Aibai

Aibai

Aibai is a girl from the Kingdom of Ulke. She is one of the main characters of the series, serving as one of the protagonists of Book 1: The Elemental Masters (specifically the main protagonist of part 1), a supporting character of Book 2 and a major character of Book 3. She is the Master of Water and is 16 years old.

## Background/backstory

When Cwameeng's parents gave birth to Aibai, her father was immediately killed by the harsh conditions of the Forest of Secrecy, causing Cwameeng's mother to be heartbroken. **MAJOR SPOILERS WARNING** Ogran tricked Cwameeng's mother into giving up Aibai, claiming "you wouldn't want your dear daughter to be in the harsh conditions of the Forest of Secrecy, now, would you?" causing Cwameeng's mother to give Aibai away, giving her to the adoptive family, who pretended to be a caring family who was going to take care of Aibai. Truly however they saw her as an opportunity to gain money through her. When it did not work, however, the family immediately became harsh and bitter to Aibai, actively abusing her, which caused Aibai to grow incredibly self-conscious, anxious and even depressive at times.

## Personality

Aibai is an INFJ.

Aibai grew up being extremely closed, anxious and hid all her emotions whenever possible, although truly she was extremely sad and scared most of the time, due to living with an abusive family. This eventually drove her to become very anxious and closed. She proves to be extremely shy, introverted and independent, claiming that her having a friend to be just a distant dream far off into the distance). It wasn't until she eventually stood up to her adoptive family and disowned them that she finally was able to grow more emotionally secure. How she managed to stand up was the finding of her water powers. Aibai felt stronger with them and no longer the need to hide from her family, tired of being abused by them. The second sight of her becoming a more stable person was when she rescued Utgand, who was slowly dying after the attack from the Revolution onto her school. Aibai heals him, which leads to the two of them becoming friends, something Aibai at first had no regards or appeal or belief of. Aibai is momentarily shocked by this, but quickly agrees to become Utgand's friend. She decides to help him get home, having nothing else to do having disowned her family. Utgand raises her hopes that she may be adopted yet again once she spoke to Utgand's father and brought him home (and saved him several times along the way). However, Aibai yet again becomes depressive when Utgand's father denies, claiming that he probably doesn't have enough time to tend to another child. This leaves Aibai heartbroken. However, after meeting Cwameeng and saving the Revolution, just officially gaining the trust of the princess Feraza as well as becoming Utgand's best friend and learning her own family was never her true family and that Cwameeng is her real brother, Aibai becomes more emotionally secure, with the claim that "the storm was forever calmed in her head".

In Parts 2 and 3 Aibai's personality type, being the mediator, shows much more, as she is typically serves as the mediator between her friends, particularly with Cwameeng. She shows a great deal of care to her friends, even Minyama, who has nothing to do with her and was just created. She also encourages Feraza to never give up on Miniki, which eventually leads to his redemption. In book 3 Aibai is presented more comically (perhaps because Feraza does not take her as seriously), often taking pride in being different and perhaps even weird.

In Part 4 Aibai's role becomes larger and her personality proves to be incredibly persistent, determined and hopeful, as she is the only one of Cwameeng's friends who truly believed that Cwameeng could still be reformed and was the first to forgive him when he arrived in the Ulkian dungeon. Although she is anxious, she shows major bravery when facing the Revolution army and seems extremely willing to give up her life for Ulke. After successfully defeating the Revolution army and saving Ulke, Aibai and Jisina leave for Navaria to help repair it (but adopt Kujali at some point, so do still live in Ulke). She tearfully bids Cwameeng farewell as well as to the rest of her friends, knowing that although she must pursue her true path, she would always remember her friends.

In Book 2, Aibai and Jisina are with Kujali. She maintains most of her personality, being soft-spoken, polite, slightly socially awkward and cautious yet is somewhat more emotionally stable, and usually doesn't go crazy with anxiety, which she quite often did in book 1. She also is still presented more comically.

Being an Enneagram Type 9, The Peacemaker, she seeks internal peace, as her main desire is to let go of her anxiety that plagued her head in Book 1, mainly in Part 1. She has a 1 wing (The Reformer), making her responsible, principled, purposeful, and ethical.