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  • In the Dating Sim Always Remember Me, one of the love interests is a shy but cute guy who is more comfortable texting than speaking with the protagonist in person. He also blushes quite a bit around her, and is the secret admirer sending her encouraging emails.
  • BlazBlue has Noel Vermillion, and she is the definition of this archetype. She is shy, clumsy, and tends to get worked up over the smallest things. She initially had great difficulty with socializing with other people, only being able to communicate because of Bolverk's ability to suppress emotions. In time, she eventually learned to interact with others, being polite, helpful, yet reserved.
  • Blue Archive has a couple students who are huge Shrinking Violets:
    • Haruka Igusa is incredibly shy and self-deprecating due to being bullied for most of her childhood, a fate that Aru thankfull saved her from.
    • Yuzu Hanaoka is really shy, to the point where she rarely if ever leaves the clubroom and is way too adept at hiding inside lockers. Justified as she has been the victim of harassment in the past and is terrified of it, although Sensei helps her open up a bit.
    • Tsukuyo Oono is very reclusive and somewhat self-deprecating due to her being teased in her childhood for her unusually tall height.
    • Miyu Kasumizawa's very reluctant to speak to speak up, having very little self-esteem from years of neglect from a lot of people due to her lack of presence.
    • Hiyori Tsuchinaga's timid nature and tendency to cry over everything make her stand out compared to the Stoics Saori, Atsuko, and Misaki.
  • Bravely Default has the ninja Konoe Kikyo, who became a disguise artist because she's too shy to say a word normally. When disguised, however, she turns into a Motor Mouth.
  • Club Penguin:
    • Gary has shades of this. If a crowd of people gather around him during the moments he's a meetable character or when the room he's in is full, he goes to another room or hides behind something.
    • White puffles are described by the Puffle Catalog as being shy, and they're often prone to blushing.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • The remake of Final Fantasy III has Arc, who is initially seen being bullied by children who appear to be younger than him and generally being quiet and withdrawn. He grows more confident over the course of the journey.
    • Final Fantasy VII:
      • Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, as a gawky teenager with no self-esteem and one friend. The final scene shows him starting the story of Final Fantasy VII — under the fake persona of a glamorous, arrogant, abrasive, badass Professional Killer who is always at the center of attention and doesn't need friends.
      • Tifa Lockhart is a mild example. She can be very shy in regards to her feelings, usually when it comes to Cloud.
    • Vivi Ornitier from Final Fantasy IX is tremendously shy and withdrawn, and it's hard for him to connect with others.
    • Hope Esthiem from Final Fantasy XIII. Early on in the game, he's very cowardly until Vanille helps him come out of his shell. Come Final Fantasy XIII-2, he has become a charismatic leader.
  • Fire Emblem has a few:
    • Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War:
    • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade:
    • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones:
      • The Manakete Myrrh. She's been sheltered and revered as a living goddess in Caer Pelyn her whole life, and leaving home brings her quite the misfortune until she's rescued by Ephraim.
      • It is heavily implied that the Big Bad Lyon never had any friends because of his shy nature, and that the Renais twins are his only friends. Uniquely, overlaps with Purple Is Powerful. He is the strongest mage in Magvel universe, bar none, yet his personality is still insecure, timid, and shy.
    • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Nephenee, though it's more because she's embarrassed about her strong country accent and unsure of how to talk to nobles.
    • Fire Emblem: Awakening:
      • Olivia, a rare case of a dancer with performance anxiety. She sports an almost perpetual Luminescent Blush because of her general shyness. It's lampshaded with her title in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue during the ending credits: Shrinking Violet.
      • Inigo also has shades of this trope, though he normally covers it up well enough unless someone catches him dancing. His supports with Olivia reveal that he was much more timid as a child, and when he asked her for advice on how to talk to people, she said that the best way for a man to become braver was to talk to a woman. Inigo then took that advice a little too far.
    • In Fire Emblem Fates, Princess Sakura of Hoshido stands out as being this trope because she can't even speak without stuttering. It is also implied that it runs in the family. Her older sister Hinoka flat-out says that she was like Sakura in her support with her, and several of Sakura's older brother Takumi's other supports and other characters' dialogues imply that he was this too. His current personality when the game takes place, however...
    • From Fire Emblem: Three Houses, there are two characters who deconstruct this trope, as both characters have heavy psychological burdens that make them act this way and it isn't played up for cuteness:
      • Bernadetta von Varley is an archer who shuts herself in her room during the player's free time when they're not teaching a class or attending a seminar. There is a reason why she's like this: Her father attempted to make her the perfect wife by tying her up on a chair and leave her there, demanding she stay silent. He even discouraged her from making friends with anyone and once beat a commoner boy almost to death when he tried to befriend her. Part of her Character Development is to overcome this, and her epilogue with Byleth if married has her Take a Level in Badass by traveling with him to help fight against Those Who Slither In The Dark.
