Kiara Carrera

## Kiara “Kie” Carrera

* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

### Friends

JJ Maybank (best friend) John B. Routledge (best friend) Pope Heyward (best friend) Sarah Cameron (best friend) Cleo (best friend)

### Romance(s)

Rafe Cameron (boyfriend) JJ Maybank (kissed)John B. (kissed; unrequited)Pope Heyward (hooked up)

### Enemies

Topper ThorntonRafe CameronBarryLuke MaybankRenfieldCarla LimbreyCarlos SinghSarah Cameron (formerly)

## Portrayal

### Seasons

Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4 (Unreleased; 2024)

### Appears in

Outer Banks: Lights Out (Non-canon)

The transition to life and school in the Figure Eight was very hard for Kie; she had trouble connecting with her peers, making friends, etc. However, when she met Sarah Cameron, they struck up a friendship and Kie began to find the acceptance that had eluded her up until that point. Kiara and Sarah were best friends in the Ninth Grade, to the point that Kie neglected her friendship with Pogue boys John B, JJ, and Pope. However, she and Sarah became enemies in the Tenth Grade when Sarah snubbed Kie on the invite list of one of her parties, then spread a rumor that Kie was the reason the party was broken up by police. After having fallen out with Sarah, Kiara reconnected with the Pogues. Shortly after John B involves Sarah in their hunt for the Royal Merchant gold, the rest of the Pogues strand them on a boat together to work out their differences - Sarah comes to an epiphany and apologizes, telling Kie "When people get close to me, I feel trapped, and I bail, and then I blame them for it. I'm really sorry, and I miss you."

In the pilot, John B reveals that he, JJ, and Pope each have or had some sort of attraction to Kiara. Despite a group-imposed "no Pogue-on-Pogue macking" rule, romantic tension between Kiara and John B briefly surfaces in Season 1, and Kiara later has a short-lived relationship with Pope before an amicable breakup in Season 2. In Season 3, she kissed JJ and they become lovers.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

Throughout Season 1, Kiara gets into shenanigans with the Pogues. She helps them on their adventure to find the gold from the Royal Merchant ship wreck.

Kiara flirts with John B and kisses him on the cheek at one point. Later on in the season he kisses her, thinking she likes him, but she doesn't kiss him back and turns him down. Kiara sometimes works at her father's restaurant, but most days is out on the boat or hanging out with The Pogues.

At the end of Season 1, Kiara helps John B escape from the police and leave on a boat. They hear that the boat got caught up in the storm and probably didn't make it, so she and the others mourn John B thinking he died.

### Season 2

Kie, JJ, and Pope carve a heart on a tree in honor of John B, who they assume died in the storm. John B and Sarah are, unbeknownst to them, hiding aboard a boat bound for Nassau, Bahamas. Pope and Kie, naturally outraged, spray "murderer" on Ward's estate walls. Kie even calls out Rafe as a cop killer too.

Meanwhile, she, Pope, and JJ return to school, attempting to avoid the suspicious stares from all in attendance. John B sends the group a photo to certify their survival.

### Season 3

Kiara and the Pogues are getting by on the deserted island. They see a plane and flag down the pilot- thinking they are going to be rescued. However, the pilot was not who he said he was and tried to kidnap the group. The Pogues manage to get away but Kiara gets taken by the pilot.

Kiara is convinced Sarah’s dad is behind her kidnapping. She gets taken to Vaux Hall and realizes her kidnapper is someone else- Carlos Singh. Carlos tells her he is looking for the gold at El Dorado. Kiara tries to make Carlos let her leave Vaux Hall by convincing him she can find the journal. He doesn’t trust her though so he doesn’t let her go.

Kiara and Rafe have to team up together to break out when Carlos’ men are distracted. They make it to Rafe’s boat and he offers her a ride back to the Outer Banks. She wants to go back to the Pogues though and he won’t take her so she ends up stealing his boat. She sends them a text and signs it P4L so they know it’s her. They finally reunite.

