Nozomi Ghaunam

Older Brother

Karaoke

Battle Lover (formerly)

**Nozomi Ghaunam** is a 2nd year student at Binan High. He is also an idol affiliated with **MILKY POP** industries.

As a Battle Lover, his given element is Stars and he transforms into "*Spontaneous Prince Battle Lover Amber"*.

## Appearance

Nozomi has long hazel brown hair tied into a low ponytail with an orange scrunchie with a star pattern on it and orange eyes. He is always remarked by his classmates as very handsome. He is a little taller than Yumoto Hakone but is still considered one of the shortest members of the Defense Club. While he wears the 2nd year Binan High uniform, he accessorizes it with a white and orange star-shaped pin on the left side of his blazer. This pin is later found out in the series to be a birthday gift from his mother before her death, making it a very special object to him.

When transforming into a Battle Lover, Nozomi's outfit is very different from the others. He wears a white shirt paired with a vest and orange neckerchief with an orange jewel in the shape of a winged heart, a long white cloak with swirling orange designs at the bottom and a light orange rose on the lapel with a silver chain looping down from the rose to the other lapel, a pair of long white fitted pants held up by a orange belt with a silver buckle, a pair of white shoes with the tops orange and folded down and silver chains attached to the front, white gloves with a fancy heart-shaped design on the back, and a orange headband with a white hat with curling orange designs on one side and a orange ribbon around it sewn onto it.

## Personality

Nozomi seems to be the group's "romance expert" and "party goer" personality type. He is always seen trying to match make certain students at Binan High, and the sessions always seem to be a surefire success with every couple. He is also always throwing parties, as said by some students in Episode 1 of the first arc.

However, this seems to be a facade he puts up to hide his actual personality, which consists of constant grieving for his mother, hatred for his father, and envy of his older brother. The first person to see this is Akoya when he catches a cold and Nozomi takes him back to his house to take care of him. When Nozomi accidentally lashes out against him after Akoya finds a photograph of him and his family, he is immediately shown to be apologetic. This shows that he may have an inferiority complex against his brother.

After the Defense Club helps Nozomi reconnect with his brother and father, he seems to have made the facade he had before an actual trait. He also confesses that he only saw being a Battle Lover as a way to get over his inferiority complex. He also says that he would become a police officer once he graduated high school.

## History

As a child, Nozomi was always happy and loving. He loved his mother, father, and older brother with all of his heart. However, when his mother was killed in an attempted burglary a few weeks after his sixth birthday, he develops a hatred against his father, who is a police detective that never caught the culprit. Six years later, he meets a young pink-haired "girl" in elementary school and falls in love with her. But after a few weeks, she disappeared and Nozomi seemed to have fallen into a short-term depression. A year later, he joins a competition for a spot in an idol agency and wins by a landslide due to his looks and beautiful singing voice. Two years after that, he finds the "girl" from his elementary years but it is later found out to be Akoya Gero. Even though he was shocked by the reveal of Akoya's actual gender, the two of them still became friends.

## Happy Kiss!

In *Happy Kiss* , Nozomi appears in a flashback of Ata along with the rest of the Battle Lovers. In this one, Ata, Kyotaro, and Ryoma are shown as children playing in a park when Yumoto takes their picture.

Yumoto comments that the three of them were covered in mud, but that was fine because his brother ( Gora ) always said that children should get dirty. Later, he hands them the photograph he took along with three coupons for Kurotama. Nozomi walks away with the rest of the Battle Lovers.

It is also shown that he is now married to Akoya Gero and has become a police officer.

## Powers

**Amber Comet**- Amber Comet is Battle Lover's Finisher move, he shoots an orange burst of energy.

## Etymology

* Although the **name Nozomi** is generally written with the kanji for wish 望, hope 希, のぞみ in hiragana, or ノゾミ in katakana, it can have other different **meanings** depending on which kanji is used. Some possible variations of **Nozomi** include: 臨, "face, attend, command" 望美, "wishful beauty" 望海, "wishful ocean"
* Some possible variations of **Nozomi** include: 臨, "face, attend, command" 望美, "wishful beauty" 望海, "wishful ocean"
* Nozomi's surname, **Ghaunam**, is from a personal name based on Arabic **ghanem** 'successful' and 'prosperous'.

## Trivia

* Nozomi hates it when people contradict themselves.
* He likes any sweet that is part of a current trend.
* He shares a lot of similarities and differences with **Akane Hasegawa** from the Persona 5 series.
	+ Both of their mothers were killed and their fathers didn't catch the culprit at the time. While Zenkichi caught the suspect, Nobu never found his.
	+ They both idolized a group that believed in their own justice, whether in reality or fiction. For Akane, it was the Phantom Thieves of Hearts while for Nozomi, it was Maximum R.
	+ They are both dressed in Phantom Thief-like attire.
	+ They end up reconciling with their fathers and older siblings.
* Nozomi's and Akoya's relationship is similar to Izumi Sena's and Ryouma Ichijou from *Love Stage!*.
* It's found out that Nozomi mostly lives by himself because his father and older brother Hoshi are barely around.