History Characters / AccelWorld

Characters from the ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'' series are sorted according to their main allegiance within the light novels, anime, manga, and video games.

'''''Executive Branch (Six Armors):''''' Suntan Schafer, Lignum Vitae, Iron Pound, Viridian Decurion\\

'''''Four Deities:''''' Sun God Inti, Archangel Metatron, Amaterasu, Goddess Nyx\\
'''''Eight Divines:''''' ?-]

[-Araya, Reina Iseki, Mayu Ikuzawa, Hoo-]

[-Saya Arita-]

[[/index]]

'''''Other Members:''''' Ash Roller, Rin Kasukabe, Bush Utan, Olive Grab, Jade Jailer-]

'''''Other Members:''''' Frost Horn, Tourmaline Shell-]

'''''Other Members:''''' Aster Vine-]

'''''Executive Branch (Seven Dwarves):''''' Ivory Tower, Glacier Behemoth-]

[-The Audience, Azure Heir, Dushka, Mirror Masker, Nickel Doll, Nitride Uncia, Orchid Oracle, Sand Duct, Tin Writer-]

* ''Characters/AccelWorldDuralMagisaGarden'' characters
** Skazka Priskazka \\
[-'''''Members:''''' Aluminium Valkyrie, Orange Raptor, Violet Dancer, Iris Alice, Ivy Capture (former)-]
** Sword of Sodan \\
[-'''''Members:''''' Glacier Tiger, Vanilla Slicer, Zircon Paladin, Jasper Jack-]
** Faceless \\
[-'''''Members:''''' Brass Eagle, Pyrite Jabber, Rubber Dresser, Pulp Bag -]
** Miscellaneous \\
[-Glass Monarch, Maroon Balloon, Phosphorus Fog, Pineapple Sheep, Nocturne Hider-]

** Enbuken - Analytical Performance Martial Arts Research Club\\
[-'''''Members:''''' Aluminium Valkyrie, Orange Raptor, Violet Dancer, Iris Alice-]

[-The Audience, Azure Heir, Dushka, Mirror Masker, Nickel Doll, Orchid Oracle, Sand Duct, Tin Writer-]

[[caption-width-right:299:From top to bottom: [[Characters/AccelWorldLeoniz Blue Knight]], [[Characters/AccelWorldProminence Scarlet Rain]], [[Characters/AccelWorldAuroraOval Purple Thorn]], [[Characters/AccelWorldGreatWall Green Grandee]], [[Characters/AccelWorldCryptoCosmicCircus Yellow Radio]]. On right: [[Characters/AccelWorldOscillatoryUniverse Ivory Tower]]]]

[[caption-width-right:299:From top to bottom: Blue Knight, Scarlet Rain, Purple Thorn, Green Grandee, Yellow Radio. Ivory Tower on right.]]

[-The Audience, Azure Heir, Mirror Masker, Nickel Doll, Orchid Oracle, Sand Duct, Tin Writer-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Black Lotus-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Red Rider (former), Scarlet Rain (current)-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Green Grandee-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Blue Knight-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Yellow Radio-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Purple Thorn-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' White Cosmos-]

* [[Characters/AccelWorldAccelerationResearchSociety Acceleration Research Society]]
* [[Characters/AccelWorldChromeDisaster Chrome Disaster]]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Chocolate Puppeteer-]

[-'''''Legion Master:''''' Beryllium Coil-]

* [[Characters/AccelWorldEnemies Enemies]]

[-''Legion Master:'' Black Lotus-]

[-''Legion Master:'' Red Rider (former), Scarlet Rain (current)-]

[-''Legion Master:'' Green Grandee-]

[-''Legion Master:'' Blue Knight-]

[-''Legion Master:'' Yellow Radio-]

[-''Legion Master:'' Purple Thorn-]

[-''Legion Master:'' White Cosmos-]

* Great Legions:
** Black Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldNegaNebulus Nega Nebulus]]
** Red Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldProminence Prominence]]
** Green Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldGreatWall Great Wall]]
** Blue Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldLeoniz Leoniz]]
** Yellow Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldCryptoCosmicCircus Crypto Cosmic Circus]]
** Purple Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldAuroraOval Aurora Oval]]
** White Legion: [[Characters/AccelWorldOscillatoryUniverse Oscillatory Universe]]

* [[Characters/AccelWorldEnemies Enemies]]

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[[folder: Nega Nebulus]]

!In General

* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler:The failed raid on the Imperial Palace, which resulted in Ardor Maiden, Aqua Current and Graphite Edge being trapped in precarious positions on the Unlimited Neural Field, in which [[CycleOfHurting the Four Gods will kill them if they try to log back in]]. It took a great deal of effort to rescue Ardor Maiden from this situation]]
* ElementalPowers: The Elements of the old group represented the classical four elements. Sky Raker represented air, Ardor Maiden represented fire, Aqua Current represented water, and Graphite Edge represented earth.
* EliteFour: The Elements, the four lieutenants of the first incarnation of Nega Nebulus. Shortly after Black Lotus's declaration of war on the other kings, they attempted a raid on a group of BeefGate bosses themed after TheFourGods. Instead, three of them became trapped in a CycleOfHurting inside the bosses' spawn zones, and the Legion fell apart soon afterwards.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: So far, Sky Raker and Ardor Maiden have rejoined Kuroyukihime, and Haruyuki hopes the other Elements will, too. [[spoiler: as of vol 14, Aqua Current has rejoined as well.]]
* TrueCompanions: They're considered a very close-knit group, especially the new Nega Nebulus, which Haru thinks of as a family of sorts.

!The Black King

!!"Kuroyukihime"/Black Lotus
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kuroyuki3_2367.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Our mysterious princess...]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SachikaMisawa (Japanese), Creator/KiraBuckland (English)

A second-year at Umesato Junior High who is very popular among the other students thanks to both her looks and passive personality. She becomes interested in Haruyuki and gives him the chance to enter the Accelerated World to fight alongside her. During school, she is known for being very calm and caring but still impatient and ill-tempered and not always using her head.

She is actually the Black King, formerly one of the original pure colored kings, who went into hiding, Like the others she is one of the strongest players in the game with a level 9 avatar. She is considered a traitor by other Burst Linkers.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Her net avatar's dress takes this to its logical extreme. Her bodice is entirely backless and sideless, with two narrow straps of black fabric rising from the waistline to cover her non-existent boobs.
* ActionGirlfriend: Kuroyukihime is the powerful Black King who suddenly changes Haruyuki's life by introducing him to the Accelerated World, becoming both his mentor and love interest.
* ACupAngst: Downplayed. She's usually not bothered by the size of her chest, but she gets annoyed when Niko tries to make fun of her lack of curves and when seeing Megumi's large breasts.
* AffectionateNickname: Fuuko, Utai and Akira address her as Sa-chan ([[DubNameChange "Sacchi" in the localization of the light novel]]). As Black Lotus, her mentor Graphite Edge calls her "Lotta".
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: An unusual example. She became enamored with Haruyuki after seeing his speed and drive in his squash games, [[spoiler: and the only reason she had a higher score, for the purpose of getting his attention, is she had to cheat to even surpass him]]. The way it's presented, this in turn makes Haruyuki an unusual kind of "Hercules", but replace physical prowess with video game skill, though within a virtual game world, it still translates to physical prowess in a sense.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's a tall girl with long black hair who possess a graceful and calm demeanor.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Treated as the highest criminal in Brain Burst for trying to reach Level 10 and disrupting the BalanceOfPower. Subverted by the show itself, which treats her overt desire to achieve level 10 and potentially end the game as good, while treating the other kings' underhanded backstabbing and maintainance of the status quo as evil.
** Also subverted in the books with the non-Guild Burst Linkers (and secretly a few Guild members too), who see her ambition as the natural state of mind for a true gamer and fighter; when Kuroyukihime appears at the Hermes Cord Race (book 5) many of the spectators cheer for her return.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Towards Haruyuki in Episode 4.
* AnimalMotifs: Always associated with butterflies.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: A surprisingly heartwarming one in Volume 2. After pointing out that his fear of failure is holding him back, and at the root of it is the fear of being abandoned, asks him if he really thinks their bond is that shallow.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Slaps Haruyuki and cries after he accuses her of using him as a pawn to degrade herself.
* AttractivenessIsolation: Kuroyukihime fears she's so attractive that she's intimidating Haruyuki and that's why he's so reluctant to get close to her.
* BadassAdorable: Very beautiful, SchoolIdol to boot and is the Black King, who made her descent in the virtual world through piles of her defeated enemies.
%%* BathtubBonding: With Haruyuki in the second OVA.
%%* BattleCouple: With Haruyuki.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Although she is generally polite and well meaning, she won't hesitate to kick ass if Haruyuki and his friends are in danger.
* TheBigGirl: Besides playing TheLeader, Kuroyukihime is also by far the most powerful and toughest member of Nega Nebulus.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Black Lotus's arms have {{absurdly sharp blade}}s that are able to cut and damage anything.
* BladeSpam: Her attacks "Death by Barraging" (performed with her [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arms]]) and "Death by Bashing" (a series of [[ArmedLegs kicks]] too fast to see), as well as her Incarnate techniques like Starburst Stream (which [[MagicMissileStorm generates stars around her and shoots them forward as she strikes]]).
* BreakingTheFellowship: The Elements of Nega Nebulus broke up after [[spoiler:the failed attempt to invade the Imperial Palace, since three out of four were trapped at various spots in the Unlimited Neural Field]].
* BrokenAce: In the real world, she's the attractive, popular and intelligent vice president of her middle school. In the accelerated world, she's currently the closest to reaching Level 10, as the only Level 9 who's killed another Level 9. Beneath this seemingly perfect exterior lies a surprisingly emotionally vulnerable girl who's plagued by guilt, self-loathing and occasional feelings of jealousy.
* ButterflyOfDoom: AntiHero example.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She considers her sister White Cosmos her worst enemy because she tricked her into beheading Red Rider.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: She's aiming for this trope in-universe. Kuroyukihime is working towards being able to change the tip of her blade-arms into hands, with the immediate aim of holding Silver Crow's hand, the long-term aim being to hug her friends in the Accelerated World without killing them - remember, her [[OneHitKill closest range attack]] is called ''Death by Embracing''. This process involves analyzing the wounds and flaws in her own psyche, and working to fix them - and she can already form hands for a few seconds. It's a literal manifestation of ThePowerOfLove; not just her romantic love for Haru, but her platonic love for her friends in her Legion.
* ChildHater: She says she dislikes children, especially those like Niko.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She easily gets jealous whenever another girl gets close to Haruyuki. This even extends to herself as the second ending shows.
* CoolBigSis: Despite her claims of hating kids, she acts very mentor-ish around Coral Merrow and Lagoon Dolphin, and seems to enjoy their company. Meanwhile, her interactions with Niko are part this and VitriolicBestBuds.
* CounterAttack: Guard Reversal, aka "the way of the flexible" - a martial arts technique she picked in the real world for redirecting the force of opponents' attacks. The first time she uses it against Haru, he momentarily feels like her blade arms have turned into snakes and wrapped around his punch. Haru is later able to pull off a crude version of the technique by imitating her.
* CryCute: [[spoiler:After she and Fuuko/Sky Raker finally mend their broken friendship.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She says her "parent" betrayed her and is now her worst enemy. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that her "parent" is her sister who tricked her into killing Red Rider.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: She has a black motif and is seen as highest criminal in Brain Burst. In actuality, she's an AntiHero, but not a bad person.
* DeadlyHug: Her attack Death By Embrace, a hug that decapitates her enemy.
* DeclarationOfProtection: She swears to Haruyuki that she will protect him right before [[spoiler: saving him from being hit by Araya's car]].
* DeusExitMachina: She is in a school trip during the Dusk Taker arc, which results in Haru and Taku having to deal with Noumi alone.
* DesignerBabies: In Volume 23, it is revealed she is [[spoiler: a Machine child. Her mother was one of KAMURA’s entrepreneurs and her father one of the researchers and together they were trying to research Fluctlight duplication by overwriting her Fluctlight when she was in her artificial womb by attaching a baby-size Neuro Linker on her when she was still developing.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: Given that ''Accel World'' is technically a SpiritualSuccessor to ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Kuroyukihime can be thought of in many ways as a female Kirito. This has been lampshaded in crossovers such as ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight''. Both of them favor wearing black, have titles with the word "Black in them (Black Lotus and Black Swordsman), are very TheStoic and serious compared to their peers, both are capable of DualWielding, and both even use ''identical'' Sword Skills (Vorpal Strike, The Eclipse, Starburst Stream).
* DontCallMeSir:
** She doesn't like how Haruyuki keeps calling her "Sempai", even after she revealed her true name to him.
** She also would like Takumu to stop calling her "Master" because she likes to be in more friendly terms with her legion members.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She has three in the first volume. Her first appearance as someone who broke Haru's record in the squash game (albeit using acceleration) and inviting him to soar to greater heights shows her as a mysterious individual who's also a skilled gamer. Her emotional breakdown after Haru insults himself and her shows that she's still an emotionally vulnerable 14-year-old. The fact that her plan to get Araya expelled backfires on her, [[spoiler:resulting in him trying to kill her and Haru]], shows that many of her actions end up having unintended and unfortunate consequences.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Megumi appears to.
* TheFashionista: Not only is her net avatar's dress very fancy, but in the real world, she wears casual clothes, kimono or gloves.
* FireForgedFriends: She and Chiyu initially don't get along because they're jealous of each other, but by the end of the Dusk Taker arc, during which [[spoiler:Chiyu contacts Kuroyukihime to inform her about Haru's stolen wings, enabling her to come to the rescue]], they warm up to each other, and Kuroyukihime [[FirstNameBasis starts calling Chiyu by her first name]].
* FirstNameBasis: She refers to Haruyuki and his friends by their (unabbreviated) first names, and the "-kun" honorific, and forgoes honorifics with Fuko and Megumi.
* FlatWhat: When she realizes that Haruyuki actually went with her suggestion to direct link with Chiyuri (which is equivalent to ''a very close date'') to investigate Cyan Pile, her expression goes to a fault.
-->'''[[DeathGlare Kuroyukihime]]''': ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext How long was the cable?]]''\\
'''Haruyuki''': ''About 30 cm...''\\
''(Kuroyukihime [[SeriousBusiness walks]] '''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments way faster]]''')''
* {{Foil}}: To Taku's (unnamed) Parent. Kuroyukihime serves as a mentor and guide to Haru, while Taku's Parent told him what to do and used him as a pawn to test the backdoor program.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sanguine.
* FreakinessShame: She thinks her Duel Avatar is ugly because her limbs are blades instead. Haruyuki finds it beautiful, though.
* GiveGeeksAChance: She's a very beautiful girl who is so popular that she could have every guy at her school, but she only has eyes for the little chubby guy that everyone considers a loser.
%%* GodivaHair
* GodlikeGamer: As one of the seven Kings and a level-nine Burst Linker, Black Lotus is undoubtedly one of the most powerful Burst Linkers in the entire game.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: She says she realized her feelings for Haruyuki when he mentioned that he has cabled with Chiyu with a short cable and Kuroyukihime found herself feeling jealous for the first time in her life.
* HairAntennae: They fit with her butterfly motif since they resemble butterfly antennae.
* HairDecorations: Her net avatar wears a headband.
* HellishHorse: She [[spoiler: pulls a BigDamnHeroes]] while riding one of these.
* HeroicBSOD: She faints after [[spoiler: being forced to remember how she killed Red Rider]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Used [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Physical Full Burst]] to save Haruyuki from being hit by Araya's car, consuming 99% of her Burst Points and causing her a few days' retirement at the hospital.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: She's often fairly critical of herself for her past actions, and the narrator in her POV sections (which is indicated to show how she feels) can often judge her quite unfavorably.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: In her net avatar.
* IronLady: Takes on a haughty and flippant persona when speaking officially as the Black King, making aggressive demands and implying that her rivals are only still alive because she allows it. [[TheGadfly Raker claims that]] this act helped recruitment greatly in the early days of Nega Nebulus... because Lotus used to be so ''bad'' at it that recruits saw her as an {{Adorkable}} PluckyGirl and [[InstantFanClub treated her Legion as a fan club]].
* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for many things, such as the disintegration of her own Legion. (on the last charge, at least, her former Legion members don't agree)
* JustTheWayYouAre: She loves Haruyuki for how he is. For instance, she likes the pig avatar he uses and finds it cute.
* LadyAndKnight: Kuroyukihime is the beautiful lady and Haruyuki is the brave warrior trying to make himself worthy of being her knight and protect her.
* LadyOfWar: Her Duel Avatar glides around just above the ground, giving her movements a smooth, graceful quality, and she carries herself in a calm and elegant manner.
* TheLeader: Of her legion Nega Nebulus. She gives them missions to protect territories, and guides them on getting stronger.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNotK11wQ3w "Alert Sign"]] in the anime. During her battle with Yellow Radio it's replaced by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3c_0LZm0Y "raio0"]] remix.
%% * LeotardOfPower: Her avatar in the OVA.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Chiyuri, Megumi and [[spoiler: Fuuko]]'s light.
* LightningBruiser: Black Lotus is [[FlashStep insanely fast]], deals borderline {{One Hit Kill}}s against [[{{Mooks}} weaker Duel Avatars]], and [[NoSell is immune to grapples and restraining attacks]].
* LoopholeAbuse: Because the Umesato dress code requires an "uncolored" uniform shirt and black isn't a color, she's able to get away with wearing a black shirt. It's unclear how she does the same by wearing a dark blazer instead of a blue one with her winter uniform, though.
* MeaningfulName: Her nickname, Kuroyukihime, translates to Princess Snow Black. You can already guess what she ended up being...
%% * MentorArchetype: To Haruyuki.
* AMotherToHerMen: She deeply cares about the members of her legion and treats them like her dear friends instead of mere subordinates.
* MsFanservice: Her net avatar wears a revealing dress that shows off her [[AbsoluteCleavage cleavage,]] [[SexyBacklessOutfit her back and part of her butt]]. The anime opening sequences also like to show her nude.
* MultiformBalance: Her "Overdrive" command causes Black Lotus's TronLines to glow in one of three colours, temporarily converting it into an avatar of that colour - Mode Red for increased attack range, Mode Green for higher defences, and Mode Blue for improved melee attack power. It's referred to as not a true Incarnate ability so much as a [[{{Determinator}} battle cry]] she uses to hype herself up, and is only usable in multiple ways because her avatar isn't associated with any colour to begin with.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her reaction after realizing that [[spoiler:Red Rider hadn't actually been planning on manipulating and betraying the other legions, meaning she killed him over a lie]].
* NiceGirl: Kuroyukihime is very polite, calm, patient and well-meaning. [[BewareTheNiceOnes You'd better not make her angry, though.]]
* NonUniformUniform: For apparently no reason at all, she wears a darker version of the school uniform. It does fit her nicely though.
%%* {{Ojou}}
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: To readers/viewers, as there are a few characters who know her name. Although she states that her real name isn't that different from her nickname. Taken to insane levels when she presents her name tag (which supposedly can't be hacked) and it shows her nickname instead of her name. [[spoiler:Fuuko]] addresses her as Sa-chan in the final episode. It still doesn't tell us anything about her real name but is a start.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Haru makes the assumption that she's only around someone like him as a means of self-punishment, she gets upset to the point at which she slaps him, angrily calling him an idiot (as opposed to the smug way she calls him a "fool" when he does something stupid), and ends up crying uncontrollably. Seeing her as the 14-year-old girl she really is, Haru [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes how deeply he upset her]].
* ParasolOfPrettiness: In her net avatar goes around with an elegant parasol.
* ParentalNeglect: Her parents don't even bother to show up [[spoiler:at the hospital]] after [[spoiler:she is hit by a car]].
* PeerlessLoveInterest: Haruyuki pretty much fell in love with Kuroyukihime because she was way out of his league both in social status and looks. This makes Haruyuki determined to fight to prove his worthiness of her and protect her. However, this gets deconstructed as Kuroyukihime is not comfortable with Haruyuki idolizing her and would like him to treat her like an individual equal to him so they could enjoy a more normal relationship. Haruyuki constantly insisting on maintaining his distance from Kuroyukihime and admiring her from afar only ends up hurting her feelings, but Haruyuki still isn't confident enough to get closer to Kuroyukihime and accept that she loves him just the way he is.
* PersonalityPowers: Black Lotus's limbs are razor-sharp and hurt anyone who touches them, fitting her complexes over her past mistakes. [[spoiler:As part of her attempts to move on, she is trying to develop an Incarnate technique which uses positive feelings to transform her blade-arms into normal hands.]]
* PimpedOutDress: Her net avatar has this.
* PowerGivesYouWings: In the OVA, when she merges with Haruyuki.
%%* PragmaticHero
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears black tights while in her school uniform.
* PropertyOfLove: She claims Haruyuki belongs to her and she won't give him away to anyone.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is past her back.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has very dark hair and pale skin and is seen as beautiful.
* RedBaron: Known by the title "World End"
%% * RedOniBlueOni: The blue (with Takumu) to Haruyuki's red.
%% * RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Megumi.
* SchoolIdol: She's the most popular girl in her grade, is considered the most beautiful girl in school and is part of the student council.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: She wears her modified school uniform most of the time, and Fuko notes that her closet is full of uniforms.
* SempaiKohai: She is the sempai to Haruyuki and co.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her net avatar wears an entirely backless dress, even showing a bit of butt cleavage.
* SexyMentor: She's very beautiful and acts as TheTease towards her protege and LoveInterest Haruyuki.
* SheIsTheKing: She holds the title of the Black King.
%%* ShesGotLegs
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: To ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' - [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=382866 Black Lotus]] is the most iconic member of the game's premier {{Game Breaker}}s, the Power 9, for its unmatched ability to gather mana (known colloquially as "Acceleration" or "Accel"). This is reflected both in Kuroyukihime's Level 9 status and the mechanics of her "Overdrive" command. The theme starts to become more obvious after the arrival of the fake Black avatar Black Vise (see his entry for more details).
* ShutUpHannibal: When Yellow Radio tries to guilt trip her over her killing [[spoiler:Red Rider]], Kuroyukihime tells him that she won't feel at all guilty about killing Yellow Radio.
%% * SiblingYinYang: With her sibling, [[spoiler:White Cosmos.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: She only has eyes for Haruyuki.
* SnubByOmission: In the first OVA, while she's upset about Haruyuki acting like her subordinate while offering to help her alongside his other friends, says, "Then I'll see you after school, Takumu-kun, Chiyuri-kun," deliberately leaving Haru out.
* SpinAttack: Her ultimate Incarnate technique "The Eclipse" has her extend her arms and spin at high speeds while upside down, causing her to appear as a black void surrounded by a ring of white SwordLines.
* SwordBeam: Her Incarnate technique "Vorpal Strike" shoots a powerful long-range beam by thrusting her arm forward, making it an exaggerated version of the reach-extending ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' skill of the same name. Haru later [[VariantPowerCopying uses the image of Vorpal Strike as inspiration for]] Laser Lance, a long-range version of his Laser Sword, and the similarity of the two techniques means they can be used in a CombinationAttack.
* SwordCane: The parasol of her net avatar is revealed to be a scabbard for a sword in the OVA.
* TheTease: She enjoys to flirt with Haruyuki and see him get embarrassed as a result.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNotK11wQ3w "Alert Sign"]] in the anime. During her battle with Yellow Radio it's replaced by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3c_0LZm0Y "raio0"]] remix.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Huge Girl to Haruyuki's Tiny Guy.
* TragicMistake: Killing Red Rider. It indirectly leads to her [[spoiler:being kicked out of her family home after she confronts her sister, becoming a wanted criminal in Brain Burst, and, not long afterward, her team breaking apart after the failed raid on the Imperial Palace]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Type B. Kuroyukihime is usually very calm, affectionate to Haruyuki and true with her feelings, but is prone to become very annoyed when she sees Haruyuki with other girls or when he does something that upsets her. Perhaps exemplified at the end of the Dusk Taker arc, in which she says that 49 percent of her wants to congratulate Haruyuki for a job well done, 50 percent of her wants to punch him, and the remaining one percent wants to hug him while apologizing for not being there for him.
* TsurimeEyes: She displays these eyes and she has a confident and aloof personality.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Her relationship with Haruyuki, although they aren't married. Kuroyukihime, a very beautiful AloofDarkHairedGirl, somehow only has eyes for the fat midget Haruyuki and loves him regardless of his looks.
* UnwittingPawn: It's later revealed that the reason she killed Red Rider was because [[spoiler:her sister tricked her into thinking that he had nefarious motives for establishing the non-aggression pact. Once Kuroyukihime finds out the truth, she is furious]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Yuniko. They display animosity toward each other, because Yuniko has a hard time admitting she enjoys their company around her.
* WingedHumanoid: Her net avatar has large butterfly wings.
* WingsDoNothing: The wings in her net avatar are mere decoration.
* WithholdingTheirName: "Kuroyukihime" is OnlyKnownByHerNickname ([[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Princess Snow Black]]). She claims that it's not that far from her real name, but refuses to say what it is, even going so far as to hack her student ID to read Kuroyukihime (something that other characters had previously thought to be unhackable).
* ZettaiRyouiki: Her avatar in the OVA.

