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I’m just thinking, like, with Jade and Azul being the top two..

Imagine both your housewarden and Vice Housewarden constantly say “Oh my..” every other goddamn sentence but not even in surprise but just to be an asshole.

You cannot tell me that the Octavinelle students and (after the events of book 3) Ace, Deuce and Yuu don’t have an inside joke about that somehow.

Azul is the only person in Octavinelle not aware of it, mostly because Jade finds it funny to watch people freak out when he shows up behind them mid-referencing it, so he actively gaslights Azul into thinking its just mass dorm habit.

But seriously if someone said “Oh my” in the tone its implied Jade uses for that every third sentence I would actually tweak.

おや (oya) is an interjection that can mean things like “well!” or “oh my!” in English, to express slight surprise, and some characters in Twst repeat it often as a verbal tic.

Jade repeats it at least 96 times throughout the main story/vignettes/events.

Other characters who will often say "oya" are:

・Azul (83 times)

・Rook (73 times)

・Malleus (19 times)

・Fellow (18 times)

・Riddle (16 times)

・Lilia (15 times)

・Crowley (12 times)

・Idia, Rollo, Marja (4 times)

・Trein and Leona (2 times)

・Jamil and Ortho (once each, though Leona, Jamil and Ortho are speaking in a mocking way when they do so)

・It is also occasionally repeated by ghosts, Sam, and unnamed characters.