Hotaru Akiyama

> *“Dad use to call me his mischievous little monkey, because of all the trouble I would cause. But he and Grandpa broke all the rules when they messed with time to save Mom and Auntie Rinko. I'm just following the family tradition.”*
> —Hotaru
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**Hotaru Akiyama** (秋山 蛍, *Akiyama Hotaru*) is the daughter of Tatsurou Akiyama and Yukikaze Mizuki and the sister of Wataru Akiyama. A future version of Hotaru appeared before her family to cryptically warn and aid them against a multiversal threat. Although her mischievous nature and questionable methods often comes into conflict with the Taimanin and other heroes who initially mistook the future Hotaru as a malicious adversary.

## Appearance

The present day version Hotaru is a young girl who is stated to look identical to her mother when Yukikaze was her age. Hotaru has purple hair similar to her father and aunt albeit in much lighter tone. She also inherited her grandmother's red eyes.

Her Future version looks similar to her grandmother and aunt with her body being curvaceous and erotic body coupled with a huge pair of breasts.

Future Hotaru wears a minimalist purple armor with golden ornaments consisting of a part covering her arms, another covering her legs, plus another covering her torso with a pink bra-like portion.

She also wears a golden hairband, two hair clips holding her ponytails, in the same style as her armor, and pink heels. Future Hotaru claims to have model her appearance after her mentor and hero, Sun Wukong. She gains a monkey-like tail when drawing on the powers of her "inner demon". Her weapon is a rod like weapon.

## Abilities

* **Wind elemental manipulation:** Inherited her father's ability to manipulate the wind.
* **Lightning manipulation:** Inherited her mother's ability to manipulate lightning. Although she can't generate as much lightning as Yukikaze, Hotaru is shown to have better control of the lightning she can create. She can control the electricity around her to a limited degree.
	+ **Reanimation**: Hotaru has the ability to infuse her lightning into the nervous system of a recent deceased corpse and then is able to remotely manipulate the body. Corpses under her control are left in an undead state, and seem to have some level or awareness. The duration of how long the body will remain animated is dependent on the size of the body, time of death, and how often they are able to be "recharged" by Hotaru. Arguably, her greatest feat with this ability is when she was able to reanimate a Kaiju. Although, she had to remain in constant contact with the undead creature to keep it animated. Use of this power is a subject of controversy among the heroes due to its macabre nature.
* **Weather manipulation**: Using a combination of her abilities to control wind and lightning, Hotaru is able to create weather phenomenons within a 1 km range.
	+ **Cloud manipulation**: She is able to generate clouds that are dense enough to be touched. They are capable of carrying large amount of weights. Hotaru would often use her clouds as her main form of transportation. She can also use them as shields.

* **Portal Creation:** Much like her aunt, Hotaru is able to generate portals. But unlike Rinko, Hotaru's portals can allow her to travel through time and different dimensions. Although creating these portals are very taxing on Hotaru's body. Hotaru claims she can only safely create 2 portals within 12 hours (from her perspective) that has intended destinations. Any portals created past that limited will be unstable, and will result in any travelers being taken to a random point in time and space outside of Hotaru's control.
* **Bōjutsu:** She trained under the legendary Sun Wukong and became a master of using the bo staff.

## Etymology

* The name **Hotaru** means "firefly" (蛍).
* Hotaru's surname **Akiyama** means "autumn" (秋) (**aki**) and "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**).