Asuna Yuuki/Relationships

## Family

### Shouzou Yuuki

Not much is known about Asuna's view of her father, but he seems to view his daughter as a commodity. It can be assumed that he is half the reason why Asuna is what she is.

### Mother

Not much is known about Asuna's relationship with her mother, but she once told Asuna that, when it comes to arguments, it "doesn't matter if you're wrong. Just dig in your heels and never show weakness". It can be assumed that she is half the reason why Asuna is what she is.

### Kazuto Kirigaya

Kirito is Asuna's partner and love interest. They first met after being trapped in SAO for a month and formed a party to defeat the 1st Floor Boss. Their relationship was initially spiteful, as Kirito took advantage of Asuna's naivete of some of the game mechanics, such as her lack of knowing how to open the game's menu. During the first year, Asuna would completely despise the solo-player's existence and they would constantly but heads, making Asuna the only person that could actually counter Kirito's snark, as she saw through the mask he was putting up.

However, when the two players were forced to partner with each other to solve a murder mystery, Asuna's opinion of Kirito changed when she became aware of his sensitive side, after he voiced his feelings about finding someone special. This change of opinion, coupled with the fact that he was more or less the only person she could be herself around, resulted in Asuna falling in love with him. This later turned into a dangerous obsession that would cause Asuna to threaten anyone who was interested in Kirito.

Asuna tried to act friendly towards Kirito, but this ended up creeping him out, and her first attempt at asking him out made him feel like he was being mugged. Despite terrifying him on occasion, Kirito did end up falling in love with her too, due to the respect he had for her. Asuna does care for Kirito and hates seeing him in harm's way, being brought to tears twice when he nearly died twice in the same week.

The two eventually acknowledged their feelings after Kuradeel's attack and entered into a romantic relationship. However, due to both of them being inexperienced in the matter, the two almost immediately got married, something they both regretted but didn't want to back out of out of stubbornness/fear of hurting the other's feelings. This eventually spiraled into a mind game where they both tried to get the other to admit they were moving too fast, going as far as to adopt Yui. Eventually though, they admitted how they felt and decided they wanted to stay together regardless, something they couldn't believe was so easy to do in hindsight.

When Kirito challenged Kayaba to their fight, he asked Kayaba to make it so Asuna couldn't kill herself if he died. And even though she scoffed at this idea, she pretty much went through with it when she dove in front of Kayaba's final attack to protect him. When SAO was getting erased, and Kirito and Asuna thought they were going to die as a result, Asuna tried to tell Kirito that she loved him, but he ruined it when he broke down crying. Kirito promised Asuna that, if they survived, he would find her and they would be a "real fucking family" and her that he loved her, to which Asuna responded with Han Solo's "I know", showing that she did understand him.

### Yui

Yui is Asuna's in-game adoptive daughter. She first met her when she woke up one day to find her in her bed. She initially wanted to have her arrested for breaking and entering, but she ended up using Yui as a pawn for her mind game with Kirito to get him to admit that they got married too soon.

Unbeknownst to her, Yui was observing both Kirito and Asuna to understand the meaning of love, as their relationship contradicted her data on the subject. However, Asuna grows to become attached to Yui, subconsciously thinking she's adorable and eventually seeing her as her own daughter and willing to do anything to protect her.

When she thought she was dying, Asuna broke down crying in a rare moment of weakness. When Kirito saved Yui's data as an in-game item in order to save her, in hopes of bringing her back and spending time together like a real family, Asuna was overjoyed to the points of tears, despite her best attempts to act tough.

## Friends

### Tiffany

Tiffany and Asuna have a very tense relationship. Tiffany was the only person Asuna couldn't blend around, due to her being more experienced dealing with Japanese social norms and not African American's. In an effort to not seem racist, Asuna began to talk to Tiffany in *very* bad street slang, which had to opposite effect and caused Tiffany to hate her.

Despite this, Asuna seems to view Tiffany as a friend, as she apparently kept showing up at his shop to the point that he wonders if he needs to start lining the doors with salt to repel her.

### Lizbeth

Not much is known about their relationship, other than the fact that Asuna was her only friend after her Guild died. Asuna visited Lizbeth's shop on a regular basis to fix her rapier to the point Lizbeth started to view Asuna's life as a surrogate for her own, it got to the point where Lizbeth asked her to stay in her closest like "some adorable boogeyman". Asuna was deeply disturbed by this and advised her to leave the shop and meet someone.

