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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Hinata Aoi
AGE: 15
CANON: Ensemble Stars!

CANON HISTORY:

Wiki link & a list of everything Hinata appears in! And now a write-up; I'm not including anything but the event stories, because who knows when the fuck all those sub stories and other things take place. But they totally happened.

!!! THERE'S SUICIDAL STUFF IN HERE because yeah !!!

Hinata Aoi was born the eldest (maybe) of two brothers - his "younger" brother is Yuta Aoi, but the two later admit they don't actually know which of them was the elder. Hinata simply took the position and acted as though it was his, and they've proceeded like that ever since. When they were younger, their mother died, leaving them with only their father and one another as company. However, their father stated around that time that the two were like "monsters" - specifically: "I can't tell you apart, it's creepy, it's like looking at monsters". While Hinata stated that their father was overwhelmed with grief and doesn't seem to hold it against him, those words clearly affected him strongly. It was at that point Hinata went "welp" and decided to change his entire personality so Yuta could stay as the "them" at that time and wouldn't have to.

However, that threw Yuta off balance and forced him to change anyway because...yeah. In order to give Yuta a shot at being the only Aoi brother, Hinata ran away. He did this because, apparently, "If just Yuta-kun remained, our father wouldn't have said things like he couldn't tell us apart, or that it made him sick, and all, right?" Hinata even left behind a farewell note when he booked it. This was in December long ago, since it was Christmas season, and Yuta located him and threw a cake he bought at Hinata with all his strength and then refused to stop tagging along. Apparently the two then lived on the streets for a time together, and preformed on the streets for cash. They weren't immediately good enough to make cash, but they earned the attention of a retired acrobatics troupe member who now runs a Chinese restaurant. The old man would give them manju and the like when they couldn't pay for their own food, and taught them the tricks that would enable them to earn money preforming. Hinata refers to him as "Master" and also says the man is like the twins' personal savior.

Apparently they made a habit of doing special training late into the night to pick up new techniques, although Yuta says this was because Hinata always got obsessed with whatever he was doing and made Yuta accompany him. By the time the twins join the Academy they are living with their father instead of running away again, but they apparently still preform sometimes and Hinata lets slip that their father lets them do whatever they want without interfering - so they mostly take care of themselves and split all the chores between them. It seems that their father is never home and takes his meals outside the house. Furthermore, Yuta makes comments along the lines of actually remembering Hinata doing things like raising him, and says that his Santa has always been his big brother since their "Father-like" person has no interest (Yuta never calls their father simply as father, and is very much not forgiving like Hinata leans towards being). Apparently Hinata gets Yuta extravagant gifts for birthdays and other holidays (Christmas, White Day...) every year, presumably to make up for the lack of parental gifts.

And once we hit Hinata's idol years, you need an explanation on basic Enstars knowledge to keep up! So, Ensemble Stars! is a mobage game. The setting is like so: Yumenosaki Private Academy is a vocational school with several courses: the idol course, the producer course, the regular course, the vocal course, the music course, and the theater course. The story focuses on the idol course! The Producer course has exactly one student, the 2nd year player character who I will refer to as Anzu because default names. One of the students notes that the entire course is basically a huge idol agency, and this isn't entirely incorrect. Students form Units and participate in Dream Festivals.

Dream Festivals (or DreamFes if you wanna use the lingo) are more or less lives where idols preform/compete against one another. They usually have a theme, and the themes are usually ridiculous. Unit ranks and even student grades are effected based on your scores and participation in DreamFes; Units can be disbanded if they don't participate often enough or if they do really badly all the time, so. Winning a lot also nets you support from the school, funds for activities, and that sort of thing! Upon joining Yumenosaki, Hinata formed a two-person Unit, 2Wink, with Yuta. Hinata is the head of the Unit, so he gets all the responsibilities and has to sign off on all the paperwork, to Yuta's eternal chagrin.

