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Sword Art Online Main Character Index
Main series: Major Characters (Kazuto Kirigaya, Asuna Yuuki, Shino Asada, Eugeo, Alice Zuberg) | Aincrad | Alfheim Online | Gun Gale Online | Underworld (Integrity Knights, Dark Territory) | Unital Ring | Antagonists (Laughing Coffin, Nobuyuki Sugou) | Bosses | Others
Alternative Gun Gale Online Characters: Team LPFM | Team SHINC | Team MMTM | Others
Video Game Continuity | Gameverse Characters (Gameverse Main Characters) | Mobile Game Exclusives

Real world names are in western naming order. Followed by their online name and worlds they played in.^note If only the online name is known, then display as normal.

This page details characters who comprise the main cast of the Gameverse.

Note: Unmarked spoilers ahead.

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Gameverse Main Characters

In General

• Arc Hero: Each of them all serve as the plot significant character of their debut game.
• Sixth Ranger: Each of them all end up joining Kirito's team one-by-one.
• Recurring Element: Each installment up to Hollow Realization features a set of two sisters, with one or both of them tied to the villain of the story.
• Unwanted Harem: Several of them even further add to the already complicated situation Kirito has going.

Strea

Strea (SAO, ALO, SA:O, GGO)

^{Click here to see Strea in Lost Song}

^{Click here to see Strea in Hollow Realization}

Voiced by: Sachika Misawa (Japanese)

An unknown player who started tailing Kirito after the events of the 75th Floor's boss fight. First appeared in Infinity Moment.

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• The Ace: Her Hiding skills can elude Kirito and she is one of the strongest in the raid team.
• Actor Allusion:
  • In Lost Song, Strea's avatar gets taken over by Black Lotus. Both of them are voiced by Sachika Misawa.
  • In Accel World VS Sword Art Online, during a "Say it Strea" segment, Strea is able to perfectly imitate Kuroyukihime's voice.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: As an AI, she has No Sense of Personal Space and has a profound memory loss.
• Ambiguously Bi: She mostly flirts and seems interested in Kirito. But during a party game in which she requested a kiss from Kirito, Asuna demanded Strea kiss her instead. Strea has absolutely no problem complying with her demands, and from everyone's reactions she goes at it with the same enthusiasm she has to giving hugs, which since she's The Glomp mean very passionately.
• Apocalypse Maiden: She's a Mental Health Counseling Program like Yui. The glitches in SAO are because of her overloading due to being unable to help the players like Yui.
• Artificial Intelligence: She's a Mental Health Counseling Program, just like Yui, who even considers Strea to be her little sister.
• BFS: Primarily uses a 2-handed sword in Infinity Moment & Hollow Fragment, but in Lost Song she can also use Axe and Spear.
• BFG: In Fatal Bullet she, along with Agil, serve as heavy weapons specialists among the recruit-able cast. Both of their weapon loadouts consist of a gatling gun and a rocket launcher.
• The Big Gal: She's so dammed strong, yet she's also very immature. So in essence, she can be very useful in battle, but also a handful to manage socially. Appropriately her weapon in Fatal Bullet is a rocket launcher.
• Big Little Sister: She is technically Yui's little sister, as they were derived from the same source code, however Yui has the appearance of a young child while Strea looks fully developed. One time Strea even comments that out of the two of them, people would think she's the big sister. But for the other variation of this trope, Yui does act more maturely than the impulsive Strea.
• Birds of a Feather: With Yuuki, a fellow Genki Girl. Their enthusiasm and go-lucky attitude practically rebound off each other.
• Big-Breast Pride: Strea is extremely proud of how large her bust is and is all too eager to show it off.
• Big Eater: Often shows herself to have a large appetite, especially when it comes to the subject of meat. In Hollow Realization, one of the events is her enthusiastically taking a quest in which the reward was "a ton of meat".
• Brains and Brawn: She's the brawn to Yui's brains, being The Big Gal on the team while Yui is the informant.
• Broken Ace: A literal case due to her origins as a Mental Health Counseling Program. She's one of the stronger SAO players, but she's been corrupted by all the players' negative motions to the degree that the events of Hollow Fragment happen due to them finally overloading her and causing all the glitches in SAO.
• Cleavage Window: In Hollow Fragment and Hollow Realization, but averted in Lost Song courtesy of a breastplate. Very noticeable given the large size of her chest.
• Clones Are People, Too: In trying to save the real Strea using a test in the Hollow Area, Kirito and Yui encounter a Hollow Strea who was brought in as the next closest thing. Yui gets the idea to swap the data of the Hollow Strea with the real Strea, but is very hesitant to do so as that would mean subjecting Hollow Strea to what the real Strea was going through. However Hollow Strea herself volunteers to save the real Strea. Despite this, Kirito vows to save the Hollow Strea to, considering her a real friend despite being a copy.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Played with. In Hollow Fragment when she and the girls have a cooking contest to see who cold prepare the best meal from Kirito's S-Class ingredient, Strea's attempt had her making a mound of unnameable slop where even she wasn't sure what it was supposed to be. However Kirito tries it and is impressed by it, calling it a culinary revolution.
• Crutch Character: Can start out this way as her weapon is actually meant to do more damage to bosses and she's around Kirito and Asuna's level. And there's also the fact that she isn't always available, especially after Floor 95 is reached.
• Cuddle Bug: She loves giving hugs, especially to Kirito. Expect them to be spontaneous and catching others by surprise. At the 90th Floor Party, she thanks everyone by crushing them with very painful hugs.
• Daddy's Girl: She possibly said it as a joke, but in both Lost Song and Hollow Realization she comes to the thought that since Yui's her big sister and Kirito's Yui's father, that would make her his daughter as well; she even calls him "Daddy" soon after saying this. Subsequent games have her constantly calling Kirito "Daddy" and it appears she genuinely thinks of him that way, she even considers Asuna her Mommy and says they're family.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She acts like a child, but she's incredibly strong. This along with the fact she loves giving hugs make for a deadly combination to her friends.
• The Empath: Like Yui, she was designed to serve as AI counselor, but she got corrupted from experiencing all the players' negative emotions.
• The Fashionista: Has quite decent sewing skills which she often uses to make outfits for the girls.
  • In Lost Song, she made lingerie for herself and Asuna in one event, different school uniforms for the other girls, while dressing herself as a teacher.
  • In Millenium Twilight, she made a machine that auto-generates costumes for all the girls.
• Fun Personified: She embodies the "life of the party" even more than Klein does. Strea is so eternally happy that her friends want her there to lift everyone's spirits.
• Fusion Dance: She ends up fusing with the Hollow Avatar when Sugou inflicts incurable poison on her. Later, Yui absorbs her data in the hopes of someday restoring her.
  • Subverted if you do a specific quest exclusive to Re: Hollow Fragment where you can get her back after the event with Sugou, causing the Hollow Avatar to fuse with a Hollow Clone of herself instead.
• The Gadfly: It becomes hard to tell at times how much of it is her intentionally messing with Kirito for the fun or it and how often she's being Innocently Insensitive. But nonetheless, around her there's a high chance Kirito is in for trouble.
• Genki Girl: She's very enthusiastic in anything she does. It highlights her childish nature.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's shown with a lot of toys in her room at an inn. In Hollow Realizations, her Pillow Talk scenes also have her sleeping with a teddy bear.
• The Heart: Aside from how physically strong she is, this is Strea's main contribution to the team. Due to her nature as a Mental Health Counseling Program AI, she's always conscious of other's feelings and wants nothing more than all her friends to be happy, even if her methods of doing so are quite unorthodox and lead to embarrassment or pain on the receiver's end.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: After regaining her memories, she wants to prevent the world from getting destroyed, which pits her against Kirito and the raid team. She later performs a Heroic Sacrifice for Kirito and takes away Sugou's GM privileges, only to merge with the original Final Boss.
  • If you're playing Re: Hollow Fragment, the door revolves one more time through an additional quest where you can free her from the Final Boss by having a Hollow Clone of herself be merged with it in her place, allowing you to use her in the last battle.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She takes the sword for Kirito, much like Asuna did in the canon series. Only Strea does so against Sugou and gets stabbed with an Infinity +1 Sword that slowly drains her HP.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Firmly believes that her boobs can achieve anything and that they give pleasure to any guy, especially Kirito.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl:
  • One time she very nearly takes off her clothes in public after feeling sweaty and hot. She's unable to understand there is anything wrong with this and expected Kirito to do the same. Kirito had to distract her out of going through with it.
  • Another time in Accel World VS Sword Art Online, Strea mysteriously finds she's become heavier, so to lighten up she takes off all of her gear, to which Kirito has to discipline her like a father and make her put her clothes back on.
• Innocently Insensitive: She's an AI about the same age as Yui, and lacks understanding about things like personal space, societal conventions, and taboos. Often Played for Laughs.
• Like a Daughter to Me: Inverted. It's Strea who sees Kirito as her daddy, whether he wants it or not.
• Male Gaze: Her outfits leave little to the imagination and she's not shy about it at all. In fact she's the only girl who will insist Kirtio check her out rather than telling him to look away when she's wearing something revealing.
• Marshmallow Hell: Loves putting Kirito through this.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: She was inadvertently causing the glitches in SAO, due to her being a MHCP who was overloading from being unable to help players. She also tries to hinder the heroes from clearing the game, due to fear that not only would she cease to exist but she would never be able to see Kirito and friends again.
• Mood-Swinger: She can switch from distressed to cheery in mere moments.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has large breasts, a Stripperific outfit that shows off her body quite well, and can be quite The Tease at times. In Hollow Realization, she adds a midriff-showing outfit into the mix.
• Mysterious Past: It took a very long time for her true origins to come out. Whenever Kirito tried to uncover her past, she would skirt around the question, changing the subject or bailing off. Kirito was originally under the impression she's an ordinary player, before finding out much later on that she's an AI serving as a MHCP much like Yui.
• No Social Skills: Asuna describes her a "social whirlwind". Her behavior is very odd and uncharacteristic for someone her age, having no filter in her conversations, being overly friendly to the point of being intimate, having No Sense of Personal Space, and being unable to understand others embarrassment or feelings of awkwardness.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She really loves giving people hugs.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The rare times Strea isn't her happy and cheerful self, things are definitely dire.
• Playing Sick: In Hollow Realization, one event had her pretending to be sick to try get Kirito to take care of her. She fakes coughing, to which Kirito tries to give her all sorts of potions to no effect, brings her food, and very nearly gets made to kiss her to take her infection away. It isn't until he gets a message from Asuna that Strea had been asking her what sick people tend to do, that Kirito finally catches on.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her hair and attire is purple, and she's an extremely strong player.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: She starts to develop hints of this with Yuuki during the events of Hollow Realization, to the point Asuna starts to worry that she herself is just being a burden on Yuuki. She even helps Yuuki make a bouquet of flowers to thank Asuna for her help in studying for a real-world test.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: In Lost Song she creates some hand-made underwear for Asuna and insists she show it off to Kirito. She ends up liking it so much that she also strips down to show hers off. In another event, when she makes school uniforms for all the girls, she begins to strip down and change into hers in front of Kirito, leading the rest of the girls to form a human wall around her. She nearly does it again Millennium Twilight.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Yui who is technically her older sister. While Yui is an adviser who excels at gathering intel to help out her friends but has very little in the way of physical ability, Strea is exceptional at aiding in combat but has very little knowledge to give. This overall gives the sisters a Brains and Brawn dynamic, though they are both very nice and cheerful.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Whenever she dresses as a teacher, she always dons a pair of glasses.
• Stealth Expert: She's an exceptional stalker, even able to keep her presence hidden from someone with as high of a searching skill as Kirito.
• Stripperific: Her outfit in Hollow Fragment boasts a Cleavage Window, very little covering her upper backside, and thigh-high leggings. It's more conservative in Lost Song by way of losing the Cleavage Window, but in Hollow Realization it's back on an outfit that shows her midriff and is missing one sleeve.
• The Tease: Her very first CG is putting Kirito through Marshmallow Hell, and it gets better from here.
• Voice Changeling: In Accel World VS Sword Art Online she's able to perfectly imitate Kuroyukihime's voice. It helps they're both voiced by Sachika Misawa.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her origins without mentioning she's a Mental Health Counseling Program like Yui, or how the glitches in SAO came from her having a meltdown even worse than Yui's.
• Womanchild: She looks like a fully grown adult, but is the same age as Yui, and acts even more immaturely. Amusingly, she considers Kirito to be her "Daddy".
  • Justified by the fact she's only able to fight as a player due to merging with unused character data, meaning she's essentially a little girl in the body of a developed woman.
  • Problem is despite her childish personality, she is as strong as she physically looks which makes her difficult to handle. Her love of hugging others often leads to suffocation for the receiver of said hug.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Like Yui, she felt powerless in helping the players cope with the horrors of Aincrad, but Kirito assures her that she actually did help by befriending the raid team as a player character.
• Younger Than They Look: She looks like a fully developed, but she's only a few years old as an AI. This is because she merged with unused player data which had a mature appearance.

