Ayato Kamina (神名 綾人 Kamina Ayato) is a student and artist who lives with Maya Kamina in Tokyo. Most of his artwork shown in the series consists of drawings or paintings of a girl on a cliff looking towards the sea. He has birthmark-like symbols on his belly that resembles runes, which are revealed to be a sign of his being a potential instrumentalist for the mysterious giant godly being called the RahXephon.
Ayato had painted a picture of a girl with her back turned and his encounter with Reika Mishima, who looks remarkably like the girl in the painting, leads him to the Rahxephon. In time, he will interact with many people and grow from those experiences.
Biography[]
After being taken from Tokyo by Haruka Shitow and the RahXephon, Ayato moves in with Rikudo Shougo (Haruka's uncle on Nirai Kanai). At first, this arrangement does not sit well with Ayato, as Haruka and Megumi (Haruka's younger sister) live in Rikudo's annex, but they slowly adapt to each others' presences. As a stranger from Tokyo Jupiter, Ayato struggles to find his place and acceptance in the outside world. Although he pilots the RahXephon in defending Nirai Kanai, he questions his abilities and self-worth. He also struggles with trying to piece together and understand his relationship with Haruka, handling the feisty Megumi, and interacting with the other TERRA personnel, who regard him with a broad spectrum of reactions, from acceptance and friendship to cool scientific interest to distrust and even contempt.
It is revealed that Ayato is actually the biological son of Quon, conceived with the help of Ernst von Bähbem and raised by Maya as an instrumentalist — someone who can successfully use the RahXephon to re-tune the world. There are several other instrumentalist candidates, but at this point in the series, most have passed their ideal age.
At the end of the series, Ayato succeeds in becoming one with the RahXephon, and re-tunes the world. In this new world, the great dimensional split never happened, and Tokyo Jupiter never existed. Ayato, now an adult and greatly resembling Itsuki, is married to Haruka, and they have an infant daughter named Quon.
In other versions[]
In the movie, Ayato is Maya Kamina's naturally conceived biological son. In this version, he has to remain in his position as a "Watcher of time" and can not return to the world.
In the manga, Ayato is not just the result of in vitro fertilization but also of in vitro growing; multiple tanks with Ayato clones growing inside them are shown.
Trivia[]
- The name Ayato means "design" (綾) (aya) and "person" (人) (to).
- Ayato's surname Kamina means "god" (神) (kami) and "name, first name, reputation" (名) (na).
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