      • Marianne von Edmund, who is so shy that members of her house comment that they've barely ever heard her speak. She's far more comfortable around animals than people and is usually found praying alone in the Cathedral. The reason for Marianne's shyness and withdrawn nature is that she is the bearer of the Crest of the Beast, which is said to bring misfortune to the Crest-bearer and anyone nearby. She stays away from everyone because she believes that she will bring them suffering if she interacts with them, and it's implied that her birth parents either abandoned her when her Crest manifested or were killed at some point. She is also heavily implied to have depression, as she is withdrawn, clumsy, and feels like a burden to everyone, and she even admits in her A-support with Byleth that pre-timeskip she used to pray to the Goddess to "take her away" before meeting him and the other students and deciding that she had something to live for.
  • Shizuka Hirose, the main chick from Gakuensai no Oujisama, though this depends heavily on which male she's shipped with: she's more shy to some guys, but more open to others.
  • Arisu Kusunoki in Grimoire Shiritsu Grimoire Mahou Gakuen is one of the more extreme examples of the trope. One of the resident Token Mini Moes, she's a Shy Blue-Haired Lonely Doll Girl. In fact, she can barely even speak and has to rely on her magical doll to do the talking most of the time. She is so bad at it that even the subtitles somehow manage to make it harder to understand what she is trying to say. Tragically, one of the very few instances you get to hear her talk normally is an Alternate Timeline Bad Future where she's become a Broken Bird and what she's saying is a borderline Madness Mantra. On a more positive note, she starts to open up once she meets the main character, who also helps her make friends, but she still has a very hard time speaking. Fortunately, she seems able to text just fine.
  • Richard P. Nelson in Growing Up is a shy boy who likes playing music by himself and speaks with a stutter. He also gets nervous when he forgets to return the Player Character's parents' Dino World tape, and is afraid of trying out for the school choir. He doesn't like being pushed around too much and prefers making electronica music in the background rather than standing in front of an audience.
  • Harvest Moon: Back to Nature: Cliff is extremely shy and stutters around, having difficulty talking with most people. Part of his development involves working through his shyness.
  • Yukiho Hagiwara from The iDOLM@STER is very shy and easily embarrassed, and also very Prone to Tears. She wants to be an idol so she can overcome this.
  • Lily from Kindergarten is shy, depressed, insecure, and often the target of being picked on by Alpha Bitch Cindy. She becomes less depressed at the very least in Kindergarten 2, following the rescue of her missing brother Billy.
  • In King of the Castle the candidates for the King's Arranged Marriage in "Eligible Options" sometimes include a shy noble who, if chosen, will blush every time anyone looks at them during the wedding festivities and, when they are alone with their royal partner, can only stammer "Um... Hello." They can eventually emerge from their shell if the King offers them the time and space to do so rather than forcing the issue.
  • The Fairy prince Edgar from the King's Quest series. Justified by the fact he's spent most of his life being "raised" by the cruel and vicious Lolotte, and was transformed into a deformed, ugly, green-skinned hunchback. He can barely make eye contact with Rosella without blushing. He's developed a bit more of a spine in his second appearance, but he's still very shy and quiet.
  • Zaalbar from Knights Ofthe Old Republic. He's an adolescent Wookiee, which means he's two meters and change of fur and muscle, backed up with a perpetually empty stomach, but he's painfully shy and afraid to speak up for himself, saying he's not much good for anything other than scaring someone or bashing a door in. Even your notoriously charismatic Player Character can barely manage to get a word out of him. He's more than happy to let his pal Mission do the talking.
  • Paya from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gets embarrassed and shy incredibly easily for many reasons. For example, Link standing too close (or within ten feet of her), Link not wearing a shirt, being asked about the birthmark she was named after, the list goes on. It slightly goes away, in that she stops getting embarrassed at some of Link's more benign questions, after Link spends the day protecting her from the Yiga clan after they steal the Shrine Orb out of her and Impa's house, though she will still get flustered at the above instances.
  • Shyler the Pizza Troll from Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. (Zero-Context Example)
  • Mami Koda from Lost Judgment. She's quiet, reserved, and very soft-spoken, likely as a result of constantly being bullied by her peers.
  • Mia Ausa from Lunar: The Silver Star. Her upbringing in the magic city of Vane was very sheltered, making her awkward around people she doesn't know.
