Homare Onishima

**Homare Onishima** (鬼島 ほまれ, *Onishima Homare*) is the main protagonist of Sounan Desu ka. She is a solemn (**formal and dignified**) high school girl in Class 2-F at first glance, but she is the survival specialist of the group after being taught by her father since her childhood.

## Appearance

Homare is a beautiful girl with chest-length blonde hair that is tied in twin pigtails and dark blue eyes.

She usually wears her standard high school uniform consisting of a long-sleeved white shirt, a red bow tie, a short navy skirt, a tan sweater, a pair of short white socks & white striped underwear Light Blue.

## Personality

Homare is a generally stoic girl who generally has trouble socializing with others, since she lacks the common sense of what normal high school girls share. However, after the accident when she was first beaten with more girls of the same age, she tries to be more friendly and understanding. Homare is mature and very wise thanks to the experiences lived with her Father, she is also very brave when facing challenges that could kill her, sincere since she is never afraid to tell the absolute and gentle truth.

Although her main goal is always to survive, Homare can also abandon her cold attitude to try to make Shion Kujo, Asuka Suzumori and Mutsu Amatani feel more comfortable on the island.

Despite admitting that Asuka, Shion and Mutsu sometimes annoy her with their constant complaints, she really enjoys their company and appreciates their friendship.

With the person with whom she is most affectionate, that is undoubtedly her father, whom she loves and respects more than anyone.

## Abilities

* **Survival experience**: Because Homare travels the world with her father, she is very skilled and knowledgeable in the field in the most critical conditions, and is able to adapt to any environment.
* **Expert Leadership**: Following Homare's knowledge of survival is constantly allowing her group to survive.
* **High knowledge of Creatures and Plants**: Homare to adapt to its environment can analyze and identify different animals and silvers to get the best of each.
* **High Athleticism**: To be able to overcome different problems, Homare is able to solve them using her athletic abilities like being able to run at high speed, climb at high altitude, swim great distances, perform jumps and turns worthy of a gym.
* **High Knowledge of Weapons and Fights**: Homare has a great knowledge of weapons (mainly knives) and is a great fighter, both with other humans and with animals.
* Homare's academic skills are not known. However, since she has great knowledge of the world in general, possibly like Mutsu Amatani, she is very skilled.

## Etymology

* The name **Homare** is written in hiragana (ほまれ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (誉, 帆希, 歩希 or 穂希), it could possibly mean:
	+ 誉 - "reputation, praise, honor, glory".
	+ 帆希 - "sail" (帆) (**ho**) and "hope" (希) (**mare**).
	+ 歩希 - "walk, step" (歩) (**ho**) and "hope" (希) (**mare**).
	+ 穂希 - "grain" (穂) (**ho**) and "hope" (希) (**mare**).
* Homare's surname **Onishima** means "demon, ogre, daemon" (鬼) (**oni**) and "island" (島) (**shima**).

## Trivia

* Prior to the series, Homare has traveled to the following places:
	+ Alaska (10 years before)
	+ Taklamakan Desert (7 years before)
	+ Botswana Wetlands (5 years before)
	+ Tanzania, Madagascar, Cyprus, Panama, Siberia, etc.

* Homare's breasts are cup D.
* Homare claims that she is able to eat absolutely anything edible and does not have much any favorite dish.
* Homare likes Knives very much.
* Homare is born on March 28th.
* Homare seems to enjoy animal hunting.
* On the island, Homare is the most respected of the Group.
* According to Shion Kujo, Asuka Suzumori and Mutsu Amatani, Homare is a "Little Potato Girl"
* According to the manga, Homare's mother passed away when she was very young and Joichi Onishima decided to train her to be strong so he wouldn't lose her after that.
* Homare says firmly that she knows how to cook, but Mutsu does not allow her to cook since according to her "what she calls cooking does not resemble what I call cooking."
* Homare's future dreams consist of being able to travel the world that she is even willing to be a flight attendant to achieve it.