Aozaki Aoko

Aozaki Aoko is the first protagonist of Mahou Tsukai no Yoru and a supporting character in the Tsukihime series and Tsukihime Remake series. She is the Magician of the Fifth Magic. Aoko is a member of the Aozaki family. When she was young, Aoko's grandfather, the third generation head chose to raise Touko Aozaki as his successor while Aoko lived with her parents. She is not afraid at all of her grandfather, who is labelled a monster, and only thinks of the great magus who created the final Magic as "a terrible old man who's lived for too long through questionable means". When she was fifteen years old, Aoko was suddenly named the successor to the Fifth Magic by her grandfather, and her sister Touko, who was being trained as the successor until that point, was abandoned. Therefore, she originally had a very bad relationship with her sister. It was later revealed in Mahou Tsukai no Yoru, however, that the true target for Touko's anger was actually her grandfather who closed the Aozaki's path to the Root. Ever since becoming the Aozaki heir, she has lived the life of a rootless wanderer, roaming the world with a single trunk in hand. Her meeting with Shiki was merely a coincidence, akin to making friends with a local child in the midst of a long journey. Aoko shows a very beautiful physical appearance with pale skin and the combination of long brown hair with bangs and blue eyes. At home, she usually wears a light blue sweatshirt, gray jeans and blue sneakers or a casual-red dress with an under-black shirt and pants with a pair of boots. While out, she often uses her school uniform or her brown coat with a chess style of scarf on her neck over the uniform. Just after she fast-forwarded her own time, Aoko appeared with red hair that reaches below her hips or down to the lower legs, wearing a short sleeved white shirt, blue jeans tied with a belt and brown shoes (originally gray). She stopped aging after age 20. Aloof and clumsy, yet free spirited, somehow managing to come together in this Magician. She takes her life as a mage simply, while loving her life as a respectable, strong young woman. By day she is a boarding school student, a genius who doesn't seem to realize things that are perfectly natural. She seems like a stoic person but she actually has many different facial expressions. She seems like a flawless superwoman but she is actually the hard-working type. She is described to be an extremely strong person in terms of personality, regretting nothing in her life because she follows through on every decision she makes. Because she does not care at all about what other people think of her, she is able to stay true to herself in any situation, believing that the worst thing a person can do is to lie to oneself. Even while accepting her life as a magus, she stubbornly sticks to the life of an honest person. In Tsukihime, Aoko is presented as a more mature and enigmatic figure. While she still maintains elements of her personality from her younger years, she has grown into her role as a powerful Magician with a more approachable and mentoring persona.[7][8] At that time, she seemed to be an amiable older-sister type, but generally her stance is to avoid getting too involved with other people.[1] Aoko values special places with precious memories and living things, regardless of if they are humans, animals or even plants. She has passed on the "value of life" to Shiki Tohno (Remake). It was due to her influence that the young Shiki was able to grow up normally despite being burdened with abnormal eyes. She's a difficult person to pin down, believes in justice, and is often unreliable. Despite the fact that she and Touko are sisters, Aoko shows great hostility towards her, to the point that she dislikes Runes because Touko uses a Rune-based magecraft. However, she is considered irresponsible by Touko for using the power of Magic without thinking about the consequences. Many years later, Touko often buys items from the Mage's Association using Aoko's card as revenge for her stealing her Mystic Eye Killers. It appears that their relationship is rather cordial and mended by the time the two are adults in Clock Tower 2015. She isn't afraid at all of her grandfather, who is labelled a monster, and only thinks of the great magus who called up Magic as "a terrible old man who's lived for a long time through questionable means". She doesn't like her name because it sounds like Blue (青, Ao), so Shiki Tohno (Remake) decides to call her "Teacher" (先生, Sensei). Aoko is good at nothing but destroying things. Aoko's first crush was actually Ritsuka Suse disguised as a man, which was extremely embarrassing for Aoko when she found out. Ever since then she hasn't had a high opinion of romance. As for her taste in men, she's not into pretty boys and prefers macho men built like Arnold Schwarzenegger. She considers gloves an abomination and refuses to wear them except in the most extreme cold. When she was fifteen, Aoko was asked by her family to give up her normal life entirely for the life of a magus, in preparation for her training to become the successor of the Fifth Magic. She is a 17-year-old apprentice magus learning magecraft from Alice Kuonji in Misaki Town. Aoko tries to live two completely different life styles, living as a normal high school student during the day and acting as a magus during night, but Alice reprimands this as a half-hearted approach. When the bounded field of Misaki Town that concentrates the mana of the leylines to Alice's mansion is threatened, Aoko and Alice begin to search for the perpetrator at night. However, Soujuurou Shizuki witnesses them using magecraft in the park, and thus they are forced to kill him due to the highest law of the Mage's Association that states that no outsiders must be aware of magecraft. Immediately before Aoko lands the final blow on Soujuurou in a ruined theme park, a puppet resembling Aoko attempts to kill Aoko, and the two temporarily make peace until it is defeated. Aoko gives up on trying to kill Soujuurou, deciding that there should be another way to keep Soujuurou's mouth shut, but Alice disagrees. She unleashes Flat Snark, one of her three most powerful Ploys, and brings every object in the theme park to life gradually. After discovering that Flat Snark had taken the shape of the moon, Aoko destroys it with the help of Soujuurou, and Alice accepts her loss. Soujuurou is given poison pills at first as a safety measure but this is later switched out for a collar that chokes him on Aoko's will. They say that he would be allowed to stay with Aoko and Alice at the Kuonji Mansion until a runic spell for the memory erasure can be found. Aoko and Alice discover that the one threatening the bounded field over Misaki Town was none other than Touko, Aoko's older sister, who wants to destroy the bounded field to reopen the path to the Swirl of the Root hidden under the land. The two face her one night but are completely devastated by Touko's "familiar," Lugh Beowulf, who is a class of mystery beyond that which magecraft can reach. Touko leaves the two alive. After partially recovering, the two have a rematch against Touko but are beaten when she reveals her Magic Crests stolen from her previous opponents. Soujuurou then arrives to incapacitate Beo but is killed by Touko. Enraged by his death, Aoko activates the Fifth Magic, placing the five minutes of time that consists of Soujuurou's death in the far future and spending ten years of his time to accelerate her own time by ten years, bringing her the experience and strength of her 27-year-old self. Aoko easily overwhelms Touko and, after defeating her, curses her so that she would turn into a toad if she were to return to Misaki within ten years. The Magic is deactivated and the exchanged time of Aoko and Soujuurou are returned to normal, but the five minutes of Soujuurou's death is left in the future, causing certain annihilation for the entire universe. It is later revealed that Aoko and Alice have found a book in the Kuonji library that details how to erase memory through the use of runes, but have decided to replace it and never open it again. Aoko was roaming around the country, where she meets Shiki Tohno eight years before the events of the story take place. She encounters him after he runs out of the hospital where he was admitted due to the stress of nobody believing the existence of the lines shown by the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. She comforts him, and upon Shiki's proud demonstration of the ability, she reprimands him and tells him to value living things. She helps him deal with the ability by giving him a pair of glasses, stolen from Touko and made indestructible by her own abilities, that seals the effect of his eyes as long as they are worn. During the events of Tsukihime, Arcueid is able to tell the nature of the glasses upon seeing them, and she attempts to destroy them. She asks Shiki if Aoko happens to be around, commenting "it is probably safer not to deal with Blue in the first place." Aoko appears before Shiki again after an undetermined amount of time during Eclipse, the epilogue of Tsukihime, much like their original meeting.