However, their relationship changed when Lizbeth showed interest in Kirito, and she threatened to kill her if she continued down that path. Asuna later saw Lizbeth talking to Kirito and burned down her shop as punishment. Lizbeth is currently terrified of Asuna to the point of jumping out of windows upon seeing her, but it is unknown what Asuna's current opinion of Lizbeth is.

## Allies

### Klein

Asuna did not interact with Klein much, but the two went on Boss Raids together, and he did seem to respect her in some capacity. When Klein found out that Kirito was with Asuna he was interested in what their story was, and seemed to support the idea of the two being together.

### Kains

Asuna met Kains when he was pretending to die. Kains didn't take Kirito into account, as he was just a witness to his "death", but Asuna became determined to prove that Kains' death was real, purely to prove Kirito wrong. When Asuna brought Grimlock before Kains and Yolko, Kains was annoyed that Yolko somehow involved Asuna in their plan too. Asuna dropped her usual nice persona in order to get Kains and Yolko back on subject.

### Yolko

Yolko tried to use Asuna in her plan to get Schmitt to admit he was the one who killed Griselda, even though it was later pointed out she didn't need to do that. Asuna used her usual kind persona on Yolko to try and console her and agreed to help find Kains' killer, although she later admitted she only did this to prove Kirito wrong. When Yolko faked her death Asuna was shocked, but when it was revealed that Yolko was still alive, Asuna dropped the niceties with her.

### Schmitt

Although they took part in Boss Raids together, Asuna first officially met Schmitt when they were investigating Kains' death. Like most people, Asuna was annoyed by Schmitt's paranoid ramblings, and was especially annoyed when Kirito left her with him after Yolko's death.

### Griselda

Not much is known about Asuna's opinion of Griselda, as after Kirito and Asuna were scared off by her ghost, Kirito and Asuna both agreed the event never happened, so all potential knowing anything more about his opinion of her were cut off.

### Corvatz

Asuna was the other person who successfully used Corvatz's "brilliant tragedy", despite this, Corvatz didn't seem to remember Asuna. Not much of Corvatz's opinion of Asuna is clear, but Asuna seemed very judgy of Corvatz's tactical skills.

### Godfree

Asuna was very annoyed with Godfree's chipper knight persona, especially due to him not making the best first impression of their Guild for Kirito. After Godfree was killed by Kuradeel, Asuna did not seem to care.

### Sasha

Asuna didn't seem to notice Sasha's existence, as she was too focused on trying to one up Kirito.

### Yulier

Asuna's view of Yulier wasn't very high, she was baffled by her stupidity and visibly uncomfortable hearing her perverted ramblings. While on their quest to save Thinker, Asuna was very polite with Yulier, even though Yulier was very concerned about the family dynamic between Kirito, Asuna and Yui. Yulier made a sarcastic comment about them being a great family, which Asuna didn't realize was sarcasm.

Eventually, Asuna reached her limit with Yulier after Kirito saved her from a Boss' attack, and told her to get Yui out of there, telling Yulier that they'll have "some words" with her and Thinker later, most of which she didn't want to use in front of Yui.

### Thinker

Asuna did not respect Thinker. After hearing about how easily Kibaou tricked him, Asuna was initially unwilling to rescue him, but after Sasha kicked them out she reluctantly agreed to help. Her opinion of Thinker got worse when he failed to warn them about the Boss that had him trapped properly, and told Yulier that they'll have "some words" with her and Thinker later.

## Enemies

### Kayaba Akihiko

Not much is known about Asuna's relationship with Kayaba, outside of him being her commanding officer. As Heathcliff, Asuna knew not to fight him, due to him being "OP", but other than that, Asuna didn't seem to respect him. When Heathcliff tried to offer Asuna to Kirito as a reward for joining their Guild, Asuna called him out on how masochistic his "compliment" was. She also would argue against his plans if they didn't involve her, such as when he kept her away from the peace talk with the King of Ashes. When Heathcliff called Kirito and Asuna back from their honeymoon, Asuna was mad at Heathcliff, calling him a "clam jammer".