There are ranking levels for Dream Festivals to let you know What's Up about them: SS, S1, S2, S3, A1, and B1, from top to bottom. As a note, S3 is only established later on in the story and I'll mention it when it pops up, but it's easier to just explain the system briefly with it in there. S2 and up are official events held a set amount of times (for example, only one S1 is held per season); S3 are DreamFes that any Unit lead can submit an application plan to the Student Council for, and if they are approved they can go to town; A1 are rookie battles only newly formed units or new students can participate in; and B1 are unofficial DreamFes that aren't even acknowledged by the school and technically aren't allowed. They're kind of like street matches, and can have even weirder than usual rules. Events ranked below S2 are locked to attendance by students only, while S1 and up are open to the public.

Wins are determined based on votes! Students vote using cyalumes, these snazzy pen light things. Turning the dial changes the display to any number between one to ten - it also changes the color of the cyalume (one is white, two is yellow, six is blue, eight is pink, ten is rainbow colored, etc). At the end of any performance the votes are tallied up and things are decided from there. Now, here's the part where shit gets bad: not only are the Units participating in DreamFes A1 and up graded based on their scores, so is the audience. Every student's student handbook is stamped when they go to a DreamFes, and it is set up to record how they vote. It's better for the audience when they vote for a group that wins. Because of that (there being no merit to voting for a losing team/there being something of a detriment, oops) students at the time of the main story tend to vote for the Student Council, who are pretty much guaranteed to win - it's a huge circular issue and means that basically no one else ever wins. It makes the higher matches - the ones that matter most! - all feel fixed and means that at the time of the main story there were basically never any upsets to the usual order. Worse than this is the fact that in official DreamFes the highest-ranking unit in the line-up goes first, and the audience tended to leave after voting for the Student Council aligned Unit in a DreamFes, leaving the other Units playing to empty auditoriums or whatnot.

As a note, this was not how Yumenosaki was always set up, but Eichi (Student Council President) took over and changed things so that's where things are now - and Hinata and Yuta joined Yumenosaki after the Student Council took over, so it's what Hinata knows as how things work!

Obviously, not everyone is happy with this state of affairs. Trickstar is the focal idol group of the main story, a group of four second years who enlist the help of Anzu to go up against the Student Council and their associated idol groups. However, they aren't the only people interested in taking down the Student Council and shaking things up. Chief among the people who want to change shit is Rei Sakuma, one of the Five Three Oddballs (a group that is Exactly What It Says On The Tin) and head of UNDEAD & the Light Music Club. This is relevant because Hinata - and Yuta - are both members of the LMC, along with Koga Oogami. As soon as they're brought into the story, Rei dispatches the twins to collect Anzu and bring her to them so that he can begin plotting to help Trickstar.

After having Trickstar preform for the LMC, Rei assigns the three members who came to collect Anzu different training tasks in order to have a shot at winning the upcoming S1. Hokuto Hidaka is assigned to the twins, as he is stiff and awkward and bad at expressing himself. Rei says they're basically the standard for wild and free, and should be able to loosen Hokuto up (...in more old-mannish terms) and so the twins take over Hokuto's education. Their methods to make him more flexible in one week of Training Hell included: staring contests, forcing him to watch their manzai act and tickling him to the point of tears when Hokuto didn't laugh, eating a lot of sour food, actual physical flexibility exercises, making Hokuto do his own manzai act and telling him to "Become an idiot!" In addition to the training the LMC offered Trickstar, they offered some songs for Trickstar to use in the S1, and basically dedicated all their actions in the S1 towards allowing Trickstar to secure a victory and upset the "natural order".

