Chōko Haino

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

Chō
 Carmen (Italian birth name) Little One
 Chaos Incarnate

### Also Known As

Chō
 Carmen (Italian birth name) Little One
 Chaos Incarnate

## Background Information

### Likes

Tsuyako Shimizu
 Sweet Dishes
 Fairytales

## Professional Status

### Position

Actress (Apr 2012)
 High School Student (formerly)

**Chōko Haino** (Japanese: **灰野 (はいの)  蝶子 ()** , *Haino Chōko*) is a 2nd-year student at Inarizaki High. She is the daughter of the Italian-German businessman Alessandro Marino and the famous Japanese actress Kanae Haino, being a scion of the Haino household by association. Though born blind due to an incident during the duration of her mother's pregnancy, she strives hard to be recognized for her abilities not for her physical disability. As of 2018, she has become an actress for Studio Haino, the studio started and run by her mother.

## Appearance

Chōko is of a taller height with an athletic build, partly due to her mixed heritage and partly due to the height genes of her parents. Possessing lightly tanned skin due to the influence of her Italian paternal grandparents, the sterotypical blue hair and blonde hair of her father's German maternal grandparents, and the delicately, almond-shaped eyes of her Japanese maternal grandparents; she is a combination of her family's extensive mixed heritage. Described as incredibly beautiful, Chōko is considered one of the hottest girls at school and according to Miyu, excludes a calm and serene aura to herself.

Chōko wears her hair out, with slim bangs in the front and the rest of her hair flowing down her back in straight layers. Pinned to the front of her bangs, is a white lotus hairpin decorated with the symbol of the Haino family.

As part of her typical attire, she dons the typical Inarizaki uniform, which consists of a white shirt, a maroon bow tie, a dark grey sweater vest, and the standard brown blazer. A black skirt, knee-high white socks, and brown loafers are also part of her school uniform. As a member of the Student Council, she wears a white lotus armband on the upper portion of her left arm (given to all members of the Student Council).

## Personality

Driven solely by the pursuit of knowledge and the world around her, Chōko presents herself as a logical person externally. Her even-tempered demeanor, even in the face of mockery and decit, has earned her many allies but also countless enemies as well. As a child, she was often made fun of, due to her nerdy nature and often relied on Tsuyako's help in order to get out of difficult situations.

Though born a scion of three extremely prominent families, Chōko doesn't even appear to project a "spoiled princess" vibe, instead seeming to present herself as more of a scholar-academic-type much to the confusion of her friends and schoolmates. Dissimilar to most rich heiresses and scions, Chōko appears to be well-informed of the daily lives of those that the rich consider less fortunate than themselves and even appears to enjoy their companionship more than the rich aristocrats that her mother insists on surrounding herself with. A good example of this trait, is her childhood friendship with Tsuyako Shimizu. Tsuyako didn't see her as a rich person who pitied those less fortunate than herself but a person who wished to absorb knowledge of all kinds.

Her opinions are blunt, harsh, and even callous, as she spares no expense on making sure that her point of view is understood to the highest degree of understanding that a specific individual can comprehend. Due to this, most interpert her as extremely callous, as she appears to them as caring little for their opinions and trampling over other's opinions. In truth, Chōko is fascinated by other people's points of views and is often disappointed when people change their opinions to match her point of view. This seems to indicate that she values individual opinions, more than individualistic opinions.

Reserved in demeanor, she expresses little emotions when engaged in conversation with strangers but will become incredibly animated when engaging in conversation with her friends and family members. A person of few words, she believes that every single one of her words carries meaning and thus will ponder her choice of words carefully before saying them out loud.

Though understanding of her position in the world (due to the nature of her parent's wealth), Chōko is extremely bad at personal finances despite her high scores in math and Tsuyako often worries over her extensive sending habits, as she donates quite frequently to charity. Tsuyako's post time-skip concern states her concern over her spending money on other people and not herself.

## Background

Born in the Aichi Prefecture, Chōko grew up as close friends with Suna Rintarō and Tsuyako Shimizu, with Suna and Tsuyako beginning volleyball together and Chōko serving as their source of encouragement. Earlier on, Chōko suffered a serious injury to her ribcage when a group of bullies beat her up, which ended up with her going to the hospital. As a result, her parents were heavily encouraged to move her, though Chōko refused to move unless Suna and Tsuyako would be willing to go with her. Eventually, Tsuyako reunited with Chōko and her family, when they both decided to move to the Hogo prefecture in which Inarizaki was located. By the time of Interhigh, Chōko had waist-length hair and wore a butterfly hairpin in her hair, a contrast to the lotus flower hairpin that she wore constantly in her childhood years.

## Plot

### Tokyo Nationals

During the game against Karasuno, Chōko is shown tersely standing at the railing, tightly gripping it to the point where her knuckles turn white with the stress, while her friends and family members narrate what's happening to her. Though she cannot see what is happening in the game, due to being born blind, she can still hear the desperation of both teams.

At the end of the match when Inarizaki loses, Chōko offers to let her personal drivers take them to a resturant with the entire team accepting. At the resturant, Chōko makes a speech about how admirable that the Inarizaki boys' volleyball team is, retelling her childhood years to them in great detail.

