Knives Chau

Knives Chau is a second-year college student attending McGill University. An impassioned dork, she still has yet to decide where she wants to go in life but is glad to be on campus. Knives gained a lot of weight over the course of her first year, particularly in her lower half, and she's greatly embarrassed by it. Knives has matured a lot while in college but still has a stubborn, impulsive side and is very affectionate.

Knives Chau is a young woman continuing to search for her place in the world while she attends McGill University in the city of Montreal. She's very sincere and happy-go-lucky but bears the fickleness and naivete expected of any nineteen-year-old far from home. A natural fangirl, she struggles to see the faults in the people she respects and looks up to. Going to college to meet new people and embrace a new social scene was a change that Knives was eager for, but she often feels just as lonely now as she did back then.

Knives is a second-generation immigrant who was raised in Toronto, and until her senior year in high school, she lived a very academically focused and sheltered life. Soon after her seventeenth birthday, she started casually dating twenty-three-year-old Scott Pilgrim and was introduced to his no-name band, Sex Bob-Omb; her whole world turned upside down upon hearing their music after Scott took her to band practice. Two weeks after the beginning of their relationship, he dumped her for another girl, Ramona Flowers. Knives spent the better part of a year obsessing over him despite their very brief and shallow relationship. Knives refused to return to her old self, oblivious to things like confusion and heartbreak. Knives has confidently moved on and recognized that Scott was a bad boyfriend to her, but she still remembers him fondly.

Knives is short, standing at five feet and two inches tall. She weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, sporting a stout, bottom-heavy figure. She gained an absurd amount of weight over the course of her freshman year, catapulting herself from the category of petite all the way up to fat. Knives has short black hair styled into a messy bob.

Knives stays in touch with many of the people she used to hang out with back home, most notably Tamara, her best friend. Tamara put up with Knives when she was at her most unreasonable, offering her much-needed emotional support and counsel during the most vulnerable points of her life.

Knives is beloved by both of her parents, and she calls them frequently despite finding them overbearing. When her auntie accidentally revealed that Knives was dating a white guy over dinner, her father attempted to kill Scott Pilgrim in the name of avenging his daughter's honor, despite them having been broken up for months. After witnessing Scott fend for himself in another fight, Knives's father came to respect him and gave up the hunt. When he came home and told Knives about it in passing, referring to him as a "decent young man," Knives couldn't understand him because he was speaking Chinese. Knives's father's excellence in combat is a trait he passed down to her, and she's capable of holding her own with an array of one-handed bladed weapons. Her weight gain has sabotaged her formerly superhuman ability to leap great heights.