Philia

Kotone Takemiya / Philia (SAO, ALO, SA:O, GGO)

^{Click here to see Philia in Lost Song}

^{Click here to see Philia in Hollow Realization}

Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese)

An "Orange player" and treasure hunter. Philia and Kirito first meet immediately after Kirito is suddenly teleported to the Hollow Area region of Aincrad then fight a weakened version of the Skull Reaper.

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: She fancies herself a treasure hunter in VRMMO games as well as being an Action Girl. When she plays ALO in Lost Song, she chooses to play as a Spriggan because of their specialty in treasure hunting.
• The Atoner: She feels guilty over letting PoH manipulating into betraying Kirito, even though he forgave her.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Compared to Kirito, whose outfits cover him up, Philia's default outfits in games from Hollow Fragment to Hollow Realization all show her midriff to some extent. Her outfit in Fatal Bullet is the first time this is averted.
• Broken Ace: She's strong enough to survive in the Brutal Bonus Level, but the isolation is clearly getting to her, to the point where she's not even sure if she's the real Philia.
• Butt-Monkey: She has some pretty bad luck in Lost Song events. When she goes to the in-game festival with Kirito, she takes a bite out of some grilled squid that's still alive and almost chokes on its tentacle. And she's the first one to find and get captured by the lake guardian during the swimming race event.
• Clone Angst: Hollow PoH convinces her that she's actually a Hollow AI clone of the real Philia and that she killed the real one. This is backed up by how she cannot return to Aincrad, unlike Kirito. It turns out that she's the real one.
• Color Motif: Is always associated with blue. All her outfits are blue as well as that being the color of her eyes.
• Crash-Into Hello: She and Kirito first meet when Kirito accidentally teleports into her path while she's running from a Boss monster.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was trapped in the Hollow Area for a month, forced to fight for her life and carry the burden of an orange cursor due to killing another player her Hollow counterpart.
• Easily Forgiven: She feels that Kirito forgave her betrayal too easily and starts a sidequest to find out how he really feels. As a heartwarming example, she discovers that this trope is played completely straight.
• Establishing Character Moment: Is introduced running from a Boss monster in the Hollow Area, before crashing into a newly teleported Kirito. Her first reaction is to attack him with her dagger and clashing blades with him.
• Fire-Forged Friendship: She and Kirito meet by crashing into each other, before crossing blades after mistaking each other for hostiles. They then find themselves having to join forces when a Skull Reaper attacks, with this incident earning them some level of trust. However what really brings them closer is after Kirito helps her to beat the Hollow Area and return to Aincrad.
• Gratuitous English: Philia tends to throw in the occasional English word during conversation.
• Heroic BSoD: Has one when she realizes that Kirito might have been killed instead of merely trapped and that PoH is going to have everyone killed and replaced by Hollows. Luckily, Kirito saves her and they eventually stop PoH's plan.
• Identical Stranger: It's never really brought up, but she bears a strong resemblance to Eugeo, with the main difference being having longer hair than him. Both even have blue as their Color Motif.
• I Owe You My Life: Has eternal gratitude to Kirito for helping her survive and eventually escape the Hollow Area of SAO. She views him as her knight in shining armor who came to her rescue when she was in need.
• Laser Sword: In Fatal Bullet, she uses a VSS Vintorez as her firearm and carries a photon saber as her secondary.
• Mark of Shame: She's the first friendly orange player in the series. This is due to a system glitch where she killed her Hollow counterpart. She later gets her status back to green.
• My Greatest Failure: She views her manipulation by Hollow PoH into betraying Kirito as this. In an event in Hollow Realization, accidentally triggering a trap door which was actually a hidden path to the treasure they were searching for that sends Kirito tumbling down it (thankfully non-fatally) causes her to have a panic attack and jump down after him to make sure he's alright since it brought that guilt to the surface.
• Only Friend: During the time trapped in the Hollow Area, Kirito was her only companion. Him being there kept her sane and gave her hope.
• Platonic Life-Partners: She and Kirito are as close as two people of opposite genders can get without being in a relationship, due to Philia feeling indebted to Kirito for saving her life. There are also hints that she has feelings for Kirito, but she never pursues it further due to Kirito already being with Asuna.
• The Prankster: Has pranked Kirito on several occasions, with some attempts being more successful than others.
  • She tries to trick Kirito into eating some extremely spicy food, which backfires spectacularly due to Kirito's Bizarre Taste in Food. After being surprised by his lack of reaction, she decides to test it out by trying one herself which ends in her mouth getting burned.
  • One time, she and Sinon give Kirito a 'present', which is a foul tasting smoothie which they guilt him into drinking before running off laughing.
  • Later, during a trip to the hotspring, when it's Kirito's turn to bathe, rather than call him over they decide to scream in terror to get him to run over, which leads him to trip into the hotspring with his clothes still on.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Shares this with Leafa though it gets special focus in Hollow Realization during their shared events for preparing Leafa for a kendo tournament. Philia becomes extremely determined to help Leafa win and prepares a whole bunch of activities to train her up, she gets very depressed when Leafa ends up spraining her ankle and being unable to compete and thinks that maybe she put too much pressure on her, and ultimately she chooses to give up a really rare item during a quest for a golden cup that looks like a trophy as a consolidation award for Leafa. She outright calls her memories of these events "treasures worth more than anything" to her.
• Ship Tease: It's strongly implied she develops feelings for Kirito, but it never escalates past fleeting moments of wanting to spend time with Kirito, likely due to Philia knowing Kirito is already with Asuna.
• Treasure Hunter: Her favorite part of gaming is searching for treasure.
• Unknown Rival: In Accel World VS Sword Art Online, Philia finds out a young girl named Amelia has declared herself her eternal rival treasure hunter, even though Philia has never even heard of her.
• Unwitting Pawn: To PoH, who invokes Clone Angst to manipulate her into betraying Kirito.
• Walking Spoiler: Her backstory is tied to the Hollow Area and why she can't leave it initially like Kirito can.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Being trapped in a Death Game is one thing, but somehow, she is unable to return to Aincrad to join the rest of the players. She returns to Aincrad once the Hollow Area is beaten, though, like everyone else, she can't return to below floor 76.

Rain

Nijika Karatachi / Rain (SAO, ALO, SA:O, GGO)

^{Click here to see Rain in Hollow Realization}

Voiced by: Miyu Takagi

A dual wielding Leprechaun with high proficiency in Hiding skills, and has a habit of following Kirito and his fellow players around.

