Saya

**Saya** is a Partner in Arcaea. **Mobile:** She is unlocked via World Mode after purchasing the Absolute Reason Side Story pack. **Switch:** She and her Side Story pack Absolute Reason are unlocked via World Mode after unlocking the Adverse Prelude Main Story pack.

## Character

### Name

Saya's Japanese name "サヤ" is directly written in Katakana. Her name in Chinese, "咲弥", can be read in Japanese as "Saya", and uses the character 咲 ("blossom").

### Appearance

Saya has shoulder-length, aquamarine-colored hair. Her right eye is covered with a white blossom.

Her dress is white and sleeveless and cuts down to the thighs. She wears a black cape with aquamarine-colored motif lining that goes from around her breasts down to the rest of her body. The vest has an inner, transparent black cloth with a patterned cut. She wears white gloves on her hands.

On her left leg she wears a maroonish high-heeled shoe with straps that taper up her lower leg. These straps hold a single blossom on the front of her leg. On the other leg she wears a black high-heeled shoe paired with a single black stocking that has a band of aquamarine around its rim. On the throat line of this shoe, there is also a blossom.

She is constantly surrounded by blossoms and some can be seen used as ornaments.

### Personality

Saya is a very inquisitive person and is content to find out how and why everything works in the first place. She is depicted throughout the story as the person who tries to find reason for everything that has happened, even down to breaking the rules to find out what the rules are. She carries questions that she keeps finding just by going around, and will keep traversing throughout the world of Arcaea to find answers.

### Variants

**Mobile:**
Saya has one album variant, Saya (Etude).

She also appears with one collaboration partner, Saya & Elizabeth.**Switch:**
Saya appears with one collaboration partner, Saya & Elizabeth.
## Story

Saya is the main character of the Absolute Reason Side Story. She also plays a significant role in the later entries of Lethe's Side Story Ambivalent Vision.

## Gameplay

### Stats by level

**Mobile:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

**Switch:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

### Skill

Saya's skill uses a modified version of the default Recollection Gauge, with the following differences:

* Recollection Rate gain for PURE is multiplied by 2.
* Recollection Rate gain for FAR is set to 0.
* Recollection Rate loss for LOST is multiplied by 3.

Clearing songs with Saya will award a default purple Clear.

### Notes

Saya's skill, while a Balance skill, is more accurately described as a "slightly harder" normal Recollection Rate due to the Rate not increasing for FAR notes, as well as a more punishing LOST note penalty.

**Mobile:**
She is overall above average in terms of raw stats.
This makes her one of the most well-rounded and versatile partners to use. However, due to the lack of any specialization, the actual use case for her is unfortunately minimal:

* Her frag gain is below Luna, Kou, Tairitsu (Summer), Eto (when playing a light side song), and Pandora Nemesis (MTA-XXX).
* Her step gain is overall below Tairitsu (Grievous Lady), Hikari (Fracture) and Ilith.
* Her Beyond progression gain is the third highest in the game (after Vita) - however, due to the Affinity of different Beyond songs, this stat ends up meaning very little.

If the player has none of these characters yet, Saya is a great choice — however she is quickly substituted for any of the mentioned partners above once the player obtains and levels them.**Switch:**
Saya has among the highest OVER stats among any partner at all Levels, and is available relatively early. This makes her a useful partner for World Mode.
## Trivia

* Saya first appeared in the jacket art for Alexandrite before being added as a Partner.

## Artwork

* Story Entry 3-1
* Alexandrite jacket art
* Cyaegha jacket art
* Vicious Heroism jacket art
* Xeraphinite jacket art
* Full body artwork
* Icon in the partner select screen
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