Ayame Futaba

Ayame Futaba (双葉 綾芽, Futaba Ayame) is one of the new volunteer members of the Black Knights introduced in the second season where she serves aboard the Ikaruga and appears to run its defensive systems.

Appearance
Ayame wears her purple hair as a pair of mid-length curls that curve around her brown eyes.

Second Season
Ayame is introduced as a volunteer for the Black Knights and she is usually seen alongside Mutsuki Minase and Ichijiku Hinata.

She was present during Viceroy Nunnally vi Britannia's Special Zone where one million Zeroes were exiled from Japan. After being exiled, she appears inside the Ikaruga. She is present during the battles that ensue in the Chinese Federation.During the final battle, she is seen comforting Shinichirō Tamaki in a hospital after he is defeated by Suzaku Kururugi in his Lancelot Albion. In Japanese, she respectively refers to him as "Senpai."

Etymology

 * The name Ayame means "design" (綾) (aya) and "bud, sprout" (芽) (me).
 * Ayame's surname Futaba means "pair, set" (双) (futa) and "leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece" (葉) (ha/ba), which literally means "bud, sprout"/"two leaf/twin leaf" altogether.