C-ta

C-ta (C太) is one of the main characters of the story. He had his debut in the song Perfect Crime Love Letter.
==Appearance==
C-ta has thin, slightly wavy soft-looking light brown hair and droopy, friendly green eyes. He is the tallest of the main characters, usually seen wearing a lazy smile, and is often described as an ikemen or good-looking.
He usually wears his school uniform - a white collared button down shirt with a V-neck brown 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 right side and his school emblem on the left breast of the blazer. Unlike A-ya, he doesn't button his blazer and instead wears them opened. He also wears red and black plaid trousers and brown shoes.
Outside of school, he wears a dark brown cardigan over a red V-neck shirt, and dark trousers.
==Personality==
C-ta is noted to be, at least on the surface, the most calm and level-headed of the four main characters. He often makes fun of A-ya and B-ko's bickering, and is skilled at making fun of people. He is shown to be popular, but has difficulty talking to girls and doesn't appear to be interested in them. He also speaks for A-ya a lot, chiming in to help him every so often.01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1)
Ever since he was young, C-ta tried to maintain balance in his social life, neither being too perfect nor too pathetic to remain on good standing with others.06. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 1) Because of this, A-ya has compared him to B-ko, who also wears a mask in order to be liked by others, except B-ko's level of "perfection" is more extreme than C-ta's.03. Impostor Advisory (Part 1) This insistence on maintaining balance means that he can be immensely fragile when this balance is disturbed; A-ya revealing that he chatted with B-ko instead of him, for instance, sends C-ta into a panic.
As a child, he and A-ya always played together because their families were friends. A-ya, normally asocial, often did not express his thoughts or feelings, leaving C-ta to do it for him. Because of this, C-ta developed a hero complex, believing that A-ya was useless without him. This was reinforced when A-ya once thanked him for everything, leading him to hold an desire to monopolize A-ya for himself. He even placed microphones, tracking devices, and cameras into A-ya's house and room, claiming that it was to protect him because he was A-ya's 'one and only best friend'.07. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 2) 
The idea that C-ta has of A-ya as helpless means that when A-ya does act on his own accord, C-ta does not know how to react. When C-ta was confronted by his classmates for owning a pink rabbit plushie in sixth grade, A-ya stepping up to help him was for C-ta's own benefit. C-ta, however, cannot accept this, assuming that, rather than it being a simple act of goodwill, A-ya must have been trying to knock him down a peg. Even when A-ya thanks C-ta for helping him over the years, C-ta doesn't take his words as kindness, but as assurance; A-ya was only looking out for himself, because by helping C-ta, it meant that C-ta could continue helping him. This shows that C-ta has a skewed view of relationships, seeing them as purely transactional rather than based on bonds. He sees his other relationships very similarly as well; if he gets along with the right people, he won't be targeted, and he will be friendly with them for that purpose alone.
Though C-ta was initially unaware of it himself, D-ne points out to him that he is codependent on A-ya, meaning that he is dependent on A-ya's dependence. C-ta holds a beautified version of A-ya in his mind's eye; an A-ya that was helpless and wholly dependent on C-ta, who confided his thoughts with only C-ta and would never harm another person. If A-ya ever breaks any parts of his mental image, it causes C-ta to spiral into depression and strengthen his desire to "protect" A-ya even more. 
C-ta's fragile sense of reality means that the slightest change from his expected state will send him into disarray. Seeing A-ya allow his classmate to read the letter that ends up killing him frightens C-ta, and this, alongside seeing A-ya stab the rabbit plushie C-ta gave him as a child, makes C-ta believe that A-ya must have been replaced by a lookalike, because it could not have been that he himself had misunderstood A-ya's nature. His actions are thus taken with the reasoning that, if A-ya had been replaced, he needed to be saved; and who better to save him than C-ta? 
C-ta is prone to dissociation, generally in response to immense stress. Initially, after D-ne confronts him, he begins to zone out during his conversations with A-ya. Following this, when A-ya reveals that he spoke with B-ko about the occult without telling him, C-ta begins to feel like the world around him isn't real, or has nothing to do with him, like it isn't his life. As he becomes more agitated, he states that he can't remember what happened after the club met to discuss the old diary. The most intense memory gap, however, occurs after he kills A-ya, having assumed he was killing the Fox. C-ta grows frightened, knowing that he would inevitably be punished for his actions if he remembered them, and represses the memories of the night it happened. When he regains awareness, he is eating breakfast, having no idea how much time had passed.
While trying his best to seem like a friendly, calm, and reliable friend to those around him, ultimately, C-ta is always walking on thin ice, largely unaware of the depth of the lake beneath him. His firm reliance on his expected routine means that when it is maintained, he perceives the world as easy and simple, but the second a piece is out of place, he has no coping mechanisms in place to deal with the issue, ultimately resulting in a collapse if he cannot justify the changes to himself in a way that allows for his daily life to continue.
==Songs==
Main:
*Perfect Crime Love Letter
*Re:Missed Call
*Common Heroes
*Bookmark of Demise
*Dramatic Showcase
*Ultramarine Memories
*Mundane Everyday
*Ending -Re:write-
*Bizarre High School Life
*Retribution Revival
*Schrödinger’s Cat
Cameo:
*Underdog Supremacy Doctrine
==Trivia==
*A-ya's bunny plush was a gift from C-ta to A-ya when they were younger.Common Heroes
*He has a Twitter account with the username "@Cta_bokukakkoii" as seen in the video and associated chapter.Shuuen -Re:write- CD+DVD booklet08. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 3) In another timeline, the username switches to "@Cta_orekakkoii".Bookmark of Demise PV In the novels, "ore" (オレ) is the personal pronoun he actually uses.
*C-ta notes that despite A-ya's hobby of spreading rumors, he had never spread a single rumor about C-ta before, and he wonders if the reason is because they're childhood friends.Shuuen no Shiori 2: Retribution -Re:vival- Chapter 2.1: Shadow Stepping Gänger - Perspective C and the Strap Name
*He’s the most popular among the Shuuen group's illustrators.Shuuen -Re:write- -Another Answer- booklet In the artist notes in the official anthology, Shuuen: Parallel, it was also noted that he was Wannyanpuu, Ayumu, Kika, and naoto's favorite character.
==Quotes==
*"But it's not like he meant to tell a pointless lie... right, A-ya?" - (01. Lonely Hide and Seek (Part 1))
*"You're so helpless, A-ya." - (06. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 1))
*"Until then, I had been saving A-ya, and had found my own worth in doing that. The fact that our roles had reversed was... extremely bad!!" - (06. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 1))
*"At first, I was surprised, but after rethinking, I realized I could use it as a way to protect A-ya, and was somehow able to keep calm." - (06. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 1))
*"I am the only one who can save A-ya." - (08. Perfect Crime Love Letter (Part 3))
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Occult Club
Category:Male Characters