Asuna Yuuki

* SAO
* ALO

“
*Hey*, at least I *pretend* to be nice to people!
”

—Asuna, Episode 5

**Asuna Yuuki** (結城 明日奈, *Yūki Asuna*), also known as **Asuna**
(アスナ, *Asuna*), is a player of Sword Art Online and unwilling player of ALfheim Online. She is the daughter of Shouzou Yuuki and the Vice-Commander of the Knights of the Blood Oath.

## Appearance

Asuna has long, orange-brownish chestnut hair and hazel eyes. In the early levels of Sword Art Online, she wore a dark red leather tunic with a lightweight copper breastplate and leather pants with boots up to the knees along with a hooded cape. After joining the Knights of the Blood Oath, she wore a red and white uniform that all KoB members wear and wielded a rapier made by Lizbeth, called the Lambent Light.

Asuna's avatar in ALfheim Online was the Fairy Queen, Titania. She wore a white outfit with a long white skirt, a crop top showing her belly, and a red ribbon that went around the topmost part of her top that came together to make a bow. She went barefoot, and wore a white strip around her ankles.

## Personality

Asuna is initially shown to be a caring and innocent person, albeit a little bossy. However, as Asuna states herself, she only *pretends* to be nice to people, as underneath her seemingly caring persona, Asuna is equally bad if not worse than Kirito. She is short-tempered, somewhat racist and manipulative, as she was able to not only make Kirito deal with Kuradeel in order to avoid getting into a Guild drama, but she also played on his insecurities to simultaneously reassure and demoralize him. She also tends to be psychotic to other players, to the point she can easily become a yandere if any other girl tries to get close to Kirito, shown as she burned Lizbeth's shop when she suspected the latter had tried to make a move on him.

Originally, Asuna was very naïve when it came to SAO, not even knowing how to use or even open her menu and was unaware of the fact that players weren't using their real names in the game. Despite this, she is a very capable and natural warrior, eventually rising through the ranks and becoming the second in command of her Guild.

Although, like Kirito, she is shown to have sociopathic tendencies and little to no regard for human life, she is genuinely capable of caring for people, as she seems to have really cared for Yui, being greatly saddened over her apparent death, and later sacrifices herself to protect Kirito during his fight with Heathcliff, despite declaring she would never kill herself if Kirito was to die only moments before the fight. She is also familiar with Shakespearian theater, correcting Sugou's pronunciation of "Oberon" (which he ignores).

## Equipment

### Sword Art Online

#### Weapons

* **Iron Rapier:** (アイアン・レイピア, *Aian Reipia*) Starter weapon.
* **Wind Fleuret:** (ウインドフルーレ, *Uindo Furūre*) Rapier she fought Illfang with.
* **Lambent Light:** (ランベントライト, *Ranbento Raito*) Rapier made by Lizbeth.

#### Clothing

* **Breastplate of Copper:** (ブレストプレート・オブ・カッパー, *Buresutopurēto Obu Kappā*) A breastplate that covers Asuna's chest
* **Leather Tunic:** (レザーチュニック, *Rezāchunikku*) A tunic that covers Asuna's upper body and tails down to her knee level.
* **Long Gloves:** (ロング・グラブズ, *Rongu Gurabuzu*) A pair of gloves that reach up to Asuna's shoulders.
* **Leather Tights:** (レザータイツ, *Rezātaitsu*) A pair of tights that reach up to Asuna's skirt.
* **Boots of Hornet:** (ブーツ・オブ・ホーネット, *Būtsu Obu Hōnetto*) A pair of ankle high boots.

## Skills & Abilities

### Sword Art Online

#### Skills

* **One-Handed Rapier:** (片手用細剣, *Katate-you Bosoken*) Asuna was extremely skilled fighter with swords of the Rapier class.
* **Cooking:** (料理, *Ryouri*) Asuna was a master cook, able to cook S Class ingredients.
* **Parry:** (武器防御, *Buki Bougyo*) Asuna was skilled enough to parry attacks from enemies that were stringer than her, like when she parried the The Gleam Eyes.

