Ayato Tokouryo

Character's Info
Ayato Tokouryo (Kanji:とこうりょ 郁斗, Hepburn: Tokouryo Ayatou) is one of the main characters of the Project Zero-X anime series, minor character in Profile 0-X, later returns as support character in Project I-X.

Appearance
Ayato's a 6'0" (182cm), brown eyes with auburn hairs, pale-ish skins and a blocky-muscular build.

Background History
He was born to Mie Tokouryo and her husband, Kijimoto Sagawa, in a countryside of Doramaki, Kantouben. He met Uchino in elementary school, and became bestfriends since then.

Zero-X
Even though the majority of his past were kept unknown upon outsiders, it was obvious that he was one of the victims of The Great Tokyo Attack, that later led to his father's death.

Despite that, he did managed to graduate from Doramaki High School, and signed to JGSDF as "a way to forget his past". He graduated from the academy, and were into front-line service for a mere 6 months before moves to Special Forces Group, 1st Platoon, promoted to Captain, callsign Alpha 1-1.

He later met and dating Hinata Tsukimori, one of his crewmate and 2nd-in-command of the unit, before Ayato proposed her. Happiness didn't last long with them as the team were sent into a joint operation with British SAS 22nd Regiment Team Bravo 6 and Russian FSO (where he met Marcy and Anna Novackova), that results in his spouse death.

3 years later, he resigned, but not before "The Boss" interrupting them and signing him into the team.

Thoughout the series, Ayato is the leader (and special operation branch) of Team Alpha, a multi-national task force, until the team's disavowed status at the end of Project Zero-X/"2 Cor-es 6/8".

Quotes
See also: ''Ayato Tokouryo/Quotes

Ethymology

 * Unlike the rest of the character's lineup, Ayato's surname (Tokouryo) does not have a Kanji, and doesn't have any meaning to it.
 * His name, Ayato means "cultural progress" (郁) and "Big Dipper" (斗).

Trivia

 * Ayato originally have a slightly brown left iris, but it was changed on 17th revision.
 * Ayato rarely smokes, but he only does when he don't want to be in a conversation, or when he's mad.
 * Ayato is an expert driver, during his day off (only once every year-quarter), he took his cars to the driving fields to keep his instinct sharp.
 * Despite only serves in JGSDF 6 years, he was the first to graduated to Special Ops section, and was put into services for all those 6 years.
 * Ayato is ambidextrous. Most of the times he wrote with right-hand, but in rare occasions he will write with left-hand instead.
 * Ayato uses left hand for Romaji/Latin letters, and right-hand for Japanese Writings.
 * Although his writing is the same on both hands, the differences between them is a distinctive "looped uppercase G" that Uchino likes to call it "るうびいじ" (Ruubii Ji), as it's shapes like a ruby gem.
 * He uses right hand for everyday occasions and normal letter-writings, and his left hand for formal letters, paperworks, etc.
 * There are only 2 times Ayato uses left hand to writes, the first time to wrote the love-letter for Hinata, and the 2nd time to signs the contracts.
 * Throughout the entire series, Ayato holds the gun with right-hand.
 * One of his car was designed based on Mazda MX-5NA Miata, as its features a popping headlights.
 * Another one being "The Tofu Deliver", based on Toyota Corolla Levin Trueno AE86, which extremely smooth wheels design for drifting.