#wolf(kipo)

Wolf from Kipo is really excellent because she's the traumatized, jaded character, the one with the survival skills the protagonist lacks, who has a tragic backstory and an arc about learning to trust again, but she's also a ten-year-old girl.

Can we talk about how the birthday gifts that Kipo and Wolf got each other were an amazing writing choice? Not only do the gifts match the aesthetics of the one who found them, but they also show how the two of them are beginning to value each other’s perspectives on life. When Kipo was looking for a gift for Wolf, she found something that was small enough that it wouldn’t be a burden for Wolf to keep and would still help her fight and survive, while also being cute, showing that Kipo has now truly appreciates Wolf’s pragmatism even though she doesn’t adopt those views herself and is still as determined as ever to making the world around her brighter and happier. Meanwhile, Wolf found Kipo a gift that really has no survival purposes, and though it was mostly destroyed, still chose to salvage a piece of it simply because Kipo liked it, reflecting how Wolf has begun to value Kipo’s ability to see the best in everything, but not yet having embraced it to the extent where she sees it as not worth spending too much energy to do so.