  • The Mass Effect franchise:
  • Mother:
  • Persona:
    • Persona 2's main character Tatsuya Suou is a rare male example. While he gives an air of stoicism and aloofness, it is all as a result of crippling shyness and social awkwardness, and he is in general someone who needs a lot of personal space. It is revealed that he used to be more openly sociable in the past, but after the whole Alaya Shrine incident which left him with deep emotional trauma, he was rendered severely stunted in terms of interpersonal relationships.
    • Persona 3:
      • There's Fuuka Yamagishi, the team's resident Mission Control, who has a school reputation for being frail, shy, and easily bullied. She's actually much more resilient and headstrong than her reputation suggests, but when Junpei "Casanova Wannabe" Iori points out how developed she looks in a swimsuit, she can only manage a panicked, inarticulate squeak and quickly hides behind the other female party members in embarrassment.
      • Possibly topping Fuuka is "Justice" social link NPC Chihiro Fushimi, the painfully shy student council treasurer who can't speak to any male character about anything at all without stammering. Completing her social link sidequest helps her get better, and reveals that she's also a (very mild) Type B tsundere. By Persona 4, she's overcome her shyness enough to become Student Council President.
      • A third, surprising, example is Akihiko Sanada. The team's Spirited Competitor and school boxing champion, most of the time he's an Aloof Big Brother sort that most of the girls in the school would love to date... at least, until he actually tries to impress a girl, and falls into a nervous stammer. A character video late in the game shows him reading books in his room on how to talk to girls and trying, and failing, to rehearse a conversation without getting flustered. This is probably best exemplified by talking to him in Tartarus when playing as a female protagonist in a romance with him. Up to this point, Akihiko has consistently shown the ability to filter out distractions while fighting, even when emotions are running high. But when the female player merely speaks to him then, he's reduced to this: "Wh... What? Oh... sorry... I'm... kind of nervous... ...Don't look at me too much."
    • Persona 4:
      • At the start of the story, Yukiko Amagi is highly revered among her classmates and many people of Inaba for her beauty and status, but is uncomfortable whenever someone compliments her looks and doesn't think very highly of herself, feeling worthless. She depends on her childhood best friend Chie Satonaka to stick up for her and fend unwanted guys off who pressure her into going out with them to such an extent that it becomes a crutch. As the game progresses and Yukiko obtains her Persona, she begins to gain the strength and self-confidence she needs to stand up for herself more.
      • Ayane Matsunaga is very prone to shutting herself off and letting others step all over her, so the point of her S-Link is helping her grow out of this.
    • Persona 5:
      • Futaba Sakura, the Phantom Thieves' Mission Control, is this. While she isn't a social skills butterfly to begin with, her mother being killed out of spite by Shido in one of his many Kick the Dog moments for the sole reason of seizing her research, who then scapegoated Futaba for her mother's death, just made things worse.
      • In Royal, we get a very literal case of this trope. Kasumi Yoshizawa is an elegant, friendly, and cheerful gymnast that got a scholarship at Shujin for her near-perfect gymnast performances. Sounds nothing, right? Aside from the fact that this isn't Kasumi Yoshizawa, it's actually her depressed and inferior sister Sumire Yoshizawa, and "Sumire" Japanese for violet flowers. Having Kasumi help her for most of her life and accomplishing top gymnastic performance after top gymnastic performance while she could only be just above average at the sport resulted in her having zero self-esteem and self-confidence, as she believed that if she weren't Kasumi, she should probably just die. This eventually led to a traffic accident where she only survived when Kasumi took her place to be hit by traffic and died instead, which only furthered her suicidal depression even more, forcing her father to push her to Maruki, and she requested him to turn her into a copy of Kasumi to artificially boost her nonexistent self-confidence and ego.
  • Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time has a literal example. The Shrinking Violet is a violet that shrinks all zombies around it. Its Almanac entry subverts this, however — she used to be this trope until she learned of her talent of zombie-shrinking powers.
  • Pokémon:
    • There's Jasmine, the Gym Leader of Olivine City in Pokémon Gold and Silver, to the point where her gym has no other trainers in it besides herself. She makes a cameo appearance in the fourth generation games and proves to be just as timid as ever. All the more jarring when her Steelix kicks your ass.
    • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl has Marley, who only speaks just enough to get the point across.
    • Cilan from Pokémon Black and White. Compared to his anime counterpart, the Cilan in the game comes off as very shy and having almost no confidence in his ability. His tendency to stutter before, during, and after the battle with him doesn't help his case. When you compare his personality to his brothers Chili and Cress, it's very jarring.
