Asuna Bryndis

**Asuna Bryndis** is a main character of the series and a player of the Horizon game.

## Appearance

Asuna is a teenage girl with a slender body and a below-average height for her age. She has blue eyes and shoulder-length (at right side) and chest-length (at left side) straight blonde hair with purple streaks. As the story progresses, she started to change it to suit her current mood.

## Personality

Asuna is a rather hard person to deal with. Every person around her notices how moody she is, with the way she behaves varying drastically, but most of the times she will act with sudden outbursts. Only with the presence of her close friends, like Lucy and Mikoto, she feels comfortable enough.

Her few friends describes her as a stubborn but also very determined person, hardly giving up on anything she decided to. She unconsciously looks for escapisms, creating her own protection bubble (in a figurative way) and living in her inner world - even though she tends to romanticize her sadness. Asuna also theorizes a lot, but unfortunately ends up choosing the wrong strategy.

Affecting the energy's environment, Asuna meditates a lot and, since the events of Treasure Hunt arc, she is improving her social skills, engaging herself with multiple tasks on the Moonvale guild as a coping mechanism.

## Background

Asuna grew up with her father and younger brother. Constantly struggling with her family, she feels abandoned by her mother who left her in a young age. As for her father, their opinions were always conflicting and misunderstood. It resulted directly on a self-pity and aggresive attitude, especially towards men, because she unconsciously projects her father's image on them and all the expectations she had and weren't met.

Fascinated with fantasy worlds, she started to play Horizon as another form of escapism. At the moment, she is working on finding happiness in solid and realistic things, such as art, philosophy and tasks.

## Relationships

### Lucy di Meihan

Lucy is Asuna's best friend. She feels a deep connection with her since they met as she treats her very gently, which is something she unconsciously pursued on her mother. They already begin the series together, so their first meeting is unknown.

## Abilities and Equipment

### Abilities

**Overdrømmer:** Asuna's signature magic is a very versatile space-based ability. It is a magic that requires technique in order to properly use it, such as the orbits' correct activation. She didn't know how to use it at all at the beginning, but as the series progressed, she managed to master it.

* **Teleport**: This skill allows Asuna to teleport herself to a short distance. The more she upgrades, the further she will be able to teleport.
* **Gravity Manipulation**: This skill makes her able to control and manipulate gravity, such as causing great weight or weightless objects and people.
* **Orbit:** Asuna's orbits can be useful for both attack and defensive purposes. She can create multiple orbits and throw them, causing an explosion. She is also able to shield herself and her allies within the orbits simultaneously, having great level of resistance and serving as a "tank" role. In other hand, it's important to be aware of its lack of oxygen and that the more shield orbits created, the more concentration is required to keep them active.

**Shapeshift** (Formerly): Asuna was able to shapeshift her arms into swords and guns. Eventually, she dropped this magic.

### Equipment

Asuna's basic kit consists of **magical books** she bought during her quests and also gained some from Meguri and Allen. It allows the mage to cast spells, even though they don't have proficiency with them.

After the training on Treasure Hunt arc, she learned **hand-to-hand combat** and Meguri's **knives** usage, even though she doesn't like.

## Trivia

* Asuna is a huge fan of classic, indie and soft rock music.
* She likes horror and musical movies.