Yozora Hoshinomiya

"Mayumi was cheering me up yesterday. She said that my talent can help us! So... I'll stop being afraid of my predictions."

- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

Yozora Hoshinomiya (星ノ宮 夜空) was a student at Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th and participant of the Killing School Life. Also knew as Supernova (超新星), she was a young fortune teller that received the title of Ultimate Clairvoyant (超高校級の占い師, lit. Super High School Level Fortune Teller).

Appearance
Yozora was a considerably tall, young woman with tanned skin and long purple hair tied in a left sided ponytail with an aquarius hairpin, her own astrological sign. She wore a tank top with a generous black neckline and a red jacket is tied around her waist; her skirt is halfway down her thighs and is also black. She doesn't wore any socks, but white sneakers. She had several accessories: various golden necklaces on her neck, a moon earring on her right ear, a piercing on the left corner of her lip, silver bracelets on her left wrist and some silver anklets on her right ankle.

Personality
Yozora was a very energetic and bubbly individual. She is described as eccentric and claims to be able to talk with spirits as she talks with herself. Very susceptible, she believes in astrological signs and has many religions. Yozora may appear very in invasive as she can easily tell what others are thinking and discover their pasts quickly, as she did with Amaya Hayama and Yukio Shizukane.

Yozora is very polite and treats everyone with respect, even the ones that are not that friendly. As she correctly predicted that something bad would happen with them, she proved to be quite fearful and, similar to Yasuhiro Hagakure from the original game, is quite coward. Yozora is not that smart, too, and prefer to be guided by people like Yukio, Mitsuru and Amaya in the trials.

It was not until Mayumi Kirisaki hanging out with her that Yozora stopped being paranoic and more confident in herself, as well as more lively and friendly. It is revealed that Mayumi used her hypnosis to help Yozora in dealing better with their situation, and thus, was with her all the time.

Talent and Abilities
As the Ultimate Clairvoyant, Yozora had an incredible percentage of hits on her predictions. She could tell how people are feeling easily through something she call "auras". Although it is most likely not real, she firmly believed that she could talk with spirits and was always talking "with herself".

Yozora is very observant and diligent about people's thoughts. She could easily tell Amaya and Yukio's families just looking at them. She could also tell that something terrible was about to happen; just a day before Ryo Fukukado's death, she correctly guessed that someone would die soon.

Early life
Yozora was born in a poor family as the only child. Although not living in the better place, she was quite happy with what she had and got through the years. She was always solitary because the other children found her weird as she talked with herself all the time and appeared to be in another reality. Yozora didn't have friends but considered the spirits she talked to her friends.

One day, though, she predicted that one of her classmates would hurt himself in a P.E. class. She tried to warn him and his friends, but he didn't listen to her. As the class started, he really did hurt himself and in the exact same way that Yozora told him about. Thenceforward, her "spiritual powers" would grow up and she became popular among the school, soon starting to work in these type of job and earning a good amount of money which she used to help her parents.

She used to attend Middle Forest High School (森中高校) before she was invited by Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Clairvoyant.

Killing School Life
Yozora was among the sixteen that were trapped inside Hope's Peak. She apparently woke up at the School Store or somewhere near it, and was then found by Amaya and Yukio who were exploring the school and introducing themselves to the other students. As everyone was called to the gym by Monokuma, she started to panic. She didn't want to believe that they were in danger and had to kill each other to leave.

During chapter one, Yozora was very erratic and didn't interact much with her classmates. Her motive video had her parents and she got really scared. A day before the first body discovery announcement, she correctly predicted that someone would die soon, scaring Yukio. She followed the investigation and trial, became more desperate than before as she witnessed Enju Otsuka's execution alongside the others survivors. After the trial, Mayumi Kirisaki tried to calm her down.

About a few days passed and Yozora presented much more eager and bubbly. She revealed that Mayumi helped her cheer up a bit and started hanging out with her more. When Monokuma showed them their new motive, Yozora was not scared at all with her secret being told, but Mayumi didn't think like that. Unaware of her true past and secrets, the next day arrived and with it, two bodies in a row. She wasn't that much of desperate, but was quite uneasy by the sight.

After the investigation, the trial followed. She didn't want to believe that Mayumi was the culprit for Yuichi Hayase and Sapphire Tennoji's deaths. They voted for her, but Yozora most likely voted for herself. As Mayumi confessed that she actually was Takako Chigusa and did, in fact, hipnotized Sapphire to kill Yuichi and commit suicide afterwards, Yozora became desperate to save her from Monokuma.

But Monokuma said that they missed the vote as the real culprit should be Sapphire and not Mayumi, as she did not kill them directly according to the rules of the killing game. Everyone thought that they would be executed, but he decided to not do that and said that he would execute Mayumi and Yozora instead. Before anyone could protest, they were unfairly executed together instead of everyone else. They didn't die in vain, though, as Monokuma broke his own rules doing that and it was an important clue to unmask the mastermind of the game.

Creation and Development
Yozora is strongly based on Mikoto Aiura from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. They both are fortune tellers and take their lives at an ease pace, although Yozora is more easygoing and polite than Mikoto. When Miika was thinking about her character, she definitely didn't want her to be like her original counterpart, Yasuhiro, as she didn't like him at the game and found him useless to the Danganronpa story.

Her name was easy to make as she already existed as an of Miika. If not a clairvoyant, her talent would be Ultimate Astronomer (超高校級の天文学者), but although very curious about astrology, she wouldn't believe in any of this, being more of a science girl. Her surname means "palace of stars" (星ノ宮), making reference to her beliefs, and her first name means "night sky" (夜空).

Trivia

 * Yukio's first impression about Yozora was as follow: "Much more useful than Yasuhiro, I liked her a lot, even though she is strange in some ways I still know that I will be very surprised by her and her powers, besides she is a very friendly person, so I think it will be easy to be friends with her (I hope)."