#### Sword Skills

* **Linear:** (リニアー, *Riniā*) A basic, 1-hit, Rapier category Sword Skill in Sword Art Online.
* **Oblique:** (オブリーク, *Oburīku*) A basic, 1-hit, Rapier category Sword Skill in Sword Art Online.
* **Shooting Star:** (シューティングスター, *Shūtingusutā*) A charging Rapier category Sword Skill in Sword Art Online.
* **Triangular:** (トライアンギュラー, *Toraiangyurā*) A powerful three-hit Rapier category Sword Skill in Sword Art Online.
* **Star Splash:** (スター・スプラッシュ, *Sutā Supurasshu*) A high-level 8-hit Combo Rapier category Sword Skill in Sword Art Online.

## Differences from the Original

Asuna seems to be a Yandere in the Abridged Series. She initially comes off as caring and innocent, but if her relationship towards Kirito is threatened, she becomes highly destructive and willing to kill anyone that stands in her way. Also, Asuna seems to be accidentally racist when addressing other races (or at the very least black people), as she chooses to speak in gangster slang whenever she addresses the black player, Tiffany.

## Quotes

* Aincrad Arc
* Fairy Dance Arc

"*Hey Kirito! I killed the thing and now it says I have XPs! Is that bad? Am I dying?!*"
—An example of Asuna's early oblivious towards video games.

"*I want half. [...] I want half the coat. I* did *half the work, I should get half the coat.*"
—Asuna asking Kirito for half his coat.

"*Most people would, charitably, refer to you as the "Crown Prince of Douchebags", long may he reign. Your usual reaction to human suffering is to pull up a chair and crack out the popcorn!*"
—Asuna explaining her suspicion of Kirito's kindness.

"*Hey T-Dawg. What is up in dis... hizouse? [...] So dat's da sitch. Think you can scope da deets on dis gat for us, homie?*"
—Examples of Asuna's mild racism.

"*Because you're my friend, I'm giving you one warning. Kirito... is off-limits. If I see you try something like that again, I* will *come for you. And you of all people know how sharp my blade is.*"
—Asuna threatening Lizbeth.

"*Then let me be clear. Tonight. My place. Six o'clock. I'll cook us a nice dinner. It will be a* magical *evening. Sound* good*?*"
—Asuna asking Kirito on a date.

"*Wow, Commander. I didn't think this game had any magic. But look at you, turning women into trophies. Got some misogynist alchemy going on up in here.*"
—Asuna calling Heathcliff out on his sexism.

"*You can't keep doing this to me! This is, like, the second time you've almost died this week! You ever stop to think about how* I *feel? Maybe* I *wanna almost die once in a while, huh! Make* you *cry! **\*Groans\*** I'm such a girl!*"
—Asuna blaming Kirito for her tears.

"*Well, I guess that, and that naps are apparently a very underrated part of the "not killing people" process.*"
—Asuna after hearing about Kayaba's development of SAO.

"***\*Groans\*** No! That's a terrible name! What am I supposed to call you as a nickname? "*Kaz*"? I'm- I'm just gonna keep calling you Kirito from now on.*"
—Asuna disgusted with Kirito's real name.

"*And I keep telling you, it's pronounced "Oberon". You know, like moron?*"
—Asuna correcting Oberon on how to pronounce his username.

"*You're insane! Thankfully, you're also an idiot. Why would you tell me* any *of this? You really think I'm just gonna sit around and wait for that to happen?*"
—Asuna chastizing Oberon for revealing his evil plan.

"*I think if you touch a single hair on his head, I'm gonna be wearing your guts like my mom's pashmina. [...] Your body will be torn apart, piece by piece, as you beg for a mercy that will* never *come. I will add your* screams *to my* goshdarn Spotify*, and I will see your head* mounted on a fudging pike*!!!*"
—Asuna threatening Oberon for threatening to harm Kirito.

## Voice Actor

* In the Japanese dub, Asuna is voiced by Haruka Tomatsu.
* In the English dub, Asuna is voiced by Cherami Leigh.
* In the abridged series, Asuna was voiced by Misanda before being replaced by xbubblemunkyx.

## Trivia

* Asuna shares a birthday with Kuroyukihime from Accel World, another series written by Reki Kawahara.
* Asuna's ALO identity comes from the Queen of the Fairies, Titania. However, while there is a Fairy Queen in Irish and British folklore, the name Titania originates from the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
	+ In Irish and British folklore, the Queen of the Fairies was Oberon's daughter, whereas in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania was his wife.