Aina

**Aina Ardebit** (アイナ・アルデビット) is a character in *Promare*.

A member of Burning Rescue. She is professional usually, and does things at her own pace. She plays the straight man to Galo and is in charge of piloting the RM03.

Portrayal: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Alyson Leigh Rosenfield (English dub)

## Personality

Aina is an expressive and sweet young woman with an easy-going personality. Contrary to her laidback presentation, Aina handles her work in a professional manner. She calls out the injustices she sees around her and helps those in need. Her level-headedness assists both herself as well as her peers. She may, however, lose her cool when those close to her are in danger.

Her sister claims Aina likes to talk about Galo. She cares about him as a fellow comrade, especially since he can be perceived as reckless, but also has a tendency to be critical of him. This has resulted in her saving him a few times.

## Appearance

Hair taut in a pink ponytail with short bangs and fringe, she sports a crop-top, red leggings, Daisy Dukes, and white and red sneakers. Said crop-top features a red design with two triangles. Her work suspenders are mainly black with yellow segments. Her eyes are a light blue. On occasion, she may wear a short, red jacket displaying Burning Rescue's logo as casualwear or in colder climates. Her build is fairly thin. She is depicted as being shorter than Galo but taller than Lucia.

## History

### *Galo-hen*

During Galo's introduction to the team, Aina is shown watching Galo discuss ancient Japanese firefighters. She is the first to ask about the homemade Matoi he has. Despite this, Aina alongside her peers do not share Galo's enthusiasm. When it ends up breaking thanks to Ignis, she calls Galo an idiot.

Before his introduction can continue any further, the station's emergency sirens go off. Everyone heads out. During said emergency, Aina helps with carrying out survivors and Burning Rescue members. In the midst of this, Galo enters one of the buildings. She ends up catching both Galo and Thyma. This results in Aina and her fellow colleagues to finally trust Galo.

When Thyma wakes up, she suddenly becomes a Burnish, resulting in Galo being set aflame. Aina thinks fast, throwing the rookie out of harm's way, and puts both Galo and Thyma out. She explains to Galo that most likely Thyma wasn't a Burnish before the fire and, thus, wasn't the cause for the flames. Instead, Mad Burnish probably was. Before Burning Rescue can do anything else, Gueira and Meis intervene and take Thyma away. Aina then states who the group is, resulting in Galo setting his sights on them.

### *Promare*

Burning Rescue is sent out after a recent Mad Burnish attack. Aina, Varys, Remi, and Galo are put in charge of rescuing survivors. Aina and Galo specifically are atop one of the rooftops to gather survivors. As they do so, Mad Burnish appears on the roof where the duo are.

With Galo's Matoi Tech and Burning Rescue's cooperation, they manage to capture all three members: Gueira, Meis, and Lio. After they are taken away by Freeze Force, Aina and her fellow squad members leave.

As celebration, Burning Rescue goes to a local pizzeria. They at first discuss Galo and Kray. Lucia then notes a building showing Aina's sister, resulting in the focus being brought towards her. However, the conversation doesn't last for long as Freeze Force makes another appearance. They arrived to capture a Burnish employee, which both Aina and Galo retort to. Aina specifically states that the employee is not a terrorist and, thus, should not be taken away. Freeze Force ignores her pleas as both him and his boss are apprehended.

Once the group leaves, Galo drives away in anger. Presuming he's going after Freeze Force, Aina follows him to a frozen lake. Galo then reveals to her his actual intentions: to chill out. The duo proceed to skate together. Here, they briefly vent to each other about how they are but projections of those they care for. In Aina's case, it's with her sister Heris. However, Aina suddenly trips, resulting in Galo catching her and then noticing a Burnish flame. After Aina is accidentally dropped on the ice, Galo leaves and has Aina call in thr flare they just saw. She then later finds a tied up Galo in a nearby cave, releasing him.

When Galo goes missing for nearly a week, Aina is shown searching for him on her own. She finds it suspicious that he would miss work for so long. Aina later discovers the truth from Ignis: Galo was locked up by Kray. This results in a confrontation with her sister, who insists that Galo attacked Kray. Aina is left dumbstruck as Heris tells her to wait for a call later.

