The first thing most people notice about Honoka is that she is a.) a ball of pure sunshine, and b.) super extremely all the time in your face enthusiastic. She's a go-getter, a natural born leader, the person who takes your hand and drags you to certain danger fun and advernture where previously you may have been too afraid. She's courageous and brave and has a zest for life that's beyond compare. She’s very optimistic and bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, positive, and excited about everything.

As stated previously, Honoka is a natural leader. She has a keen ability to find things in common with all different types of people, all different personalities, and bring them together. She’s like this giant sparkly ball of warm, loving glue that sticks everyone together and keeps them that way. Even though their idol group started just as she and her two best friends (who I will address in a minute), they managed to recruit six other girls - and most of this was due to the fact that Honoka is so magnetic. The group itself was magnetic, but even when there’s tension, Honoka reminds all of the girls that they’re all there because they love to sing and dance together. It’s about forming bonds and connections and doing what they all enjoy, together. Nobody can resist Honoka Kousaka when she decides to rally!

She has a way of bringing people out of their shells and into the light. When she was a child, when she first met Umi - one of her two very best friends - she was extremely shy and wary of other people. Honoka wasn’t shy at all about inviting her to play in the game she and Kotori were engaged in, and a lifelong friendship was born. That’s just how Honoka functions. She reaches down into a person once she meets them and touches their life, and she yanks out the best and brightest version of them. She can’t help it. In Myers-Briggs terms, Honoka is absolutely a textbook ENFP, “The Inspirer”.

She’s very extroverted. Not only is she very much a people person, but she’s also very open-hearted and open… in general. She’s not terribly conservative with her emotions, and she doesn’t mask her feelings well. She may not even try to mask them. There’s really no point; she’s an open book. Heart on her sleeve, out in the open for everyone to see, Honoka’s emotions are on display all the time. Whether she’s irritated, sad, excited, or just relaxed, it’s impossible not to know. She wears it in her mannerisms, her facial expressions, her posture… Her emotions are in everything she does. She is a very feeling person. She is incredibly sentimental, deeply affected by her surroundings and the people in them.

Generally speaking, she is a very kind and warm girl. She’s nice to everyone around her, often to the degree where it might be considered impolite. She’s almost too nice. Her kindness can sometimes become overbearing... When she has a goal in mind, she’s persistent about it. Usually, this is a good thing! But sometimes it can be a bit much, and she can get a little tunnel-visiony about things. Most of the time she’s pretty perceptive to the feelings of her friends and the people around her, but she - just like any other teenage girl with big dreams and big ambitions - can forget to see the forest for the trees and get caught up in her own little world. The most glaring instance of this was when Kotori was truly torn between going to Italy and staying with her friends and the idol group, and Honoka couldn’t seem to understand the fact that Kotori was sending her signals, practically begging her through her actions to ask Kotori to stay).

She isn’t really selfish intentionally (though she’s been known to barter and bargain and make deals with people to get something she wants from them when she really, really needs or wants it), but sometimes she just gets so focused on the goal she has in mind that she simply spaces the fact that what she does has an effect on other people. She can also be pretty stubborn in conjunction with this, and that stubbornness - while it helps her (and her friends) reach their end goal - can be a lot to handle, and unintentionally hurtful. It is more often than not something fairly minor, but she always feels guilty and is quick to apologize as soon as she realizes there have been feelings hurt.

All in all, Honoka is a bright and beaming young woman with big dreams, lofty goals, and all of the drive and motivation and enthusiasm to achieve them all!! She can do anything she puts her mind to, and so long as she has her friends, she’ll always be just fine.

She’s an exceptional motivator and leader, and she can sing and dance pretty well!! Otherwise, she’s just a regular teenage girl.

Aaah, hello!! ( a very ginger very loud very excited young lady pops up, video and all, on the network. she’s waving, cheerful and bright in the eyes and cheeks, a wide smile on her face. ) My name is Honoka Kousaka!! I’m sixteen years old, and I would like very much for you to consider allowing me to be student council president for the next school year. I was school council president back at home, and I would really love to do it again!! I promise I’ll do everything I can to make the student experience here fun, exciting, and engaging, and to help to bring the highest benefit to you from your time in school here. ( she bows and her hair flops over and basically she’s just really, really, grossly cute. ) I’m a very good leader!! I won’t disappoint you! ( how can you say no to a face beaming like this, seriously ) I also helped to form my school's School Idol group. I was their leader, as well! Oh -- well, sort of! We shared the role, but it was my idea... We all worked together! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I can do the job. I'd be very good at it. Please consider me!