Kaname Chidori

Kaname Chidori is the main female protagonist from the Full Metal Panic! anime and light novels.

Chidori lives alone in her own apartment across from the complex which Sousuke Sagara lives in. She takes on multiple part-time jobs and sometimes invites friends to join her, which often ends with a catastrophe because of Sousuke. She began attending Jindai Municipal High School at the age of 15 and is currently in her second year. She leads a normal lifestyle and is the class representative and vice president. She is quite popular at school. However, after Sousuke is transferred to her class, her life is turned upside down and she becomes involved in various Mithril operations.

Appearance
Kaname has long dark blue hair that is tied in a red bow and brown eyes. She wears a female uniform which is a short sleeved blouse, a green skirt, red chest ribbon, black socks and pink white shoes.

Personality
Due to her upbringing as the child of a UN official, Chidori spend a deal of her formative years in Japan and The United States this has resulted in a very out going personality that is sometimes considered to American for Japan and to Japanese for America. This resulted in her suffering from bullying in both nations. The resulting personality is one that wishes to instill an image of confidence and organization, yet she is also short tempered and quick to lash out as that image is meant to hid her own sense of vulnerability, Loneliness and insecurity. However her fellow students at Jindai Municipal High Schoolappear to have accepted her and welcomed her, viewing her as a someone every one respects but no one wants to date. This is turned about however with the appearance of Sousuke Sagara a new transfer student to whom she feels drawn. She is however, a tsundere as her affections to him often involving “corrections” in the form of violent outbursts when he creates misunderstandings. His lack of normal social behavior results in a unique romantic situations she ends up in as she becomes entangled in a love triangle between Sousuke, Teletha Testarossa and Kaname, and is unsure of her situation or how to handle it. Finding that her own insecurities stand as a barrier to be overcome as much as his own unfamiliarity with affection.

Abilities
Kaname's Whispered abilities grant her an inherent knowledge (but not necessarily understanding) of advanced mathematics and science. It is no surprise then, that she consistently achieves top scores in these subjects at school. Her abilities as a whispered, however, are a bit buggy. She does not know her full abilities, and also sometimes enters a near-trance, where she understands Black Technology completely.

Trivia

 * The name Kaname means "pivot, cornerstone, keystone".
 * Kaname's surname Chidori means "a thousand birds" or "plover".