Personality: Nitori is an engineer, with a huge curiosity for how things work. Of course, this curiousity can definitely come off as a obsession. Whenever she finds some strange, manmade technology, she has to take it apart. No exceptions. She even carries a backpack filled with nothing but tools, and has plenty of little odds and ends in her pockets just in case she finds something she likes. She’ll always put everything back together, though whenever she is caught taking apart something without permission she'll always make excuses like "I was improving it!" or "I was making it better!" before ever apologizing. Nitori tends to justify her own interests as a good thing, for everyone involved, and she has no problems putting someone in harm's way if it's in the name of science. The kappa is very intelligent though, and she's a very fast learner.
Of course, while she is very good at technology and building things, Nitori can be very naive and quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to subjects she simply has no experience with. Like humans, especially humans. Humans are tricky, what with their Squishy Wishy Human activities. Of course, Nitori does not see it as this.
All Kappa, Nitori included, are convinced that they are on very good terms with humans. This makes Nitori a bit odd compared to the occupants of Gensokyo, as far as her view of humans is concerned. Nitori does not seem interested in tricking them or doing unruly things to them like many Youkai. In fact, on a couple of occasions Nitori goes out of her way to help them... more or less. Well, if you consider shooting hundreds of bullets at a passing human in order to scare them away as being helpful. Her heart is in the right place.
This may color Nitori as having a very cheery disposition towards humans. While this is the case, mostly, that doesn't mean she treats humans in the same way that, say, the main heroine Reimu treats most Youkai. She actually treats most humans like aliens or interesting animals you see during a safari, the kind that you study from a safe distance with a pair of binoculars. Nitori, as with most Kappa in general, find human behavior to be very odd, and are known to watch them from a distance and run away whenever they are spotted. Nitori finds human behavior especially confusing. She just can't wrap her mind around whenever a human is being flaky, impulsive or simply going with their gut feeling. Such concepts are foreign to her! For example. when Nitori is warning Marisa Kirisame from venturing any further up Youkai Mountain, Marisa remarks that telling her not to keep going makes her want to do it even more. "Doesn't a big "KEEP OUT" sign just make you want to see what's behind it?" She asks. Nitori does not appear to understand what Marisa is getting at. She immediately says, "no, it doesn't, so go home." Most of the time these sorts of Squishy Wishy Human Logic just bounce off of Nitori, and she finds herself utterly confused.
Despite this, Nitori is a nice Kappa. She means very well, but she can be selfish, and she tries to color coat said selfishness rather than being open about it. She can be gravely serious, almost to her own detriment. She is known for blowing things out of proportion and can't tell when someone is joking. At times she will convince herself that there is an actual, huge, important reason as to why something is happening, and by doing so she must find that reason. However, when the tables are turned, Nitori can be downright cryptic and secretive. She won't reveal her reasons for doing things unless someone can slip it out of her, or if it's absolutely necessary. This might have more to do with her shy nature rather than any mistrust, as she is not one for expressing her feelings. Nitori is just a shy little kappa, to both humans and youkai alike, and she has difficulty articulating herself. However, her behavior may cause others to become confused or view her as an oddball...
Which wouldn't be very far from the truth. Since, well, with the little quirks, confusion over human society and her always-serious attitude, she can be considered pretty odd.
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Of course, while she is very good at technology and building things, Nitori can be very naive and quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to subjects she simply has no experience with. Like humans, especially humans. Humans are tricky, what with their Squishy Wishy Human activities. Of course, Nitori does not see it as this.
All Kappa, Nitori included, are convinced that they are on very good terms with humans. This makes Nitori a bit odd compared to the occupants of Gensokyo, as far as her view of humans is concerned. Nitori does not seem interested in tricking them or doing unruly things to them like many Youkai. In fact, on a couple of occasions Nitori goes out of her way to help them... more or less. Well, if you consider shooting hundreds of bullets at a passing human in order to scare them away as being helpful. Her heart is in the right place.
This may color Nitori as having a very cheery disposition towards humans. While this is the case, mostly, that doesn't mean she treats humans in the same way that, say, the main heroine Reimu treats most Youkai. She actually treats most humans like aliens or interesting animals you see during a safari, the kind that you study from a safe distance with a pair of binoculars. Nitori, as with most Kappa in general, find human behavior to be very odd, and are known to watch them from a distance and run away whenever they are spotted. Nitori finds human behavior especially confusing. She just can't wrap her mind around whenever a human is being flaky, impulsive or simply going with their gut feeling. Such concepts are foreign to her! For example. when Nitori is warning Marisa Kirisame from venturing any further up Youkai Mountain, Marisa remarks that telling her not to keep going makes her want to do it even more. "Doesn't a big "KEEP OUT" sign just make you want to see what's behind it?" She asks. Nitori does not appear to understand what Marisa is getting at. She immediately says, "no, it doesn't, so go home." Most of the time these sorts of Squishy Wishy Human Logic just bounce off of Nitori, and she finds herself utterly confused.
Despite this, Nitori is a nice Kappa. She means very well, but she can be selfish, and she tries to color coat said selfishness rather than being open about it. She can be gravely serious, almost to her own detriment. She is known for blowing things out of proportion and can't tell when someone is joking. At times she will convince herself that there is an actual, huge, important reason as to why something is happening, and by doing so she must find that reason. However, when the tables are turned, Nitori can be downright cryptic and secretive. She won't reveal her reasons for doing things unless someone can slip it out of her, or if it's absolutely necessary. This might have more to do with her shy nature rather than any mistrust, as she is not one for expressing her feelings. Nitori is just a shy little kappa, to both humans and youkai alike, and she has difficulty articulating herself. However, her behavior may cause others to become confused or view her as an oddball...
Which wouldn't be very far from the truth. Since, well, with the little quirks, confusion over human society and her always-serious attitude, she can be considered pretty odd.