Moe Nikaido

Moe Nikaido (二階堂 萌, Nikaidō Moe) is a character in Kiss and a White Lily.

Character Description
Manager of the Track team. It's hard to tell from her expression, but she's more positive and passionate than pretty much anyone else. She adores Mizuki. She collects both important and unimportant things related to her object of interest. She hates green peppers. She has a cat and an older brother.

Appearance
Moe has wavy shoulder-length light-pink hair that she usually keeps in two low pigtails with bangs swept to the right side and light-pink eyes.

Personality
Moe is generally shown as calm and collected, sometimes saying things that sound weird or unusual with a straight face. However she is also shown to be very passionate. Aside from this, Moe has been shown to care for others and tries to help them when in need.

Background
In Chapter 3, it is revealed that Moe became a track team manager because she always admired runners, but was told by her doctor to stop exercising for an unknown reason. However, she still wanted to at least help out with the club. This is also where she first makes a promise to Mizuki Senoo.

Mizuki Senoo
Mizuki and Moe have been friends since their middle school days and are notably close. They are often seen together and even get called the 'Prince and Princess of the track team' by Ai Uehara in Chapter 3. Moe seems to know Mizuki very well, to a point where she knows when Mizuki is hungry without anything being said.

Moe has been Mizuki's reason to keep running since they made a promise in middle school, where Moe also agreed to stay by Mizuki's side and watch her more than anyone.

Additionally, Moe can't bear not knowing something about Mizuki, even if it's something as mundane as the reason why she keeps her hair short. She also becomes more curious upon thinking about Mizuki being embarrassed if she were to find out. It has also been revealed that Moe's bag is full of pictures of Mizuki, some of which seem to have been taken without the latter's knowledge. Moe shrugs this off as a 'collecting mania thing'.

Etymology

 * The name Moe means "bud, sprout" (萌).
 * Moe's surname Nikaido means "upstairs, two-storied" (二階) (nikai) and "hall" (堂) (do).
 * Nikaido is a name of a clan of Japanese samurai that ruled the Iwase District of Mutsu Province during the Sengoku period during the Kamakura era. The founder was Nikaido Yukimasa and they lived in the Sukagawa Castle.

Trivia

 * Moe is said to 'know a lot of weird things'.
 * Moe's favorite colour is light pink.