Kiara goes back to the Outer Banks with the Pogues. She is happy to be back with her parents.

The Pogues try to find their way to South America to rescue Big John. Kiara’s parents are not happy and decide to force her to go to a wilderness camp called Kitty Hawk. JJ breaks her out. They kiss. Kiara and JJ meet with Barracuda Mike because they made a deal - to give him part of their El Dorado treasure if he gets them secure transportation to South America.

JJ and Kiara get to South America with Barracuda Mike. They reunite with the rest of the Pogues. They find the treasure and are thrilled.

In a flash forward, Kiara is seen working saving turtles. An old man approaches the Pogues complimenting their discovery of El Dorado. He has a proposition for them- help him find Blackbeard’s treasure.

## Personality

Kiara is a very loyal and caring friend. She often feels torn between the Pogues and her parents, who dislike the boys because they are poor and bad influence. Even though she is one of the more responsible people in the Pogues and usually shoots down JJ's ideas for a better, safe plan, Kiara seems to like the dangers of their adventure.

Kiara is determined and stubborn and doesn't like her parents' ideals, which is why she chooses the Pogues over them.

## Relationships

### John B

At the beginning of the series, John B admits that all of The Pogues had a bit of a thing for Kiara. However, Pogue rules dictate that a Pogue can never have romantic relations with another Pogue, thus none of them ever made outright moves on her (no Pogue-on-Pogue-macking). Nonetheless, JJ convinces John B that Kiara is interested in him because she was
particularly caring towards him and kissed him (on the cheek) when he was scuba diving. John B is not fully convinced but is swayed, and impulsively kisses Kiara on the beach at night. However, Kiara reacts awkwardly, and rejects him, using the excuse that Pogues cannot kiss each other. It is clear throughout Season 1 that Kiara only sees John B as a friend. She brings up the kiss on the boat asking if he told JJ that they kissed.

After this, John B and Sarah get together. Kiara dislikes Sarah and reacts badly to their relationship saying that she doesn't want Sarah in the group because she doesn't trust her. She tries to force John B to choose either her or Sarah and upset when he says "both". She works things out with Sarah and realizes that the two of them really love each other.

In Season 2 and 3, she is still best friends with John B (and Sarah).

### Pope

*Main page:* Kiara and Pope

Pope's feelings for Kiara are evident from fairly early on the first season. He watches on with jealousy as John B and Kiara dance together in The Wreck and is angry at Kiara when she focuses mainly on John B and the trouble he is in. He comforts Kiara when she gets upset over John B's relationship with Sarah. He drunkenly admits that he is in love with her on the night that John B is deemed a person of interest in the murder of Sheriff Peterkin. However, Kiara rejects him and tells him that it can never happen and that they want different things. Pope is angry and the next morning he is cold and distant. Later that day, when Kiara, JJ, and Pope helps John B escape, Pope tells her that he's fine just staying friends, but Kiara kisses him, and when John B and Sarah are deemed missing persons after getting lost at sea, Pope holds Kiara's hand for comfort and they embrace and hold on to one another, devastated.

In season 2, Pope tries to hook up with Kiara but she rejects him, saying that she only made a move once because she was high. In Homecoming, they hook up. In My Druthers, Kiara breaks up with Pope because she was never in love with him and only saw him as nothing more than a friend, saying that sleeping with him felt weird and uncomfortable.

In Season 3, they are still friends.

### JJ

*Main article: JJ and Kiara*

In Season 1, JJ and Kiara are best friends and are in the same friend group, The Pogues. They both don't seem to like physical touch from other people but they hug and touch each other a lot. JJ and Kiara often argue but they are good friends and look out for each other, They also flirt a lot with each other and Kiara has always been there for him, especially during his traumatic abuse at the hands of his father. JJ is shown to have romantic feeling for Kiara, even telling John B that he tried to be more than friends with her and getting jealous when she is trying to date Pope. After JJ revealed the bruises on his abdomen given to him by his father, Kiara hugs him tightly. When he and Kiara have to go back to JJ's house to get the keys to *The Phantom*, Kiara offers to go with him, but he declines.

