History Characters / YuminaTheEthereal

* BiTheWay: She hero worships [[spoiler:Yumina's mother, Yumika,]] and says they used to cuddle. Ayumu is the first man she's ever wanted to cuddle, but the second person she considered a romantic interest. Do the math.

* BiTheWay: Despite her clear infatuation with Ayumu, both of her H-scenes involve other women. [[note]] Ayumu and her sister in the main story, her and Yumina in the FD[[/note]]

* ACupAngst: She's secretly pretty flat chested, something that she considers her sole flaw and thus obsesses over it.

%%* {{Princess}}

%%* BadassInANiceSuit
%%* BattleButler
%%* {{Bishonen}}

The hero. A young man doomed to clean up Yumina's messes. After joining the Debate Club together with Yumina, he finds himself the club's errand boy - scouting opponents, guarding the candidate, and generally doing whatever Kirara tells him to. Ayumu has few memories of childhood and no knowledge of his parents. He was raised by a man named Akashima Takehito, who subjected Ayumu to a harsh regimen of martial arts and survival training. One day, Takehito revealed the purpose of Ayumu's training. He was to enter Jinbu Academy and protect Midorishita Yumina, a girl whom Takehito claimed would one day save the world. Little did Ayumu know that he would first have to save Yumina from her own bad grades.

His elemental color is red.

The main heroine. Due to a failed test and a history of bad grades, she will have to repeat the second year unless she can become student council president, a position that comes with the power to change any school rule. Led by Kurokawa Kirara, she charges towards the one bright spot in a dark and dismal future. Yumina is a friendly and cheerful girl with stunning good looks. She does have more than a few screws loose, however, and completely fails to live up to her ideals of modesty, competence, and efficiency. In her quest to become student council president, she will face many passionate rivals and harsh challenges. How will the experience change her? Will she ever make the third year?

Her elemental color is green.

The mastermind behind Yumina's candidacy. She clearly has her own reasons for supporting Yumina, but she's not about to reveal them. Her diminutive figure belies a powerful ego, and she often uses cunning ploys and underhanded tricks to lead the Debate Club to victory. No one can tell what she's really thinking at any given moment, but she is often seen wearing a dark and dangerous smile. While few people would call themselves her friend, she does seem to have a vast network of contacts throughout the academy, a fact which only adds to the mystery surrounding this strange girl.

Her elemental color is black.

An eccentric girl who transfers to Jinbu Academy shortly after the Election War begins. Despite her spotless record and glowing letters of recommendation, she decides to join the underdogs of the Debate Club. While glad of the boost to their strength, the other members wonder at her motives. She does seem to be interested in a certain someone... She claims to be an average girl born and raised in the heartland of Japan, but it is obvious from the things she says and does that there's something very off about this girl. Loyal to her desires, Ai always eats and plays to the fullest. When something grabs her interest, rest assured that she will pursue it no matter what stands in her way, often dragging other people (usually Ayumu) along for the ride. In contrast to her doll-like appearance, she shows incredible athletic ability.

Her elemental color is blue.

* {{Valkyries}}: Her character design resembles this.

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbVEjTw45Lo "Proud Nayuta"]]
* LonelyAtTheTop: It's suggested that despite her cold exterior she is really just lonely and wants friends, hence her interactions with Ayumu in the lead-up to their battle and her hypothesis that Ayumu appeared in her "dreams" because she had grown fond of him.

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* ACupAngst

* {{BFS}}
* FieryRedhead

* {{Princess}}
* ZettaiRyouki: Type A.

* BadassInANiceSuit
* BattleButler
* {{Bishonen}}

* TalkingInYourSleep: In Forever Dreams, because Ayumu isn't around when Tsukuyo passes out from a debate battle Kirara makes Yumina [[IntimateHealing help her instead,]] after when she wakes up the debate club lets her know about this leading to a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: If Ayumu says he will tell Kirara that she [[spoiler: [[ACupAngst pads her bras]]]], she will try to charge Ayumu but hits her head, forgetting he found out about her secret.

* {{GASP}}: Combined with ComicalOverreacting.

* AdHominem: The debates aren't really about who is right or wrong, but rather who can sway the most people to their side with their will. Thus, if Ayumu finishes all the chapter heroine events he unlocks a special skill that basically amounts to using personal attacks in the middle of a duel to make them lose concentration and therefore the fight. He even publicly apologizes after the Nayuta fight for bringing up something totally unrelated to the argument that was quite hurtful to her.

-->'''Ayumu:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Don't make me tell you that I love you!]]

* [[spoiler: DyingDeclarationOfLove]]: In Kirara's route.

* [[spoiler: GoOutWithASmile]]: Only in Kirara's route.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: In Kirara's route.]]

* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]]: At the end of Yumina's route, he [[spoiler: traps the invading Barais Universe, the Thought Crystal and himself inside of an eternal time warp.]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: In Yumina's route.

* ACupAngst

* MeaningfulName: Kirara's surname, Kurokawa (黒河), means "black river".

* TheAgeless]]: [[spoiler: Voluntarily turns into one in Kirara's route due to traveling between dimensions with her]].

* [[spoiler: TheAgeless]]: Voluntarily turns into one in Kirara's route, due to [[spoiler: traveling between dimensions with her]] and because of his love for her.

* [[spoiler: FlawedPrototype]]: What [[spoiler: Rishane]] considers him in Yumina's route.

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: Attempts to do this in Yumina's route, but doesn't quite succeed at it.

* [[spoiler: HumanAliens]]: What he is in Yumina's route. See LaserGuidedAmnesia and ParentalAbandonment.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In Yumina's route, [[spoiler: Ayumu has forgotten that he is originally from Algoda. He has the occasional {{Flashback}}, but has no idea what they mean.]] It's also suggested in Ai's route, but not as explicitly as Yumina's.
* LeftForDead: In Yumina's route, [[spoiler: Rishane disposed of the young Ayumu as a "failed experiment" and left him to die out in the Algodan wastelands.]]

->'''Voiced by''': Ryouko Tanaka

* ActionGirl

* BadassPrincess

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Her eyes turn bright red when surprised or embarrassed. Ayumu notices, but [[SelectiveObliviousness chooses not to think about it.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Deliberately averted. The fact that she and Deele are Karales' daughters is never revealed or discussed until the Conclusion route, when it's mentioned off-handedly past any point it could be relevant.]]

* TheirFirstTime: In a bit of a diversion from your standard VisualNovel, Maino, not one of the heroines, is the girl Ayumu has sex with first [[OptionalSexualEncounter (if you choose to)]].

* [[spoiler:AGodAmI]]: In Ai's and Yumina's route, he has created the [[spoiler: Ether Frame]] for this purpose.

* [[spoiler: AssimilationPlot]]: His master plan is to finish the [[spoiler: [[HumongousMecha Ether Frame]]]] and use it to pull one of these off.
* BigBad: In Ai's route. In Yumina's route, it appears he is going to become this as well [[spoiler: but gets killed by Karales before this can happen.]]
* TheChessmaster: In Yumina's and Ai's route, he is behind [[spoiler: the selection process of Ethereals. Once these Ethereals prove themselves, they are allowed to "live" in the [[ShiningCity Celestial City]] on Algoda, [[AssimilationPlot in which they are fed into the Ether Frame]] - all for the purpose of defending the Radosseus universe.]]
* CreepyChild

* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice]]: His fate in Yumina's route.

* OlderThanTheyLook: He has the appearance of a small child, but this is actually a case of [[spoiler: TheAgeless]].
* TheSociopath: In Yumina's and Ai's route, but it's expanded upon in Ai's route. As Ayumu puts it, [[spoiler: "Just to create an ultimate weapon, he subjugated an entire world and arbitrarily selected people from it. He judged everything with reason, without caring for human personalities at all. He turned the lives and futures of the people he selected to nothing."]]

* BigBad: Except for in Ai's route, where [[spoiler: he's defeated relatively early in the second half and ends up being more of a case of TheExtremistWasRight.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Comes across as this in Kirara's route, telling the party that he defected from the Federation in order to [[WarriorHeaven create a world for Ethereals to live in]] and to make them acknowledge Ethereal independence. In Ai's route, he rejected the Algodan ideals he had grown up with and sided with the Extra-Dimensionals, which lead to...
** TheExtremistWasRight: In Ai's route, Ayumu comes to somewhat agree with him after [[spoiler: seeing the state of affairs on Algoda and learning of Rishane's AssimilationPlot.]]

* DrillSergeantNasty: Subverted. Though he is a harsh trainer, in the interactions we see of him with Ayumu, he is not cruel.

* LonelyAtTheTop: It's suggested that despite her cold exterior she is really just lonely and wants companionship, hence her interactions with Ayumu in the lead-up to their battle and her assertion [[spoiler: in the Ordacle]] that she had grown so fond of him that he even showed up in her dreams.

->'''Voiced by''': Ryoko Tanaka

* {{Badass}}: Particularly in Kirara's route, where he fights and defeats dozens of Extra-Dimensionals [[spoiler: with a critically damaged Radiant Frame and at the cost of his life.]]

* {{Badass}}: She is said to have been as powerful as Karales, and would have surpassed him in power had she lived.

->''"Helping people. This is what Lucy lives for."''