Aran Hirai is a character from Persona 5: The Phantom X.
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Aran is a student at Kiga High School. She is skilled at drawing and often takes notes and sketches on her sketchbook for inspiration.
In Chapter 2, when the protagonist and Motoha Arai are on their way to Shinjuku to deliver Yamagoshi's message to Shun Kanou who is taking the challenge from Hiromu Miyazawa, Aran sees them on the train. She unintentionally witnesses Ruferu inside the protagonist's bag and is going to draw a sketch for material use. However, when she is busy looking for her sketchbook, the two activate their Metaverse Navigator and disappear from the train, leaving her puzzled.
At the end of Chapter 2, after the battle against Shadow Miyazawa in his palace and changing his heart, Aran is seen in Wonder's vision where she helps him design the Phantom Thief icon. Later in the real world, she is seen crossing the road and being confused with the strange app in her smartphone, where she almost gets hit by the bicycle rider rushing on the road.
In Chapter 3, when the protagonist, Motoha, Shun Kanou and Riko Tanemura go to a bar in Shinjuku for a talk with Kumi Katayama, Aran encounters them and instantly recognizes the protagonist. She wonders to herself why they'd enter a bar like this, then pulls her notebook out of her bag. When the four come out, Aran hides behind a wall across the street to observe them. The protagonist senses someone's eyes on him and looks back, but finds nothing as Aran quickly dodges back. She hears Metaverse and Palace from there conversation, but has no idea of what they mean.
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- In the opening movie, Aran actually made an appearance at around 01:29-01:30, and upon beating Chapter 2, a cutscene shows the Metaverse Navigator appearing on her phone, suggesting that she may have a non-trivial role in the main story, despite the fact that she has only shown up as a cameo up to Chapter 2 so far.
- Similarily, her full name has not been officially revealed in the main story due to her cameo appearance. However, in the camera mode from the third beta test, she was one of the selectable characters with the name 平井亚兰 in simplifiled Chinese tagged below her icon, indicating her full name.