Lio's rampage in the city has Aina and her fellow crew members on the job. She flies above the vehicles below. They then find Galo, who insists that they help him with taking down Lio. With his plan, Aina is put in charge of trapping Galo and Lio in one of her containers. She then drops the duo into the frozen lake to both mentally and literally cool off. They unintentionally reveal Deus' lab.

Having encountered Deus' AI inside her plane, Aina joins Galo and Lio inside. Here, the trio discover that an alien species is trapped inside the Earth's core and the reason for the Burnish's existence. With the large amount of heat, the creatures Deus nicknamed 'Promare' will erupt outward, destroying the world from within. Kray plans on using teleportation with select people from Promepolis, but this would only speed up the process of Earth's destruction due to the Parnassus harming both the Burnish and Promare.

Deus then shows evidence of Kray murdering Dr. Prometh, revealing Kray for the fraud he is. As Galo and Lio head out on Deus X Machina, Aina is left on her own. Aina questions Deus on what he would of done had they not found him. The AI claims he would of merely watched. She then takes the time to fly to Promepolis and use the camera footage to stop her sister from continuing the Burnish Teleportation project. Kray soon intervines, cutting off her mic. Despite this, Aina and Heris' actions result in the destruction of the ship's core. After Heris flings herself off a high area to escape Vulcan, Aina catches her. She then cooperates with stopping Freeze Force and the Foundation.

After all of the Promare is released from Earth, Aina is among the people with Galo, Lio, and Kray. She stands atop the fallen Parnassus looking towards Galo and Lio.

## Relationships

### Galo

Aina is an ally to Galo as evidenced by their interactions at the frozen lake and later cooperation. She finds Galo to be an idiot, but doesn't deny he is genuinely a good person. Heris claims that Aina enjoys talking about him to her. In *Galo-hen*, Aina is the one to put out the fire on Galo's arm. She also explains how the Burnish work in the case of Thyma and who Mad Burnish are. During the frozen lake scene, Aina followed Galo to stop him from tracking down Freeze Force. He reveals he actually left to calm down. As they skate together, Aina is caught by Galo, causing her to blush, and is then promptly dropped when he notices a Burnish flare caused by Lio. She also mistakenly believed he was attempting to kiss her, which results in her making a grimacing face.

After Galo was arrested, Aina immediately confronted her sister in hopes of freeing him. She is shown upset after Heris lies to her. When Galo stops Lio's rampage, Aina is made happy from his return and locks the both of them in her carrier. She then drops them at the frozen lake. The trio then cooperate together to stop Kray Foresight's plans. Here, she manages to convince her sister to stop the migration plan, resulting in the fight within the Parnassus to abruptly end. After discovering Galo's lit ablaze, she considers using her freeze gun before being stopped by Ignis.

### Heris

Heris is Aina's older sister. According to Aina herself, most people know her for her sister's work with Kray. Thus, she believes she is just a projection of her and is self-conscious in regards to her sister's achievements, admitting as such at the frozen lake. When Aina discovers Galo was locked away, Aina immediately confronts Heris about it and begs her to release him. While Heris does deeply care about her sister, she proceeds to lie about what happened with Kray and also has a history of hiding other things.

Heris' main reason for participating in Kray's plan is to ensure Aina's safety and survival. With Heris' participation, her younger sister would be brought along as well. During the transportation itself, Kray ignores Heris' pleas to wait for Aina to board and continues the plan anyway. Aina later sends Heris a video of Deus Prometh's death and evidence of Kray's plan being world ending. Kray's interruption does not prevent the outcome of Heris overloading the engine. Aina soon catches Heris during Vulcan's pursuit.

### Burning Rescue

She is fairly close to the rest of her co-workers. Her role of collecting and deploying passengers makes her respected by them. Aina heavily cooperates with her colleagues to ensure rescues go in order. She is also shown hanging out with them after hours. Aina appears to be well acquainted with Lucia and Vinny as the former notes her sister on a building screen. This results in a brief conversation discussing the matter. The latter attempts to comfort her after the disappearance of Galo.