Specifically, although to the Student Council's knowledge only AKATSUKI and Trickstar would be preforming, UNDEAD hopped in to preform and force AKATSUKI to fight a two-front battle because I don't know, how many ways can we make musical lives sound like wars? After the battle between AKATSUKI and UNDEAD, 2Wink took the stage (having registered for the S1 in secret because why the fuck not) and ushered AKATSUKI off stage by pointing out lingering might get them a penalty on the points they earned. Basically, Rei set things up so AKATSUKI, UNDEAD, and 2Wink all seemed to be opening acts to Trickstar and gave them a fair chance to win, hoping the general audience would vote appropriately unlike the students, who always voted for the Student Council. After buying Trickstar enough time to prepare (and basically committing to sacrificing their own score), 2Wink announces the heroes' entry and leaves the stage. The twins are actually really, really good at setting the stage for other Units - they're aces at playing to other people's strengths and introducing them in a way that makes the audience like them better, possibly because they spend so much time playing off of one another and are used to matching other people's paces. Luckily, Trickstar did win the S1 thanks to the sacrifices made by UNDEAD and 2Wink and yes it was just as dramatic as it sounds.

Following their win, Eichi returns to school (he suffers from Anime Illness and was out until this point in the plot) and basically orders Trickstar to disband, offering to sort Hokuto and Subaru into fine, Mao into AKATSUKI, and Makoto into knights. While they don't have to make a decision immediately - Eichi invites Trickstar to see fine "execute" UNDEAD in a match because WHY ARE THEY THIS DRAMATIC ABOUT IDOL SHOWS, and announces that the next S1 titled "DDD" will have the winning unit participate in the "SS", which is basically #goals.

The final chapter is still being translated for some godforsaken reason, but basically Trickstar Wins (after turmoil including Makoto being kidnapped and ??? bombs ??? or something ??? because knights is even more extra than everyone else, apparently) and overthrows the Student Council/fine and a new era is ushered in. The event stories typically take place in the reformation era but sometimes they take place before or during because fuck timelines (specifically for year 1 they played out normal, then every new year they "reset" and go visit what other people were doing at the same time as other stories took place/at new times throughout the year OR AGAIN, TIME TRAVEL), I guess. From this point on I'll be summarizing the important stuff for Hinata in the New Era!

Following the Main Story in Spring, specifically in May, fine sets up a special DreamFes known as "Yumenosaki Circus". It's after the SakuraFes, which the twins don't take place in (unless, like, the events circle around to that to make them show up, I hate this canon). Overhearing Tori and Yuzuru speaking about it (they're the two junior members of fine) Hinata and Yuta shove their noses in and take over Tori's training, motivated by not wanting the show to fail as well as a habit for always helping out anyone trying really hard, like the nosy assholes they are. The twins were chosen as the opening act for the "Circus" due to their street performer pasts - unlike the members of fine, they didn't require any training to preform circus tricks. They proceed to put Tori through two weeks of training from hell (why do they keep doing this to people) and he actually manages to Get Good. The twins do their best to open the show, cautioning fine not to fuck it up after and make them look bad. Due to certain circumstances (including an escaped lion) the twins have to extend their opening act to stall for time. They stay on stage as long as they can, but eventually leave and join the audience; as usual, being the opening act only makes them want to work harder to be the main attraction someday.

In Summer, there were many ordinary days. Hinata helped Tori to clean the school pool in order to get out of an apology essay after one of his many pranks; LMC meetings; switching places with Yuta in classes For Fun; setting up a mostly spur of the moment Test of Courage for Yuta; attempting to literally alter his entire personality (AGAIN...); challenging AKATSUKI in an S2 in June; and finally cooperated with RYUSEITAI at a job at the beach in August, where 2Wink challenged RYUSEITAI to a few games in order to determine who would play at a live, and won.

In Autumn, things began to get a little more uneasy for the twins. Throughout the course of the stories until Autumn, it had been made clear that Yuta was going through a "rebellious stage", as Hinata put it, wanting to differentiate himself from Hinata even more. The twins are falling out of sync by this point, but Hinata doesn't fully acknowledge it beyond the "rebellious stage" comments. Still, there were some ordinary days at the beginning, too: working at the Chinese shop run by their "Master" alongside Tomoya and some of Trickstar; advising Tomoya on character building for the theater club; participating in the "Halloween Party" S1 DreamFes in October.

