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Ai Ebihara's background is both very short and very important, because it is where her true character lies.
Average child, Ai was a girl who grew up in a very normal way with a very normal upbringing. She developed things and places and activities and pastimes she enjoyed, and then she ran straight into the brick wall of childhood schoolmate cruelty. We've all been there, and we've all been affected, and in some cases, heck, maybe we've done what Ai has also done. Haunted by the total rejection and insults of peers who wouldn't accept her, and would rather make fun of her and her girl germs, Ai resolved to change her image.
With the influx of money that came from her parents' 'new money' financial success, she could even do it, too. Of course, with absolute scope to work with and absolutely no maturity, Ai fell off the deep end. A desire to change who she was became a complete, literal change of who she was entirely. Ai forgot everything she once was- all of the things that mattered- to become the walking embodiment of modern, trendy, pop-culture-surfing hipster girl culture.
And so things might have carried on indefinitely. She was a shallow, rich bitch. She was THE shallow, rich bitch. She was the stereotype. She saturated her mind and soul with fashion and boys and nothing else mattered. People could lust after her, insult her, fawn over her- so long as she was on top of the heap! So long as nobody ever insulted her appearance ever again. So long as she was beautiful and got what she wanted.
Then something happened.
Taro Namatame, as usual, thought he was doing his good samaritan deed for the day, but does it really count when you break into someone's house and throw them into a flatscreen TV? In any case, this was not how Ai wanted to see herself on TV. If you tuned into the midnight channel, you'd find yourself watching Extreme Makeover: Pig Edition.
Thankfully, the KDA knows what to do when things get foggy. Ai, who was only just starting to understand that Yu Narukami wasn't like all the other boring boyfriends (although he was an /excellent/ bag carrier), suddenly understood he was also a person who could summon an inner mind-god, and so were a lot of other people...
Now everything's changed.
Having confronted Piggyhara, ne Kaguya-hime, Ai's been given a short, sharp shock. She knows that the world is different to everything she expected... but that's all she knows. She has a Persona, now, and she has allies and maybe even friends who will help her understand and change. Together with her new friends, Ai Ebihara reaches out to the truth.
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