Agent 8 (Ahri)

Background

From the kettles, he's struggled with memory issues from a young age. He lived with his mother, who is a high-up military technician and kept very high standards of him. However, he had the opposite of her strict and passionate personality, being naturally laid back, friendly, and wanting nothing more than to find out how to avoid military school. His personality made him quite popular (especially with girls).

He is actually from the surface originally, and was kidnapped into the kettles as an infant, something that was made to be blocked from his memories. This set up the mental precedent to block out and dissociate from unpleasant memories and situations. And so, when put into military school, he started to dissociate from the experience and develop a colder and more serious personality in order to deal with the situation better. His (seemingly) new personality disorder started to cause some concern, but he got taken into Kamabo before much was done about that.

In Kamabo, after he went through the first stage of sanitization (stripping of personality and memories), his dissociative personality took over entirely and he lost his original one. Given he never recovers his original memories (until Side Order, but leave that for now), he has no reason to believe he wasn't just a serious military type beforehand, especially since he is very good at all the challenges.

Current

He's usually the token guy of the group. While he struggles a bit dealing with surface life and coping with all that happened to him, he's nice and appreciative to those helping him (even if he sometimes comes off as cold). 4 ends up being the main one to support him with casual daily stuff, especially since they both live in the same area (and she likes to help people in less...physically confrontational ways like agent work is). Despite this, he crushes on 3, though never outwardly admits it to anyone. He's not great at hiding it, though 3 doesn't seem to notice.

Everyone continued to call him Eight as he never recovered his memories of what his name is, so he ended up just coming up with the name Ahri. He says the name is meaningless, and is just less insulting than a number is. After Side Order, he gets all his memories back, including those he's repressed over his childhood. This does not do good things for his mental state.

Trivia

• His birthday is April 2.
• The characters in his name are 阿日. 阿 has no meaning, 日 means sun.
• He had the typical "locks" hairstyle as a kid, and got the typical Agent 8 cut in military school. He grows it back out after OE, as he doesn't like his association of being an agent/soldier.

Agent 8 (Aya)

Background

From the kettles, she's struggled with memory issues from a young age. She lived with her mother, who is a high-up military technician and kept very high standards of her. However, she had the opposite of her strict and passionate personality, being naturally laid back, friendly, and wanting nothing more than to find out how to avoid military school. Her personality made her quite popular (especially with boys, who don't usually get along with their female classmates well, especially when younger).

She is actually from the surface originally, and was kidnapped into the kettles as an infant, something that was made to be blocked from her memories. This set up the mental precedent to block out and dissociate from unpleasant memories and situations. And so, when put into military school, she started to dissociate from the experience and develop a colder and more serious personality in order to deal with the situation better. Her (seemingly) new personality disorder started to cause some concern, but he got taken into Kamabo before much was done about that.

An extra note is that she was kidnapped as she was believed to be a male infant, which were being looked for due to the sex-ratio issue in the kettles. Very young Octolings can have sexes that are hard to tell apart due to pretty much being... octopi at that stage. So whether it was a case of being a mistake or if she has some sort of DSD is up to interpretation. She develops as a typical female in adolescence. But because of her early childhood experiences, she is very empathetic for (Octoling) boys. It also gives her a bit of a complex and confusion towards herself.

In Kamabo, after she went through the first stage of sanitization (stripping of personality and memories), her dissociative personality took over entirely and she lost her original one. Given she never recovers her original memories (until Side Order, but leave that for now), she has no reason to believe she wasn't just a serious military type beforehand, especially since she is very good at all the challenges.

Current

She's usually the token girl of the group. While she struggles a bit dealing with surface life and coping with all that happened to her, she's nice and appreciative to those helping her (even if she sometimes comes off as cold). 4 ends up being the main one to support her with casual daily stuff, especially since they both live in the same area. Despite this, she crushes on 3, though never outwardly admits it to anyone. She's not very good at hiding it.

Everyone continued to call her Eight as she never recovered her memories of what her name is, so she ended up just coming up with the name Ahri. He says the name is meaningless, and is just less insulting than a number is. After Side Order, she gets all her memories back, including those she's repressed over her childhood. This does not do good things for her mental state.

Trivia

• Her birthday is April 2.
• The characters in her name are 阿丫. 阿 has no meaning, 丫 means a fork in a path (or "girl").