A-ya

A-ya (A弥) is one of main characters of the story. He had his debut in the song Lonely Hide and Seek.
==Appearance==
A-ya has slightly long, un-styled black hair with a prominent ahoge (a protruding hair - basically a cowlick) on the top of his head, and dark circles underneath his red eyes from sleep deprivation. He also has slight sanpaku eyes where there is white space below his irises, and has paler skin compared to the other characters. He is usually noted to have a blank expression. According to the others, due to his appearance, it's hard to say that he's a good-looking youth by any standards.Shuuen no Shiori 2: Retribution -Re:vival- Chapter 4: A Dream-Come-True Monkey Hand
He is usually seen wearing his school uniform - a white collared button up shirt with a black V-neck sweater over it, alongside a red and white tie. Over them he wears a beige blazer with red trims, decorated with six red buttons on the lower left side and his school emblem on the left breast of the blazer. He wears red and black plaid trousers and dark shoes.
Outside of school, he wears his casual clothes, which consist of a white collared shirt underneath a hoodie (dually depicted as black or dark blue) with white stripes on the side and black trousers.Lonely Hide and Seek
==Personality==
A-ya is a rather quiet, pessimistic, asocial student with the unusual hobby of spreading "false stories" and rumors, especially those themed around urban legends and the paranormal. B-ko said that he has bad taste in hobbies. The purpose behind this is because he greatly hates his mundane and usually boring life as it is, and seeks for the thrill of fear and his interest in urban legends. Though his face is often unexpressive, when it comes to rumors, he often has to fight back a grin; speaking about urban legends tends to be the only thing that will make him break out into a wide smile and laugh.01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1)
He often gathers after school with B-ko, C-ta and D-ne to talk about ghost stories, urban legends and other rumors in the music room of the old school building, where it was rumored that a great tragedy had happened there over a decade ago. He initially went there with C-ta to talk about his interest, but after B-ko (who wanted to keep an eye on him not spreading rumors about her anymore) and D-ne (who often goes for the sole purpose of spending more time with B-ko) followed them, they started to form a strange, unofficial "club" where they just hang around to talk.
While they spend time together willingly, A-ya doesn't consider their relationship to be friendship, but merely a gathering of acquaintances who share the same interest in the occult and urban legends. In fact, he prefers it that way; close friendship discomforts him, and he doesn't enjoy being around others very much when not engaging in his hobbies. He does appreciate when others take him seriously rather than brushing off his words as a joke, though, and this makes him feel able to tolerate the gathering that they have.
A-ya is noted to be clever, contrary to the first impression others get from him. He investigated the incident from ten years ago from his own perspective, and as a result, is said to have find out the truth about the five victims of the incident. In addition, in the version of the game where A-ya received the Monkey's Paw, A-ya did not make any wishes on it, knowing that its consequences would not be worth it.
It is implied that A-ya heavily regrets wishing away his boring life, as that wish was what have led him to want to try and find the Bookmark in the first place.Re:Missed Call While he urged the group to try and succeed in summoning the Bookmark, he didn't actually want everyone to die; he just wanted something more exciting in his life than the day-to-day monotony he was currently subjected to. 
While summoning the Bookmark was an action that elevated his own desire to escape mundanity over the safety of his clubmates, and rumors tend to create his own amusement at others' expense, he isn't someone who delights in hurting others, or else he wouldn't have taken him killing C-ta in the alternate events of the Demise Game so badly that he would kill himself afterwards. In addition, as a child, when C-ta was in trouble during a playdate they were having with some other children, A-ya stepped forward to help him, solidifying this trait; while he doesn't involve himself much with others, he appreciated that C-ta put in effort to help him socially, and wanted to pay him back.06. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 1)
==Songs==
Main:
*Lonely Hide and Seek
*Common Heroes
*Underdog Supremacy Doctrine
*Bookmark of Demise
*Re:Missed Call
*Mundane Everyday
*Unlucky -Final Days- @ School Trip
*A One-Person Meeting (Lonely One-Man Show)
*Ultramarine Memories
Cameo:
*Perfect Crime Love Letter
==Trivia==
*His zodiac sign is Capricorn.
*His birth flower is the witch-hazel/Hamamelis. It symbolizes ideas such as spiritual and magic ability, as well as insight.https://hananokotoba.com/mansaku/
*His main attribute is his ahoge.https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm26656167
*He is childhood friends with C-ta.03. Impostor Advisory (Part 1) They were initially made to play together due to their families being close, but C-ta later stuck with him by choice.
*His bunny plush was a gift from C-ta when they were younger. A-ya initially only kept it not because he was attached to it, but rather because he was afraid of throwing it away.
*He feels a "gaze" on him 24/7, which actually turned out to be C-ta watching him through four cameras he placed in A-ya's room. C-ta has also placed a microphone in his bag.Shuuen no Shiori Novel 1 Chapter 3 In the official anthology chapter drawn by Wannyanpu, A-ya is aware of the cameras, but doesn't think negatively of them.Shuuen: Parallel
*In the main universe, his death was shown to be because C-ta stabbed him after he saw A-ya stabbing the rabbit plush and naming it "C-ta" to play One-Man Hide and Seek.Shuuen no Shiori Novel 1 In another universe, these roles are somewhat reversed, and A-ya is the one to kill C-ta (though in self-defense), committing suicide after.Shuuen no Shiori 2: Retribution -Re:vival- Chapter 5: Revenge Heroes
*He writes down his thoughts in message drafts on his phone like a diary.
*In the original Comic Gene release of the manga, A-ya was shown using a smartphone. However, in the printed volumes, his smartphone is swapped out for a flip phone.
*According to C-ta, A-ya's lungs are weak, so as a child, he could only hide in dusty places like closets for so long before he was unable to stop coughing.08. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 3)
==Quotes==
*"My hobby is to make up these "false stories". The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to." - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
*"Using a person's tragedy, I direct it as a comedy to the audience." - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
*"In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors'." - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
*"For such a self-analysis, my answer would be 'Pessimistic'." - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
*"In the depths of my heart, I can't stop lying." - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Occult Club
Category:Male Characters