Ayame Nakiri

**Ayame Nakiri**, also known as **Ojou** and **Kijin Hyakki**, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber endorsed by *hololive*.

A kimono-clad Oni girl from the Demonic-Realm Academy. As Ayame loves to prank people, she always uses will-o’-the-wisp on them just to have fun. Many may not realize it, but she is actually the president of the student council.

In the AWA fics, Ayame debuted in the All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE.

## **Appearance**

Ayame is a young woman with a short stature, she had a slender frame and a pale complexion, she had back-length white hair with pinkish-highlights and in both sides are tied in a pair of buns by a hairclip with a yellow bell & red brush and one part is tied in a side plait by a red clover-shaped hairpin, she had red-colored eyes and she had a pair of horns with the left side wrapped in black bands. She wears a red sleeveless gii with a thick dark-red collar line and red stitches held by a red clover-shaped tie with a white puffball & red brush, around her midsection is a black waist cape-like kimono with yellow linings and red tribal designs and is wrapped by a green obi with yellow linings, a red & white checkered sash and various red-colored neckerchief-like ribbons over black loincloth with yellow linings, she wears a knee-high white socks with red ribbon ties wrapped around the lower thigh-regions and she wears a black & red geta sandals. She wears a black detached kimono with yellow linings and red bands with yellow tribal designs over a green band and red frilled sleeves, and on her back is a large red & white rope ribbon with black beads and on the left side of her head is a red-colored oni mask.

## **Personality**

Ayame is an oni who *seems* to talk to humans as if they are below her. However in spite of this, she is very friendly, playful and treats her audience equally to herself. Even sometimes looking up to humans she respects such as Houshou Marine to where she had difficulties approaching her.

Ayame is infamous for her approachability and her rather sensitive funny bone, as it's very easy to make her let loose a cute little giggle from the slightest amusement. She will laugh when she's up to no good, chuckle at her observations on things, giggle at her mistakes and burst at her chat's cheap jokes. Bad Japanese puns are especially her weakness as she starts giggling and laughing to where she can't contain herself anymore, bashing her table uncontrollably and needing to stop whatever she's doing just to let it loose.

She can be very analytical of new people in a social context, oftenly taking 5 separate encounters before she collects enough "data" to know how to approach someone, which can sometimes cause analytical meltdowns when around people who prefer to know someone ASAP (like Marine). Additionally, typical of an oni, she can also have a really violent temper if pushed too far as she got into a physical fight with her father and kicked a hole in the wall when someone deleted all of her cable recordings...again. But when streaming she always keeps herself in a fantastic enough mood to avoid showing her anger in front of her fans, save for cute toothless outbursts.

She greets her fans with *"Konnakiri!".*

## **Trivia**

* Before becoming a VTuber, she revealed she used to be a loner and had trouble interacting with others. Since joining hololive, she was progressively able to make bonds with the other members, open up and rely on them, and gain self-confidence.
* She admitted to wearing glasses. In fact, her eyesight is typically very terrible.
* She's a fan of FPS games and frequently plays them on stream, possessing lightning quick reflexes rivaling Minato Aqua as can be seen when she plays shooters like Apex Legends.
* She's bad at horror games and is easily scared.
* Ayame shares her illustrator Kagura Nana with Spade Echo from hololive China, Fuyumori Shizuku from Idori Entertainment Post, Naki Kamizuki from PRISM Project, Lucifer Poi from airy Production and Amemiya Nazuna from VShojo.
* Yukihana Lamy and Shirogane Noel are big fans of Ayame.
* She owns a pet cat named Jirusuke.
* She always carries twin katanas on her back. The black-handled oodachi is the cursed sword Rakshasa ("Rasetsu"), and its blade is haunted by dark mist. The red-handled dachi is the demon blade Asura (Kijinto Asura) and has a red blade. Both appear on her original design sheet, while their English names are attested in Ayame's appearance in Azur Lane.
	+ The original character board describes Rakshasa as an *oodachi*, or extra-long sword. While this term is often used to describe a sword longer than a normal katana, Ayame's sword appears to be of normal length, although it is slightly longer than Asura, which is described merely as a *dachi*, or sword. This combination of a katana and shorter sword (wakizashi) commonly appears in depictions of samurai, as popularized by Miyamoto Musashi's *Book of Five Rings* and other works.
	+ Rakshasa is referred to as "youtou," meaning a cursed, magical, or demon blade. The first kanji "you" appears in "youkai," a Japanese term for spirits or monsters of folklore.
	+ Asura is referred to as "kijinto" or "kijin katana," with "kijin" referring to a type of supernatural creature such as a demon, god, or rakshasa. The first kanji of *kijin* is the kanji for "oni," which also appears in the name Nakiri.
	+ Both rakshasa and asura are named after types of supernatural beings of Hindu myth. The rakshasa is a demon-like creature created from the breath of Brahma, and later popularized via Dungeons & Dragons as having a tiger-like appearance. The asura is a type of being who wars against the devas or gods.
* Ayame has a bad sense of direction, often going the wrong way. This has lead to the birth of the "Docchi Docchi" MAD (Songs made out of clips set to music), and she is sometimes teased with it by other members.
* She is a fan of Pretty Cure. Her favorite series is Smile Pretty Cure, and her favorite characters are Cure Happy, Cure Peace, and Cure Beauty. However, she denies being an otaku. This is because, domestically, Otaku is used to describe a person who is overly knowledgeable about a particular subject, similar to a mega nerd, as opposed to the western adopted meaning flanderized as "Anime fan."
* Ayame appears to be way more hyperactive than who she actually is in holo no graffiti, especially when she's the main driving character of the episode. Notable episodes featuring this are *"Help! I'll be burned!"* and *"Beware, Beware the Blues of May"*. This hyper personality has partly influenced the jacket design on her 4th costume to read "YODAYO," a greeting fans took a liking towards because of the mini-series.
* She claims that she's asked why she has horns around every six months, to which she always responds with being born with them because she's an Oni. When asked, she would respond with "Why don't you humans have horns?"
* Ayame has once noted that she has a very strict mother, who would usually get on her for the smallest things such as having her elbows on the table before saying she won't eat or saying she won't help her if she doesn't help herself. Many traits (from how Ayame explains them) point to mama Nakiri being a very strong headed woman.