Ayatsuji Yukito

Appearance

Ayatsuji has a short wavy blonde hair and gold eyes. He wears a half-rimmed, light-colored sunglasses, and a black hat. He also wears a jacket with a yellow ochre base with a red collar, a white shirt with a vermillion-based checkered border and a gray knit vest, dull orange checkered knickerbocker pants, and beige boots.

In his hand, he carries a smoking pipe and a doll.

Personality

Ayatsuji appears as a cold and emotionless man. He is considered to be fairly odd and detached, as he has a basement full of dolls. Beneath his calculating and snide exterior, he appears to have a kind side to those he forgives, such as keeping a cat and loving it. He is not talkative unless in regard of insulting someone, and tends to make snide remarks and chide others for their lack of understanding. Ayatsuji can be rather expressive and playful, doing silly gestures such as imitating a dog to respond to Tsujimura's statement of reporting him to her higher-ups. Ayatsuji also thrives off her reactions, claiming he wants to preserve her bitter expression via a doll-maker. He frequently teasing Tsujimura about changing into a maid uniform and being his servant, and for fun, ordering her to lick some leaves and shows disappointment when she refuses.

Ayatsuji is highly intelligent and observant. He has solved 50,000 cases, and when deducing, he remains blank-faced and unexpressive, using his wit and logic to outsmart his opponents, and he easily succeeds in finding the truth. He is called the “Homicide Detective” and carries a deathly and imperturbable air, and he is highly dangerous enough to be seen as a threat by the government and to be put on the list of Extremely Dangerous Ability Users. Due to his rather cocky air, he calls people simple-minded and doesn't hesitate to tell people they lack of brains when he explains a case. Additionally, he does not take higher-ups seriously and flaunts his more rebellious streak, ignoring orders from the Special Division. When confronted with his defiance by Tsujimura, Ayatsuji tends to delay the topic and distract her.

Despite his aloof persona, Ayatsuji occasionally breaks his poker face. He show fragments of emotion and his harshness tends to alleviate slightly. Ayatsuji displays anger and fury when seeing a couple commit a double suicide in front of him, and will sometimes express his shock or hesitance. He also appears to harbor grievances towards his ability to a certain degree. He cares for Tsujimura and shows a rare side of himself when he plans to give his life to ensure her safety, and even when he expresses his irritation towards Tsujimura’s recklessness, Ayatsuji is described to greatly appreciate her odd sense of intellect and looks forward to the rest of their partnership.

Ability Ayatsuji's ability causes an accidental death to the target. It ignores and distorts all physical barriers. The causes of death may vary from choking, ceberal infarction, death by falling, suicide, disease, and heart attacks - in which the cause of death itself cannot be predicted and cannot be prevented or canceled out. However, the ability has only one condition to the target - they must be a criminal. Unless it is under this process, the ability will not activate and no death will happen. Whether the target is on the other side of the world or wields enough skill to kill God, it doesn't matter. However, people who manipulate others into committing a crime of their own free will, will not be killed by his ability akin to “how a knife craftsman is not guilty of someone who killed using said knife”

Ayatsuji's ability is not controlled by himself, therefore he does not have any control over his ability once it activates. It is one of the few known abilities that Dazai's No Longer Human cannot neutralize once it activates..

Background Ayatsuji has been a detective for twenty years in which he had solved 50,000 cases and killed 2 billion people using his ability. According to Ayatsuji, misfortune has followed him for the longest. He participated in investigating the Reigo Island Seventeen-Victim Massacre, and he supposedly killed Mizuki Tsujimura’s mother in the process of the massacre.

He is on the list of Extremely Dangerous Ability Users, and is thus being closely monitored by the Special Division for Unusual Powers. Agent Mizuki Tsujimura is assigned to watch him.

A plan called Exterminate Extremely Dangerous Ability User, Ayatsuji gets submitted to the higher-ups in the Special Division 2-3 times a week but continues to get rejected due to the usefulness of his ability.

Trivia He prefers his coffee with two spoons of brown sugar and no milk. He owns two cats- a black cat and a calico cat. Dolls are another of his hobbies, and he not only collects them but also makes them himself in his basement. The hat he is wearing is the same hat as the real-life Ayatsuji is often seen wearing. The doll he carries is a character from the real-life Yukito Ayatsuji's novel, Another. Unlike their rivalry in the GAIDEN series, his real-life counterpart is close friends with Natsuhiko Kyōgoku.