Keiko Ayano

Keiko Ayano, also known as Silica, is a character from the Sword Art Online series.
== Charactah Account ==
A young dagger wielder who befriends Kirito. She was able to befriend an NPC dragon that became her familiar, earning her the title of "Beast Tamer". She later joins ALO as a Cait Sith beast tamer.
Silica is very kind, bright, cheerful, and supportive of her friends.[citation needed] She also has developed a deep attachment to her Tamed Monster Pina to the point that she was heartbroken to see it die and overjoyed when told that there was a way to revive it.
At some point, Silica had become arrogant due to her fame, but realised her mistake after this led to her getting lost in the Forest of Wandering and losing Pina. Silica is also easily embarrassed and flustered, especially when it comes to a romance scenario, such as grabbing Kirito's hand, spotting many couples around her, or having her skirt flipped by a monster.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online II
* Sword Art Online II: Sword Art Offline II
* Sword Art Online: Alicization
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
* Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld 2nd Season
* Sword Art Online Movie: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online Movie: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
* Sword Art Online: Extra Edition
* Sword Art Online: Sword Art Offline
* Sword Art Online: Sword Art Offline - Extra Edition
=== Light Novels ===
* Sword Art Online
* Sword Art Online SS: Caliber SS (Failure Side)
=== Manga ===
* Gekijouban Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale
* Sword Art Online dj - Pina Edition
* Sword Art Online dj - Silica Edition
* Sword Art Online: Aincrad Night of Kirito
* Sword Art Online: Calibur
* Sword Art Online: Girls Ops
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Kirito's Gun Gale Wars
* Sword Art Online: Project Alicization
* Sword Art☆Online
=== Video Games ===
* Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
* Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
* Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment
* Sword Art Online: Integral Factor
* Sword Art Online: Lost Song
* Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight
== Trivia ==
* With her avatar in SAO, she reminded Kirito of his sister, Kirigaya Suguha, despite looking very different.
* As a Cait Sith, when Kirito grabbed her tail, she described the sensation as a "super weird feeling".
* In the Blu-ray/DVD package volume 2, character song CD features Silica (Hidaka Rina) singing "☆Lovely Super Idol☆" as the 3rd Character Song in this series. This CD is bundled along with the 2nd Song, which is sung by Sachi (Saori Hayami)
* Even though «Sword Art Online» is advisable for gamers above age 13, because of the age restrictions associated with the NerveGear, Silica started playing the game when she was 12 years old.
* Keiko's family follows a tradition when naming their children. Since Keiko's grandfather was a chemist, he named his son Tetsuhiko after iron (鉄, Tetsu) due to Tetsuhiko being born on February 6 (2/6) and the 26th element in the periodic table being iron. Tetsuhiko continued this tradition and named his daughter Keiko after the 14th element, silicon (Keiso), as Keiko was born on the 4th of October, but Tetsuhiko could not make a girl's name after the 104th element, Rutherfordium, thus resorting to merging ten and four to get fourteen.
* Keiko's display name, Silica, means Silicon Dioxide (SiO). She chose this name for her character due to her real name being based on silicon. The reason why she chose "Silica" instead of "Silico" was because "Silica" sounded cuter. She even ties her hair with two red ribbons to have two ring baubles which symbolize two oxygen atoms bound to her.
* In a 4-koma non-canon spin-off, she had been stalked by Aaaa.
* Keiko's Japanese voice actress also voices Kozuki Yuniko (Scarlet Rain) from Accel World.
== Gallery ==
File:Ayano Keiko Render 01.png
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File:Ayano Keiko 01.png
File:Ayano Keiko 02.png
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== External Links ==
* Ayano Keiko at Sword Art Online Wiki
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Category:Females
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