LILO PELEKAI

'Lilo Pelekai' (first name pronounced LEE-lo, last name pronounced Pay-lay-kai; IPA:[lˈiːləʊ]) is the co-star of the Disney animated film ''Lilo & Stitch'' and its subsequent sequels and animated series. She is a young Hawaiian girl who lives on the island of Kauai with her older sister Nani and her extended family of alien visitors marooned on Earth.
Her spirited and highly eccentric personality — especially in light of her parents' death — has somewhat alienated her from her fellow children, yet Lilo makes the perfect best friend for Stitch, an alien experiment whom she adopts as her dog. Lilo attends Hula school and her hobbies include the photography of obese people, talking about creatures from horror/sci-fi movies, and capturing and rehabilitating Jumba's evil genetic experiments. She idolizes Elvis Presley.

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Lilo's Family

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Lilo is a young Hawaiian girl with long, straight black hair and brown eyes. She's most often seen wearing a muumuu and sandals, but also wears other warm-weather clothing as well as traditional hula costumes. In ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'', her reflection in a mirror is compared to a picture of her young mother, suggesting that they look similar. In the episode "Skip" where an experiment is used to skip time 10 then another 10 years, it's mentioned that older Lilo looks a lot like her sister Nani.
Lilo ages throughout the series, which takes place over a time span of three years. In the first film she's five. In ''Stitch has a Glitch'' and ''Stitch! The Movie'', she's 7. A Disney Adventures comic and "Amnesio" are both set during birthday parties. By ''Leroy & Stitch'', she is nine. Her last name, Pelekai, is a little contradictory, seeing as 'Pele' is the Hawaiian volcano goddess, and 'kai' is the Hawaiian (and Japanese) word for ocean. To this effect, the family name means "''Volcano of the Sea.''"

Lilo's Family

Lilo's parents died in a car accident some time before ''Lilo & Stitch'', and they have not appeared in the series apart from three photographs: one of Lilo, Nani, and their parents having a picnic on the beach, a photograph of Lilo's mother winning the Hula school's May Day celebration, and a photo of Nani with her parents when she graduated to intermediate Hula.
Lilo's mother is depicted as kind and loving (and perhaps eccentric like her younger daughter), as well as an excellent hula dancer. She would placate her children by holding a family night, singing lullabies, and making up funny constellations. Lilo's father played the ukulele and was the one who coined the phrase "''Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.''"
Lilo loves and misses her parents very much. Lilo keeps a picture of them under her pillow and initially would not allow Stitch to touch it (rejecting him when his fight with Jumba caused her house and the picture to become damaged). In the episode "Remmy", which takes place on the anniversary of the accident, Lilo is depressed and takes a nap to help deal with her sadness. The picture is used to turn Lilo's nightmares into a dream of the day the photograph was taken, which manages to make her happy again.
Lilo writes a thank-you note to an "Uncle Joe" in "Glitch/Woops". Otherwise, Lilo and Nani are the only known living members of the Pelekai family.
The development of Lilo's ohana (extended family) begins with the adoption of Stitch in ''Lilo & Stitch''. Though Lilo technically owns Stitch by Hawaiian state law, the relationship between the two is more like siblings and best friends. By the end of the series, Lilo's ohana includes "Uncle" Jumba and "Aunt" Pleakley, David, Cobra Bubbles, the Grand Councilwoman, all 626 (627 is dehydrated, although it could be argued that he still counts) of Stitch's "Cousins", Victoria, Gantu, and finally, Mertle.