Kekoa Alo-Pacada

Personality
Kekoa carries a ukulele at school and plays it during free time, because why the hell not. She sometimes reads Japanese action-adventure graphic novels, plays arcade games, some interests she shares with her brother Matt. She hasn’t surfed much since the last time some years ago, which didn’t end well for her. Because of this, she's possibly somewhat anxious to go near deep waters. It's why she is a cautious cinnamon roll.

Her parents have often treated her like a fragile flower; her father is reasonably protective of his daughter, but her mom's partial (maybe growing) agoraphobia might be influencing Kekoa. She's not as assertive as she wants to be, but it doesn't mean she's shy, and she doesn't mind just watching from the background and going with the flow, as she doesn't believe the spotlight is for her.

Like her pen pal, she has a sarcastic sense of humor, though hers is a bit drier due to how stoic she can be. However, she is generally a chill person who sometimes appears bored or serious and tries to be polite when she can.

Background
Kekoa is a Filipino-Polynesian mix born in the Hawaiian island of Maui and raised in Oahu. Before she was born, her parents separated. Her mother was a professional dancer and choreographer until an incident damaged one of her legs. Her husband, Bernard Alo, returned to Hawaii after being recently discharged from the Navy SEALs, and he then learned what happened and helped Miliani get through physical therapy and take care of the kids. Kekoa was a small 10-year-old when she first met her father. She was guarded and indifferent towards him at first, but over the next few years, she gradually became comfortable around him, especially after he taught her how to swim and surf, and a palm strike to the nose.

Her brother, however, still held a grudge against him for leaving in the first place. Shortly after Miliani was injured, Luka had dropped out of school and became the family’s breadwinner for the last 2 years. Before Kekoa moved to San Francisco at 13 or 14, her brother moved out after getting into an argument with their dad and began traveling.

While visiting Hawaii again the next year for summer vacation, she met a weirdo named Colby Katzan. She wasn’t impressed with him at first, though she’s usually unimpressed with a lot of things. But he turned out to be all right and they became pen pals. Do people still do that? Well, they did and have been best pals ever since.

Fast forward to the present, Bernard moved the family to the state of Oregon at the beginning of summer after getting a job at Silver Oak Academy as the school's new football coach and additional P.E. teacher. Kekoa is currently a violinist in the school's orchestra.

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