Honoka Yukishiro

* Pretty Cure
* Civilian

**Honoka Yukishiro** (雪城 ほのか *Yukishiro Honoka*) is one of the main Cures in *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart* and also one of the main Cures in *Pretty Cure: Wonder Beauty* Series.

Honoka's alter ego is **Cure White** (キュアホワイト *Kyua Howaito*).

## Bio

### Appearance

Honoka has midnight blue eyes and long hair partially pulled back, with her bangs held by a gold clip.

Honoka's outfits are mostly formal and mature, but girly at the same time, mostly with the colors white or blue. She was sometimes seen showing a lot of skin and wears long skirts and some long sleeves. Sometimes, she wears short skirts and such.

As **Cure White**, her hair grows in length and curls, with a small ponytail on top of her head bound by a white ribbon with a blue heart in the middle. She gains silver heart earrings. She wears a short white dress with ruffled pale blue trim around the sleeves to accent the tulle petticoat of her tutu skirt, which has light blue scalloped lining. On the chest is a white ribbon, and a blue strap wraps around her waist, a light blue heart holding her Commune. She also gains white boots with pale blue sole, and leg warmers trim with ruffles and adorned by a light blue heart to match her gloves, which instead have a blue heart on the hand.

In *Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart*, Cure White's outfit was modified. The ribbon on her chest has a blue gem heart, with the one on her belt now a gold heart-shaped clasp. Her petticoat is white and her skirt is now pale blue with a split white peplum over it. She gains additional detail on her leg warmers and the hearts turned blue to accent the designs around the top of her gloves. Her earrings are gold.

In Wonder Beauty (and in Pretty Cure Mashup Group in general), White uses her *Max Heart* form whether she uses her Card Commune or Heartful Commune.

### Etymology

**Honoka (ほのか):** Since her name is written in hiragana rather than kanji, and because there are many different ways that Honoka can be written in kanji, there is no way to find a specific meaning for this name. One common way of writing it in kanji is 穂香 ( *Honoka*), which can be broken down to "*hono* (穗の *ほの*)", which translates to *spike*, and "ka", which translates to *flower (花) or (香)*, which generally means the flower/fragrance of spikes. Hono (和) also means harmony. Again, that is not necessarily the meaning of Honoka in this case.

Her name means "snow castle spike fragrance", "snow castle harmony flower." or "snow white spike flower."

**Cure White:** Honoka's Cure name may be from the symbol "Yang" from the symbol Yin & Yang, in which "Yin" is black, just like White's partner (from her own series), Cure Black who she is almost exactly opposite from.

## Cure White

**"Emissary of light, Cure White!"**
光の使者、キュアホワイト！

*Hikari no shisha, Kyua Howaito!*

**Cure White** (キュアホワイト *Kyua Howaito*) is Honoka 's Pretty Cure ego, and addresses herself as the "Emissary of light". Cure White uses agility and intelligence to surprise the enemy. As Cure White, she becomes more serious and stronger, and also seems like having a stronger will and voice.

### Attacks

* **Marble Screw** - Cure White's first standalone attack. Cure White initiates the attack by summoning crackling white lightning of energy from her hands. She declares the attack's accompanying catchphrase and name, and she fires the lightning blast at the enemy.
* **Marble Screw Max** - A powered-up version of Marble Screw, and is Cure White's second standalone attack. Cure White charges her lightning energy and then shouting out "Max!", before bringing forth a powerful beam of white lightning.
* **Bright Light** - Cure White's third standalone attack. She only uses this attack if she has a Guitar given to her by Mabel.

Pretty Cures

Wonder Beauty