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Aoi
Aoi Aoi written as 葵 (hollyhock) carries quiet heraldic significance — a name associated with the highest levels of Japanese feudal society, the kind of name that suggests an elevated, perhaps hidden, lineage. Written as 碧 (blue-green), the name evokes the liminal color between ocean and sky, evoking a person of borderline qualities: neither wholly one thing nor the other, at home in transitional spaces. Aoi is a name well-suited to characters who move between social worlds.
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