In Season 2, JJ is jealous of Kie and Pope's relationship but he doesn't say anything because he wants Pope to be happy. Eventually, Kiara breaks up with Pope because she doesn't love him and doesn't see him as anything more than a friend. Kiara and JJ are still best friends, and she even helps him when his father appears in the Chateau. She asks his father if he has any idea how special JJ is. In the final episode of Season 2, they have a very sweet conversation about the future when JJ tells her that he wants to go on a surf trip when all of this is over. Kiara looks at him adoringly as asks him if he has room for one more. She realizes that JJ has the same dreams as her and her feelings for him start to bloom. Later on, JJ gets hurt to protect Kie and she jumps in the water to save him from drowning, leading to her being completely relieved when he wakes up, hugging him.

In Season 3 , JJ and Kiara have been stranded on the island with the other Pogues for over a month and they get even closer to each other. We see that Kiara has deeper feelings for him during this time.JJ shares with her that he doesn't want to leave the island because he has everything he needs right there and Kiara says that is like "what they talked about" (referring the surf trip). When the plane comes to rescue, Kie and JJ are the only ones who are not excited to get out, and later on, Kie gets kidnapped by a man called Singh, who has interest in the treasure of El Dorado. During this time, JJ is completely desesperate and nervous, doing everything he cans to get her back. When she finally escapes, they share a passionate hug where he tells her that he is glad she's safe. She tells him that she thought she was never going to see him again and he says that everything is okay and he is there now, hugging her again. On the ride home, JJ and Kiara almost kiss on the boat when she tells him that anything that happens, they are going to handle it together like they always do, but Pope interrupts. Back in the OBX, Kiara tries to talk to him about what happened and they even have another almost kiss until JJ flips and asks her what are they doing, telling her that they shouldn't do that because he is just a loser and he doesn't have anything, unlike her. He questions why she would even care about him and even calls her a Kook, before leaving in his motorcycle. When they find each other at the Chateau, she tells him that she understands why he freaks when people get close to him because she knows how his life is but she doesn't want him to say that she doesn't care about him, because it's not true. Their relationship is tested again when JJ steals money from Kie's dad after he insulted . When JJ has a m and Sarah share a hug and become even friends.

### Sarah Cameron

*Main article:* Sarah and Kiara

In Season 1, is revelead that Kiara and Sarah became best friends in ninth grade, after saving baby turtles but they had a fall-out after Sarah didn't invite Kiara to a party and Kiara called the cops to Sarah's house. They have a conversation whey they are alone in a boat because of the boys and Sarah tells her that she bails when people get close to her but she misses her and she is sorry. They sort their differences out and become close friends again.

In Season 2, Kiara is heart broken when she thinks Sarah and John B are dead. When the Pogues reunite, Kiara and Sarah share a hug and become even friends.

## Appearances

* *The Lucky Compass*
* *The Forbidden Zone*
* *Spy Games*
* *Midsummers*
* *Parcel 9*
* *Dead Calm*
* *The Runway*
* *The Bell Tower*
* *The Phantom*
* *The Heist*
* *Prayers*
* *Homecoming*
* *The Darkest Hour*
* *My Druthers*
* *The Bonfire*
* *The Cross*
* *Trapped*
* *The Coastal Venture*
* *The Bells*
* *Fathers and Sons*
* *The Diary*
* *Heists*
* *The Dark Forest*
* *Happy Anniversary*
* *Tapping the Rudder*
* *Welcome to Kitty Hawk*
* *Secret of the Gnomon*

## Trivia

* environmentalist.
* She likes Bob Marley.

## References

1. ↑ Dead Calm, 1x07
2. ↑ The Phantom, 1x10