Ted

**Ted** (テッド, *Teddo*), also known as **Kirito** (キリト, *Kirito*) or **Kirito Prime** (キリトプライム, *Kiritopuraimu*), was a player of ALfheim Online. He was one the roleplayers who discovered the game and the ruler of the Spriggans.

## Personality

Not much is known about Ted's personality, other than the fact that he was one of the few players who didn't like the Race War and the violence it caused.

## Biography

### Background

Not much is known about Ted, but what we do know is he was a member of a roleplaying group, along with Brian, Brian's girlfriend Becky, Becky's cousin Denise, and five others.

### Fairy Dance Arc

#### Pre-Episode 16

One day, the group discovered a game called ALfheim Online, a children's edutainment VRMMO set in a land of fairies, and saw it as the perfect place to live out their campaign, with Ted playing as a Spriggan named Kirito, due to him being a fan of the Black Swordsman. Once they discovered how cool the game's flight mechanics was, the group began talking about the game online and it eventually became a sensation. As more and more Spriggans began to play the game, they all followed Ted's lead and named themselves a variation of Kirito's name, to the point that there were very few variations left and Ted started being referred to as "Kirito Prime" to distinguish himself from the others.

After a while, the players began to wonder what was at the top of the World Tree, a massive tree in the center of the game, as it was heavily guarded. As they speculated what kind of prizes awaited beyond such a quest, a rumor began to spread that whoever got to the top of the tree first would get their wish granted by the Fairy King, Oberon. With this incentive, Ted and his friends decided this was the perfect excuse to live out a campaign they wanted to do since they were children. And so, with each of the founding members acting as their race's leader, the players divided themselves into nine factions and began fighting in a "war" to see who could get to the top of the tree and get their wish granted first, dubbing this competition the "Race War".

However, at some point, Brian and Becky broke up, and the fallout was so messy that the two of them ended up stealing each other's characters. With Brian now in control of Sakuya, the Queen of the Sylphs, he decided to use the Race War as an excuse to get the players to pick a side in his fight against Becky, which Becky, now in control of the Salamander King, Eugene, perpetuated.

As the Race War continued, the players got more and more violent towards each other, to the point that the Sylphs would hunt the Cait Sith like foxes and eat them. Eventually, Ted tried get Brian and Becky to talk things out and stop the violence, to which Sakuya and Eugene responded by committing genocide against the Spriggans. Eventually, Ted gave up and stopped playing ALO.

#### Legacy

Due to his actions, Ted was branded as "the Great Betrayer" in ALO's lore and the entire Spriggan race was viewed as "filthy" pests that needed to be killed on sight, essentially becoming the punching bags of the game, to the point that none of them wanted to play anymore.

Thanks to Ted starting the trend of having all the Spriggans variations of the name "Kirito", when the actual Kirito, Kazuto Kirigaya, tried to log into the game, he spent an undetermined amount of time trying to pick a name, and ended up with the name "xVx\_K1r1t0\_xVx\_KillMe". Kirito Prime was mentioned in Kirito's fight against Eugene, which made the Black Swordsman furious that the roleplayers managed to ruin his name.

Ted's actions inspired his friend Cazmer, whose real name was Travis, to try and manipulate the Sylphs and the Salamanders into going to war against each other, in a last stitch attempt to get Brian and Becky to talk, but he was found out and banished from ALO.

## Skills & Abilities

* **Flight:** (飛行, *Hikō*) As a Spriggan, Kirito Prime had the ability to fly, like the other fairy races.
* **Illusion Magic:** (錯覚の魔法, *Sakkaku no Mahō*) As Spriggan, Kirito Prime was capable of being a master of Illusion based spells.
* **Treasure Hunting Magic:** (宝探しの魔法, *Takarasagashi no Mahō*) As a Spriggan, Kirito Prime was able to use magic to detect hidden treasure.
* **Wall Run:** (ウォールラン, *Uōruran*) As a Spriggan, Kirito Prime was capable of temporarily running on walls.
* **Multi-Weapon Wielding:** (複数の武器を振るう, *Fukusū no Buki o Furū*) As a Spriggan, Kirito Prime was capable of wielding any type of weapon.

## Differences from the Original

In the original, we never learn who the leader of the Spriggans was, so it's never stated that they shared a name with Kirito or not, though it is most likely the latter. As such, it's never stated that they were friends with any of the other leaders prior to ALO, nor is it stated they were against the conflict between the races or that they are the reason why Spriggans are so hated in ALO.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Episode 14
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Episode 16
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Episode 13
4. ↑ The Spriggan genocide
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Episode 15
6. ↑ Cazmer's motivation