Reira Hayato

**Reira Hayato** (勇人令意螺 *Hayato Reira*) is one of the secondary characters of the whole Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood series. She is the former Head of the Other World's Kingdom's Royal Guard, and currently is a bodyguard to the Tenjou family, and she is also an amateur physicist, vows to find the secrets of how everything in the (physical) world works, while avoiding the research on how Thaumas (miraculous events caused by God and / or the heavenly host) works.

## Personal information

### Occupation

Head of the Other World's Kingdom's Royal Guard (formerly)Bodyguard of Tsukasa Tenjou

Gatekeeper of the Tenjou Residence

Amateur physicist

## Personality

She is a type of person who is passionate in everything she does, and with a passion for helping others when they are in need, even though at times she can mess things up by being nosy on others' jobs and want to help them with all of her enthusiasm, despite that they don't need any help from her. She often act before she thinks, and is steadfast in her beliefs. Though she has the ruse of a mean school bully, she, in fact, wants to be fair, and desperates to find a way to relieve the emotional pain of those she has bullied at school and reasons to them why she did that: To show that she is strong enough to defend them from any other people who genuinely want to harm them. When she was back at the Other World's Kingdom, the King taught her the values of making peace with others, so she easily loses the will to fight as soon as her opponent begs her for mercy, and decides to spare instead of harm them.

She is often seen doing "heroic" acts, but unbeknownst to many, she did them not as to helping those in need, but she did them just purely for leisure, and to build up a facade that she is heroic, in order to gain more attention from those who she likes, specificially Victor. She often post videos of her doing such acts on the Internet, and they mostly got positive reviews, but most those who reviews her videos do not know that these are just a ruse that she put up to gain the attention of her *senpai* (Victor).

## Origins

She is based on Undyne from *Undertale*, whose appearance influenced her appearance (especially the outfit that Undyne wore during the date with Alphys). Both are antiheroines of their respective series, both have similar personalities, both are the head of the Royal Guards of their respective game's kingdoms, both can be a *yandere* (Undyne became a *yandere* (or some sort of it) in the Genocide Route), and both use spears as their weapon of choice. Note that Undyne calls the protagonist a "punk", similar to how Reira calls anyone she dislikes (Nanami, Megumi, etc.) "sissy". Also, Undyne's oft-repeated battle cry (which sounds like "NGAHHHHHH!") is somewhat carry on to Reira, who cried out "NYAOOOOOOOOO" (a parody of the said battle cry and a reference to an onomatopoeia of a cat's cry in Japanese, since she is a *bakeneko* (cat youkai)).

Yumemi Okazaki from *Touhou* also influenced her character design: Both characters have red hair, both of them wears red clothing (or at least a red shirt (or jacket)), both of them have motifs that are related to strawberries (In Yumemi's case, her theme contains the word "strawberry", while that the Japanese pronunciation the numbers that forms Reira's birthday forms the Japanese word for "strawberry"), both are at the same age crunch (Yumemi's age matches the maximum possible age of Reira), both have expelled from the region they lived in and moved to the main settings of their respective series, and both have their own assistant (Chiyuri for Yumemi, Moe Wakaki for Reira). Both are also having interest in science, they also have science-related occupations (despite that Yumemi is stripped off her position as a professor after the events of *Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream*). They also use attacks which have the cross imagery as motifs, but the reason of the inclusion of the cross motif in their attacks are different between the two: Why Yumemi uses crosses in her attacks is unclear, so there are numerous speculations that she is either a Christian, or she uses them just for aesthetic purposes; while that Reira uses them explicitly to show that she is an adherent to God. Also, both Yumemi's name and Reira's name, if broken down to kana, consists of three kana.

### Etymology

*Hayato* (勇人) means "brave person", which alludes to the fact that Undyne, the major inspiration for this character, is referred as a "heroine" in the Genocide Route, during the battle against her Undying form. *Reira* (令意螺) is in fact an *ateji* word; her original name is "Leila" (レイラ), but since she moved to the Town, she changed the spelling of her name. This word consists of the kanji for "order", "will", and "spiral". Together, the word can mean "the spiral of the order of willpower", alludes to the fact that she does not easily succumbs to mental or physical damage, and through her will, she will always never give up.

## Trivia

Her birthday is on April 15.

* Her star sign is Aries.
	+ The meaning of her birthdate can be interpreted as: 15 can be read as "ichigo" (苺), means "strawberry", which alludes to the strawberry-flavoured energy drinks that are common in CaraPrincess' homeland, and their perceived hazard of making children become hyperactive.
		- Reira is shown to like the said strawberry-flavoured drinks, as in the dialogue in the epilogue of Dæmonic Affright.