User:Stardustdragon123/Hitoe Uemura (Stand Up, the LRIG!)

Hitoe Uemura is one of the supporting protagonists of Stand Up, the LRIG! and is the current Selector of Yuzuki after the latter became an LRIG during the events of Selector infected Wixoss.

Appearance
Hitoe still retains all of her appearances as depicted in infected, spread and destructed, despite the fic's canon depicting her and her friends half a year older than they officially are.

Personality
Hitoe is a very kind and shy girl who can be easily be frightened by actions she can consider unexpected. Most of it stems from her original desire to make friends after leaving behind Aomori and her childhood friend Sakuya, whose letter she keeps as a symbol of hope for that wish.

With help from Ruko and Yuzuki, as well as Aichi after his arrival into the world of Wixoss, Hitoe slowly builds in her self-confidence to the point where she can talk a little more fluently to her friends and hold her own in a battle. She also seems to have grown an admiration for the Royal Paladin user himself for his gentle and kind nature.

Aichi Sendou
Out of all the other cardfighters that came to her world other than Kai who had been with her since the start of the story, Aichi is the one that she feels the closest to. Until Kai had told her and Yuzuki about his previous adventures back in his own world (minus his struggle against the Quatre Knights at the time under Aichi's personal request), she had never even heard of Aichi, even being somewhat confused later when Kai made his brief comparison between how he used to be and her current state during their battle. Some time after the two meet for the first time, when her friendly battle with Ren Suzugamori concludes, she hurries off to the library corner she usually finds herself in, breaking into tears about how 'useless' she is in trying to help anyone in that she couldn't save Ruko or even be a good Selector for Midoriko.

Aichi helps her to calm down, telling her that blaming herself at this moment wasn't going to do anyone, not even herself, any good and that he would do everything he could to try and help her out. He even accepts Yuzuki's request to help Hitoe overcome her social anxiety so she can interact with the people around her a little better. All of the times they've been around each other, whether it would be searching for clues to ending the Selector Battles or just helping her get over her nervousness one step at a time, Hitoe always seems to hold a deep admiration of Aichi and finds him the easiest of the cardfighters in the group to talk to, even calling him 'Aichi-kun' out of respect for his kind nature and blushing around him on occasion.

Whether the latter implies Hitoe has a crush on Aichi is something that isn't confirmed, though Yuzuki appears to have her suspicions in regards to this topic. The closest occasion for that is when Akira attacks Aichi, intending to scar him as payback for his victory against Ulith in Arc 2. Despite fleeing a short distance away from the park, Hitoe returns to try and fend off Akira, barely managing to distract her enough to free him before the crazed Selector retreats under orders from Ulith who mentally communicated with her. After being scolded by Yuzuki for her 'recklessness' which could have gotten her injured or worse killed, Hitoe tears up slightly before leaping at Aichi and embracing him tightly, trying to shake out a horrible image that had crossed her mind.

On the occasions where the two are confronted with dangerous obstacles, Hitoe is always the first to try and resolve the issue with her own conviction before him. Although Aichi has been hesitant to let her do this at first, on both occasions where they confront Akira (with neither of them knowing she has Kai's deck at the time) and a reversed Sakuya and Midoriko, he ultimately allows her to do so. He was reluctant to do so on the first occasion when he recalled the various knives thrown at them by Akira, but allowed Hitoe with less reservation to challenge her reversed companions, knowing that this was a battle that she had to fight to show her growth.