Stella Hoshii

* VA-11 Hall-A
* VA-11 Hall-A KIDS

**Stella Hoshii** is the daughter of wealthy parents and a regular customer at VA-11 Hall-A. She is also a Cat Boomer and a long time friend of Sei Asagiri.

## Appearance

Stella appears to be a girl of average size with fair skin and red hair, styled into flashy drills. Although her breasts appear to be fairly average-sized for her height, Sei reveals that they're much larger than they appear, and she has no idea how she hides them so well.

Her two most defining traits, however, are her prosthetic right eye and the cat-ear-like protrusions on her head. Her outfit consists of what appears to be a red bodycon dress and black opera gloves, as well as a golden cross necklace around her neck.

## Personality

She often acts in a prideful manner, shown when initially meeting her, and when Sei isn't around. However, she's a kind person at heart, as shown during Mega-Christmas when she buys a large amount of gifts for the children of employees in her family’s company.

She also hides her true feelings under her usual haughty demeanor, as evidenced when when Sei was heavily injured at the Apollo Bank incident. It is also evidenced in a more lighthearted manner when she often tries to hide her status as a fan of \*Kira\* Miki's music, as shown from her reaction upon seeing \*Kira\* Miki's signed glass.

Stella is self-conscious of her breast size, thinking them too big. To compensate for this, she somehow tucks them in to reduce their apparent size, in addition to adding the "drills" to her hair to distract from her chest. Even though she goes to such measures to hide her chest size, she doesn't want to go through a breast reduction procedure; according to Sei, her bust size represents a connection between Stella and Stella's mother, who is prideful of her chest and shows it off as a sign of confidence.

She is also very sensitive about her prosthetic eye, sometimes reacting with shock at the mere mention of the word 'eye'.

## Background

Conceived by wealthy parents, before Stella was born she was diagnosed with Nanomachine Rejection, a potentially life-threatening disease. As such, she was forced to go through genetic treatment by doctors and become a Cat Boomer, called so because of the cat-ear-like protrusions which appear on the heads of those who receive treatment. She did survive because of this, and thus grew up in a rich environment where she received anything she asked for.

At age 5 she asked her father Sirius to take her to a "real kids park", where she met her soon to be best friend, Sei. The two formed a close bond and began to meet at the park regularly, until one day while they were there, a rogue White Knight took them hostage, on the run for undisclosed reasons. After being approached by the authorities, he began to gouge Stella's eye out and kicked Sei in the chest after she attempted to stop him, breaking several of her ribs and rupturing her organs, as well as knocking her out.

Afterwards, Sei briefly regained consciousness to see the White Knight on the ground, not moving, whilst another had her slumped over his shoulder. He put his helmet over Stella's head and the two were quickly taken to the hospital. Sei was placed into emergency care due to the severity of her injuries and only woke up after Stella began punching her leg, telling her to do so. The two of them recovered eventually, but Stella's right eye had to be removed and replaced with a prosthetic one.

## Order list

The following are the list of drinks which Stella will ask for during the course of the game's story(drinks in italics are ones that aren't explicitly asked for but will not be classed as mistakes if given):

December 15 (Day 3)

* Piano Woman
* Piano Man
* Fringe Weaver

December 19 (Day 7)

* Big Beer
* Something Sweet
* Bad Touch

December 22 (Day 10)

* Big Brandtini
* Bloom Light
* Beer

December 27 (Day 15)

* Cobalt Velvet
* Cold & Sweet
* Beer

December 29 (Day 17)

* Bleeding Jane
* Brandtini
* Something Classic (Flaming Moai for Secret Client Three)

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Stella's personality is somewhat reminiscent of a Tsundere archetype, often gets flustered and blushes whenever complemented by Sei for instance; however, she isn't one to hide her feelings as is typical of the stereotype, openly admitting her closeness to the former on several occasions.
* Stella has the latest birthday of all the characters in VA-11 Hall-A.
* According to Sei, Stella is a bit obsessive about making sure things don't go to waste. No food goes to the trash bin under her watch. She always gives it to her pets, or makes fertilizer out of it if no one else is gonna eat it. Sei comments that it can get annoying when you try to peel a vegetable or fruit near Stella. "At best, she scolds you for not doing it right. At worst, she rambles about the nutrients in the skin and makes you cook it without peeling it."
* According to Sei, Stella's family is down to earth despite being rich. They do indulge in expensive things from time to time, but they're pretty simple people.
* Stella's family name, Hoshii, is an adjective in Japanese that denotes that the subject wants something. 'Hoshi' is the Japanese for 'star', making Stella's name close to a pun, which is mentioned by Stella in-game.
* When she was a kid, Stella believed that she was the reincarnation of the original Santa Claus, because she was born on Christmas.
* Stella is color blind, though it is not mentioned in game.
* She's called Auntie Stella due to her generosity, evident by when Jill is told by Sei that she will let the staff take home whatever leftover food is available at the party and that Stella even buys toys for the children of her staff members.
* If Art doesn't run into Stella on Day 7, he'll mention that her name "Stella" isn't a common name.
* Stella isn't particularly fond of Bloom Light because it tastes "like sand" to her.
* Her dad's name is Sirius Hoshii (his first name meaning a star) and her mom's name is Carmine (which isn't). Carmine also got Sei's mother some really good clients at the veterinarian.