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Age: 19
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6"
Build: Lean

Personality:
Megumi is quite a jovial, charming person, however she isn't boisterous. She exudes an inviting 'aura' that seems attractive to most people and her general demeanor supports it for the most part. Interestingly, she can be quite selfish, but subtly so; meaning that she will do things for herself as long as it isn't too noticeable. For example, she might purposefully take the last hit bonus and pass it off as a mistake. Overall she's quite a carefree person who likes to just do 'whatever'. Despite all this, she's able to read situations and take things seriously if need be.

Background:
Megumi was born into a small family of four; her parents, herself, and her younger brother. All living in a house build on top of their family run bakery located on a relatively lively shopping strip. From a young age, Megumi was quite a popular girl, and that wasn't just because her family ran a bakery. Reasonably smart, humorous, and friendly; pretty much the 'girl next door' type. Her carefree attitude lead to her having a multitude of hobbies which ranged from sports to video games, from sciences to music. Although her parents were happy that their daughter had such a open mind, they couldn't fund so many activities at once. Only allowing her to pick a few hobbies. So she settled on learning the Guitar and playing video games in her spare time.

She was super hyped for 'Sword Art Online', to be able to run around in an MMO sounded surreal. Unfortunately when she started the game, she found herself trapped within it. Not really something she could prepare for.

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Character class: Ranged
Level: 1
Weapon: Throwing Knives
Ingame skills:

• Pin down - Weapon Art cripples the target, impairing their movement speed.
• Rend
• Relentless

Age: 18
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2"
Build: Skinny

Personality:
She often speaks true to herself and doesn't let others dictate how she should live her life. This makes her come across as snarky if not somewhat overly sarcastic at times. Though with that said she is often playful and wants to spend time with friends. She has a odd way of showing her displeasure to friends however with her either pinching their cheeks and or going in to a lecture on how and or why they should avoid such behavior. She is deep down a caring person though her manner of speaking often tends to get in the way of her making good impressions. Despite this she can be somewhat of a pessimist at times though she never really lets it get to out of hand and continues forward despite the hardships that come her way.

Background:
Born into a well off family Hiei grew up fairly well at least never to be wanting. With that said she had a fairly simple child hood nothing that sticks out. Overall you would say she had lived a average life growing up never really having that "event" that really makes a persons life good or bad. She didnt truely get into games till later on in her life. Though she just recently got into games in general from her first time she was immidiantly hooked. It was something that allowed her to do more than what she could normally do from than one she quickly got her hands on whatever game she could. It was just that different for her a novelty as it was since with it she could be someone different than who she and it was that which made her all the more excited. When the announcement of SAO came out she was hooked on the idea a game without magic was novel and it made her all the more excited. It lead her to point of buying a nerv gear but little did she know she was in for more than she bargained for.

Character class: Ranged

Level: 1

Weapon: Bow, Skinning dagger

Ingame skills:

• Relentless
• Furious!
• Rend
  Trapper- Grants the ability to make small traps such as snare trap, Bear traps etc.

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Age: 25
Gender: Male
Height: 6'3"
Build: Slim & Athletic

Personality:
At first, Aaron doesn't appear to be the kind of person you'd want as a friend. He is almost always angry or complaining about something, his attitude towards others can range from amicable to standoffish depending on how he feels about them. But in truth, Aaron can be a great friend to have. His loyalty to them is almost unbreakable, willing to go to great lengths to help them. His problems are theirs and anyone who tries to hurt his friends will recieve nothing but hatred from him. As for life in general he has a rather bleak view of the world. In his eyes, people are terrible and given the right circumstances everyone is capable of evil, even himself. While his general demeanor can be depressed or angry he is capabale of showing happiness and even laughter but that's for special occasions. Speaking of laughter, his sense of humor is a bit strange. If you're looking to make him laugh, you need to say something really demented for him to let out more than a slight chuckle.

