Kotori Aoyama

Kotori is a bird person who used to work in the DBAtabase under Diode. He was Kitty's work partner and close friend. Due to events that transpired prior to episode 74, he is currently stuck in a corrupted state.
== Destruction Bench Agreement ==
=== Episode 74 ===
Prior to the beginning of the episode, Kitty had told by Diode that Kotori had died to a virus. This distressed her, but she became even more distressed when she found out that Kotori was actually alive, and that the virus was actually him. The party subdued him, both for their safety and his. Despite the corruption, Kotori managed to point at the Data-bank, urging the party to investigate it.
The party learned that Kotori had been corrupted by Diode using her Outclass on him. He had learned about the true nature of the DBAtabase and it's purpose, and so Diode decided to keep him quite by any means necessary.
=== Episode 83 ===
While not seen in this episode, he was mentioned by Kitty. Between the events of 74 and 83, Kitty had been working on trying to find a way to undo the damage Diode had done to him. Kitty had been staying up quite late doing this, stating in the episode that she hadn't slept in 5 days. Kitty decided to participate in the episode solely so that she could inquire from Mr. Spider is his company had any research that could help. During the episode Kotori was being "babysat" by HTML.
=== Episode 96, Part 1 ===
At the end of the episode, Kotori appeared in Kitty's flashback, per-corruption. In the flashback the two of them were chasing down a large virus, leading them into the DBAtabase. During the fight, Kitty refused to let Kotori fight, taking all of the damage from the virus and dealing the killing blow. Kotori confronted her about her self-destructive behavior, telling her about how it upset him and that he cared about her. After their heart-to-heart, Diode appeared, which then ended the flashback.
=== Episode 106, Part 2 ===
Kitty, Korima, and Yetzirah came across Kotori in the database, still frozen where he had been left in episode 74, though he now had friendship bracelets and some get-well-soon-cards. Yetzirah informed Kitty that they may be able to reverse time on Kotori, removing the effects of Diode's Outclass, but at the risk that he would lose some of his memories. Kitty, without hesitation, told them to do so, wanting Kotori to stop suffering, regardless the consequences. Yetzirah then proceeded to roll a nat 1. Kotori was freed from Diode's effects, but he lost his many of his memories. Given some time and help, he was able to remember everything except for Kitty. Some of the information Kitty helped him remember included his name and his dads, who run an internet cafe.
Shortly afterwards, a Fakeberry appeared and transformed into a fake Diode. Kitty warned Kotori to stay back, but he refused, wanting to help fight. Kitty conceded, but told him to run if he felt he was in danger. For the most part, he was kept out of danger throughout the fight, with Kitty drawing most of the faker's attention and Kotori being able to attack from a distance using his pistol. However, at one point it tried to use Diode's Outclass on him, but Kitty saw that shit and immediately choked it out using a fucking sword. 
== Trivia ==
* Kotori's first name means "Little Bird" and his last name means "Blue Mountain".
** James 100% did not get these names from Love Live: School Idol Festival and Tokyo Mew Mew respectively. No. Totally not. Hahaha...
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