!New Members

!!Haruyuki "Haru" Arita/Silver Crow
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haruyuki1_5670.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The three faces of our hero.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukiKaji (Japanese), Creator/ErikKimerer (English)

The main character, a short, overweight boy with severe self-esteem issues mainly caused by not only his appearance, but also being viewed as an outsider at Umesato Junior High School. An encounter with Kuroyukihime, however, changed his life, as he slowly discovers his power to stand up for himself.
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* AccidentalPervert: He repeatedly ends up in situations where he accidentally gropes or sees undressed one of the girls. This actually gets PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Seiji uses a visual mask to lead him to the girls' shower room while Chiyuri is taking a shower as part of a trap to blackmail Haruyuki - Chiyu realizes that Haru was tricked, but knows that he could be expelled if word got out]].
* AdaptationalUgliness: A downplayed example. While Haru isn't physically attractive in the light novels, the anime exaggerates Haru's character design to match his self-image, making him much more cartoonish. In the books, he's only a few centimetres shorter than Takumu, who in turn is taller than Chiyu.
* {{Adorkable}}: He's insecure, socially awkward and a very cute and endearing little guy.
* AffectionateNickname: Takumu and Chiyuri call him Haru.
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:After becoming the sixth Chrome Disaster, he synchronizes so strongly with the Armor that he can use the abilities of its past hosts. However, [[HowDoIShotWeb he isn't familiar with these abilities' strengths and weaknesses]], which comes back to bite him.]]
* AnimalMotifs:
** A literal flying pig.
** As well as a crow given the name of his avatar is Silver Crow.
* ApologisesALot: He has the habit to apologize for every single thing, even if it's not his fault.
* AttackReflector: Develops the "Optical Conduction" ability in volume 12 as an extension of silver's use in mirrors, growing crystals on his arms which can reflect or CatchAndReturn light-based attacks.
* BadassAdorable: Insecurities aside, he's also a sweet, caring boy. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Just don't dare hurt his friends]].
%%* BashBrothers: With Takumu.
%%* BathtubBonding: With Kuroyukihime in the second OVA.
%%* BattleCouple: With Kuroyukihime.
* BeadyEyedLoser: He's a short, fat boy with very beady eyes, and by the beginning of the series he's a loser who is a target of Araya and his gang's bullying.
* BigFun: Once he starts to gain more self-confidence, Haruyuki becomes a gentle, friendly, and fun fat little guy, but hardly boisterous.
* BookDumb: Haru's grades aren't especially good, but he's really quite intelligent. It's indicated that he doesn't have the energy or focus for long study sessions, [[note]]his grades go up slightly once he starts using burst points for his homework; he can do several hours' worth of work in one half-hour in the Accelerated world. Taku says in exasperation that if Haru had that kind of focus in all his school work, he'd be top of the class[[/note]] and he fears that he'll never be able to get into the same high school as Kuroyukihime.
* BrokenAngel: [[spoiler:In book 3 after Noumi steals everything from him, even his wings.]]
* BullyMagnet: He hasn't known a day of Junior High yet where he hasn't been bullied or threatened by TheBully Araya and his gang. It does not help that Haru actively cuts off any outside support from his friends to deal with the problem out of shame for not being able to himself. It's a sign of his character progression when Nomi tries to put him back in this situation that he doesn't just lie down and take it.
* CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: The reason why his avatar manifested [[WingPull wings]]. Initially Haru just wants to fly away from his problems, but [[GrewASpine as he grows in confidence]] he shifts towards a straighter example of this trope, admiring birds and loving the sky for its own sake. This culminates in the birth of his second-order Incarnate technique "Light Speed", which lets him activate Crow's wings through sheer force of will.
* TheChampion: For Kuroyukihime. Haruyuki makes his goal to help her achieve level 10 so he can protect her and repay her for changing his life by giving him the Brain Burst. It's actually part of Haru's CharacterDevelopment that he's trying to make himself worthy of being her knight.
* ChekhovsSkill: After a failed attempt to use Crow's ChargedAttack "Headbutt" at the very start of his career, Haru declares it AwesomeButImpractical and falls back to simple punches and kicks from then on. As a result no one outside Nega Nebulus knows that Crow even has this attack, which allows Haru to gain the upper hand against Wolfram Cerberus (a linker who studied his fighting style) when he tries to defeat Crow by crushing him in a bear hug.
* ChildhoodFriends: He has been friends with Takumu and Chiyuri since they were living in an apartment complex as children.
* ClassicalAntiHero: At the beginning of the story, Haruyuki is a pathetic loser with no self-esteem and plagued with self-doubt. He gets '''much''' [[TookALevelInBadass better]] thanks to CharacterDevelopment and eventually evolves into a proper hero.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: If you consider ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'' the SpiritualSuccessor to ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Haruyuki is quite a contrast to Kirito. Kirito was a lean, confident, loner badass whereas Haruyuki is a fat, wimpy kid who tends to rely on his friends. WordOfGod is that the big difference between them is that Kirito was strong on the outside, but weak on the inside. Haruyuki is weak on the outside, but strong on the inside. In a more meta-sense, Kirito might exemplify the gamer's ideal image whereas Haruyuki more-or-less represents the gamer's reality. Despite this, the two were pretty evenly matched when they fought each other in a non-canon bonus chapter.
* ConfusionFu: After people start to get used to Crow's {{Flight}} ability and he can no longer rely on DeathFromAbove {{Diving Kick}}s to carry him to victory, he develops the "Aerial Combo" fighting style - [[SpamAttack a furious barrage]] of close-range attacks which use his flight ability in short bursts in order to micro-dodge and attack from unpredictable angles.
* CounterAttack: In volume 6 Kuroyukihime teaches him the basics of Guard Reversal, aka the "way of the flexible" - a martial arts technique for catching the force of opponents' attacks and redirecting them.
* CyberCyclops: Silver Crow. Though it's actually a visor covering a proper face.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He made a vow to support and protect Kuroyukihime as her "pawn" in the Brain Burst game.
* {{Determinator}}: You'd think losing a hand & having your body filled full of holes would stop anyone. Not this guy though. According to Chiyu, this has been one of his defining characteristics since early childhood; he just didn't use it for anything besides mastering games until now.
* DiscardAndDraw: [[spoiler:In the Dusk Taker arc, Silver Crow lost his wings to Dusk Taker, caught by his surprise attack. He then is taught how to use a powerful ability called Incarnate System by Kurasaki Fuuko (Sky Raker), and is given her Enhanced Armament, Gale Thruster (a jet-pack). He gives Gale Thruster back to her after defeating Dusk Taker, but he keeps the ability he learned.]]
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the manga chapter, he doesn't quite perform up to his usual level in the first set because he's distracted by the hem of Kuroyukihime's skirt. He doesn't dare admit this, though.
* DivingKick: Becomes Crow's SignatureMove for a while after he first unlocks his Flight ability.
* DontYouDarePityMe: His primary motivation for [[TookALevelInBadass Taking a Level in Badass]] is so his friends Chiyu and Taku don't have to feel sorry for him. Unfortunately, this is also part of the reason why he distanced himself from his friends around the start of middle school.
* DraggedByTheCollar: By Blood Leopard from the cafe straight to the Akihabara.
* DreamsOfFlying: The "calibration dream" Haru has after installing Brain Burst features a flying bird made out of light, {{Foreshadowing}} Silver Crow's abilities.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Silver Crow gains the elemental properties of the metal silver, rendering it resistant to piercing, slashing, [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], and [[PoisonousPerson poison]] attacks; but [[AchillesHeel vulnerable]] to crushing attacks and [[ShockAndAwe electricity]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he's introduced, Haru receives a message from Araya demanding that the former buy him food or he will hurt him. Depressed about school, as usual, Haru escapes into the bathroom during lunch and plays a squash game, in which he has the high score. All this shows that Haru's a victim of bullying with terribly low self-esteem, and an impressive gamer.
* FatalFlaw: His lack of self-esteem causes a variety of problems for him, often holding him back in battle and occasionally causing tension with his friends.
* FighterMageThief: Silver Crow is the Thief to Cyan Pile's Fighter and Lime Bell's Mage.
* {{Flight}}: His avatar's special ability in the Accelerated World, and apparently the first one to be able to do so.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
* FragileSpeedster: Silver Crow's general fighting style, until he grows wings, which turned him into a GlassCannon. Accelerated World's hits operate on real world's principles (adding speed to your punches increases power) and he is really fast, to the point of being able to break the sound barrier. The "fragile" part comes from how his defenses are quite weak for a metal type, and he generally survives by avoiding damage.
* {{GIFT}}: Notable by its absence - he's one of the few people who acts exactly the same in Brain Burst as he does in real life. WordOfGod says this honesty is the reason for his ChickMagnet status.
* GiverOfLameNames: After coming up with a technique that creates cutting energy around his forearm to extend his reach, he decides to call it... Laser Sword. This is immediately mocked.
* GlassCannon: After he grows wings.
* GodlikeGamer: Played with. While at first he seemed like your run-of-the-mill newb with CripplingOverspecialization that made him a FragileSpeedster, but then he's revealed to have natural talent and learns how to activate his wings (implied to be an Incarnate Skill which is very difficult to master), making him one of the few Burst Linkers who can fly and as a result one of the most dangerous Burst Linkers.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Silver Crow relies on punching his opponents rather than using blades.
* GrewASpine: As part of his CharacterDevelopment, Haruyuki starts to gain self-confidence and finds the courage to stand up for himself.
* GuiltComplex: He has very little self confidence, and tends to blame himself when bad things happen. His friends have to reassure him that it's not his fault.
* TheHero: Part of his character development is becoming of one these proper; both in helping others like Kuroyukihime and overcoming obstacles in his path.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Even as he's making a name for himself in Brain Burst, Haruyuki thinks nothing great about himself and he'd still shy away from all the praise.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: The main reason why he can't reciprocate Kuroyukihime's feelings is that he can't believe such a beautiful, popular girl like her would actually give him a chance.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Since he believes that a girl like Kuroyukihime is out of his league, he tends to unintentionally refuse her affection and make her feel insecure about their relationship.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Despite his feelings being blatantly reciprocated, Haruyuki still thinks a girl like Kuroyukihime is out of his league and she deserves someone better than him.
* InvisibleParents: His parents divorced when he was about 8, and he hasn't seen his father since. While his mother has sole custody of him, she spends most of her time at work, apart from a few briefly mentioned parts in which she hands him his money in the light novels. She has about 30 seconds worth of screen time in the entire anime.
* JumpedAtTheCall: He considered installing Brain Burst for about three seconds. Kuroyukihime had a speech all ready to convince him but it was unnecessary. Even she's surprised at how eager he is.
* LadyAndKnight: He's striving to be the knight of his legion master Kuroyukihime.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBszwa3Tzzw "Silver Wing"]] in the anime. While [[spoiler:Crow is using Gale Thruster]] it's replaced by [[AutobotsRockOut a remix]] titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnoTqrzp-6c "Iron Will"]].
* LethalJokeCharacter: Silver Crow. Above-average speed but terrible stats everywhere else, and its supposed {{Finishing Move}}s are just normal punches, kicks and headbutts. Then Haru figures out how to [[WingPull activate Crow's wings]], giving him SuperSpeed {{Flight}} that turns even regular punches into killing blows. ''[[NextTierPowerUp Then]]'' he gains access to a proper FinishingMove from another source, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill which can be used while flying]].
* LightEmUp:
** In his battle with Wolfram Cerberus it's revealed that half of the damage dealt by his "Headbutt" SpecialAttack is light-based, making it useful against enemies with strong physical defences.
** His Incarnate abilities like Laser Sword and Light Speed are based around the image of beams of light. In volume 9 he uses Incarnation [[MundaneUtility simply to illuminate his surroundings]] and flush [[CastingAShadow Black Vise]] out of hiding.
* LoserProtagonist: He starts out as this, being a short overweight boy with zero self-confidence who gets bullied at school by Araya and his gang, and has no friends. He gets much better through CharacterDevelopment.
* LovableNerd: He's short, fat, socially awkward, and frequently gets beaten up by Araya and his gang of bullies. Once he gains some self-esteem, however, he quickly reveals himself as a Determinator.
* MistakenForGay: He and Takumu share a rather HoYay moment in Episode 21 and the girls around them seem to be misinterpreting the situation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** After bluntly saying that he believes that Kuroyukihime is only hanging out with him because she hates herself, angering her to the point where she calls him an "idiot" rather than a "fool," slaps him and breaks down in tears, he realizes how [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristic of her]] this is.
** He also has this reaction after realizing that his boasting that Taku could never defeat him was a serious blow to Taku's pride as a Burst Linker.
* NaiveNewcomer: He does some dumb things due to his inexperience. He once leveled up his character without earning more points first, which since it made him lose a lot of his points it put him in danger of losing Brain Burst for good if he lost them all.
* NiceGuy: He's kind, selfless and supportive of his friends.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: He looks very different compared to the other character designs, having a very short, doughy, and round character design.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Downplayed. When Scarlet Rain attempts to infiltrate Nega Nebulus by pretending to be his second cousin and acting deceptively cute, it doesn't take him too long to check if she ''is'' really his second cousin.
* ObliviousToLove: He takes it to a new level by finding signs that Kuroyukihime does like him and refusing point blank to even consider it. This is justified because of his low self esteem.
* OrdinaryMiddleSchoolStudent: He's just a normal and unlucky middle school student until Kuroyukihime introduces him to the Accelerated World.
* ParentalIssues: Implied in the [=OVAs=], and hinted at more strongly in the eighth volume: [[spoiler:Haru believes his parents divorced because of him]].
* ParentalNeglect: It's indicated that his mother doesn't care much about him, and his father cares even less. That said, she does pay his allowance, not bother him about his grades and allows his friends to stay over, so Haru doesn't complain lest he risk the status quo.
* PersonalityPowers: Gained his flight ability from his desire to escape from bullies. After some introspection, he decides that his wings ultimately exist to let him fly ''to'' somewhere - the gift Brain Burst truly gave him was [[{{Determinator}} the will to reach out and keep moving forward]].
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: [[spoiler:He has his Flight ability stolen by Dusk Taker. Before he regained them, it allowed him to notice that the value of his Duel Avatar lies not in said ability, but in himself, gaining confidence (the lack of which was the main cause for him not being able to use Silver Crow to his full potential) in the process.]]
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Kuroyukihime and Takumu's blue.
* RunningGag: underplayed. Being "cracked in the real" (having your real life identity exposed to another Burst Linker) is considered one of the most catastrophic things that can happen to you, just short of losing Brain Burst. Haru has done this ''by sheer accident'' several times. This culminates at the school festival in vol 13; he introduces [[spoiler: Niko and Pard to Rin outside the gates, realizing [[OhCrap too late]] that they will all automatically assume that 'my friends from gaming' is code for 'Burst Linker'; which he then compounds by introducing them to his entire Legion. Granted, Pard is Current's Child, and Ash is Sky Raker's, but he's cracked the Prominence Leadership and the newest members of his own Legion to a member of Great Wall. Luckily, it all works out due to everyone being chill about it, and leading to a temporary alliance when Rin falls ill from the ISS kit. Utai even thanks Haru in a quiet moment; she's looking forward to having Niko as a friend, given that as a partial red type she's sure they'll get along, and she'd like to have a Burst Linker friend her own IRL age.]]
* SempaiKouhai: He constantly refers to Kuroyukihime this way, and abused by Noumi through TermsOfEndangerment.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy to Takumu's Manly Man.
* SingleTargetSexuality: despite his ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe mindset, he's utterly devoted to Kuroyukihime romantically. It's stated in more than one book that she "is the person Haruyuki loved and respected more than any other".
* SquareRaceRoundClass: Haru is skilled at {{First Person Shooter}}s, but Silver Crow is [[CloseRangeCombatant focused entirely on melee]] and controls more like a character out of a FightingGame. He comments that he's a little jealous of "Perfect Match" players whose avatars let them apply their existing skills, and used to wish he received a [[LongRangeFighter Red avatar]] instead.
* StockLightNovelHero: Haruyuki partly fits this trope. He was once an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, albeit a very unattractive one with a NonStandardCharacterDesign, who finds his life changed forever when he gets introduced to Brain Burst, an augmented reality game. As a Burst Linker, Haruyuki gains PoweredArmor and fights other Burst Linkers. While he's fairly pathetic at first, he soon discovers he's one of the only Burst Linkers to have a Duel Avatar with ''wings'', giving him the ability to fly and a huge advantage over everyone else. As the series progresses, he also acquires an UnwantedHarem of girls fawning for his attention.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:In the latter part of Dusk Taker arc, Noumi's brutal beatdown on Cyan Pile makes Haru so supremely pissed that it temporarily awakens the piece of [[TheCorruption Chrome Disaster]] hiding on Silver Crow's back. The result is a crimson BattleAura, similarly-colored incarnation attacks and a major case of '''''[[UnstoppableRage flipping the hell out]]'''''. As lucky as Noumi is, however, the duel timed out before anyone could gain the upper hand.]]
** [[spoiler:This later becomes a standard part of his arsenal.]]
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Tiny Guy to Kuroyukihime's Huge Girl. He barely reaches to her waist.
* TinySchoolboy: Though only in Junior High, Haruyuki stands at barely half the height of many of the other characters even at the age of 14. This, combined with his obvious weight problem, was what resulted in him being such a popular target for local bullies. This is an anime-only element as Haruyuki is of average height in the light novel.
* UglyGuyHotWife: While they aren't married, he has this with Kuroyukihime. Haruyuki is a fat midget and just not attractive in the conventional sense, while Kuroyukihime is a beautiful AloofDarkHairedGirl who somehow loves him regardless of his looks. Haruyuki himself has a very hard time believing his luck.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: In the volume 10 side story "Versus", Haruyuki fights [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Kirito]]. Who won? [[spoiler: Neither. Did you actually expect anything less?]]
* WingedHumanoid: His avatar Silver Crow can grow wings making him this.
* WingPull: Silver Crow has a set of retractable fins (replaced by sheets of HighTechHexagons in the anime) which slow his fall, and can be used to fly by expending his special move gauge. In volume 8 he develops the second-order Incarnate technique "Light Speed" which transforms them into bird wings made of PureEnergy, allowing him to fly even when his meter is empty.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
** Haruyuki has ''zero'' self-confidence and he thinks he can only be pitiful loser, at least until Kuroyukihime tells him of the great potential she sees in him and how she believes he will become the greatest Burst Linker of all. Haruyuki then decides that even if he still can't believe in himself, he can believe in Kuroyukihime's faith in him.
** Chiyu also tells Haru this when he meets with her at her apartment, telling him of all the nice things he did for her and he doesn't have to feel so bad about himself.
* YouAreNotAlone: He tells Kuroyukihime that she's not alone after learning [[spoiler:how her sister betrayed her and manipulated her into killing Red Rider]], promising to stand with her as she reunites Nega Nebulus, builds it even larger, and finally confronts [[spoiler:her sister]].

!!Chiyuri "Chiyu" Kurashima/Lime Bell
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[[caption-width-right:350:Childhood friend No.1]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiToyosaki (Japanese), Creator/StephanieSheh (credited as Michelle T. Hseih) (English)

Haruyuki's upbeat childhood friend who attends the same school as him. Although she is going out with fellow childhood friend Takumu, she cares a lot about Haru's wellbeing and is the first to show concern over his problems with bullies.

She is the only one without an initial avatar in the Accelerated World until she demands the program for herself and becomes Lime Bell.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her avatar in the OVA.
* AffectionateNickname: Haruyuki and Takumu call her Chiyu.
* AmicableExes: With Takumu. Even though they have broken up, they remain good friends and hold no ill feelings toward each other.
* AnimalMotifs: Wears a cat-face hair ornament, and her in-school avatar is her in a catsuit.
* ArmCannon: As Lime Bell and weaponizes Cyan Pile in the OVA.
* BadassAdorable: As Lime Bell who is cute and a competent fighter.
* BadassCape: As Lime Bell.
* CatGirl: Her net avatar has cat ears, tail and mannerisms.
* CatSmile: Does this on occasion with her net avatar.
* TheChick: She cares a lot about her friends, tries to get everyone in the team to get along and has healing powers.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Subverted. She's introduced as the girlfriend of her childhood friend Takumu, but she seems to be dating him just to maintain his friendship. They break up after the first arc, but remain friends.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Haruyuki and Takumu, who she has known for most of her life.
* CuteBruiser: Her avatar Lime Bell can whop other players pretty hard with her bell.
* CuteLittleFangs: She has little fangs to go with her CatGirl theme.
* EncounterBait: Her "Acoustic Summon" ability, developed in volume 12, lets her use the sound of her bell to attract Enemies.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler:Joins up with Dusk Taker, an Avatar who can steal others' abilities, just so she could find a chance to restore Haruyuki's wings after they were stolen. Once she has sufficiently leveled up, discovered [[TimeMaster the true nature of her powers]], and secretly tipped Kuroyukihime of the showdown with Noumi, she drops the act and restores Haruyuki's wings.]]
* FighterMageThief: Lime Bell is the Mage to Cyan Pile's Fighter and Silver Crow's Thief.
* FireForgedFriends: She and Kuroyukihime warm up to each other around the time [[spoiler:Chiyu contacts Kuroyukihime to inform her about Haru's stolen wings, enabling her to come to the rescue]].
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.
* GenkiGirl: She's a very cheerful and energetic, at least when her friends are happy, but even then she still tries to be to cheer them up.
* GirlNextDoor: She's Haru's upbeat childhood friend who lives in the same apartment building as him. Despite Haru trying to keep his distance from her due to getting bullied by Araya, Chiyu did her best to remain friends with him and never stopped trying to help him.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Haru notes that she seems a bit more girly than usual after dating Taku, as shown by her [[SweaterGirl sweater]] and skirt.
* GoodParents: Her parents care for her a great deal, and it's revealed that her father put the Neurolinker on her since her birth so that he, who had lost his voice as a result of hypopharyngeal cancer, could communicate with his daughter.
* GrowingUpSucks: She laments that her friends are drifting apart, and wants to ensure that they stay the way they are forever. Haru sadly tells her that they can't be kids forever.
* HairDecorations: Has her little cat pin on one side and hair clips on the other.
* TheHeart: She always tries her best in order to maintain her friends together.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Tiny Girl to Cyan Pile's Huge Guy in the Accelerated World.
%%* LeotardOfPower: Her avatar in the OVA.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Kuroyukihime's dark.
* LittleBitBeastly: Her net avatar looks like her with cat ears and a tail.
%%* MagicalGirl: What her Duel Avatar Lime Bell looks like.
* MeaningfulName: May or may not be intended, but her nickname "Chiyu" written in kanji means "healing" or "cure".
* TheMedic: The third Avatar with healing abilities. [[spoiler:Actually what she does is turn back a target Avatar's personal time to before they were injured.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: She thinks of the Accelerated World as a simple game at first, and wants to join so she can do it with Haru and Taku.
* NiceGirl: A kind girl who cares a great deal for her friends.
%%* NiceHat: In her Duel Avatar.
* OfficialCouple: With Takumu until the end of the first arc. The novels have Takumu saying, at the start of the second arc, that they've broken up. The anime omits this line, but keeps Haruyuki asking Takumu during third arc whether he wants to be Chiyu's boyfriend again. As a result, when and why they broke up isn't as clear in the anime.
* PersonalityPowers: [[spoiler:Was at her happiest in her childhood, when her father was still alive and she and her friends were schoolmates with no barriers between them. As a result she gains time-reversal powers from a bell that sounds just like the one at her old school.]]
%%* PluckyGirl
* RedBaron: [[spoiler: Known by the title Time Witch.]]
* RedHerring: In the first arc, Chiyuri is suspected of being Cyan Pile, the Burst Linker who was targeting Kuroyukihime to get her points. Chiyuri turns out to be innocent and Cyan Pile is Takumu, who installed a virus in her neuro-link.
* TheResenter: She admits to be jealous and resentful of how Kuroyukihime got close to Haruyuki and solved his problems so quickly, since Chiyuri had been trying for a long time to help Haruyuki with his problems but never accomplished it. However, Chiyu recognizes Kuroyukihime is the one who can truly help Haruyuki and gives them her blessing.
* ShipperOnDeck: She was initially distrustful of Kuroyukihime because she feared she was trying to use Haruyuki for her own gain and wanted her to stay away from Haru. After she understands Kuroyukihime is the only one who can help Haru with his problems, Chiyu decides to support their relationship and encourages Haru to become her boyfriend, if only so that their relationship is on equal terms.
* SpottingTheThread: She finds it strange that Kuroyukihime is fairly knowledgeable about the White Legion's possible headquarters, even though they're so far away from Nega Nebulus. [[spoiler:Haruyuki notes that Chiyu's ''this'' close to finding out that Kuroyukihime's older sister is the White King, something Kuroyukihime has only told Haru]].
* StoneWall: Unlike most Duel Avatars, Lime Bell can smash through walls without taking ScratchDamage, which is quite a feat, considering most early healers are {{Squishy Wizard}}s.[[note]]It was only until fairly recently that gamers entertained the idea of StoneWall healers.[[/note]] Thus, she can charge up her killer move gauge without even fighting. The effectiveness of her [[spoiler: time reversal]] abilities plus her incredible defense (though not yet on [[NighInvulnerable Green Grandee's level]]) makes her the ideal healer. [[spoiler: But that still remains to be seen until White Cosmos appears.]]
* SweaterGirl: She wears a white sweater with a pink skirt when Haru visits her at her apartment in Volume 1, which Haru notes is more girly than usual for her.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: She does this in behalf of Takumu's suggestion to show her how the Burst Link works.
* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:She's able to turn back a target Avatar's personal time.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: All she really wanted was to stay friends with Haruyuki and Takumu, and is extremely depressed about seeing the three of them drifting apart. [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether They eventually get better.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Along with her school uniform in the manga. Also, her avatar in the OVA.