It was in November when the twins formed a temporary Unit (a team up for one event) with Tori and Yuzuru that the growing split between them became more obvious. The event they participated in was a live for the opening of a toy store for Tori's family. Despite agreeing not to submit ideas to Anzu without talking things over first, Hinata submitted the work on his own, not wanting to bother Yuta with it and wanting to allow his younger brother time to focus on practice. Obviously this upsets Yuta, and Hinata realizes he really has been pushing the "two in one" idol Unit thing a lot, and decides he probably has to cut ties and let go of Yuta's hand before Yuta has to become someone else entirely BECAUSE HINATA IS A FUCKING HYPOCRITE.

In winter things escalated Even Further with the twins because yeah. In December Hinata informed Yuta he was going to be making a Christmas cake and supposedly took jobs to pay for that but this was a Lie and all the jobs were for 2Wink expenses because goddamnit Hinata. He literally lied to Yuta's face about why he took a secret job when caught out, Yuta strangled him a little in frustration, and the two had an argument. Tetsu tattled on Hinata having taken over all the boring work - forming connections, earning money, laying in the groundwork required to actually get idol work - and not telling Yuta anything but flippant excuses, and Yuta tracked Hinata down to throw another cake at his face in a callback to childhood, which was 100% deserved. While the two kind of made up in order to participate in the live, THINGS THEN PROCEEDED TO GET EVEN WORSE because fuck the twins, I guess.

In February was the Setsubun Festival and it is the single worst thing to happen to 2Wink, ever, what the fuck. So! The Setsubun Festvial was an S3. In it, the idols split into two groups: idols and staff. The idols play "demons" and the staff get some beans to throw at them - it's basically like zombie tag. If the idol-demons are hit by a bean, they join the staff side, and more and more people chase the idols left over. Rei was the one to come up with the event, and the one to make certain that Hinata joined as an idol and Yuta joined on the staff side of things to pit them off against one another properly. The idol left standing at the end of the tag game wins the chance to preform in a live. Rei and pretty much Everyone Else work together (including with some plants on the staff side of things) to make sure that Hinata makes it longer than other people (he and Sora are the only two by the end of the game) and manipulate events so that when Hinata books it to the roof, Yuta follows.

Anyway, Yuta finds Hinata perched on the fence on the roof like so and tells him not to move so he doesn't, like, fall to his death and they proceed to have the worst conversation ever. Hinata admits he's Not Okay, and Yuta calls him out on always changing himself and cutting pieces of himself off and burying them (he calls Hinata a murderer since it's "you always throw “half of me” away without even asking" because #twins) and Hinata proceeds to bring the argument to how he tried to disappear again and again and become the sacrifice so Yuta could be happy, because he's a fucking moron, and Yuta points out the conversation is being broadcast and MAYBE, just MAYBE, they could like, ask everyone else for help and Hinata could come away from the edge and not jump from there and they could hold hands and go back inside, god. Thankfully Hinata takes his twin up on that offer and Does Not Kill Himself and stops...talking about throwing himself off the roof, and we have the pleasant ending of: "If you wish it, then I will be here forever, Yuta-kun." followed with "Then that means we’ll be here until the world ends, Hinata-kun." Way better than the whole conversation about "yo even if I throw myself from this roof you won't bleed" what the fuck, Hinata. Anyway, they proceed to do the live.

Also in winter is the much less tragic "Ryuuousen" redux, where Hinata plays emcee. During this, it's shown the twins are being Healthier about how they deal with problems, as in they are constantly keeping in touch via their phones and also talk about all their ideas and things when they get home, instead of the thing Hinata kept doing where he Didn't Do That. Since they're keeping in touch as they work independently, their being off on their own is less awkward and stressful and they've calmed down a Lot.

