Shiroko

Sunaookami Shiroko (砂狼シロコ) is one of the students studying in Abydos High School who wields an Assault Rifle.
She is a member of the Countermeasures Committee, and is the deuteragonist of Volume 1.
== Profile ==
=== Introduction ===
The sports-loving field captain of the Countermeasures Committee of the Abydos High School. Shiroko is a girl of few words and shows little emotions alike. She may seem aloof with her appearance, but deeply cares about Abydos High School the most.
Due to troubling circumstances happening in Abydos High School, she is willing to do anything to revitalize the school by any means. Often times though her ideas are sometimes ridiculous like proposing to rob a bank for school funds.
=== Personality ===
Shiroko is a soft-spoken girl, who deeply cares for her friends, to the extent that she would do anything to help her friends towards their goal of revitalizing the school. Though she is generally calm and reserved, she hyperfocuses on certain interests and can sometimes be oblivious to how others would react to them. She often bikes and walks far more than regular people can keep up, thinking distances of 10s of kilometers are average for her. She fantasizes about robbing banks and going on survival fishing trips, and being unable to do either of these things causes her to pout and act with remarkable petulance for how calm she usually is. Shiroko is willing to fight Hina the moment she laid eyes on her despite the head prefect's reputation, stopping only at Ayane's begging. She requires people like Sensei and Ayane to hold her back and keep her sensible.
She also instinctively didn't like Wakamo for acting clingy towards Sensei, seeing how surprised Wakamo was at Sensei's presence and immediately filling her with lead in jealousy.
=== Appearance ===
Her grey hair is styled in a shoulder-length long bob cut. It is accompanied with a pair of wolf ears. The insides of her wolf ears are originally depicted as black in Hwansang's official full body portrait, but are also often shown simply as grey or dark grey. Prominent white animal ear fluff protrudes from both of her wolf ears. Below her left wolf ear, she sports a cyan, inverted cross-shaped hairpin. Often covered by her hair, she also has a pair of humanoid ears; she has a singular, cyan stud ear piercing on her right one. Her eyes have mismatched, slitted pupils - the left one being white.
==== Halo ====
Shiroko's halo is cyan ring-shaped with four lines marked on its cardinal directions, with a blue circle inside. It resembles a simple gun crosshair.
==== Uniform ====
She wears the standard Abydos High School uniform: a tucked, white dress shirt with a left breast pocket faintly embroidered with the school's logo and name, a cyan necktie with a navy blue cross mark at its blade, a pleated, dark grey skirt with a plaid pattern with white accents, a navy blue blazer with silver buttons and white accents, and an lime-green and cyan Abydos badge hanging off the left side of the blazer. She has a cyan striped scarf. She wears a single lime-green fingerless cycling glove on her left hand in her standard appearance. She carries a Japanese-style black shoulder bag with cyan and silver accents and a triangular designer logo, with three keychains: a lime green cat winking and smiling, a silver cross or ankh, and a pink heart. She wears knee-high socks with triangular logos, similar to the ones on her bag, near the cuffs of the socks. Her running shoes are black with white and lime green accents, cyan shoe laces, and lime green soles.
==== Firearm ====
She uses a white SIG SG 550 assault rifle customized with a lower receiver from an M4 as well as a black suppressor and vertical grip. The charging handle and fire selector switch is painted cyan. It is equipped with a SUSAT L9A1 sight with a blue lens. An Abydos emblem is stamped on the mag well. The phrase "ABYDOS 550" is written on the suppressor.
For her EX skill she deploys a white tandem rotor drone with missile pods attached to the rotors.
== Etymology ==
* Sunaookami means "sand, grit" (砂) (suna) and "wolf" (狼) (okami).
== Trivia ==
* In the CBT, Shiroko was a former 2★ Student.
* Shiroko is the other mascot of Blue Archive, being the face of the game's app icon, present in two title screens and often part of marketing and special videos such as Christmas and New Year's.
* Shiroko is very similar to Rosmontis from Arknights, with both being silver-haired anthromorphs (Though Shiroko is a wolf and Rosmontis is a feline). Coincidentally, both are voiced by Yui Ogura, with a similar soft-spoken nature.
* Earlier concept arts present Shiroko using an FN Ballista, a bolt-action sniper rifle, as opposed to her current assault rifle. It's still painted in the same manner as her WHITE FANG 465.
* Shiroko's unique weapon's name, WHITE FANG 465, features Japanese wordplay (goroawase). The number 4 can be pronounced as "shi", 6 as "ro", and 5 as "ko". Thus, the 465 in her weapon's name can be pronounced as "Shiroko".
* According to an interview in the June 2021 issue of Arms Magazine, the WHITE FANG 465 was based off an airsoft version of the SIG SG550 with a lower receiver from an M4.
* Shiroko is the first student to have two different playable variants: her Riding variant and her Swimsuit variant.
* At the early days of the Japanese server, there is a bug where Shiroko would appear in the lobby screen regardless of students currently set in the lobby. This caused a trend of replacing the newly released student's face with Shiroko's.
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