!! Takumu "Taku" Mayuzumi/Cyan Pile
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[[caption-width-right:350:Childhood friend No.2]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English)

Another childhood friend of Haruyuki and Chiyuri, the latter whom is his current girlfriend. He used to attend a prestigious school before transferring to be with his two childhood friends. Often takes part in kendo tournaments.

He is soon revealed to be Cyan Pile, a Burst Linker who was targeting Kuroyukihime to get her points. After being defeated by Haruyuki, Takumu decides to change his ways and joins Nega Nebulus to atone for his sins.
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* AcademicAthlete: He's the top student of his class and the kendo team champion. However, he owes his success to using the Brain Burst to cheat.
* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor case, but in the anime, after Haru defeats him, and calls him out on [[VillainsWantMercy asking Haru to let him win so that he won't be kicked off Brain Burst]], while [[{{Hypocrite}} he was planning on doing the same thing to Kuroyukihime]], Taku admits Haru has a point.
* AffectionateNickname: Haruyuki and Chiyuri call him Taku.
* AmicableExes: With Chiyuri. They break up after the first arc, but there are no hurt feelings between them and manage to remain good friends.
* ArcVillain: For the first few episodes, he's the one who's trying to cash in on the bounty for Kuroyukihime.
* TheAtoner: After being defeated by Silver Crow, he shows evident aspects of this, trying to make up for his past behavior.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Level 3 special attack "[[ThisIsADrill Spiral]] [[GroundPunch Gravity]] [[PileBunker Driver]]" is devastatingly powerful but takes a long time to execute, [[GroundPunch can only be aimed straight down]], and sometimes [[LeftStuckAfterAttack leaves his weapon stuck in the ground]]. Taku regrets blindly following his parent's advice to take so many special attacks, but takes responsibility for his own decisions.
* BashBrothers: Post-HeelFaceTurn, with Haruyuki.
* BrokenAce: He is friendly, smart, athletic... pretty much everything Haru wishes he was. But as it turns out, he was bullied by his seniors in his earlier days. This ultimately drove him to do anything to one day get back at them and use Brain Burst to cheat his way through the exams and the kendo tournaments. [[spoiler:It gets even worse when he gets an ISS kit]].
* ButtMonkey: In the ''Accel Assault'' OVA. The main story has a milder variation, in that Cyan Pile tends to [[TheWorfEffect die or get his limbs cut off to show how strong his opponent is]].
* CantCatchUp: Volumes 7 and 8 delve into Taku's feelings of inferiority after seeing how far his teammates have grown, exacerbated when [[spoiler:he gets infected by an ISS kit and it starts feeding on his negative emotions]].
* ChestBlaster: Cyan Pile's Splash Stinger [[SpikeShooter shoots needles]] from panels in his chest.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He has a crush on Chiyuri and they're dating until the end of the first arc.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Haruyuki and Chiyuri.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Pre-HeelFaceTurn. There's something of a variation on his trope, since he claims that getting together with Chiyu is in her best interests, so that she doesn't spend the rest of her life taking care of Haru.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Haru defeats him in their duel, Haru convinces him to join Nega Nebulus so he can start over and rebuild his friendships with both him and Chiyuri from the ground up.
* DrivenToSuicide: He mentions that he was seriously considering killing himself while he was being bullied.
* EasilyForgiven: Believes this trope has been put on him. He betrayed his friends, laid a brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Haruyuki, and used a cheating method to stalk Kuroyukihime for her points. Despite this, both Haru and Kuroyukihime forgive him almost instantly after he apologizes (although Haruyuki doubts whether sparing him is the right decision), and Chiyuri only insists on a ridiculous amount of ice cream to forgive him. It actually seems to boggle him at first, and arguably is part of what makes him so selflessly defend these people who accepted him at his worst.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He hates the nickname "Professor."
* FairytaleMotifs: His standard avatar bears more than a slight resemblance to [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the Tin Woodsman]].
* FatalFlaw: His insecurity and occasional self-destructive tendencies when trying to make up for something often cause him to make bad decisions, such as planning on giving up all his points to Haru and [[spoiler:getting an ISS kit]].
* FighterMageThief: Cyan Pile is the Fighter to Lime Bell's Mage and Silver Crow's Thief.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Inverted. Prior to his HeelFaceTurn, Takumu uses the enhanced abilities granted by Brain Burst to correct his vision. Post-HeelFaceTurn, he begins wearing his glasses again, showing that he's no longer relying on artificial means to improve himself.
%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
* GreenEyedMonster: Initially, he resents and is jealous of Haruyuki for getting Chiyuri's attention by making her constantly worry about him, and goes so far as to put a backdoor program on Chiyuri's Neurolinker to keep tabs on her. [[TookALevelInKindness He gets better.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: When he leaves his legion to join Kuroyukihime's.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Huge Guy to Lime Bell's Tiny Girl in the Accelerated World.
* {{Hypocrite}}: On the verge of defeat against Haru, he begs Haru not to kill him, saying that if he loses against a Level 1 at Level 4, he'll lose all his points... which is what he was planning on doing to Kuroyukihime. In the anime, after Haru calls him out on this, [[HypocrisyNod Taku admits that he has a point]].
* ILetYouWin: In the extra chapter of the manga, Chiyuri, with Kuroyukihime as her partner, has to win a doubles match of tennis against Taku and Haru for Taku to install Brain Burst on her. After the girls win the first set, Kuroyukihime notices that the guys are holding back, and, suspecting that this trope is the reason Taku isn't playing at his best, calls him out on it, saying that Chiyu wants to face him at his best.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He believed he had to be the best at everything so he wouldn't get bullied and Chiyuri would stay interested in him. This lead to him using Brain Burst to get good grades and become the kendo team star. He later starts to grow out of it as part of his CharacterDevelopment.
* InnocentInnuendo: A minor RunningGag, particularly in the anime. He refers to Kuroyukihime as "Master", and some of his conversations with Haru have been [[HoYay sufficiently vague]] that eavesdroppers mistook one for a love confession. Then there's the ''Accel Assault'' OVA where [[MakesSenseInContext he gasps as Chiyu shoves her fist inside him]]. His avatar even attacks by impaling enemies on an extending spike.
-->'''Taku in the OVA:''' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything *pant* *pant* "Chiyu, stop! If you keep making me shoot like this I'll run out of bullets..."]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He notes that he and Chiyuri probably can't go back to being boyfriend and girlfriend, but he'll do his best to make her happy.
* JackOfAllTrades: Spent some of his level-up bonuses on, among other things, gaining new attack forms; while this makes Pile more flexible, [[MasterOfNone he's not as powerful]] as avatars who focus entirely on one ability like his teammates.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Haru realizes that as cruel as Taku's claims about Haru being dependent on Chiyu are, he can't completely deny them.
* KirkSummation: Gives one to Noumi [[ShutUpHannibal in response to]] Noumi's HannibalLecture. Taku suggests that Noumi's avatar's ability to steal powers repesents the void in his heart. Taku isn't completely wrong, given that the powers are based on one's traumas, but Noumi then takes the opportunity to describe how he got it.
* TheLancer: Post-HeelFaceTurn he helps Haruyuki level up thanks to his greater experience and skills. Also a literal lancer since his weapon is a pile driver, which acts much like a spear.
* LightningBruiser: Cyan Pile can actually keep up with Silver Crow despite its large frame. Turned UpToEleven once he acquires [[CoolSword Cyan Blade]].
* MasterOfNone: In volume 7 Taku reveals that he sees his avatar as this, claiming that its nature as a melee-focused blue avatar was "distorted" by his mixed feelings of friendship and jealousy towards Haru and Chiyu. Haru disagrees, seeing Pile's JackOfAllTrades nature as a virtue that's helped out the Legion whenever they were facing unknown enemies.
* MeaningfulName: The "pile" refers to the piledriver that serves as his avatar's weapon.
* MistakenForGay: He and Haruyuki share a rather HoYay moment in Episode 21 and the girls around them seem to be misinterpreting the situation.
* MultiMeleeMaster
** CoolSword: Cyan Blade, thanks to his [[TrainingFromHell Incarnate System training]] with [[MoreDakka Scarlet Rain]].
** PileBunker: His main weapon. Much to Haruyuki's surprise during his battle against Cyan Pile, his pile bunker can be used (albeit less efficiently) in mid/long-range combat, being particularly useful in tight spaces such as corridors.
* MutualEnvy: It turns out that while he [[BrokenAce outwardly seems to be everything Haru isn't- popular, good at school and athletic]]- he's actually jealous of Haru's inner strength.
* NiceGuy: Turns into this thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
* NotSoDifferent: With Noumi and Haru.
** In the Dusk Taker arc, he soon realizes that Noumi is relying on Brain Burst for an advantage in school and kendo, noticing Noumi's suspiciously perfect scores on one of his tests. It's also revealed that he, like Haruyuki, was bullied a great deal.
** Later on, it becomes clear that he and Haru are somewhat similar, having been victims of bullying in the past, and also prone to self-loathing.
* OfficialCouple: With Chiyuri until the end of the first arc. The novels have Takumu saying, at the start of the second arc, that they've broken up. The anime omits this line, but keeps Haruyuki asking Takumu during third arc whether he wants to be Chiyu's boyfriend again. As a result, when and why they broke up isn't as clear in the anime.
%%* OneHeadTaller: Than Chiyuri.
* PersonalityPowers: Cyan Pile was born from Taku being bullied in kendo practice by older students practicing thrusts on his neck. Later he claims that reason his melee avatar has reach-extending attacks is because of his mixed feelings of wanting to bring his friends closer and push them away.
* TheProfessor: Niko's nickname for him. [[InSeriesNickname Eventually sticks and is occasionally used by everybody else around him too]]. He doesn't like it, though.
%%* RedOniBlueOni: The blue (shared with Kuroyukihime) to Haruyuki's red.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to Haruyuki's Sensitive Guy.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot about Brain Burst.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He's pretty knowledgable, and deliberately wears glasses to looks this way. Yukino nicknamed him "The Professor" because of this.
* StalkerWithACrush: He installed a virus in Chiyuri's neurolink so he can spy on her at any time. After his HeelFaceTurn, he realizes how wrong this was and uninstalls the virus.
* SuicideByCop: Thankfully, only in the game, but [[spoiler:after realizing how much the ISS kit has corrupted him, Taku asks Haru to destroy him, and plans on going on a suicidal attack against the Acceleration Research Society after their duel concludes]]
* TalkingWeapon: In the OVA, he turns into an ArmCannon for Chiyuri.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: In volume 7, [[spoiler:after Taku is forced to equip an [[TheCorruption ISS Kit]] out of self-defence, he knows exactly how it works and can ''feel'' it slowly digging its tendrils into his mind. This mix of self-awareness and despair actually makes his IS Mode ''stronger'' than those of linkers who treat the Kit as a mere powerup, and instead of just granting him the default "Dark Shot" and "Dark Blow" attacks, it also lets him use darkness-empowered versions of Cyan Pile's usual abilities.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Though at the cost of exposing [[BrokenAce his issues]], Takumu learns the error of his ways and becomes a much better person and a good true friend to Haru and Chiyu.
* TraumaButton: People using piercing attacks in kendo brings the traumatic memories of his being bullied back. According to him, it's bad enough that when he gets into high school and piercing attacks are allowed in kendo matches, he'll no longer be able to compete.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without spoiling the fact that he, not Chiyu, is Cyan Pile (the main twist of the first volume), the less pleasant aspects of his personality that his friends don't know about, or that he eventually becomes a better person
* TheWorfEffect: Having the biggest and strongest-looking avatar on your team is tough. [[spoiler:It eventually takes its toll on him, and he begins questioning his own worth]].

!!Metatron
See the Enemies section.

!Executives: The Elements

!!Fuuko Kurasaki/Sky Raker
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaEndo (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (credited as Johanna Luis) (EN)

A "retired" Burst Linker and Nega Nebulus's former Submaster. She is Ash Roller's "parent", the only person in Accel World he shows respect towards. She semi-returns to Nega Nebulus at the end of volume 4 and fully returns to active duty at the end of volume 5.

Her avatar is Level 8, and she is pretty competent in a fight, although she prefers to play defensively.

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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the light novel, Fuuko is illustrated with brown eyes while the anime illustrates her with blue eyes.
* AnArmAndALeg: Got her avatar legs cut off by [[spoiler:a reluctant Black Lotus]], in hopes it will allow her Enhanced Armament to make real flight possible.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She has a great deal of LesYay with [[spoiler:Kuroyukihime]], but also gives Haru a peck in the Accelerated World after [[spoiler:she regains her legs and experiences flight with his help]]. Haru's a distant fourth based on Fuko's rating system of how much she wants to make that person her Child- he gets a 100, Utai gets a 200, Rin(her actual Child) gets an 1,000, and Kuroyukihime gets a whopping '''100,000'''.
* ArtificialLimbs: In real life, she has artificial legs, the result of a hereditary condition that normally would have been cause for an abortion- as such, Fuko wondered why her parents gave birth to her. [[spoiler:It is also what caused her Duel Avatar to manifest its jetpack: Gale Thruster.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Haruyuki's surprised to hear that someone as apparently kind as she is [[KickTheSonOfABitch threw a PKer into a Legend-class enemy's territory]].
* BlowYouAway: Among the Elements, she is associated with the element of Wind.
* CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: [[PersonalityPowers The origin of her avatar]], reflected in both its abilities and colour.
* FriendlyRival: With Blood Leopard.
* TheGadfly: Haru notes that she's one of the few people who can put [[spoiler:Kuroyukihime]] on the defensive.
* HandicappedBadass: Is a competent fighter in Brain Burst despite losing the use of her avatar's legs.
* HimeCut: Her duel avatar has a hair style like this with its straight bangs and long length in the back. Interestingly enough, while she is Japanese, her avatar is styled more like an English lady.
* JetPack: Her Enhanced Armament, Gale Thruster.
* LadyOfWar: Soft-spoken and elegant, but one of the most feared fighters in the Accelerated World.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to [[spoiler: Kuroyukihime]]'s dark.
* MercurysWings: When she drops the dress and sunhat, her avatar includes a tiara that gives her wings on the sides of her head. Her legs also had small winglike structures emerging from the calves.
* NiceGirl: Very kind and polite to everyone, even her opponents.
* NiceHat: Her avatar Sky Raker wears a sun hat.
* NotDisabledInVR: Played with. She is legless in real life, but able to live normally with prosthetics. Her avatar on the other hand looks a lot like a person in a wheelchair [[spoiler:and has lost its legs ever since Kuroyukihime severed them on Raker's request]]. However, her abilities are not any worse than the other avatars, which makes it a straight example after all.
* NotQuiteFlight: Sky Raker is the Duel Avatar closest to ever fly, until Silver Crow gains actual flying ability. The fifth novel reveals the reason for this. Rather than flight Sky Raker's abilities are optimised for [[spoiler: space-based combat and maneuvering. She just never had a chance to realise this until the sky elevator was added to The Accelerated World]]
* PersonalityPowers: Born with no lower legs due to a genetic condition, she grew up wondering why her parents had even chosen to have kids. The first time she felt at peace was [[spoiler:after reading a sci-fi book about humans who adjusted to life in zero gravity by using genetic engineering to replace their legs with a second pair of arms. This lead her to dream for a while of flying through space herself, where her disability would be meaningless, though by the time she installed Brain Burst she was no longer aware of it]].
* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler: Her effectiveness in territorial battles can be equated to that of a weapon of mass destruction.]]
%%* ProperLady
* RapunzelHair: Her hair goes past her waist.
* RedBaron: Earned the nickname of "[[PersonOfMassDestruction ICBM]]" for her ability to SpeedBlitz entire teams by jumping behind enemy lines (often with another strong fighter in tow). For her failed attempts at achieving true flight, she also came to be known as "[[NotQuiteFlight Icarus]]".
* SheFu: Before losing her legs, her fighting style included a lot of acrobatics and precise palm and heel strikes, plus using [[NotQuiteFlight Gale Thruster]] to ram enemies.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: She teaches Haruyuki by throwing him off from the top of the Old Tokyo Tower and letting him figure out how to use the Incarnate System to climb his way up.
* SixthRanger: After [[spoiler:she rejoins Nega Nebulus]].
* TornadoMove: Her Incarnate technique "Swirl Sway" creates a sparkling [[WindIsGreen green tornado]].
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her avatar's armour varies between deep blue and grey depending on the light, and it's also the most obviously feminine of any in the Legion.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:With Kuroyukihime/Black Lotus, since they both regret Black Lotus cutting off Sky Raker's limbs to enable her to fly. They start speaking again at the end of Volume 4, but don't fully reconcile until Volume 5.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: She always wears thigh-high stockings to protect her prosthetics. Her duel avatar also evokes this image when its legs are intact.

!!Utai Shinomiya/Ardor Maiden
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiHara (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English)

A Level 7 Burst Linker, fourth-grade schoolgirl, fire-elemental fighter, and another ex-member of the Elements. Near the end of volume 6 she rejoins Nega Nebulus.
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* AffectionateNickname: She's known as "Uiui" by Kuroyukihime and "Denden" by Graphite Edge.
* ArrowsOnFire: Her "Flame Torrent" and "Flame Vortex" attacks.
* AwesomeYetImpractical: Her Incarnate skill allows for wide-range spells. The drawback is that it has a long charging time.
%%* BadassAdorable
%%* CombatHandFan
* CuteMute: She's a very cute little girl and she can only communicate through her Neurolinker due to a trauma that made her lose her ability to speak.
* CycleOfHurting: Like Current and Edge, she's unable to enter the Unlimited Neutral Field because her avatar's respawn point is stuck inside the InstantDeathRadius of one of the strongest bosses in the game, which resulted in her repeatedly dying and respawning until her Neurolinker was physically disconnected. Attempting to return would place her back in this situation until she received a permanent Game Over. She is eventually rescued over the course of volumes 6 to 8.
* DumbStruck: She lost her ability to talk due to the trauma of witnessing [[spoiler:her brother's death]], which also caused the pink parts of her avatar to turn red.
* FastballSpecial: One of Nega Nebulus's regular strategies was to have Sky Raker use her NotQuiteFlight to fling Maiden behind enemy lines, allowing her to rain DeathFromAbove. They did this often enough for Lotus to crack jokes about Maiden being an EquippableAlly.
* {{Fireballs}}: Her "Flame Vortex" is described as not an [[ArrowsOnFire arrow]] but a helical lance of fire, which explodes into [[SphereOfDestruction a ten-meter sphere of flames]] that sucks in enemies.
* HealItWithFire: Can use the Incarnate System to generate flames with powerful purifying effects, which are first introduced as a possible way of separating the [[ClingyCostume Armor of Catastrophe]] from its host.
* HimeCut: Ardor Maiden has this hairstyle to go with her {{Miko}} theme.
* InSeriesNickname: "Ui" in real life, and "Mei" as Ardor Maiden.
* InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy: "Superluminal Stroke", her sole non-flame-based special attack, has tremendous speed, power and [[AntiArmor armour penetration]] but also lacks SplashDamage and doesn't give any aiming assistance.
* {{Keigo}}: In real life she communicates through very politely typed messages, though as Ardor Maiden her speech is a little more casual.
* LavaPit: Her ultimate Incarnate technique "Purgatory Blaze" creates one of these to trap enemies and inflict ludicrous damage over time, at the cost of [[AwesomeButImpractical taking two full minutes to charge]]. It's something she developed for use against [[MightyGlacier slow and sturdy]] targets, specifically the raid boss [[TheFourGods Genbu]]. Since wide-area destructive Incarnates are [[PowerBornOfMadness a manifestation]] of ''[[ThePowerOfHate indiscriminate hatred]]'', Mei's friends are alarmed to learn that she's been ''practicing'' such feelings and beg her not to use it too often for the sake of her own mind.
%%* LittleMissBadass
* LockedIntoStrangeness: In a system where avatars are normally [[ColorCharacter themed around a specific colour]], Maiden's stark red-white contrast [[NonStandardCharacterDesign is highly unusual]]. In fact the lower half of her avatar used to be pink, until [[spoiler:witnessing the death of her brother in real life]] caused it to turn deep red.
* LogicalWeakness: The ArrowsOnFire aspect of her attacks does not function in the Space stage where there's no air.
* MagicDance: Some of her Incarnate techniques are performed through a ritual dance, during which her bow transforms into a hand fan and a Noh-style mask slides over her avatar's face.
* {{Miko}}: Her Duel Avatar greatly resembles a shrine maiden.
* NotDisabledInVR: Is mute and cannot even perform "neurospeak" in standard VR (since it involves miming the action of speaking), relying on a virtual keyboard instead. Due to the deeper nature of Brain Burst's mental connection, however, as Ardor Maiden she can talk normally.
* PlayingWithFire: Among the Elements, she is associated with the element of Fire, making use of a fire attribute bow and of Incarnate attacks that create both destructive and purifying flames.
* RainOfArrows: Her attack [[ArrowsOnFire "Flame Torrent"]] can multiply in midair to strike in this way.
* RapidFireTyping: In real life (where she's incapable of speech) she's noted for her ability to type long, complicated messages very quickly and without typos.
* RedBaron: "Testarossa" and "Shrine Maiden of the Conflagration".
* SacredBowAndArrows: Her Enhanced Armament "Flame Caller", as part of her {{miko}} theme. However, when she's using her most "sacred" abilities it turns into a fan.
* TheSpeechless: As a result of a traumatic incident involving [[spoiler:her brother's death]], she can only speak the "Burst Link" command, and uses her Neurolinker to communicate.
%%* SquishyWizard
* TragicDream: It's indicated that she wanted to be a Noh performer when she was young, but couldn't because she was a girl, and was not allowed to perform after a certain age, an experience that gave form to her duel avatar.
* WhamLine:
** She mentions a Burst Linker that took out Supernova Remnant, then identifies him as [[spoiler:Cyan Pile]].
** While talking about her older brother being her parent, she suddenly mention that he isn't just gone from the accelerated world, but [[spoiler:he's also dead]].