In the second spring in March is the Compensation Festival. This DreamFes is meant for Units with younger years and graduating 3rd years, with the younger years taking over setting things up and the like and showing thanks for their seniors. While 2Wink is a 1st years only duo, they take the time to give their thanks to Rei for, you know, setting up the entire thing that got Hinata to fucking quit it with the whole everything. Hinata also made handmade sweets to hand out at the live from 2Wink (apparently if Yuta did them, things would get spicy). For the record it is this event, nearly a year after the game started, when Hinata says he's actually started to like sweet things genuinely. So...good job, man.

The final chronological event story at the moment takes place after the graduation of the third years, and just involved Hinata inviting himself and Yuta along to help Midori harvest strawberries, with Shinobu also in attendance. The twins still seem to be getting along well and not being tragic, and Hinata acknowledges he shouldn't just take everything unpleasant from Yuta without input, so life is good...waits patiently for a new story to mess with them, god.

CANON PERSONALITY:

Typically first impressions with Hinata are over-the-top and enthusiastic. It's pretty much impossible to discuss his personality without some comparing and contrasting from his twin, Yuta, so I'm going to need to be doing that. While Yuta and Hinata are identical in every way physically, they do go out of their way to differentiate themselves - Hinata wears pink hair clips and puts them on the left side of his hair, and wears pink headphones and other accessories; Yuta wears light blue, and puts his hair clips on the right side. More than that, Hinata's actual personality is explicitly stated to be a way to differentiate the two of them, as are many of his likes and dislikes. It actually works, too; while Hinata can pass for Yuta if he tries (unless you have weird aura-sensing powers like Sora) it's generally easy to tell the twins apart simply based on how they act or what they say or how they talk, if you pay attention. Yuta isn't lacking in energy but Hinata has loads to spare and rarely speaks without for some reason sprinkling his text with "~", "♪", or "☆". Yuta will sometimes use those (he does it more frequently while preforming while Hinata does it even in day-to-day situations), but he's far calmer than his counterpart; Hinata very rarely takes a serious sort of tone, typically defaulting to joking around with a casually cheerful demeanor.

Hinata has set himself up as the irresponsible elder brother (despite frequently claiming to be reliable and actually legitimately being reliable in a pinch). He plays himself off as a free spirit, pranking people indiscriminately and earning a bunch of punishment work off and on. Yuta usually ends up doing a lot of Hinata's punishment work from teachers, apparently, since they mix up the twins and scold Yuta for Hinata's pranks. Hinata also plays down the work he puts into 2Wink by virtue of not really explaining the legwork he puts into anything at all, and he finds it easier to make light of serious situations with jokes rather than engaging with the situations without an air of levity.

While kind and thoughtful in his own way, Hinata admittedly does like to mess around with others. He states himself that he likes playing around with serious people, and the two times he has been put in charge of other people's training he's focused on amusing himself (while teaching competently, admittedly, since the people did learn?) and teasing others. It's not just serious people he likes to mess around with, though. If he gets bored enough he's happy to troll pretty much anyone - including (especially??) Yuta. Hinata spends an entire event effectively setting up a jumpscare horror story for Yuta to run through (abruptly deciding to do a "seven mysteries of Yumenosaki Academy" test of courage, ditching his brother, and horrifying him the entire time until Yuta was in tears and through the test) just because he was "bored" and summer felt like a good time in which to do this. It is generally in everyone's best interests that Hinata not be left to his own devices for too terribly long.

Despite his carefully cultivated air of mischievous irresponsibility Hinata actually does have a sort of serious, practical core when it comes to certain topics. This tends to display itself in thinking about others or certain responsibilities - for example, he's quick to caution Koga not to wreck the Light Music Club clubroom, because the school doesn't really waste funds on clubs, and he's apparently warned the upperclassman repeatedly not to use other people's things without asking. He's also not incapable of reflecting on his actions even though most people would say that was in fact the case; when he's scolded harshly and causes trouble for Yuta and others, he will think seriously about what he's done, and in "Monster Transformation" even decides to change his entire personality in order to stop being a "bad child". Because, like, why just stop pulling pranks when you can literally change everything about yourself for the sake of other people, I guess!

