not comfort characters and not kins on the big list but somewhere in the middle. sometimes these start out as full kins and move here eventually because i still relate to them but don't consider them full kin.

• alit | yugioh zexal
• hiro hamada | big hero 6
• izuku midoriya | my hero academia
• pit/dark pit | kid icarus uprising
• reki kyan | sk8 the infinity
• miya chinen | sk8 the infinity
• varian | tangled the series
• noctis lucis caellum | final fantasy xv
• yato | noragami
• crow t. robot | mystery science theater 3000
• amity blight | the owl house
• tosei "fret" furesawa | neo: the world ends with you
• eddie munson | stranger things
• gorou | genshin impact