Nani Pelekai

Nani is a kind, mature, and caring individual. Unfortunately, as a result of her busy job and the stress of taking care of and providing for her ohana (at first Lilo and then including Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley), she tends to be fairly temperamental and sarcastic with everyone. Jumba at one point refers to her wrath scarier than his former partner Dr. Hämsterviel's. While this is usually reasonable, considering how Lilo and Stitch tend to disobey the rules and get into trouble with society, at times her temper gets the better of her and she jumps to conclusions, which causes her not to listen to the whole story. An example is a time Lilo and Stitch were talking with Mertle's mother in front of the movie theater, which made Nani think they were going to the movies when she said not to (when in reality they were actually experiment hunting) and didn't even let them explain. When she is really stressed and angry, she tends to uncharacteristically snap at Lilo, only to regret it when Lilo's not in sight. She is the breadwinner of her family and loves Lilo more than anything, but at times is ashamed she didn't make more of her life. From the number of surfing trophies she has in her room, it is possible that she could've had a successful career in surfing or even had gone to college had it not been for the death of her parents. As a result of their death, she decided to devote her time to taking care of Lilo which resulted in her having to put Lilo's future over her own, which includes giving up her chances of a huge surfing career for Lilo's sake, proving how devoted she is to Lilo, the one person she loves and cares for more than everything else in the world. Since Lilo is what Nani values most, her worst fear, in fact (expressed by Spooky), is Lilo being taken away from her or losing Lilo in any way possible as shown with. Overall, she has the most common sense and is the most normal of her "unconventional" ʻohana.

Appearance: Nani is a traditionally beautiful young woman of average height, whose physique is that of being slender yet muscular and realistically curvaceous with child-bearing hips, thick thighs and toned legs. She has olive skin, bushy and mid-back-length black hair, brown eyes and similar to her sister Lilo, she has a rather big and round nose. She is shown to change outfits throughout the movie to showcase that her wardrobe consists of rather revealing outfits, though she does have two trademark ones: The first one is a coral-orange, short-sleeved crop-top with a dusty-pink heart design on the center, denim cutoff-shorts, white socks, and brown hiking boots. The second one is a dusty-blue, spaghetti-strapped crop-top tank top with three-quarter-length, slim-fit khaki pants, and blue sandals.Along with these two sets of outfits, another one of Nani's signature look is her blue-and-green-striped bikini. From time to time, she wears different outfits throughout the franchise and sometimes wears different colored sandals on her big feet on occasion.