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* PetTheDog: When Kyouko is taken to the virtual world and realizes how much her parents are proud of her, she allows Asuna to continue to stay with the SAO survivors.

[[folder:Jo Wol-Saeng / Moonphase]]
!! Jo Wol-Saeng / Moonphase

A Korean player who's dragged into the War of Underworld along with thousands of other Korean VR players, who's rightfully suspicious about the cover story he and his countrymen have been given.

* TheSouthpaw: He usually wields his weapon with the left hand.

[[Characters/SwordArtOnlineMajorCharacters Major Characters]] ([[Characters/SwordArtOnlineKazutoKirigaya Kazuto Kirigaya]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAsunaYuuki Asuna Yuuki]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineSuguhaKirigaya Suguha Kirigaya]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineShinoAsada Shino Asada]]) | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAincrad Aincrad]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAlfheimOnline Alfheim Online]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineGunGaleOnline Gun Gale Online]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineUnderworld Underworld]] ([[Characters/SwordArtOnlineIntegrityKnights Integrity Knights]]) | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAntagonists Antagonists]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineVideoGame Video Game Exclusives]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline Alternative Gun Gale Online]] | '''Others''' | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineMobileGames Mobile Game Exclusives]]]]]]-]

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While an ally of Kirito and his friends, they regard him with a high level of caution.

Suguha's mother, as well as Kazuto's aunt and adoptive mother in the real world.

* GoodParents: Midori adopted Kirito when he was just a year old when his parents, her sister, and brother-in-law, died in a car crash. Even when Kazuto found out that she's really his Aunt, she still does her best to provide motherly support to him and Suguha.

* TheDreaded: She becomes a comical example after ''Mother's Rosario''. The idea of formally meeting his girlfriend's mother apparently scares Kazuto more than floor bosses, serial killers, and hostile game masters.

* FantasyForbiddingMother: Kyouko tries to reign in Asuna's interest in the [=AmuSphere=] because she doesn't consider its worlds and people meaningless, instead wanting to ensure a brighter academic future for her daughter. She ultimately reconsiders by the end of volume 7 thanks to Asuna telling her about how and why she would want a simple life.

[[Characters/SwordArtOnlineMajorCharacters Major Characters]] ([[Characters/SwordArtOnlineKazutoKirigaya Kazuto Kirigaya]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAsunaYuuki Asuna Yuuki]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineSuguhaKirigaya Suguha Kirigaya]], [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineShinoAsada Shino Asada]]) | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAincrad Aincrad]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAlfheimOnline Alfheim Online]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineGunGaleOnline Gun Gale Online]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineUnderworld Underworld]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAntagonists Antagonists]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineVideoGame Video Game Exclusives]] | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline Alternative Gun Gale Online]] | '''Others''' | [[Characters/SwordArtOnlineMobileGames Mobile Game Exclusives]]]]]]-]

* WhatTheHellHero: He scolds Kirito for causing him and his mother to be worried when he's missing during the event of Alicization.

** Kyouko's intentions to have an ArrangedMarriage for Asuna and her transferring to a prep school from the SAO survivors school are to ensure a bright future for her own daughter. Fortunately, when Asuna shows her the virtual world, Kyouko realizes how wrong her plans were.

* TheNotLoveInterest: While Yuna’s arc is heavily defined by romance, it is not with Kirito like most girls, but with Eiji.

