Niko

Niko is the playable protagonist of OneShot. They have blue hair, yellow catlike eyes, a blue scarf wrapped around a brown overcoat extending over their arms, and a brown hat with catlike ears. They are tasked with returning the Sun to the Tower and saving the World from dying out.

Niko contacts the Player throughout most of the game when in need of help or simply conversation about Niko's and the Player's origins.

Trivia

 * It is seen through dream sequences that Niko's favorite food is pancakes cooked by their mother back at their home.
 * Niko has been stated by Matthew to have an ambiguous gender, and Nightmargin an unknown gender.
 * Nightmargin stated during a livestream that her headcanon for Niko is that they are actually really tiny and the seemingly huge lightbulb they carry is the size of a regular lightbulb.
 * Night also made plenty of joking statements about Niko's canon along with the chat during said livestream, such as them actually having 100 ears, the game taking place in a coma, and Niko having a love for throwing Molotov cocktails.
 * Despite having many similarities and features, Niko denies being a cat.
 * These similarities include pointy ears on their hat, whiskers extending from their hair and large yellow eyes. Niko's name is heavily similar to the Japanese phrase for cat, ネコ (neko).
 * However, Night stated that Niko comes from Nico, a gender-neutral name.
 * During another livestream, Night referred to what seems like their skin as fur.
 * One of the tracks in the OST is titled "On Little Cat Feet."
 * During the pancakes and chess cutscenes (and probably some others), there was a sprite error with Niko having human ears. Vetoed since this update.
 * In this post Night made, Niko's age is more or less 8 years old.