Kaname

Kaname Chidori is the protagonist of the series Full Metal Panic, and is a bisexual high school girl sixteen to eighteen years of age. She has long dark blue hair, golden brown eyes, a slender and athletic build, weighs 50kg, and is 166cm tall. She's spunky, high spirited, compassionate, charismatic, resilient, courageous, trustworthy, ambitious, extroverted, analytical, intelligent, demanding, competitive, fierce, loyal, temperamental, stubborn, impatient, deflective, cynical, insecure, self isolating and tsundere.

In her younger years Kaname's time was split between both Japan and America as the daughter of a UN official. After her mother's passing she took up permanent residency in an apartment in Tokyo by herself, whilst her younger sister and father remained in New York, having a strained relationship with the latter. She attends Jindai High School as a normal second year student until the day a strange transfer student arrives and her world is turned completely upside down. Sousuke Sagara, and undercover agent for a secretive military organization known as Mithril, sent to protect Kaname from malicious terrorist forces that seek to abuse her latent powers as a Whispered. From then on her days are a precarious mix between your average teenager and chaotic military based excursions. Mostly she spends her days trying to prevent Sousuke from destroying their high school with his endless supply of militant grade artillery, as well as attempting to help him experience the ups and downs of a typical normal life.

Given the codename Angel for her ethereal beauty- aka the only thing 'angelic' about her. Loud, abrasive, argumentative- the moment Kaname opens her mouth the illusion of a pure and graceful maiden dissipates into the ether. Quick to anger with an explosive temper that often gets the better of her despite the level headed persona she tries to project. She acts tough, exuding an incomparable air of confidence to mask a plethora of deep rooted insecurities and avoid moments of vulnerability.

On the surface Kaname is very outgoing, courageous, and even idolized by her peers as "The kind of girl everyone looks up to". Privately, she's just a lonely, affection starved teenager trying her absolute best, just like everyone else. Kaname has been known to suffer from bouts of depression and severe anxiety, the latter triggered by her untapped abilities as a whispered. This usually results in self isolation, enduring an intense fear of judgment, abnormality and loss of self.

Despite these episodes of inner conflict and turmoil, Kaname doesn't allow her instability to hold her back at school. Top of her class, she maintains a perfect grade point average and actively participates in multiple clubs, earning the undeniable respect and admiration of her fellow classmates who likewise voted her as their class representative and vice president. In addition to excelling at a number of different sports and extra curricular activities, Kaname also works several part time jobs after school to help pay for her apartment and sustain an independent lifestyle.