Hope Griffin

Hope observing extraterrestrial life.

### Aliases

"Griffin"- Itsuki Reo"Dummy"- Itsuki Reo "Orange head"- Arthur Stepanov "Carrot"- Father

### Affiliation

Cosmos AcademyUnnamed High School in Yokohama

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Rama Rebel (English)Mika Ichikawa (Japanese)

**Hope Griffin** is a Cosmos Academy student, Junior Ranger in training, and the main protagonist of Interstellar Ranger Commence.

Hope Griffin is voiced by Rama Rebel. When she speaks Japanese, Hope is voiced by Mika Ichikawa.

## Description

### Personality

Hope Griffin is an outgoing and easily excitable teenager determined to graduate as a full fledged Interstellar Ranger, a goal inspired by her late father's abandoned dream of joining the Interstellar Force. Having grown up in Yokohama, Japan, she is fluent in both English and Japanese. She enjoys doodling (especially while note taking in class), watching romance flicks, and warm environments.

While Hope excels as a quick and creative thinker, she can be unrealistic and immature at times and finds difficulty staying on top of her many classes. Even so, she's a girl that hates to fall under defeat, whether due to the challenges of her chosen career path or her own doubts over her ability. Feeling lonely at a new school well over a hundred thousand miles away from her two best friends, Hope befriends classmates Jazz Owens, Maria Long and Amai Higashi, among others, proving to be exceptional at making connections with others wherever she is.

Because of her cheery attitude, lack of studious skills and her entry into the academy costing another canditate's spot at attendance due to the interference of Ambassador Jorge Avilas, her reputation as a good student is damaged and Hope instantly becomes the target of Itsuki Reo and his girlfriend Carmen Avilas. Being unaware of Carmen being a primary instigator of Itsuki's mistreatment of her, she continues to show compassion and a desire for friendship with Carmen even as she used a training exercise as an opportunity to attack her and openly blame her for Alicia, the candidate Hope was chose over and Carmen's personal friend, being unable to attend Cosmos Academy with her.

Alternatively, due to Itsuki being her primary source of hostility and harassment, as he is similarly biased towards her and projects his own insecurities and feelings of unworthiness onto her, she resulting consequently views Itsuki as snobbish and, after learning his father's influence on his identity being similar to her father's influence on her own, a hypocrite who is unworthy of his father's position due to poor social and leadership skills.

## Attributes

### Abilities

* **Athletic Proficiency**: Due to extensive training and conditioning, Hope possesses advanced physical attributes and athletic capabilities. Having noticeably prominent strength and agility, she notably evaded Itsuki Reo's attacks with acrobatic maneuvers and successfully lifted and threw him over her shoulder on onto the ground as he was attempting to restrain her from behind during one of their sparring matches. With Itsuki's training, she grew physically capable enough to repeatedly overpower Carmen Avilas in a fight between the two during a training exercise, forcing her to retreat and causing her to worry about Hope's growing competence. With a combination of physical endurance and sheer willpower, Hope even briefly managed to resisted the affects of a stun bolt fired by Itsuki, struggling for a few seconds in an attempt to rise back up before finally falling unconscious, nonetheless demonstrating a degree of resistance that others in her class did not.
* **Combat Proficiency**: As a cadet at Cosmos Academy, Hope is skilled in both armed and unarmed combat. She is a trained martial artist and has only continued improving as one under Itsuki's tutelage. When attacked by a vengeful Carmen, who blamed Hope for her friend, Alicia, a spot at Cosmos Academy, Hope quickly adapted to being ambushed, slammed Carmen against a wall as she clung to her from behind and replicated a high kick Itsuki had used against her during a sparring match, all of which lead to Carmen retreating and later expressed concern to Itsuki about her evolving abilities and how she perceived Hope to be using Itsuki's training against them.
* **Marksmanship Proficiency**: Being prepared for security and military threats, Hope is skilled in the use of ranged weapons, particularly pistols such as the Interstellar Force’s standard issue handles. While Alex was pinned against a wall by his brother, Arthur, during a training session between two competing teams, Hope managed to shoot Arthur with her sidearm from several yards away down into the alley two brothers were in before promptly being shot and stunned herself by Itsuki as he took advantage of the distraction of Hope defending Alex.
* **Survival Aptitude**: In preparation for missions across space and on various planets, Hope is trained in operating in and adapting to a variety of environments and conditions. In conjunction with her skills at cooking, she successfully made a stew using alien ingredients during her Home Economics class.
* **Leadership Aptitude**: Being socially gifted, Hope demonstrates a skill for leading others during a training session set in a simulated environment in the Dome, having briefly been able to rally a team originally assigned to Chris Myrthil, who proved inadequate for command while arguing with his squad members, who were personal friends of his, over proposing battle tactics he learned from a video game. While initially being able to coordinate the group, even ordering her teammates to be prepared for potential ambushes as they entered an area surrounded by small structures her hold over the team would break as the opposing team attacked, the situation then devolving into a chaotic melee, despite Professor Strong, the class instructor, intending the two groups to observe and strategically eliminate their opponents. Hope, meanwhile, briefly began searching the battleground for Itsuki Reo, whom she held a grudge against for his mistreatment and harassment towards her during their tutoring sessions, in the hopes of personally defeating him in battle, until she was confronted by Carmen, who similarly held a grudge against her for costing Alicia, a friend of Carmen's, a spot at Cosmos Academy.
* **Culinary Proficiency**: Due to her mother constantly working away from home when she was younger, Hope became skilled at cooking for herself. As a young adult, Hope is proficient enough chef that she managed to cook a stew with a majority of its ingredients not being from Earth and instead being Drey in origin while in Home Economics class, only for Amai Higashi to impulsively throw cinnamon into it and Arthur Stepanov to knock the rest of it onto the floor to bully her.
* **Artistic Proficiency**: Hope has remarkable drawing skills, able to doodle Itsuki's head with horns out of contempt for his rude behavior towards her.
* **Multilingualism**: Hope is fluent in both English and Japanese, the latter being her native language as she was raised in Yokohama, Japan. She also appears to understand Spanish, as she seemingly understood Sebastian Rojas when he responded in Spanish to her thanking him in Japanese.

