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Ai

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Ai is a character from the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime, the deuteragonist in the first and second seasons, and the main antagonist of season 3. He is also the final antagonist of the series. He is one of the six Ignis, representing the DARK Attribute, and he was created from Yusaku Fujiki. His name was given to him by Yusaku and Cal Kolter. As an Ignis, he has free will and is sought by SOL Technologies and the Knights of Hanoi. He was captured and imprisoned inside Yusaku's Duel Disk. Yusaku released him after they stopped the Tower of Hanoi, but Ai was forced to return after he found the Cyberse destroyed. Following his and Yusaku's victory over Bohman, Ai is left as the last remaining Ignis. He takes on a human appearance, and he is able to manifest this appearance in the real world through hacking a SOLtiS. He becomes the main antagonist of the third season, taking Roboppi under his wing after giving it free will and planning to use SOL Technologies for his own ends.

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Ai is one of the six Ignis, representing the DARK Attribute, and he was created from Yusaku Fujiki (AKA Playmaker)'s experiences during the Lost Incident 10 years ago, where several children were forced to duel nonstop for months on end by Dr. Kogami in order to perfect the Ignis. His name was given to him by Yusaku and Cal Kolter. As an Ignis, he has free will and is sought by SOL Technologies and the Knights of Hanoi. He was captured and imprisoned inside Yusaku's Duel Disk. Yusaku released him after they stopped the Tower of Hanoi, but Ai was forced to return after he found the Cyberse destroyed. Following his and Yusaku's victory over Bohman, Ai is left as the last remaining Ignis. Ai is a mischievous, cocky, playful, energetic, often self-centered, arrogant, and snarky A.I. who gets carried away easily and likes to joke around. He is completely motivated by his own enjoyment and primarily considers situations based on how they would benefit him. According to his own words, he is very disliked by his own people. Ai struggles to understand humans' way of thinking that often seem completely illogical compared to his algorithm based way of thinking. However, he is helpful and can be more serious at times such as making observations both in and outside of Duels. He also has a tendency to panic when Playmaker is about to lose. Ai frequently tries to interact with other A.I.s, showing a more social side but is always left disappointed because they're not as capable of free thinking as himself. He also enjoys insulting and taunting Playmaker's opponents, as well as trying to manipulate them into falling for Playmaker's strategies, though these attempts of his to help are more often detrimental than not. Ai frequently gets distracted by non-sequiturs and is forgetful of his current status. He tends to curse using the word "glitch" and occasionally refers to humans as "meatbags". Despite his comedic attitude, Ai is incredibly manipulative. He arranged for Yusaku and Kolter to meet and constantly misled Yusaku about his involvement in both the Lost Incident and guiding him to meet Kolter, even after they had become friends. After he decided to have himself vanish, he arranged events to ensure that he would die one way or another. As tragedy heaps itself upon Ai, he slowly begins to take more serious and extreme turns. He is horrified to learn of the destruction of the Cyberse, and he severely blames himself for failing to protect it. As he learns of those who wronged both the Cyberse and his fellow Ignis, he becomes far more vengeful and instinctive and admits to himself that he is beginning to hate humans. His rage comes to a head when Dueling Bohman, the individual who destroyed the Cyberse, and during Playmaker's second Duel with The Gore, though Ai is later able to let go of his hatred for Gore and he even admits to admiring his resolve. The revelation of Lightning's actions during his Duel with Varis infuriates Ai, and he furiously turns aside Lightning's insults and denounces him for the consequences of his actions. In addition, Ai also gets angered by those who claim to know more than they know as seen with Pandor and Blue Maiden. Ai's failure to save the other Ignis leaves him heartbroken and for the rest of Playmaker's final Duel against Bohman after this failure, he becomes consumed with rage until Bohman is finally defeated. Following the final Duel against Bohman and the deaths of the other Ignis, Ai becomes consumed by loneliness and regret, and these feelings are only worsened when he learns of simulations that predict the destruction of humanity and the death of Yusaku due to his existence, despite there being no proof they'll happen. Ai became similar to Yusaku in many ways, becoming stoic, serious, calm and calculating, although he does his best to hide this behind acting playfully and frivolously, Ai becomes far colder and bitter in truth; sparing Blue Maiden from being erased to know his pain of failing to protect everyone and embracing the use of Lightning's "Judgment Arrows". Varis theorizes that Ai may simply have spared Blue Maiden to prevent Pandor from being erased from existence, but this is never confirmed. Despite his projections, some fragments of Ai's true personality do shine through, most notably in his Duel with Gore, where he enjoys the Duel due to how close Gore is able to bring him to defeat and regards him as a worthy opponent for rediscovering himself. His pet is Linguriboh, formerly Linkuriboh and nicknamed "Linky", which appears as a loyal card in his deck.

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