An endlessly positive kitter who’s vibrant both literally and figuratively, Kichi embodies the very spirit of optimistic idealism⁠⁠— team spirit, specifically, as she has the exact personality one would expect from an everyday cheerleader. She’s always brimming with energy and pep, and when you combine that with her keen eye for silver linings, you get a character who practically radiates good vibes and fun times. Her vivacity is infectious, and with her extraverted personality, she’s quite the contagion.

Kichi is not hard to befriend. She’s a people lover, and refuses to see anything but the best in them, regularly seeking out company onto which to load off some of her excess and easily enticed enthusiasm. This demeanor of hers regularly screams “naïvety,” but her trust is actually not terribly hard to lose. Her love of people is strong, but the bonds to individuals are not. Coupled with her distaste for monotony and avoidance of commitment, Kichi’s relationships are rarely given the time and personal attention to be forged into anything more permanent. She doesn’t actually mean to discard or ignore anybody, but she can’t help flitting from one interesting person or project to the next once her attention wears thin. Her thought process and conversation style follows a similar pattern, hopping from one subject to the next, and back to a previous one she’s just had a new exciting thought about. It all lends to a sort of “airheaded” and “flighty” reputation, if you will.

This appearance of indecisiveness isn’t helped by the fact that the easily-lost trust is also easily gained and regained⁠⁠— it’s that idealism at work again. She firmly believes in second chances, and isn’t one to stay hurt for long. Though very much a people person, she isn’t a people pleaser. Kichi has a practically unshakeable confidence in herself and her abilities (regardless of actual practical experience applying them), one she likes to share with others. This means two things: she has a desire to instill the same level of self-respect in the people she talks to, and that she likes to demonstrate how well it works for her personally. It can be a bit much at times; with a quest to impress and a tunnel vision on success, it isn’t uncommon for Kichi to show off. It’ll probably get her into trouble one day, but it hasn’t yet, so she isn’t one bit dissuaded⁠⁠— no matter who warns against it or what they say. She tends to disregard negativity out of hand, perceiving it as bogging people down with cynicism, pessimism, or stuffiness, instead of as something more nuanced.

Nuance in general isn’t her forte, really, because while she can imagine herself in somebody else’s situation, she has trouble fitting into any metaphorical shoes other than her own, much less walking in them (she’s always preferred running anyway). There’s no malice or callousness in this trait, it’s simply a limitation; she does her moral best regardless, following the golden rule: treat others as you want to be treated, and thereby often end up projecting your own feelings and values onto them. It’s functional enough most of the time, but when encountering somebody who is not just superficially but fundamentally different from herself, odds are she’ll be stumped. In other words, she can put herself in another person’s place, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still Kichi in that place.

In spite of struggles to understand those unlike herself and difficulties sticking with projects and people, she has a strong desire to do the right thing, and to help anybody else figure out the way to get it done. Though her confidence is a nigh impenetrable armor, it doesn’t inhibit her from seeing her own mistakes, although you might have to point them out⁠⁠— as well as wait until they cause some kind of problem to point to. Apologies come easily to her, as does anything else she can think of to make things right to others. Kichi’s idealism applies just as much to herself as anybody else; they are all, generally speaking, fundamentally good in her eyes.

• Highly animated, frequently gesticulating with her forepaws (hands?), wings, arms⁠⁠— really anything that can be used to express emotion will be used to express emotion
• Rarely stands still, frequently shifting her weight from foot to foot if she has no excuse for being active at the moment
• Touchy-feely type; she can get uncomfortable if there's too much tension preventing physical interaction
• Has a tendency to try to describe things with sound effects, which pairs well with her pseudo-pantomimes
• When startled badly, she can jump up to twice her height in the air
• Not easily offended
• Her most delighted laugh is something of a squealy cackle
• Uses Wind Gusts to manage her hair and keep it out of the way