Background:
Life in the big city can be challenging, especially being born into an immigrant family. From a young age Aaron saw how people caan act out of desperation and selfishness. From gang activity to just people being shitty to eachother, he's seen pretty much everything you could see from living in a big city. As time went on life in the city got to him, eventually making him into the person he is today for better or worse. The only escape he really had from reality were video games, his first game was a fantasy rpg and he loved it. While he explored the various genres he could never say no to a great fantasy rpg and that's what brought him to SAO. He'd been playing around with VRMMOs but it was the announcement of SAO that got his attention. An entire fantasy world in VR? He knew from the moment he heard about it that he'd have trouble leaving this game.

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Character class: Warrior

Level: 1

Weapon: Sword & Chain Blade

Ingame skills:

• Sweep
• Rend
• Untouched

Real Name: Fuga Abe
Age:22
Gender: Male
Height: 173cm
Build: Athletic.

Personality: As the result of watching too much Super Sentai Show, he has developed a sense of heroism ever since he was a child. He likes to help people (while still looking cool), and the endless praises that comes with it can’t hurt either. Though some might say that this desire to always be the hero saving the day makes him a nosy person. Always poking around and try to find out what is wrong so he can fix it.
He is somewhat ignorant of people’s feeling as well. When people called him out for being busy body, he argued that people that he “saved” are just being unappreciative and doesn’t know a chivalry when they see one (is that even a saying?).

History: After he graduated from high school, he applied to join the Police Force at age 18. But he fails the physical exam. Since then, he has been working out. Eventually he passed the test and became a police officer at age 20. When he heard about SAO, he knew that the game is for him. The grand adventure and a whole new world of monsters waiting for him to slay, with his own hands! He borrows the money from his family and friends to buy the Nerve Gear. And let’s just say that he became the example to the saying “be careful what you wish for” as soon as he steps inside the game.

Character Class: Warrior
Level: 1
Weapon:Spear
Ingame skills:Thunderbrand
Blood Hungry
Juggernaut

"Nothing is going to stop me from protecting the ones I love."

Character name:Thomas Bridger



Age:20
Gender:Male
Height:5'9
Build: Skinny and out of shape.

Personality:Thomas moved around a lot in his life so he never really developed any friendships so he tends to shy away from other contact and be more on the reserve side. But once he makes a friend he remains loyal even if it kills him, he might be quite around new people but once he gets to know someone he is all jokes and he's the loudest dude in the room making his personality seem like a coin flip sometimes. Really all he is, is lonely wanting that companionship but afraid that they will leave him or hurt him in someway.

Background:Thomas was actually born an American, his father was a very busy and important businessman so often they were moving around a lot. And as his father started developing his career more, the further they went. First to different parts of Europe and things seemed great they settled in a lot more got to know people but it seemed to him that as soon as he opened up to someone he had to leave again.

As a result of this, he found video games to fill his void. Specifically VR games, here he could be whoever he wanted and make his own friends. The escapism continued well after they moved out of Europe it seemed he spent more of his time in the game world than he did in the real world so they always seemed real to him. Finally his father announced that they were moving to Japan and he was happy to go one of the biggest video game industries in the world and he got to be apart of it. For the first time in his life he was happy to be moving, and he got there about the same time as the announcement of SAO. Not wanting to miss out he asked his father for some money and bought a nervegear and the game. Little did he know that his life was going to be changed forever.

Character class: Tank

Level: 1

Weapon: Bastard Sword, and Tower Shield.

Ingame skills:

• Shield Master
• Juggernaut
• Blood Hungry

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Real Name: Sando Ichiya
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Height: 6’4
Build: Athletic, Brawny

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Personality:
Aggression and belligerence are the most defining features of "Apollyon's" psyche. His undying thirst for battle leads him to constantly challenge other players or the first to charge against a monster. The fact he has an orange player crystal doesn't bother him. Holding to himself a high standard of martial prowess, he rattles off and despises weakness of any sort such as hiding behind shields, cowering in armor or using trickery in battle. Its likely that part of him doing this is to aggravate other players into a fight. Apollyon cares little for where the blood flows, only that it does.

