Akira Hoshine

**Akira Hoshine** (星ね明, *Hoshine Akira*) is a new Lucky Bestie introduced in Season 2. Their alter ego is Lucky Starlight.

### Hair Color

Blue to Teal ombre with purple highlight (Akira)Light turquoise to magenta ombre with magenta highlight (Starlight)

## Lucky Form

### Super Form

Heartful Starlight (s3)Eternal Starlight (s4)

## Bio

### Appearance

#### Civillian

Akira's appearance is fairly androgynous. They have somewhat messy blue hair with a turquoise ombre that reaches just past their shoulders, with an ahoge, bangs swept towards the left, with a gold star hairpin holding their bangs in place, and a strand of hair dyed purple, swept towards the right.

In seasons 3 to 4, their casual outfit consists of a simple teal hoodie, black shorts resching just above the knee, rolled up black socks, and lace-up white sneakers. They accessorize with a black choker with silver studs, and black earrings.

In seasons 5 to 6, their hair grows slightly longer, now reaching to their upper back. On the left, a strand is let loose over their shoulder, while on the right their hair is pulled back to reveal their ear. They still wear their star hairpin in the same place. Their new casual outfit consists of a white tank top worn under a mostly unzipped teal hoodie, a black jean skirt, black ankle socks, and white lace-up sneakers. They keep their choker.

In Generation 2, they cut their hair shorter, and it now reaches just above their shoulders, but they keep the loose long strand on the left. Their highlight is brushed down less messy, and it now leans towards the left. Their new casual outfit consists of a long, off-shoulder teal hoodie with black drawstrings, black pants, and black slides for shoes. They accessorize with their gold star hairpin in the same place as always, along with a pair of black headphones around their neck.

Back when Akira was an idol, their hair was much longer, reaching past their upper back. Their bangs were split into three sections instead of being sideswept, and they had no purple highlight. Their hair was styled in a half-up, half-down manner, most of it being down while the rest was tied into somewhat messy twin-buns, with some strands being left loose. Their outfit consisted of a white crop-top with a turquoise sailor collar and black tie, as well as white triangle sleeves. They also wore a turquoise pleated skirt over a white petticoat, black thigh high socks with white lining near the top edge, and turquoise cross-strap heeled shoes. To accessorize, they wear their trademark gold star hairpin on the right part of their bangs, as well as a white ribbon resembling bunny ears on their left bun. They also wore light makeup.

#### Lucky Starlight

As Lucky Starlight, Akira gains light makeup as well as a cyan four-pointed star tattoo on their right cheek, and their hair becomes a light turquoise with a magenta ombre, their purple highlight now turning magenta as well. Their hair becomes slightly longer, although appearing shorter as it flares out. Their hair is styled in a half-up half-down manner, most of it being left down, while the rest is pulled up into cone-shaped buns. The strands over their shoulders is styled into loose braids.

Their outfit consists of a sleeveless black jewel-neckline mini crop-top under a sleeveless light turquoise sailor-collar mini crop top with a turquoise bow at the middle. Over this is a sleeveless oversized black jacket with various turquoise details, such as at the hood, drawstrings, and pockets. Underneath the jacket are oversized turquoise detached sleeves that reach to the elbow, worn over a long pair of black gloves, reaching towards the shoulders. Starlight wears a white pleated skirt, the waistband and pleats being cyan, as well as semi-transparent black tights underneath a pair of black thigh high socks with a futuristic cyan pattern along them. They wear white, futuristic rollerskates with turquoise markings. Starlight wears a light turquoise star hairclip at the right, as well as futuristic white goggles at the top of their head with turquoise lenses. They also gain futuristic holographic turquoise wings.

When taken control of by their Doppelganger, Azami, their eyes become red, having only a small speck of light in them. The turquoise details on their jacket become pure white, and their gloves become shorter and semi-transparent. They lose their wings, instead gaining a futuristic black control panel around them split into two with cyan details.

