Character Name: Watanuki Kimihiro Canon: xxxHoLic Reference picture and Wiki link:Summary for the series, picture!Point in the time-line taken: Just after the end of the first series, before the timeskip that preceeds xxxHoLic Rou.
Character History: Watanuki was originally just a teenaged boy with a very simple problem: spirits think he’s delicious. So delicious, in fact, that they didn’t give him so much as a moment’s peace until he finally sought out the services of Ichihara Yuuko, a witch capable of granting wishes. In exchange, he became her slave personal servant. Although officially his duties were only to take care of the shop (cook, cleaning, etc.), he quickly found himself embroiled in all sorts of supernatural situations. Yuuko’s customers were never normal, for starters. They started with a group of crazy otherworld travelers (aka the Tsubasa folks) and kind of got crazier from there. Along the way, he made a number of strong friends in both worlds… and began to realize that maybe his life didn’t suck that bad after all. Because in the end, that was the real purpose behind both the wish and the terms of his service: to make him stop hating himself and give him a life outside of being that-guy-who-always-gets-snacked on.
Which is good, because that’s when things really started to get CLAMP-tastic. It turns out that Watanuki wasn’t supposed to exist at all, full stop. He was the time-distortion replacement-clone of the “real” Syaoran, who himself turned out to be the son of the the clone who’d been made from him. In less paradox-y terms: neither of them were supposed to exist, and yet both of them did. Watanuki spent a good portion of his series alternately trying to make himself disappear (subconsciously) and trying not to (once people started beating sense into him). When shit went down at the end of their respective canon, Watanuki chose to stay and take over the shop after Yuuko while Syaoran went off adventuring. Whether this was a good decision or not remains to be seen.
Canon Personality: Canon Watanuki had a lot of change going on. Since Holic was essentially all about his character development from a bitchy flaily teenager to the inheritor of Yuuko's shop, there was a lot to cover. He started off very angry and reactive to everything. If Yuuko drank too much? He yelled. If she asked for something ridiculous to eat? More yelling. He even fended off his (eventual) best friend with a kick the first time they met. But despite all the noise he made, reactive was really the key part of his early-canon personality; he had barely any initiative whatsoever. He was half-blind to anything that goes on outside of himself, especially when it came to people caring about him. Honestly, he didn’t know what to do about it. And even if he had, he was the sort of person to let things float on by without taking any action that would have helped him out.
Watanuki Kimihiro
Canon: xxxHoLic
Reference picture and Wiki link: Summary for the series, picture! Point in the time-line taken: Just after the end of the first series, before the timeskip that preceeds xxxHoLic Rou.
Character History: Watanuki was originally just a teenaged boy with a very simple problem: spirits think he’s delicious. So delicious, in fact, that they didn’t give him so much as a moment’s peace until he finally sought out the services of Ichihara Yuuko, a witch capable of granting wishes. In exchange, he became her
slavepersonal servant. Although officially his duties were only to take care of the shop (cook, cleaning, etc.), he quickly found himself embroiled in all sorts of supernatural situations. Yuuko’s customers were never normal, for starters. They started with a group of crazy otherworld travelers (aka the Tsubasa folks) and kind of got crazier from there. Along the way, he made a number of strong friends in both worlds… and began to realize that maybe his life didn’t suck that bad after all. Because in the end, that was the real purpose behind both the wish and the terms of his service: to make him stop hating himself and give him a life outside of being that-guy-who-always-gets-snacked on.Which is good, because that’s when things really started to get CLAMP-tastic. It turns out that Watanuki wasn’t supposed to exist at all, full stop. He was the time-distortion replacement-clone of the “real” Syaoran, who himself turned out to be the son of the the clone who’d been made from him. In less paradox-y terms: neither of them were supposed to exist, and yet both of them did. Watanuki spent a good portion of his series alternately trying to make himself disappear (subconsciously) and trying not to (once people started beating sense into him). When shit went down at the end of their respective canon, Watanuki chose to stay and take over the shop after Yuuko while Syaoran went off adventuring. Whether this was a good decision or not remains to be seen.
Canon Personality: Canon Watanuki had a lot of change going on. Since Holic was essentially all about his character development from a bitchy flaily teenager to the inheritor of Yuuko's shop, there was a lot to cover. He started off very angry and reactive to everything. If Yuuko drank too much? He yelled. If she asked for something ridiculous to eat? More yelling. He even fended off his (eventual) best friend with a kick the first time they met. But despite all the noise he made, reactive was really the key part of his early-canon personality; he had barely any initiative whatsoever. He was half-blind to anything that goes on outside of himself, especially when it came to people caring about him. Honestly, he didn’t know what to do about it. And even if he had, he was the sort of person to let things float on by without taking any action that would have helped him out.