!!Akira Himi/Aqua Current
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's not yet time for us to meet.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaUeda (Japanese), Trinity Lee (English)

A mysterious Burst Linker that works as bodyguard for players no higher than Level 2. [[spoiler: later revealed in the books to be one of the Four Elements of the old Nega Nebulus. She formally rejoins the Legion in book 14, after her Duel Avatar is rescued from the God-Level Monster Seiryu.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: While Akira herself is described as merely somewhat boyish, neither Aqua Current nor her standard net avatar have any distinct gender characteristics. As Current she also [[SecretIdentityVocalShift alters her voice slightly when around people she doesn't know]], which tends to confuse those who meet her in real life. The fact that the name "Akira" [[GenderBlenderName can be used for either gender]] doesn't help matters.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Saving Silver Crow from Argon Array.]]
* ChainmailBikini: The shards of ice that form around her body in [[DualWielding "Keen"]] form resemble one of these, though they're clearly not intended to be protective ([[MultiformBalance she has other forms for that]]).
* CycleOfHurting: Like Maiden and Edge, she's unable to enter the Unlimited Neutral Field because her avatar's respawn point is stuck inside the InstantDeathRadius of one of the strongest bosses in the game, which resulted in her repeatedly dying and respawning until her Neurolinker was physically disconnected. Attempting to return would place her back in this situation until she received a permanent Game Over.
* DePower: [[spoiler:The reason why Aqua Current is level 1 - she went up against Seiryu and lost her levels. At the end of Volume 13, though, she levels herself back up to Level 4]]
* ElementalArmor: Her avatar isn't actually made of water, but transparent crystal that becomes almost invisible as long as the layer of water around it is intact.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Sinon]], with both being [[ReiAyanamiExpy Rei Ayanami Expies]] who wear glasses in their civilian identities. Both also have ProfessionalKiller titles, with Aqua being a Bodyguard and Sinon being a Sniper.
* FieldPowerEffect: Her avatar's "Aquamatic" trait (from ''aqua'' and ''chromatic'') lets her enter a SuperMode with different properties depending on the stage she's fighting in. She eventually develops an Incarnate technique which lets her enter any of these forms regardless of location (see MultiformBalance below).
* FunnyAnimal: Her net avatar is an otter wearing glasses and a tie.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Does this to Haru saying it's too early for them to become friends. It is only possible for her to do it because of Incarnate System. Akira also tries to do this to Blood Leopard, but fails, and later comes to regret trying.]]
* MakingASplash: Amoungst the Elements, she is associated with the element of Water.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:Her last name "Himi" is read in Kanji as "looking at ice".]]
* MegaTwintails: As Aqua Current. Her first appearance in the novels depicts them as somewhat thinner.
* MultiformBalance: Her "Phase Trans" Incarnate technique lets her alter the phase of the water around her body, shifting into any of her possible [[FieldPowerEffect Aquamatic]] forms. These are known to include "Keen" (a [[CloseRangeCombatant melee form]] with [[DualWielding dual katars]] and light armour formed from ice), "Adamant" (another ice-based form with [[StoneWall heavy armour]]) and a steam-based form [[LongRangeFighter specialising in ranged attacks]].
* TheNicknamer: She calls Haru by his abbreviated first name, and also calls her Child and real life Cousin Mihaya, "Myah".
* TheSpymaster: [[spoiler: in the old Nega Nebulus, Current was in charge of intelligence gathering. Once she rejoins-the Legion, she reveals that she stays in touch with all her former bodyguard assignments, and they pass on all the gossip they've heard. Which is why Current has a clearer picture of the ISS crisis, and thus the Accelerated Research Society, than pretty much anyone else.]]
* PutOnABus: Despite being featured in the opening of the anime she appears in one episode and vanishes after wiping Haru's memories of their meeting. Only reappears briefly in the cafe in the last episode after all is said and done. TheBusCameBack in the novels that haven't been adapted.
* TheQuietOne: She doesn't talk very much.
* RedBaron: "The One" (a reference to her being an eternal Level 1) and "The Bodyguard".
* ReiAyanamiExpy: Has the bobbed hair, the [[SupernaturalGoldEyes unnatural eye color]] and the highly stoic and mysterious personality required for the trope. She only lacks the light hair color.
%%* ScaryShinyGlasses
* SciFiBobHaircut: Fitting the futuristic setting.
* ScissorsCutsRock: Being made of pure water (which has no charged particles to conduct electricity), Aqua Current is [[NoSell invulnerable to electricity]] despite ElementalRockPaperScissors stating otherwise.
* TheStoic: She's very straight-faced, and doesn't express emotions.
* StoicSpectacles: In real life she wears glasses, which emphasizes her stoicness.
* SuggestiveCollision: How she and Haru meet face to face when [[CrashIntoHello he crashes into her]] [[AccidentalPervert and accidentally grabs her breasts.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has yellow eyes in real life, which makes her look even more mysterious.

!Former Members

!!Graphite Edge
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[[caption-width-right:350:Anomaly]]

A Level 8 Burst Linker with control over earth, as well as the fourth ex-Element. His appearance and fighting style bear a heavy resemblance to Kirito, protagonist of the author's previous work ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: {{Downplayed|Trope}} - he's one of the first generation of Burst Linkers, and sometimes talks about Brain Burst using terms from [=pre-VR=] games, like referring to [[{{Cyberspace}} diving]] as "logging in".
* BadassLongcoat: His avatar's armor flares out at the waist to resemble one.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Once possessed enough Burst Points to reach level 9, but refused to use them (both out of respect for the then-level-8 Black Lotus, and fear of the rumored PermaDeath mechanic). By the present day he no longer has this potential [[spoiler:due to transferring all his surplus points to Green Grandee as payment for sheltering the remnants of the original Nega Nebulus]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: While his predecessor Kirito goofed around once in a blue moon, Graphite Edge does it ''constantly'', to the point where his teammates seem to consider him insane. Despite that, he's still [[MasterSwordsman incredibly skilled]].
-->'''Ardor Maiden:''' "If you are surprised and panicked each and every time Graph does something, there'll be no end to it. The trick is to simply think of ''[[HeyYou him]]'' as ''that'' sort of person and accept it."
* ButtMonkey: When both he and Black Lotus were in spitting distance of Level 9, Current tried to convince him to level up first so that she could learn about its permadeath mechanics, arguing that "Graph's in charge of sacrifices".
* CastAsAMask: In ''VideoGame/AccelWorldVsSwordArtOnline'' his voice actor is only credited as "???", but it's heavily implied his voice actor is Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka especially when listening closely to the modulated voice. This teases at the fan theories that Graphite Edge is Kirito himself.
* ComputerVoice: His voice in ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online'' sounds very digital and is modulated, all in part to hide the identity of his voice actor.
* CycleOfHurting: Like Maiden and Current, he's unable to enter the Unlimited Neutral Field because his avatar's respawn point is stuck inside the InstantDeathRadius of one of the strongest bosses in the game, which resulted in him repeatedly dying and respawning until his Neurolinker was physically disconnected. Attempting to return would place him back in this situation until he received a permanent Game Over. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he managed to escape by breaking into the Imperial Palace itself.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Amongst the Elements, he is associated with the element of Earth - specifically carbon in its various forms.
* DualWielding: His enhanced armament, which are dual swords known as Lux and Umbra.
* GlassCannon: His diamond swords have enormous attack power but his graphite armor is pathetically weak, to the point where even SquishyWizard avatars can take him out in a few hits.
* HeroicAmbidexterity: The only ambidextrous member of Nega Nebulus, and also its most skilled fighter.
* IdiotHero: When recounting the time Graph disintegrated himself while trying to attack a living sun, Current starts to refers to him as "that idiot" [[LastSecondWordSwap only to switch halfway through]] to "that reckless one".
-->'''Niko:''' "Hahahaha! Just like Negabu's Anomaly! I've heard all kinds of rumours, and it sounds like he was seriously quite the mighty hero."
-->'''Fuuko:''' "For him, you have to add the word ''idiot'' before ''hero'', Red King." Fuuko smoothly uttered the adjective that Akira had hesitated to.
* IHaveTheHighGround: Prone to entering the scene from a high place, then somersaulting down and effortlessly landing on his feet. PlayedForLaughs in volume 18, when he lands perfectly ''[[PoseOfSupplication on his knees]]'' in order to apologise to Lotus for not contacting her.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Has an excellent grasp of zero-gravity combat due to his past experience in space-based videogames, giving his team an advantage when they have to fight in the newly-introduced Space stage.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: [[spoiler: Is Level 8 and could've gotten to Level 9 shortly before the 7 kings did, but chose not to in order to secure more fallback points. After the instant death rule was revealed he lost all interest in leveling up.]]
* TheMentor: He was the one who taught Black Lotus how to fight, with most of her Incarnate skills being directly borrowed from him.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: In ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online'', the game heavily implied that he is Kirito from the future or at the very least ''connected'' to Kirito. When he meets Kirito, Graphite Edge already knows who he is without even being told his name, and has a very similar speaking pattern. There's also a long list of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial to things that Kirito brings up listed below.
* TheNicknamer: Refers to his teammates by whimsical nicknames like Lotta (Black Lotus) and Denden (Ardor Maiden), much to their annoyance.
* RedBaron: Despite his fragility his Hyper Diamond swords can parry almost any physical attack, earning him the nickname "Anomaly".
* SequenceBreaking: [[spoiler:Managed to enter the Imperial Palace by using Elucidator to slash through the infinitely-thin gap between the gates and destroy their seal from the wrong side. He does note that this was extremely difficult to pull off, and that he died a countless number of times in the process.]]
* SharpenedToASingleAtom:
** His swords Lux and Umbra are tipped with graphene, which he describes in this way.
** His [[RealityWarper third-stage Incarnate technique]] "Elucidator" takes this UpToEleven, making Lux's entire blade infinitely thin and allowing it to cut through normally-indestructible terrain (though some special objects like the gates of the Imperial Palace are still beyond him). While active, the weapon seems to flicker in and out of existence.
* ShoutOut: His attacks are named after Sword Skills from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''.
* SourSupporter: His friends describe him as one of the most sour people you'll ever meet, implied to be because he keeps ending up as a vanguard and [[GlassCannon getting himself killed]]. Though this is as much a result of his LeeroyJenkins habits as anything else.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online'', Kirito notices several things that seem familiar about Graphite Edge, including: the appearance of his two swords, his fighting style, the fact he taught Black Lotus the identical sword skills that Kirito uses, his preference of dressing in black with a BadassLongcoat, and the way he talks. However Graphite Edge keeps laughing it off as being it is all coincidence.
* SwordBeam: His special attack "Vertical Square" slashes four times then connects the lingering SwordLines together and sends them flying as a projectile attack.
* WalkingSpoiler: His true identity is kept under wraps, but there are numerous hints that have been dropped that he's Kirito or someone connected to him.

!!Glass Monarch

Chiaki's older brother. As one of the few who knew of Black Lotus' real-life identity, he admired and used to tell stories about her to his little sister. However, he perished three years ago due to an incurable disease passing the Brain Burst program on to Chiaki.
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%%* AwesomeMcCoolname
%%* IllBoy: It ultimately killed him.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died when Chiaki was very young.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Prominence]]
!In General
* CastHerd: In addition to Triplex, book 20 introduces the entire roster of Prominence, gathered into groups of three avatars with similar themes.

!The Red King

!!Red Rider
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiroTsuda (Japanese), Creator/KeithSilverstein (English)

The former Red King and previous leader of Prominence.
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* TheBlacksmith: His "Arms Creation" ability lets him create permanent items that can be equipped by other avatars. These items also feature a "lock" in the form of his personal crest, which allows him to disable or destroy them remotely. [[spoiler:Seeing the crest on the ISS kits makes Kuroyukihime wonder if he's responsible for them]].
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: The reason Kuroyukihime attacks him is because she thought he was planning to use his gifts to the other Legions to forcibly uphold the nonaggression pact. It's subverted, as she realizes that she was tricked by her ''actual'' BrokenPedestal- her own sister and parent, Whtie Cosmos.]]
%%* CoolHorse
* GunsAkimbo: Before his death he wielded dual pistols named Helios and Eos.
* TheGunslinger: He resembled a cowboy.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Was this with Blue Knight before his death.
* LogicalExtreme: Of red-type avatars, being one of the Pure Colours. In Lotus's words, his abilities may seem unconventional compared to someone like Scarlet Rain, but the true focus of Red avatars isn't firepower but [[LongRangeFighter range]], and no weapon has longer range than one you don't need to be there to fire.
* NamedWeapons: His dual Pistols: Helios and Eos.
* NiceHat: His avatar features a nice cowboy hat atop his head.
* NiceGuy: All interactions show that he was one, [[spoiler: though he may have been related to Acceleration Research Society.]]
* IronicNickname: Promotes peace but shares his name with one of the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: specifically, the warmonger.
* OffWithHisHead: Courtesy of [[spoiler:Black Lotus' [[DeadlyHug Death By Embrace]].]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Has since been deleted from the Accelerated World.
* UnorthodoxReload: His "Auto Reload" - a pair of hidden mechanisms in his forearms that slide new bullets into his guns without requiring him to change his grip. Their high speed means that he isn't left vulnerable even while [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange using his weapons in melee]].

!!Yuniko "Niko" Kozuki/Scarlet Rain
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Immobile Fortress]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHidaka (Japanese), Creator/SarahWilliams (English)

Red Rider's successor as the Red King, becoming by extension the leader of Prominence, and a fifth-grade schoolgirl.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her eyes are red in the anime adaptation. In the light novel, Haru describes them as being [[RedEyesTakeWarning sometimes green depending on the light]].
%%* AxCrazy: Sometimes when she's TriggerHappy.
* BadassAdorable: She's an incredibly strong player in Brain Burst, and her cuteness is played as disturbing, by making her CuteAndPsycho.
* BadassInDistress: In Volume 14 [[spoiler:she's abducted by Black Vise, and Haruyuki and the others spend the next volume chasing her down]].
* BathtubBonding: She tried to do this with Haruyuki, but failed and ended up in an AccidentalPervert moment.
* CombiningMecha: Her "Invincible" is composed of five separate Enhanced Armaments which combine together when summoned - the main body, cockpit, missile pods, thrusters and legs.
* ContraltoOfDanger: She puts up an act with a high pitched voice to seem cute so she can get closer to Haruyuki, but when she drops that facade her normal speaking tone is much more deep, gruff, and angry to emphasize her LittleMissBadass and CuteAndPsycho character traits.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She is themed around the color red so her hair and eyes were made a matching red to emphasize this. This is only in the anime however, in the light novel she's described as having green eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: Completely out for blood once she's in a fight, her cuteness as a little girl is used to contrast this to make her disturbing.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: She's cunning enough to play up some cute mannerisms intentionally to (try) and get her way. Haruyuki even calls this "angel mode."
* DoesNotLikeMen: Not inside Brain Burst, but she claims to feel uneasy around men in real life - because the more time she spends living it up as the invincible Scarlet Rain, the more her real body feels weak and helpless.
* EasilyForgiven: Averted when she [[spoiler:fires on Black Lotus, nearly killing her, during the battle with Chrome Disaster]]. While Black Lotus recognizes it as a poorly thought out ShooTheDog moment, she still insists on an apology, and gets annoyed when Scarlet Rain gives a fairly perfunctory one.
* EnemyScan: The sharp senses granted by her Vision Extension ability let her measure the [[KillingIntent "information pressure"]] exuded by veteran Burst Linkers (something distinct from their avatar's CharacterLevel), allowing her to judge the other Kings' relative PowerLevels and how long they've been around.
* EvilLaugh: Does this while raining down missiles on her opponents.
* EvilMakeover: In Volume 15, [[spoiler:Invincible (minus its missile pods) is stolen by Cerberus III. Adjusting to its new user, it becomes a [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] purple biped with smaller guns, but clawed hands which allow it to fight in melee. Taken UpToEleven when [[OneWingedAngel Cerberus is transformed into Wolfram Disaster]], whose sleek organic body is completely unrecognisable from its original form.]]
* FieryRedhead: When she drops her cute facade, she's shown to be incredibly HotBlooded and aggressive. Her red hair emphasize this.
* FilleFatale: She wanted to recruit Haruyuki into Prominence and tried to use her cuteness to do so, she even tried to take a bath with him.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Oven Ray, one of Scarlet Rain's Incarnate attacks.
* FlashStep: One of her Incarnate skills, stated to be evidence that she runs from her problems.
* GamerChick: For Brain Burst, and western Shooters. She admits she can't imagine life without Brain Burst.
* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair this way intentionally to use her cuteness to her advantage.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Though not evil, her eyes shift from {{tareme|eyes}} to {{tsurime|eyes}} when she drops the DeliberatelyCuteChild facade.
* HiddenDepths: Despite her brash and fiery demeanor, she's inwardly vulnerable, and doesn't see herself as an equal to the other Kings.
* HumongousMecha: Her Enhanced Armament, "Invincible", is an enormous artillery platform covered in cannons and missile pods, granting her the greatest long-range attack power in the Accelerated World.
* InSeriesNickname: Prefers to be called "Niko".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although she can be rude, violent and bloodthirsty, she's actually a nicer person than even she would like to admit. She clearly cares about those who are close to her such as her "parent" Cherry Rook and she eventually is able to become friends with Haruyuki and the rest of Nega Nebulus and becomes a very helpful ally.
* LittleMissBadass: One of the youngest players in Brain Burst, but completely blood thirsty, and she reached Level 9 at a much faster pace than other players. She has many incredibly strong long-range attacks.
* LittleMissSnarker: She often points out when Haruyuki is making dumb mistakes due to his inexperience. This is supposed to be somewhat unexpected from a person her age.
* LongRangeFighter: Scarlet Rain's Enhanced Armament "Invincible" boasts the best [[MacrossMissileMassacre long]]-[[MoreDakka range]] [[WaveMotionGun arsenal]] in the Accelerated World, but it renders her unable to move, leaving her vulnerable to close-range attacks. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Good luck getting near her, though]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: One of her attacks.
%%** MoreDakka
%%* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler: Once she gains the ability to turn her Enhanced Armament into a Mobile Fortress]].
* ParentalAbandonment: She lives in a home for orphans along with Cherry Rook.
* PersonalityPowers: Because of her fear of getting hurt, she gained an avatar that can surround itself in impenetrable armor while attacking from a distance. Likewise, her Incarnate abilities fall into the categories of reach and mobility enhancement like Haru.
* PlayingWithFire: Her Incarnate attacks manifest in the form of flames.
* RedBaron: In Brain Burst she's called the Immobile Fortress, because she doesn't even have to ''move'' to defeat most foes, and she has an enhanced armor that surrounds her that's almost impenetrable.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The animegives her red eyes to emphasize her violent and vicious nature.
* RedIsViolent: She wears red, has red hair and eyes, and is pretty vicious.
* RedOniBlueOni: The HotBlooded Red to Blood Leopard's cool Blue.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Pretends to be Haruyuki's second cousin, Tomoko Saitou, as part of her [[spoiler:failed]] BatmanGambit to recruit Haruyuki into Prominence and blackmail him into submission with [[OneHitKill Judgment Blow]].
* ShapingYourAttacks: Her Incarnate attack "Radiant Burst" launches fist-shaped blasts of flame.
* SheIsTheKing: She's just a little girl and has already earned the title of the Red King.
* ShooTheDog: When she fires on Kuroyukihime and threatens Haruyuki, she's trying to get them to go away so that she can deal with Chrome Disaster[=/=]Cherry Rook herself.
%%* SlasherSmile
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online'', she ends up fighting against an EvilDoppelganger version of herself. In trying to tell them apart, one Scarlet Rain asks the Burst Linkers for help while the other Scarlet Rain tells them to keep away. Silver Crow and Black Lotus figure out the real Scarlet Rain would have too much pride to ask her rivals so willingly.
* SupremeChef: played with. She's a novice at most kinds of cooking, but she's very good at baking and sweets. She says outright she picked it up from Pard.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She has the looks of an adorable little girl, but beneath her cute facade there's a dominating and aggressive borderline psycho.
* TokenMiniMoe: The youngest character of the series.
%%* {{Tomboy}}
* TransformingVehicle: Some time before volume 13, she develops a truck-like alternate configuration for Invincible called Dreadnought. In exchange for reduced firepower in this mode it gains the ability to travel at high speed while carrying other avatars on its back, turning it from an "Immobile Fortress" to a "Mobile Stronghold". [[TooFastToStop It does not, however]], gain ''brakes''.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She's revealed to be an AxCrazy tyrant who's specialty is MacrossMissileMassacre.
* {{Tsundere}}: A vicious Type A. She acts like a borderline psychotic tyrant, but she can show a friendly side when she's in a good mood and is willing to help you if you ask nicely enough.
* UnprovokedPervertPayback: Her dueling Haruyuki essentially amounts to this. Haruyuki points out that she was the one who caused the situation by trying to get in his tub, forcing him to catch her when she fell in, but she's not in any mood to listen.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kuroyukihime. Despite the two having clashing personalities and being heads of rival Legions, they get along quite well when they're not bickering, as Haru notes when he sees them sleeping together.
* WaveMotionGun: One of her attacks, particularly Heat Blast Saturation.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears short jean shorts.
* YouthfulFreckles: Her face has quite a few.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings in her casual attire.

!Executives: Triplex ("Team Beast")

!!Mihaya Kakei/Blood Leopard
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Creator/ErikaHarlacher (English)

Vice-commander of Prominence and a high level burst linker. She works in real life at the cake shop "Pâtisserie La Plage", as a waitress and apprentice pâtissier; a signal-shielded room in the back of the building serves as Prominence's base.

The sidestory ''Prominence Trajectory'' (included with the anime Blu-Rays and later volume 18 of the novels) is told from her perspective.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: not in the show or the books; however, she's the cover girl for LN 14, where she's wearing a skintight red jumpsuit, unzipped to the bottom of her cleavage and showing off some really impressive... assets.
* AffectionateNickname: She calls Akira, her cousin and Parent, "Aki".
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: The tallest girl in the series (so far), aloof and [[TheStoic stoic]], and has long, dark hair.
%%* BadassBiker
* AnimalMecha: Her avatar is a mechanical leopard that later turns out to have elements of motorbikes and tank shells.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Like the other members of Triplex.
* BikerBabe: Inherited a red Italian motorcycle from her father, who used to play full-dive racing games with her when she was a kid. She finally received a license for it a month or two before the start of the story, and started using it as her primary means of transportation. {{Fanservice}} artwork sometimes depicts her in biking leathers.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Her ability "First Blood" doubles her running speed by activating a ''second heart'' in her chest, their overlapping beats resembling the roars of her father's twin-engined motorcycle. This ability is also [[PersonalityPowers shaped by]] the too-fast heartbeat that claimed her father's life, and Mihaya's fear that she will one day develop the same condition.
* CatGirl: Her battle avatar simply looks like an armor-plated version of her net avatar; unlike Chiyu she's a humanoid cat rather than a girl with UnusualEars.
* DualModeUnit: Her ability "Shape Change" lets her fully transform into a leopard, giving her increased speed, protection from fall damage, and a number of new attacks.
* EnergyAbsorption: In animal form, Blood Leopard's "Vital Bite" lets her absorb a Duel Avatar's health and killer move gauges.
* FastestThingAlive. {{Downplayed|Trope}} - in her leopard form she is possibly Brain Burst's fastest ''runner'', but there are avatars with wheels or NotQuiteFlight which far outpace her. Nevertheless, her desire to ''keep moving forward'' is her avatar's primary source of power, to the point where the first question she poses to her Parent is "Will I be able to run even faster?". After witnessing the fighting style of Silver Crow, a fellow speed-based avatar, she decides she also needs to be able to ''think'' faster in the heat of the moment.
* FriendlyRivalry: With Sky Raker, a Burst Linker who humbled her by displaying SuperSpeed four times greater than her own. Volume 5 shows that she hopes Sky Raker will eventually return to the Accelerated World.
* GiantPoofySleeves: In her {{Meido}} outfit and school uniform.
* HairDecorations: Wears a headband.
* HiddenDepths: When Haru talks to Niko about Pard's job at the cake shop in LN 13, Niko lets slip, "Huh? What're you taking about? Pard's that shop's-" before cutting herself off. ''Prominence Trajectory'', set around the same time, confirms that she was about to say ''owner''.
* HumanCannonball: Her "Bloodshed Cannon" ability, revealed in Volume 15, manifests the barrel of a ''Leopard tank'' around Pard to blast her forward. While incredibly powerful [[CastFromHitPoints it damages her on every use]], and can even kill her if she collides with indestructible terrain. On some stages she can [[NotQuiteFlight abuse it for long-distance travel]] by repeatedly firing herself through buildings, with the Object Destruction Bonus being enough to recharge her special meter after each use.
* InSeriesNickname: She's called "Pard" in the accelerated world, and "Myah" when visiting the School Festival.
* InsistentTerminology: If you're going to shorten her name, it's Leopard, not Blood, and if you want to go further it's Pard, not Leopa.
* InUniverseCatharsis: Becoming a Burst Linker served as this for her after the death of her father. She "used up a lifetime of tears" and then never cried again.
* {{Meido}}: Wears a maid-style waitress uniform for her work at Pâtisserie La Plage.
* {{Nephewism}}: Her aunt Kaoru once promised to her father that she'd look out for Mihaya, and to her mother that they'd help each other open their cake shops. Thus she's surprisingly willing to quit her job and work for Mihaya as her pâtissier. Kaoru's daughter Akira, aka Aqua Current, also becomes the "Parent" who introduces Mihaya to Brain Burst.
%%* NinjaMaid
* PantheraAwesome: Her battle avatar's special attack transforms her into one.
* PursuingParentalPerils: Her parents originally planned to renovate their café into a cake shop, until her mother passed away while Mihaya was still a baby. When Mihaya was twelve her father likewise succumbed to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilated_cardiomyopathy a heart condition]], leaving Mihaya both the café and his prized motorcycle. Uncomfortable with all the aunts and uncles who [[BlackSheep never understood her father]] now wanting to take her in, she resolved to stay and fulfill their dreams, recruiting her father's patient older sister Kaoru as her maître pâtissier.
* TheQuietOne: Rarely speaks a lot, and when she does it's usually very short.
* RedBaron: "Bloody Kitty"
* RedOniBlueOni: The cool Blue to Niko's HotBlooded Red. Ironically, she herself is also Red.
* RunningOnAllFours: Her avatar can change forms into a leopard that runs this way.
* SailorFuku: She wears one when she approaches Haru in Volume 7. By comparison, most of the girls previously introduced have blazer-style uniforms.
* SpyCatsuit: Wears one with her avatar.
* TheStoic: She rarely shows any emotion and always maintains the same expression on her face. While she enjoys her waitress work now, it took a while for her to get used to smiling to customers.
* TerseTalker: Outside of her waitress job she speaks in short, brief sentences and occasionally uses slang.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Niko. While she was never really that close to the first Red King, she identifies Niko as one of two people who are very important to her (the other being [[FriendlyRivalry Sky Raker]]).
* WallRun: One of her abilities in leopard form lets her run on walls by expending her special meter. On reaching level 7, she becomes able to do this at will.
* WrongContextMagic: Why is her avatar a [[LongRangeFighter red]] colour if she fights in melee like a [[CloseRangeCombatant blue]]? While there does turn out to be an explanation for this, InUniverse most players aren't aware of it and assume she got the colour because she's just that bloodthirsty.

