Ayame Kisaragi (如月 彩芽)

Jujutsu Kaisen Original Character Profile

“If he chose you over me, then you obviously did something to make him think you were better. Don't flatter yourself, sweetheart.”

Basic Information

• Full Name: Ayame Kisaragi (如月 彩芽)

• Age: 18

• Gender: Female

• Height: 170 cm (5'7")

• Affiliation: Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College

• Year: First Year

• Sorcerer Grade: Grade 2

• Innate Cursed Technique: Favoritism

• Personality: Manipulative, entitled, competitive, spiteful, possessive, attention-seeking

• Appearance: Long, wavy platinum-blonde hair, crimson-red eyes, delicate facial features, and an elegant figure. She wears a fitted black Jujutsu High uniform with a high collar and gold buttons, modified to suit her personal style.

Personality: The Shameless Pick-Me Girl

Ayame Kisaragi is an eighteen-year-old first-year Jujutsu sorcerer who has absolutely no shame about being a pick-me girl. Unlike someone who hides her manipulative behavior behind a sweet, innocent facade, Ayame openly admits that she manipulates people to get what she wants.

She doesn't believe she should have to apologize for it.

In her mind, everyone manipulates others in some way, and she is simply more honest about her intentions. She considers herself more attractive, more desirable, and more deserving of attention than most girls around her. She particularly enjoys receiving attention from boys because she views their approval as proof of her superiority.

However, the moment a boy chooses another girl over her, Ayame's confidence becomes hostility.

Rather than accepting rejection, she immediately searches for someone else to blame. She accuses other girls of flirting too much, acting helpless, stealing attention, or deliberately sabotaging her chances.

Ayame can acknowledge that she manipulated someone, but she refuses to accept that her manipulation might be the reason she failed.

Her Most Toxic Traits

1. She openly competes with other girls.

Ayame doesn't bother pretending that she sees other girls as friends. She treats nearly every girl her age as a potential rival, particularly if that girl receives attention from someone Ayame likes.

She will deliberately flirt with a boy in front of another girl, interrupt their conversations, and make pointed remarks about her rival's appearance.

If confronted, she doesn't deny what she was doing.

“What? Yes, I was flirting with him. I wanted his attention. At least I'm not pretending to be everyone's best friend while secretly wanting what they have.”

2. She blames other girls whenever she gets rejected.

Rejection is practically an insult to Ayame's self-image.

If a boy tells her he isn't interested, she immediately assumes another girl has influenced him. She might accuse the girl of spreading rumors, acting innocent to gain sympathy, or deliberately making Ayame look bad.

Even when there is no evidence, Ayame presents her accusations as undeniable facts.

Her reasoning is simple: if she is supposedly so desirable, someone else must have interfered.

3. She weaponizes helplessness.

Although Ayame is a capable sorcerer, she sometimes pretends to be incapable of simple tasks when boys are around.

She might ask a male classmate to carry something she can easily manage, act frightened by a minor inconvenience, or exaggerate her exhaustion so someone will offer assistance.

However, she doesn't always hide the act.

“Oh, I could do it myself. But if he's willing to help me, why would I refuse? You're only annoyed because nobody offered to help you.”

4. She deliberately provokes other girls.

Ayame knows how to push people's buttons.

She makes insulting remarks disguised as compliments, questions another girl's intentions, and brings up sensitive subjects simply to provoke a reaction.

When the girl finally snaps, Ayame points to her anger as evidence that she is jealous or insecure.

She considers this a victory because it allows her to portray herself as the calm, reasonable one.

5. She expects special treatment.

Ayame believes that if someone likes her, they should prioritize her.

She becomes irritated when boys give other girls the same attention they give her. She expects favors, compliments, and emotional support without feeling obligated to return them.

If someone refuses, she accuses them of being cruel or unfair.

6. She refuses to take responsibility.

Ayame's greatest weakness is her inability to accept the consequences of her own actions.

She can be caught lying, manipulating a conversation, or deliberately provoking another student, yet she will still insist that the situation is somehow the other person's fault.

Her favorite excuse is:

“I wouldn't have acted like that if she hadn't made me feel threatened in the first place.”

To Ayame, her feelings justify her behavior, regardless of how much harm she causes.

Innate Cursed Technique: Favoritism

Ayame's innate cursed technique, Favoritism, allows her to manipulate the distribution of attention and emotional priority among people she has marked with her cursed energy.

By touching a target or landing a thin strand of cursed energy on them, Ayame establishes a temporary mark. Once the mark is active, she can influence which person or immediate threat the target instinctively prioritizes.

Her technique doesn't create love, loyalty, or genuine attraction. Instead, it interferes with attention and momentary decision-making, making it particularly useful for disrupting teamwork.

Techniques

Look at Me

Ayame redirects a marked target's attention toward herself for a brief moment. In combat, this can distract an opponent just long enough for her to attack or evade.

Choose Me

Ayame creates a moment of hesitation when a marked target must choose between two immediate priorities. The hesitation is brief, but even a fraction of a second can create an opening.

Favorite Person

Ayame temporarily increases the priority a marked target assigns to protecting or assisting a specific person. She can designate herself or another marked individual.

Second Choice

When a marked opponent divides their attention between Ayame and another person, she disrupts their concentration, making coordinated attacks and defensive maneuvers more difficult.

Weaknesses and Limitations

• Ayame must establish a cursed-energy mark before affecting a target.

• Strong-willed sorcerers can resist the technique, especially when they recognize the interference.

• Maintaining multiple marks increases her cursed-energy consumption.

• She cannot force someone to genuinely fall in love with her or become permanently loyal.

• The technique cannot override physical reality or force someone to perform impossible actions.

