Chris

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Chris (クリス) / Christie (クリスティー, Kurisutī) is a five-year-old orphan who formerly resided at Grace Field House Plant 3 as one of the many foster children of Isabella. Due to his age, Chris is considered to be one of the house's "low-quality goods". He was brought into the escape plan by Emma two months after the truth of the orphanage was revealed.

After successfully escaping Grace Field alongside fourteen other orphans, Chris now seeks to find William Minerva, whom he and his team believe can grant them the liberty to live a safe and peaceful life away from the demons. Chris spends most of the second half of the story in a coma due to being shot in the head by Andrew and his team when they raided the shelter.

Appearance
Chris is a young boy with light skin and a pair of round indigo eyes. He has short, slightly spiked dark blue hair which is lighter at the roots. He wears the standard Grace Field uniform- a plain white long sleeved button-up shirt and white pants along with brown boots. His identification number, "70394", can be seen on the left side of his neck.

In 2047, Chris stopped wearing the standard Grace Field uniform, instead adopting long black pants and an oversized long sleeved white shirt with the same brown boots he wore at Grace Field House. Now at the age of seven, Chris has slightly longer hair, but still styles it the same as he used to.

History
Chris was born at Grace Field on May 15, 2040 and sent to Plantation 3 a year later in 2041, growing up along with several other children under the parental care of Isabella. Chris is brought into the escape plan alongside the other five year olds after Don and Gilda revealed the truth of the orphanage to them. They were scared, but determined to help out in any way they can. They managed to help prepare for the escape by gathering food, warm clothes and supplies and storing them in the old well until the night of the escape. Chris successfully escaped the house along with the rest of his siblings who were over the age of five.

Personality
Chris is described as a very curious young boy. He enjoys asking questions and wants to know everything. Like the rest of his siblings, he enjoys playing games such as tag and hide-and-seek. Additionally, Chris enjoys learning how things work, playing pretend, playing soccer, and exploring new places. He is very cheerful, affectionate, imaginative, hopeful, outspoken, and has a deep attachment to his siblings, and gets along well with Emma and Ray. He is also very considerate as he thinks of others before himself.

Introduction Arc
Taking daily tests, playing a game of tag, eating scrumptious homemade food and having a good time – Chris went through the same routine every day at Grace Field House.

During a game of tag, he was caught by Krone. He was also seen participating in the training sessions under the disguise of playing.

Jailbreak Arc
As one of the youngest children, Chris was one of the last people recruited into the escape plan after hearing about the truth of the orphanage, the House, and Isabella. During the escape, Chris was the first one to greet Emma after she caught with the rest of the children. Chris and his siblings escape from Grace Field House Plant 3 on January 15, 2046.

Promised Forest Arc
After escaping Grace Field with his siblings, Chris and the others started looking for location B06-32 with some help from Mujika and Sonju; in which later they found out it is a hidden shelter in the wasteland. Upon reaching Shelter B06-32 like the rest of the children, he took refuge in it for more than a year.

Cuvitidala Arc
Chris was seen being overjoyed after Emma woke up from her coma following her battle with Leuvis. He also drags Mister to Emma and urges to him to talk to her.

After the shelter was raided by Andrew and his team, Chris was fatally injured when Andrew shot him in the head when he was escaping through a tunnel alongside the other escapees.

King of Paradise Arc
Due to the infection on his wounds, Chris almost died. Fortunately, Anna and Emma found medicine for him to recover. He was later taken care of by Vincent in The Paradise Hideout. For the subsequent months, he is stuck in a coma.

Human World Arc
After Emma implemented her Promise, Chris, still stuck in his coma, was able to safely arrive in the Human World. However, at some point during the two years the family spent on searching for Emma, Chris woke up from his coma. Over the next two years spent in the Human World, Chris began attending school. During spring 2049, he finally reunites with Emma again and cries tears of joy, even though she lost her memories. In the special epilogue chapter, Dreams Come True, Chris lived out his dream of watching a soccer game.

Emma
Emma and Chris grew in Grace Field House together. Chris views Emma as an older-sister figure and admires her. He has an attachment for her and cares about her deeply. Emma also adores Chris and is affectionate with him. Both will go great lengths to make sure the other party is safe and well.

Dominic
Chris is especially close to Dominic. The two of them share and interest in soccer and enjoy playing outside together.

Grace Field Escapees
Chris gets along with the Grace Field Escapees, particularly the younger children such as Alicia, Jemima, Yvette, Rossi and Mark. They are often seen playing together, helping each other with chores and cheering for one another's accomplishments. He also gets along with Ray, as Chris cares for him and was upset with him for initially being fine with throwing away his life. Likewise, Ray is affectionate and very protective of Chris.

Trivia

 * The following are Chris' rankings in some of The Promised Neverland's official popularity polls.
 * In Shounen Jump's popularity poll results announced in Chapter 88, Chris is in 35th place.
 * In Shounen Jump 's 2nd popularity poll results announced in Chapter 102, Chris is in 24th place with a total of 62 votes.
 * Chris' favorite food is omelets.
 * From chapter 178 onwards, Shirai felt that the number of pages was too few to include everything he wanted. Chapter 179 was particularly affected by it. He once considered redrawing the chapter for the volume version. Originally, it was supposed to have a slightly eerie atmosphere where Chris would wake up and others would proceed to talk without worrying about Emma, then Chris would suddenly ask "Huh, where is Emma?" Some fans could correctly predict this pattern, resulting in Shirai's loss of motivation to draw it. The pages weren't sufficient either. Shirai developed five different patterns for chapter 179's storyboard but he was still running out of pages. Eventually, he prioritized Norman and Ray's despair over Chris waking up. Chris with glasses.png
 * In his 2047 concept art design, Chris is shown wearing glasses.
 * Had this design been finalized, Chris would have been the first boy in the series to wear glasses.
 * Chris is often seen riding on someone's shoulders, whether it be Don's, Adam's or Yugo's.
 * As of 2045, Chris sleeps in the same bedroom as Gilda, Lannion, Thoma, Jasper, Marnya, Phil, Tom, Chamberlain, Emma and Yvette.
 * In some colored pages in the manga, he appears to have black hair.