Gender: Female Age: 16 (Phantom Bullet arc) Height: 161 cm Three sizes: 80-61-81 Shino is a skilled VRMMO player. She goes by the name Sinon in Gun Gale Online and ALfheim Online. She is nicknamed Hecate, after her gun «PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II», a .50 caliber anti-materiel and rare sniper rifle. She is one of the main characters of volumes five and six and first female player that Kirito meets in GGO. She plays GGO to overcome her trauma concerning guns. Calm and cool are two words that best describe Sinon's personality. In battle and most of the time in the game, she keeps a cool head that actually makes other female players admire her; however, Sinon has a violent temper once angered - something that is best seen with her interactions with Kirito. It is actually said that Kirito is the first one to make her extremely angry. Despite all this, Sinon, while may be hard to approach, is generally a friendly person and doesn't mind helping others. She becomes a Cait Sith archer in ALO where she is capable of hitting targets from 200m away despite her bow being limited to 100m. She eventually develops some feelings towards Kirito but decided to step down a little as soon she realized that Kazuto and Asuna were a couple. (Source: Sword Art Online Wikia)
Birthday: October 7, 2008 Age: 14 (Beginning of Aincrad arc), 16 (End of Aincrad arc, Fairy Dance arc), 17 (Phantom Bullet arc) Height: 172 cm Weight: 59 kg Weapon(s) of choice: Anneal Blade (1st Level), Queen's Knightblade (9th Level), Elucidator (50th level), Dark Repulser (forged by Lisbeth), and Holy Sword Excalibur (obtained from the "Calibur Quest"). Kirito is the protagonist of Sword Art Online. He is a "solo" player, a player who hasn't joined a guild and usually works alone. He is also one of the very few people to have had the privilege to play in the beta testing period of Sword Art Online. His game alias, Kirito, is created by taking the syllables of the first and last Kanji of his real last and first names respectively: (Kirigaya Kazuto). In the real world, he lives with his aunt and younger cousin in a family of 3. When Kayaba announced the start of the death game, he is surprised, but unlike everyone else he quickly gets over it and accepts it to an extent. He invited his friend Klein to go with him but Klein had to find his friends in the game. He was invited to join them but he declined as he couldn't take the pressure of protecting them even with his beta testing knowledge of the game. Kirito tends to use a single handed straight sword. The blade that he uses most often is the Elucidator. Later on he acquires a second blade called Dark Repulser that was made by his blacksmith friend, Lisbeth. He was the first one to be called a Beater, a combination of beta testing and cheater, as he had great knowledge of the game through the beta test period and showing great skills in floor clearing but chose not to help other players. He had it imposed on himself so as to differentiate the beta testers who were just picked in the testing and the serious gamers who uses the knowledge efficiently like a cheat. He has a unique skill called <<Dual Blades>> which allows him to dual wield two swords and use Swords Skills. It's the special skill designed for the Hero that defeats the Demon Lord at the last floor. He found it in his skills list after a year in the game. After nearly mastering it, he only uses it in emergencies to avoid attention for being one of the few people to have a unique skill. He befriends a girl by the name of Yuuki Asuna who later becomes his lover. In the 10th volume of the Accel World light novel and the 5th volume of the Accel World manga Kirito is featured in a special chapter, in which he fights Sliver Crow, the burst linker. In the chapter, Kirito is playing as his old SAO avatar, wielding the Elucidator and Dark Repulser.
Argo "The Rat" serves as an information broker and courier in the Sword Art Online death game. Kirito and Argo suspect each-other to be a fellow beta testers but each refuse to ever confirm the topic. As a broker, she is known to sell any information for any price, including the story of her mysterious trademark whiskers. While she sells information to some at occasionally hefty prices, she is also known to be the author of free guide books situated in most town shops to help beginners. Argo's whiskers were originally drawn on during a quest to learn the "Martial Arts" skill during the beta test. Unable to complete the quest before beta testing ended, they became her trademark and source of her nickname.
Sword is possessing a weak human known as Souma. His main goal is to try to regain a new demonic body any way possible. As a human his demonic powers are limited to almost nothing. Later on he obtains helpful items such as bat cat, the devil spawn and fragments of Satan's soul. He also is currently attempting to overthrow Satan because Satan and most of Hell want Sword dead. For a low-level devil, Sword is stronger than most demons in Hell. Although in his human form, he always ended up in the hospital. [Source: Wikipedia]
A player with green-blue hair, sports a kite shield and proclaims himself to be a knight. He was the one who organized the first meeting of players to form a raid party to take on the first floor boss. He organized the participating players well into groups according to their specialty and displayed great leadership to motivate and lead the raid party. He is also a beta tester of Sword Art Online but pretended to be a newbie player to escape the wrath of the players against them. He used Kibaou to strike a hidden deal with Kirito via Argo's services. Kirito thought that it was a ploy to have him be cautious and lose focus so that he will be placed at the back of the raid party and not get the Last Attack on Ilfang, the Kobold Lord. But in truth he did that to make Kirito notice that he is also a beta tester as Diabel heard of Kirito's skills in floor clearing in the beta testing. He died in the boss' hands as he did not notice the changes in the boss' attack patterns. His last words to Kirito was to defeat the boss.
One of the participating players in the first raid party to defeat the first floor boss. He openly spoke out in the first meeting and called out the beta testers hiding in the meeting. He wanted to have them apologize to all the players of SAO for not sharing their knowledge in the game and monopolizing the efficient hunting grounds. He was also the one who was striking a deal with Kirito to buy his sword but Kirito later found out that Kibaou was just being used by Diabel to draw him out as a beta tester. After the boss battle, he had Asuna tell Kirito that he does not acknowledge him and will still best him in the next boss battle. He was mentioned in volume 2 that he was one of the leaders of along with Sinker. He stages a coup on the leader of the Army Sinker, and seizes control. He also ordered the army squad led by Cobert to take on the 74th floor's boss. His name is in katakana but if read in kanji, it means "Fang King".