aoi asahina

Aoi's athleticism is a core aspect of her personality and sense of self, and she participates in multiple sports including track, basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and her favorite sport: competitive swimming. Aoi is a young Olympic cadet who aims to win a Gold Medal for swimming in future Olympic games. Her younger brother Yuta, also a very strong swimmer, admits that Aoi is a better swimmer than him. By her own admission, Aoi spends nearly all of her time training and trying to improve her fitness in some way, including wearing shorts all year round - even in winter - to build up her resistance to sickness, and practising the self-healing technique known as Kanpu masatsu.For Aoi, her love of sports doesn't come from her desire to win, but for the love of competing and striving to better herself. In her own words: "What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top. It's that excitement, that fear that you might suffer a heartbreaking loss. When you finally reach that goal, it's just...lonely. It's lonely at the top, ya know? So that's why I want to push myself as hard as possible when it comes to swimming. I want to aim for the very highest mountaintop!"

Energetic & Athletic: Aoi is constantly moving, participating in multiple sports (track, volleyball, etc.) and is a competitive swimming prodigy.

Loyal and Emotional: She deeply cares for her friends, especially Sakura Ogami, and takes deaths very personally, leading to intense grief.

Impulsive & Airheaded: She can be naive, sometimes slow to understand complex situations, and prone to jumping into action without thinking, which can cause her trouble.

Stubbornness: While generally cheerful, she can be incredibly stubborn during trials, particularly when protecting those she cares about.

Sweet Tooth: She has a notable obsession with donuts

Aoi is a warm, cheerful, upbeat, and outgoing girl who is friendly and welcoming towards everyone she meets, trying to make friends with everybody and include them in her activities. Aoi can be quite air-headed and forgetful, relying on the memory trick of writing people's names three times on her hand in order to remember them - a trick she also taught to her brother, Yuta. Due to being quite air-headed, she can be easily manipulated by others and jump to conclusions or take them at face value, often being one of the few to fall for killers' tricks and misdirection during Class Trials. Aoi is an extremely athletic person and considers it an absolutely fundamental part of herself, using it as an important coping mechanism in her daily life and feeling like she "might die" if she can't exercise. Although Aoi is a star athlete in the running to become an Olympic swimmer, Aoi is insecure that being athletic, which is seen as quite a masculine activity, makes her undesirable to others and might lead to her never finding love. She's also concerned that her extreme sweet tooth, particularly her love of eating donuts, is going to make her fat. Her positive attitude is truly challenged by the events of the Killing Game, and it fundamentally changes her outlook on the world and her relationships. She is extremely loyal to her friends to such a degree that, when they are harmed, it shatters her ability to emotionally cope. She very nearly falls into despair during the events of the Killing School Life, as the emotional snowball of the continuous deaths compounded her sadness exponentially, crying alone in her room in the evenings and frequently comfort eating. This came to a breaking point after the death of Sakura Ogami, where she felt so hopeless to the point she was willing to get herself and the other survivors killed to avenge the death of her closest friend, who had been shunned by the rest of the group. It took the support of her other classmates and learning that Saku