Background:
Sando Ichiya was never the most stable of individual, having spent much of his life as a delinquent. Falling into a bad crowd, if Ichiya wasn't trying to beat the shit out of someone, he was at the gym trying to hone his ability to beat the shit out of someone. As he aged, his belligerence only got worse as his anger management issues became increasingly apparent until it boiled over when he nearly beat another person to death. Arrested and imprisoned, part of his sentence was anger management therapy. His therapist, in a creative stroke, told Ichiya to play video games which would allow him to vent his anger and aggression in a form which wouldn't hurt others. His parents were at first outraged by it, being staunch anti-video game people all of Ichiya's life. However, Ichyia became to show signs of improvement and began to clean up.

When SAO rolled around, Ichiya was an avid gamer with a life with a good outlook for the first time ever. However, after it was revealed that SAO was all just a giant digital prison, he suffered extreme mental trauma, his mind unable to comprehend why he was suffering like this. He had paid his dues, he had done his time, and he was on the road to redemption. But to suddenly have all of that taken away from him drove him mad and he regressed into his old ways of aggression with increasing brutality and savagery. With a barely contained bloodlust, he is the first to throw himself into battle and the first to criticize any signs of weakness in anyone around him. As to if he just wants to kill or if he seeks his own death, unable to bring himself to suicide.

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Character class: Warrior
Level: 1
Weapon(s): Great Axe, Claws (attached to gauntlets)
Skills:

• Relentless
• Blood Thirsty
• Sturdy

"Real life? Who needs something like that?"

Name: Elys [Mikuniyama, Kazuko]

Age: 17
Gender: Female
Height: 159 cm [previous avatar 176cm]
Build: Slender

Personality: One could consider therein to exist a divide between the individual known as ”Kazuko” and the avatar known as “Elys”. Kazuko tends to be reserved, shy, and keeps her gaze downtrodden.. There are few times when Kazuko leaves the safety of her room, snuggled away in her blankets and playing video games being her sole pleasure in her existence.

Perhaps it has been more than a month or so as the teen had not shown up for any of her classes, accepting the lifestyle of a NEET to her own, if begrudgingly. Littered within her room are various degrees of instant foods. The only thing that really sticks out aside from her varying degrees of foodstuffs not yet thrown away, collected and forgotten about, would be her NerveGear headset, a drawing pad where she makes lewd drawing to sell to buy her games, and a lamp, of which she hardly uses, her eyes naturally adjusted to the dark of her room. Her bed remains mostly unused, more often than not passing out from exhausting upon her desk rather than any sort of regulated sleeping, from her consistent press towards her online games.

Her single mother often attempts to force her out of her room, though after seeing the state of her daughter a few times, she believes it might be for the best that she grows out of her phase naturally, though she had cut off her spending money.

There once existed a, although not really a ray of sunshine, a rather content girl, who simply wished to finish school and live a quiet life. Though the previous dream might be dead, at least she could “live” her life, barely scraping by through her art. One could not really call this a “life”, staying herself in the depths of her delusions and escapism, but at the very least Kazuko believes it much better than putting up with the constant and consistent belittling, and the lack of disciplinary action against those who had wronged her. At least, in the world of her games, she could pretend to be someone else. Someone with the power to prevent others from belittling her to this extent.

Elys, the pseudonym Kazuko uses as her avatar in most games, tends to on the scale of bombastic, suave, and stylish, and never averting their gaze from what is before them, often more than not taking on the role of a leader. The sort of person who would never let another insult her, nor insult those she cares about. The sort of person strong enough, at least on outward appearance, who could easily brush away inconveniences and focus on what matters the most to them at a given time. They will say what they are feeling, never bottling up their emotions like Kazuko would in her average day when she had went to school.

