Alina Astley

**"If you don't want to die...think!"**

**Alina Astley** (Japanese: **アリーナ・アストリー**,*Arīna Asutorī*) was a first year student at Aobajohsai High. She was a part cheer squad, the cheer team mostly cheered for the volleyball team. As of 2018, she is a college student, working part-time as a florist with Delphyne.

## Appearance

Alina has wavy just below chin-length brown hair that styled in a bob with fringes that stop right below her eyes and green eyes with a shade of lime at the bottom of her iris. Her hair always having a white ribbon on each side, that's tied into a bow.

Alina is usually seen in the Cheer Teams custom Aoba Johsai uniforms. It's a mint striped collar shirt, with a white bow that is embroidered with mint thread. The white bow on the center has a silver crown broach/pin that everyone on the team has for recognition. The skirt is white with a mint colored end.

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It is later revealed that Alina's appearance is very similar to her mother's, apart from her hair color and style.

## Personality

Alina is a very strict person, often criticizing the bad behavior and habits of the other guild members, causing most of them to apologize, fearing that they might invoke her wrath. She is also very impatient, disliking people who don't answer her questions quickly enough. This, coupled with her own tragic childhood, caused many of her guildmates to avoid her due to her social awkwardness. However, she has a great sense of justice and pride in being a student of Aoba Johsai..

According to Rumi, in the letter she wrote for her mother, Alina is "cool and beautiful, warm and full of passion". Alina is strong, cool and a little scary but relied on by everyone, even so she can be really girly and liked sweet things and cute clothes. Alina describes herself as someone who was always crying, since she wasn't able to protect those dear to her.

Despite her reserved personality and mostly dressing in a Seijoh colored preppy outfit, Alina has been shown to have very little modesty and an unusual view on the concept in general. Many of her clothes are preppy, and feminine. Finally, Alina seems to have no problem with men (or at least her male childhood friends) seeing her naked. She felt no discomfort stating her desire to shower with Hajime and Tōru or the fact that she used to shower with them when they were younger. When they were at the hot spring, when she learned that the boys may have been peeping on her and the other girls, she wanted to invite them to bathe with them, much to Delphyne's shock and Rumi's strong objection. Rumi has also stated that Alina has a habit of climbing into her bed in their shared room during the Training Camps.

It was shown that Alina can't hold her liquor. While drunk, she acts very aggressive towards others, as shown by her behavior towards her friends. She also seems to have a problem recognizing people when drunk.

## History

Alina was born in Moscow, Russia on February 14, 1997. But at a young age she, and her family moved to Miyagi, Japan. Then when she's was around five, she met Iwaizumi and Oikawa.

## Etymology

* From Greek *Εἰρήνη (Eirene)*, derived from a word meaning "peace". This was the name of the Greek goddess who personified peace, one of the Ὥραι (Horai). It was also borne by several early Christian saints. The name was common in the Byzantine Empire, notably being borne by an 8th-century empress, who was the first woman to lead the empire. She originally served as regent for her son, but later had him killed and ruled alone.
	+ From a Latinized Germanic name that was derived from the element *adal* meaning "noble".
* Derived from an English surname and place name meaning "eastern woodland clearing" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname is British singer, songwriter, and radio personality Rick Astley (1966-pres.).