* EvilCounterpart: Many aspects of Eiji mirror that of Kirito: a fast and skilled solo fighter who battles on behalf of the girl he loves. Both dress in dark colors, but with Kirito being DarkIsNotEvil and Eiji being DarkIsEvil. Also like Kirito, he has SurvivorsGuilt because [[spoiler: he outlived his first love due to his inability to protect her from the dangers of Aincrad.]] The difference lies in that he relishes his ability to beat down other players and he does it through an unfair advantage. Kirito may have been a "beater" but Eiji is just a cheater.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:While he shows signs of going through one in ''Cordial Chords'' after [[LoveRedeems getting Yuna back]], he cements this in the ''Alicization'' Anime when he joins in on protecting the Underworld and saves Kirito from [=PoH=].]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: While ultimately sympathetic, he shows shades of this trait. While not necessarily happy about it, he's aware that in bringing back his daughter he'll likely be trading the lives of thousands of other children, and forcing those children's parents to go through the same pain he went through, but despite knowing this, he goes through with his plan. He also seems to care more about ''him'' getting Yuna back as opposed all of her loved ones getting her back, as shown when he intentionally sends an SAO monster to finish off Eiji and take his memories since he ''knows'' how close the two of them were, and therefore knows Eiji is the most important source of memories of her aside from Tetsuhiro himself.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler: Of Asuna, expressing envy that Nobuyuki Sugou gets her all to himself, and later Quinella, who manipulates him to create the "Seal of the Right Eye" to keep the residents of the Underworld obedient to her Taboo Index.]]
* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler: It's revealed that he was one of the two slug scientists from Fairy Dance, namely the one who tried harassing Asuna while the other went to report her attempted escape to Oberon.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: A falling wrench cause him to fall to his death.]]
* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler: His encounter with Asuna implies that he's a user of digital drugs, drugs usable via a VR device that create stimulation in brain activity with varying effects.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: After receiving no comeuppance for him harassing Asuna in Fairy Dance, he finally got his comeuppance when he falld to his death.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Aside from the rest of the spoilered lines, [[spoiler:he also the one who revealed the real world to Quinella, setting up everything Kirito had to go through during the first half of ''Alicization'']].

* DudeMagnet: She's seemingly the only other person [[{{Sociopath}} Kayaba]] cared about, [[AbhorrentAdmirer Sugou apparently tried courting her]] back in school, and [[spoiler: Higa also admits, albeit not to her, that he also had a crush on her and tries asking her out after she saves him from Yanai, only for [[ObliviousToLove her to]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint miss the point]].]]

* UndyingLoyalty: Arguably to Kayaba. It what’s prevents her from killing him when she finally tracked him down and the reason why she hasn’t confessed that the bomb Kayaba implanted in her was a RedHerring to [[KarmaHoudini get her off the hook]] in spite of her guilt is because doing so would have defeated the purpose of “the only gift he ever gave her”.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He saves Higa from Yanai by dropping a wrench on him, causing him to stumble and [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to his death.]]]]

** [[spoiler: Allowing Shino to visit Kyouji at her request, even commedning her for being brave to want to do it.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: After receiving no comeuppance for him harassing Asuna in Fairy Dance, he finally got his comeuppance when he fall to his death.]]

* ObvliviousToLove: [[spoiler: She does not pick up on the fact that Higa was trying to ask her out after she saved him from Yanai, instead thinking he was asking for a celebratory meal and agreeing to buy him a burger or ramen sometime.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Rinko was Kayaba's girlfriend and fellow researcher, which is a big role to have - especially when she could've prevented the entire franchise's story from kicking off to begin with. She's also the one that helped design the Medicuboid, meaning Yuuki's entire prolonged living state and thus her storyline was able to happen because of Rinko. However, despite getting Asuna to the Ocean Turtle, and helping try to get to the bottom of the JSDF's artificial intelligence research, ultimately Rinko herself is mostly a bit character to fill in the world a little more and irrelevant beyond that.

* DemotedToExtra: In the anime adaptation of ''Alicization: War of Underworld'', he plays much less of a role as opposed to the original light novel and his screentime is greatly reduced. Namely, the existence of the anime-original character Mei Mei Xiang makes him them a sort of DecompositeCharacter since he splits up his dialogue with her, and his biggest moment in ''Alicization Awakening'' [[spoiler: when he tries to stop Vassago from assaulting the comatose Kirito]] is replaced with [[spoiler: an anime-original battle between the ''[[Anime/SwordArtOnlineTheMovieOrdinalScale Ordinal Scale]]'' characters Eiji & Yuuna vs. Vassago.]]

** [[spoiler: During Eiji's fight with [=PoH=] in the ''War of Underworld'' Anime, she turns into her Idol form to apply buffs to Eiji to give him an edge.]]