!!Cassis Moose

A large blackcurrant-colored avatar themed after a moose, and the second member of Triplex.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Like the other members of Triplex.
* TheOneGuy: The only male among Prominence's executives.
* TheSpock: One of the most level-headed members of Prominence, with [[SpockSpeak a distinctively formal manner of speaking]], in sharp contrast to Porcupine.
* SpockSpeak: When Pard asks how he is, he responds:
-->"When I assess my current state both in the physical and mental aspects, I find no major problems in terms of my health status, but I have been concerned about a slight pain in one of my back teeth for the past few days. On the other hand, my mental state is most certainly not poor because final exams are over, and it will be summer vacation soon. Thus, the answer to your earlier question is 'not bad', Blood Leopard."

!!Thistle Porcupine
The third member of Triplex. A small, red-purple avatar whose back armour is covered in fur, an unusual trait in Brain Burst.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Like the other members of Triplex. She was also rather fond of Cherry Rook for this reason.
* ComicalOverreacting: At the Triplex meeting in volume 19, she responds to Niko's news by shaking, shrieking, and destroying some of the nearby terrain as her fur stands on end. Predicting this, Niko had informed Moose ahead of time so that he'd be able to calm her down.
* CutenessProximity: Brags that she induces this response in other members of the Legion, who can't resist fluffing her fur.
* ExpressiveHair: When upset, her fur involuntarily twists into spikes and stands on end.
* JiveTurkey: In contrast to Moose her speech style is very slangy, referring to people by nicknames and saying things like "'sup, brahs? Haven't seen you in the Terries."
* PricklyPorcupine: A porcupine-themed avatar with fur that can transform into spikes, and also tends to get defensive easily.

!Triad ("Team Artillery")

!!Vermillion Vulcan

!!Carmine Cannon

!!Maroon Motor

!"Team Insect"

!!Mustard Salticid
A Burst Linker themed after a jumping spider.

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* BuildingSwing: Can use her ability "Dragline" to create an elastic thread that breaks her fall, similar to a real jumping spider. With a little extra effort, she can also slingshot herself in other directions.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally laid-back and gets bored easily, but she's capable of shifting gears and acting professionally when things get serious.
* ExtraEyes: Has eight eyes spaced in a ring around her head, allowing her to see in all directions at once.
* InUniverseNickname: Blood Leopard calls her "Cid".
* SensorCharacter: Described as being in the top three of her Legion for enemy detection.
* SuperSenses: In addition to giving her omnidirectional vision, her eyes also let her make out details from great distances.
* TheUnpronounceable: "Nearly every Burst Linker who met her had to ask about her proper name two or three times, and then ask again the next time they met her."

!!Moss Moth

!!Spruce Brevis

!"Team Fruit"

!!Cherry Rook (5th Chrome Disaster)
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoTakahashi (Japanese)

Yuniko's friend and "parent" who introduced her to Brain Burst. See the Chrome Disaster section for more details.

!!Peach Parasol
A Level 4 Burst Linker who assists Blaze Heart in her attack in volume 13.

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* ContestWinnerCameo: One of the avatar designs submitted for a context.
* ParasolOfPain: It doubles as a gun and a shield.

!!Persimmon Monk

!Heliosphere ("Team Idol")

!!Blaze Heart
A Level 5 Burst Linker who attacks Nega Nebulus in volume 13, mistakenly believing that Black Lotus has tried to assassinate her King.

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* CallingYourAttacks: Wouldn't be unusual for a duel avatar, except that she has to call them into a microphone.
* ContestWinnerCameo: One of the avatar designs submitted for a context.
* FieryRedhead: Has the personality, and a fiery red-''everything''.
%%* GirlishPigtails
* HotBlooded: Describes her flames as an embodiment of her passion.
* IdolSinger: Evokes this image with her microphone and distinctive poses, specifically being modeled on [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Miku Hatsune]].
* MusicalAssassin: Her "Searing Note" attack launches musical notes that [[PlayingWithFire explode into flames]].
%%* ShanaClone
* WreathedInFlames: Her "Burning Heart" move sets her on fire, boosting her melee attack power but causing her to take damage over time.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade S.

!!Cream Dream

!!Freeze Tone

!"Team Stone"

!!Ochre Prison
A Burst Linker who assists Blaze Heart in her attack in volume 13.

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* ContestWinnerCameo: One of the avatar designs submitted for a context.
* SupportPartyMember: Contributes mainly by trapping enemies, making them less able to dodge his allies' attacks.

!!Amber Captor

!!Malachite Hex

!"Team Iron"

!!Iodine Sterilizer
Introduced in book 20. A level 6 Burst Linker with a short body shaped like an iodine dropper with spindly limbs.
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* AcidAttack: His special attack "Acid Mist" spreads a red fog that melts everything in its path, even turning the ground into a quagmire.
* AllEncompassingMantle: Wears one of these when not in combat, concealing his avatar's appearance.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: To the Japanese-speaking protagonists, who don't know what it means. Haru says that "Iodine" and "Sterilizer" both sound like SuperRobot names.
* GratuitousEnglish: Spouts English phrases while in combat. His grammar is better than Ash Roller's, though Haru notes that his pronunciation could use some work.
* InUniverseNickname: Called "Dine" by his friends.
* KungFuWizard: While Haru takes him for a long-range avatar from his colour, he turns out to be fairly adept in hand-to-hand as well.
* MagicAntidote: His "Antidote Mist" special attack spreads a yellow light that negates poison, both healing status conditions and dispelling [[DeadlyGas toxic clouds]] on the field.
* MakeThemRot: His basic iodine spray is significantly more dangerous to metallic avatars, corroding their armour and leaving them more vulnerable to attack.
* NiceHat: Wears a very broad-brimmed hat.
* RedBaron: Very fond of these, currently holding the title of [[AwesomeMcCoolname "Stronger Name"]] ("Strongest Name" is implied to have been taken from him by Crimson Kingbolt). He also claims the title of "Antidote King", but it's unclear if anyone actually calls him this.
* StinkBomb: His standard attack is spraying iodine from his palms to disorient enemies.
* UnknownRival: Witnessed Silver Crow say "I'm silver, poison doesn't work on me" in one of his early fights, and since then has been convinced that Crow is trying to steal his gimmick.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Cracking the glass around his body causes his supply of iodine to leak out.

!!Cantal Tank

!!Elinvar Governor

!"Team Flower"

!!Lavender Downer

!!Hypericum Cheerer

!!Aconite Archer

!"Team Piglet"

!!Furs Stick

!!Straw Barrier

!!Brick Block

!"Team Shrimp"

!!Cinnamon Palaemon

!!Carnelian Alpheus

!!Navy Lobster

!"Team Veg"

!!Beet Beat

!!Carrot Turret

!!Paprika Caprice
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Crypto Cosmic Circus]]
!The Yellow King
!!Yellow Radio
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Accel_World_-_11_-_Large_02_5992.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Radioactive Disturber]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)

The Yellow King, who kept with him a shard of the defeated fourth Chrome Disaster.
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* CombatPragmatist: His first encounter with Haru and co, involves gaining up on them with his minions and guilt tripping Black Lotus with imagery showing how she killed Red Rider. [[spoiler: He also retreats when Cherry Rook shows up and has his forces retreat when confronted with a disadvantage]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Nearly was done in by Cherry Rook, the player he had injected with the shard of the 4th Chrome Disaster. He uses his illusions powers to escape]]
* KarmaHoudini: Despite causing the 5th Chrome Disaster, he has yet to get any comeuppance for this, even denying this happened.
* InTheBack: One of his illusions get stabbed from behind by [[spoiler:Cherry Rook]].
* LeanAndMean: His avatar is very lean and lanky with long arms and legs.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Yellow Radio manipulated Cherry Rook to become the fifth Chrome Disaster so that he would attack his Legion, so he could attack the Red King for violating the non-aggression treaty.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: He has abilities that cause illusions to distract his enemies. This is common for yellow colored avatars.
* MonsterClown: The design and appearance of his avatar.
* RedBaron: Known by the title "Radioactive Disturber".
* SmugSnake: He expected Kuroyuki to stay down after reliving her guilt, and is shocked when she gets up. His overall faked politeness gives off this vibe as well.

!Other Members

!!Saxe Lauder
->'''Voiced by:''' Hiroaki Tajiri (Japanese)

A level 4 member of Crypto Cosmic Circus who participates in the attack on Scarlet Rain in volume 2.
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%%* MauveShirt
* BoisterousWeakling: Dramatically announces "It seems the great Cyan Pile was all talk. Remember this, the name of the one who killed you is Sax-", only for Pile to [[KilledMidSentence blow his head off before he can finish]].
* TheCameo: Appears in an illustration in volume 14 as one of the Burst Linkers infected by the ISS Kit.
* HumongousMecha: A huge, blocky avatar resembling a construction vehicle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has multiple cranelike arms emerging from his back.
* ThisIsADrill: One of his crane arms ends in a conical drill.

!!Lemon Pierrette
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsukaOgame (Japanese), Creator/FayeMata (English)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accel_world_lemon_pierrette.png]]

An avatar styled after a young female jester balancing on a ball. Implied to be Yellow Radio's real-life little sister.
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* PerkyFemaleMinion: Her main role in the story is to hang around Yellow Radio repeating his words and giggling a lot.
* VillainousHarlequin: Similar in style to Yellow Radio.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Great Wall]]
!The Green King

!!Green Grandee
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayaKuroda (Japanese), Jay Allen White (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Accel_World_-_09_-_Large_23_5152.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Invulnerable]]

The Green King, who has been around since the early days of the game and has seen four Chrome Disasters fall. Said to have the greatest [[PowerLevels "data pressure"]] of any of the Kings.
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* AttackReflector: One of his abilities, Double Payback, lets him absorb all damage and knockback from an attack into his shield, before firing it back at double strength. There ''is'' an upper limit to how strong an attack it can reflect, but it's an extremely high one. Volume 18 reveals that [[SpamAttack a series of quick attacks]] counts as a single attack for the purpose of reflection, making it possible to overload the shield by repeatedly striking it before it can discharge.
* BarrierWarrior: His "Distant Shield" technique creates a barrier resembling a translucent version of his shield, which [[SteppingStonesInTheSky can be used as a platform]].
* {{Expy}}: A prominent guild leader with a unique cross-shaped shield, famous for being a StoneWall whose health has never fallen into the yellow? Sounds a lot like Heathcliff from the author's earlier work ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', who made an identical boast. On learning how much Grandee knows about the origins of Brain Burst and how he actively maintains its economy, Haru even asks him if he's the creator of the game in disguise [[spoiler:much like how Heathcliff was secretly the creator of Sword Art Online]]. This similarity is {{lampshaded}} in the game ''VideoGame/AccelWorldVsSwordArtOnline'' if Green Grandee fights Kirito.
* FamedInStory: As one of the veteran players of the game, he was known for extensive {{Solo Character Run}}s, accruing lots of Burst Points in the Unlimited Natural Field, and he can only lose on timed duels.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: He uses his enhanced armament The Strife to protect himself and avoid damage.
* NamedWeapons: His shield "The Strife", one of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Seven Arcs]].
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: Why does the Unlimited Neutral Field have [[PinataEnemy Piñata Enemies]] that don't just grant Burst Points for defeating them, but [[MoneySpider drop cards containing extra points]]? It's not a game mechanic - Green Grandee works tirelessly to farm points from strong Enemies and feed them to weaker ones, hoping that it will allow players to survive just by hunting them.
* TheQuietOne: Rarely speaks and often described as a silent person. He's so patient that he once waited in a single spot for ''three months'' of in-game time, hoping for a random event that would allow him to strike a blow at the Acceleration Research Society.
* RedBaron: Known by the title "The Invulnerable" for having the highest defense in Brain Burst.
* StoneWall: As both the purest and highest-level example of the defense-focused green avatars, armed with both defense-enhancing Incarnate techniques and the strongest equippable shield in the game, it's very hard to damage him. The most a lot of players can do is ScratchDamage.
* WhamLine: His answer for his reason behind hunting enemies, buying point cards and feeding them to enemies, enabling players to earn points without having to duel.
-->'''Grande''': It was all to [[spoiler:stop Brain Burst 2039- also known as Trial Number Two- from ending in vain]].
* WorldTree: Due to his solemn, immobile nature, and how he seeds Enemies with item drops to prevent players from running out of points, he's referred to as "the tree that supports the world".

!Executives: The Six Armors

!!Suntan Chafer
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiKobori (Japanese), Creator/FayeMata (English)
Fifth seat of Great Wall's Six Armors, a brown avatar themed after a beetle.
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* AnimeChineseGirl: Dressed in a qipao and has a fighting style focused on palm strikes. Haru initially confuses her name for Chinese as well, and wonders how she managed to get one that wasn't in English.
* VocalDissonance: In her first appearance Haru describes Suntan as a "midsize avatar with [a] solidly built silhouette", and is surprised to hear her speak with a female voice. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Oddly]], from the next volume on she's described and drawn as an obvious AnimeChineseGirl.
* WallCrawl: {{Implied|Trope}}. Her hands can stick to enemies in the manner of an insect, though this doesn't seem to extend to her feet.

!!Lignum Vitae
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsukaOgame (Japanese), Creator/JessicaStraus (English)
Fourth seat of Great Wall's Six Armors, resembling a slender woman in a cocktail dress and heels.
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* DualModeUnit: Can transform into a [[StoneWall sturdy but immobile]] tree with the attack call "Carbon Cycle", and back with the call "Krebs Cycle".
* GardenGarment: The artwork depicts her dress ending in multiple points like leaves or petals, along with arm covers which curl at the tips.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her energy recharge ability takes the form of green light which flows through the ground to her ally. It's possible for enemies to steal the effect simply by standing in its path.
* PlantPerson: Her avatar's main theme.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Depicted this way in the artwork.
* TheStoic: Described as having a similar air about her to Aqua Current.
* StoneWall: Named after the strongest type of wood, and appropriately has strong defence but little offence.
* SupportPartyMember: Her parasol is versatile but not very strong, and her alternate mode is immobile but [[RegeneratingMana continuously recharges the special meters]] of allies in contact with the ground.
* TelescopingStaff: Wields a wood-shafted parasol with a stone tip, which can extend in length to strike enemies or grab things. While its attack power isn't that great, it's a good defensive tool, with observers describing the way it opens and closes as "mesmerising".

!!Iron Pound
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accel_world_iron_pound.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaoyaNosaka (Japanese), Creator/AustinLeeMatthews (English)

The third seat of Great Wall's "Six Armors" - a boxer-themed Level 7 avatar who first appears in volume 9.
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* BoxingBattler: His avatar's main theme.
* IKnowMortalKombat: {{Inverted|Trope}} - his experience with actual boxing translates directly into the game.
* LightningBruiser: His iron body makes him very durable, and he has the skill to move and attack at extreme speed.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Has an Incarnate System ability which greatly increases his punching speed, mastered to such a high level that he doesn't need to call a name to activate it.
* RedBaron: Also known as "Fists".
* ReflexiveResponse: While his fighting instincts are formidable because they were shaped by boxing they can be thrown off by situations that aren't possible in a match (such as an opponent teleporting behind him and striking his back).
* RocketPoweredWeapon: His "Eruption Blow" appears to use rockets in his arms to perform a more powerful punch, though its only appearance in the books is Pound [[RecoilBoost using it as a form of propulsion]] while in zero gravity.
* RocketPunch: His "Rocket Straight", which Haru notes as unusual for someone who claims to focus on raw skill over gimmicks. Reportedly an ability he developed as a counter for Sky Raker's NotQuiteFlight.
* SquareRaceRoundClass: {{Inverted|Trope}} - a trained boxer in the real world, his boxer-themed avatar allows him to bring his skills directly into the game, placing it in a rare category known as "Perfect Match".
* SuperToughness: Iron lies to the far right of the metallic colour spectrum, giving him great defense against physical attacks but little against status conditions.
* WeakButSkilled: Trained to defeat any new instances of Chrome Disaster by focusing only on his fundamentals, knowing that the Armor would be [[UnskilledButStrong a sloppy fighter]] due to its nature as TheBerserker and [[HowDoIShotWeb lacking experience in the powers of its past hosts]]. [[spoiler:This proves so successful against a Disasterized Haru that the Armor is forced to loosen its control on him just to survive.]]

!!Viridian Decurion
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiYanagisawa (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)
Second (formerly first) seat of Great Wall's Six Armors, a large avatar themed after a Roman soldier with a gladius and round shield.
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* AchillesHeel: His armor is weaker on the back than the front.
* BadassBaritone: Described as both speaking in a baritone voice, and being an obvious combat veteran.
* InUniverseNickname: Iron Pound calls him "Viri".
* KnightlySwordAndShield: Of the Ancient Roman variety.
* EnemySummoner: His special attack "Viridian Legionnaire" shoots [[ShockAndAwe bolts of lightning]] from [[SwordBeam his sword]] which summon heavily-armored soldiers armed with lances and tower shields. Summoning four legionnaires consumes his entire [[ManaMeter special meter]], but if he manages to recharge he can control up to eight at once.
* RedBaron: Known as "The Consul".

!![[spoiler:Graphite Edge]]
First seat of Great Wall's Six Armors, said to be strong enough to {{curbstomp|Battle}} Viridian Decurion and even fight the Green King himself to a draw. Had never been seen by the lower-ranking Armors until the events of volume 17. [[spoiler:Actually Graphite Edge, a former member of Nega Nebulus. See their section for more details.]]

!Other Members

!!Rinta Kasukabe(?)/Ash Roller
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ash2_4462.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:And that makes you....TERA UNLUCKY!!!]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Japanese), Creator/BenDiskin (English)

A [[LargeHam hammy]] player with a motorcycle Enhancement Armament. Silver Crow's first opponent, who goes on to become a recurring FriendlyRival and helps him out on a number of occasions.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not it's Rin's brother's soul controlling the Ash Roller character or just a copy of it, is unknown.
* BadassBiker: Rides a western motorbike, which his entire fighting strategy relies on. It is called the Night Rocker.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He's highly protective of Rin, to the point at which [[spoiler:when he gets infected by the ISS Kit, he'd be willing to be erased from Brain Burst entirely for the sake of his sister's well-being]].
* CoolBike: Most of his avatar's potential is poured into upgrading his bike. Over the course of the series, it's gained abilities like missile launchers and the ability to drive up walls.
* CrazyPrepared: Invested in the ability to [[WallCrawl drive up walls]] after defeating Silver Crow the first time in case it was necessary. Much to Ash Roller's surprise, it was as necessary as the soon as their rematch.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:His Enhanced Armament gets infected by an ISS kit in Volume 13. Since it's impossible to remove the kit the standard way, Ash wants someone to knock him off Brain Burst for Rin's sake]].
* FriendlyEnemy: Despite being a member of a rival Legion, he's on fairly good terms with Haru and Sky Raker.
* FriendlyRivalry: To Silver Crow.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Ash Roller's other favorite gesture is FlippingTheBird.
* GratuitousEnglish: He loves spouting random English phrases midsentence. Most notably his CatchPhrase(s): "LUCKY!", "MEGA LUCKY!", "GIGA LUCKY!", etc.
* HellBentForLeather: Combined with SpikesOfVillainy, skulls, and a CoolBike... Ash would fit in perfectly on a HeavyMetal album cover.
* HomingProjectile: His bike missiles include cameras which they use to track enemies, though (at least in Battle Royale format) Ash needs to keep his own gaze locked on the target so that they can distinguish friend from foe.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It's true he's a tough, crude biker who loves to fight and swear, but he's also a noble and friendly individual to those he respects. He's even willing to stop a match to encourage and help out his troubled rival or call out his duel partner for his dishonorable tactics and dickish behavior.
* LargeHam: He yells just about everything at the top of his lungs.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxlAVLhOxM Monster Machine]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: His attack "Howling Panhead" fires two ground-to-ground missiles from his bike, while "Flying Knucklehead" is an AntiAir variety. He can activate the launchers even when his bike isn't nearby, allowing him to place it somewhere inaccessible to serve as a turret. While teamed up with his guildmate Lignum Vitae, he can use her RegeneratingMana to fire these attacks continuously.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: When in the duel arena he likes to [[BadassBoast boast about his strength]] and TrashTalk his opponents in the manner of a pro wrestler, and has earned some popularity for how he always tries to make his fights entertaining to watch.
* MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad: With Silver Crow in the second opening.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: [[spoiler:When Haru calls him by Rin's first name, Ash Roller gets furious at the possibility of Haru being in a relationship with Rin]].
* PetTheDog: When Haru is too depressed to fight after [[spoiler:losing his wings]], he actually stops the match to try to encourage him, and later takes him to meet Sky Raker.
* RebelRelaxation: Up a CoolBike, no less.
* SiblingYinYang: He and his sister are almost polar opposites in terms of personality and temperament.
* SirSwearsALot: Sometimes PlayedForLaughs with a SoundEffectBleep.
* SkullForAHead: His avatar has a skull for a face, possibly inspired by ''Comicbook/GhostRider''. In later books he sometimes removes his helmet when he needs to talk seriously, and without it he's described as looking surprisingly young and bookish.
* WallCrawl: The bike can run up walls.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: He calls Haruyuki by his real name when asking him to be friends with his sister [[spoiler:so that she'll have good memories outside the Accelerated World once Ash Roller is gone]].

!!Rin Kusakabe
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukaNanri (Japanese), ? (English)

A Burst Linker and the child of Fuuko Kurasaki. When Rin downloaded Brain Burst, it was on her brother's Neuro Linker instead of her own. She is a special case; although she is technically the owner of Ash Roller, the one operating it is her brother who is in a coma.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: She appears near the end of the anime's first season, and in the second OVA, where she's quite nervous around Haruyuki[[note]]Despite not remembering much of her duels, she knows who Haru is[[/note]], and seems acquainted with Rin.
* IllGirl: After [[spoiler:Ash Roller gets infected by the ISS Kit]], Rin seems somewhat unwell in real life.
* SamusIsAGirl: Played with. Rin is technically the real identity of Ash Roller, but her Duel Avatar is controlled by the soul or copy of her brother's mind, who is in a coma.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's a shy girl with self-esteem problems.
* SiblingYinYang: Her brother's a loud and brash JerkWithAheartOfGold, while she's a shy, timid NiceGirl.
* VerbalTic: She often. Speaks. In short. Sentences.
* WalkingSpoiler: She's very difficult to talk about without spoiling Ash Roller's true nature.
* WhamLine: "I'm. Ash. Roller."