### Inarizaki High (OVA)

Chōko is first seen in the OVA, being driven to her family's new estate in a Toyota Century limousine by her own personal driver, having been accepted to Inarizaki High. While in the process of driving there, Chōko sternly states that her own personal driver is no longer allowed to drive Chōko's personal limousine and must drive an armored sedan (per the orders of her parents), when asked about the reason behind it, she simply says "for security purposes". When they arrive at the family estate, he informs Chōko about a estate visit from her Italian paternal grandparents, which causes her to let out a series of groans. After dropping her luggage off with her personal attendants, Chōko asks her personal driver if he would care to have dinner with her and the rest of the family's staff. Though hesitant, he agrees with Chōko and the staff celebrating his 46th birthday together.

The next morning, Chōko wakes up early for school and is the first person in her class to arrive, much to her suprise, she spots Tsuyako, though is uncertain if it really is her. Tsuyako, much to Chōko's suprise is in her class, though she doesn't approach her. During break, Chōko watches as her classmates swarm Tsuyako and is concerned by how uncomfortable Tsuyako looks with the attention of the entire class on her. Though she politely asks her classmates to stop crowding around Tsuyako, she is ignored and eventually asks for the help of her class vice-president.

They are both unsuccessful and as both Chōko and Miyu are repersenatives of their class, they report this and other similar incidents to the Student Council, to rectify the situation. Eventually, the teachers learn of the incidents but consider them to be harmless, much to the dismay of the Student Council.

The next day, while exploring the inside of the gym at Inarizaki, with Miyu, Chōko bumps into Tsuyako and Suna. Miyu, though confused with the familiarity that Chōko speaks to Tsuyako and Suna with, reminds Chōko of her duties as a member of the Student Council and the pending list of meeting that she must attend, to which Chōko displays a flippant demeanor towards the list.

## Relationships

### **Inarizaki High**

* **Rintarō Suna**: Chōko's current concern reveals that she is bothered immensely by Suna's greatly overprotective nature and wishes that he would stop Tsuyako from going after her haters and stalkers. Despite being a close childhood friend to him, she is often exasperated by his picture taking and is greatly annoyed by his slow starting nature. However, she enjoys his sarcastic remarks and is grateful to him, for rescuing her from countless bullies in the past during their shared childhood years. Over the years in Inarizaki, the two have come to form a brother-sister-like relationship, with all of their shared fights ending up looking like a bunch of sibling arguments. Suna considers her to be one of his two closest female friends and often drags her into his antics, despite her great protests.
* **Tsuyako Shimizu**: Childhood friends with a strong bond of friendship, Tsuyako and Chōko share a special connection with one another. Seeing her not as a fancy heiress with some convulated title of nobility, Tsuyuako inspired Chōko to rise above her heiress status and become a kind-hearted person, in contrast to her formerly cold, callous, and indifferent nature when it came to the people around her. Tsuyako was the first person to geniunally get to know the true personality of Chōko and the first that Chōko allowed behind her tightly closed mental barriers. Understanding on a deeper level what Chōko was growing through and knowing of her mental turmoil, is what allowed the two to form a bond of friendship. Indifferent to Tsuyako's offers of friendship at first, she would grow to crave contact with Tsuyako later on, starved of friendship and most importantly love by her parents. Her parents cared little for the affairs of their children, most specifically their eldest child (Chōko) and left her to the care of nannies and housemaids. Over the years, as their friendship developed, Chōko adopted the title of "anesan" for Tsuyako, considering her to be like a real biological older sister to her.
* **Miyu Hikasa**: Her class vice-president and personal secretary, Miyu and Chōko share a bond similar to that of telepathy. Even a minute glance or gesture from Chōko, is enough information for Miyu to carry out her plans and orders, perfectly down to a t. Though originally assigned to Chōko to prevent her from wandering off and getting kidnapped, Miyu would come to regard Chōko as one of her closest friends and would even eventually teach Chōko many of her own self-defense skills after much begging from her. Miyu, as the eldest of the highly skilled Raiden clan scions, is undoubtably loyal to Chōko's family though considers herself to be solely Chōko's agent to deal with unsavory elements. To Miyu, Chōko seems almost akin to a god and Chōko sees no reason to disaude her from that notion, even encouraging it. Chōko appears to see Miyu as her younger sister despite Miyu's birthday being October 19, 1995, making her much older than Chōko by two years. Miyu is the only other person beside Suna and Tsuyako, that is allowed to call Chōko by both her first and last names, though Miyu prefers to use Chōko's family name out of respect for her.

## Quotes

* "*Oh no... they're arguing again. Suna! What did I say about taking pictures of the twins fighting?!*" (To Suna)
* "*Suna is the worst honestly sometimes. Him and his damn picture taking, honestly...*" (To herself, about Suna's picture taking habits)

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Jelly Fruit Sticks
* Pre-timeskip Concern: She cannot stand Suna's constant picture taking of the twins' fights
* Post-timeskip Concern: She wishes that Suna would stop encouraging Tsuyako to go after her haters and stalkers
* Star Sign: Aquarius
* She has a beautiful voice.
* She has been stated by Kenshin Ukai to have a intelligence above that of a genius.
* Like Suna and Tsuyako, she speaks in the standard or even a dialect closer to the Tokyo dialect, due to not being originally from the Kansai region.
* According to her respective background, she was scouted due to her academic genius and came to Inarizaki.
* She is a close friend of Tsuyako Shimizu and Suna Rintarō, though is shown to get exasperated with them whenever their antics exceed her patience limit for the day.
* **Nomenclature**:
	+ Chōko (蝶子) - *Butterfly child*
		- Chō (蝶) - *Butterfly*
		- Ko (子) - *Child*
	+ Haino (灰野) - *Ashes/Cremate*
		- ??? (灰) - *ashes, puckery juice, cremate*
		- ??? (野) - *plains, field, rustic, civilian life*