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• Action Survivor: It's revealed she was actually one of the 10,000 players trapped in Aincrad and managed to survive all on her own. Whether she survived or was even there in canon is unknown.
• Armor-Piercing Question: The NPC Loki makes her questions the bonds of family, asking her what the meaning of who someone shared blood with or who raised you mattered at all. This makes Rain question whether revealing herself as Seven's sister was the right decision, as Seven had otherwise the perfect life and Rain felt she would be a burden upon her sister. Kirito ends up giving Rain a Cooldown Hug and reminds her of how happy Seven was to find out she had a sister.
• Ascended Fangirl: She first made her presence known by following Kirito and his friends around because she was curious what the hero of Aincrad was like in person. After hearing her out, Kirito lets her party with them.
• Badass Adorable: Though she acts all sweet and cute, she's one of the most powerful players in ALO. Her Thousand Rain OSS is able to give even Kirito a hard time.
• Bad Liar: Kirito has learned to pick out the face she makes whenever she's lying.
• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the nicest and sweetest characters in the franchise, but she's also possibly the World's Best Warrior of ALO who will tear her opponents apart.
• The Big Gal: As a contender for World's Best Warrior of ALO, few can compete with Rain when it comes to brute force and an incredibly formidable combatant to havevas a party member.
• Big Sister Instinct: Harm Seven and she will unleash her wrath upon you.
• Birds of a Feather: With Lisbeth, especially in Memory Defrag due to both of them being Leprechauns who excel at crafting.
• Blatant Lies: Throughout Lost Song Rain lied heavily about her past before it slowly got revealed. It got to the point where Kirito was able to tell when she was lying just by looking at the expression on her face.
• The Blacksmith: As a Leprechaun, she is this and makes use of blacksmithing magic in her OSS.
• Brains and Brawn: Has this dynamic with her sister Seven. Rain is an exceptional fighter and a contender for the World's Best Warrior, while Seven is a Child Prodigy with a doctorate at the age of 12.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Rain is known to be a bit of a klutz. She often getting swarmed by monsters in areas she didn't take caution in. She also shook up her fizzy ramune drink while trying to get the lid off, so when Kirito opened it he ended up getting soaked.
• Cool Big Sis: As soon as she reveals to Seven that she's her real big sister, she embraces the role and is the kind loving sister that Seven had been without for so long.
• Cooldown Hug:
  • Gives one to Seven, her little sister, after she's been defeated and crying, staying that way until her avatar fades away.
  • Shortly after she's on the receiving end of one, after she gets shaken up by Loki's Armor-Piercing Question and leads her to question whether her revealing herself to Seven as her sister was the right decision and if she was being selfish. Kirito assures her that selfish or not, what mattered that Seven was made happy by this revelation.
• The Cutie: Perhaps even moreso than Seven, due to how sweet and innocent Rain is and how she's almost impossible to anger.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Rain has a habit of being very clutzy much to her embarrassment.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Kirito. She's a female dual wielder, an SAO survivor, a contender for World's Best Warrior of ALO, and has a younger sister who she was estranged too.
• Dual Wielding: Like Kirito, she is one of the few characters in Lost Song who can duel wield. Unlike Kirito, she flat-out admits she's not truly a Dual-Wielder, but a Multi-Wielder.
• Family Theme Naming: With her sister, her real name means "rainbow" where her sister Seven's real name means "seven colors", the amount of colors in a rainbow. In the American version, her name is simply her sister's name in Japanese.
• Foil:
  • To Strea. Both are Genki Girls, both serve as The Big Gal for Kirito's team, and both have a Mysterious Past. There are quite a few contrasts though. Strea was revealed as Yui's little sister, while Rain is revealed to be Seven's big sister. Strea's past was unknown due to experiencing Identity Amnesia due to the nature of her creation, while Rain was a Compulsive Liar who did not wish to reveal her past. While both are friendly and cheerful, Strea has No Sense of Personal Space while Rain tends to be more shy and reserved.
  • Also to Yuuki. Both girls are a contender for World's Best Warrior of ALO and losing a sister is a very important part of their story arc, but the similarities end there. Yuuki lost her twin sister to a terminal illness and has to make do with growing up on her own, while Rain was separated from Seven at a young age and attempted to find her way back to her little sister. Also both have very different fighting styles, with Yuuki being all about speed, while Rain overwhelms her enemies with her Multi-Wielder style.
• Gratuitous Russian: Though extremely rare, she uses the same Russian greetings as Seven. This is not a coincidence.
• Guns Akimbo: In lieu of swords, and the fact that photon sabers can't be dual-wielded in Fatal Bullet, she instead runs riot with a pair of suppressed PP-19 Bizon submachine guns.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: She hid her true strength for the longest time due to not wanting to draw attention to herself. Especially her trump card, "Thousand Rain" OSS, which she had kept hidden until Kirito finally coaxes her into using it in their duel.
• Idol Singer: She's a good singer and wants to be one, just like her sister, Seven, in fact, In-Universe the opening theme for Lost Song is attributed to her. She ultimately gets her wish when Seven decades to bring her out on stage, through her stage fright prevents it from being more than a one-off for the time being.
• Long-Lost Relative: As her Russian greetings imply, she is actually Seven's long lost older sister.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "rainbow", however the meaningful part isn't revealed until you learn she's Seven's older sister, and the meaning of Seven's real name.
• Meido: Wears the hairband and uses a typical maid default idle pose. She works at a maid cafe in Akiba outside ALO.
• Not the Intended Use: As a Leprechaun she is able to use blacksmithing magic to summon hundreds of weapons at once for easy access in crafting at the forge. However Rain managed to exploit this into an offensive skill called "Thousand Rain" where she would summon the weapons from thin-air mid-battle and pelt them at her opponent.
• One-Steve Limit: In Accel World vs Sword Art Online, Scarlet Rain notices that Rain has the same avatar name as her, which would make things confusing. To avoid the problem, everyone settles on calling her Niko instead.
• Signature Move: "Thousand Rain", her OSS where she magically summons forth weapons out of thin air and sends them hurtling at her opponent.
• Solomon Divorce: Is a victim of this; her sister Seven ended up in the Americas while she was shipped over to Japan.
• Storm of Blades: Her OSS, Thousand Rain, which uses blacksmith magic to summon weapons out of thin air around the user and launches the swords brought forth to a specific target in rapid succession.
• Third-Person Person: Likes to refer to herself as "Rain-chan".
• True Final Boss: Of Lost Song before post-game officially begins. Kirito even calls her this in their duel.
• World's Best Warrior: Kirito believes Rain to be the true holder of this title for ALO rather than Sumeragi. Fittingly she's the True Final Boss of Lost Song.

Seven

Nanairo Alsharvin / Seven (ALO, SA:O, GGO)

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto

A young prodigy in the real world, de facto leader of Shamrock, and a rare member of the Pooka race in ALO.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: Takes over this role from Silica in the game continuity, being introduced at the age of 12. In one event where Strea makes school uniforms for all the girls to wear, she gives Seven one intended for preschoolers.
• Badass Bookworm: Possibly the most intelligent character in the franchise barring Kayaba, but still capable of holding her own in combat.
• Big Bad: While not truly villainous per se, she does drive the main conflict of Lost Song and her defeat spells the climax of the story, on top of that she's also the official, if supporting leader of The Rival Guild going against Kirito's party throughout the whole game.
• Big Bad Friend: In addition to the above midway through the game she is quick to strike up a genuine friendship with Kirito, repeatedly going out of her way to spend time with him and even offering him a position on her research team when he displays genuine interest in her work despite her not knowing his status as Teen Genius at the time.
• Big Good: In Hollow Realization, as she's the one who got Kirito and the rest of her friends into the beta test to check out any potential background purpose of Sword Art: Origin. She's also the one who reveals that Premiere's quest is the "Ground Quest" that's not even supposed to be finished by this point in the beta, which clues them in that something very wrong is going on and eventually results in discovering Cardinal's interference.
• Big Little Sister: Played with. She's physically much younger than Rain, but due to being a Child Prodigy with a doctorate she at times acts more maturer. Though Rain points out that while she may be incredibly smart, at heart she's still a child and she'll be there to support her as a big sister whenever she needs it.
• Brains and Brawn: Has this dynamic with her sister Rain. Seven is a Child Prodigy and an esteemed scientist who gained a doctorate at the age of 12, while Rain is a contender for the World's Best Warrior for ALO.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Can sometimes come off as this as a result of her spoiled attitude.
• Broken Ace: She's a prodigy in the real world, blessed with genius-level intellect that allowed her to graduate college at 12 and become a scientist, is loved as an idol, and has the total respect and adoration of her guild Shamrock and many in ALO. However, her genius came at the cost of losing her older sister and mother because her father divorced them over the subject of allowing her ability to flourish as soon as possible, and being placed on a pedestal for so long without anyone she could truly relate to and burdened by the responsibility of someone several times her age didn't do wonders for her emotional stability either.
• Chekhov's Gun: The feather accessories the Shamrock guild wear. They allow the players to transfer their OSS skills directly to Seven, regardless of relative locations, and at no reduction to their level.
• Children Are Innocent: One of the main reasons why Kirito and everyone else are willing to forgive her for her deeds. For all her intelligence she's still a growing child who is learning from her mistakes.
• Child Prodigy: Despite her age, she's well-known as an idol and has genius intellect to the point she graduated from college at age 12 and only went on to achieve even more fame. Emotionally, however, she's still very young, and the weight of the expectations upon her was not something that were healthy in the long run.
• Combat Pragmatist: Seven takes pride in doing anything it takes to win, as being a scientist she doesn't make the rules but abuses them.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • One of the few SAO villains who isn't strictly evil. She was just broken due to the stress. She otherwise is considered a friend to Kirito and co. and after her defeat she comes around quite easily when she's snapped back to her senses.
  • Specifically to Sugou/Alberich, where both are GMs and scientists who engaged in human experimentation. The difference are that Sugou was pure evil and irredeemable, experimenting on humans for selfish gain. Whereas Seven was genuinely deluded due to being overwhelmed by stress and eventually reforms.
• Cultural Translation: Her real name is Rainbow Arshvarin in the American version of the game.
• Evil Laugh: Yes, the The Cutie scientist devolves into evil laughter.
• Family Theme Naming: With her sister, her real name means "seven colors" where her sister Rain's real name means "rainbow", a rainbow has sevne colors in it. In the American version, her name is Rainbow, making her sister's name simply her own in Japanese.
• Friendly Rival: For most of Lost Song she's this as her genuine friendship with Kirito does not stop her from doing whatever she can to beat him at clearing Svalt Alfheim.
• Foil: To Strea, with both their relationships to their sisters being a Sibling Yin-Yang consisting of a Brains and Brawn dynamic, but only inverted. Strea is the younger Big Little Sister and The Big Gal to Yui's Ms. Exposition, while Seven is the younger Child Prodigy to Rain's older World's Best Warrior. In addition, both did not know they had a sister until very late in the story, although in Strea's case even Yui did not know at first, while in Seven's case Rain knew about her sister from the start and kept it a secret. Finally, both of them ended up being revealed as directly or indirectly being the antagonistic force, though with Strea she was a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who had no control over her actions, while with Seven she had Sanity Slippage from the stress of expectations. Ultimately both girls are forgiven and accepted among the heroes.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: In Hollow Realizations, her Pillow Talk scenes have her holding a stuffed Ragout Rabbit when she sleeps.
• Glory Seeker: Seven wants to be the 'hero' who clears Svart Alfheim for the glory of that achievement. This is in spite of being already well respected as a scientist and loved as an idol. Eventually, she also wants the glory of defeating Kirito, the 'hero' of Sword Art Online. It's eventually revealed that the stress of all her expectations and achievements with no one to vent to had begun to take their toll on her still-young psyche, which eventually manifested in a desire to become the greatest by any means necessary.
• A God Am I: She wants to be adored in this way, outright declaring it near the end of Lost Song, though by that point her sanity had taken a few hits. Kirito and company beat some sense back into her.
• Good Counterpart: To Kayaba Akihiko ....except not, but eventually she really is.
• Gratuitous Russian: She's part-Russian, so it's to be expected. She learned it from her sister, Rain, when they were still living together.
• Heel–Face Turn: Downplayed, she was never really much of a Heel if at all, the stress of being a prodigy was taking a heavy toll on her decisions. Once she's beaten she has her sense knocked back into her.
• Idol Singer: One of her hobbies and part of why she's a celebrity in ALO, also justified in that the Pooka race can actually cast spells and buffs through singing. It's a passion she shares in common with her sister Rain.
• Light Is Good: Seven, a.k.a. Dr. Rainbow, the popular scientist and idol, beloved by everyone, and preaches world peace through her music and research. She also wears primarily white, white, and gold, and has silver hair. It's an act at first, but she genuinely becomes this at the end of the game and into Hollow Realization.
• Light Is Not Good: What she really was for the majority of Lost Song; a selfish child who uses her guild and fan club for her own end, and has an Evil Plan that is dangerously similar to Sugou and Kayaba's own plans. She dropped this after her defeat and became a better person.
• Lonely at the Top: Because of her genius and fame despite being only a child, Seven had never managed to form meaningful relationships with others, be it coworkers or other her age, and had to content herself with just being the object of adoration by her fans and envy of others. The stress and weight of expectations upon her with no means of venting to an equal eventually started to manifest in...unsavory ways.
• Long-Lost Relative: She's actually Rain's little sister, divorced due to her father and mother disagreeing on how to allow her intellect to flourish. Unlike Rain, she doesn't remember her sister and it's not until the end of the game that she realizes why Rain is so dead-set on being with her.
• Magic Music: As a Pooka, her race's ability is to sing music that gives buffs to other players.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "seven colors", however the meaningful part isn't revealed until you learn she's Rain's little sister, and the meaning of Rain's real name. The same applies for the American version where her name is literally "Rainbow".
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: She is a certified professor (at the mere age of 12) but is revealed to intend to conduct experiments that are just as amoral as Kayaba and Sugou. Though it's ultimately revealed to be result of flawed thinking from all the stress and she comes around quite easily.
• One-Winged Angel: After her first defeat, Seven's rage at being beaten combined with the stress of having so many OSS skills inside one avatar causes her to transform into a massive winged angel form in an effort to defeat Kirito and company.
• Only Friend: Kirito was this to her for a long while, being one of the only people who treated her like a normal person rather than as a celebrity. She would go to great lengths to ditch her Shamrock guild and spend time with him.
• Out of Focus: She's initially absent from Fatal Bullet even though most previous game exclusive characters were featured. Unlike Accel World VS Sword Art Online, there's no explanation given this time. She does return back as of Dissonance of the Nexus DLC, however, but since she's a DLC character, she still doesn't have an impact in the main story.
• Power Copying: While anyone can transfer their OSS skills between themselves and another player, the mass transfer of OSS directly to Seven is a rather extreme example. It also turns out to be quite dangerous, as the stress of having so many OSS skills in one avatar combined with her anger boiling over causes her to go One-Winged Angel.
• Pride: She's very proud of the fact she's a genius scientist, a singing sensation, and renowned celebrity.
• Seven Is Nana: Her game avatar name of "Seven" is derived from her real-world first name, Nanairo.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: One of her weapon types in Fatal Bullet, is a DLC-added shotgun named "Holy Arrow", which has better accuracy and range compared to other shotguns at the expense of power and fire rate. She also uses a Gatling gun as her secondary weapon (see below).
• Small Girl, Big Gun: In Fatal Bullet, she uses a gatling gun, which contrasts with her relatively short height compared to most other characters in the game. It's just as powerful and fast-firing as expected, allowing her to keep up in dishing damage like the others.
• Solomon Divorce: Is the victim of one of these with her sister Rain. Notably, it's explained that the reason why is because of her genius; her father wanted to start using it immediately, while her mother wanted her to live as a child for at least a little longer.
• Spoiled Brat: Ultimately, as a Child Prodigy and an idol adored by everyone, she's used to getting everything she wants and has trouble understanding why certain actions of hers are wrong and leads people to oppose her.
• Tag Along Kid: She's barely older than Yui and the youngest player in Kirito's circle at the meager age of 12.
• Third-Person Person: Sometimes refers to herself as "Seven-chan" as part of her idol persona.
• Token Good Teammate: While her exact nationality is up for dispute (she was born in Russia with Japanese and Russian parents, but has mostly grown up in the United States), she's the only named American character in the entire franchise who is not evil, as even her stint as an antagonist was more due to stress induced faulty thinking on her part, rather then from any sort of malice.
• Token Mini-Moe: Serves this role among the Gameverse girls. She's even younger than Silica, with Seven debuting at the age of 12.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: In both Lost Song and Hollow Realization she uses lances in combat.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: By virtue of being a Child Prodigy who gained a doctorate at the age of 12. However this is also deconstructed as it's shown when she lets down her public face, Miss Genius Scientist is actually all too happy to just indulge in the fun of playing and being a child.
• Written-In Absence: She doesn't participate in the events of Accel World VS Sword Art Online because she took a trip to America at the time. However she does make a call into the virtual world when ALO starts going haywire, informing Kirito of how things are from the outside. She later appears in person once the main story line has wrapped up.
• Villainous Breakdown: While she starts the final battle perfectly in control, when she loses round one against Kirito and Rain she loses it and starts ranting that she is the one who deserves to be worshiped as a goddess for clearing Svart Alfheim and defeating the "Hero of SAO". When she goes One-Winged Angel for round two and Kirito and Rain refuse to fall, she just gets worse and worse until she finally loses, where she's bawling on the ground and unable to understand how she lost, leading Rain to give her a Cooldown Hug.
• Villains Never Lie: She outright states that she never forced anyone to do anything, nor did she technically lie to anyone and that everyone agreed to meet her ends. Worse, she isn't wrong.

