We never hear anything about her friends from back in the “real world”, for example, and she admits that she believes she has never felt true love. Part of Ao’s frustration likely stems from the fact that she seemingly accepts and is comfortable with herself, yet up until this point it seems like she has had a certain amount of difficulty getting close to others. Consequently, we don’t learn about her apathy and apparent depression until very late in the narrative the Ao we meet at the start of the game - or at least the one who presents herself once she appears in the land of Oasis - is happy, cheerful, enthusiastic and keen to uncover the truth behind their situation. That said, despite her protestations about how “normal” she is over the course of the narrative as a whole, it’s clear that she recognises right from the outset that the situation she is in is anything but ordinary. In many ways, Ao’s situation can be both compared and contrasted to that of Hinako in the first game while Hinako was sent into a spiral of depression and frustration as a result of the one thing that made her “special” being taken away from her, Ao feels like she never had that “special” thing in the first place, and is similarly frustrated as a result. She doesn’t believe there’s anything about herself that stands out - and, we discover later in the game, this has led to her feeling something of a sense of apathy towards life, manifesting itself through apparent laziness and a desire not to do anything. We’re introduced to her as a teenage girl who is somewhat frustrated at how “ordinary” she feels. Our protagonist Ao is, as you might expect, our first contact with the world of Blue Reflection: Second Light.
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