!!Bush Utan
A level 5 avatar themed after an orangutan, with a squat body and huge powerful arms. Looks up to his "bro" Ash Roller.

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* BashBrothers: With Ash Roller.
* ExtendableArms: His arms can extend to triple their normal length.
* PsychoSerum: One of the Burst Linkers lured by the power of the ISS Kit.
* SuperStrength: Strong enough to lift and throw Ash Roller's bike.

!!Olive Grab
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* ElementalShapeshifter: His "Lipid Liquid" ability lets him transform into a puddle of oil.
* PsychoSerum: Another Burst Linker corrupted by the ISS Kit.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Grab" or "Glove"?

!!Jade Jailer

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Leoniz]]
!The Blue King

!! Blue Knight
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blue_knight.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Vanquish]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), Creator/KaijiTang (English)

The Blue King, and one of the first players of Brain Burst along with his best friend, Red Rider.
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* CoolSword: "The Impulse", one of Brain Burst's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Seven Arcs]].
* FamedInStory: Revered for defeating a Legendary Beast ''[[SoloCharacterRun all by himself]]'', whereas entire teams can barely make it past lesser bosses.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the late Red Rider.
%%* KnightInShiningTropes:
* NamedWeapons: His sword: The Impulse.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Refuses to use Judgment Blow on Cyan Pile after the latter defects to Nega Nebulus.]]
* RedBaron: Known by the tiles "Vanquish", "The Holy Sword" and "Legend Slayer".
* ShouldersOfDoom: So huge they can be used as shields. In fact, that's probably what their purpose is.

!Executives: Dualis

!!Koto Takanouchi/Cobalt Blade and Yuki Takanouchi/Manganese Blade
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Accel_World_-_06_-_Large_02_3478.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Coba on the left, Manga on the right]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisatoFukuen (Cobalt Blade) and Creator/KanakoKondo (Manganese Blade) (Japanese), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (Cobalt Blade) and Creator/LaurenLanda (Manganese Blade) (English)

A pair of Level 7 sword fighters and subordinates of Blue Knight. Twins in real life, their avatars have near-identical appearances and abilities.
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* BackToBackBadasses: Fight in such perfect sync that they can stand back-to-back and strike ''backwards'' to catch the other sister's opponent off-guard.
* BeneathTheMask: In real life they're prone to [[SeinfeldianConversation arguing about meaningless things]] and overall much less intimidating, though Haru can still feel a little of the "disciplined warrior" bleeding through.
* BerserkButton: Being mistaken for her sister or anyone besides her king or her sister calling her by a nickname will set her off.
* BrownBagMask: When meeting Haru and Utai in real life, they wear paper bags on their heads to conceal their identities... which lasts about five seconds before they get embarassed and take them off. [[PaperThinDisguise Haru notes that they're still wearing easily-identified school uniforms and wonders what hiding their faces was even supposed to accomplish.]]
* HumiliationConga: Once hung atop Tokyo City Hall by Sky Raker.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Their special attack "Rangeless Scission" is a slash that [[ChargedAttack increases in range the longer their sword remains sheathed]]. Haru briefly shudders at the thought of one of them getting their hands on The Infinity (Azure Heir's InfinityPlusOneSword which does the same thing for attack power).
* MentorShip: Both girls are interested in their leader.
* PowerMisidentification: Haru is caught off-guard when they display a ranged attack, and has to remind himself that they're technically not blue avatars (which are [[CloseRangeCombatant focused in melee]]) but metallic colours (which have no set pattern to their abilities).
* {{Samurai}}: Both avatars look like one.
* SingleMindedTwins: Can fight in perfect sync, and have a tendency to announce things together or finish each others' sentences. One exception is when they go out to eat, where they have a weird insistence on never ordering the same food.
%%* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]:

!Other Members

!!Frost Horn

A Burst Linker who frequently fights alongside Tourmaline Shell.

!!Tourmaline Shell

A level 4 Burst Linker who frequently fights alongside Frost Horn.

!Former Members

!!Cyan Pile

See the Nega Nebulus section.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Aurora Oval]]
!The Purple King

!!Purple Thorn
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Accel_World_-_11_-_Large_08_2309.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Empress Voltage]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMizuhashi (Japanese), Jessica Straus (English)

The Purple King and lover of Red Rider. Leader of the Purple Legion.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: By all accounts she is very much this, never once liking the way Red Rider and Black Lotus spoke and interacted.
* NamedWeapons: Her staff "The Tempest", one of Brain Burst's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Seven Arcs]].
* RedBaron: Earned the nickname Empress Voltage.
* SheIsTheKing: The third female King of the Accelerated World.
* ShockAndAwe: Her abilities appear to based around electricity and she seems to have an obsession with recruiting other electric users into her legion.
* StaffOfAuthority: Her enhanced armament, The Tempest.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: While her Legion and Nega Nebulus [[EnemyMine have a common enemy in the Acceleration Research Society]], Purple Thorn frequently insults, threatens or belittles Kuroyukihime.

!Other Members

!!Aster Vine

Purple Thorn's aide.
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* CoolShades: One of her avatar's few obviously robotic traits is a translucent visor which evokes a pair of wraparound shades.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Unusual for looking like an actual outfit her avatar is wearing, rather than part of its body.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Duel avatars with hair or visible mouths are rare but not unheard of. Humanlike ''skin and hair colours'', with the avatar's signature colour limited to its "clothing"? Much more unusual.
* NumberTwo: To Purple Thorn.
* WhipItGood: The "vine" of her name.

!Former Members

!!Crimson Kingbolt

See the Okinawan Burst Linkers section.

!!Sulfur Pot

See the Acceleration Research Society section.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Oscillatory Universe]]
!The White King

!!White Cosmos
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayumiYoshida (Japanese)

The White King and legion master of Oscillatory Universe.
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%%* AloofBigSister: [[spoiler:To Kuroyukihime.]]
%%* ArchNemesis: To [[spoiler:Kuroyukihime]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:She is the head of the Acceleration Research Society -- the one that included the likes of [[SmugSnake Seiji Noumi]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: To Kuroyukihime. It's indicated that she once held her in high regard, and they had a close relationship that facilitated White Cosmos becoming Kuroyukihime's parent, but after being manipulated and betrayed, Kuroyukihime is incredibly bitter.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:She's Kuroyukihime's older sister and her worst enemy who tricked her into beheading Red Rider.]]
* CoolChair: Her design in spinoffs depicts her with an Enhanced Armament in the form of a floating throne which carries her around.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Her plan to manipulate Kuroyukihime into killing Red Rider goes off without a hitch until Red Rider's gun ends up in Kuroyukihime's inventory, causing her to realize that his gift was harmless and that she'd been tricked]].
* GoodPowersBadPeople: One of the very few healers in Brain Burst. [[spoiler:Her ability "Resurrection by Compassion" makes dead avatars come back to life... whether they want to or not. She uses this for torture.]]
* HealingFactor: She's one of the three healing types in Brain Burst, apart from Chiyu and an unnamed third person.
* InvisibleToNormals: One of her special abilities allows her to become invisible to everybody except for other Level 9 players.
* LightIsNotGood: Despite being a white colored avatar, she is not a person you would call good. [[spoiler:Given that she is the head of the Acceleration Research Society, and contributed to the death of Saffron Blossom resurrecting her over and over as she was killed and devoured.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:Kuroyukihime suspects that White Cosmos has been manipulating her for years, and reveals that she didn't want Haruyuki to meet (or hear too much about) her out of fear that White Cosmos would also manipulate him]].
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: While her duel avatar is obscured in the main story, it received a design in the videogame ''Peak of Acceleration'', which was reused in ''VideoGame/AccelWorldVsSwordArtOnline''.
* TheMedic: One of the three known healer-type avatars in the Accelerated World.
* {{Necromancer}}: She has the ability to reanimate defeated Burst Linker avatars.
* PhosphorEssence: On the rare occasions her avatar is seen, it's wrapped in a veil of light that obscures its true shape.
* RedBaron: Known by the title "Transient Eternity".
* SheIsTheKing: One of the female Kings of the Accelerated World.
%%* SiblingYinYang: [[spoiler: With Kuroyukihime.]]
* VirtualGhost: [[spoiler:Her ability to resurrect dead Duel Avatars works even when the player behind them is no longer capable of returning to the game.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to mention that she's anything other than the White King without spoiling a great deal about Kuroyukihime's backstory.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Upon realizing that her sister manipulated her, Kuroyukihime attacked White Cosmos in real life with a box cutter, injuring her. White Cosmos then decided to make the injury look worse than it actually was, resulting in Kuroyukihime getting thrown out of the house]].

!Executives: Seven Dwarves
!!Ivory Tower
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The White King's representative during the Kings' meetings.
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* InTheHood: His head is a "tower" resembling a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote capirote]], giving the impression of a priest or someone hiding their appearance.
* LeanAndMean: While his lower body hasn't been shown, he has an elongated head and slender clawed arms.
* MouthOfSauron: As the White King herself is never seen, Ivory Tower is authorised to speak on her behalf.
* TheNondescript: His "data pressure" is lower than the other Kings' attendants, and even his voice is described as "featureless, communicating nothing but the fact that he was probably male". Strangely, according to Metatron the actual amount of data in his avatar is very high, implying that he has some way of concealing his presence.
* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Probably unintentional, but he looks a lot like a member of TheKlan. Being the representative of the ''White'' Legion doesn't help.

!!Glacier Behemoth ("Sneezy")
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Introduced in book 20. A level 8 Burst Linker with one of the largest avatars in Brain Burst, standing at about 5 meters tall.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Equipped with a powerful spiky tail which can take out multiple targets in a single swing.
* BreathWeapon: His "Sigh of Cocytus" grants him the ability to freeze things by breathing on them, which can extend to a 20-meter cloud if he blows hard enough. Despite being a normal attack which doesn't even require meter, its effects are so dramatic that Petit Paquet mistake it for an Incarnate technique.
* FreezeRay: His "Congeal Ray" special attack, fired from one of the horns on his head, inflicts both damage and a freezing effect.
* HealingFactor: His icy armor repairs damage over time, which he can accelerate by breathing on damaged areas.
* InASingleBound: Capable of leaping with surprising agility.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: A favoured combat tactic. He makes his entrance by doing this to an entire ''building'' (one which Petit Paquet had previously thought indestructible, at that)
* MundaneUtility: Can use his blue [[FreezeRay "Congeal Ray"]] and red "Dissolve Ray" as signal flares to communicate with his allies.
%%* OneManArmy:
* RedBaron: "Habakkuk", after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk a British plan to create a colossal aircraft carrier out of sawdust-imbued ice]], which could theoretically be repaired just by pouring seawater on it.
* SmarterThanYouLook: A dignified, congenial sort, who describes himself as the most gentlemanly of the Seven Dwarves. Given his appearance, however, his opponents tend to be surprised he can even ''talk''.
* WormSign: His arrival is preceded by clouds of rolling fog.

!Other Members
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Acceleration Research Society]]

!!"Black Vise"
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuoTobita (Japanese), Creator/MatthewMercer (English)

The rather polite, well-spoken Vice-President of the Acceleration Research Society, and a Level 8 Burst Linker. He helped Noumi set up an ambush for Haruyuki and Taku to catch them off-guard during the sudden-death battle between them.

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* AffablyEvil: He's very polite at all times, even when talking with his foes.
* BerserkButton: For [[spoiler:Chrome Disaster]], being one of the avatars responsible for his suffering.
* CastingAShadow: Has the ability to hide inside shadows to travel at high speed or tail other avatars in secret. He can even carry other avatars and objects while doing this. Volume 15 reveals that he has also created a PortalNetwork of "shadow corridors" which members of the [=ARS=] use to travel to and from their base.
* DetachmentCombat: [[spoiler:Some of his trap skills revolve around using detached body parts to attack.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Retreats once he realizes that he's fighting a losing battle (and he is on a stalemate with Kuroyukihime), vowing never to directly tangle with the Black King again while leaving Noumi at Haruyuki's mercy.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Black Vise clearly shows signs of this as during the execution of Saffron Blossom.
* TheMagnificent: His alias of "Black Vise" is interpreted by the protagonists as a way of declaring himself equal to the Kings of Pure Color, as well as a slight against that color's rightful owner Black Lotus.
* MoveInTheFrozenTime: {{Inverted}}. He's capable of slowing down his perception of time in the Accelerated World, making him the only avatar immune to the YearInsideHourOutside effect of the Accelerated World.
* NobleDemon: In contrast with [[SmugSnake Noumi]]. He even shows due respect to Kuroyukihime for her skill as well as being the Black King, as well as Haruyuki for actually managing to elude his death trap.
* OneSteveLimit: An odd case in that he's supposedly the second black duel avatar. It's unclear whether "Black Vise" is his official name.
* PunchClockVillain: Black Vise is described as sounding like a businessman instead of a fighter.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Like the real black king Black Lotus, he shares his name with a banned ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card, albeit not one that's part of the iconic [[GameBreaker/MagicTheGathering "Power Nine"]]. This is also a major hint to his true identity: [[spoiler:"Black Vise" and "Ivory Tower" have identical costs and exact opposite effects]].
* VocalDissonance: InUniverse, Chrome Falcon comments that he sounds a good deal older than those who have been wearing Neurolinkers since they were born.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Among his abilities, he can arrange his panels to imitate the shape and voices of other avatars. This disguise is imperfect, however, and once he steps out of the shadows it's obvious that his body is still flat. [[spoiler:This is a hint that his ShapeshifterDefaultForm is also fake.]]
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: The usual application of his ability is trap people by pressing black blocks against them.

!!Seiji Noumi/Dusk Taker
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[[caption-width-right:350:The least rage inducing pic we can find.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SanaeKobayashi (Japanese), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (English)

A first-year entrant to Umesato (with Haru, Chiyu, and Taku moving onto the second year). After soundly defeating Taku in a kendo exhibition match, Haruyuki and gang discover that he is a Burst Linker with some way of hiding his name on the matching list, meaning he can only be challenged through direct cable matches. His special ability is to steal special attacks, equipment, and skills from other Burst Linkers. The effect is also permanent unless he voluntarily reverses the effect as opposed to just lasting for the duration of a match.
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* AchillesHeel: In addition to the limit to the number of powers he could use, he cannot steal Incarnate skills (because it comes from the Burst Linker's own will and is not predetermined by the system) and abilities not related to his own traumas. Thus, he can only steal abilities from Duel Avatars whose abilities are not specific to their own traumas.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: [[spoiler:Seiji loses all his memories of Brain Burst upon defeat. When Haruyuki meets him again in real life, Seiji's smugness is gone and he has become a nice boy.]]
* ArcVillain: He is the main antagonist of his eponymous arc.
* BadPowersBadPeople: He doesn't just copy abilities, he steals them. And then blackmails his opponents if they want them back.
* BigBrotherBully: Has one. The main reason he is such an asshole.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Appears as a nice guy to most people. But he's actually a very SmugSnake.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns in Volume 13, when the kendo club performs at the school festival. [[spoiler:It soon turns out that Wolfram Cerberus III has Noumi's memories and personality]]
* CombatTentacles: The stolen power he usually equips to his left arm.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was evidently abused by his brother, [[spoiler: until he decided to kill him in the game.]]
* DeathByDepower: [[spoiler:Gets a TasteOfHisOwnMedicine when the "healer" he blackmailed undoes his [[PowerParasite theft of Silver Crow's power]], while in mid-air, allowing Crow to kill him.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Grovels at Haruyuki, Kuroyukihime, Chiyuri and Takumu's feet begging for what remains of his BP once it became clear that [[FakeDefector Chiyuri has been working against him all along]], [[CurbStompBattle Haruyuki has turned the tables on him]], and that the rest of ARS left him on his own. [[KarmicDeath Haruyuki would have none of it]].]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:After becoming strong enough and gaining the opportunity, Noumi kills his abusive brother repeatedly, and takes great pleasure in it.]]
* EvilCounterpart:
** Apart from colour scheme, Dusk Taker and Silver Crow with their special abilities inactive look very similar (the main difference is Taker having bulkier neck/shoulder armor). Taken further when [[spoiler:Taker steals Crow's wings]]. He also cheats his way through his grades through the use of Brain Burst, much like Taku did before his HeelFaceTurn. Taku even figures out the exact moment Noumi accelerates to cheat on a test in order to challenge him to a duel.
** One can argue he's also what Haru could've been like if life were to pushed him too far. Both have suffered from bullying in the past. While Haru is fat and stubby, Noumi is LeanAndMean. Whereas Haru worked his way through Brain Burst with sheer hard work, Noumi uses deceit and manipulation to get his way.
* FacelessEye: The head of his Duel Avatar looks like this.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He exhibits a superficial level of politeness to his enemies, addressing them as his senpais, but when the conversation turns to Brain Burst, he shows his mocking and condescending side.
* FireBreathingWeapon: One of the stolen powers he can equip to his right arm; long-ranged and strong enough to melt rock.
%%* FragileSpeedster: His avatar's base state leans in this direction, though his stolen powers turn him into more of a LightningBruiser.
* FreudianExcuse: He was bullied by his brother, and had everything taken away from him.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Seiji had a fairly difficult childhood growing up under the thumb of his BigBrotherBully who exploited Seiji and forced him to turn over his points on a regular basis. Seiji ultimately became strong enough to kill his brother's Duel Avatar repeatedly until Yuichi was driven off Brain Burst, then later became a similar bully himself when he began extorting Haru the same way. The most sympathy Haru has for him after learning of his backstory is expressing his belief that they could have been friends if they'd met as normal Burst Linkers (and he isn't too put out when Seiji laughs it off), and considering that all other Burst Linkers [[PersonalityPowers derive their special abilities from various trauma]], Seiji isn't the only Burst Linker with a tragic past.
* GameBreaker: Considers himself one of these InUniverse after [[spoiler: Dust Taker starts combining Silver Crow's flight with powerful ranged weapons.]]
* GoodWingsEvilWings: [[spoiler:After stealing Silver Crow's aviation ability his wings are considerably more demonic looking.]]
* HateSink: By all indications, he's a low-level member of the Acceleration Research Society, but he's one of the most unpleasant and despicable characters in the series. Considering what a JerkAss SmugSnake he is, even his FreudianExcuse is still not enough to move the fanbase, and considering that he gloats about it, it doesn't inspire much in Haruyuki, either. The most sympathy Haru has for him is suggesting that they ''might'' have been friends if they'd met as normal Burst Linkers, but Noumi scoffs at the suggestion.
* HealingFactor: One of his abilities that he stole.
* MindWipe: [[spoiler:Lost all his memories of Burst Link after it was forcibly removed from him after losing to Haruyuki, proving Kuroyukihime's theory that uninstalling the program will also erase its user's memories of playing it.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: His duel avatar. Averts this completely in real life.
* PowerParasite: Dusk Taker has the Demonic Commandeer ability which permanently steals abilities, techniques and equipment from other Burst Linkers to use for himself. While there is a limit to how many he can use, he can still [[AllYourPowersCombined use multiple ones at the same time]].
* ShapeshifterMashup: {{Downplayed}}. When using multiple stolen powers at once (and their corresponding body parts) his avatar can look quite bizarre, though it remains mostly humanoid.
* SkullForAHead: Underneath the visor, his avatar's head is quite skull-like; [[GlowingEyesOfDoom it becomes briefly visible]] when he uses Demonic Commandeer.
* SmugSnake: Very smug and always looking down on people treating them like insects. As a result, he doesn't even consider the possibility of Haru turning the tables on him [[spoiler:or Chiyu betraying him]].
* StopHavingFunGuy: Noumi sees Brain Burst and Acceleration solely as a means to advance himself in the real world. He openly mocks any sense of friendship and camaraderie fostered by the game and refuses to refer to himself by the "childish moniker Burst Linker. And he has no problem looking down on anyone who does not share his point of view.
* TroubledAbuser: Treats others [[FreudianExcuse the way his older brother treated him]]. It's used to make him seem petty rather than sympathetic.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Once it became clear that all his plans are rapidly falling apart, even more so once he realized that [[FakeDefector Chiyuri only played him so she can restore Haruyuki's wings]], finally descending into a whimpering mess [[DirtyCoward begging Haruyuki to spare his last BP]].]]

!!Sulfur Pot
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (Japanese), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (English)

A Burst Linker who dives into Okinawa while being in Tokyo using a backdoor program.
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* FluffyTamer: [[spoiler:Loses this ability upon defeat. Kuroyuki eventually takes said ability (legally) as a gift from the Okinawa players.]]
* PlayingWithFire: In a rather different way, the primary ability that he is seen using is Charcoal Smoke which releases gun powder into the air that can be ignited and catch fire. Which he used in combination with Nick.
* SmugSnake: Overconfident to a fault, with absolute certainty in his belief that he and Nick are the ultimate partners.

!!Nidhogg/Nick

A Legendary Enemy of the Unlimited Neutral Field, he is controlled by Sulfur Pot.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Is given the name Nick by Sulfur Pot.
* MeaningfulName: In Norse mythology, Níðhöggr (Malice Striker, often anglicized Nidhogg) is a dragon who gnaws at a root of the World Tree, Yggdrasil.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When he is freed from his control he did not try to attack Black Lotus, Coral Merrow, and Lagoon Dolphin even after attacking Sulfur Pot.]]

!!Rust Jigsaw
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese) Creator/SeanChiplock (English)

A Level 6 trap-oriented Burst Linker.
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* ArcVillain: After making a brief appearance in the Dusk Taker arc, he becomes the primary threat to the heroes in The Bridge Floating in Starlight arc.
* BerserkButton: All of his actions are taken under orders. Do ''not'' imply that he's doing anything just to amuse himself.
* DeadlyDisc: His Wheel Saw ability sends a deadly rapidly rotating saw blade flying at his foe.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Going a step further than Noumi, he doesn't even ''enjoy'' the game aspects of Brain Burst, and [[StopHavingFunGuys is enraged by the sheer idiocy of]] people who would use such an incredibly powerful "lifehack tool" just to have ''fun''. [[invoked]]
* MakeThemRot: His use of the Incarnate System causes rapid corrosion of his targets' defenses. [[spoiler:It doesn't work on corrosion-resistant metals like stainless steel.]]
* TouchOfDeath: His second-order Incarnate ability, "Rust Touch".
* TrapMaster: His razor tripwires are designed to trap close-range opponents so he can dispatch them.
%%* Troll
* VerbalTic: When he begins a sentence with a verb, he will often say it as its own sentence first (e.g. "Regret. Regret that you...")
* WalkingWasteland: [[spoiler:The effect of his Incarnate ability, "Rust Order". Very powerful (implied to be boosted through illegal use of a Brain Implant Chip) but takes a long time to prepare.]]