Premiere

Premiere (SA:O, GGO)

Voiced by: Yuiko Tatsumi

A mysterious NPC inside of Sword Art: Origin who catches Kirito's eye and slowly integrates into his group of friends, eventually given the name "Premiere" as she doesn't know her own. Strangely possesses little emotion even when compared to her fellow NPCs...

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• Apocalypse Maiden: Though not by choice or even original purpose. In the end, she ultimately refuses to do so.
• Armor-Piercing Question: In one event she and Sinon are wandering around the forest looking for clues to her quest when Kirito shows up and offers to help. When he ends up getting them lost, Sinon calls him useless, but Premiere gets confused, as when they were alone earlier, Sinon told her all about how Kirito was a dependable friend and comrade who would always come through when it counted. It leaves Sinon and Kirito surprised and a little embarrassed.
  "Which is why I am confused. I am not sure which one was meant to be true. Do you have Sinon's trust or not?"
• Big Eater: She really loves eating, especially Asuna's cooking. Premiere confirms in Fatal Bullet that she got her eating habits from Kirito, as him showing her around so many foods has left her unsatisfied without anything good to eat.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Tia's Cain.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Due to the fact she's building a new personality for herself through her interactions with Kirito and company, who are quite an odd group in and of themselves, along with her daily interactions with other players in Ainground, combined with her No Social Skills and the fact that she is doing all of this inside a fantasy video game with only second-hand knowledge of the real world, some of Premiere's wording and sentences can be...quite out there.
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: The third character to be part of a 'sister set' to be introduced among the gamverse characters, but unlike the previous two (Strea and Yui, Rain and Seven), Premiere is not part of a Brains and Brawn dynamic with Tia, with the two girls instead being twins.
• Emotionless Girl: What she is at first, though her interactions with Kirito and company start to fix that. Yui explains that this is because she is a "null" NPC whose settings have been set to default, and her interactions with the group are starting to help her build a new personality.
• Foil: To Strea. Both girls are AIs who end up being adopted by Kirito and act as a surrogate daughter to him, both possess Identity Amnesia over their past and purpose, and both being revealed to be Apocalypse Maidens who are tied to the destruction of their respective worlds. While both girls have No Social Skills, Premiere contrasts Strea's upbeat Genki Girl personality by being an Emotionless Girl who needs to get taught and encouraged into interactions. In addition, Strea was unintentionally causing glitches in Aincrad while wishing the heroes didn't clear the game, while Premiere was designed to end Ainground but chose not to go through with it.
• God in Human Form: As Premiere's quest continues, Kirito and company eventually theorize she's somehow related to the "Goddess" that's mentioned in the Creation Myth, as either a handmaiden or even the goddess herself. Then they come across evidence to suggest there are two Goddesses...
• Guns Akimbo: In Fatal Bullet, she uses a pair of FN Five-SeveNs as her sidearms as a backup to her Peacock storm gun.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Has blue eyes that appear almost grey in-game, and at first she actually unnerves Kirito due to her stoic and mysterious nature. Once she starts to open up, they turn to Innocent Blue Eyes.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: As she becomes more accustomed to Kirito and company, she becomes much more open and friendly with them, revealing her inquisitive and child-like nature.
• Like a Daughter to Me: It's all but directly stated that much like Yui, and to some extent Strea, Kirito considers Premiere a surrogate daughter, nurturing her, being protective over her, and teaching her everything she knows. Premiere even mirrors Yui's speech when she declares "I always want to be with you."
• Machine Monotone: Tends to speak very formally with no emotion, as well as her words showing she's Literal-Minded.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: She didn't know any better at first, but during an event with Silica she sees a squirrel and the first thing that comes out of her mouth is "Shall I slay the beast?"
• Mystical Waif: A young girl dressed in fancy robes with a mysterious past and a rather odd way of interacting with the world? She's a dead ringer for the trope, and it's even commented upon in-universe since she IS an NPC.
• Mysterious Past: Nobody knows what exactly Premiere's purpose in Sword Art: Origin is. It's clear that she's a quest-giving NPC and whatever that quest is involves Aincrad's original backstory, but the question of who she is and what that quest entails is part of the main story arc, not helped by the fact she herself literally can't answer that due to her condition. At first glance, it looks like she's supposed to be the Goddess who will eventually create Aincrad from Ainground, but it turns out that her quest is being edited from its original purpose by Cardinal to fit the Creation Myth in the Sword Art: Origin's backstory, all so it can fulfill its original purpose of destroying Aincrad.
• No Social Skills: She only has the barest of personality at first, which leads to her often being extremely blunt and Literal-Minded to others with very little grasp on tact. She gets better as time goes on.
• Not the Intended Use: Premiere's quest and purpose turns out to be one in the long run. Sword Art: Origin was directly copied from the original SAO, including the Cardinal system. What no one realized at the time was that Cardinal, due to the rampant similarities between Aincrad and Ainground, eventually triggered a module that coded for the destruction of Aincrad that would occur once SAO was cleared...but since Aincrad doesn't exist in Ainground, the module was left with no way to test its function, so it went out its way to trigger the events that would allow it to create Aincrad anew. Premiere's quest had enough similarities to the Creation Myth that it started tweaking and editing her quest in order to bring about the events necessary to commit Apocalypse How, which accounts for the bizarre events that make up her quest chain.
• Token Mini-Moe: Physically she has the appearance of a very young girl, and Kirito is especially protective over her.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Premiere" is not her "real" name, but just one that Kirito and company gave her when she literally didn't have her own. Eventually, she comes to accept it as her true name and even sets it as such so that everyone in Ainground can see it.
• Out of Focus: She's noticeably absent in Accel World vs Sword Art Online despite debuting in the previous game and the other game exclusive characters showing up in some form. Though she does return in Fatal Bullet.
• The Power of Friendship: Premiere was originally a null NPC who had no personality, but her continued interactions with Kirito and company taught her the value of bonds and others, eventually allowing her to develop a personality far beyond what she would have had originally and become a fighter willing to protect them.
• Royal Rapier: Kirito and Asuna train her in the use of rapiers in order to defend herself, possibly because Asuna uses them already. However, the "royal part" fits with her fancy clothes and her supposed role in Aincrad's Creation Myth.
• Teach Me How To Fight: When she's nearly killed by a player who wanted to "reset" her, she approaches Kirito and asks him to teach her how to defend herself. He agrees and teaches her how to use a rapier, with Asuna continuing her training.
• Visible Silence: Constantly at first, which leads to some rather awkward exchanges with Kirito and company. She begins to stop as the story goes on.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: She can be made a party member, but as an important storyline NPC if she dies it's Game Over since NPCs die for real. Luckily, there's a very generous timer that counts down 99 seconds before that happens which stops and resets if she's being revived and even if it fails, so it's a more forgiving example than most.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: As she interacts with Kirito more and more, she starts to develop feelings for him due to his kindness and protective nature, though she never outright says she "loves" him. Until the end of the game, where she asks, since Leafa is his "sister", Yui his "daughter", and Asuna his "spouse", if she can be his "lover". It's not made clear if she was kidding or not or if she even knows what that means.

