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"Padayon, hala bira, ariba! Kumusta, kami ang Hiraya!" - Greeting, September 10, 2021 Online Panel

## HIRAYA

HIRAYA's logo drawn by Aguinaldo

HIRAYA's Baybayin logo

## General Information

### Members

Kit Aguinaldo, Michael Williams, Austin Dy, Pauline Sui, Kaela Giddings, Parker Trinh, Stefan Sanchez, Stefen Sanchez, Belle Bello, Naomi Campbell, Lucas Hale, & Luci Sakuragi

### Group Color(s)

Jonquil Yellow (#FFCD69), Air Force Blue (#5D8AA8)

### Years Active

2018 (under the name "Heartstrings") - Present

## Fandom

### Fandom Color(s)

Jonquil Yellow (#FFCD69), Air Force Blue (#5D8AA8)

### Fandom Scribe

Shana Nicole Ambers

SINAG's logo

**Hiraya** (*trans: hopefulness/imagination*, stylized as either **HIRAYA** or **HIRΛYΛ** and formerly known as **Chrysalis**), is the group of teens of HM managed and mentored by Haruto Miyano and Parrissianne Bell. Its members include their leader, Kath Aguinaldo, followed by the assistant leader, Michael Williams, the group secretary, Austin Dy, and the members; Pauline Sui, Kaela Giddings, Parker Trinh, Stefan and Stefen Sanchez, Belle Bello, Naomi Campbell, Lucas Hale, and Luci Sakuragi.

## FORMER MEMBERS

* **Cj Sanchez**- Leader, lead vocalist, center (VA & writer)
* **Jace Blanchett**- Visual (MFG), vocalist, dancer (VA)
* **Daniel Alba**- ???

## MEMBERS' G**Λ**LLERY

Kit Aguinaldo (Captain)Michael Williams (Co-captain)Austin Dy (Scribe)Belle Bello (Former scribe)Pauline SuiKaela GiddingsParker TrinhStefan SanchezStefen SanchezNaomi CampbellLucas HaleLuci SakuragiCj Sanchez (Chief)Jace Blanchett (Former member)
## WORKS

#### **2020**

* **July**
	+ TSS: MORE & MORE- *"Confessing to the person you like is nerve-wracking, but you should gather all your courage and do it, even if it goes wrong. Horribly wrong."*
	+ TSS: Dance the Night Away- *"There's no problem with dancing the night, darkness, and problems away with your friends, but are you ready for the great consequence it costs?"*

* **November**
	+ **After Solstice**- *"She finds a best friend and a lover in the same person in the City of Lights and Love."*

* **December**
	+ Libitina: Unmasked- *"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly."*
	+ TSS: **Merry & Happy**- *"The fallen white snow has become crimson."*

#### **2021**

* **January**
	+ Chrysalis Oneshots (ongoing)

* **March**
	+ Min Jeong 미운 정 (postponed)- *"Strangers. Friends. Lovers. Strangers."*

* **April**
	+ TSS: YES or YES- *"There's always more than one way to look at things, and there are multiple endings. The decision's all up to you."*

* **June**
	+ Beyond Worlds (Season 1)- *"The two parallel lines that were never meant to meet become a tangent."*
* **July**
	+ Beyond Worlds (Season 2)- *"The two parallel lines that were never meant to meet become a tangent."*
	+ Scarlet Swan- "Swan song isn't in her vocabulary; revenge is.*"*
* **October**
	+ Beyond Worlds (Fan submission oneshots)

#### **Upcoming**

* The Arcana
* TSS: Alcohol Free
* TSS: **Fanfare** (?)

## HISTORY

#### **HEARTSTRINGS ERA (2018-19)**

Heartstrings was the first name for the group consisting of Jace Blanchett, Cj Sanchez, and Kit (still known as Amree at the time) Aguinaldo back in 2018, when HM started voice acting for **Love Magic** with Blanchett as **Paris Templar**, Sanchez as **Minuet Felium**, and Aguinaldo as **Lilianne Laurier**. The group was named because of Kit's heart disease as per Haruto Miyano. Later, the Sanchez twins, Stefan and Stefen, joined the group, along with Kaela Giddings, Lucas Hale, and Luci Sakuragi. Miyano recruited Michael Williams to be the group's manager, and he's not an actual member until the **XIIDNIGHT** era.

#### **RVLTN ERA (2019-20)**

The group was renamed RVLTN when Belle Bello was introduced and was quickly included in the line-up, along with Daniel Alba. In this era, the studio solely focused on film and animation making, especially that their first short film SILENT. Daniel Alba (still known as Gerard at the time) had a cameo appearance, along with a few of Kit and Belle's school friends, **Usha Roberto**, **Mariana Muñoz**, and **Carina Muñoz**. Because of the lockdown, the cast were forced to film Silent individually, using their own phones and Zoom.

#### **XIIDNIGHT ERA (2020-20)**

This is the era where the former manager Michael Williams decided to "step-down" and become an official member of the group, which is now renamed **XIIDNIGHT**. Along with him being a member, he also managed to pull Pauline Sui into the mix. At the beginning of XIIDNIGHT, Daniel Alba also became an official member, and he is even included in the groupchat in Twitter.

#### **CHRYSALIS ERA (2020-21)**

Chrysalis is the most recent name of the group, and is now consisting of 12 members all-in-all, with Parker Trinh as a new member, replacing Daniel because of his inactiveness and anonymous voting. While in this era and while the lockdown is still going on, the group has been writing a lot of stories to be a part of the future selection of HM's next animation or short film. So far, the cast members have written five; the TWICE Songfix Series, **After Solstice**, and Libitina: Unmasked.

#### **HIRAYA ERA (2021-Present)**

Many things happened to the group in the late 2020 and early 2021- Cj Sanchez recruits Kit Aguinaldo as his replacement leader as he's going to college in California, and Kit picks Michael Williams out to be her assistant leader. Michael then picks Austin Dy, the former cameraman in HM and Hiro Hamada's voice actor in Beyond Worlds, as the scribe in return. Stefan Sanchez announces Naomi Campbell as his girlfriend and is now a member of the group, and Jace Blanchett quitting HM altogether for his health.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* "Hiraya" is usually a part of the Filipino phrase, "hiraya manawari", which means "may your dreams come true" when translated in English.
* Unlike the other group names and themes, it was Kit Aguinaldo and Austin Dy who thought of the new group theme for HIRAYA. Each 12 members represent one of the most popular god or goddess in the Filipino mythology, as most of the members are- part, if not- Filipinos.
	+ Due to this fact, Haruto Miyano, the group's mentor and director, might be *Bathala*.
* Cj Sanchez has always been the leader since 2018, and passed the responsibility down to Aguinaldo in 2021.
	+ The "leader", "assistant leader", and "secretary" terms are changed into "captain", "co-captain", and "scribe" respectively. The reason for this is yet to be known.
* Stefen Sanchez, Naomi Campbell, and Belle Bello might be the reason why Aguinaldo and Dy chose the name "Hiraya" for the group.