However, there is also another key difference and that Elys tends not to be a female, but rather a male. Perhaps this is due to some sort of idealization of what she believes a male to be, often brazen and the first into battle, and often utilizing crude language styles, even within voice communications, through various degrees of filters and the like. Or perhaps something deep within Kazuko wishes for companionship similar to Elys, given that her first “relationship” ended with pretty steady disaster.

In the world where an individual’s appearance is copied and displayed for the gamers to see after the realization of their folly with purchasing a [shitty game] death game, Elys and Kazuko will have to find a balance between one another.

Background: High school is a time for change in everybody’s life.. Those fortunate enough, or with enough investment, to have been able to obtain a position at a reputable school, one’s future could be guaranteed so long as they continue trying. But this was not the case for Kazuko.

Though she was never really one for social interaction, there was no reason why anyone in class would even look towards the teen. They simply did as they were told; went to school, were moderately successful at exams, and they were not in a club. Though not unpopular, she didn’t seem to have many friends either. Overall, an uninteresting individual who seemed they could not draw the ire or favor of many around her, aside from teachers and staff for her respectful demeanor.

Perhaps this simplicity is what drew a rather unsavoury individual to her presence. A senior, a year ahead of her, had eyed her with less-than-savoury eyes; upon an incident in which the man had tried to pressure the underclassman into a position she felt less comfortable with, as if a flight or fight response, Kazuko struck the senior with all the strength she could muster and ran away.

She had wished this would be the end to the issues, an end to her problem. But unfortunately for her, the boy had in his youthful brashness spread ill-spirited rumors about a supposed relationship between the two.

Included in this was the girlfriend of the senior, a fellow classmate of Kazuko, who had made it her goal now to strike out against the innocent girl for her rumored actions to seduce her boyfriend.

It did not take long for the signs to begin. At first, there existed a few absences here and there, which due to their sporadic nature could have been written off as a cold, but these assumed hardly connected absences began appearing more frequently, to the point where in her second year of school, Kazuko refused to go to classes anymore.. With no one to rely on, her fragile friends abandoning her, and the berating she received through a chance interaction she had no control over, there was nothing to her in school aside from misery.

Instead, she placed herself into the digital world. A world where she could pretend to be anyone she wanted; someone who unlike her plot in life could have agency over her interactions, and could meet friends without the negative stigma of her name being attached to any interactions she came across. In addition to this, despite being a girl, Kazuko tends to create male avatars in her games, often getting into relationships with female in-game characters, whom she attempts to romance to the best of her ability as she believes another girl would wish to be taken.

Character class:Warrior

Level: 1

Weapon: be creative. Rapier; small section of dullness towards the handguard for better handling.

Ingame skills:
Finesse - One-handed weapons deal bonus damage on thrust attacks
Rend - Attacks apply armor-loss to the enemy, increasing physical damage dealt
Untouched - Dodge chance increased

Age: 18
Gender: Male
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Build: Athletic

Personality: Discourteous, stubborn, and blunt. Touma is a defiant product of the harsh environment in which he grew up. He has been forced to realize that there is nobody in the real world who would come to your aid and that if you want something to be done, then do it yourself. Relying on nobody and distrusting everybody is how he decides he'll live his daily life. His quickness to anger at disrespect and his own refusal to respect figures of authority have landed him in a trouble on more than one occasion.

He is not an inherently bad person. He is more reactionary than anything and does not set out to cause problems, though he is vulnerable to those that do. He is independent and loathes relying no another or being in somebody's debt. Oddly enough, he would certainly take a promise seriously. He does not do things that would cause him pain or irritation. Touma is unlikely to lend a hand to those in need unless he is forced to or he is the only person who can and he would do so with reluctance. It should come as no surprise he has difficulty placing trust in anybody else, and so he prefers silence and being alone.

Of course, this is merely how he acts outside of the game world. Inside it, he differs greatly.

