Houki Shinonono
Infinite Stratos
Houki Shinonono is a first-year student at the IS Academy and the primary heroine of the Infinite Stratos series. The younger sister of Tabane Shinonono – the genius who created the IS exoskeleton – and the childhood friend of Ichika Orimura, the world's only male IS pilot, Houki is a national kendo champion whose life was upended when her sister's invention forced her family into hiding, separating her from Ichika for six years. Stern, prideful, and emotionally volatile, she defaults to her shinai when words fail and carries a deep, possessive love for Ichika that she can barely express. Beneath her cold exterior is a girl haunted by guilt – she once grievously wounded Ichika's sister Chifuyu using the IS her sister gave her – and driven by a desperate desire to reclaim the relationship fate stole from her.