Kimmy Howell

Kimmy Howell
kana	キミー・ハウエル
romaji	Kimii Haueru
Occupation	Assassin
Weapon	Dual-bladed beam katana
Battle Theme	Dose Of Innocence
First appearance	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (2010)
Voiced by	Jennifer Hale

Kimmy Howell(キミー・ハウエル, Kimii Haueru) is a character in the video game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.She makes an special appearance as an aditional boss in the PS3 remake, No more heroes: Heroes paradise.

Appearance and Personality

Kimmy has blonde hair, and she wears a school uniform. She is obsessed with Travis, and claims to be his #1 fan. She always refers to him as "Travis The Great." Her obsession with Travis is similar to a stalker's, as she eventually wants to kill him. Despite her seemingly innocent and timid appearance she is actually a proficient killer, having won a competition for young assassins.

Story

Once Travis reenters his apartment after the cutscene where Sylvia talks about Matt Helms, she becomes available to fight at the now damaged Santa Destroy University. When Travis heads there, he finds Kimmy standing beside a tree. Kimmy is very nervous around Travis, telling him not to stare at her when he merely glances at her. She tells Travis how she saw his fight with Charlie Macdonald before she forces him to read a letter that she wrote expressing her "feelings" for him. Travis complies, stating it's nice to have a dose of innocence for once. While doing this, she proceeds to play a flute while moving about Travis and at one point sitting back-to-back with him, though her facade of complete innocence ends when the nature of the letter is reveals that Kimmy plans to prove that she is Travis's Number #1 fan by defeating him in a battle "so that no other bitch could get the chance to." Using her double-bladed beam katana, she shows just how tough and skilled she is but Travis inevitably turns out the winner. Travis knocks her down and her katana flies out of her reach. He warns her that the fight had "real consequences" right before he tries to kill her, Kimmy feistily jumped on top of him and put him into a leglock, only for Travis to stand up and suplex her. Her last words before passing into unconsciousness are "Travis the Great." Travis then says he can't kill a coed and Tells her to fight him again after she graduates.

After Travis' fight with Ryuji, Sylvia tells Travis that anyone that he doesn't kill will be finished off by the UAA making Kimmy's fate unknown. But if this were true, something would have happened to Shinobu in the first No More Heroes game, even though Sylvia said that she would spare her life because she was young; but if it were true, that if you can't kill an assassin the UAA will kill them for you, Shinobu would have died in the first game and Travis would have been killed by Jeane. After the battle Kimmy never appears again, so her fate is still unknown.

Powers and Abilities

Kimmy plays a flute which also doubles as a dual-bladed beam katana. She can also blow explosive bubbles using it. She is skilled fighter, having a much more elegant fighting style than Travis's. According to herself, she also can very quickly learn techniques that would take other years.

Also, all of Kimmy's attacks covers a 360 degree radius.

When Kimmy wins in a clashing battle, she kicks Travis' groin in a comical way in which stars would appear upon hitting him. Then Kimmy will giggle in a girlish way before continuing the battle.

Kimmy's Love Letter

To my dearest, Travis the Great.

Hi there Travis the Great.

I am the girl who loves you the most the most in the entire world.

But in order to prove that I'm you #1.

I need somekind of evidence.

Because no matter how much I insist that I'm you're #1 any other chick or bitch can approach you and say exactly the same thing.

That is why I've decided.

That I should become strong.

By doing so I knew that someday, I'd be able to get closer to you.

Putting my title as Travis the Great's #1 fan is on the line.

I embarked on this path...

And ended up winning the National Student Assassin championship.

I really did my best! But you know, in hindsight it was a cinch.

I guess I'm just blessed...

I could master in one day that would take others years to do.

Pretty awsome right.

And then, I got greedy, a new urge, a vision

That just maybe I could win a fight against Travis the Great.

Now my goal is to behead Travis the Great Therefore surpassing my hero.

Oops, did I actually write that...

It's kinda embarraasing, you know.

Well anyways, I've made up my mind.

I made an oath.

I won't be killed by anyone!

I shall defeat Travis the Great in battle!

Only then will Travis the Great be mine and mine only.

Love,

Travis the Great's #1 fan,

Kimmy Howell

Trivia

Kimmy with Glasses

• As seen in the picture to the left, Kimmy had glasses in her original design. However, in the actual game, Kimmy is not once seen wearing these glasses.
  • During one of the Japanese No More Heroes 2 launch events, a live stream on Nicovideo, Suda51 was asked why in the final version of the game Kimmy does not wear glasses. One of the reasons, Suda51 stated, was that he felt that a glassless character would appeal more to American audiences than one with glasses.
• The player can actually skip her fight entirely by not returning to the motel following the battle with Charlie MacDonald. This also skips all of Sylvia's subsequent offers for revenge missions.
• It is not stated if Kimmy is actually an American or British. She seems to have an English accent which hints at a possibility she could be a British student attending an American college.
• Travis' use of the Spinning Backdrop Finisher would allow him to increase his knockout strength by using momentum.
• Kimmy's character archetype is clearly that of a "yandere" --- she is at first loving and timid towards Travis, but later shows a deranged murderous side obsessed with the thought of killing him.
• Kimmy seems to be based on and related to an internet troll, she uses phrases such as "For the lulz" and "OMG", is called 'annoying' by Travis, makes jokes out of serious matters (in this case, acting as though killing Travis will be fun), and is not popular. However, her attitude is not to purposely annoy or anger Travis, she is merely obsessed with him to the point of insanity.
• Interestingly, during the cutscene before Travis fights Kimmy, Kimmy's Double Flute Katana's blades take exactly the same color as the blade of the Beam Katana Travis is currently using. However, during the battle and beyond, Kimmy's Beam Katana blades are pink.