### Lio

As a member of Burning Rescue, Aina at first finds Lio to be a terrorist. Aina cooperated with Burning Rescue's takedown of him, hitting the man with her own aircraft. She later attempts to cool both him and Galo off during Lio's rampage. This results in them discovering Deus. After the reveal, she begins to trust him and cooperates as an ally. Aina is even willing to show Heris Deus' camera footage and research to prevent the Burnish migration project. In general, they are acquaintances.

### Thyma

During a rescue, Galo uses his Matoi to lift himself and Thyma up to where a flying Aina is. She then carries them to the ground. After Thyma wakes up and turns, Aina thinks fast and puts out both Galo and Thyma. She suspects that Thyma was not the cause of the fire and does not have any hard feelings towards her.

## Quotes

* *"Galo, do something about this smoke, I can't see!!"*
* *"The Burnish are just misunderstood. It's not like being one of them makes you a bad person."*
* (to Vulcan) (about Pizzaria Employee) *"It's true that harboring a Burnish is a crime, but that's a special law that applies only to terrorists! This guy IS NOT A TERRORIST!"*
* (to Galo) *"Wow, you do have a deep side, who'da thought?"*
* (to Heris) *"There must be a mistake. He's [Galo] not a terrorist! Please, you have to talk to Governor Kray, help him!"*
* (to Galo and Lio) *"All right, you two, why don't you cool off a little bit?"*
* (to Galo and Lio) (about Deus) *"What are you doing? Don't follow it!"*

## Gallery

*For Aina's full gallery, go here.*

Aina in *Galo-hen*Aina and LuciaAina and Galo's MatoiAina title cardAina and Galo in *Promare*Deus scares Aina
## Trivia

* Aina and Thyma are the only named female characters to physically show up in both prequel shorts and *Promare*. In *Lio-hen*, only the Mega Max is shown but not Lucia herself.
* The seat of Aina's aircraft can be turned into a motorcycle.
	+ Aina herself owns a yellow motorcycle that's seen at the frozen lake.
* On the movie's official website and in the booklet that came with the Collector's Edition of the dvd, her description places her in her teens alongside Galo. However, a later statement at a panel by the main Promare team referred to Galo and Lio as "entry businessman age," or in their twenties.
	+ As there is no reason for Aina's age to be younger than her coworker, it is most likely that she is also in her twenties and staff simply did not explicitly mention her by name.

* In Aina's locker, there is a small poster resembling Joy Division's *Unknown Pleasures*.
	+ Aina also has a show ticket and a photo of herself and Heris.
	+ Music is one of Aina's favorite activities as she briefly relaxed with headphones.

### Etymology

* Aina's first name is the name from a town of ancient Crete.
	+ Furthermore, in Japanese, it may be spelt as "愛菜" in kanji meaning "love" and "vegetable harvest."
* Aina’s last name “Ardebit” means “to burn” in Latin.

### Story Concepts

* Aina’s original concept was similar to a pink-haired Satsuki Kiryuin, an “onee-san” type of character.
	+ Her hair also featured a similar appearance to Yoko Littner's minus color. Concept art depicting her with longer hair only increases the resemblance.
	+ Aina is occasionally depicted as being taller than her sister in concept art as well. In the final product, they are about the same height.
		- She was also always intended to be apart of Burning Rescue, with her going against Burnish Galo in various drafted fights.

### Miscellaneous

* Her Japanese seiyuu, Ayane Sakura, is noted for voicing Ochaco Uraraku of the *My Hero Acadamia* series, Tsubaki from *Your Lie in April*, Nine Delta in *Darling in the Franxx*, and Felicia Mitsuki from *Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story*.
* Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Aina's English voice actor, is recognized for her roles as Nurse Joy and Bonnie in the *Pokemon* series, and Sakura in *Your Name*.

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Some notes from the Promare panel yesterday!!!" https://twitter.com/Turbocrit/status/1196125354785529856
2. ↑ The official website and booklet have also had other information that was scrapped entirely and considered not canonical to the final movie. Using it as a reference for canonical information such as ages is not advised. The Collector's Edition early script for the movie described her as being "around 17", but this was one of the things changed in the final product, as every other character is an adult.

## External Links

* Aina's entry at the Monster Strike Wiki