Medina Orthinanos

Medina Orthinanos (UW)

Voiced by: Miho Okasaki

The current head of the Orthinanos Family, a Second-Class Noble Family suffering from Perpetual Poverty, which earns them the disdain of other Noble families.

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• Blue Blood: A Second-Class Noble Family, which would net her a good deal of prestige and respect if it wasn't for the family's poverty.
• Cleavage Window: Her combat gear consists of uniquely designed chestplate that exposes some cleavage.
• Color Motif: Both her hair and clothes are colored red.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Medina highly reveres her deceased father, describing him as kind and gallant. She also felt immensely guilty when he dies in a horse racing accident, since the reason he entered was to buy her a new practice sword.
• Doomed by Canon: Alice and Eugeo appeared in games before Alicization Lycoris as mostly fanservice characters, but Medina only exists in this game. Since she's the key to defeat Quinella because of the experiment she did to her family, she sees her death as a way to finally end her family suffering combined by the fact her own ancestor rape done by Quinella old senator, Hesyrian, who hates her family with passion. This was averted in the true ending, where Kirito manage to find a way to bring Medina back by using her ancestor body that had long frozen for years and the remnant of Medina fluctlight on her sword, which he fuse together resulting in Medina fluctlight taking over the body and the remaing fluctlight in said body. While the plan is a success, Medina is left completely amnesiac due to the damage on her fluctlight to the point of forgeting her own identity.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Of a sort. Due to her great skill and power, her instructors at the Swordcraft Academy generally praise her whenever she delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle against them. However, if she screws up for any reason, such as when her mind was on a cat she was caring for, they will criticize her heavily to the point of needless cruelty, something Eugeo actually notices.
• Fiery Redhead: Has bright red hair and, while normally fairly calm, she's rather vicious in combat and has a short temper with those who annoy her.
• Flower Motif: Lycorises.
• Foil: To both Alice and Eugeo:
  • For Alice, not only they had a contrasting Color Motif, they both also had a similar personalities as well (Tomboy, Hot-Blooded, Honor Before Reason, Child Prodigy, etc) yet Alice is originally a commoner who is captured, turned into an Integrity Knight and started as Kirito enemy at first before joining him for good, Medina is a disgraced noble who at first start as Kirito friend albeit begrudgingly, before she became his enemies for a while due to a misunderstanding.
  • For Eugeo its even more obvious, He's a kind hearted commoner Nice Guy who is The Fettered at first before he eventually Grew a Spine with a blue themed Color Motif who supposed to died at the Cathedral by Quinella hand yet saved by Kirito, She's a kind hearted yet temperamental Jerk with a Heart of Gold noble who for all of her bravado,is ultimately an insecure girl with a severe issues on her Impoverished Patrician status among her class who had a red themed Color Motif, who decided to sacrifice her life to defeat Quinella to end her once and for all. This is one of few reasons why they both could get along easily.
• For Want Of A Nail: In a non-time travel version of this, she effectively serves as one major crux to why Alicization Lycoris diverges from the canon story, which ends up causing the War of Underworld to be prevented, as well as Eugeo and Cardinal to survive and the Integrity Knights to be in a far more stable position over Underworld. This is actually a subverted case, because it was Kirito own action that ultimately cause the entire event of Alicization to diverge from the original timeline, while Medina still play an important role in the second part of the story.
• Guest Fighter: To promote Alicization Lycoris, Medina was given out as a free 4-Star unit in the Rising Steel mobile game, along with enough personal Evolution Crystals to fully Limit Break her and her personal sword as a unique weapon.
• Helping Would Be Kill Stealing: The reason she acts like an Ungrateful Bitch when Kirito and Eugeo help her in fighting some monsters is because she views monster encounters as chances to train her combat skills and feels she won't improve if she receives outside help. When she agrees to travel with them until Zakkaria, she does so under the condition that they won't interfere with her fights.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: During her first year at the Swordcraft Academy, she wore her hair in this style to cover her right eye. Coincidentally, she's initially asocial, given her backstory and her family status.
• Hot-Blooded: While normally calm and composed, she becomes a lot more passionate in combat and has a bit of a Hair-Trigger Temper in regards to Kirito and Eugeo.
• Impoverished Patrician: One of the crux of her issues. Despite being nobility, her family was poor due to their land frequently suffering poor harvests and her father not wanting to exploit the already suffering commonfolk to alleviate their own problems, causing them to be looked down upon by other, wealthier Nobles and getting them titled as "defects".
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Her innate Pride as a Noble isn't helped at all by the Orthinanos family being looked down upon by other Nobles due to their poverty and gaining a sense of inferiority to Kirito and Eugeo during her time knowing them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her generally uptight and prideful demeanor, you can tell that she's better than most nobles just based on how she never once insults Kirito and Eugeo for their commoner background when she's travelling with them, and he doesn't hesitate in offering to help a girl rescue her father and cares for an injured cat she finds on the Swordcraft Academy's grounds.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Her personal sword bears some resemblance to a Katana, and a lot of her skills in gameplay appear to be based on Iaijutsu.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Despite her general attitude, Medina adores cats, and completely changes in tone and personality when petting one.
• Living Macguffin: The plot of Lycoris apparently revolves around her being the key to reviving a defeated Quinella.
  • The truth of her status as the said Living Macguffin was actually far more complex and disturbing than it seems. Long story short, her bloodline had a special module implanted in them by someone from Real World (heavily implied to be Yanai) that would allow them to act as a living key which would allow them to summon beings called Wayfarers drawn directly from the Main Visualizer, basically making the entire bloodline a Reality Warper on a smaller scale and Quinella had their fluctlight turned into gems and experiment on it in order to discover a way to create a gate to the Real World. This turn the entire bloodline into a walking and living divine object in Underworld and is heavily implied to be the strongest as well.
  • In fact, Quinella would have succeed hadn't Medina choose to sacrifice herself by letting herself gutted by Quinella and fuse her own body with her sword, gambling on the fact that Quinella use Incarnation to synchronize herself with her sword that was made out of the Orthinanos bloodline gems and take advantage of their ability to manipulate reality itself (which, due to the side effect of the Main Visualizer special domain that would increase someone Incarnation to its limit, had become even more powerful to the point Quinella able to use the sword to open the gate to the Real World) , which also explain why Quinella is invicible by the end of the game as well.
• Modesty Shorts: In her signature outfit, what would be an incredibly short skirt is complimented by these underneath.
• No-Respect Guy: While Medina has many traits that are expected of and reflect favorably on nobles, such as beauty and swordsmanship skill, her family's poverty leads to many other nobles ignoring these in favor of insulting her for her heritage. Even her instructors, who are the only ones who seem to praise her skill and strength, will look for any opportunity to go all Drill Sergeant Nasty on her.
• No Social Skills: It's become increasingly clear that Medina doesn't have any experience on building friendships with other people due to her status among the nobles. In fact Kirito and Eugeo are her first and Only Friend before she decided to join the knights on their attempt to cut off the clamps that had been spreading to the entire Underworld where she started befriending more people. This ending up Deconstructed, because her abysmal social skills cause her a massive trust issues on other people and she had absolutely no way on speaking honestly toward other people leading to a several problems on later events.
• Playing with Fire: As a Guest Fighter in Rising Steel, she appears as a fire elemental unit.
• Pride: Similarly to other Nobles, Medina is a rather prideful individual in spite of her family's poverty and generally being seen as a Black Sheep among Nobles. When she first meets Kirito and Eugeo she treats them rather rudely not unlike Raios and Humbert, albeit not nearly as cruelly or pettily, and she opts to stop travelling with them and take a more dangerous path to Centoria after feeling Eugeo upstaged her by defeating a powerful monster in one blow.
• Sacrificial Lion: Medina's entire existence effectively serves as a tragedy after tragedy by both bad luck and her impulsiveness, gradually building up to ultimately becoming the sword that can finally defeat Quinella where she dies in the place of Eugeo and Cardinal.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Her usual attire consists of a long black scarf-like garment that goes down her back.
• Sins of the Father: The reason for everyone else's poor treatment of her family. Being descended from the person who invented the High-Norkia style, the Orthinanos family was originally widely revered across the human realm, to the point that Administrator trusted generations upon generations of the family with a secret mission that was not known to the public. However, every generation of the family apparently failed to carry out the mission and Administrator grew frustrated to the point that she named all of them "Defects". This destroyed any and all status they had in court and other Noble families were quick to cut ties with and ostracize them, to the point that the family was exiled from Centoria. While things have died down since then, as evident with Medina being able to attend the Swordcraft Academy, Medina and her family are still victims of ostracization, petty insults, and acts of cruely from other, more well-regarded Nobles all over their ancestor's apparent screw ups.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: For a Noble, she seems to be pretty foul-mouthed. When she briefly travels Kirito and Eugeo she swears around and even at them quite frequently when angry, and after an alteration with Raios and Humbert, she angrily attacks and practically destroys a training dummy while exclaiming "It pisses me off."
• Trauma Conga Line: Not only did she have suffer her father dying in a horse race, leaving the Orthinanos family on her shoulders, but she then learns that the reason he took part in said race was just so he could buy her a new practice sword when her old one breaks and she angrily called him out on putting the people in their domain over her. She then ends up ruining an Arranged Marriage her father tried desperately to set up, which would have helped their financial issues tremendously, by voicing her suspicions that the groom's father and some other Nobles rigged the horse race to kill her father out of spite.
  • And it gets a lot worse in part 2, after seemingly gain a power to control Adventurers (basically sentient NPCs that were created from GGO server player datas because of a rift in a dungeon that was created from Medina special module that connected directly to the Main Visualizer, the Seed Package itself, allowing her to unknowingly copy their datas to the Underworld server) she started to use its power to control them and make them her personal adventuring group, which slowly cause her to abuse said power after Hesyrian manipulated her by taking advantage of her desire and insecurities by revealing Quinella death at Kirito hand to her. This cause her a massive Heroic BSoD and decided to betrayed him and the others, a decision that cause the deaths most of her adventuring team which she felt guilty for. And then she found out what Quinella did to her family and the fact that Hesyrian had raped the fifth head of the Ortinanos family, which horrified her to no end.

