Ritsu Amakusa/SAO

**Ritsu Amakusa** (天草律, *Amakusa Ritsu*), more known as **Riku** (リク, *Riku*) in «Sword Art Online» (SAO) and «Gun Gale Online» was one of the many survivors of the highly anticipated VRMMORPG «Sword Art Online», having been trapped in the game by its creator and only way to escape is by defeating the final boss of Aincrad.

Riku was one of the one-thousand beta testers of the Sword Art Online closed beta and played through multiple levels and dungeons where she'd later joined in the official released of the game. Due to this she along with 10,000 others was then trapped in the game as dying in it shall result in her own death. Having an grand understanding already, she'd would go out of her way to quickly resolve the chaos after SAO's creator Akihiko Kayaba and helped many lesser players to get resolved. She'd later joined an guild called the «Howling Dawn» and had then made friends to other SAO survivors. Her guild as they stacked the levels and materials, soon came into conflict with the «Laughing Coffin guild», who were by then was a well known player killing orange guild and the two would erupt into hostilities after she and her guild protected a group of players from them. Her guild eventually after fighting through multiple dungeons and areas became high-level players and became known as **Clearer** (攻略組, *Kōryaku Gumi*, lit. "Capture group") they began to get more involved in clearing the levels. At some point she lead the Howling Dawn in an raid after «Laughing Coffin guild» headquarters and participated in the ensuring raid. The aftermath however had four members of «Howling Dawn» perished in the battle. She and her guild while mourning those they lost, continued to clear levels before finally stopping altogether, no longer having the commitment to do so and settled to having an easy-going life in Aincard near a lake to go fishing and simply relax with her guild and talk. Eventually however she and her friends were forced back to the frontlines which by the time Kirito defeated the final boss, all of Howling Dawn by herself perished having sacrificed themselves to protect Riku by the time of Kirito fighting the final boss.

## Appearance

Ritsu is a young woman between fifteen to twenty years of age, born between a Australian mother and Japanese father but inherited most of her traits from her father. Standing at 190.5 cm (6'3ft/1.90m), she is born with long soft orange wavy hair which is kept in two ponytails which got thinner as it goes down in SAO, her eyes was light green for which in-game such as «Sword Art Online» have yellow coloured plus pupil for reason unknown. She has an fit body, almost hour-glass figure with average physique despite being a physically active individual.

Because of Riku's fascination in various RPG fantasy games such as *The Elder Scrolls* series and to follow the theme of «Sword Art Online», she decided to go to become an ranger-type player. Her ranger attire as she calls it consists of something akin to the proper fantasy RPG ranger with an green cape and an camouflaged bonnet on her head that she kept into «Gun Gale Online», she worn an red button that exposes her lower abdomen with short brown pants with black gym-like shorts underneath along with knee-high brown boots that were armoured by steel plating. Both of her arms had brown leather bracers with black gloves exposing her three of her fingers. She's one of the few that obtained two ranged weaponry called the wirst-mounted crossbow situated on both her arms.

Despite her traumatic experience in «Sword Art Online», Ritsu decided to return to that of VRMMORPG, starting with «Gun Gales Online». While wearing the starting equipment upon first logging in, she'd eventually obtained specific equipment to her liking, consisting of an maid-like outfit with the skit covered by armour plating that hides for mobility, her corset is equipped with hard leather and a upper-arm long pauldron her her right side. Wearing a black shirt under her corset, both her hands has camouflaged gloves and wears an scarf around her neck with with an small bonnet on her head. Her lower legs is also armoured to which an protrusion extended above to protect her knee joints while exposing upper legs, fortified by hard leather, to which she is wearing dark long pants. In GGO, she also has her hair untied and flowing down to her back.