Idk but if she was just a red panda, I think her first few months in Holo would at least have been a little easier
I do think her debut outfit/design was part of the debuff she got at the very beginning
Not the only thing, we all know her early voice would still have been a debuff. But, as the clip shows, Kiara auditioned as a character, with a character voice. At the core, you can tell that unlike the other Myth girls who just auditioned as themselves, Kiara used the tried and tested japanese way. With a character and well a character voice. Long time ago, before she lowered her voice, she said that she doesn't want to lower her voice even tho she knows some people don't like it because she believed that changing her voice would be breaking her contract with Cover. (???) She said that she auditioned with a certain voice, she got accepted on the merit of that character voice, so the managers are expecting her to speak like that and not differently. Were she to change her voice, she would stop putting out content the way Cover expects her to.
This all, was of course, nonsense. Its just her brainworms talking to her lmao
Like, Hololive was cooking great when they made the drafts for the first Myth members. Long before any of them were even drawn, let alone cast or rigged.
All the Myth girls are quite simple to explain when you break them down to their core with just one or two defining character traits:
- Calli:
- Ina:
- Cuthlu Girl with tentacles
- Gura:
- Ame:
- Kiara:
- Phoenix
- Warrior but kinda Tokusatsu
- Fast-food???
- Also she's sporty, so give her trainers
I will never get why all the others have a clear and simple core idea but, somehow Kiara can't just be a Phoenix, she also has to be fast-food themed on the side.
Anyways, while a red panda probably wouldn't have changed anything about her voice, shit living situation and crappy Internet in her debut months, it probably would have been easier to come up with a fitting Lore, Fanname and mascot that resonates with more people at a glance. At least compared to having to fit both a Phoenix and a Fast-food theme.
Thats also why, despite Kiara and Calli talking about swapping models pre-debut, I don't think anyone but her and her weird brain could have taken the Fast-food concept and run as well and as far as she did with it.
Anyways, look at those and see how this alt reality would look: