"Hikaru"

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**"Hikaru"** (ヒカル, *Hikaru*?) is one of the Characters in The Summer Hikaru Died, written and illustrated by Mokumokuren.

## Overview

*“Something” appears in place of Hikaru, Yoshiki's childhood friend who went missing in the village "mountain" six months ago. It looks like Hikaru himself, but...?*
## Appearance

Hikaru has short white fluffy hair, with short fluffy bangs. He has short white eyebrows and gray/blue eyes with red pupils. When he gets emotional, his “ugly” side leaks out. He is usually seen wearing his school uniform, which consists of a white button up shirt and black pants with a belt. He also wears a black watch on his right wrist.

## Personality

Hikaru is carefree and playful. He often gets emotional when he realizes he’s hurt Yoshiki in any way. He can have tunnel vision when it comes to things he wants and will do anything to conceal what is inside of him to anyone that isn’t Yoshiki. He is overprotective of Yoshiki when it comes to other spirits coming near him.

## History

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## Abilities

### Insides

Although his body is dead, it still has warmth, organs, and humanly functions such as a pulse – it is shown that he is capable of bleeding, eating, and breathing. He can also open slits anywhere on his body to reveal tentacle-like appendages, which he calls his “ugly” side. With his insides he can enter other people’s bodies, and kill if he wants to (which he often does with other spirits). According to Yoshiki, his insides are cold and feel like raw chicken covered in marinade.

His insides usually only leak out when he gets emotional.

### Consuming other spirits

Hikaru can use his insides to crush up and consume other spirits. However, if the spirit resits or fights back, he may show signs of taking physical damage, such as a nosebleed.

### Self-Healing

"Hikaru" can heal his own injuries. But since he feels almost no pain at all, he typically leaves small injures alone and only heals wounds that are bad enough to restrict his movement.

### Seeing and Hearing

As part of the Indou family, "Hikaru" and past Hikaru can both see and hear spirits.

## Trivia

* Mokumoku Ren uses references of foxes to draw Hikaru.*[citation needed]*
* According to the pilot episode, the “brainsnatcher” wandered the mountain as a blank entity. It is highly feared by the elders of their town. After taking over Hikaru’s body as he was dying it inherited all of his desires, wants, and personality.
* Yoshiki noted that while it’s supposed to be a perfect replica of Hikaru, there are certain things that are exclusive to ‘Hikaru’.
* In the Japanese publications of the series, "Hikaru"'s name is written in katakana (ヒカル), whereas the human Indou Hikaru's name is written using kanji (光).
* In the pilot chapter it is revealed that before Hikaru died, he had intense feelings for Yoshiki, which is what drives "Hikaru" to feel the way he does. “Stay with Yoshiki” was also Hikaru’s final plea to the Brain-snatcher.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 1
2. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Volume 1, Chapter 4
4. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 5
5. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 1
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Volume 2, Chapter 10
7. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 6
8. ↑ Volume 4, Chapter 17