Ayu

* Default
* Awakened

**Mobile:**
**Ayu** is a limited Partner in Arcaea. She can be unlocked by purchasing her song Phantasia and playing her event map, which was first playable from November 29th to December 6th, 2018.**Switch:**
**Ayu** is a Partner in Arcaea. She and her songs Phantasia and MAHOROBA are available via her map in World Mode.

## Character

### Name

Ayu's name in Japanese, 彩夢, uses the characters for "colorful" (彩) and "dream" (夢).

### Appearance

Ayu has short, somewhat messy gray hair and golden-brown eyes. A teal, black, and white patterned bow rests on her head.

She wears a black and white garment resembling a *furisode* with teal and gold patterns on the upper half as well as teal lining and a teal *obi*. Underneath, she wears what appears to be a sleeveless white shirt with a teal bow tie. Her sleeves are separate from the rest of her dress, cover her hands completely, and are black and white (on her left and right arms respectively) with round teal patterns and bows of the opposite color. Despite appearing to have pincers instead of hands, Ayu is shown to have hands in her concept art.

Her stockings are white and black (on her left and right legs respectively) with gold trim and pleating with a teal lining. Her shoes' colors are opposite those of her stockings.

Ayu is accompanied by two bats named Fans (ファンス) and Drem (ドレム) that share her aesthetics and color scheme.

### Personality

Ayu has been described by Sowiti to be, in their personal opinion, carefree, energetic, and comfortable.

## Story

Ayu is the main character of the Colorful Dream Short Story (which can be read without unlocking her, and only requires her song init()).
**Mobile:** Her bats Fans and Drem also appear in Kanae's Side Story Sunset Radiance.**Switch:**

## Gameplay

### Stats by level

**Mobile:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

Note that to awaken Ayu, init() must be purchased to access the map containing the necessary Colorful Cores.**Switch:**
*Hover your cursor over a stat to see its corresponding multiplier.*

### Skill

Ayu's unawakened skill offers a random Fragment bonus (or penalty) after playing a song, provided the final score is at least 5,500,000.
The possible bonuses and their probabilities are given below:

 0.00005% | 9999

Her Awakened skill instead offers a random bonus (or penalty) to World Mode progress after a play.
A random bonus from -5 to +5 is chosen (1 decimal place precision, with evenly distributed probability). This bonus is added to the step progress after the STEP multiplier is applied (*see World Mode Mechanics*).
If the resulting total steps is negative, it is set to 0.0.
It is unknown whether this skill offers performance bonuses in Lost Chapter: Beyond.

## Artwork

* Concept Art by そゐち (Sowiti)
* Release illustration by そゐち (Sowiti)
* Additional artwork by そゐち (Sowiti)
* Additional artwork by そゐち (Sowiti)
* Additional artwork by そゐち (Sowiti)
* Image by そゐち (Sowiti) for the game's 5th anniversary
* Story Entry 11-2
* Ayu's reveal image
* Phantasia jacket art
* MAHOROBA jacket art
* init() jacket art
* Full body artwork
* Full body awakened artwork
* Icon in the partner select screen
* Awakened icon in the partner select screen
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## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/huseso/status/1067346007439040514
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/huseso/status/1071604438245138433