It's also worth noting that while he seems pretty causal, Hinata is insanely hard working. Neither Hinata or Yuta ever rests on their laurels really, and even when they were simply chosen as the opening act for the Yumenosaki Circus they decided to pull all-nighters with intense training until the show even outside of the training they were giving to Tori. Also, Hinata is always thinking of ways to put 2Wink out there - he's the one who makes "Beach Match" into more of a live competition in order to give 2Wink a shot, and carefully thinks up a series of tests the twins have a shot in.

In addition to being hard working, Hinata has confidence to spare. He apparently doesn't really get stage fright, and when he and Yuta are discussing challenging "someone strong", Hinata immediately decides on AKATSUKI, the number two Unit in the academy, after Yuta name-drops them. While Yuta immediately cautions against it, Hinata simply says "We won’t know unless we try, right?" which really underscores how he goes about idol work. Unlike many, Hinata doesn't let fear of failure or "surely that won't work" get to him. Even if he fails, he seems to prefer failing on a grand scale rather than a small one. Even as he challenges AKATSUKI, Hinata is also willing to sass fine, and tells them during the Circus that the top Unit of the academy better not follow up 2Wink's opening act with a crappy performance. Confidence doesn't equal a sense of overwhelming pride, that said. While Hinata does take pride in things he does and accomplishes - and in his brother - he's also more than willing to "fry [his pride] up with pepper and mushrooms and feed it to the pigs!" Sacrificing 2Wink for Trickstar was the earliest example of this, but Hinata will pretty much throw his dignity away as required for any task.

Though a jokester, Hinata respects and responds to other people's hard work. While he says he doesn't care for the Student Council (beyond being Chaotic Good and interfering on behalf of others/Rei, the most he does ever is tickle a Council member into submission) Hinata immediately volunteers along with Yuta to train Tori when they overhear his declaration that he'll work hard for the Yumenosaki Circus. While the twins do point out that their main reason for helping is because they're also in the show and they won't allow it to fail because of that, it's clear that the determination to work at things is what wins them over to truly doing their best by Tori. In keeping with respecting hard work, Hinata never seems to take losing personally. While he will admit to being frustrated, he's always quick to tell the winning opponents that they did good work, and losing only ever seems to make him want to do better next time. He is a graceful loser when it comes to idol work, which is good when 2Wink tends to be the Losing Unit in a lot of storylines, oops.

He's also just something of a busybody, always happy to help out or get involved in things. While Hinata and Yuta say they aren't Rei's underlings (or prefer not to be remembered that way), they typically respond to his requests fairly happily, both individually and as a team. Training others when they need help is something Hinata is more than willing to do, even when those other people are future or current competitors. He'll also help with simpler, more mundane issues, however. For example, he offers to emcee the redux of the Dragon King competition, and he automatically volunteers himself and Yuta to help Midori harvest strawberries despite not being particularly close to Midori.

Having said so much about how Hinata comes off, I should now note that many of the above parts - particularly his outgoing and energetic nature - became part of his personality only after he forced himself to change. The reason for changing - Yuta - is something that stays consistent in his characterization in big things and small things. Hinata dislikes the spicy things that Yuta likes and loves the sweet things that Yuta hates, so it's easy to tell them apart - but he didn't always. His favorite color, too, he changed to be different from his brother. Tiny day to day things like that are common occurrences that have lasting effects. While Hinata is supposedly "in charge" and does do things on his own without asking, he actually defers to Yuta in very strange and specific ways: he will always give way to Yuta's "preferences" and kill his own in order to allow his twin those things. Even a question like "which do you feel like, guitar or bass?" will get the opposite answer of Yuta's so long as Yuta states a preference, without any real concern for which Hinata would have preferred on his own.

Even besides systematically killing off pieces of himself in order to keep Yuta from needing ever do so, Hinata tends to take on most burdens without asking Yuta what he would prefer, acting independently in the worst way possible. For example? While Yuta doesn't initially realize it, Hinata never takes 2Wink lightly. When Yuta complains about not having a job on a rainy day, Hinata is quick to explain that they'd have to get a job indoors and that spaces are limited and it's too late to borrow them. Despite how he acts, Hinata actually has a grasp on the work needed to set things up and go about them, and for a long time he handles that work entirely on his own because he feels it would be a burden on Yuta.

