Name: Hikari KanemotoRing Name: HKR (pronounced "Hikari")
Age: 22
Hair Color: Light pink
Eye Color: Violet
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 133 lb
Appearance: Lithe and shapely, HKR has a glamorous beauty to her and a bright smile that's just intense enough to come off as disingenuous. She wears minimalist white-and-red ring gear with a short skirt. Her entrance attire is more elaborate, with flowing detached sleeves, jewelry, and a tiara, all of which she removes before the match starts.
Making an entrance
Glammed up
Just another day at the office
You want a sniff?
Beach episode
Sent to your phone at 3:45 AM
Entrance music
Billed From: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Fighting Style: HKR is remarkably versatile across a variety of styles and wrestles with no regard for anyone's health or safety, including her own. She's as likely to put you in an elaborate lucha hold or elbow the taste out of your mouth as she is to smother you or break a light tube over your skull. Fast-paced and relentless, she refuses to de-escalate and will often push the boundaries of what's permitted within a match, or encourage others to do so. Her biggest weakness is her total lack of ability at high flying, which wouldn't be an issue if she'd just stop jumping off things onto people. Or trying to.
Preferred Match Types: She'll try anything. Hardcore / No DQ is always a treat, though, as is anything that gives HKR an excuse to be cruel.
Finisher: Thief-Taker (Cobra clutch with bodyscissors) "I like to look in their eyes while they fade."
Signature Moves: Ichimonji (Ripcord back elbow strike) "See, you think it's going to be a Rainmaker and then I bust you in the mouth. Not like that. Well, maybe like that, but after the match."
Falling Star Drop (Backdrop driver) "It's not fancy. Sometimes you just have to drop a bitch on her head."
Secret Anime Power-Up Finisher: Oh No! Another Year (Hurrah! Another Year) "This one takes a lot of setup, but like, how do you get out of it once it's on? Even I don't know."
Out of the Ring
Personality: Spoiled materially by a family that nonetheless withheld any meaningful affection, Hikari Kanemoto grew up to be a total mess. Her good looks, show-off nature, and superficial charm make her seem approachable and fun, and her obvious passion for pro wrestling makes her an engaging and complex challenge in the ring. These things make it easy to be caught off guard when the psycho shit inevitably comes out. Seemingly apathetic about everything and everyone, Hikari only cares about staving off her existential boredom with whatever kind of extreme behavior appeals to her at the moment. Mostly, this comes out through her sadistic tendencies (making LAW a great career choice because it gives her an excuse to torment people without consequence), although she's also quite self-destructive and takes risks impulsively. She treats life the way most people play Skyrim, seemingly heedless of the fact that real life has no quickload and that other people aren't NPCs. Somewhere under all of this, Hikari is deeply discontent and lonely, aware that her cruel debauchery will never fill the empty space in her heart, but that's not going to take her foot off the gas pedal.
History: Hikari is the fourth child of Kagetsu Heavy Industries CEO Nobuo Kanemoto, and was born in Sapporo during a snowy January. Her parents were constantly occupied with running their corporation and had no time for one child, let alone four, so Hikari was raised by a series of nannies and tutors, none of whom did much beyond the bare minimum. She quickly started acting out and became a problem child, getting into fights at school and bullying others, which was obviously not acceptable in a household that would brook no embarrassment. Things would have eventually reached a breaking point if Hikari hadn't discovered pro wrestling, which quickly became one of the few things that held not just her interest, but her obsession. She watched whenever she could (on TV, online, in person), and it wasn't long before she realized that this was the outlet she'd been looking for.
After graduating from high school, Hikari decided not to go to college and began training in wrestling instead. This was tacitly encouraged (and funded) by the family since it would keep her out of anything business-related. She made her pro debut at 18 as a masked gimmick called Lady Stardust and went on a four-year international excursion, quickly making a name for herself as both a skilled wrestler and a loose cannon who was an unquestionable liability to herself and everyone around her. In light of that, it was a surprise that LAW chose to pick her up, repackaging her without the mask. But less of a surprise that in all of her out-of-competition appearances, HKR's accompanied by a group of representatives from LAW's legal department, who try to keep her from doing anything that could get the company in trouble. Their success rate is...okay, at best.
Random Trivia
- Her favorite color is electric purple. "It just works. I mean, it doesn't go with everything, but...it just works."
- HKR has an OnlyFans. Don't subscribe, it's a trap. The ratio of lewds to videos where she just berates you is like one to twelve.
- The Falling Star Drop was her finisher as Lady Stardust. "I still use it once in a while these days, because backdrop drivers rule, except when they kill Misawa."
- HKR speaks Japanese, English, and strangely enough, Yoruba. "It's cause I have a hookup in Roppongi. You know. For stuff, and things."