Hoshina Subaru

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**Hoshina Subaru** (保科 昴) is one of the main characters of *Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku*.

## Appearance

Subaru is a very beautiful girl with waist-length silver hair that is usually tied in a ponytail with long bangs falling in waves over the right side of her face and light blue/aquamarine eyes. In terms of height when compared with the other girls of her friend group, Subaru is the tallest standing almost as tall as Natsusawa.

## Personality

Subaru is shown to be exceptionally protective towards people she's close to, especially Kaoruko, her childhood and closest friend. She can be considered a bit of tsundere, as she displays some tsundere traits particularly towards Rintaro's group when they first meet in which she was rather irate, harsh and cold towards them. Her protective demeanour developed due to her past experiences of being bullied by boys over her unique silver coloured hair. These past experiences and her subsequent bitterness towards men amplified her strong hatred and disdain for Chidori (which she saw as the total antithesis of Kikyo) to an even greater extreme than her classmates. This is seen where she hounded both Ayumi and  Suzuka over Kaoruko's wellbeing following a brief interaction between Chidori's students and Waguri. Subaru is very serious and sometimes strong willed when it comes to handling affairs which can be seen when she asked Rintaro to stay away from Kaoruko for her sake, given Kikyo's hostility towards Chidori (of which Rintaro attended) could potentially lead to consequences for Kaoruko if Kikyo ever discovers her and Rintaro's relationship although she accepted Rintaro's wishes that he would like to continue seeing Waguri.

Given her past trauma from being bullied and coupled with Kikyo's vitriol regarding Chidori, Subaru has a hard time accepting the imagined Chidori she knew was incorrect causing her to grow uneasy over her own judgement of the boys. Although she is acquainted with Rintaro either with Waguri or by himself, she was initially cautious and reserved around his group of friends. However, her attitude towards the group changes when the boys came to rescue them from a group of delinquents holding a grudge against Rintaro. She becomes grateful for their help and soon opens up towards them, increasingly becoming tolerant and eventually really friendly to the point she was extremely apologetic for her hostile and imprudent interaction with them at the library, where they first met.

Despite her serious, blunt and cold persona, Subaru is deep down a good-hearted, genuinely friendly and kind person which is shown numerous times such as buying donuts for Natsusawa's birthday or when she's looking out for Kaoruko going as far as to accepting her relationship with Rintaro and keeping it secret. Subaru is also shown to be rather mature and considerate such as when she insisted on helping Natsusawa cleaning up the dishes after his birthday party despite the latter's refusal that he would take the burden himself.

## Relationships

### **Family**

* **Unnamed Mother**
* **Unnamed Father**
* **Unnamed Older Sister**

### Kikyo Friends

* **Waguri Kaoruko** - (childhood/closest friend)
* **Sawatari Ayumi** - (friend)
* **Asakura Suzuka** - (friend)
* **Minamoto Chisa** - (friend)
* **Yuzuhara Madoka** - (friend)

### Other Friends

* **Tsumugi Rintaro** - (friend)
* **Natsusawa Saku** - (friend)
* **Yorita Ayato** - (friend)
* **Usami Shohei** - (friend)

## Etymology

* **Hoshina** contains the kanji for "protect, maintain, guarantee" (保) (**ho**) and "department, section" (科) (**shina**).
* **Subaru** contains the kanji for "Pleiades" (昴).