Ayato Takahashi

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## Basic Information

### Nickname(s)

80 (by fans)
A. T. (by people outside)
A. T.-chan (by Tsumugi and Nanami)
Yato (by Shinobu and Yokou)

## Personal Information

### Pronouns

He/him (english)
Watashi (japanese)

## Credit

### Voice Actor

N/A

“
The walls.. They have ears. And hills have eyes.
”
**Ayato Takahashi**

> ***“Locked Behind Iron Bars And A Smile“***

**Ayato Takahashi** *(高橋綾人, Takahashi Ayato)* is a second year at Gesshoku High School. He is the leader and composer for the band Hopeful DƎSPɅIR. He goes by the stage name **A. T.**

## Background

> A. T.? He is weird. After school he always spits three times over his left shoulder, he said that it would protect him from going there again, but he always returns. I am scared of him, but shush!
>
> Matsuki Ichihashi about Ayato Takahashi

Ayato was once a normal boy, studying in a school with an average family. But when he was 13, his father got mad and killed his mother and twin sister. Ayato survived only because he was doing a school project with his classmate and stayed at his place. When Ayato came home, he saw a mess. Walls were covered in blood, and his mom’s head was hanging from the ceiling. Ayato gone crazy and was put into a mental asylum with the diagnosis of PTSD and depression. A few years passed and Ayato was released from the asylum, but he wasn’t the same anymore. After that, he never revealed his real name to anyone, introducing himself as A. T. Ayato found his escape in music. He formed a group of himself and two other girls who also found escape in music after falling into despair.

## Appearance

Ayato has dark blue hair that reaches to his waist with bangs swaying right on his forehead and two uneven long strands falling on his shoulders, sapphire blue eyes and white skin.

His casual outfit contains of a white T-shirt with a fish on it, blue shorts and black boots. His stage outfit contains of black pants, black boots, a long-sleeved white shirt and a brown vest. Before creating the group, Ayato wore contact lenses. After that, he began wearing glasses. His winter outfit contains of a short black coat, a black hat, blue jeans and brown uggs.

## Personality

Ayato is a paranoid and self-aware person. He never tells his name to people, because he believes that someone might curse him because of that. Because of that, he is not popular in school and outside, and his only friends that he trust are Shinobu and Yokou. After creating Hopeful DƎSPɅIR, Ayato started to change to a better person.

## Etymology

**Ayato** (綾人): **Aya** (綾) means “silk fabric” and **To** (人) means “person”.

**Takahashi** (高橋): **Taka** (高) means “high” and **Hashi** (橋) means “bridge”.

## Trivia

* His stage name, A. T., sounds the same as 80. That’s why fans call him that.
* He is canonically diagnosed with PTSD and depression
* Ayato is caedsexual and caedromantic. Caedsexual means someone who identified as allosexual or not a part of the asexual spectrum at one point in their lives, but is now on the asexual spectrum due to past trauma, and caedromantic means someone who feels that they were alloromantic at one point, but that has been taken or “cut away” from them due to past trauma, becoming aromantic.
* Ayato secretly likes Wei Dongmei’s xianxia novels and talks with her about them.

#### Sparkly Stage! Fanganronpa Trivia

* Ayato was the mastermind in the killing game, in which he participated alongside with other members of Hopeful DƎSPɅIR, members of Zetsubou Circus and Sora Yakima.
* In the killing game, Ayato was wearing a wig, so everyone thought that his hair is actually short and light blue. He was also wearing that wig in the start of the story.
* The wig was inspired by Ayato Kamisato from Genshin Impact.
* In the killing game, Ayato accidentally told that his last name was Taka**n**ashi, not Taka**h**ashi. Because of that, everyone was mispronouncing it, pissing Ayato off.
* His NG-code (prohibited action) in Chapter 2 was writing normally.
* His talent in the killing game was the Ultimate Manga Author.