Aya Aoki

> My talents aren't even that great so how could you say so? If you see the other Kosho of our dozen, they are very much stronger than me so don't ever say I'm special."
> Aya Aoki to a memory of her sister, Moriko Aoki in the Cave of Grounds Arc in Winning and Loss
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Aya Aoki is the current Paint Kosho, who has survived the Dusk of Justice Arc, and is the ancestor of Quoc in The Celestial Symphony series alongside a few characters in the Sorceress and the Sea who also had Durenian blood. She becomes the wife of a member of the Moonlit Order, who comes from the country of Nukamoire. She is also working to save her own sister who is corrupted with the curse of "Kali", also known as the one of the supporting deities of destruction who aids Tsumi in forming the warped eternity and is determined to figure out a Harmony's Contract with the harmonious deities to cure her younger sister. However, it turns out to be more problematic as her descendant was corrupted with the same curse that caused them to be possessed by Kali. Aya's sister was also affected by the Maroon's Malevolence which turned those with Numen Eyes to stone and corrupted them further. She also seeks to find about the truth about the experimental curses of Rio Perez who happened to be possessed by the God of Destruction, Tsumi.

She is the cousin of the son of the head of the Aoki Clan, and is a major supporting character in the original series, *Warped Eternity: Living Destruction's Abyssal Remnants*. She is the main protagonist of Brushed Destiny, and serves also as a part-time healer at the Paint Estate. She is one of the people who recognized Daiki's power and disguises in the Tatralian District Arc. She is also one of the participants of the Kliessarium Game, and even participated in the game herself to also find the truth about one of it's participants. She also serves to find out the truth about the Black Blood's Symphonies and the Eight Timeless Devourers. She is also the second weakest Kosho in the series due to her large lack of inexperience compared to Akio which next to her is Astar Lucero, the weakest Kosho who is only a superhuman. She is known to have atleast 1,200 years of experience, making her an immortal and failed "experiment" by the hands of Rio Perez which also led to her disappointment due to her being "weak". She is one of the victims of the Smile Curse, something Rio never intended to do on his experimental subjects but accidentally did to her.

## Personality

Aya is known for her sweet, brash, and lively personality, always seemingly being loud and energetic. She also has a very playful personality, and likes to do kind gestures towards others. She also is often good-natured and carefree, complimenting others in her head. Additionally, Aya is seemingly kind to others, and is constantly making others, such as Yohan Kobara smile. However, despite this, she does not tolerate ill-mannered, and irritating demeanor, such as her constant verbal attacks at Rei Matsuoka as seen in the series. It also seems that she acts rather crude, and vulgar on them, being very tactless and often quick to express insults. She is very confident about her skills, seemingly frustrating Natsu Anchali often due to her self-confidence. She also seems to be overly cheerful, and could seem as toxically positive, which often brings some people away from her despite her easygoing demeanor. This is often mistaken for apathy and callousness, although Aya doesn't think of it that way. She seems to be less understanding, and somehow can be dismissive and selfish at times, due to her seemingly cheerful and insensitive nature. This was seen with her constantly seeming upbeat, and always positive. She was yelled at Mirai Ayano, due to her pretending to always be positive even after hearing Katakura Tsuma's death. This was also seen in her first meeting with Kazuo Yasahana, and Ryuga Chisaka but in reality, she struggled deeply with dealing about the Smile Curse which forced her to eternally smile. Due to her suppression of emotions, A

ya has shown to be reminiscent, which she often hid her feelings to herself, and was fairly reserved about it. This was also hidden through her constant positive facade like Ryuga Chisa, which she found similarities to. Her reminiscence is evident when she was never telling her emotions and suppresses it through her usual blunt and easygoing demeanour. It was revealed that one of the reasons she actually suppresses and hides her emotions is also because she was cursed with the Smile Curse in a similar manner to Ryuga Chisaka and even Kenzu Fuyuki.

She has shown to not open-up too much as she is more focused on giving joy to others by defeating the creatures made by the Warped Domain's Lords and those who caused too much harm to the innocent lives. She also works tirelessly due to the immense pressure that a Kosho is given due to their immense power, and can often be too hardworking to the point of not feeling like she contributed enough like the rest of the Kosho. However, she hides her tirelessness in working hard and her feeling of not contributing enough through her fake self-confidence. This also hides an inferiority complex as she looks up to higher-ranked Kosho including their strongest one yet, Akio Akimitsu, Amihan Perez, and Rei Matsuoka and said to herself that she could never become as great as them. However, she tries to hide being affected by the fact she's the weakest Kosho and feels like her contributions often are looked down upon. She also feels regret with the fact that her only strong point amongst the Kosho is flexibility as she has a weaker muscle mass than the rest of the Kosho, and her running speed is also the slowest due to being too heavy. However, her inferiority complex brought up by her slow running speed was lifted up slowly through Akio Akimitsu's help as shown slowly in the series due to showing her how impressive her achievements can be even if they weren't really as great as the others. This also pushed her to become more hardworking to become atleast as deadly as the other Kosho, and work effectively alongside Rei Matsuoka and Akio Akimitsu to not be a push-over towards them. This greatly contrasts with Naree Suwan's bold, cold, and confident demeanor alongside Hanae Kemono's great confidence in her skills despite her humility.

Aya also is very skeptical, wondering if the Warped Domain's Lords could ever be defeated as for thousands of years, they remain undefeated. Like Hotaruko Anchali and Ryuga Chisaka, she wondered if the Eternal Fire truly existed and if hope, peace and justices could truly happen given the conflicts in Cruor.

