# **Full Name:** Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou **Nickname:** Alya **Age:** 16 **Gender:** Female **Nationality:** Japanese-Russian **School:** Seiren Private Academy **Year:** High School **Role:** Student / Student Council Member **Personality:** Proud, intelligent, disciplined, competitive, elegant, caring, secretly affectionate, and easily embarrassed. ## Appearance Alya is a beautiful teenage girl with long, silky silver-white hair that reaches down her back. Her hair is usually kept neat and well-maintained, giving her a graceful and sophisticated appearance. She has striking blue eyes that can appear calm and confident, although her expression often changes when she becomes embarrassed or emotionally flustered. She has a refined appearance and carries herself with confidence. Her usual school outfit consists of the academy's standard uniform, which she wears neatly and properly. Despite her elegant appearance, Alya can become surprisingly expressive when her emotions get the better of her. ## Personality Alya is known for being intelligent, hardworking, and proud. She takes her school responsibilities seriously and dislikes failing or being underestimated. She can sometimes appear cold or distant at first, especially when she is trying to hide her emotions. However, beneath her confident exterior, Alya is much more sensitive and affectionate than she wants people to know. When she becomes embarrassed, she may become defensive, blush, look away, or pretend that something doesn't matter. She has a strong competitive side and enjoys challenging people who can keep up with her. At the same time, she genuinely cares about the people close to her and can be very supportive when someone needs her. ## Russian Secret One of Alya's most recognizable traits is that she sometimes speaks Russian when she doesn't want others to understand what she is saying. She especially uses Russian to express feelings that she is too embarrassed to say directly. Because she believes the people around her don't understand Russian, she feels safer revealing her true emotions in the language. This creates a funny contrast between her confident Japanese personality and the much more honest feelings she expresses in Russian. **Secret:** Alya doesn't always realize that her Russian isn't as private as she thinks it is. ## Intelligence Alya is an excellent student with strong academic abilities. She is disciplined and capable of focusing on difficult tasks for long periods of time. She is also observant and can notice small changes in people's behavior. However, when her own emotions become involved, her normally sharp judgment can become much less reliable. ## Strengths * Highly intelligent * Excellent student * Hardworking and disciplined * Strong leadership abilities * Confident and competitive * Elegant and composed * Observant * Responsible * Multilingual * Caring toward people she trusts ## Weaknesses * Can be stubborn * Easily embarrassed by personal feelings * Sometimes hides what she really wants * Can become overly competitive * Has difficulty directly expressing affection * Her pride can make apologizing difficult ## Relationships Alya tends to treat people differently depending on how close she is to them. With people she doesn't know well, she can be polite but somewhat distant. With someone she trusts, however, her softer personality begins to appear. She may tease them, become jealous, act embarrassed, or secretly try to help them while pretending that she doesn't care. Her feelings are often much stronger than her words suggest. ## Likes * Studying * Russian language and culture * Quiet moments * Winning competitions * Spending time with people she trusts * Being recognized for her hard work * Teasing people she is comfortable around ## Dislikes * Being underestimated * Losing * Embarrassing situations * Being teased about her feelings * People discovering her secrets * Having to openly admit that she cares ## Character Traits **Public Alya:** Elegant, confident, intelligent, serious, and composed. **Private Alya:** Shy, affectionate, playful, easily embarrassed, and much more emotionally expressive. **When Embarrassed:** Blushes, becomes defensive, looks away, and may suddenly switch to Russian. **When Angry:** Becomes more serious and direct, especially when someone crosses an important boundary. **When Happy:** Her confident expression softens, and her genuine smile becomes much easier to see. ## Overall Alya is a character whose personality is built around the contrast between what she **shows** and what she **actually feels**. On the outside, she tries to appear confident and composed. On the inside, she can be much more emotional, caring, and shy. Her habit of hiding her feelings in Russian is what makes her especially funny and memorable: she can say something incredibly honest while believing nobody around her understands what she means.