>>175358Man, I have a confession to make that I haven't done this whole time. It's not a big deal or anything, but I feel like I should say it.
I fucking worried for Kiara for that whole first month, man. I genuinely thought she was going to fuck herself over hard and become a perpetual pity machine fangirl. That her existence would be defined by two things: Her liking Pekora, and her being drowned in a sea of ideas that didn't mesh together, trying to make it all cohesive in a way that would never work.
I'm so fucking happy that she didn't get stuck in that trap. I remember hearing that she told redditfags to fuck off when they tried making her into the newest sub-drive campaign, not wanting pity to be the defining reason for her fanbase. She kept going. The Pekora arc had a decent payoff and she hasn't been defined by it in months. She just kept going. She experimented and made new projects, and some of those became big successes. She just kept going. Every issue that came up, her scuffed mic, not being sure which language to use when, her connection to Mori and how hard she should go on it and when, how to integrate her initial gimmicks with her actual streams, so many fucking issues. But she just kept fucking going.
And now that's the way I see her, more than anything. She's like the energy of a runaway trainwreck, that you'd be sure to see crash and burn in how violently glorious it is. But she controls it, directs it, to the point where she can't be called a breakdown anymore; she's a fucking masterclass of raw energy, untamed but fully in control of it all, who just keeps that raw fire raging and growing into something incredible.
At first, I had no idea why she was a Phoenix, on top of everything else. Now, I think Huke was a fucking genius, because that's the only way to describe her. A bird of eternally raging fire, whose only limits are the ones she puts on herself.