### Personality

Akira is an awkward person and a hikikomori-NEET, often being holed up in their apartment. This is due to severe trauma they have regarding meeting other people. They appear cold and withdrawn towards other people, even being a bit blunt and rude, as a defense mechanism. Akira is horrible at refusing things and doesn't have it at all in them to say no.

They are obsessed with idols, and get excited over anything - literally, anything - relating to them. They used to be an idol, and was forced to be openly feminine on stage, which caused them to become insecure of their true self. They quit after going through an event with a staff member that caused them severe trauma and PTSD, leading them to become a hikikomori, never going outside in fear of going through something similar again.

It's due to this trauma they have that leads them to be severely uncomfortable with any form of touch, even keeping distance from the other Lucky Besties. They have heavy trust issues, being unable to see their teammates as friends because they're scared that they'll turn against them, and that they'll get hurt again. Akira is very cautious and wary of making friends, and since they spend most of their time being holed up in their apartment, they have little to no social skills and bad social anxiety.

Akira gets nervous extremely easily and is always thinking about what people think of them, to the point of changing themselves multiple times to be more "appealing". They often put on facades around anyone they meet, because they can't trust anyone at all.

One of their skills that they put to use in battle is analyzing the quirks of an enemy, which gives them better understanding of an enemy's weak spots, and they can "see through" the enemy, thus, they're able to know what the enemy plans next for an attack which lets them fight back or guard with more strength. This is a skill they picked up from constantly playing card games, however they have never played with a real person.

Akira is easy to take advantage of, because they're meek, non-confrontational, and often unable to reject any kind of advances made on them. This is something they deeply hate about themselves.

## History

### Pre-Series

When Akira was about 10, they were scouted by an idol agency, and made their debut 2 years later.

When they were in the agency office, training for their next concert, they were assaulted by one of the agency staff. They were about 12 at this time, while the staff member was about 20 years older than them at least.

Every time they had to perform or get into their stage costume, even upon being touched in a harmless way, Akira would get severe PTSD and flashbacks to this event. They would struggle to perform for another few months, before quitting right when they turned 13.

As they weren't doing enough for themselves, and weren't making enough money as an idol, their parents kicked them out of their home, forcing them to fend for themselves. Their parents were always fighting, and would often take their anger out on Akira, only making their PTSD worse. They cut their hair shortly before being kicked out, and started binding even though they could barely breathe.

They lived out on the streets for a while, but as they feared being assaulted again, they used the money they had saved up from their idol work that wasn't taken by their parents, as well as some money they gained from some odd jobs here and there to buy themselves an apartment.

(TBA)

### Etymology

**Akira** (明) - Akira means "bright", "intelligent", or "clear". This is in great contrast to their personality.

**Hoshine** (星ね) - Hoshine means "star sound"

Together, the name means "bright star sound" or "clear star sound".

## Gallery

Akira's casual outfit during winter (old)Akira's old idol outfit (old)Monochrome Akira art for merchAkira's Lucky BraceletAkira's Lucky GemChibi Akira badgeLucky Starlight (old)Akira's new design (S3-S4)Akira's new design (S5-S6)Akira's former idol outfitAkira in Generation 2Lucky Starlight's new designLucky Starlight without the jacketLucky Starlight under Azami's control

## Trivia

* Their birthday is on May 21th, making them a Gemini.
* They are the first non-binary character in all of Lucky Besties.
* They are the first Lucky Bestie to be an idol prior to joining the team.
* Akira is very uncomfortable with wearing skirts and performing in front of people, especially if they're short skirts. However, Akira is unable to do anything about this when transformed, and sometimes this will lead to them being weaker. They get a little more comfortable wearing skirts by seasons 5 to 6, but they still get PTSD just by wearing one.
* The reason they quit being an idol was never published by their agency, instead being left up to fan speculation as Akira refused to tell any of the staff, having a mental breakdown when being pushed about it.