Licht is a refusal of the world Touma has experienced. In his mind, she is an impossible existence. One that not only prefers company to solitude, but thrives on it. She is one who would throw her life on the line for a friend and goes out of her way to help those in trouble. She smiles, jokes, enjoys life, and cares for others while earning their friendship. She is the ideal "hero" he wished he had before he was forced to stand alone. As such, she can only exist here in the virtual world, where the impossible is possible. A place where one might live their dreams.

Background: He prevails.

Aside from his timid character, there was not a trait that should have caused unfavorable people to choose Touma as their target, but perhaps that simply did not matter. Since a younger age, he had been made to do random errands for his bullies and he received blows both physically and verbally on a daily basis. Worst of all, nobody had seemed to care enough to try stopping them. Students, perhaps fearful for their own well-being, turned a blind eye. Tattling seemed to only earn him more punishment from the horrible children that pained him. His parents, oftentimes overseas due to work, neglected him as well. He lived a really unfortunate and painful life, for a time.

But then things changed.

Something snapped.

It might have been his realization that things were bound to continue like this until somebody stopped it. Perhaps he came to understand that, if it wasn't himself, then nobody would. The only person people cared about were themselves. So... then he needed to stop all of this.

A "routine beating" of his ended with a twist. The "main bully" of the group was the one being beaten. Instead of looking downwards and accepting the cruel treatment he had been receiving, he decided to dish out some punishment of his own. An unexpected strike caught his torementer offguard, and then many more left him in no condition to worry about anything other than if he was going to survive this retaliation. The bully was bloodied, his face swollen, and more importantly, absolute fear gripping his heart. One that took hold of the others as they arrived upon the scene.

That was the last day Touma had been bullied.

From then, his timid demeanor had changed in its entirety. He became aggressive. His victory over his bullies brought him confidence. There was no trace of the old, weak Touma left. He did not become the thing he despised, but he was feared by many in his school forever onward. Though this turned out only to entice even worse characters to approach him, wishing to strike him down for many reasons, all exclusively petty.

He proved to be more than anybody could really handle, and at least in regards to local delinquents, he was infamous. But this life was not one he wanted. He came to desire a quieter life. One he knew was impossible. For some reason, there was almost never a shortage of idiots who wanted to knock him out simply for street credit. That meant that when he was outside, he was never really safe. Touma eventually came to understand that the only place he could feel safe or relax was at his home. And so Licht was born.

She serves.

An existence thought impossible. A person in complete contrast to Touma, one who expresses delight at the chance to forge new friendships and in assisting those in need. A hero to the weak and an enemy to injustice. Of course, this is all in the world of games. She can only exist where people can play make believe. Where people go to live out fantasies that could never happen in the real world.

A person like Touma is not one who looks like they would play games, let alone play them as the opposite gender, but that is precisely why he choose a female avatar. To seperate reality and fiction. He knew deep down that had he chosen a male avatar, he might not have been able to keep an act up. Also they had all the best-looking equipment, though that last part is something he doesn't admit to influencing his decision even to himself.

SAO is not the first game Touma/Licht has been a part of. Hopefully it won't be the last.

Character class: Ranged

Level: 1

Weapon: Bow and Arrows

Ingame skills:

Relentless - Attack Speed is increased.

Furious - Damage is temporarily increased upon consecutive hits on the same target.

Pursuit - Gain a temporary bonus to movement speed upon hitting an enemy.

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REAL



GENDER: Male

AGE: 23

HEIGHT: 5'4"

BUILD: Slim-Jim

PERSONALITY: Pervy sarcastic asshole with zero charisma.

BACKGROUND: Bootlegged the game with his friend's stolen NerveGear, and got WAY THE HELL more than he bargained for.

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AVATAR

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LEVEL: 1

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CLASS: Tank

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WEAPON: AXES - BATTLEAXE (2H)

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IN-GAME SKILLS:

JUGGERNAUT

FIRM GRIP

REND

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EQUIPMENT:

BATTLEAXE

THROWING AXES (2)

HATCHET

PICKAXE

AXE-SHIELD

LIGHT ARMOUR (LEATHER)