Hikari was the Haibane to present Rakka with her glowing halo on her first day awake. Hikari's dream was of being surrounded by a sparkling light. She's also very knowledgeable of the Haibane customs and rules, though she tends to forget to tell Rakka some fairly important details on occasion. Hikari spends much of her day outside Old Home working at a bakery in the center of town. She volunteered to be the Halo Bearer so she could borrow the special mold used to form them. She brought it to the bakery for the bakers to experiment with, leading to the source of Rakka's unusual static electricity causing her hair to stick up every which way due to the sticky halo. Hikari tends to be a bit on the ditzy side, but she genuinely cares for and concerns over the other members of Old Home, especially after Rakka starts to decline.
Haibane Renmei
A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka's own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
