran into Kageyama when two Kitagawa Daiichi second years tease them for their height. Kageyama mocked Hinata's height but Kiriko stood up for him. She initially didn't get along with him well due to what happened in junior high, but after the success of his quick attack with Hinata, he apologized to Kiriko and forgave him.

## Trivia

* Kiriko loves VOCALOID.
* Her birthday falls on National Cloud Day. This is an obvious reference to her Aerokinesis.
* Kiriko's personality has many traits from the Tapu's (Guardian deities of Alola) personalities from *Pokemon Sun and Moon* in the anime. Tapu Koko doesn't like impulsive behavior, Tapu Lele's gleeful and cheerful but cruel sense of innocence persona, Tapu Bulu's lazy, laid back, subdued, attitude and Tapu Fini's caring and forgiving characteristic.