Ayane Usui

Ayane Usui is the third student in eneeemy. Her song is As long as it's you. by Higateru

## Personality

Ayane puts on an act of friendliness and sociability, and is only able to be herself when she is alone. She is close to Shiori and has something she wants to tell him, but believes it will destroy the precious time she has with him so she doesn't say it.

In her song, she states that she enjoys music especially jazz, rock, and classical, and that her favorite thing about jazz, and probably music in general, is the history behind it since it sparks her intellectual curiosity.

Since that day. shows that Ayane gained her passion for music because of a jazz record and record player she got from her dad for her birthday. She describes herself as a person who loses herself in her interests.

She talked about music passionately with her classmates until she was heading home and heard them talking about something. It's heavily hinted that what they were talking about is something negatively about Ayane and her rambles about music causing her to go into, what seems like, a panic attack.

Since then it seems that Ayane has never really talked about what has happened to anyone, but is slowly trying to open up to Shiori. She accepts that what happened in the past, the trauma she went through, and everything about her is a part of her she can't get rid off and makes her who she is.

## Appearance

Ayane has short hair with a small hair clip on the right and wears her school uniform along with her black stockings. Like Hinata without her coat she is only wearing her blazer, but in her intro art she is only wearing a cardigan. In Kimi ni Nara. she is seen wearing headphones.

Like all eneeemy characters, she mostly lacks color except for her eyes. But in a drawing by her producer, Higateru, her hair color appears to be a purple-ish black. This is most likely just a speculation by the producer.

It’s not clear what aspects of her design are referenced from other songs by Higateru, but her eyes resemble the character for Alice Code, which is Higateru’s song for paneeec.

## Etymology

* **Usui** means "millstone, mortar" (臼 usu) and "well (as in water well)" (井 i)
* **Ayane** means "color" (彩 aya) and "sound, tone" (音 ne)

## Trivia

* Her song and Shiori's song, Noooo, have a one key difference, that being G# and G respectively.
* In the guitar break for Noooo, the guitar sounds like Kimi ni Nara.
* As pointed out by both Higateru and Take Isu on Twitter, the "popular kid running off" mentioned in Kimi ni Nara. is implied to be Datto.
	+ It seems like her, Shiori, and Datto are quite connected, as Shiori seems to also talk about Datto in his own song.
* Shiro has a keychain from her old school that Ayane seems to recognize as "BY".
	+ She seems to have given the keychain to her as seen in Ayane's birthday art.
* Ayane and Suimi both share a birthday on December 13 similar to their producers Higateru and Mizuno Atsu.
* She had never properly listened to jazz up until she got the jazz record for her birthday.
* Hyperpnea and Since that day. both have the similar theme of some sort of breathing condition. Ayane is hyperventilating, possibly having a panic attack, while Shiori is taking extra deep breaths which may be because of hyperpnea which is usually caused from exercising, possibly from him running away.
* Whether Shiori and Ayane are dating isn't fully stated or confirmed but they seem to have mutual feelings for each other. As shown in After the Spring Storm they’ve confessed before graduating.
* Ayane mentions in Mata ne. that she isn't familiar with the way to the train station where her and Shiori were meeting so she got lost on the way.
* Ayane and Shiori both currently have the most songs in eneeemy, with both of them sharing three songs.

## Gallery

### Official Art

Ayane with her headphones at the beginning of Kimi ni Nara.Ayane in Kimi ni Nara. Note that her eyes are quite different hereAyane's headphones in the interlude of Kimi ni Nara.Ayane’s color and flower cameo in NooooAyane showing Kohaku a bag full of CDs saying that they're music she recommendsAyane recognizing Shiro's keychainAyane watching Hinata and AmeAlbum jacket for Kimi ni Nara.Ayane seeming distressed, which alarms ShioriAyane's art for her birthday"It's beautiful!!"Ayane from Arusechika's pixiv
### Fanart

**Please only put art by official producers who have worked on the eneeemy project.**

Art of Ayane and Shiori by Iri Yule, the producer of Mei's songArt of Ayane by Higateru, the producer of her songArt of Ayane by Cofey Komiya, the producer of Koyomi's songeneeemy anniversary art by Ichidayo, the producer of Hanano's song
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