The drastic change of her personality change can be seen in DOAD (everywhere), & in her DOA5 intro & outro poses. She's gone from "I will crush anyone who stands in my way." to "Let's see how strong you are.", and "Did you see the darkness of 'Hajin Mon'?" to "The match is decided." Also, they made her such a brat in DOAD & DOA5. If I remember correctly, she used to be more mature than that and colder, or whatever.
That's pretty cold to me, if you ask me.
I think it's even better. What's the actual difference between "I will crush anyone who stands in my way" and "The match is decided." In DOA5 she says that with such an undertone as if she knew she was winning and her opponent not worth her time. Of course, the difference is that the DOA5 is a winning quote, and the DOA3 an intro quote. Still it is pretty much the same to me.
I think that's totally awesome. She is just expressing it a bit different this time around.
"Let's see how strong you are". She is actually saying that in DOA5, btw.
Her cold side doesn't really shine trough in DOA5. Instead her "soft" side appears more. But mostly because of the "I can't kill Kasumi anymore because Hayate would stop me if I would try that. So I will just accept this situation and similing a bit". That's pretty mature if you ask me.
And I think she doesn't wanna disappoint her brother, the only real reamining person who cared abour her in her life. I guess they had no choice when they wrote the story because of the stupid reuninion of Kasumi & her ninja friends.
I agree with her being still being a bit bratty, but who knows. She is trolling, also from time to time. I liek that, lol. She trolled Eliot in DOA5 and Helena in DOA2. Each in their own way (with Eliot being a really special case. I'm sure someday TN will expand their relationship).
Yeah. Totally not DOA2-3 Ayane.
That's why I dislike her entire DOAD character.