When it was revealed that Heathcliff was Kayaba, and he paralyzed everyone, Asuna tried to convince him that she wasn't going to try anything, but Kayaba new her well enough to not trust her, and she tried to set him on fire with her mind. After Kayaba's defeat, Asuna seemed genuinely concerned for Kayaba's well being, despite the fact that he just "murdered" her. Despite whatever problems they may have had, Kayaba said that he considers both her and Kirito "the dictionary definition of 'lesser of two evils'".

### Grimlock

Grimlock was the culprit of the murder Asuna was trying to solve with Kirito. When Asuna tried to captive him, he "wasn't very cooperative" and as such Asuna was late for their arrival during Kirito deduction speech. After Kirito's verbal deconstruction of Grimlock didn't faze him, Asuna broke Grimlock's ego by telling him his hat made him look like a hipster. Even though Grimlock was a horrible human being, he did help to bring out Kirito sensitive side, which was part of the reason Asuna fell in love with Kirito.

### Kuradeel

Asuna didn't have a very high opinion of Kuradeel, as she viewed him as one of her "underlings". When Kirito joked about Kuradeel being her boyfriend Asuna was disgusted at the idea, and didn't bother to hide it, even though Kuradeel was in the room. When Kuradeel began stalking Asuna, she came up with a plan to get Kirito to fight him for her, as she didn't want to face the political backlash for fighting him herself, and didn't think him getting kicked out of their Guild was a good enough punishment. When Kuradeel tried to kill Kirito in an act of revenge, Asuna unleashed the fury she couldn't before and reduced him to a snivelling wreck. Upon seeing Kuradeel beg for his life, Asuna called him pathetic and made him believe he wasn't worth killing, before almost immediately going back on her word and ending his life.

### Nobuyuki Sugou

Nobuyuki Sugou was the man responsible for keeping the SAO players alive, but he is also a creepy pervert. While the SAO players were getting logged out, Nobuyuki prevented some from waking up, instead redirecting them to ALO, Asuna included. He then bought her from her father and planned to marry her, holding her hostage in ALO until she agreed to do so. Despite all this, Asuna refused to take Nobuyuki as a real threat, refusing to call him by his in-game name, Oberon, as he kept pronouncing it wrong. When Oberon revealed his plans to brainwash the world to do his bidding, Asuna included, Asuna was worried at first, but soon pointed out how stupid Oberon was for revealing the plan, as now she'd be determined to stop it.

As Asuna knew she couldn't really hurt Oberon, since he was the game's admin, she decided to waste Oberon's time by constantly escaping, even though she knew she couldn't escape the game itself, as it would annoy Oberon. After many escape attempts, Oberon tries to break Asuna's spirit by revealing that Kirito was in ALO trying to rescue her, and that he planned to watch his hopes die when he finds that his quest was impossible. However, this only enraged Asuna, and she threatens to brutally kill Oberon if he even hurt a single hair on Kirito's head. Despite being intimidated by Asuna, Oberon stood his ground, claiming that no matter what Asuna does she's powerless to stop him, and she'll be spending the rest of her life in "blissful, mindless servitude" soon.

Despite this, Sugou treats Asuna like they're actually in love, even though they both know the marriage is a sham. He tried to get her to help him plan the wedding and would occasionally call her sugary sweet nicknames. Sugou also seems to be using Asuna for something other than just a target for his perversions, as he seems to be taking the opportunity to plan his ideal wedding, like he's been dreaming of his entire life.

### Shoji Yanai

Shoji is one of the brain technicians in charge of monitoring the SAO survivors. For some reason, whenever she went on one of her rampages, Asuna fixated most of her hatred on Shoji. This happened so much that Shoji began to take it personally, and panicked whenever Asuna mentioned him.

When Asuna actually tried to escape, Shoji was the one who restrained her. Shoji was then left alone with Asuna, which prompted her to threaten to eat Shoji's dog, Biscuit, if he didn't let her go. Shoji tried to comply with this threat, but was caught in the act by Kyle. Terrified of what Asuna would do if he told Kyle what happened, Shoji covered for her by claiming he was molesting her.

### Kyle

Kyle is one of the brain technicians in charge of monitoring the SAO survivors, and therefore of the victims of her rampages. Not much is known about their relationship, but Asuna called him a "spineless little parasite".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode 12
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Episode 10
3. ↑ Episode 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Episode 6
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Episode 7
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Episode 8
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Episode 9
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Episode 11
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Episode 5
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Episode 14
11. ↑ Asuna's annoying antics
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Episode 15
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Episode 17