    • In Pokémon X and Y, Battle Chatelaine Evelyn fits this trope to a T, up to the point that she stutters in her speech.
    • Pokémon Sword and Shield has Allister, who rarely makes public appearances, and hides behind a mask when around other people.
  • In Potion Permit, Dev is a shy, quiet postman who Apologizes a Lot whenever his boisterous alter Dan causes accidents.
  • Lidelle from Puyo Puyo is ridiculously shy and timid, to the point that her story in 20th Anniversary is about her struggling to voice her thoughts to others properly and trying to overcome her shyness.
  • RealityMinds: Silvana spent most of her life too shy to talk to anyone outside of her family and Kvena. Kvena notes that this makes it so that Silvana will cling more to the few people she's comfortable with, which why Silvana doesn't suspect Kvena's treachery until it's too late.
  • Era from Roots of Pacha is shyer than her parents, Nari and Zelk. Nari tries to help Era break out of her shell, but the former thinks she's making it worse. Era slowly opens up to the protagonist as they bond, however.
  • Satura from Runbow turns out to be this in the DLC mission. She may have ultimately become friends with the Hues and Vals after her defeat in the normal adventure mode, but she still feels shy and lacks confidence around them due to her being born without color, preferring to sit by herself in The Last Luau and draw in her sketchbook. It's only after she gets convinced to join the others on a trip to the new Outta This World poster that showed up that she starts to get over it.
  • Shizumaru Hisame from Samurai Shodown is very sweet natured, if a little melancholic.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Despite her being quite a tough girl, Blaze the Cat does have her moments of this, especially around the more bubbly Amy Rose, ever-so-cheerful Cream, cocky Sonic, or even Peach and Daisy. She's an outcast due to her fire powers, which took a dent on her social skills. This leads to her becoming increasingly anxious as Cream attempts to befriend her. And she's purple, to boot!
    • When around girls, Knuckles can qualify for a male version of this, especially when taking quotes like this into account:
      Rouge: Still, you were pretty dashing and daring this time around.
      Knuckles: Huh? You really think so? I mean, I don't think I was really all that, um... Hey! Where's the detector?!
      Rouge: Nothing ever changes with you does it? Anyway, thanks for the Master Emerald!
      Knuckles: Wait! Wait you... You bat thief! Get back here!
  • Annie from Splatoon is a shy and fidgety shop owner. Luckily she has a loud, Jerkass partner in Moe.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Shy Guys are the kings of this trope, considering they cover their faces with masks and wear robes that cover their entire bodies.
    • The Boos, who will stalk and haunt Mario as he attempts to go about his adventures, preparing to rip him apart with their razor-sharp fangs.... but can't do it if he's looking at them.
  • Super Robot Wars:
  • Tales Series:
    • Emil from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World fits this trope squarely. It probably doesn't help that everyone else in his hometown, his own aunt and uncle included, believe that he's a worthless scum who'd be better off dead. Emil also subverts this trope in Ratatosk Mode, where he becomes a very blunt Jerk with a Heart of Gold, and the exact opposite of the "normal" Emil.
    • Elise from Tales of Xillia. It's a result of the people in her town treating her like a freak because of her abnormal proficiency with magic for her age, on top of seldom being let out of her home by her caretaker for safety reasons.
  • Tokimeki Memorial:
  • Taurus Mask from Tokyo Afterschool Summoners. While he has his mask on, he is a Large Ham professional wrestler that always screams his lines. But when he is seen without his mask and as his true self, Daisuke Ikusaba, he is incredibly nervous, barely able to hold conversations, and constantly trying to find his mask to gain the confidence to speak.
  • Touhou Project:
  • Lammy from Um Jammer Lammy is a very shy, insecure girl. She appears utterly uncomfortable with talking to people with whom she isn't already acquainted, and she becomes stricken with anxiety when put on the spot or made the center of attention. Further evidence toward this comes in when she flashes back to her and her band making the poster for their upcoming gig, specifically saying, "My picture doesn't have to stand out". However, when she has her guitar, either with her or in her mind...
  • Yandere Simulator:
    • Oka Ruto, the Occult Club president. Her default walk cycle has her hunched over and trying to take up as little space as possible, and she speaks in a halting, hesitating manner. Her student info also notes her shyness.
    • Ayano "Yandere-chan" Aishi acts like this if she gets too close to Senpai (in fact, she switches to the same walk cycle as Oka). The hand-wringing can be something of an inconvenience, as she drops whatever she was holding (like, say, a bloody knife).

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