!!Magenta Scissor
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A Level 6 Burst Linker who distributes "ISS Kits" - parasitic items that [[PsychoSerum grant their user powers from the Incarnate System at the cost of their sanity]].
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* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: In addition to offering her Kits to Burst Linkers in search of power, she and her clients also attempt to force the Kits on others.
* ArcVillain: She and her ISS Kits are considered a serious threat for a good chunk of the story, though Scissor herself isn't always in focus since the Kings are more interested in finding the source of the Kits and destroying it.
* AssimilationPlot: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Wants to use the ISS Kits to remove any distinction between duel avatars, thereby making everyone equal. Nega Nebulus want to stop her not only because the Kit is screwing with Burst Linkers' minds, but because [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome a Brain Burst where combat consists only of identical avatars trading Dark Shots and Dark Blows back and forth would be a dreadfully boring one]]. [[invoked]]
* BandageBabe: Her entire body is wrapped in magenta bandages, leaving only her lower face uncovered.
* GetRichQuickScheme: The ISS Kits have elements of a pyramid scheme, making their host more powerful the more they spread its spawn to others.
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Hidden under her bandages, she's infected by an ISS Kit herself. Justified in that the Kits reproduce by budding - her supply consists of her own Kit's "children".
* HiveQueen: Once the offshoots of her ISS Kit are fully integrated with their hosts, they become little more than mindless drones under her command.
* MasterOfAll: The Kit's abilities include two powerful attacks, one melee and one ranged, which turn any avatar into an all-rounder or allow them to shore up their weaknesses. Due to being based on the Incarnate System, these attacks are also [[GameBreaker difficult to counter for anyone who can't use Incarnate abilities themselves]].
* PsychoSerum: The Kit allows its user to enter a powerful "IS Mode" but steadily eats away at their sanity, even while not using Brain Burst.
* ShearMenace: Her main weapon is a pair of scissors which can cut from a distance, though it's normally kept [[BifurcatedWeapon split into two blades]].
* StrongButUnskilled: Most of her infectees forget their avatar's normal abilities and rely entirely on the Kit's "Dark Shot" and "Dark Blow" attacks. While powerful, their lack of variety means that the heroes quickly get used to dealing with them. Scissor herself is an aversion, both retaining all her original skills and mastering her Kit to the point where she can [[SimplifiedSpellcasting use its attacks without an activation command]].
* TheSymbiote: Once a duel avatar equips an ISS Kit, it fuses with them and manifests as [[EyesDoNotBelongThere a blood-red eye somewhere on their body]]. Separating the two afterwards is difficult, and can require different methods depending on the victim.
* UnwittingPawn: Appears to have been merely set in motion by the ARS rather than being an actual member of the organization.

!!Avocado Avoider

A duel avatar shaped like a giant avocado with spindly arms and legs. Was abandoned by his "parent" for his [[NonStandardCharacterDesign ridiculous appearance]], and nearly stripped of all his points until Magenta Scissor took him in.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Avo'''cado '''Avo'''ider.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Has a mouth on his torso, but no eyes or head.
* TheDragon: To Magenta Scissor.
* FightingClown: Despite his bizarre appearance, he's a useful ally in a fight.
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: What the "Avoider" in his name really means.
* TheQuietOne: Retains his personality despite the influence of the ISS kit, but speaks mostly in sentence fragments.
* StoneWall: His avocado flesh reforms when struck by physical attacks. Even if his main body is completely destroyed, his core (an avocado pit) can sprout limbs and escape.
* SwallowedWhole: His primary means of attack is to hold enemies in his mouth and dissolve them.
* TimeStandsStill: Things inside his stomach do not experience the flow of time, though they still take damage.

!!Wolfram Cerberus
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A Level 1 Burst Linker with a triple-personality problem.
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* AntiVillain: The least malevolent of the ARS Linkers, to the point that he actually asked Haruyuki to help him deal with his personality split, and actually defending him from Argon Array.
* DeathSeeker: When Cerberus sees Silver Crow again in the Unlimited Neural Field, he does so in the hopes that Crow will kill him and remove him from Brain Burst for good.
* DungeonBypass: His strength and durability allow him to create shortcuts by charging through walls.
* GameBreaker: In-universe example. Wolfram Cerberus has three different abilities, one per personality. The main head has <<Physical Immunity>> which renders him impervious to direct physical attacks of any kind. The second head has <<Wolf Down>> which allows it to temporarily copy someone's ability upon chomping a part of their body. The third head has [[spoiler: Dusk Taker's <<Demonic Commandeer>>]]. Best of all is, he has this at level 1.
* LightningBruiser: Having a body of wolfram (i.e. tungsten), he's sturdy enough to punch through walls like paper, yet agile enough to knock Crow out of the air. Being on the far-right of the metallic colour spectrum, though, his defence against energy-based attacks is less than amazing.
* MeaningfulName: He has three split personalities, much like [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the mythological Cerberus]] has three heads.
* MultipleHeadCase: Has a helmet shaped like a wolf's head, and similar armour on each shoulder. When the visor on his main head closes, one of his shoulders can open to reveal a different face with its own personality.
* NoSell: While Physical Immunity is active, he cannot be harmed by direct physical attacks. Energy attacks still work, however, and he still suffers collision damage if thrown.
* NotSoDifferent: He ends up doing to Silver Crow what Silver Crow did to Cyan Pile- beating a higher level player by virtue of a special and almost illegal ability.
* PowerCopying: His second head's ability "Wolf Down" lets it bite off a piece of another avatar, both dealing damage and granting him a copy of that avatar's powers for a short time.
* SplitPersonality: ''[[RuleOfThree Three]]'', in fact.
* SuperToughness: His body is composed of tungsten and tungsten carbide, making it almost as strong as diamond. And that's ''before'' he activates his Physical Immunity ability.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Veteran burst linkers note that his jagged metal body, personality and rapid rise to fame make him alarmingly similar to [[spoiler:Magnesium Drake, who would go on to become the second Chrome Disaster]].

!!Argon Array
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A Level 8 Burst Linker with the special ability to scan her enemies' stats. [[spoiler:"Parent" of Wolfram Cerberus.]]
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* BlindedByTheLight: Her special attack "Razzle Dazzle".
* EnemyScan: Her unique ability.
* EyeBeams: From both her normal eyes and the ones in her hat.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She has a friendly, cheerful demeanor that goes in hand with her often sadistic nature.
* MultiDirectionalBarrage: Her Incarnate technique "Infinite Array" creates ExtraEyes all over her body, upgrading her normal EyeBeams into a shockingly fast and powerful BeamSpam.
* NiceHat: A bulbous one containing two headlamps. Haru initially isn't sure whether or not it's part of her head.
* PsychoPsychologist: Came up with the [[RepressedMemories "Mental Scar-Shell"]] theory to explain why some avatars are granted metallic colours, [[spoiler:as well as a way to trigger this effect in new Burst Linkers deliberately]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chrome Disaster]]
!!The Armor of Catastrophe
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[[caption-width-right:200:Before it all went horribly wrong]]
A glitched item properly known as "The Disaster", which takes over Burst Linkers and corrupts them into an entity called Chrome Disaster.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Retains imprints of the powers of all its past hosts, though only one user was capable of bonding with the armor deeply enough to use them.
* ArmorOfInvincibility: The armor "The Destiny" originally granted its wearer incredible defensive abilities, including the ability to reflect light-based attacks. In its corrupted state it has lost its reflective properties and its stats have shifted to focus more on attack power.
* ClingyCostume: Infects the mind of its wearer with Chrome Falcon's hatred, and is almost impossible to separate from them. Even if a Disaster retains enough control that they can take the armor off, some of it will remain bonded to them, altering their base appearance to incorporate some of the armor's SpikesOfVillainy.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Was originally a normal duel avatar, until he went insane and fused together with two high-level items through incredibly strong [[ThePowerOfHate negative Incarnation]].
* EnemyScan: The sword Star Caster is capable of analysing enemy attacks, determining their properties, threat level and probable trajectory (the latter giving its wielder a form of SpiderSense).
* ItemDropMechanic: Can survive the death of its host by adding itself to the inventory of one of the duel avatars that killed it.
* LegacyCharacter: Each user of the armor takes up the name "Chrome Disaster".
* LifeDrain: The armor is capable of absorbing health from enemies; it's unclear whether or not it had this property when it was The Destiny.
* NoSell: Being made of chrome, it's unaffected by corrosion attacks.
* {{Portmanteau}}: Its name as an item, "The Disaster", is a combination of the names of its components - [[ArmorOfInvincibility "The Destiny"]] and [[InfinityMinusOneSword "Star Caster"]].
* PublicDomainArtifact: {{Discussed|Trope}} in volume 19, where the characters conclude that based on its placement and its original gleaming appearance, it was likely meant to represent the Yata Mirror (one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan).
* RedIsViolent: Wields a [[TechnicolorBlade red weapon]], and has manifested [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] for some of its wearers. The [[BattleAura "Over Rays"]] generated when it uses the Incarnate System are also red.
* ShoutOut: Has a number of similarities to [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} the Venom symbiote]], including [[SpiderSense its "Future Prediction Calculation" ability]], and its introduction where it's bonded to someone who swings between skyscrapers on grappling hooks. Most notably, the two potential methods for separating it from its host involve fire and the sound of a bell, correlating to Venom's heat[=/=]sound weaknesses and how ComicBook/SpiderMan originally rid himself of it by exposing himself to loud church bells.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Capable of communicating with its host and spurring on their negative emotions, even when they're not playing Brain Burst.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Rewards itself as loot to anyone who kills the current Chrome Disaster. Unfortunately, defeating a Chrome Disaster usually requires a large party, and the item could appear in the inventory of anyone who participated in the battle (who may choose to simply lie about it). [[spoiler:And even when ''no one'' receives the item, it can bypass the inventory system and embed itself in an avatar directly.]]

!!Chrome Falcon (1st Chrome Disaster)
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[[caption-width-right:250:The star-crossed lovers]]
An Originator in Brain Burst, Chrome Falcon is the first Chrome Disaster, responsible for creating the Disaster Armor after his partner and lover had Brain Burst permanently uninstalled.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Compared to avatars like [[WingedHumanoid Silver Crow]], he doesn't have any obvious falcon traits and his connection to them seems mostly thematic.
* DespairEventHorizon: He became the first Chrome Disaster due to reaching this when his lover, Saffron Blossom, was deleted from the game.
* DyingCurse: He leaves one to those who would seek out the Disaster Armor, doubling as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the ruthlessly competitive players he hated.
-->I'll leave my rage and Blossom's suffering to this armor, to the Disaster. The next time someone craves power and puts it on, they will become something that attacks all Burst Linkers, destroys them, devours them. They will eat them and steal their powers and become infinitely strong. Until they are the last one. Until the end when only one remains in the wasteland of the infinitely vast Accelerated World.
-->Because that is the true nature of your desire.
-->I curse this world. I defile it. Even if I disappear temporarily here, my rage and hatred will come back to life any number of times.
* FlashStep: His signature ability, "Flash Blink".
* FragileSpeedster: Chrome Falcon's potential lies entirely in a single ability, whereas otherwise, his Duel Avatar is very weak. In this case, said ability is a pseudo-teleport/FlashStep ability.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: It was his love for Saffron Blossom that motivated him so strongly. When he lost her, the results... were not pretty.
* PosthumousCharacter: Has long since been deleted from Accel World, but his effects (specifically the Disaster Armor) are still felt years afterwards.
* ShadowArchetype: A LethalJokeCharacter Duel Avatar with a metal color and named after a bird, and all of its potential put in a single powerful ability. Driven to protect a girl he loves, yet believes is completely out of his league. Abandoned by his parents. Low self-esteem and very timid, but capable of great determination. Chrome Falcon serves as a very disturbing look into what could happen to Haru if he ever lost Kuroyukihime.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: What Chrome Falcon did and became is a lot more disturbing when you find out he was '''eight years old'''. Justified with the Accelerated World's YearInsideHourOutside aspects (he claims that he's spent five years inside it and feels out of place among other kids his age), but still.

!!Saffron Blossom
An Originator in Brain Burst, Saffron Blossom was the partner and lover of Chrome Falcon. [[spoiler:When he became Chrome Disaster, her mind was trapped in its sword, unable to communicate with him.]]
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* ArmorOfInvincibility: Her armor "The Destiny", one of the Seven Arcs, boasts the highest defence of any equippable item in the game and is implied to let her [[LifeDrain absorb health from enemies]].
* DiscOneNuke: Due to Chrome Falcon finding an unintended way to sneak into TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, Blossom received "The Destiny" very early in the game's lifespan, with other players being completely unprepared for its power.
* IllGirl: In real life, she suffered from a degenerative disease.
* MercyKill: Requests this of Chrome Falcon after the [=ARS=] subject her to being continuously resurrected and killed by the Legend Class Enemy Jörmungand, leaving with only a handful of Burst Points. He complies.
* PosthumousCharacter: Has long since been deleted from Accel World.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: She wanted to live in the accelerated world with the boy she loved even if she couldn't live a full life in the real world, and establish an organization that would allow players to play without the fear of losing Brain Burst. Both dreams are cruelly taken away from her.

!!Magnesium Drake (2nd Chrome Disaster)
A former rising star in the duelling circuit, who participated in the hunting of the original Chrome Disaster only to be taken over by his armour.
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* BreathWeapon: Had the ability to breathe fire, which was later mimicked by the Disaster Armor.
* DraconicHumanoid: Resembled a spiky humanoid dragon.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died long before the start of the series, but is brought up by veteran Burst Linkers [[spoiler:to point out the unnerving resemblance between him and Wolfram Cerberus]].

!!Centaurea Sentry (3rd Chrome Disaster)
One of the previous Chrome Disasters, who was slain by Blue Knight.
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* ImplausibleFencingPowers: His signature ability, which was inherited by the Disaster Armor.

!!4th Chrome Disaster
[[quoteright:326:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accel_world_4th_chrome_disaster.jpg]]
An unnamed Burst Linker who was defeated by an alliance of the Kings of Pure Color. After suffering total point loss, their armor was secretly retrieved by Yellow Radio.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Is shown to wield a brutal-looking axe.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: A huge, long-limbed avatar, with a long neck that looks somewhat like a mutated centipede.
* PosthumousCharacter: Is depicted only in a FlashBack.
* TechnicolorBlade: Its axe is blood red.

!!Cherry Rook (5th Chrome Disaster)
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoTakahashi (Japanese)

The "Parent" of Scarlet Rain, the second Red King. Once it became clear that he couldn't catch up with Yuniko, he sank into despair and resorted to using the Disaster Armor to gain more power.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Volume 19 clarifies that "Rook" referred to the bird. Within Prominence, fellow animal-themed avatar Thistle Porcupine was rather fond of him for this reason.
* CyberCyclops: As Chrome Disaster, has a single glowing red eye. His original form has a more conventional face.
* GrapplingHookPistol: His signature ability, "Wire Hook", launches an invisibly thin wire from his palm, ending in a hook. To those unfamiliar with the ability, it can seems like he's flying or drawing in opponents through telekinesis.
* InASingleBound: His "Super Jump" ability.
* NotQuiteFlight: The combination of his Wire Hook and Super Jump grants him great mobility, which motivates Rain to track down Silver Crow to corner him.
* ObsoleteMentor: Was the one to introduce Niko to Brain Burst, but rapidly saw her outshine and overtake him.
* OneHandedZweihander: Wields a heavy triangular-shaped sword in one hand.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Is only every known in story as Cherry Rook, his real name is never known or spoken.
* ParentalAbandonment: Like Yuniko, he doesn't have parents. The fact that he gets adopted by relatives and ends up having to leave the facility only exacerbates his issues about Scarlet Rain surpassing him.
* PutOnABus: He gets adopted by relatives and taken far away from Niko, although they promise to keep in touch.
* TechnicolorBlade: Its sword is blood red.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:In Yellow Radio's scheme to defeat Scarlet Rain.]]

!![[spoiler:Silver Crow]] (6th Chrome Disaster)
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click to see spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accel_world_6th_chrome_disaster.png "But the reason stainless steel doesn't rust... is because it contains ''chrome''."[[/labelnote]]]]
[[spoiler:See the Nega Nebulus section for more details]]
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Bonds with the armor so completely that they can wield the combined abilities of all previous Chrome Disasters, though this has the side effect of making their fighting style much more sloppy and predictable.
* BewareMyStingerTail: The armor grants them a sharp tail as one of its abilities, [[spoiler:emerging from the fragment of Cherry Rook's [[GrapplingHook Wire Hook]] that became lodged in their back]].
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: In contrast to the previous Chrome Disasters, their weapon takes the form of a black sword [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver with red veins]].
* ThatManIsDead: When challenged to a duel, starts to announce their name and affiliation, only to decide they have no right to them any more, simply introducing themselves as "Sixth Chrome Disaster".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Okinawan Burst Linkers]]
!!Crimson Kingbolt
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crimson_kingbolt2_3779.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Drink in moderation.]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (credited as Todd Stone) (English)

A Level 7 Burst Linker and former member of Purple Legion. He moved to Okinawa three years before the start of the series after his parents' divorce. He is also a high school freshman, Lagoon Dolphin's "parent", and "master" of Lagoon Dolphin and Coral Merrow.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Before he disappeared from Tokyo, he was famously known as "The Burst Linker with the Strongest Name". Since all Burst Linkers are Japanese citizens of Tokyo, few understood the English word "kingbolt". It's a world where only the strongest Burst Linkers earned the title of King, yet "King" was actually a part of his name, so those who didn't really know about him trembled when they heard he was coming. Even the "bolt" part of his name added to his legend; the Purple King, being a master and lover of lightning, had him recruited to her legion before ever meeting him because she assumed he was named Bolt because of a similar electrical nature. Though his title is meant partially as a joke, it also alludes to the respect afforded him as one of the truly strongest Burst Linkers in the Accelerated World.
** After becoming the parent to two newbie Burst Linkers in Okinawa, he exaggerated his reputation somewhat, leaving off part of his title and claiming that he was known as "The Strongest Burst Linker". Kuroyukihime, who knew the truth, did not tell his students the whole story because of her respect and affection for Crimson Kingbolt.
** Partially because his Duel Avatar's full name was considered simply too awesome, even for him, his friends and allies, like Black Lotus, called him [[InSeriesNickname "Crikin"]] for short.
* BigBrotherMentor: To Coral Merrow and Lagoon Dolphin.
* DrowningMySorrows: Takes to hitting the virtual bottle because he and his students have no hope of defeating a mysterious Burst Linker who doesn't appear on the matching list in the real world, and who has tamed a legendary monster to rampage around in the Unlimited Neutral Field.
* HumongousMecha: If he gathers up a large enough pile of scrap metal, he can use his Mega-Machine Awakening ability [[CombiningMecha to merge with it and transform]] into an enormous humanoid robot. While it's considerable firepower cannot compare with Scarlet Rain's Immobile Fortress, the Mega-Machine is considerably more agile, capable of leaping shocking distances for something so large. Between this agility and a humanoid form (including actual hands), Crimson Kingbolt's mecha could theoretically engage in close combat with enemies large and small in a way that the Immobile Fortress can't.
* InUniverseNickname: "Crikin".
* LargeHam: He can be very overdramatic.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Until Scarlet Rain's ascent, he had the strongest long-range firepower in the Accelerated World's history. Despite not even being the original Level 9 Red King of Pure Color.
%%** MoreDakka
* SomethingWeForgot: Black Lotus, Lagoon Dolphin and Coral Merrow completely forget about him sinking in the sea after defeating Sulfur Pot.

!!Ruka Asato/Lagoon Dolphin
->'''Voiced by:''' Tamaki Nakanishi (Japanese), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (English)

A Level 5 Burst Linker from Okinawa. She is the "parent" of Coral Merrow and the "child" of Crimson Kingbolt, as well as the latter's real-life cousin.
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* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair to go along her tomboyish and brash personality.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her hair and eyes are the same color.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: She has red hair and tanned skin and she's a pretty impulsive and energetic girl.
* FieryRedhead: She has red hair and has the brash personality to go along with it.
* NaiveNewcomer: Like her friend Mana, she gives out her name to Kuroyukihime when meeting her in real life. In their case, their naivete is largely the result of few other Burst Linkers coming to Okinawa.
* RedOniBlueOni: The impulsive and rash Red Oni to Mana's calm and polite Blue Oni.
* SpiritedCompetitor: She challenges Black Lotus to a duel for the fun of it.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Mana's girly girl.

!!Mana Itosu/Coral Merrow
->'''Voiced by:''' Yuuko Gibu (Japanese), Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English)

A Burst Linker from Okinawa and the "child" of Lagoon Dolphin.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Rather naive when it comes to Brain Burst given they give out their names to Kuroyukihime when the met her in real life.
%%* OracularUrchin
* PinkMeansFeminine: She's the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girly girl to Ruka's tomboy]] and she's completely pink as Coral Merrow.
* RapunzelHair: As Coral Merrow.
* RedOniBlueOni: The calm and polite Blue Oni to Ruka's impulsive and rash Red Oni.
%%* {{Seer|s}}
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Ruka's tomboy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Petit Paquet]]
!!Shihoko "Shiho" Nago/Chocolate Puppeteer
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Master of the minor Legion "Petit Paquet", a Level 4 (later Level 5) avatar resembling a girl in a chocolate-brown dress and bonnet. Introduced in volume 12, and [[spoiler:along with her teammates, joins Nega Nebulus]] in volume 17. In real life she is deathly allergic to chocolate, and has paid many trips to hospital after eating some by mistake.
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* ADarkerMe: Acts significantly more [[SpiritedYoungLady confident and proper]] in Brain Burst than in real life, where she considers herself a painfully average person and usually defers to Yume. Mito invited her to Brain Burst after seeing her violent reaction to a kid who dumped chocolate sauce on her head, believing she had a fighter in her wanting to get out.
* ContestWinnerCameo: One of the avatars designed for a contest, who ended up having a larger role than originally planned. Though given [[YouTasteDelicious the nature of some of her scenes]], Kawahara both thanks and ''apologises to'' her designer in the afterword (insisting his editor put him up to it).
* DungeonBypass: The Legion Master Quest normally requires four people, but her Chocopets allowed Petit Paquet to do it with three.
* EatingTheEnemy: Her Chocopets reform from physical damage, requiring attackers to burn them, freeze them... or eat them.
* FairytaleMotifs: Her net avatar is themed after [[Literature/HanselAndGretel Gretel]].
* FluffyTamer: Forms a bond with a "Lava Carbuncle" Enemy which she nicknames Coolu, watching over and feeding it.
* GeoEffects: While Petit Paquet's playstyle has left her with relatively little duel experience, she is very familiar with Brain Burst's different field types and how to take advantage of them. In particular she's capable of retaining her balance while fighting on a trampoline-like stage, and her avatar's slick surface lets her move through water easily.
* ImprovisedGolems: Her ''Puppet Make'' summons autonomous chocolate puppets ("Chocopets") from the pools created by her ''Cocoa Fountain'' move.
* InUniverseNickname: Usually called "Choco" in Brain Burst, and "Shiho" in real life.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Pronounces her avatar's name as "Chocolat Puppeter", finding the proper English a bit of a mouthful.
* KungFuWizard: While her special moves are focused on fighting from long range, she's also a surprisingly adept martial artist, being quite nimble and having some Muay Thai moves she learned from Mito.
* MuckingInTheMud: Her ''Cocoa Fountain'' move creates a pool of chocolate (up to 30 meters in diameter if she spends her entire special attack gauge) which both slows enemy movement and can be used to fuel her other abilities.
* PowerUpFood: [[EatingTheEnemy Eating her Chocopets]] restores a small amount of the special move meter.
* SpiritedYoungLady: Evokes this image in Brain Burst, though [[ShrinkingViolet not so much]] in real life.
* StepfordSmiler: Expresses worry that she's going through life wearing a friendly mask, and that it's why the system [[PersonalityPowers generated]] such a cute, nonthreatening avatar for her.
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Summons delicious chocolate via beams of pink light (matching her eyes, which she describes as "the colour of strawberry cream").
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Expresses embarrassment in real life at her chocolate-based powers, seeing her allergy as an extremely minor [[PersonalityPowers "trauma"]] and worrying that she just comes across as a weird glutton.
* YouTasteDelicious: When Crow asks if her armour is really made of chocolate, she says ''everyone'' asks that and tells Crow to taste her hand just to get it out of the way. Unfortunately, Haru is both a BigEater and currently ''starving'', so he becomes distracted [[FoodPorn analysing her fingers' exquisite flavour]] and keeps licking, greatly weirding Choco out.

!!Satomi "Sato" Mito/Mint Mitten
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Chocolate Puppeteer's Parent. In real life she goes to a Mixed Martial Arts dojo with a focus on Muay Thai, and has taught some of her moves to Shiho.
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* BookDumb: Has the worst grades of the trio.
* FunWithPalindromes: "Mi-to Sa-to-mi" is read the same backwards and forwards, which she points out.
* InUniverseNickname: Chocolate Puppeteer calls her "Min-Min". In real life, her friends call her "Sato".
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: One of the victims of the ISS Kit.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: None of the group have any idea why Mito would have PersonalityPowers based on mint. Their best guess is that she's so mentally stable that the system gave up on trying to find a trauma and just based her avatar on her name instead.

