As said in the profile, Suou Tamaki is a second year student at Ouran High School, founder of the popular Host Club and referred as King (or Lord) all around. He gets along with just about everyone and is admired by both his female and male class mates. He tends to believe everyone has good intentions right off the bat, the only exception to this could be if anyone threatens to harm (emotionally or physically) someone he cares about... or really, any other person besides himself.

However, he dedicates his most charming attentions to the female crowd, never crossing the line beyond being extremely polite and a honest gentleman and charmer. Despite what other people (mainly, the twins) may say, Tamaki is no playboy, but rather feels a pure kind of love and admiration for women as a whole.

Tamaki is also a walking contradiction. He's ranked second in his class by grades (behind his best friend, Ootori Kyouya), but acts naively and very child-like most of the time. He's amazingly curious about everything, but especially what he calls "commoner's customs and culture". He's an acute observant, which allows him to understand other people's feelings easily and empathise with them almost to a dangerous degree. However, that ability disappears whenever it's him the one involved -- both when the situation is directed at him, or when the time comes for him to understand his own feelings.

It's hard to imagine that within Tamaki's life lies a true drama of soap opera proportions. The boy is the only son of Ouran High School's Board Chairman and also technically the only heir to the Suou fortune and business. There's more to that, though. His father, Suou Yuzuru, married very early with a woman his mother had chosen for him, only because the previous Suou patriarch died at a young age. However, on a trip to France he fell in love with the woman who would be Tamaki's mother. Yuzuru divorced his wife hoping his mother would be obliged to accept her and Tamaki into the family.

However, she refused, and Tamaki and her (moreover, sickly) mother remained in France by themselves till he was 14 years old. At that time, Tamaki's mother's family business failed, which left them with a huge debt. And also, the grandmother began worrying about not having an heir to the Suou family... so she came up with a plan. She would sustain Tamaki's mother in exchange for bringing Tamaki to Japan and make him the family heir. He would also have to stop all contact with his mother from then on.

Being practically the only family he knew (though his father would come visit him from time to time), Tamaki was awfully close with his mother and spent most of his life taking care of her or at least trying to cheer her up, something that also deprived him of having any friends. And because he loves his mother dearly and wants nothing more than her to live, he decides to accept his grandmother's proposition. Soon after, her mother moved away as if going into hiding, probably out of loneliness or grief for having exchanged his son for money.

One would think that, since it was his grandmother who brought him to Japan, he would be well-received. Nothing of the sort. It looks like the grudge against the French woman who "seduced" her son also extends to Tamaki, to the point of having the boy stay in a mansion other than the main one. She even goes as far as to not allowing the boy to touch her, claiming that he's "filthy", in public.

Now, however dramatic all of this is, there's something about Tamaki everyone eventually learns. There's no other side to him. There's not a profound pitch black hole in his heart hidden by his happy-go-lucky exterior. There's no protective shield keeping him from showing his inner anger or discontent towards his situation. Whatsoever. Tamaki is, plain and simple, what we see of him. He's honest with his actions, thoughts and feelings (at least, with those he knows of), and doesn't hold a grudge against anyone because of his situation. Not only that, but he's totally accepted it as part of his life. He's blessed with a seemingly never-ending surplus of energy and a frightening positive mind which allows him to overcome anything.

Not to say his past hasn't affected him at all. Tamaki's got his own set of mommy/daddy issues and an obsessive admiration towards the family institution, which he reflects upon the Host Club and Haruhi. Nonetheless, Tamaki is a boy of earthly pleasures and dreams --nothing makes him happier than playing hide and seek with his friends, eating homemade food on a kotatsu or collecting candy wraps.