Suou Tamaki--President of the Host Club
This gallant charmer is a classic dandy whose every pose and movement radiate a carefully studied elegance. Just enough of a con man to make the school's female students pay for the privilege of attending the Host Club's exquisite parties and entertainments, but just enough of a romantic to truly believe that "The Host Club exists to bring fortune to ladies!", he's the group's founder and unquestioned king. Condescending (though he may not mean to be) and lofty, but with a natural grace that can put anyone at ease, he's a genuine gentleman--though he is prone to outbursts of hyper-dramatic emotion on occasion. (And intellectually...not perhaps the sharpest knife in the drawer.) He plays the piano beautifully, and is a genius at seeing into anyone's true feelings, though he can be surprisingly blind to his own. Don't let his artifice fool you: he has a strong sense of fairness and won't see others abused (when one of his own wealthy clients becomes jealous of his attentions to Haruhi and attacks the newcomer, he banishes her on the spot). And more than anything else--I think--it's his enthusiasm and infectious joie de vivre that make the Host Club what it is. Perceptive Haruhi assesses him perfectly: "He has an overwhelming power: he accepts everything that happens and transforms it with his own energy." --Tamaki has a serious crush on Haruhi as a girl, but realizes that her value to the Club --and the only way she can pay off her considerable debt--is in playing the role of host, so is forced to maintain the charade that she's a boy.