!!Yume Yuruki/Plum Flipper
Chocolate Puppeteer's Child, and the president of the school cooking club to which Petit Paquet belong in real life.
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* InUniverseNickname: Chocolate Puppeteer calls her "Pliko".
* TheSmartGuy: Described as the brains of Petit Paquet - "in other words, in the Takumu position".
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: One of the victims of the ISS Kit.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[PersonalityPowers The trauma which shaped her avatar]] is a time she once choked on a plum. Like her teammates, she finds this embarrassing compared to the serious issues that shaped the avatars of other Burst Linkers out there.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Helix]]
!!Beryllium Coil
A level 5 Burst Linker and Master of the midsize Legion "Helix", which engages in Territory Battles against Prominence during the events of ''Prominence Trajectory''.
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* DualWielding: Initially had a knife in only one arm, but gained a second one as he levelled up.
* InASingleBound: On reaching level 5 he gained additional springs in his shins, allowing him to make powerful jumps.
* SinisterSwitchblade: Has powerful springs in each arm, which can be used to extend large jackknives.
* SpringCoil: His avatar's main theme.
* TheStrategist: While Helix lacks the raw battle power of the major Legions, they've earned a lot of respect for Coil's excellent combat tactics.
* SwordAndFist: Equally adept with knives and punching attacks, which he uses to keep his enemies off-guard and maintain distance.

!!Chili Powder
A red-orange avatar who fights Pard's team during ''Prominence Trajectory''.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: His grenades have a large blast radius combined with a short range, which makes it difficult for him to deliver them safely. Coil attempts to circumvent this by copying Nega Nebulus's "ICBM" combo, carrying Chili under one arm and using his new jumping abilities to let him rain DeathFromAbove.
* GlassCannon: His grenades are a powerful AreaOfEffect attack, but his armour is poor.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His special attack "Red-Hot Grenade" throws spicy smoke bombs that both damage enemies and disrupt their senses.

!!Verdant Colossus
A large green avatar who fights Pard's team during ''Prominence Trajectory''.

!!Cinnamon Raccoon
A large brown avatar who fights Pard's team during ''Prominence Trajectory''.

!!Azalea Baton
A midsize purple avatar who fights Pard's team during ''Prominence Trajectory''.

!!Rutile Check
A small yellow avatar who fights Pard's team during ''Prominence Trajectory''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Burst Linkers]]

!!Megumi Wakamiya/Orchid Oracle
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaTomatsu (Japanese), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (English)

Secretary of Umesato Junior High Student Council and a good friend of Kuroyukihime. She is also a Burst Linker who lost her memories of the game upon a defeat.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: In Episode 24, she is visibly annoyed to see Haruyuki approaching Kuroyukihime, who has just stepped off a train (with Megumi still onboard).
* GeoEffects: One of Orchid Oracle's abilities is to forcibly change battle stages.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: She's forgotten her time as a Burst Linker, but subconsciously hears a voice calling her, thus enabling her to briefly connect and save Kuroyukihime.
%%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Kuroyukihime's dark.
* MagicalGirl: Her Duel Avatar looks like one.
%%%%** MagicStaff
%%* OjouRinglets: As Orchid Oracle.
%%* PinkMeansFeminine: As Orchid Oracle.
%%* RapunzelHair: As Orchid Oracle.
%%* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Kuroyukihime.
* SkinshipGrope: She likes to grope Kuroyukihime.

!!Azure Heir
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accel_world_trilead_trioxide.png]]
A mysterious Burst Linker introduced in volume 7, where he initially introduces himself as "Trilead Tetraoxide". Themed after a feudal lord, he lives in the Imperial Palace (Brain Burst's VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon), and has had minimal contact with players other than his Parent.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Speaks in a manner fitting [[JidaiGeki his appearance]].
* TheHermit: While friendly, he doesn't interact with other Burst Linkers and his "home" is very difficult to reach.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Wields [[InfinityPlusOneSword one of the Seven Arcs, "The Infinity"]] - a sword that grows stronger over time while sheathed, with no upper limit, but resets back to its base stats after each use.
* MundaneUtility: His sword is potentially the strongest weapon in Brain Burst, but due to [[AwesomeButImpractical the one-shot nature of its attack]] he relies more on his own skills in combat, using its power only to attack the barrier that prevents players from entering or leaving the Imperial Palace.
* PublicDomainArtifact: {{Discussed|Trope}} in book 19, where the characters note where his sword was found and guess that it was placed in the game as a reference to the Kusanagi.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Azure Heir" or "Azure Air"?

!!The Audience

A bunch of nameless Avatars that appear on the sidelines and usually watch Crow fight.
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* ContestWinnerCameo: All the avatars are from a "Design your own Avatar!" contest hosted a while back.

!!Tin Writer
->'''Voiced by:''' Reki Kawahara, Takaya Kuroda (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)
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* AlmightyJanitor: Implied given his high level of intelligence in deducing Burst Linker identities.
* AuthorAvatar: Appears to be a stand-in for Kawahara himself
* CreatorCameo: Tin Writer (the gray colored, glasses-wearing metal avatar) in Japanese is voiced by the author himself.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In ''Accel World vs Sword Art Online'' he mentions he has knowledge coming from a higher level but in a different way to Metatron, possibly alluding to the fact that he's an AuthorAvatar. Ironically, his appearance in this game [[TheOtherDarrin is not voiced by the actual author]].
* SpotOfTea: Loves to drink tea with others.

!!Nickel Doll
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarumiSakurai (Japanese)

One of the Burst Linkers Silver Crow battled against with Aqua Current. She uses the electric poles in her palms to control the flow of electric current.
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Tiny Girl to Sand Duct's Huge Guy.
%%* ShockAndAwe

!!Sand Duct
->'''Voiced by:''' Eiji Miyashita (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)

Nickel Doll's partner. He uses the ducts in his hands to create a sandstorm vacuum.
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%%* BlowYouAway
%%* DishingOutDirt
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Huge Guy to Nickel Doll's Tiny Girl.

!!Kyouya Shinomiya/Mirror Masker
Ardor Maiden's "Parent" and (deceased) real-life older brother. His duel avatar was part white and part silver, with a shape reflecting his lifelong training as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh Noh]] performer.
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* IronicDeath: Dies in real life when one of his family's giant Noh mirrors falls and shatters on him.
* MirrorsReflectEverything: His signature ability, "Theoretical Mirror", made light-based attacks useless against him.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Like Maiden his avatar is two-tone, something highly unusual in a system that [[ColorCharacter places so much emphasis on an avatar's signature colour]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies before the start of the story, leaving a deep mark on Utai. His history becomes relevant when his "Theoretical Mirror" ability is brought up as a possible counter to Metatron's OneHitKill laser, with the other Legions spurring Silver Crow (as the duel avatar currently closest to a mirror) to try developing the same ability.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Enemies]]
!In General:

* BossInMookClothing: Even the weakest Enemies are strong enough that managing to defeat one solo is a sign of serious badassery, yet the rewards for doing so are usually pitiful. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Blue Knight's title of "Legend Slayer" grants him almost mythical status]].
* CycleOfHurting: In a scenario referred to by Burst Linkers as an "Unlimited EK" (Enemy Kill), an avatar is killed by an Enemy and respawns before the Enemy has left. If not somehow interrupted, this results in said avatar repeatedly dying and respawning until their Burst Points hit zero and they're left DeaderThanDead. Over the course of the story, various factions have tried to {{Exploit|edTrope}} this process as a way of assassinating their rivals.
* EliteFour: There are two groups of Legend-class Enemies with abilities beyond other members of their kind:
** TheFourGods[[note]]''shijin''[[/note]] guard the gates of the Imperial Palace, TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.
** The Four [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Deities/Saints/Holies]][[note]]''shisei''[[/note]] are the OneWingedAngel forms of the bosses of Brain Burst's four penultimate dungeons ([[Myth/JapaneseMythology Amaterasu]], [[Myth/IncaMythology Inti]], [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels Metatron]] and [[Myth/GreekMythology Nyx]]).
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Not only is the [[RealityWarper Incarnate System]] less effective against Enemies, they can "hear" it and are drawn to its location. This makes it extremely dangerous for Incarnate users to fight each other while in the [[TheOverworld Unlimited Neutral Field]].
* PinataEnemy: In addition to the small number of Burst Points they grant when defeated, some weaker enemies will also drop a card that can be converted into a large number of additional points. This isn't actually a game mechanic - rather the Green King, Green Grandee, spends long hours farming points from stronger enemies and distributing these cards in order to help low-level players stay in the game.
* TierSystem: Divided into Lesser, Wild, Beast and Legend classes, with a semi-official God class for some FinalBoss Enemies.

!Tropes associated with the Four Gods:
!!In General
* CounterpartCombatCoordination: In Nega Nebulus's initial raid on the Imperial Palace, each of the four Elements ([[BlowYouAway Sky Raker]], [[MakingASplash Aqua Current]], [[PlayingWithFire Ardor Maiden]] and [[DishingOutDirt Graphite Edge]]) lead the attack against the boss who shared their ElementalPowers. The result was a disaster, and in the aftermath Ardor Maiden (who'd been assigned to Suzaku) instead began developing a LavaPit technique [[OpponentSwitch for use against the slow-moving Genbu]].
* TheFourGods: A straight example.
* GateGuardian: Each boss is a BeefGate who sleeps in an altar on the path to one of the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Imperial Palace]]'s four gates, emerging when a Burst Linker draws near.
* GeminiDestructionLaw: Capable of rapidly buffing and healing each other from long distances, making them nigh-invincible unless the gods in all four locations are battled at the same time.
* ItCanThink: The Four Gods appear to display actual ''hate'' towards Burst Linkers, and are capable of remembering their past encounters and learning from them.
* UnwinnableByDesign: No force in Brain Burst has ever been able to defeat the Four Gods, only [[DungeonBypass bypass]] them. Volume 19 reveals that [[spoiler:they were placed by an enemy of the Brain Burst developer, who wanted to prevent anyone from reaching the core of the Imperial Palace]].
* WalkIntoMordor: Jumping or flying into the Imperial Palace is normally impossible due to its moat's strange gravity, forcing invaders to go through one of the Four Gods.

!!Genbu of the North
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* DishingOutDirt: The guardian corresponding to the element of Earth.
* GravityMaster: Among its abilities.
%%* TurtlePower
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Slow-moving, but capable of pulling in Burst Linkers to prevent them from fleeing.

!!Seiryū of the East
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%%* BreathWeapon
* LevelDrain: Its most feared attack is a [[HomingProjectile homing]], [[UnblockableAttack unblockable]] projectile [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin named "Level Drain"]] which causes any avatar struck by it to rapidly bleed Burst Points. That alone is bad enough, but once their Burst Points hit zero, contact with the projectile causes it to explode, stunning them and permanently reducing their CharacterLevel by 1.
* MakingASplash: The guardian corresponding to the element of Water.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Described as combining traits of Eastern- and Western-style dragons.
%%* ShockAndAwe
* ThatOneAttack: Its LevelDrain attack makes it the most feared of the Four Gods InUniverse. In fact the level 6 Blood Leopard, as part of her plans to fight Seiryū in future, keeps enough points in reserve to level up ''twice'' just so that she can survive as long as possible before the effects kick in.
* WeakButSkilled: Has the lowest raw power of the Four Gods, but the greatest number of attack forms.

!!Byakko of the West
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* BlowYouAway: The guardian corresponding to the element of Air.
%%* PanteraAwesome

!!Suzaku of the South
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%%* GiantFlyer
* ItCanThink: When Silver Crow decides to revisit the Imperial Palace in volume 18, he attempts to [[DungeonBypass bypass Suzaku]] by combining Gale Thruster, Metatron Wings and Light Speed, boosting his speed to supersonic levels and flying all the way to the gate before it can finish spawning. Instead, Suzaku spawns ''before'' Crow enters its territory in order to intercept him.
* PlayingWithFire: The guardian corresponding to the element of Fire.

!Tropes associated with the Four Deities:
!!Sun God Inti
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before the Four Deities are properly introduced, Inti is briefly mentioned as a powerful boss that [[LeeroyJenkins Graphite Edge]] once tried to defeat by luring it out of its normal grounds and into a lake.
* SinisterSentientSun: Takes the form of a miniature sun that vaporises anything it comes in contact with.

!!Archangel Metatron
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Yukana}} (Japanese), Creator/LauraPost (English)
Formerly the FinalBoss of Contrary Cathedral, one of Brain Burst's four great dungeons. The Acceleration Research Society somehow gained control of Metatron, using her to guard the location of the ISS Kit Core.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Capable of ordering lesser Enemies to simply go away, as long as they're not being controlled by something else.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Self-declared:
-->"I have no concept of good and evil as you do, and I have no interest in the squabbles of little warriors. However, I have no intention of breaking my vow to lend you my strength."
* BonusBoss: Normally intended to be fought in the Hell stage, which strips her of her most deadly abilities... but if somehow defeated ''outside'' of the Hell stage, she enters a secret second form.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Metatron's insanely powerful abilities are meant to be balanced by the DualWorldGameplay of the [[HailfirePeaks Contrary Cathedral]] dungeon where she appears, becoming drastically weaker when players step on a panel that switches the dungeon to "Hell" mode. In the overworld, however, the appearance of the Heaven and Hell stages is vanishingly rare, turning her into a HopelessBossFight.
* CastFromHitPoints: If she's somehow incapable of gathering sunlight for her Trisagion, she can sacrifice her own energy instead.
* CelestialParagonsAndArchangels: Named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatron Metatron]].
* EquippableAlly: Once freed, she creates a fairy-like extension of herself that can transform into the powerful Enhanced Armament "Metatron Wings", boosting Crow's [[RazorWings attack power]] and [[NitroBoost flight speed]].
* ExpositionFairy: Her terminal acts like a SourSupporter version of this, though she can't talk while in [[EquippableAlly Enhanced Armament mode]].
* FeatherFlechettes: In monster form, the twelve giant "feathers" on each wing can be launched as projectiles, then return to her.
* FusionDance: Briefly fuses with Crow in the fight against [[spoiler:Wolfram Disaster]], granting him her durability and MultipleLifeBars, though [[DisneyDeath the aftermath]] ensures that they can't soon do it again.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Her human form wears white clothing with gold trim, and is sometimes depicted illuminated by gold light.
* GratuitousGreek: Her attacks are named after Greek religious terms used in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
* InsistentTerminology: She will have you know that the proper term for inhabitants of the Unlimited Neutral Field like herself is not ''Enemy'' but ''Being'', thank you very much. And don't you dare call her ''Ektenia'' something as crude as "that wing attack".
* InstantDeathRadius: Her [[WaveMotionGun Trisagion]] has a very long range and is powerful enough to vaporise even Green Grandee, Brain Burst's ultimate StoneWall. Thankfully, she only uses it to keep people from approaching.
* IntangibleMan: Outside of the Hell stage, Metatron is intangible and almost invisible [[spoiler:unless the emission point for Trisagion is damaged, which will force her into physical form]].
* {{Kaiju}}: One of the largest bosses in Brain Burst, transported out of her dungeon to perch on a Tokyo skyscraper.
* MysticalWhiteHair: In her human form, along with white robes.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Initially introduced as a freakish translucent {{Kaiju}} which doesn't resemble any living creature, her [[BishonenLine second phase]] causes her "horn" to detach and transform into [[WingedHumanoid a woman with ribbonlike wings]].
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Has ten legs, four "wings" that look like rows of unconnected fins, a body made out of layered rings, a long tail ending in a beak-like structure, a spherical head that spits lasers and drills, and a horn that [[TurnsRed transforms into a different creature if the body is destroyed]]. And is usually ''transparent''. When Haru tries to get his allies to aim for the forehead, Niko first has to ask where that even ''is''.
%%* PerpetualFrowner
* RazorWings: Ektenia ("Litany") lets the Metatron Wings shoot forward to skewer targets, implied to be a smaller-scale version of Metatron's FeatherFlechettes attack.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: A mild example, but compounded by [[TechnoBabble her use of unusual terminology unfamiliar to Burst Linkers]] (such as calling the Duel Field "the lower field" and referring to the Twilight stage as "field attribution [=HL06=]").
* ShockAndAwe: Can generate a wide-area blast of purple lightning by spinning her body segments against each other.
* SourSupporter: Assists Haru through her "terminal" out of obligation, but takes every opportunity she can to spell out how unhappy she is about it.
-->'''Haru:''' "Metatron... thanks."
-->'''Metatron:''' "Refrain from pointless utterances."
* SparkFairy: Her miniature "terminal" takes the form of a diamond-shaped jewel with a halo and two smaller jewels resembling wings. Haru thinks it looks more like a selection cursor or an [=AR=] map marker than an object players can interact with.
* {{Telepathy}}: Can communicate telepathically with Silver Crow, though she isn't very forthcoming about information. She can talk too, but is disgusted by the thought of "lesser beings" hearing her voice without good reason.
* WaveMotionGun: Her Trisagion ("Thrice Holy") gathers sunlight through her wings to fire an incredibly powerful blast.

!!Amaterasu
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!!Goddess Nyx
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki (Japanese), Creator/CassandraLee (English)
The main antagonist of the movie ''Infinite Burst''.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Was "defeated" once in the early days of Brain Burst, but merely trapped in her dungeon rather than being killed.

!Tropes associated with the Eight Divines:
!!In General
* DuelBoss: While just as powerful as the Four Gods, they're human-sized and fought in a small room, making it impossible to bring raid parties against them.
* GateGuardian: They block the path to the "The Fluctuating Light", a mysterious item at the heart of the Imperial Palace.
* UnwinnableByDesign: In the same manner as the Four Gods.
* SerialEscalation: A second set of Imperial Palace {{Gate Guardian}}s even more unfair than the Four Gods.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Enbuken - ''Analytical Performance Martial Arts Research Club'']]
!!Chiaki Chigira/Aluminum Valkyrie
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[[caption-width-right:216:Chiaki Chigira - RL]]
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The main protagonist of the manga spin-off ''Dural: Magisa Garden'', Chiaki recently returned from America, enrolling into an all-girls school. Her brother used to tell her stories about a "Snow Black Princess" and her adventures in a magical kingdom before he died. Seeing an opportunity, two of her seniors try to install Brain Burst on her, only to be rejected. Turns out her brother already installed it three years ago on his deathbed, and is an unknowing Avatar.
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* AnimalMotifs: Idolized Kuroyukihime to the point where her own public avatar is designed around a swallowtail butterfly.
* BadassAdorable: She is a very cute young girl and quite badass in real life, thanks in no small part to her years of study in America where she learned parkour and several martial arts.
* BerserkButton: She does not take too fondly to people talking about her height. Even if someone isn't actually talking about her height.
* BloodKnight: She loves a good fight and loves looking for one in the hope of growing stronger so she can be more like Kuroyukihime.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Smashes her teacher's desk with one foot on her first day. And that's just as a greeting.
* FingerlessGloves: Wears a set of fingerless gloves.
%%* GenkiGirl
* HairAntennae: Has two rather butterfly like antennae.
* TheHeroine: Of her own spin-off.
* HeroWorshipper: Towards Kuroyukihime.
* HotBlooded: Very much so. Especially when it comes to combat.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The female Valkyrie type.
* TheNapoleon: She does not like her height being brought up.
%%* OlderThanSheLooks
* ShanaClone: Not surprising, considering the fact that Ayato Sasakura, the artist of ''Dural'', also worked on the manga adaptation of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana''. She's just more of a GenkiGirl than most examples.
%%* TinyTyrannicalGirl
* ToBeAMaster: She wants to become the eighth King to impress Black Lotus.
%%* {{Tsundere}}
%%* TsurimeEyes

!!Yuuko Hoori/Orange Raptor
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[[caption-width-right:225:Yuuko Hoori - RL]]

Head of ''Enbuken''. In the real world wears a bear head on her swimsuit for some reason.
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* BreathWeapon: One of her special moves. Deca Flare.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Her Avatar looks like a dinosaur with a scarf wrapped around its neck for some reason.
* GirlishPigtails: The most girlish of the group with the pigtails to match.
%%* LovableSexManiac
* MsFanservice: To begin with, she wears nothing but a two-piece bikini ''in the middle of school''.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Her Duel Avatar wears one.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Again spends most of her time in two-piece bikini ''in the middle of school''!
%%* VictoriasSecretCompartment

!!Kurumi Kuruma/Violet Dancer
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[[caption-width-right:225:Kurumi Kuruma - RL]]

Member of the Math Research Department staff martial arts division. In the real world has a habit of cross-dressing, garnering herself many fans in their all-girls school. Her avatar looks like an exotic Arabic dancer.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: Her overall appearance in real life complete with short hair and penchant for boyish clothing.
* BoyishShortHair: Her short her really helps with her Bifauxnen look.
%%* {{Meganekko}}

!!Lilya Usachova/Iris Alice
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[[caption-width-right:225:Lilya Usachova - RL]]

Russian-Japanese student and newcomer to the Math Research Department staff martial arts division. She had been bullied because of her lack of proficiency with Japanese. Eventually becomes Yuko's "child".

Has an ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' motif to her design and attacks.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Before she met Yuko.
%%* TheBeastmaster
** YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler:Lilya has a worse nightmare than anyone else in the cast or, for that matter, in the Accel World, as her trauma causes her to materialize a giant monstrous rabbit to destroy her enemies. Nothing less than the Chrome Disaster can possibly match.]]
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Her reaction rate is said to be far higher than Chiaki.
[[/folder]]

!!Glacier Behemoth

!Other Members
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Acceleration Research Society]]

!!"Black Vise"
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuoTobita (Japanese), Creator/MatthewMercer (English)

The rather polite, well-spoken Vice-President of the Acceleration Research Society, and a Level 8 Burst Linker. He helped Noumi set up an ambush for Haruyuki and Taku to catch them off-guard during the sudden-death battle between them.

!Team Stone

!The Elements

!Triplex (Team Beast)

!Triad (Team Artillery)

!Team Insect

!Team Fruit

!Heliosphere (Team Idol)

!Team Iron

!Team Flower

!Team Piglet

!Team Shrimp

!Team Veg

!The Six Armors

!Dualis

!Seven Dwarves

!Triplex

!Other Members

!!Cherry Rook (5th Chrome Disaster)
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikakoTakahashi (Japanese)

Yuniko's friend and "parent" who introduced her to Brain Burst. See the Chrome Disaster section for more details.

!!Blaze Heart
A Level 5 Burst Linker who attacks Nega Nebulus in volume 13, mistakenly believing that Black Lotus has tried to assassinate her King.

* CallingYourAttacks: Wouldn't be unusual for a duel avatar, except that she has to call them into a microphone.

!!Peach Parasol
A Level 4 Burst Linker who assists Blaze Heart in her attack.

* ParasolOfPain: It doubles as a gun and a shield.

!!Ochre Prison
A Burst Linker who assists Blaze Heart in her attack.

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* ContestWinnerCameo: One of the avatar designs submitted for a context.

!!Mustard Salticid
A Burst Linker themed after a jumping spider.

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* BuildingSwing: Can use her ability "Dragline" to create an elastic thread that breaks her fall, similar to a real jumping spider. With a little extra effort, she can also slingshot herself in other directions.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Normally laid-back and gets bored easily, but she's capable of shifting gears and acting professionally when things get serious.
* ExtraEyes: Has eight eyes spaced in a ring around her head, allowing her to see in all directions at once.
* InUniverseNickname: Blood Leopard calls her "Cid".
* SensorCharacter: Described as being in the top three of her Legion for enemy detection.
* SuperSenses: In addition to giving her omnidirectional vision, her eyes also let her make out details from great distances.
* TheUnpronounceable: "Nearly every Burst Linker who met her had to ask about her proper name two or three times, and then ask again the next time they met her."

* BullyMagnet: He hasn't known a day of Junior High yet where he hasn't been bullied or threatened by TheBully Aria and his gang. It does not help that Haru actively cuts off any outside support from his friends to deal with the problem out of shame for not being able to himself. It's a sign of his character progression when Nomi tries to put him back in this situation that he doesn't just lie down and take it.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He is viewed as an outsider from his school because of his appearance.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After he lost his memories he became nice and cheerful.]]

* {{Keet}}: [[spoiler:After he loses his memories of Brain Burst.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After losing his Brain Burst upon losing, rather than being all smug when meeting Haru, he acts nice and cheerful. This is the result of losing all his memories involving the Brain Burst.]]

* WomanInWhite: Her avatar Sky Raker wears a lot of white clothes.

* MysticalWhiteHair: In her human form.

* WomanInWhite: Her human form has both white robes and [[MysticalWhiteHair white hair]].

* ADarkerMe: Acts significantly more confident and proper in Brain Burst than in real life, where she considers herself a painfully average person and usually defers to Yume. Mito invited her to Brain Burst after seeing her violent reaction to a kid who dumped chocolate sauce on her head, believing she had a fighter in her wanting to get out.

Chocolate Puppeteer's Parent.