#this got long and i'll probably add to it/format it later but here u go! i had so much fun writing this

[cauterisen]

VERSE:ONE PIECE.

BACKSTORY: Kimiko grew up relatively privileged in a comfortable home in one of the larger cities in Wano Country to a widower named Toshiro Tohomiko. Her father, Toshiro Tohomiko, owns a successful import business to this day. While not able to use her fire and haki properly as a child, she did have immense potential from a young age. At the age of 13, she was able to convince her father to let her train as a martial artist and Haki user at a temple in the mountains of Kano Country. She meets the other Xiaolin Dragons, and they help each other learn and grow and progress into the warriors and people they were meant to be. She leaves the temple after 3 years of structured training to travel, and has currently been living a nomadic existence ever since,

HEADCANONS:

Kimiko is very much someone who avoids the sea for extended periods of time, but she is known to travel on ships if it's necessary. She will mostly stay on deck and away from the starboard and port sides of the ships. but she does come to enjoy that feeling of the wind in her hair and the salt on her skin. She still keeps to shorter sea trips, mostly preferring to travel by land and air when she can. Kimiko has many creative and intellectual pursuits on the road, but she is most passionate about science and research. She wants to catalog and come up with new uses and new ways to help people with chemistry and potions, though she also is interested in learning about entomology and cataloging and identifying the different insects that she comes across in her travels as well.

Though she is primarily a researcher, she also is an artist and enjoys drawing landscapes and portraits. She likes to draw things during her downtime and to practice her skills. She's also very interested in glass blowing and smithy, from time to time. She greatly admires and appreciates craftsmanship and often talks to tradespeople and artisans in the places she travels to get their opinions on her own work and learn about their creative processes.

Kimiko is used to fighting, for herself and protecting others, and she's also very interested in learning different fighting skills as well.

While no expert or practiced map maker or navigator, she also is very much someone who is interested in that field. She makes sure that she gets the most accurate and detailed maps she can, and she also likes to know about who made the maps and the history behind them.

Kimiko's history with the navy and authority, in general, is… not the greatest. In her travels, she's run into them a couple of times and not always in positive ways. She doesn't like how they conduct themselves and is anti-authority in general, but she doesn't usually antagonize them unless she feels they are impeding her research and work or using their authority to oppress the people in the towns she's traveling in. She likes to use her skills to help people and protect them when she can. She's not always pro-pirate, but she can appreciate the ones who help people and protect them from naval officers who take advantage of innocent townsfolk. She's against anyone who uses their powers or power to hurt people or restrict their freedom, pirate or navy.

Over the years, Kimiko does get the odd marriage proposal from the occasional lovestruck man, or woman, when she travels. She rejects them all, preferring to dedicate her life and love to the friends she makes and her intellectual and creative pursuits. Besides, Kimiko doesn't think her vagabond lifestyle would be that conducive to a life with marriage and a family anyway.