Hiding things from Yuta so as not to trouble him is almost second nature to Hinata. Hinata hides the many part time jobs he takes to earn funds from Yuta, and doesn't bother him with any of the legwork for 2Wink - and among the many part time jobs he hides is even just working for the Chinese restaurant owner who acted like a father to them, even though Yuta absolutely had the right to know the man needed their help. When Yuta finds out Hinata has regularly been taking jobs on his own and handling things alone he's upset and tries to take on a bigger portion to ease things up on Hinata, but it's something Hinata seems to continue doing off and on anyway. When he's unable to come up with a plan for an S2 as the leader of 2Wink, Hinata's first instinct is to run the fuck away from Yuta and try to solve it on his own rather than to ask for help. While they're now discussing it more in the furthest-forward point of canon, Hinata's still kind of terrible at bringing Yuta into decisions.

And he started young on taking burdens from Yuta without explanation or consideration to working through them together. For one of their birthdays, apparently, the twins got matching miniature car models, and Hinata tricked their father to get both. This was because the cars were defective and he thought it would make Yuta sad to receive a broken toy, so he just acted like he was stealing them and let Yuta get upset with him instead of sad about their father getting them broken gifts. Hinata makes questionable life decisions in an effort to shield his brother from literally everything. He's constantly worrying about Yuta even when they're not together, and is quick to correct such small things as people calling him the "older brother" even when Yuta isn't within hearing range, mentioning that it doesn't bother him (Hinata) but it would upset Yuta.

Here is the most unfortunate aspect of Hinata's personality yet: when I said he was willing to systematically kill parts of himself in order to protect Yuta and allow his brother to be "himself" without any concerns for how others would treat him or ever having to hear them be called monsters or the like every again, I understated it. Before the Setsubun Festival where Hinata takes it up to eleven, he's already said things like "If Yuta-kun can live as his own self, then it’s alright even if I cease to exist." and has acknowledged that Yuta is "way, way more important than my own self". This is 100% not an exaggeration for Hinata. And importantly, Yuta knows this and has stated: "I love you. But, for my sake, you twist yourself and change. With a smile, as though you're satisfied with it, you take something precious from me. And then in spite of that, you say to me, Don't change." Yuta has also mentioned that when Hinata is alone, he doesn't have much of an aura and is much quieter - because that's a little closer to his original nature, probably. Anyway: taken to extremes this made Hinata Seriously Suicidal as he considered it an option to free Yuta from having to change/everything that was tying them down because twins. This was Not Great, and while Hinata has in the two stories set after the Setsubun Festival made great strides in moving away from this mindset, it was for sure important to note.

Hinata's Working on his shit, and apparently all the deliberate personality changes are here to stay: he admits his cheerful personality feels natural now, and he actually genuinely loves sweets. He also admits he has the immediate impulse to take unpleasant things from Yuta still, but is capable of not jumping to that, which is an improvement. Please keep working on that, child.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

♪ Idol Skills: As expected of an idol, Hinata can sing and dance! In fact, he can especially dance since the twins are ridiculously acrobatic because of their street performer backgrounds and circus skills. Musically he seems capable of playing many different instruments, including guitar, bass, keytar, flute, and so on.

♪ Bullshit Circus & Etc. Skills: tightrope walking, flying trapeze (of note he did this WITHOUT PRACTICING and said it was easy after all and was able to do special tricks on the first go, what the actual fuck), balancing on one of those large plastic balls in a variety of positions (sitting, handstand, etc), generalized acrobatics, juggling, balancing on his hands on a ball while Yuta balances on the soles of Hinata's feet BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT, underwater acrobatics (???), synchronized swimming, doing handstands on top of stacked chairs, apparently he knows some kung fu?, he can use a chain weight weapon why, KNOWS PRESSURE POINTS because he's been studying massage techniques because what the fuck are the Aoi twins, breathing fire, balloon art, yoga poses???

