Kate Akogare

Kate Akogare is an original character from the Pretty Cure based fan-series, Sakura of the Heavens. She is Auroa Shiranoro's childhood friend and a major character.

## Appearance

Kate has dark auburn colored, medium-long length hair that is usually worn in a mid-high ponytail and red colored eyes. Kate's fashion style is casually sportswear which consists of a tank top that is also a crop top worn with a jacket usually pushed down to her arms and knee length pants.

## Personality

Those who meet Kate through Auroa waste no time in finding out how strict she is. Kate is known to constantly scold others about anything she catches as unacceptable to her, as she like a mother or an older sister. However, strangely enough, Kate is not notorious like a number of other people with strict personalities. She does not accuse people upon meeting them or talk down on them, but she is rather amiable and does not show her strict side unless the person shows their shortcomings and constantly annoys her with them. However, Kate does not scold people for the pleasure of it; she believes she will better their lives if she is harder on them than most people. Unknowingly though, this usually backfires behind her back especially with people like her childhood friend. Additionally, Kate loves all sports and enjoys exercising. She finds freedom in running around and feeling fresh air in a natural environment. This leads others to assume she aims to become a professional athlete when she grows up, but Kate feels differently. She struggles over whether sports are really her passion or if they are an escape from the world for her.

## Powers

Kate currently doesn't have any heavenly powers, although the fourth angel-wing pendant seems to be radiating around her often as of recent.

## Backstory

Kate was born in Sakurajima, a traditional Japanese town with sakuras in full bloom all year round. However, one day, Kate and her family move to Tokyo for an unknown reason. In Tokyo, Kate moves into a small private house and attends a private middle school in order to become accustomed to city life.

## Relationships

Auroa Shiranoro: Auroa is Kate's childhood friend, whom she regularly admonishes. Kate is always looking out for Auroa and caring for her health more than her own, although it mostly seems like Kate is strict on Auroa for no reason. However, Kate truly cares for her childhood friend, and her mind might even turn irrational, exemplified by her diving into a pond after Auroa fell in, not caring about her own fate.

Orihime Kimeruyu: For some reason, Kate holds grudges against wealthy people, so she naturally despises Orihime deep inside, although it seems her perceptions on rich people will change later on in Sakura of the Heavens. Kate even accuses Orihime straight out, even though she personally didn't do anything to her at all, creating conflict between the two.

## Etymology

"Akogare" means longing, yearning, or aspiration, which may sum up her feelings when playing sports, or it might be a reference to her desires to save Auroa the time she fell into the pond in Orihime's back garden.

"Kate," if written in hiragana can be translated as "even if," a further reference to her feelings of aspiration at various time periods throughout Sakura of the Heavens.

## Trivia

* Kate was originally planned as an original Sakura of the Heavens, although the idea was scrapped because her creater couldn't properly write an introductory chapter for her.
* In Sakura of the Heavens' first version, Kate's first line, directed toward Auroa, in response to asking why the two of them were running to school, was, "Because... you gained weight." However, this line was excluded in later versions, as well as the concept of Auroa and Kate running to school at the beginning of the story.
* Originally, Kate somehow became friends with Taja Meri, the angel who disguised herself as a human on Earth in order to guide the Heavenly Sakuras in their quest.
* Kate most likely will receive the fourth pendant and become the fourth Heavenly Sakura, although there are other contenders.