Kade

**Sub-Pages:*** **Overview**
* Synopsis
* Relationships
* Image Gallery
* Canvas

* Current
* Elementary
* Middle School
* High School

Nicknames by Stace* Kevin, Kyle, Kenny, Katherine, Kent, Karl, all names beginning with the letter "K", and Caleb

## Professional info

### Occupation

Cashier
Student (previous)

### Affiliation

Spenders
Mallmart (previous)
Prime High School (previous)

## Debut

### Webtoon

Episode 1

**Kade** serves as the male protagonist of the *Down To Earth* Webtoon. One year, before the start of the series, he had broken up his 7-year-long relationship with a girl named Delilah. It left him in a place where he was lost and only lived in grief. To cope and "find his heart" he recklessly starts dating girls to find what he had lost, which leads him down a road that almost lost his most cherished friendship, Ellie. After a particularly terrible day at work and a predictable breakup to follow, Kade finds himself following a bright green light through the woods. It led to an alien ship crash-landed in his backyard, carrying the "The Angel that fell from the sky"; Zaida. He takes her in and promises to teach her the customs and social interactions of becoming a full-fledged human so she can start a new life on Earth.

## Profile

### Appearance

Kade tall attractive man. Having messy brown hair, a goatee, and blue eyes. His first of many piercings was during middle school, to match Delilah who had her ears pierced as well, and eventually gauged them to ½" (12mm) tunnels on both of his ears. Again, to match Delilah, Kade got a wrist stripe and a single feather tattooed on his left forearm. Later adding feathers to his shoulder. Kade usually wears darker colors, such as black, red, and army green, with the occasional white or pastel color thrown into the mix.

After the start of season 2, Kade didn't tend to his appearance for roughly a month due to the depressed state after the run-in with Delilah at the fashion show. Kade lost his appetite, his hair and facial hair grew out, he stopped showering, and overall didn't tend to his hygiene.

### Personality

Kade is the definition of an introvert. He hates most social interactions and always tries to avoid anything that relates to him putting more effort into socializing than he needs to. Kade is more often bluntly honest when it comes to him other people's feelings, an example is how he talked to his mother. He doesn't seem to want friends and always carries a joyless aura.

However, it's later shown that a lot of this stemmed from relationship trauma. Kade was once a social teenager with friends and a girlfriend that made him the talk of the school, but after their breakup, Kade became someone who was drained by social interaction and actively avoid it as to not go through the same pain again. This all changed when Zaida crashed into his life, he starts opening up to her and starts to find himself through his interactions with Zaida, making friends, hanging out with people, and overall being happy. However, it takes only one run-in with his ex-girlfriend, Delilah, to reverse all the work that Zaida and his other new friends put into bringing him out of his shell.

## Pets

* **Cosmo**: Cosmo is Kade's cat. She has large green eyes, wears a pink ribbon around her neck, and has black fur.

## Relationships

### *Love Interests*

* **Delilah** (previous): Delilah is a childhood friend of Kade's and his first known girlfriend. Kade had been crushing over her since middle however it wouldn't be until high school when they started dating. From what Kade has shared, the relationship had been going extremely well; he couldn't be anymore happier with Delilah. However, 5 years after high school, he and Delilah had gotten into an argument, eventually, Kade was the one to end the relationship for some unknown reason, but, despite being the one that broke it off, it didn't seem to be a mutual breakup as Kade still shows strong feelings towards her.

* **Ellie** (previous): Kade and Ellie go way back to third grade when the two had met in gym class and the two hit it off well and became the best of friends, throughout the rest of elementary and through early middle school the two were inseparable, and throughout this time, to some degree, he becomes romantically interested in her, due to how he admired how social she was, or that she always wore cute clothing and always smelled good, and just overall being a great friend. However, he choose not to escalate things, it wasn't that he wasn't interested in her, but rather he cherished their friendship so much he didn't want to lose it. Their friendship hasn't been all roses and daisy, as there have been points where both have taken advantage of one other to get something they want from the other. In Kade's case, he used her love for him as a bridge to get closer to Delilah and eventually date her while not caring about the feelings that Ellie felt, and in Ellie's case, she took advantage of his grief, instead of giving him the break from dating he needed, and used that weak state of Kade's to date him, and out of lust, the two date for what appears to be only a few weeks before she breaks it off with him. They stopped taking for weeks to come, but later she choose to come to his home, while he was reluctant to let her in, she came in anyways thanks to Zaida, and after to two get into an argument, she finally opens up to him to truly say sorry to his long time friend and he was moved, when she was gonna leave for her new job, Kade finally chooses to open up to her, saying sorry for the years of just leaving her after getting with Delilah and finally opening up how he felt about her and stating that it wasn't that he didn't like her, as he did show intimate feelings for her, but rather he cherished their friendship so much that he didn't want to escalate things and lose something he loved. Ellie is happy that she finally got to see the Kade she fell in love with and runs up to him, hugging him while telling him to be nice to Zaida, leaving their friendship rekindled as she left town for her new job.

