Kyouya Ootori (鳳 鏡夜 ,Ōtori Kyōya?), age 17, is a second-year student at Ouran High School and the cunning and sly vice-president of the Host Club. Kyouya is best friends with Tamaki, despite their completely different demeanors. Tamaki tends to call him "Mom", or "Mother", in reference to Tamaki calling himself "Daddy". Kyouya is secretive and intelligent, being able to calculate any benefits that would come out of the Host Club's misadventures. Despite having quite antagonistic traits, the Host Club wouldn't be as half as successful without Kyouya's uptight resourcefulness. Although he doesn't put an act for the women, he is considered the "cool type." He lives with his father, an affluent zaibatsu owner specializing in hospital management, two brothers that he has to surpass to become his father's successor, and an older sister who deeply cares about him. According to an author's note, if Hatori Bisco had been allotted 40 pages for the first chapter of the manga instead of 50, she would have cut Kyouya from the cast, but is glad this did not happen as, "Since the rest of the members are the way they are, he is invaluable for maintaining order and offering explanations." Bisco named him after his characteristic of wearing glasses by taking the last syllable of gankyō, meaning a pair of glasses. His name is romanized by Viz Media as Kyouya Ohtori, by Chuang Yi as Kyoya Ootori, by FUNimation as Kyouya Otori, and by Nippon Television's Japanese-language website as Kyouya Ootori. Birthday: November 22