* BerserkButton: Calling him [[spoiler: "Nautilus" is a good way to piss him off because he regards it as a mark of shame and heartbreak.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: His ALO Avatar is heavily {{Implied}} to be an Imp or Spriggan with his dark colored clothes and purple accessories, and he establishes himself to be with the good guys this time when he willingly joins the War of Underworld after Liz's speech and attacking [=PoH=] to save Kirito, during which his outfit changes to his old [[LightIsGood [=KoB=] attire]]]].
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: He is Shigemura's field agent, hunting down SAO survivors and ensuring they die so their memories can be harvested for the sake of their EvilPlan.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: While he shows signs of going through one in ''Cordial Chords'' after [[LoveRedeems getting Yuna back]], he cements this in the ''Alicization'' Anime when he joins in on protecting the Underworld and saves Kirito from [=PoH=].]]

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: It's {{Implied}} that his brutal beatdown of Fuurinkazan is because when Yuna died, he begged two of their members to save her from the boss' minions but they said that they couldn't due to be preoccupied with said boss.]]

* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler: Unlike other SAO survivors, who use the same ID in Ordinal Scale that they did in Sword Art Online, he redubs himself "Eiji" because he wants to sever himself from his past as "Nautilus".]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother divorced his father and gained custody of him while he was still young, and upon waking up from SAO, he discovers that his mother and step-father divorced while he was trapped and were reluctant to bring another child into their new lives, which led to him living alone while they sent him money.

* PurpleIsPowerful: His OS outfit is purple, and he's the second highest ranked player in the game.

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: While he puts up an amazing fight considering the odds, his defeat by [=PoH=] serves to establish how much of a threat Laughing Coffin's leader is.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: Seeing him go from a [[SmugSnake Smug]] JerkAss who would [[KickTheDog gleefully torture SAO Survivors before taking their memories]] to a man willing to help protect the Underworld and even try and save Kirito from [=PoH=] is especially notable.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: In the end Shigemura doesn't succeed in killing him as his YouHaveFailedMe was cut short thanks to Kirito. ''Cordial Chords'' reveals that he turned himself over to the police for manslaughter on the members of Fuurinkazan, but he was released as none of them pressed charges against him.

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[[folder:Wol-Saeng / Moonphase]]
!! Wol-Saeng / Moonphase

A Korean player who's dragged into the War of the Underworld along with countless other Korean VR players, who's rightfully suspicious about the cover story he and his countrymen have been given.

** [[spoiler: He also realizes the reason [=PoH=] isn't concerned about his army of Korean and Chinese players turning against each other once half of them realizes there's something shady going on; because he plans to finish him off and spur the ones on his side against the ones who are still blinded by their fanatic patriotism and resentment of the Japanese so he can watch them all kill each other for his amusement. [[OhCrap He's naturally horrified by this.]]]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He saves Klein from being killed by a fellow Korean Player.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: [=PoH=] cuts into his back when he tries convincing the other Korean Players to listen what Siune has to say. He survives, but the lack of a Pain Absorber means that this leaves him in a lot of pain.]]

* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: He's apparently the ''only person'' to actually recognize just how suspicious the cover story of "Japanese hackers trying to sabotage a joint VR Project between America, China and Korea" is and is even more convinced when Siune tries convincing the group he's with. Even after watching [[{{Sadist}} [=PoH=] ]] beat up Kirito, who is pretty much a cripple at the time, only about half of the Koreans and Chinese players outside of him actually start to realize just how shady the whole thing is.]]
* TheResenter: Averted. [[spoiler: While he admits to having some beef with the Japanese due the Koreans not getting access to the Seed to make VR games and numerous other things, he also remembers the good experiences he had thanks to and with Japanese.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: The sudden appearance of Korean and Chinese players, including Moonphase, is noted to be a major plot point and the closest the heroes have to a DarkestHour in the war.]]

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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: A falling wretch cause him to fall to his death.]]

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Another member of Rath, [[spoiler:as well as the traitor]]