Kiba Rika was born in Florida and spent her childhood between Florida and North Carolina. She has been somewhat settled in the RTP/RDU area of North Carolina for fifteen years now, excluding a brief stint working further west in the foothills of North Carolina.
Kiba's work is school. She was a professional student for eighteen years, and was paid quite handsomely for the four of those that were spent on her undergraduate degree. For the past five years, she worked as a teacher for both public and private organizations. Now she is returning to graduate school to become a school media coordinator or youth services librarian. She would like to be a Broadway star, author, and crochet designer when she grows up.
Kiba enjoys any mild climate, including mountains and coast. She particularly loves living in the middle of North Carolina, as she is no more than a three hour drive from either. She adores the smell of the ocean. Because of her Florida roots, sea salt smells like home. Kiba feels a great affection for the state of North Carolina, a state varied in its people and industries. She feels this partly because the affection her husband, Will, has for the state has rubbed off on her and partly because she had an amazing experience touring the state between her freshman and sophomore years of college.
Kiba embodies all of the seven sins at one point or another, but she also embodies each of the seven virtues. She is a bundle of contradictions. She is prone to bouts of extreme depression but she can also have moments of incredible optimism. She is loyal to a fault and the few connections she makes with other people are strong.
Kiba is twenty eight years of age. Her mother says that she was born forty, regressed a bit while she was in college, and now has averaged out and acts just about her age. She has interests that some deem juvenile, but she is far more responsible and domestic than her age and youthful appearance and demeanor lead some to believe.
P E R S O N A L I T Y W I S E
Kiba was born in the year of the Rooster, according to the Chinese zodiac. She does exhibit some qualities ascribed to those born in this year. She is a deep thinker, capable, and talented (though, obviously, not at all modest). She is a bit eccentric and socially awkward. She always thinks she is right - and what is surprising is that she often is! She sometimes feels like a loner but has a desperate need for people. She is timid despite seeming outspoken. She can be selfish but frequently entertains.
Kiba is a textbook Cancer. She is a homebody, strongly tied to home and family. She is so maternal that her family called her "Little Mommy" when she was a child. She is quite in tune with her emotions, and does not work at hiding them. Nonetheless, like her namesake the Crab, she retreats into her shell when tired or threatened. She is moody and does like to get her way; she has been compared more than once to Lucy Van Pelt. She has been manipulative in the past and probably will be again, though she is working towards other means of getting what she wants. She sulks up a storm, but is, overall, motivated by love and a desire to protect her friends and family.
Depending on which source you use, Kiba's Celtic Tree Astrology places her as a Holly or Fir. She is ambitious, industrious, reliable, and protective. Holly is associated with rulers. The Unicorn is the Druidic animal that aligns with Holly.
T E S T I M O N I A L S
Here's what some people had to say when asked about Kiba:
slayground: Kiba is a loyal friend, a funny lady, a talented performer, and a well-educated teacher. She is very giving and very intelligent. She has great taste in fishnets, musicals, and television shows, among other things.
elfstar18: If you are thinking of fabulous things; pretty, sparkly things, brainy-in-a-hot-way things, things involving adorable amounts of enthusiasm, or maybe just pretty-mermaid-on-a-rock-in-the-moonlight type things; then you are thinking of kibarika. She is all those fabulous things and more.
slayersteph: Kiba is on my top ten list of the smartest people I know.
M I S C E L L A N Y
Kiba was in the past a very active participant at various Buffy the Vampire Slayer boards, including the Bronze and the Bronze: Beta. You can imagine how relieved she was to discover she is indeed herself:
Kiba believes that marriage is a contract between two people, enforcable by law but formally recognized by those individuals and, if applicable, their religion. She believes it should have nothing to do with sex or gender and that the government should have no part in marriage except as an enforcer of contracts.
Kiba is a member of Team Angel at the whedonland community.
C R E D I T S
Kiba's header and Friends Only graphic are of her own creation, using photographs provided by Save Ferris. The layout is the Robber's Daughter layout created by roniabirk. For individual icon credits, see Kiba's icon list. The format for this userinfo page was inspired by lenabee's userinfo page.