<br/><strong>"Real" Name:</strong>Kyugami Hoshino<br/><strong>Screen Name:</strong>Kagero (And she is quite aware of the cliche, thank you<em>very</em>much.)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Hoshino is the daughter of a fairly well off family that is in the Import/Export business, which is a polite facade for some less than legal activities.  While she is expected to marry into another family, an arranged marriage that has been in the works for some time, she insisted on a formal and complete education and was allowed to continue her education in the university.  The indulgence isn't exactly frowned upon by her fiancee, fortunately; he is enjoying his freedom as well, and they came to an equitable arrangement with one another well outside of either of their family's influence.  Her areas of study include fashion design, photography, and the sciences.  She is also a bit of an otaku, fascinated by the many anime centered on strong but doomed female characters, a secret she kept from most of her classmates in her younger years.  Now Hoshino enjoys shocking her more sophisticated friends with her knowledge of anime and MMORPGs in the university, hobbies that don't match her appearance or scholarly pursuits at all.  Hoshino first met Sara outside of class, and thought she would be a wonderful model, both for photography and for some of her more Eurocentric clothing styles.  It wasn't long before she developed a close friendship with the Canadian, one which many of her Japanese friends laughingly tease Hoshino about<em>being that way</em>.  The fact that she IS<em>that way</em>is her best kept secret.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Hoshino is enjoying her freedom as much as possible; she has only two more years before she has to get married, and while she doesn't mind her fiancee, the truth is that she hasn't any interest in him or the family businesses.  Part of their secret arrangement is her having a child, and she knows that will put an end to most of the possibilities of fun in her life, so she has made  point of doing as much as possible, as often as possible.  While she is maintaining a good grade average, the fact is she is far more interested in taking her friends - and especially Sara - to cool new places, showing her the bizarre and amazing side of life in the big Japanese city, and indulging in the fantasy of a life with someone other than her husband to be.  Someone she can truly love, as she has started to love Sara.  The event of Sword Art Online''s grand opening was one more exotic location to take Sara to, and hidden behind the avatar of a pretty shinobi-girl she wouldn't have to worry about anyone judging her if she chose to see if the signals she was getting from Sara were not just her over-eager imagination...<br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Hoshino keeps herself very fit, and genetics has been kind to her.  She is a tall, curvy young woman, standing at 5' 8", and having a slightly larger than average bust for the Japanese.  She takes pride in her appearance, and keeps her hair long and body fit through yoga and tai chi.  Hoshino is something of a clothes-horse, keeping abreast of the latest fashion trends.<br/><br/><strong>Preferred equipment type:</strong>Kagero prefers very light armors and small hand weapons such as daggers, shuriken and claws but her Sword Skills tend to focus on Martial techniques, or Martial+Short Blade techniques.<br/><strong>Play style:</strong>Kagero focuses on quick and close assault, using her speed to get in close and avoid injury.  When she is in close, she uses her Short Blade skills to parry and feint before inflicting devastating Martial attacks on her opponents.  She does know she has to complete a Quest on the 7th level before she can become truly proficient in the Martial skills.<br/><br/>(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/735/21289721670_26404f19f8.jpg)(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/744/21289895508_9dc4ffab99.jpg)(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/713/20855003814_b76b25daf3.jpg)(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5770/21451468916_f93f91d719.jpg)<br/>