♪ Mundane Skills: Hinata is apparently a good cook! He also has had a Lot of part-time jobs, and is very capable in a restaurant. He seems to at least know a smattering of Chinese words, thanks to his Master.

CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Hinata Aoi
AU AGE: 16
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Nada!

AU HISTORY:

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☆ Moved to Recollé with his family from Japan when he was 6 years old! This means he's been in the city for ten years as of his application.
☆ The youngest of several siblings!
☆ Upon moving to Recollé he was immediately dragged into friendship (willingly!) with Mafuyu Kurosaki, who has been his best friend for going on ten years now. Save everyone from them.
☆ Into/does gymnastics! He actually does competitions and the like and is Fairly Good. He enjoys it? It's fun??? That's the nearest he gets to performances, though. He's been doing gymnastics since he was a kid, and has made a few friends through it, Amanda O'Neill among them.
☆ He's a so-so student who tends to get distracted pretty easily; he's better when he applies himself, but prefers social things and athletic things. Socially speaking he has a variety of friends! Mion Sonozaki is a friend from home ec; Rowen Hashiba is a friend he's known since before middle school; he takes art class with Gerome and chooses to believe they are friends regardless of the actual reality of the matter, and so on.
☆ Likes running around in general and picking up new skills. Always willing to try something at least once, no matter how weird or stupid.
☆ One of the skills he's picked up is origami, and he'll frequently just fold paper things while he's chatting or sitting to give himself something to Do. He actually has pretty origami paper for this and will hand them out randomly. He insists this is not his Thing, though, it is just A Thing.
☆ If you give him your phone number when friends you probably get texts at terrible hours as well as normal ones, with way too much !!! energy !!! and probably a lot of emojicons and symbols. He will also send links to literally anything that catches his attention. Some of it is terrible, but most is just cutesy or weird.
☆ All around chatty cathy who will talk to anyone at any time about pretty much anything.
☆ Likes spicy food for the time being probably, whoops. It won't last.
☆ Very fond of cats like most of the city I guess, and has one. He loves her. She tolerates him. It's a match made in heaven, maybe.
☆ Good with kids and likes them, possibly because he is a giant child or something.
☆ Has no clue wtf he's doing with his life besides being here to have a good time. Kind of? Wants to be a daycare worker or something??? That sounds fun??? But what if he decides this at the last possible second instead.
☆ Almost definitely pulls pranks or jokes or makes silly comments in classes and gets himself in detention a decent amount. It's never for much that is serious and he doesn't seem to really Mind.
☆ Definitely wears hairclips and pins to keep his hair out of the way sometimes, but it isn't to differentiate him from anyone since who would mix him up with his actual AU siblings.

AU PERSONALITY:

Hinata's personality, as you may have guessed from the canon section, sort of centered around Yuta and what Yuta wanted. Without Yuta around, he's more his own person. He's not a twin, and he isn't the older brother who is meant to be responsible for his little brother. Instead he's the youngest of three and has two older siblings who tend to try to look out for him. Accordingly, Hinata's energetic persona is less a persona and more actual; he's not quite as out there as his canon personality can be, but he's pretty cheerful and easygoing, and tends to like being active 24/7.

While he does think of others, he isn't about to kill parts of himself for them, and wouldn't go so far as to consider throwing himself off the rooftop so someone he loved could be happy. He'd rather try to work through things with others - his siblings topping the list - before going to extremes, and those wouldn't be the extremes he would go to. While Hinata doesn't exactly enjoy getting others down with his problems he does go to family or friends with problems when he has them, if he can't solve them alone. He's less likely to repress things and insist on going 100% solo than he otherwise would be.

Also, Hinata has no particular interest in singing or idol work. He thinks of himself as a pretty normal guy, and prefers physical activity to that kind of thing.