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Koharu Honda is a fan-made character for the series Hetalia: Axis Powers, and represents the city of Tokyo.

Appearance:
Koharu is a shorter girl in her early twenties with dark brown eyes and dark brown hair that reaches just about her mid-back. She has bangs that reach just above her eyebrows, cut into a hime cut. Her skin is a pale olive shade. Typically, Koharu wears a pair of pale pink and white kanzashi in her hair on either side of her head, the rest of her hair down. These hair accessories represent the cherry blossom festival that takes place in Tokyo every year. For clothing, formally, she will wear a pale pink and white kimono, which has a pale pink tsubaki print adorning the hem about three quarters of the way up to the obi, which is a light tan. The obi jime, (Basically, the string/chord that ties around the obi) is deep pink. The obiage (Wide belt underneath the obi) is a deep pink as well, but slightly lighter than the obi jime

The sleeves are adorned with the tsubaki print as well, about up to the shoulders before fading to white, which is the color of the collar. For shoes, she  wears a pair of wooden geta (wooden flip-flops) and a pair of tabi (white socks, separating the big toe from the rest of the toes.)

Casually, Koharu still wears the kanzashi, but instead of a kimono, she wears a white frilly jacket that stops just above her rib cage, a pale yellow blouse with a white lace Peter Pan collar, and puffed sleeves. As well of this, she wears a pale pink ruffled tulle skirt with baby blue floral layers. The top of the skirt is adorned by a small white bow. For shoes, she wears a pair of white Mary Janes with a slight heel, and a pair of black tights. This outfit represents Japanese street style, which can be commonly be found in Tokyo, Japan.

Personality and interests
Tokyo is a kind, smiley girl, who has a bit of a perverted side, but gets flustered easily. She has a bit of a rebellious streak, (representing rebellions that have happened in her past), and she likes her space, like her older brother, following the stereotype. She also has a fear of explosives, and loud, sudden bangs. (This represents the severe bombing Tokyo received in WWII.) She loves to dress herself in many bizarre fashions, or 'harajuku', a common street style in Tokyo. She likes to play games, read manga, and watch anime, following the stereotype. She has a preference for small, fuzzy creatures, aka 'kawaii' or 'harajuku' animals and other small creatures. She loves to work with electronic things, and is quite good at it as well. One of her other traits is that she is quite careful with what she spends. (Representing the fact that Tokyo has the best metropolitan economy in the world.)

History:
As a child, Tokyo represented no more than a small fishing village called Edo, which was first fortified by the Edo clan in the late twelfth century. Edo castle was built by Ōta Dōkan in 1457, and Tokugawa Ieyasu made his base there and became shogun in 1603.

By this time, Koharu was around 8, and the town became the center of Tokugawa's nationwide military government.

By the 18th century, Edo had grown from a small village to one of the largest cities in the world, topping 1,000,000 residents.

Koharu, now 13, was watching in awe as her city grew more and more. Edo became the Capitol of Japan in 1863, changing from Kyoto. During this time, Koharu, now 15, and her city enjoyed a prolonged period of peace known as the Pax Tokugawa. In the presence of such peace, Edo adopted a policy of seclusion to keep away military threats. However, Koharu and her people were plagued with fires, earthquakes, and many other devastating natural disasters. The seclusion gave her time to rebuild.

Her era of peace ended when America arrived in 1853. He negotiated the opening of the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate, leading to an increase in foreign demands for goods that were hard to keep up with. Koharu had many sleepless nights (representing the social unrest in the city at the time) due to the mounting prices on rice, and other goods.

Soon enough, Koharu, now 16, was beginning to feel as if she had to do something about this. Rebellions and uprisings began against these mounting prices, mostly in the form of refusing to buy the rice altogether.

Soon enough, supporters of the Meiji empire, disturbed by the widespread disruption caused by Edo, they overthrew the last Tokugawa Shogun, ending the Pax Tokugawa, that lasted nearly 263 years.

In 1869, the emperor moved to Edo, and the city was renamed Tokyo. Koharu, renamed Tokyo, became the imperial Capitol because of this. The city of Tokyo was established on May 1, 1889.

== WWII Era: == Around the time Koharu turned 17, in 1943, the city of Tokyo merged with the metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo. Koharu herself was happy, but that was short lived.

Her city suffered severe destruction, due to the persistent air raids on Japan from the allied forces, and the use of incendiary bombs.

The bombing of Tokyo in 1945 was estimated to have killed up to 75,000 and 200,000 civilians, and Koharu watched in horror as more than half of her home was destroyed.

Koharu no longer felt safe, which felt strange to her since her city, and her country had experienced such a long period of peace.

On the deadliest night of the war, March 9-10, 1945, nearly 700,000 incendiary bombs rained on the eastern half of the city. This was mainly in heavily residential areas. Two fifths of the city completely burned, more than 276,000 buildings gone, 100,000 dead, and 110,000 more injured.

Her physical state was more fragile than it usually was due to the constant bombings, and the destruction of her city. It was the most terrified she had felt. Her body became weaker as well.

(This represents the severe population decrease in the city from 6,700,000 to 2,800,000.)

The rebuilding was slow, but sure, and lasted through the times when Koharu turned 18 and 19. The city, and Koharu, now 20, were completely rebuilt, and by the end of the war, Tokyo and her brother Japan proudly showed off her newly rebuilt home to the rest of the world during the 1964 Olympics. The city continues to grow today.

Relationships:
 London: Tokyo and London are very good friends. (Representing the fact that Tokyo and London have a partnership agreement) They are often seen discussing different types of music. (Due to types of music varying in these cities.)

Japan (Honda Kiku): Tokyo's older brother. Japan and Tokyo have a typical brother/sister relationship, and share many of the same interests. They often discuss different manga or anime they have seen. (This is because anime and manga are usually published in Tokyo.)

Seoul: Seoul and Tokyo have a rocky relationship, and they are a bit sour towards one another, but have been trying to get along recently. They have one of those relationships where one minute they get along, another minute, they're arguing over who gets the last cookie.

(this is because of the recent developments between these two cities.)

America: Tokyo and America have pretty good relationship, considering he helped her and her brother rebuild.

Trivia:
Tokyo's favorite flower is a cherry blossom.

(Made Using Kisekae)

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