Ai Hoshino

Appearance

Ai was a beautiful and rather slender girl with gradient-colored eyes ranging from purple to pink and a six-pointed star in each of her eyes. On the cover of the first chapter, it was shown that she had reddish-brown hair, but on the cover of the volume, it is shown that she has a more purplish-blue hair color. Her idol outfit was adorned with a pink aesthetic of varying degrees of lighter and darker shades. The outfit's design has an overall frilly appearance. A black belt sits at her waist, and other miscellaneous accessories are present throughout the design: three blue stars on her chest, a heart-shaped necklace on her neck, and a bunny hairpin accented by two gold stars and a pink ribbon.

Personality

When Ai was very young, her mother Ayumi Hoshino was arrested on a theft charge, and even after her release, she did not care enough to raise Ai, causing her to grow up in an orphanage. The environment she suffered from being with her abusive mother made her think of ways to protect herself. Ai lacked any memory of ever loving or being loved, which was prominently displayed when Ichigo Saitou searched for idols to start a group with. She believed that she lacked the qualification to become one due to these reasons, showing a lack of faith in herself. She was quickly convinced to join when Saitou told her that lying is okay, and is in fact a desirable trait. Thus, Ai's perspective began to change. She became convinced that lies are a form of love, a love that is born from the selfish desires of both sides of the spectrum. Ai sought to find an object for her "love." She wanted to learn how to love by telling her fans that her deceitful lies are, in fact, love. This desire also came when she had children, but in a different context. She never said she loved them because being hypocritical with them would be terrifying. Nonetheless, she was shown to enjoy her time with her children and was particularly delighted when the twins put on a flashy performance with idol lights, which shocked the entire venue.