• Her desire to be prioritized often causes her to waste cursed energy on opponents who have already figured out her strategy.

The irony: Ayame can influence whom people pay attention to, but she cannot make them genuinely like her. That distinction infuriates her.

Relationships at Tokyo Jujutsu High

Satoru Gojo

Ayame considers Gojo one of the most desirable people to receive attention from. His confidence, strength, and reputation make his approval especially valuable to her.

She flirts with him, laughs at his jokes, and tries to convince him that she is more entertaining than the other girls.

However, Gojo is difficult to manipulate. He quickly notices when she is deliberately provoking her classmates and refuses to reward her behavior simply because she wants special treatment.

When he calls her out, Ayame accuses the female students of turning him against her.

Gojo finds her attempts to control everyone around her more amusing than impressive.

Nobara Kugisaki

Nobara is one of Ayame's most frequent targets.

Ayame dislikes Nobara's confidence, outspoken personality, and refusal to compete for male approval. Nobara doesn't care about being considered the most desirable girl in the room, which makes her difficult for Ayame to provoke in the way she wants.

Their arguments are frequent and hostile.

Ayame: “You're awfully defensive. Did I hit a nerve?”

Nobara: “No. I'm just tired of listening to you talk like every man on the planet is a prize you're entitled to win.”

Ayame: “You're only saying that because you don't like losing.”

Nobara: “Losing what? A competition you invented in your own head?”

Nobara's refusal to play along frustrates Ayame more than almost anything else.

Yuji Itadori

Ayame initially interprets Yuji's friendliness as a sign that he might be interested in her.

She flirts with him, seeks his assistance, and expects him to take her side whenever she argues with another girl.

Unfortunately for Ayame, Yuji is naturally friendly toward many people. He doesn't understand why she treats his kindness as a special privilege.

When he realizes that she repeatedly blames Nobara for situations Ayame created herself, he begins to question her claims.

Ayame responds by accusing Nobara of manipulating him.

Megumi Fushiguro

Megumi is one of the worst possible targets for Ayame's tactics.

He doesn't respond to her flirting in the way she expects, and he has little patience for unnecessary drama. He judges people by their behavior rather than their appearance.

When Ayame tries to blame another girl for his lack of interest, Megumi refuses to entertain the accusation.

Megumi: “I'm not interested in you. Nobody has to manipulate me into feeling that way.”

Ayame: “You seriously think you came up with that opinion all by yourself?”

Megumi: “Yes. That's usually how opinions work.”

His bluntness leaves Ayame with little room to maneuver.

How Ayame Acts When She Doesn't Get What She Wants

Ayame follows a predictable pattern whenever she loses someone's attention or fails to obtain a favor.

1. She identifies what she wants. This might be romantic attention, assistance, admiration, or social influence.

2. She manipulates the situation. She flirts, provokes, exaggerates her helplessness, or attempts to influence someone's priorities.

3. Someone refuses her. The person might reject her advances, help another student, or simply ignore her.

4. She identifies a female scapegoat. She accuses another girl of interfering, stealing attention, or making her look bad.

5. She reverses the blame. Instead of acknowledging her behavior, she insists that she was forced into acting that way.

6. She doubles down when challenged. If someone exposes her manipulation, she accuses them of being jealous, judgmental, or unfair.

Ayame doesn't necessarily expect everyone to believe her. Sometimes, she simply wants to make the other person angry enough that they look unreasonable to everyone watching.

Example Dialogue

When a boy helps another girl instead of her:

“Seriously? You helped her? I asked you first. But whatever. If you want to waste your time on girls who pretend to be helpless, that's your problem.”

When Nobara calls her manipulative:

“Manipulative? Oh, please. At least I admit what I want. You're just mad because I don't pretend to be some wonderful girl who never competes with anyone.”

When Gojo refuses to give her special treatment:

“Are you joking? You let everyone else get away with everything, but when I ask for one little favor, suddenly I'm being unreasonable? Who's been talking about me?”

When a boy chooses another girl romantically:

“Of course you chose her. She's been acting sweet around you all week. Don't look so proud, sweetheart. If she hadn't been trying so hard to make me look bad, you might have actually noticed me.”

When everyone recognizes her lies:

“Wow. So now I'm the villain? That's convenient. Everyone gets to act like I'm some horrible person just because I refuse to let other girls walk all over me.”

When someone asks whether she feels guilty:

“Guilty? For wanting what I want? Don't be ridiculous. If someone else gets hurt because they couldn't keep up with me, that's hardly my responsibility.”

Ultimate Technique: The Center of Attention

Ayame concentrates her cursed energy into her active marks, forcing affected opponents to experience a brief conflict between their current objective and the person or threat she designates as their priority.

In battle, this can disrupt coordinated attacks, interrupt teamwork, and cause opponents to hesitate at critical moments.

However, the technique isn't mind control. An opponent who recognizes the interference or has sufficient cursed-energy control can resist its effects.

Ayame's biggest tactical weakness is her ego. She sometimes wastes valuable cursed energy trying to force an opponent to acknowledge her, even when attacking immediately would be the smarter choice.

Character Summary

Ayame Kisaragi is an eighteen-year-old first-year Jujutsu sorcerer whose beauty and charm conceal a deeply entitled and openly manipulative personality.

She doesn't hide her desire to be the center of attention. She doesn't pretend that she never competes with other girls. And she doesn't believe that wanting something excuses her from the consequences of pursuing it.

Her defining flaw is her refusal to accept rejection.

Ayame believes that being chosen proves she is superior. Whenever someone chooses differently, she would rather accuse another girl of sabotaging her than accept that the decision was never hers to control.