### *Friends*

* **Zaida**: Zaida is an alien girl whose spaceship crash-landed in Kade's backyard, seeing how hopeless she was, he took her in and a little later she woke up Kade lost in thoughts on how beautiful she takes the chance to grab him and bump their heads. Confused at first, he quickly learned about her Levitation and Telepath and how she just used it to learn the basics of the English language. After a little bit of them talking back and forth, Zaida brings up how different their planets are and how their data most have been incorrect because Kade's appearance did not match, Kade then explains that everyone looks different and that everyone has their look. Hearing from Kade, she is happy and concludes that she wants to make a life here and asks if what room was hers, Kade gets flustered due to the situation being odd and having his shit to deal with and just not wanting to take on the stress of caring for her, but after Zaida's begging, he agrees to let her stay and teach their how to be a human under three rules, 1) contribute, 2) trust and 3) no feelings. While he thought it would be annoying to have another person being at his place, he starts to enjoy her company and this helped them in their friendship thanks to Zaida's company he was able to grow out of his shell and meet make new friends, and she brought new light to his life. He grows to be Zaida's best friend, he becomes extremely protective of her and will do anything for her, and despite the short time that they've known each other they are extremely comfortable with each other, to the point that she has helped him, by being the person to let him open about his past feelings and help him move on. However, this makes him feel uneasy because he doesn't want to and denies growing feelings for her because he doesn't want to go through a very painful breakup again, but still wants to be with her. He is also unaware that Zaida as well had started developing feelings for him.

* **Ethan**: Ethan is a high school student that he met, alongside Zaida, when he miraculously knew them and walked up to them at Panda Tea House. The two did not start off on the right foot. Ethan only wanted to be genuine friends with them but it was clear that Kade didn't trust him, as he knew about Zaida identity before they met, thinking that he was planning to blackmail Zaida in some way. Even after Ethan was willing to take time out of his day and teach Zaida, all he could see was a person who wanted to only hang out with Zaida. It wasn't after Ethan showed his more trustworthy side by helping him come over the barrier with his coworker, he started to see him more like a friend and eventually Ethan gained his trust. While there is times were he questions why they become friends, he still is open to hanging out with him and considers Ethan a friend.

* **Suzy**: Suzy originally comes across as an antagonist for Kade, even calling him a pervert and making chores for him at work. But she softens a bit over time, after interacting with Zaida and Kade. While Zaida needs space because their relationship is having problems, Suzy allows Kade some alone time by hosting Zaida.

### *Other*

* **Stace**: Stace is a self-proclaimed rival of Kade's and acts the part. However, it later revealed that unlike Delilah (who seems kind, yet is manipulative), Stace appears to be a rough boss, but actually is quite lonely. He wants friendship with Kade and Zaida, but is a bad at social skills after having risen to leadership role in his occupation at the expense of friendship.

## Trivia

* In the "Down To Earth (Official Trailer) - WEBTOON" promotional video, it seems like it was taken in the prospective of Kade, explaining his experience at the very start of meeting Zaida and sharing how he enjoyed her company, while the Second promotional was taken by Zaida experience on her life on earth.
* The concept for Kade, alongside Zaida, was first thought of around Pookie's middle school years. Kade's design was based on qualities Pookie finds attractive in a guy. .
* His number one pet peeve is people using Tapers like Jewelry.
* Kade, among many things, has a Clavicle kink.
* In some chapters, when spending time with Zaida, his plugs gain a heart shaped hole in them. This is odd since his plugs don't have a gap to begin with.

## Gallery

*Kade letting his hair and goatee grow out, happening over the course of a month after seeing Delilah in Episode 78, the last episode of Season One.*Kade's early conceptPhotobooth printsMore photobooth printsPixel art of Kade made by Pookie
## List of appearances

* Episode 1
* Episode 2
* Episode 3
* Episode 4
* Episode 5
* Episode 6
* Episode 7
* Episode 8
* Episode 9
* Episode 10
* Episode 11
* Episode 12
* Episode 13
* Episode 14
* Episode 15
* Episode 16
* Episode 17
* Episode 18
* Episode 19
* Episode 20
* Episode 21
* Episode 22
* Episode 23
* Episode 24
* Episode 25
* Episode 26
* Episode 27
* Episode 28
* Episode 29
* Episode 30
* Episode 31
* Episode 32
* Episode 33
* Episode 34
* Episode 35
* Episode 36
* Episode 37
* Episode 38
* Episode 39
* Episode 40
* Episode 41
* Episode 42
* Episode 43
* Episode 44
* Episode 45
* Episode 46
* Episode 47
* Episode 48
* Episode 49
* Episode 50
* Episode 51
* Episode 52
* Episode 53
* Episode 54
* Episode 55
* Episode 56
* Episode 57

## References

1. ↑ Webtoon: Down To Earth | Episode 8 | Retrieved: June 13, 2020
2. ↑ Webtoon: Down To Earth | Episode 11 | Retrieved: June 13, 2020
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