Maple

Kaede Honjō, known as Maple in NewWorld Online, is the main protagonist of BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.
She was invited by Risa Shiramine, her real-life best friend, to play the game NewWorld Online, in which she accepts to do so. She had no prior professional experience in gaming before entering the said game. After the addition of Guilds in the game, Kaede becomes the guild master of Maple Tree as per the request of Sally. She ranked third in the first event of NewWorld Online.
She is voiced by Hondo Kaede in Japanese and by Megan Shipman in English.
==Bio==
The main heroine of the story, Kaede is a girl who was convinced to play New World Online by her friend Sally. Unaware of how games work, she chose the Great Shielder class and invested all her skill points into Defense to avoid being in pain - accidentally becoming a nigh-invulnerable defensive powerhouse in the process. She later learns the ropes of the game and becomes the guildmaster of Maple Tree.
==Abilities==
Under normal circumstances, Maple is a warrior with limited-use situational damaging attacks. However, over time she has gained various skills that allow her to gain genuine mobility and consistent ATK, mainly through transformation skills. Her Atrocity skill turns her into a massive demonic monster with decently sized HP and moderate ATK and AGI, allowing her to put on a genuine offense, while her Machine God skill allows her to produce various mechanical weapons from her body with long-range, high-power attacks, with the full power of the skill turning her into flying powerhouse, able to zip around the battlefield dodging attacks while raining destruction down on her enemies. However, as a trade-off for this immense power, these skills have major limitations. Atrocity can only be activated once a day, meaning she needs to plan when in the day she'll use it if she doesn't want to waste it, and Machine God requires sacrificing her armor in order to create weapons, with the strength of the armor determining the strength of the weapons, though the fact Maple's main equipment has an auto-repair function that makes it stronger every time it breaks negates that limitation and turns it into a strength instead, as every use of Machine God makes the next use even stronger.
==Personality==
Surprisingly brutal tactics aside, Maple's defining trait is her good heart. She's ceaselessly kind, seems incapable of harboring ill will towards people, speaks politely with everyone she meets (her opponents included) and even thanks monsters for helping her get stronger, to the point where she invites all of her opponents to party with her guild after the fourth guild war. She even breaks down crying after the first monster she comes across accidentally kills itself after attacking her for hours. Chrome makes note of this, musing that her trust in everyone could possibly get her in trouble one day as he noted that following her giving him Syrup, a very rare animal companion, there was nothing stopping him from just taking him and joining another guild aside from the fact he isn't that kind of guy.
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