## Abilities and Powers

**Immense Flexibility:** In contrast to Daiki, who is one of the most unflexible characters in the series despite being the strongest, Aya has shown to be one of the most flexible characters in the series, as evident by her constant gymnastic and whip movements and constant muscle and joint control to perform different layers of strikes. She was able to bend her body to attack Daiki and Shiro Yori albeit with tremendous efforts due to their godly strength. Her flexibility was further increased to it's peak, as she also incorporates her flexibility and techniques into her Paint Style techniques. She was able to bend her body proficiently enough to deliver long whip slashes onto her opponents with tremendous amounts of ease without cutting herself in the process. This also means she possesses tremendous talent in flexibility, but could barely keep up with Hotaruko Anchali whose bones could rotate 360° degrees in any direction. Her flexibility also compares to Darin's body shifting ability who was known to be the most flexible out of the Warped Domain's Lords, and she is actually the most flexible Kosho. This also takes form in her whip sword which is excessively flexible like Naree Suwan's whip katanas. This adds to the tempo and power of her Paint-based Numen Energy.

**Immense Strength:** Aya possesses tremendous amounts of muscular density as evident with her extremely bulky arms which contain much muscular mass equivalent to thirty times the strength of a sumo-wrestler in just her arm strength while keeping her agile figure. This was evident when she performed a simple slice on the Akame, and it leaded to massive terrains of slashes due to the force of her odachi's swing. Aya possesses tremendous amounts of strength as evident by how she effortlessly thrusted, slashed and pierced her blades and daggers onto the skin of the formidable Adonnes De Hanabi with relative ease and also was capable of doing the same to Luka Odayaka despite their bodies being extremely tough and difficult to break. She was also capable of swinging different attacks at her while maintaining her compositon to become extremely agile and flexible due to the fact her muscular constitution can still allow her to move freely. However, this is considered the weakest physical strength in the Kosho as the Kosho are quite superior to her in strength due to lacking the flexibility she has and even Amihan Perez possessed much more muscular mass than her due to his less agile and controlled figure. This muscular mass also is incredibly heavy alongside her flexibility and mobility which is why her running speed is the slowest in the dozen. Aya possesses an inferiority complex due to this large amount of weakness.

## Equipment and Tools

**Paint Odachi:** Aya wields an odachi, which she imbues with her Numen Energy. Her odachi is extremely sharp, fierce, and aggressive, yet flow in slicing and can be used to release and unleash torrents of slashes all around the body parts of the opponent. Her odachi can often be changed in size, and can be used to deliver winding slashes. Her odachi is extremely difficult to break, and was only severely damaged during her battles against some gods and corrupted demigods. Additionally, Aya's odachi allows her to perform winding slashes and extend her sword once again to perform more layers of paint-like slashes. It can be used as a defensive and offensive weapon. The tip of her blade is shaped like a Tanto's tip but it is shaped like a paintbrush's tip.

**Whip Daggers:** In extremely close-ranged battles, Aya often wields short daggers which are extremely flexible and whiplike to the point of having enough force to knock opponents out. Aya's flexible whip daggers also allow her to surround her opponents with slashes which weave around them and surround them with attacks. It is a further testament to her innate flexibility which she uses the best at combat and imbues with Numen Force.

## Quotes

*"Akimitsu-dono is really the strongest Kosho who could handle this amount of pressure and managed to achieve tons of accomplishments that made him the most superior one in six eras despite such a bodily restriction. He lacked agility and flexibility, but his skills in other areas was too superior and unparalleled, that was enough for him. I really wish I was like him but it seems like no matter what I do, I possibly couldn't. I'll still raise up myself anyway." Aya Aoki to herself while fighting Daiki*

*"Tomodachi-san, why am I so useless? Why did I let all those lives pass? It was my duty to protect them, but I can't even manage to save an entire town. I was too slow and weak..." Aya Aoki to Tae Tomodachi about her inability to save*

*"Sometimes, I wondered if the humans actually didn't become the ones who tortured and experimented so much on the creatures, many would have still been alive. It's quite selfish of them, isn't it? I mean, this was the cause of this war and due to their exploitation, they brought a cycle of vengeance which have killed many innocent lives throughout the centuries. But atleast some are still capable, I hope..." Aya Aoki to herself in a flashback at the Sanje Realm's Entrance Arc*

*"The roses inside this Sanje Realm are filled with the crimson blood stains of countless humans, their petals dancing like the number of human lives being taken and yet, you here call them graceful and filled with beauty. How heartless you truly are, that even if countless innocents died, you'll still stand there smiling unfazed. Mark my words though, you will not get out of here undefeated even if I die in the process." Aya Aoki to the Metal Goddess, Darin Anchali as an attempt to distract her*

*"Mai-chan is actually very skilled so don't belittle her. The only reason is actually because she doesn't have a passion or a willpower to become a fighter since she was forced by her tribe after being exiled from her home realm. That's why you shouldn't really hate her." Aya Aoki explaining about Mai Matsuoka's sorrow to Naree Suwan*

## Trivia

She embodies the importance of acceptance, lack of racism, importance of rights, ignoring toxic positivity, understanding, the consequences of being too confident, and being more sensitive towards others.

She has tons of thrusting power.

She thinks Astar is really cool, and relates with her as Astar is the weakest Kosho. There are times she argued with Rokihiko Aoki due to the misconception of sleeping around the job. Other than her, the only person Astar gets along with is probably Amihan Perez.

She is on thin ice with Jomari Perez, as he is too stoic, unfriendly, and rude.

Aya likes puppies, and felines, which sparks the contrast with Rei Matsuoka.

Aya is stated to be the third one of the least to open up Kosho in the databook.

Aya is a close-closeted asexual, but is straight.