### Weaknesses

* **Self-Doubt**: While an outwardly determined and confident cadet, Hope inwardly struggles with doubts over her purpose of going to Cosmos Academy and becoming an Interstellar Ranger, a goal and identity based on her late father's. As exposed by Itsuki, she initially lacks the conviction to excel academically due to subconsciously questioning if her father's ambitions, which he had long surrendered after having Hope, truly align with her own, pushing her to the brink of an existential crisis over her own identity. It was due to this that Hope would progressively decline in her performance and demeanor, which Itsuki's harsh training methods failed to remedy and in fact only worsened her burnout. After coming to terms with these doubts and having her morale restored by the support of her newfound friends she made at the school, Hope devises a personal goal working out her identity at the school while repaying the support of her friends, along with the short term goal of defeating Itsuki in their sparring matches in retribution for his cruelty and to eventually prove him wrong about her being unworthy of being at Cosmos Academy. However, in her resolve to focus on her short term goal, her grudge against Itsuki would prove detrimental in other ways, as though it motivated her to put more effort into her classes, Itsuki's involvement meant her focus to improve primarily revolved around spiting him rather than academic success. While demonstrating effective leadership skills after assuming command from Chris Myrthil during a training exercise due to the latter's incompetence, she mainly did so out of eagerness to fight against Itsuki and upon spotting Itsuki scurrying around the battleground as a skirmish broke out after Hope led her team into an uncoordinated ambush by Arthur, she seemed close to abandoning her team to pursue him rather than giving them directions or reinforcing them in the battle, only to be ambushed by an equally vindictive Carmen, who similarly held a grudge against her for indirectly taking her friend, Alica's, chance at attending Cosmos Academy. Even though the two separated after Hope successfully fended her off though her superior combat capabilities, Hope's team was still defeated as she returned to the fray to support her team members and was promptly shot and stunned by Itsuki as she did the same to Arthur to defend Alex from him.
* **Limited Stamina**: Despite her physical prowess, Hope displays relatively lower stamina compared to other cadets in her class, collapsing briefly from exhaustion after a series of exercises followed by a two-mile run and having to be helped up by Sebastian Rojas, as well as repeatedly falling asleep in class, especially after spending her mornings sparring with Itsuki as part of his proposed training sessions, while the latter appeared fully awake and rested.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Hope's Father's Jacket**: A green jacket with yellow sleeves originally worn by Hope's father and is now worn by Hope herself to commemorate him. The shoulder of the jacket had a hole torn in it that was repaired by Jazz Owens as a show of appreciate towards her after she became more aware of Itsuki's training sessions.
* **School Uniform**: A dress shirt, skirt and shoes worn during class hours.
* **Ranger Uniform**: Standard issue for Interstellar Force personnel, these durable yet flexible environmental bodysuits are designed with systems that regulate their wearer's body temperature, as indicated by small screens on their sleeves. Official Interstellar Rangers are indicated by two strips on the chest area of their suits.
* **Cellphone**: A personal mobile device carried by most civilians, complete with a camera, touchscreen and the ability to fold out into tablet size. This was notably used by Hope, along with a set of earphones, to play music as she head to her admission ceremony and shuttle off Earth to Cosmos Academy, as well as to contact her friends to express her frustration with her initial confrontation with Itsuki and worries she didn't really belong at the school.
* **Computer Tablet**: A portable, interactive computer screen, complete with a stylus pen, that are used by students and staff for both classes and leisure. These tablets are installed with digital textbooks before being issued out.

### Weapons

* **Handle**: As a cadet, Hope has access to a handle during training exercises and on field missions.

### Transportation

* **Shuttle**: An interplanetary craft able to make routine trips from Earth to Cosmos Academy and Interstellar Force Headquarters in space.

## Facilities

* **Hope's Family House**: A house located in an urban section of Yokohama, Japan. Hope formerly lived in this house with her mother and now-deceased father.
* **Interstellar Force Headquarters**: Hope is currently stationed at Interstellar Force Headquarters.
	+ **Cosmos Academy**: Hope's current residence is Galaxy Hall, a dormitory at Cosmos Academy, along with her roommates, Jazz Owen and Amai Higashi.

## Relationships

### Family

* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother

### Allies

* Richie Webber - Friend
* Naomi Amador - Friend
* Jazz Owens - Classmate, Roommate and Friend
* Amai Higashi - Classmate, Roommate and Friend
* Maria Long - Classmate and Friend
* Sebastian Rojas - Classmate and Friend
* Alex Stepanov - Classmate and Friend
* Jeff Williams - Classmate and Friend
* Chris Myrthil - Classmate
* Kayleen Huo - Classmate
* Itsuki Reo - Classmate, Class Representative, Reluctant Trainer, Bully and Rival
* Carmen Avilas - Classmate, Reluctant Rival and Indirect Bully
* Arthur Stepanov - Classmate and Bully
* Professor Parth Strong - Teacher and Superior
* Doctor Dola Amber - Superior
* Professor Maya Kimball - Teacher and Superior
* Counselor Alam - Superior
* Director Principle - Superior
* Ranger Diskin - Superior
* Ambassador Jorge Avilas - School Ambassador and Superior
* General Reo - Superior
* Unnamed Security Officer - Superior