Civilian
Name: Kirra Rose Morrow
Nickname: Kirra-Lirra, Kirra-keet
Age: 8 9 10 11 (as of 28 Sep 2017) 14 (as of 28 Sep 2020)
Birthday: 28/9/06
Sign: Libra
Gemstone: Opal
Blood Type: O
Fav. Food: Sketti! (Or spaghetti, for those who can spell)
Hated Food: Sultanas
School: Knightside Elementary (Grade 3)
Hobbies: Draaama! – Acting, make-believe, dress-up and attention in one handy activity. Kirra has been staging little plays for her family since she was old enough to throw a blanket over a tree branch to make a curtain. She's in an after-school class, for fun and friend-making, and loves to play imagination games of all types.
Siiinging! – All of the above plus music! What she lacks in finesse, she makes up for with enthusiasm. Kirra often sings to herself when she's happy, and loves to get loud. She doesn't really have a favourite style yet, but Disney songs feature heavily in her repertoire.
Climb all the trees! - Kirra enjoys the outdoors, especially the parts of it with branches within arm's reach. Climbing is a challenge, the views are great, and complete strangers come over to help her get down. It's great! She’s pretty fearless, and light enough to get up high onto thin branches (the higher the better!). Her parents fortunately don’t seem to mind so long as they can still see her.
Virtues: Yes to Everything! Kirra is an agreeable child, always willing to please. She will happily go along with what other people want to do, eat whatever's on the plate, take on extra responsibilities without complaint, and generally be a smiling example of good behaviour. She is just looking for a pat on the head for it. If the question is 'would you like to...?', she's already said 'Yes!' before the sentence finishes. This does mean that sometimes she finds herself agreeing to things that turn out to be less than amazing. She’ll often soldier on regardless, but might need a little push in the form of a reward or some company. Left alone to work, her attention may lapse, resulting in half-done jobs or wandering off to play. If she’s agreed to something genuinely unpleasant, she’s more likely to go and tell an adult, to make sure they can see how hard she’s working. Even then, it doesn’t take much to get her back on track – she’ll happily agree to reminders, too.
Inclusive There's nothing worse than being left out. Even at her young age, Kirra wants to make sure everyone is included, and will try hard to make a space for a newcomer in a game, or talk to someone who looks lonely. She doesn't make judgements on who can be her friend or join her circle, and she won't hold grudges, even against people who have excluded her in the past. When she's the director, everyone gets a part to play.
Imaginative Kirra has a wild imagination, and it colours all of her endeavours. She comes up with some pretty elaborate scenarios for her plays and games. She'd rather give her class report as a skit than a written document. She's inventive and quick to improvise, and willing to accept some pretty unbelievable things as fact because it could happen in a TV show, so why not for real?
Flaws: Praise-o-vore Kirra knows the difference between good attention and bad attention. She wants the good kind, and needs a constant stream of external validation to feel good about herself. It doesn’t have to be much, just a little ‘well done’ is enough to tide her over. She’s well-behaved, and works hard so long as the praise keeps coming, but gets discouraged easily if her efforts aren’t rewarded. She may give up entirely on things she doesn’t find she receives enough praise for, getting sullen and sulking, or bragging about old unrelated achievements to attract a new round of praise for them instead. She has difficulty focusing on tasks when she doesn’t have an audience. Just give her a ‘good job’ sticker already, she will be so happy.
Sensitive Soul As easily as praise can build her up, the slightest negative words can have a huge effect on Kirra. She cares very much what other people think of her, and takes criticism very hard. This is world-ending stuff. They didn’t like her picture/cartwheel/homework/joke, so they don’t like her! Messy tears in public places is a standard response. So is hiding in her room because everybody clearly hates her. She’s also fairly likely to read ‘no reaction’ as a negative reaction, especially when her praise-meter is running low, or when she’s tired.
If everyone else jumped off a bridge—splash! Peers don’t need to exert much pressure over Kirra. She wants to hang out with the cool kids (ie. Everyone older than her). She will trail along after those she admires like a dear little sheep, and go along with whatever mischief they offer, because ‘everyone else was doing it’ is a perfectly reasonable explanation in her mind. She doesn’t like to be the one left behind, or left out, and she knows if she does what people tell her, she will almost always get kind words in response.
Physical Description:
Eyes: Big, round and bright red
Hair: Straight hair, a little longer than shoulder-length, and tending to flick up at the ends. Bright blue at the roots, shading out to blonde then red. The tips have been dipped in several different colours of poster paint. The top/middle section is pulled back from her face with a big ribbon.
Appearance: A trusting, wide-eyed babyface. Expression tending towards innocent mischief. A little bird-boned thing, small and thin. Maybe a bit of baby fat around the face, but mostly too active to be chubby. Her skin is still quite light - she's an outdoors kid, but her mum butters her with sunscreen before she goes out to play.
Typical clothes: Knightside uniform. Or brightly coloured/mismatched playwear: colourful pinafore dress and leggings, socks that don’t match etc.
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