Dorothy Isaiah Elisheva

Dorothy Isaiah Elisheva (UW)

Voiced by: Rina Sato

A Dark Knight who arrived at the Human Empire Army garrison to negotiate with the Integrity Knights. She is known as the "Child of Sin" due to her appearance being a rarity to the Dark Territory.

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• All-Loving Hero: Despite being a Dark Territory native, she's against pointless bloodshed.
• Black Knight: Dorothy is a Dark Knight, so that's a given.
• Berserk Button: Don't talk shit about her or her late parents. When the other Dark Knights did just that, she and Kirito immediately retaliate.
• Child of Two Worlds: Because her mother is a Dark Knight and her father is a RW native, she is infamously known as the "Child of Sin".
• Dark and Troubled Past: Dorothy's lack of self-esteem is due to being a victim of bullying and racism back when she was a child.
• Foil: To Alice. Both are UW natives, both are humble and dutiful knights, and both are named after Western book characters. However, while Alice is a blonde tough girl clad in gold, Dorothy is a white-haired Nice Girl in purple armor. Alice is proud but socially inept, while Dorothy is good with children but has self-esteem issues. And finally, Alice is named after the main character of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, while Dorothy is named after the main character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Dorothy doesn't think of herself as anything but an expendable and an outsider.
• Sinister Scythe: Her preferred weapon, fitting for a Dark Knight.

Fatal Bullet Central Cast

Player Character / Protagonist

Player Character (GGO)

Player Character of Fatal Bullet. They were invited into the game by their childhood friend Kureha, and quickly makes a name for themselves when they discover an incredibly rare item practically by dumb luck: An ArFA-sys that immediately registers them as their master.

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• The Ace: The story implies that the player simply never loses any plot fight, ever, and outguns basically everyone that comes after them. It's to the point that they singlehandedly triumph in a five-way fight between Kirito, Sinon, Yuuki, and Kureha, and trounce the ever-escalating threats throughout the DLC story too. Multiple characters remark on this improbable capability, especially given how fresh to the game they were in the first place.
• Action Girl: If the player is a girl.
• Achievement In Ignorance:
  • Accidentally activates an ArFA-sys and gets registered as its master. On their first day.
  • It's also one of Itsuki's sore spots about them, in that their Incorruptible Pure Pureness always seems to miss the point of his sarcasm and jokes, and they just press on regardless of logic or circumstance.
• Affectionate Nickname: Is affectionately called "Master" by ArFA-sys.
• Ambiguously Bi: If you're male, your character gets a bit close to Itsuki in his affinity chats to the point of calling their later meetups dates and letting him rest in their bed with them. The same goes for a female character with Kureha and Zeliska.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Kirito sort of gives the player basics in how to use a Photon Sword to block bullets as well as use a gun with the blade off-screen, but it's implied to mostly be from watching him do it. They figure out much the same from Bazalt Joe in how to wield two of the same gun simultaneously.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Kirito in the true ending, shortly before they presumably wipe out an entire squadron of enemy players together.
• Born Lucky: Always seems to have the best luck in finding rare items, which other characters constantly bring up.
  • On their first day alone, they get registered as the master of an extremely rare Type-X ArFA-sys unit, gains the attention of GGO top player Kirito, and is given an ultra-rare unimplemented weapon; the Ultra Fiber Gun.
• Chaste Hero: On one hand, occasional moments of Fanservice can be met with a response that can only be summed up as snarking or being a Covert Pervert; on the other hand, they're implied to be easily flustered and too meek to even accept someone like Zeliska hugging them in bed as they rest, something she teases them about quite a bit. Their reactions to some other bed-side scenes also tend to imply that anything sexual is the last thing they're looking for.
• Chick Magnet: A few conversations indicate the Player Character also has a knack for attracting girls, much like Kirito. Zeliska even teases the Player that they could end up garnering an Unwanted Harem.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Occasionally a response like this can pop up, sometimes out of being a Deadpan Snarker and other times just quirky responses in general. Like when they're going to be scolded by Asuna for diving into Itsuki's death game without telling anyone, but getting everyone out alive in the Golden Ending anyway, they can respond with..
  "I wouldn't mind being scolded by Angelic Asuna."
• Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: The first protagonist of a Sword Art Online game that isn't a customized Kirito. Canonically speaking, they also seem to prefer guns, contrasting Kirito's stubborn attachment to swords. This is best seen in the Golden Ending, where they go Guns Akimbo with a pair of TT-30s, back to back with Kirito.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Canonically a male in Last Recollection, and his brief appearance uses the default appearance as shown above.
• Declaration of Protection: Before heading off to confront the alleged threat of Death Gun, the protagonist issues this for either Kureha or Zeliska. Depending on whether or not certain conditions are fulfilled, the one they didn't choose performs a Heroic Sacrifice to protect the player, dying by a Nerve Gear.
• Determinator: Nothing seems to keep the player down. Not even the risk of death by Nerve Gear, when they're manipulated into wearing one under the threat of friends and family being targeted.
• Featureless Protagonist: Has very little in the way of personality due to being a Heroic Mime with limited dialogue. In group conversations, other characters either overlook them or always speak for them. While in one-on-one conversations the character who the Player is talking to will generally spend a large duration monologuing unless being offered a direct question where the Player can pick between a few dialogue choices. Though aspects of their personality can be drawn from what others say about them. There are a few things established in their backstory, such as that they are the childhood friend of Kureha, they live in Japan, and that apparently they know how to ride a motorcycle. Given the in-universe mechanics of GGO^*The AmuSphere system scans the user's brainwaves to create an avatar based on their actual gender and appearance it is also safe to assume that the Player Character's gender is the same as they are both in GGO and in (the in-game) "real life."
• Game-Favored Gender: While the player can be a male or female, the writing generally seems to be written with a male protagonist in mind, with very few lines adjusted to compensate. The biggest indication would be the Player being considered a Chick Magnet by others.
• The Gift: Seems to be naturally talented at GGO, displaying impressive prowess for a newbie. In fact Argo seems to think they are in the same league as Kirito, Asuna, Sinon, and Yuuki at being game prodigies.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: The UFG can serve as a digital one, firing a digitally generated rope to hoist the Player across maps.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Downplayed in that nothing ever truly comes out of it, but beating the game results in an option to either go back in-time just before the end of the SBC Flugel quest or to start over in New Game Plus. Doing the latter even results in certain dialogue options being altered. As Kayaba's will briefly speaks to the Protagonist before all this happens, it's implied that he may have had something to do with it.
• Guns Akimbo: Can equip two of the same gun after learning the style late in the main quest from Bazalt Joe, allowing them to do this (firing both guns at the same enemy simultaneously). Or...
• Gun And Sword: They have this option after learning the style from Kirito, pairing a beam sword with a matching handgun.
• Heroic BSoD: Briefly in the normal endings, in that the death of either Kureha or Zeliska shakes them up significantly and they practically suffered a Near-Death Experience themselves after being betrayed by Itsuki. The implications of their dialogue and mannerisms imply a pretty sharp depression until everyone tries to cheer them up.
  • The worst part is that they performed a Heroic Sacrifice to save the player, because the player wasn't strong enough to hold out with how rough the battle was. It's all too plausible that they may be heavily thinking It's All My Fault and that they weren't strong enough to prevent it, akin to when Kirito had Sachi die right before his eyes due to his own mistake.
• Heroic Mime: Doesn't speak audibly and most of the time uses gestures to converse. Sometimes you can choose between two or more responses via onscreen text without any audible speech.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Has a customizable name.
• Informed Attribute: As a Featureless Protagonist, most of what we know about the Player Character and their personality is drawn from statements by others, however they are rarely shown displaying any of those descriptions themselves and remains almost a completely blank slate.
• Informed Equipment: While the player has the freedom to have the PC use whatever weapons they desire, the player character actually has a canonical weapon loadout. In this case, the Ultimate Fiber Gun or UFG which was a gift from ArFA-sys, an original weapon for the game which has the main function of serving as a Grappling-Hook Pistol. The UFG is essential to the plot and is brought up by characters many times.
  • In the end game cutscenes, however, they specifically wield a Norinco Type 54 "Black Star" pistol. In the true ending, they even specifically use the Black Star Itsuki gave them, the first gun he ever bought in the game, as a personal heirloom of sorts. And by the ending cutscene, they're going Guns Akimbo with them.
• The Leader: They are made the leader of the squadron comprised of the rest of the main cast.
• Magnetic Hero: A modest, likable newbie that ends up befriending just about everyone they come across, even players that would normally prefer to stick solo.
• Naïve Newcomer: As a new player to Gun Gale Online, and VRMMOs in general, they're supposed to echo yourself as someone unfamiliar with the game world. However, they improve on this fairly quickly. Seeing as they take charge of the main group part way through the game, they're also a bit of a time-delayed Rookie Red Ranger.
• Nice Guy: The player character is inherently a kind-natured person, though they do get occasional Deadpan Snarker moments in their choices.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Several characters have stated the Player reminds them of Kirito. They do indeed have a lot of traits that take after him. Like Kirito, the Player is a Nice Guy/Girl with Chronic Hero Syndrome and will not hesitate to jump to the aid of others in trouble. They are naturally talented and rapidly ascended the game ranks shortly after starting. They even possess their own Unwanted Harem in the form of Kureha, Zeliska, and possibly Rei. Some characters also note that they share Kirito's habit of staring off into space.
• Only Sane Man: Dialogue implies them to generally be this compared to the antics of Kirito's crew or their ArFA-sys AI companion.
• Parental Substitute: Is officially the master of ArFA-sys, but their relationship is more like the Player Character teaching and guiding their AI companion.
• The Quiet One: While audible in gameplay, your character is often fairly quiet in cutscenes unless dialogue options speak up. Kirito himself notes that they tend to stare off into space a bit too much.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Generally plays the blue to Kureha's red, and this can be taken literally by customization to contrast Kureha's reddish-pink color scheme.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: On a New Game Plus, the protagonist shows signs and dialogue tweaks of having been through the plot before.
• Rookie Red Ranger: They eventually become a leader of a squadron consisting of themselves, Kureha, Itsuki, Zeliska, and as well Kirito and his group of friends.
• The Stoic: Often fairly straight-faced, regardless of how hardened or gentle they look. Kirito even seems to think they just are sort of staring off into space a bit. But on the other hand..
  • Not So Stoic: They do emote at the beginning of the game in wonder of the VR world around them, and use more generic emote animations in cutscenes occasionally. Affinity conversations often imply they've got a bit of a Cheshire Cat Grin with Kureha's Tsundere habits and denials, or are incredibly dorky with the likes of Itsuki and Zeliska. And then they've got a Grin of Audacity in the true ending cutscene shared with Kirito, right before going to town on the players surrounding them.
• Took a Level in Badass: Just like with any MMO, the player starts out at level 1, and are already surrounded by not only Kureha, but Kirito's entire group of experienced players. By the mid-point of the story, before you're even probably mid-way to level 100, you beat Kirito, Sinon, Yuuki, and Kureha by yourself in a five-way battle royale to become group leader, and by the end you're considered at least one of the top players of the game.
• Written-In Absence: During the Memory Defrag tie-in promotional quest for Fatal Bullet, most of the Fatal Bullet exclusive characters are present along with Kirito's crew, with the exception of the Player Character (by virtue they couldn't put a customizable character into a mobile game that doesn't offer that feature). Hence In-Universe it's explained that the Player was busy taking care of other business in the real world, while entrusting ArFA-sys to Kureha.
• Worthy Opponent: Itsuki considers them to be interesting and develops a deep obsession with them.
• You Remind Me of X: Over half the cast compare the Player Character and Kirito, both offhandedly and as an important kind of notice thing. Even Kirito himself makes this comparison in a private conversation with the player.

