We're officially in the territory of the first rival. Obviously since it isn't Osana, you might expect it to be Amai, but no! Kokona is now going to be the first rival, like god intended. Yui being here might raise some eyebrows considering she was shafted to the 80's, so here's what's going on with her. (also fun fact tumblr fucked up and deleted 90% of this post so this is me typing it again kill me)
So, in mid-2018, nine of the Rainbow Twelve (Yui, Haruto, Yuna, Sota, Koharu, Hayato, Mei, Ryusei, Saki, Sora, Kokona, Riku - removed - not removed) were removed from the game to improve the frame rate (which went well /s). The removed students were later readded to 1980's mode, which is just a really bad compromise. They were removed before all clubs were added so why couldn't they just be put in clubs like Riku, Saki and Kokona?
Quick side note, for those who don't know, their names were picked by taking the 12 most popular Japanese names from 2012 for some reason, and Yui was the most popular, and Rio was 2nd most, so she was called Yui Rio. This was also done with the teachers. You might wonder why her name has gone unchanged then, but I found out that for the rainbow students, all of the firstname-lastnames are real last names! Like, for example, Yui Rio can be written as 夢 李汪.
For her design, all I changed was giving her her old long stockings as they are objectively superior, and making her little baby dick ponytail longer cause I think that looks better. Her eyes are also now a light red.
As for her info, I changed the Evil personality to be the Misanthrope personality. Evils used to smile and be happy whenever anyone died, and wouldn't even call the police after leaving school, but that is kind of overpowered so I wanted to change it. AreYouCodingDev made an attempt to do this with the Spiteful persona but failed. One because Spiteful is an ass name cause it sounds like a bratty child, but it was also really weird, cause they'd only have the evil reaction to a low reputation student, or a bully if they were bullied. This is just... dumb. In my version, people with the Misanthrope personality will have the evil reaction on specific students they don't like. This will change for every Misanthrope student. Yui pretty much hates everyone (me too gurl me too /sar)
I wanted to put the Rainbow students in clubs, and I chose the Art Club for Yui so she can vent her dark interests (you'll see). And for one more thing before we get to her bio, YandiddyDev originally had a story for her that involved her being evil cause she betrayed Kuu Dere so she could have friends or something but that's dumb ngl. And I can say that cause he basically admitted it for once. Anyway, here's my take on Yui.
Yui grew up with parents who weren’t all that attentive about what she was up to on the internet. She watched gore, horror and true crime content from the age of just five. This desensitised her to these subjects early on, and she began to get weirdly fascinated by it. As a child, she didn’t pick up that she should probably hide these feelings from other children, and she developed a bad reputation as a weird, freaky kid at best, and a potentially violent danger at worst, and she was often bullied by the other children who thought she was a complete weirdo. This changed when she was twelve. Her parents split up, her mother won custody of her, and she chose to move back in with Yui’s grandmother in Buraza Town. Here, she had a completely fresh start, and when she met who would become her current friend group, she attempted to hide her fascination with violence and appear to be completely normal. A few of her friends also had interests in true crime, much to Yui's delight, however this soured once she realised that their interests were just that - interests - and Yui feared that if she ever revealed the extent of her liking and knowledge, she’d be ejected from her friend group and isolated all over again, so she just pretended to be normal. To this day, five years later, her friends have no idea just how deep her obsession goes. This has caused her originally innocent interest to turn her bitter, and develop into a form of sadism, boiling inside of her, waiting to come out. This could be a useful tool for Ayano to use to her advantage.
Lastly, as one of the first rival's what I call 'key people', I'm gonna add a small tidbit on what she would be like in an ingame role. So, not to go in too deep to Kokona, she is looking for a club to join throughout her week, and also to hone some skills to impress Rentaro. On Monday, Kokona will hang out with Yui during club time, and she will try art. Obviously, in the morning, the whole group are gonna chat together, but that's whatever else they'll be doing.
But that's all I've got for Yui! Thanks for reading!
