Ciel Kiraboshi

Ciel Kirahoshi (キラ星 シエル) is one of the six main Cures in KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode. She is known as the "Genius Pâtissière" who had been working in Paris, France before paying a visit to Ichigozaka for a special demonstration.

Her original form is a fairy named Kirarin (キラリン). Ciel's alter ego is Cure Parfait (キュアパルフェ Kyua Parufe), known as the Pretty Cure of Dreams and Hope and she has a parfait and Pegasus theme.

Her catchphrases are "Bonjour!" (「ボンジュール！」 Bonjūru!), which is French for "Hello" and "Très Bien!" (「トレビアン！」 Torebian!), which is French for "Very good". She usually ends her sentences with "~kira" (キラ) as Kirarin.

Appearance
As Kirarin, she is a small cream-colored rabbit-like fairy with short, pastel pink curled bangs and two fluffy ears jutting from the left side of her head, held together by a red berry with two small leaves, and a matching, puffy tail. Her eyes are blue with green pupils that have yellow sparkles in them. She wears a magenta scarf around her neck.

As Ciel, she has long blonde hair that reaches her back and fans out with a pink headband that resembles her ears and accessory from her fairy form. Her eyes turn teal. She wears a teal and white dress and a magenta bow. She also wears white stockings and magenta flats. In the autumn, she wears a teal and white long-sleeved dress and a darker colored skirt with lighter layers. Near the waist is a magenta ribbon to match her boots. During winter, she wears a white blouse with a pink ribbon in the front with a dark teal skirt and pale teal boots. She sometimes wears a light teal coat with fur lining the neck, sleeves, and the bottom and light teal gloves. In the movie, she wears a white long-sleeved shirt with a mahogany skirt held up by suspenders and light brown boots. At the party, she wears a teal dress with a light blue capelet, white gloves, and pink high heels.

As Cure Parfait her hair turns pale pink and is longer and worn in a high ponytail. She gains white Pegasus ears, a pair of small wings, and a furry tail. On her head is a blue headband with a large red and white parfait on the right, adorned with a cherry on top and various fruit slices. She wears a light blue dress with pale blue coloring on the sides of the chest, resembling a glass, while the top part is rounded and cream-colored with a cherry and a leaf on top. On her left shoulder is various fruit slices. Her skirt is white with a longer pale blue layer on top of the left side. The bow where her Sweets Pact is attached to resembles a pair of white wings. On the right are green, yellow, orange, and red ruffles, with the red layer the longest. She also wears white elbow-length gloves and white boots with a pastel pink platform sole resembling hooves. Her accessories include a yellow pearl choker and yellow and pearl dangling earrings.

As Super Cure Parfait, her hairstyle, eyes, headband with parfait, necklace, earrings, gloves, shoulder strap and tail remain the same while her Cure outfit is in super form. Her dress is lighter blue while the top layer of the skirt is the same length on both sides, albeit shorter in the front, while it is longer in the back. The long multi-colored ruffle on the right also now appears on both sides, albeit the same shorter length and lighter. The soles on her boots are lighter pink. In the back are large white wings with two smaller wings in front.

In her A La Mode Style, her hair grows in volume and is lighter, while her ears, tail, and wings grow. She now wears a pale teal fluffy hat and her parfait changes color, gaining a blue pearl chain accessory. Her dress has a sky blue and white bodice with yellow and white shoulder straps. The cherry ornament now has wings and her choker is white and wiry. She now wears white arm warmers. The top layer of her skirt resembles the one in her normal form but is larger over pale teal layers of cream, each adorned with large teal spheres. On the right are thick yellow and magenta layers along with a longer red layer decorated with grapes and an orange slice. Her boots remain the same.

Personality
Sweet, lively and generous, Ciel/Kirarin is said to be a genius patissière who wishes to make others happy through the sweets she makes. She is extremely diligent and always sought for improvement in order to become perfect as shown during her time as an apprentice in her fairy form, and her efforts paid off as she acquired the ability to transform into a human, which she goes under the name of Ciel.

However, success soon blinded her, and she began to neglect to her brother Pikario, which led to their estrangement. She was truly overwhelmed by her guilt and self-hatred of not understanding him like Ichika does, which turned out to be her fatal weakness and begot to her loss of her dream after Noir thieved her Kirakirarus, but fortunately she then overcame her sadness after tasting one of her brother's failed waffles and learned to understand her brother Pikario with a deeper comprehension.

Also, her desire of achieving perfection by relying herself so as to avert embarrassment can be an obstacle for her. For example, she refused to admit how she always revert into fairy form when extremely hungry, which ignited a chaos at school. But as the series progresses, she begins to accept help from her friends and cooperate with them.

Overall, Ciel is a caring and goodhearted girl who not only cares for her brother and friends, but also her enemies. For example, she treats Bibury with kindness during her encounters with the latter and even rescuing the latter courageously.

Relationships

 * Rio Kuroki / Pikario - Pikario is Kirarin/Ciel's younger twin brother. Before the events of the season, Kirarin and Pikario were training in Paris to become professional patissiers. Pikario was then turned evil, but with the help of the other Cures, he was purified, to Ciel's relief. Despite giving his sister the cold shoulder at first, Rio later sacrifices himself so that she can become Cure Parfait. When Pikario was comatose, Ciel was concerned of his health and was glad after he recovered. The two are intimate even though Pikario usually gets embarrassed by Kirarin's affection.


 * Ichika Usami - In spite of her title being the "Genius Pâtissière", Ciel actually admires Ichika being a Cure and is eager for Ichika to become her teacher. In though, she felt envious towards Ichika having a better understanding to her brother than herself.


 * Jean-Pierre Zylberstein - Her master whom she admires for his tremendous passion on making desserts, and she even has some fantasies towards him, as shown in the the movie. In spite of his approval towards Ciel, the two grew distant after Ciel departed from him until she revisited him during the movie's events, and she is upset to his criticism towards her change. After recalling the memories he had with Ciel upon tasting the mille-feuille she and the other Cures made for him and regaining his sanity, their relationship is repaired.


 * Pekorin - Ciel and Pekorin are good friends. Although Pekorin and the other fairies couldn't recognize Ciel because of her human form at first, the former was shown to be glad on meeting her again since their separation after Ciel reverted into her fairy form.KKPCALM21Pekorin also helped Ciel (Kirarin) to heal Pikario in episode 24 and the duo cooperated with each other well as seen in episode 48.


 * Bibury - Although both are initially enemies, Ciel seems to be quite kind to Bibury. She is able to discern Bibury's crippling loneliness, and has always wanted to help Bibury by befriending her through offering tasty sweets. After Bibury defects, Ciel accepts Bibury as a friend and allows Bibury to work at her restaurant.


 * Solaine - Solaine was Ciel's mentor when she was working at the shop "MON TRESOR". Back then, they promised to aim for the top together until Ciel decided to leave. Solaine is disappointed with her departure, therefore criticizing her a lot during her visit to Ichigozaka. But after tasting Ciel's pudding, she understands Ciel's wish and allows her to stay and be with her friends.

Etymology
Kirahoshi (ギラ星?) - Kira (ギラ?) is part of the word "kirakira" which means "glittering" or "shining" in Japanese. Hoshi (星?) means "star". So her name can be literally translated as "glittering star" or "shining star". However, using the kanji 綺羅, kira may also mean "fine clothes".

Ciel (シエル?) is the French word for "sky".

Her fairy name Kirarin (キラリン?) means "shining".

Parfait means "perfect" in French. It's also a frozen dessert originated from France.