ArFA-sys / "Rei"

Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto (male voice1), Hiromu Mineta (male voice2), Yuuki Amaezawa (male voice3)
Natsumi Takamori (female voice1), Yurina Furukawa (female voice2), Marie Miyake (female voice3), Karin Oda (female voice4)

A Type-X ArFA-sys unit that the Protagonist finds in the prologue and becomes their personal assistant. They can fight alongside the Protagonist and assist in managing his/her gaming expenses in GGO. Is nicknamed "Rei" by others.

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• Action Girl: If the player makes ArFA-sys a female.
• All-Loving Hero: Wishes to be friends with just about everyone she meets.
• Badass Bookworm: Considering their primary function is to manage the player's in-game finances and allowing them access to the SBC Flügel starship and they are perfectly capable of being a formidable gunfighter in their own right, ArFA-sys is easily this.
• Benevolent A.I.: A helpful AI android companion for the player character.
• Berserk Button: Do NOT look down on the Protagonist. Every time she feels like someone is doing it Rei gets incredibly annoyed as seen when Zeliska does it. She even explodes into a rant when a random GGO player tries to call the Protagonist out as a cheater.
• Character Customization: Just as customizable as the Protagonist.
• Cheerful Child: Gives off the vibe of an ever excited child seeking to have fun.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: A natural airhead.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Only applies to Itsuki and Bazalt Joe, who are the only character who refers to them as "ArFA-sys" as opposed to "Rei" which all other characters refer to them by.
• Failed a Spot Check: Thanks to a complete misinterpretation on her part, Rei fails to realize that in order to first access the SBC Flugel the player and their ArFA-sys unit must approach by themselves without anybody else to accompany them.
• Fun with Acronyms: Averted. "ArFA-sys" is not an easy to remember acronym and actually priorities what it stands for which is "Artificial Financial Adviser System". This led to other characters nicknaming them Rei.
• Game-Favored Gender: While ArFA-sys's gender can be customized, story seems to lean more towards them being female. For instance, lots of dialogue still refer to them using the "-chan" honorific even when they are male and characters will call a male ArFA-sys cute.
• Genki Girl: Their AI personality is set to be excessively cheerful.
• Hair Color Dissonance: ArFA-sys's hair is customizable to any color.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: ArFA-sys's name can be customized just like the player character. Although their default name is Rei which is also what all other characters refer to them by.
• Heroic BSoD: The Gatekeeper event that blocks the gang out from entering the ship is, for reasons unknown is "unbeatable". Turns out only the Player Character and the ArFA-sys are supposed to approach initially.
• In-Series Nickname: Nicknamed "Rei", which means zero in Japanese, after their full ID name: ArFA-sys Type-X 290-00. All voiced dialogue by the other characters in Fatal Bullet will use this nickname for the player's ArFA-sys unit.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Personality-wise, they're only understanding things depending on what others effectively teach them, so their child-like mindset means they really wouldn't understand what something like Fanservice even means. Doesn't stop the player from putting them in a bikini or other provocative gear for the hell of it.
• My Instincts Are Showing: It's apparent they are a lot less human than other AIs like Yui and Strea, given that they are designed to be an android, having to learn about human emotions before later coming to understand and mimic them.
• Nice Girl: An All-Loving Hero who is kind and polite to everyone they come across.
• Non-Player Companion: An AI android companion who serves the player.
• No Social Skills: They are easily excited and doesn't have a full grasp of human emotions.
• Pride: ArFA-sys is very proud of the fact they are a Type-X model (a very rare model that is superior to standard models like Type-A and Type-B), and will constantly remind other characters of this fact.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: A realistic-looking one implemented in GGO. They look so real that Silica initially mistook Kureha for ArFA-sys. Their ability to imitate human psyche is also exceptionally impressive, being even able to forget and become confused much like a real human.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Any female ArFA-sys will have this as their default hairstyle.
• Ship Tease: While one can take the affinity scenes as more of a parent and child kind of thing, it's also entirely plausible to see their words as cases of a Love Confession.
• What Is This Feeling?: ArFA-sys is slowly learning to understand human emotion, not fully able to grasp all the concepts. They will remark about certain emotions they experience over time such as stating "this must be what happiness feels like".

Kureha

Momiji Takamine / Kureha (GGO)

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura

The protagonist's childhood friend, who invites him/her to join in Gun Gale Online and play together. She is somewhat chagrined to discover the protagonist received the ArFA-sys instead of her, but remains by their side nonetheless.

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• Action Girl: A given considering that she's a GGO player.
• Battle Couple: Kureha's insistence aside, she's this with the Protagonist. Kirito even insists that the both of them have better teamwork with one another than he himself does with Asuna and the others. Coming from Kirito, this means something.
• BFG: Carries around a beam cannon almost as big as she is as her secondary weapon.
• Big Sister Worship: Although she dislikes living in her shadow, dialogue from Kureha herself makes it clear that loves and admires her older sister.
• Canon Immigrant: She and Zeliska have a cameo in Alicization Episode 1, where they are seen playing pool in bar together. As proof it is indeed them and not a case of Identical Stranger, Kureha's name is also seen on the 5th BoB rankings.
• Can't Catch Up: Starts feelings this way towards the Protagonist after they defeat her, Kirito, Sinon, and Yuuki in a five-way battle royal to determine who becomes the leader of their new squadron. It's later taken further once Kureha challenges them to a one-on-one fight and again loses.
• Childhood Friends: With the Player Character.
• Evil Knockoff: In a DLC event, enemy ArFA-sys units began appearing that looked like GGO players, with Kureha being one of them. Kureha notices her double dresses and behaves how she used to.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride and Jealousy. Though she's not boastful per say, Kureha is quite prideful of her own skills and strives to prove herself from time to time. Once she invites the Protagonist to play GGO with her however, she starts shows increasing amounts of jealousy towards them as they quickly rise through the ranks of GGO's player base despite being a relative newbie. It eventually comes to ahead once the Protagonist becomes the top player after completing the SBC Flugel quest, wherein her jealousy reaches its peak and drives her to nearly ruin their friendship after she picks a fight and loses.
• Foil: It's never really brought up much in-game, but she's this to Rain from Lost Song. To note:
  • Both of them are the red-headed heroines of their games. However, whereas Rain only initially knows of Kirito through his reputation and somewhat stalks him and his party before joining up, Kureha has known the Protagonist since they were children and was the one to invite them to play GGO in the first place.
  • Both of them are sisters to a much more talented sibling. However, Rain is an older sister who's filled with nothing but love towards Seven even years after their estrangement whereas Kureha is a younger sister who has a severe inferiority complex towards hers.
  • Both are avid VRMMORPG players. However, whereas Rain is skilled enough to give even someone like Kirito a hard time, Kureha is much less so which causes her no end of grief when the Protagonist starts to overshadow her despite being a newbie.
• Freudian Excuse: Much of Kureha's personal flaws stems from having lived so long in the shadow of her much more talented older sister. This results in her acting stand-offish and prideful towards the Protagonist more than once, though she's quick to realize this and apologizes whenever it pops up.
• Genki Girl: Downplayed compared to Rei, but she's generally quite cheerful and friendly.
• Girls with Guns: A female player of a shoot-em-up VRMMO.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Towards the Protagonist for their innate talent and luck at playing GGO.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Has blue eyes to go along with the fact she's a Nice Girl.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Strives to become a Top Player in GGO just for the sake of having something to her name that her very talented older sister doesn't.
• Meaningful Name: Her in-game name is Alternate Character Reading of her given name's kanji (紅葉).
• Ms. Exposition: She largely serves as a tutorial for the player early in the game.
• Nice Girl: Quite friendly with just about every character in-game.
• Pink Means Feminine: Her attire is predominantly pink.
• Red-Headed Hero: A redheaded Action Girl and a major character in Fatal Bullet.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Despite everyone's belief that the two of them are dating, Kureha is insistent that she and the Player Character are just friends and nothing more.
• Ship Tease: With the Protagonist. Their close bond is brought up by other characters who believe them to be a couple. And despite Kureha's repeated insistence otherwise, it's made rather evident during her affinity scenes that she thinks of the Protagonist as more than just a simple old friend.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite normally upbeat behavior it's made clear that Kureha suffers from severe self-esteem issues after having lived in her sister's shadow for so long. She even admits that she doesn't want the Protagonist to meet her in real life because of how different she perceives herself to act compared to in-game.
• Suicide by Cop: Downplayed. She's not out to intentionally end her life, but when faced with the threat of Death Gun she's quick to volunteer herself out of the belief that no one would miss her if she were to die which basically implies this trope.
• Tsundere: A strong case of this towards the Player Character; usually Kureha's more on the dere side with a bit of spunk, but the moment the PC starts acting nice towards her or gets worried, she tries to brush it off, sometimes rather roughly with the tsun side. Even raising her affinity just makes the dere side come out more often with plenty of tsun along the way.
• The Unfavorite: Kureha believes herself to be this in contrast to her talented older sister. How much of it is true however is dependent on player interpretation as none of her family makes an appearance during the game itself.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Constantly on the receiving end of this from the Protagonist and Zeliska as both strive to let Kureha know that she's already special enough the way she is.

Zeliska

Midoriko Hoshiyama / Zeliska (GGO)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

A renowned solo player of GGO known as the Uncrowned Queen. She is knowledgeable when it comes to the ArFA-sys units in the game and acts as an older sister figure towards other players.

