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Kia Hart is an all-around character introduced in 2020. She is a student at Rainbow High that focuses in Styling.
Character Description
Kia is beyond your average matchmaker- she puts together everything and everyone. From fashion to friends and creative collaborators. Kia's favorite past time is making connections. Legend has it she even introduced the A's to each other their first year. She's a Styling focus, because she has heart eyes for creating the perfect pairings and runway-ready looks. Kia knows everyone at Rainbow High. So, if you need the latest gossip, she's your girl.
Looks
Physical Appearance[]
Kia Hart is a teenage girl with a medium build and tan skin. She has hip-length, curly-wavy hair colored a soft pink and pastel blue with some highlights of green that is separated into two braids at the center top front with the rest of her hair flowing down in a pastel rainbow pattern. She has some baby hairs on her art, though they are not seen on her doll. Her eyes are brown with a slight pink undertone and a beauty mark above her lip on the right. Her makeup consists of soft pink and metallic hot pink eye shadow and pink lipstick, though on her doll, the lipstick appears to be a lot lighter.
Outfits[]
Kia's signature outfit consists of a raw white hem hoodie with red heart tags at the ends of white drawstrings, a black and white (with six-color-classic-rainbow-printed accents on the sleeves) checkered crop undershirt, iridescent pastel rainbow shimmered straight leg jeans with a gold heart keyring loop on the left pocket, red hearts and XOXO printed on it, black grosgrain vinyl belt with a gold heart buckle, and her shoes are rainbow pumps with black-gold soles. She also wears gold bamboo heart-shaped earrings with Rainbow in script, ruby gem studs, and XOXO and LOVE hairpins.
Kia's secondary outfit consists of a sparkle denim trucker jacket with various patches of varying designs on top of a white, chic rainbow-printed striped pattern cropped hoodie with soft pink drawstrings and printed with "Heart Breaker", and a pastel rainbow flannel shirt tied over soft pink shorts with tiny gem accents and white undershorts. She wears white socks with a heart print on each of the cuffs and strapped soft pink heels with red heart-shaped heels.
As a Junior High student, she wears a soft pink sweatshirt that says "Mi Amor". She also wears a pastel rainbow holographic silver foil printed on a denim skirt with classic rainbow stitchings. For her footwear, she wears soft pink heels with hearts. She also accessorizes with gold hair clips.
Personality
Kia is shown to be a rather flirtatious and romantic person, being best seen in her love of romance and matchmaking. She likes to make herself useful and help her classmates pair up, even when they are clearly not interested. She is also shown to be very hardworking, spending her days working and running The Rainbow Union for her school.
Etymology
Kia is a name of African origin meaning "hill" or "mountain".
Hart is a name of British origin meaning a strong animal, used in this case to reference hearts.
Relationships
Family[]
Kandy Hart[]
Kandy is Kia's younger sibling.
Friends[]
Krystal Bailey[]
Kia is best friends with Krystal, as mentioned on the official Rainbow High YouTube channel of the two in an image. It is possible that the two are also roommates along with Jett Dawson but, this information is unknown.
The A's[]
Kia introduced Avery, Aidan, and Ainsley to each other, all of whom are also in her grade. It can be assumed that she is on good terms with the three of them.
Pamela Morton[]
Ms. Morton asks Kia to style one of her fashion shows, so the two also have a good relationship.
River Kendall[]
Kia is also friends with River and said he's compatible with Amaya, which is how the two started dating and River gave her a shout-out for that in "Will River Spill the Tea On His Date With Amaya?".
Timeline
- October 2020:: A listing for her on a Swedish website was found, sparking rumors of her existence.
- December 3, 2020: A possible headmold for her leaked on AliExpress.
- December 10, 2020: Kia was revealed on the official Rainbow High website then she was immediately removed.
- December 17, 2020: A low quality picture of her stock photo was leaked.
- December 30, 2020: She was being spotted by many people at Targets.
- January 1st, 2021: Official stock photos were leaked.
- January 10th, 2021: She was officially released.
- January 19th, 2021: She’s re-added to the website.
- April 30th, 2021: A portion of Kia's animated series model appears in The Vi Life, possibly that she will soon to be seen appearing in the episodes.
- May 21st, 2021: Kia make her official animated debut in Fashion Fates Fiasco.
- July 16th, 2021: Kia has her first voice lines in Welcome Back, Bella!.
- June 28th, 2023: She makes her release in Rainbow Junior High Special Edition.
Trivia
- On her box, where the other dolls have a "1" or a "2" on their nametag, Kia's box bears a heart.
- She got re-released for 2022 with very few changes.
- On her Junior High box, it has an Aquarius symbol, which is probably her zodiac sign.
- It’s possible she’s been worked on ever since the first wave released, due to her standing with the Series 1 characters and due to her listing being leaked a lot earlier than the Series 2 characters.
- Kia is a Target exclusive.
- Similar to Stella Monroe, she has a mole right above her lip.
- She's the first doll to have a special box design: her shoebox is heart-shaped instead of the regular square shape, and her box adorns bright yellow ribbon that reads "RAINBOW HIGH" at the handle and wrapped around her clothing box.
- Unlike the other dolls, the back of her box just shows a large image of her art and text reading her biography. Series 1 and 2, on the other hand, show a group picture of the respective series.
- When her head was leaked on AliExpress, some people speculated it was Pamela Morton.
- On the website, she’s listed under Series 2 but the trim around her box displays the Series 1 characters for unknown reasons.
- Kia was told to have helped River and Amaya get together because they are both compatible with each other.
- Kia is one of the few characters with a multicolored palette, in her case being soft pink and pastel rainbow tones.
- Some of the real-world inspirations for Kia's outfits include:
- Kia's second outfit hoodie is a reference to Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker.
- Kia’s second outfit jacket includes a “Sparkle” logo that is a reference to the brand Supreme.
- In the Rainbow High: Runway Rush video game, Kia's name is mispronounced as "kee-ya" and her last name is misspelt as "Heart".
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