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• Action Girl: Zeliska kicks ass in GGO, as seen in the game when she takes on Automatons by herself.
• BFG: Uses a PKM machine gun as her primary.
• The Ace: Is a GGO player who's gaining more popularity because of her experience.
• Arms and Armor Theme Naming: The Pfeifer-Zeliska is an Austrian heavy revolver chambered in .600 Nitro Express.
• Cool Big Sis: She looks and acts noticeably older than most of the other cast, and often comforts or looks out for younger players like Kureha or any of Kirito's friends.
• Didn't See That Coming: She didn't expect Lievre to be so dedicated to their master's plans that they would overclock their systems and stay that way. Considering Zeliska coins herself as a bit of an ArFA-sys maniac that doesn't ever want to see them get harmed, this floors her.
• Everyone Can See It: Inverted. Zeliska is immediately able to see Lisbeth and Silica's crushes on Kirito, despite their insistent denials.
• Evil Knockoff: In a DLC event, enemy ArFA-sys units began appearing that looked like GGO players, with Zeliska being one of them. Zeliska notices her double dresses and behaves how she used to.
• Ms. Fanservice: Zeliska's outfit is basically a mishmash of Fanservice tropes and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination.
• Go Out with a Smile: In the ending where she dies, as her HP hits zero, she smiles to the Player Character and tells them to keep living as she disappears.
• Invisibility Cloak: The Player and ArFA-sys find an item that is able to grant the wearer invisibility. However the problem is it's very revealing. Zeliska agrees to wear it and has a lot of fun at being invisible, until she finds out the effects of the item are temporary.
• Mysterious Stranger: Nothing is known about her, aside from her GGO background.
• Mystical White Hair: Has white hair that goes well with her Mysterious Past.
• Oh, Crap!: In one of her affinity scenes mentioned in Invisibility Cloak, the protagonist gets her a piece of cloaking gear that's meant to be more effective than usual. Naturally Finagle's Law applies, the suit runs out, and Zeliska appears in a skintight bodysuit and bikini unaware that they can actually see her until it's too late. You can admit to it or snark about it.
  Player Character: Nice bod, Zeliska.
  Zeliska: NOOOOOOOOO!!
• Overprotective Mom: Towards Daisy. She dislikes the idea of her going out into battle and always wants to make sure that she's safe from people who may wish to take advantage of her as well.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Complains about having one of these, to the point that she outright states that she wishes she could just shove a live grenade in his mouth. Ironically, said boss happens to be in GGO himself as Taipan, who is essentially Itsuki's lackey.
• Red Baron: The "Uncrowned Queen", referring to her unofficial status as a top-of-the-game solo player.
• The Reveal: At the end of the game she reveals she's an employee for Zeskar, the company that runs GGO. However, she's just a humble programmer who happens to work under Taipan.
• The Tease: Her affinity scenes where she shares the bed with the Player Character has her utterly finding it adorable how meek they are about the idea of someone hugging them in bed, although she still tries to coax them so that she has something warm to hug.
• Totally Radical: Occasionally uses old net lingo phrases, like being "hit in the feels," or outright calling Itsuki a Troll. Notably, despite a lot of characters commonly using text emotes in e-mails, she's the only character that actually uses phrases like this.
• Vague Age: Neither the story nor her affinity events really go into how old she is, just that she has a desk job of some sort as a programmer for GGO. Eventually averted in May 2019 when the Japanese game website published a profile for her that put her at 25 years old born on May 6th.

Itsuki

Sai Yukitsugu / Itsuki (GGO)

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

A high-ranking player in Gun Gale Online who quickly becomes interested in the Protagonist during their first day in GGO. Often jokes to mess with the people around him.

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• Accidental Murder: Of either Kureha or Zeliska in the normal endings. Accidental in the sense that he never intended to murder either of them and that he actually left it up to Taipan on who to deliver the stolen NerveGear units to.
• Ambiguously Evil: Even after his Jerkass Realization, he still holds shades of this. In private moments he hints at a more sinister side with ulterior motives, such as implications that he's deceiving the Player Character. Sure enough, he's revealed to be the Big Bad of the finale's Death Game scenario.
• Big Bad: Notably, he makes himself this where there simply wasn't one previously, and only at the very end of the game while Death Gun is being dealt with by Kirito and Sinon.
• Big Bad Friend: Even before his Face–Heel Turn he tries to steer the Protagonist into becoming a person similar to him with methods such as blatantly leading them into a trap during the squadron's exploration of SBC Flugel. Itsuki only fails thanks to the Protagonist being The Pollyanna.
• Blatant Lies: In a DLC event where imposter ArFA-sys start showing up that have copied the appearance and behavior of GGO players' old data. Kureha and Zeliska notice that their clones look and act exactly how they used to. However Itsuki sees his double being all nice and wanting friends, and adamantly denies ever acting like that. Everyone sees right through Itsuki's act, until finally the Player Character gets him to admit it.
• Born Unlucky: By his own admission, he has the worst luck in finding rare items.
• Broken Tears: Incredibly downplayed, but when the Player Character effectively expresses a case of love for the whole squadron as True Companions. Itsuki suddenly has his left eye start crying, unable to hide his emotions in real life as he both realizes that the player is not only his most precious person in the world at this moment in time, but they also see him in equal light with everyone else. Which doesn't sit well with Itsuki. Minutes later, he voluntarily becomes the Big Bad.
• Canon Immigrant: His name gets a brief mention in the anime continuity as shown briefly in episode 1 of the Alicization Arc where he's in the Top 10 of the 5th BoB.
• Card-Carrying Villain: After his plans to keep the Protagonist all to himself falls apart, he decides to reveal himself to them and openly announces that he's the villain to the Protagonist's hero.
• Chick Magnet: Has his own fanclub of girls pursuing him. He's not really amused to be this.
• Crazy-Prepared: None of his contacts knows anything about him in real life, due to him mixing up all his personal details and giving different accounts to everyone. Itsuki also never logged in from home so even his access location can't be used to track him.
• Entitled to Have You: In a weird sort of non-sexual way towards the Protagonist. In Itsuki's eyes, they made life interesting for him again after years of boredom, and by the ending he even resorts to putting them into a Death Game scenario to make them believe he's the only one that they can count on and no one else.
• Evil Knockoff: In a DLC event, enemy ArFA-sys units began appearing that looked like GGO players, with Itsuki being one of them. While he denies it behaves anything like him, he eventually confesses it's how he was when he just started playing GGO.
• Face–Heel Turn: Pulls this around the time the SBC Flugel quest is completed. What fully cements his descent into villainy however is when the Protagonist affirms their love for everyone and not just him, driving Itsuki over the edge.
• Faux Affably Evil: Even when he turns evil he still manages to keep up his politeness especially towards the Protagonist.
• Foil: Has an almost opposite scenario to Seven. Both were introduced as another addition to Kirito's circle of friends before being revealed to secretly be the Big Bad. However while Seven was showered with fame and expectations which had a detrimental effect on her psyche leading to her villainy, Itsuki lived a reclusive, secretive life and it was his boredom that led him to pursue the Player Character who he found interesting before ultimately orchestrating his Evil Plan to have them all to himself. Plus, while Seven genuinely desired companionship and was able to be brought back to reality, Itsuki only pretended to be friendly which belied a darker side underneath. But most importantly Seven had a Heel–Face Turn after realizing the error of her ways, while Itsuki chose to be the Big Bad when there previously wasn't one.
• Gay Option: He, and later Eugeo after he was added to Fatal Bullet, are the only males of the main character's bedtime companions, so this trope applies if the player uses a male main character.
• I Hate Past Me: A rare non-time travel version. In a DLC event where ArFA-sys that copy the appearance and behavior of GGO players using old data, Itsuki is disgusted to see his counterpart acting like his past self who was cheerful and wanted to make friends. He's so thoroughly repulsed by his past self that he adamantly denies the ArFA-sys is anything like him, until much probing finally makes him confess.
• Jerkass: As polite as Itsuki can be, he's also quite rude and dismissive especially towards those he deems not worth his time. The only real exception to this would be the Protagonist, but even then he acts like a Troll towards them more than once.
• Karma Houdini: In the normal ending(s), he gets either Kureha or Zeliska killed by a NerveGear after one of them suffers a Heroic Sacrifice against Taipan's boss creation and then runs off with no real conclusion as to what happened to him. The True Ending still lets him get away, but his plans are in complete failure and the Protagonist effectively proves themselves to be on the moral high ground, making Itsuki's escape more of a loose end than a Pyrrhic Victory given that the police are on the search for him.
• Mexican Stand Off: With the Protagonist in the True Ending, complete with Gunpoint Banter where Itsuki tries to goad them into shooting him, noting that doing so would kill him as he's also wearing the second NerveGear unit himself.
• Mysterious Past: No one knows anything about Itsuki's real life, and he isn't exactly truthful about what he does tell folks. However, his affinity scenes imply that wherever he lives was probably hellish compared to an average person's life, as he envies the Player Character in that regard. Constant jokes about being a criminal of some sort combined with his actions could mean he's perhaps someone that grew up in slums or even a warzone; it's telling that he specifically calls where he lives a "desolate wasteland".
• The Reveal: The Death Game scenario that he, the Protagonist, Kureha, and Zeliska end up going through? All thanks to Itsuki and Taipan pulling the strings, though Itsuki admits it was mostly the latter doing the heavy work.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this dynamic with Zeliska. Itsuki cannot stand being in the same room as her and most of his dialogue with her has him acting Passive Aggressively towards her. Zeliska for her part takes it in stride is more amused than anything at his attitude.
• Schrödinger's Gun: Of the four NerveGear units given to the Protagonist, Kureha, Zeliska, and Itsuki, only two of them were actually real. One goes the Protagonist themselves, while the other goes to either Kureha or Zeliska in the normal endings, or to Itsuki himself in the True Ending.
• Sympathy for the Devil: While no one forgives him for his heinous actions, other characters do feel sorry for the emotional dilemma he's in and how he's exiled himself to be eternally alone.
• Troll: Loves completely tossing around all sorts of contradictory implications about his life, just to screw with people around him and especially the hordes of fangirls that can turn one little lie into an embellished story.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Who would have thought that at one point, lone-wolf pretty-boy Itsuki wanted nothing more than to make friends and have fun? Itsuki is ashamed of his past.
• Walking Spoiler: As the laundry list of spoilers indicates, Itsuki's role is a lot more extensive than one may think at first glance. What's not tagged as spoilers are mostly things prior to The Reveal.
• Yandere: By the end of the game he jumps the shark and reveals that he's specifically obsessed with the Protagonist and how they should only treat him as a close friend. In the normal endings, he's totally fine with Kureha or Zeliska being killed for getting in the way of this - but in the Golden Ending, the protagonist shuts his death game attempt down and yet refuses to kill him for it. Evil Cannot Comprehend Good ensues, before everyone's forced to log out and he makes his escape.