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* {{Both Sides Have a Point}}: Comes to realize this when he meets Grandis in person and asks him about the complaints he had about the ferrets, in which Grandis shows him newspapers, reports, and other statistics showing that the ferrets living in Aokigahara have been there for 10 years prior to Grandis showing up approximately 3 months prior. Not only that, but government officials, due to an increase of human death toll to [[spoiler:Saroa]] when trying to remove the ferrets, it was stated that a guardian entity was preventing humans from trying to remove them by force, so they are protected by government law after that discovery was made. Matthew doesn't even criticize Grandis as being the guardian in question because [[spoiler:Saroa, the actual guardian entity keeping the ferrets safe, had already made its presence known to everyone long before this particular chapter.]]
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* {{Canine Companion}}: His mother and daughter now own an older golden retriever he used to have as well, but now Matthew himself states he now has a Jack Russell terrier under his ownership.
* {{Everyone Has Standards}}: Calls Grandis out on his ferret keeping in a region where they can easily become invasive species.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: He's not wrong about his criticisms with Grandis' ferrets; animals from the same family have been notorious to be invasive species in many regions of the world, most prominently with Hawaii during an attempt to curb a rat problem in the region by introducing mongooses. Rats were nocturnal, mongooses were diurnal, so not only did the two species never meet, but mongooses just became an invasive species all the same.
* {{Slut Shaming}}: Almost got into a bad situation with Kazuto's friends during his 18th birthday when Matthew accused Asuna of having slept with every guy in the room at one point. No fight occurred since Kazuto didn't want his birthday ruined, and the night Matthew and Ryōtarō stay over to visit after everyone else leaves has Matthew still being on good terms with the two after the tension had calmed down. Kazuto admits behind his back that he would've punched him had this been stated years later rather than back then.
* {{Slut Shaming}}: Almost got into a bad situation with Kazuto's friends during his 18th birthday when Matthew accused Asuna of having slept with every guy in the room at one point. No fight occurred since Kazuto didn't want his birthday ruined, and the night Matthew and Ryōtarō stay over to visit after everyone else leaves has Matthew still being on good terms with the two after the tension had calmed down. Kazuto admits behind his back that he would've punched him had this been stated years later rather than back then.
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* {{What The Hell Hero}}: Criticizes Grandis' decision to have ferrets and polecats kept in his shack of a house, considering Matthew knows that ferrets would be an invasive species if their population numbers increased further than the number of them that Grandis owns. He doesn't care that Grandis is only allegedly keeping them as pets, since he has information of reports from officials about ferrets being found alive or dead in the Aokigahara region that were either killed by diseases, or killed via {{Shoot The Dog}} because of their invasive nature to the ecosystem.
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!! Matthew
A former friend of Kazuto's who is a modern hardcore gamer with the [=MaterialEye=] who fails to understand the appreciation for vintage games such as SAO, and always looks into more relatively modern genres and doesn't like to look back on his past shames. Grandis notes the name and attitude of Matthew sounds familiar, but he can't put his finger on it; Matthew lives in the United States, and has in contact with Kazuto due to the fact Kazuto briefly had to work overseas in the United States for several months about two years ago. Things went sour between the two when their differences in interests became more clear over the years they had knock each other.
* {{The Bully}}: Is this to Chronicler. Unlike most examples of this trope, Matthew is actually fleshed out quite a lot.
* {{Digital Avatar}}: A skeleton in the form of a {{Sharp Dressed Man}} wielding an [[MoreDakka SMG]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His intrigue in technology and engineering seems to indicate his {{Digital Avatar}} to have modern day or otherwise futuristic equipment in some way or form.
* {{The Ghost}}: Is only known by his {{Digital Avatar}} outside of old photos and videos he has that friends can still access through social media. Grandis can easily recall what he looks like, but everyone else only seems to see him nowadays by his virtual avatar; even Ryōtarō does as well, though this is only because he hasn't seen Matthew in nearly a decade so he can't remember what he looks like.
* {{Hidden Depths}}: Seems to have an intrigue in architecture and engineering, which explains his former interest in a ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' {{Expy}}. Even then, though, he seems to have had prior knowledge of Grandis, but seems out of the loop regarding his Deity nature, only mentioning him briefly as "an old friend who remains stuck in the past", indicating Grandis to be another former friend of his.
** While friends with the main cast, he seems more acquainted with Ryōtarō than he does the other major characters, to the point Ryōtarō is still one of his friends to this day.
* {{In Series Nickname}}: [=TechNerd1169=].
* {{Jade Colored Glasses}}: Once was a nice kid with a naive view on the world and games, and grew up to become {{The Cynic}}.
* {{Jaded Washout}}: His {{Fatal Flaw}}. He started off doing very, very well in high school and upon graduating even held a fairly well paying job for a few years. However, eventually he lost his job and is still searching for a job, all the while he now lives alone with his now divorced father between a family that once consisted of his mother and daughter, who have since moved out along with the dog he used to love and cherish. With almost none of the joy or income of his {{Glory Days}} keeping him afloat, his descent into cynicism only grew worse and worse, leading to him losing friendships as time progressed because he believes his former friends never grew up like he did.
* {{Jerkass}}: Part of what he became as he grew older. Ends up being what causes him to drive off Kazuto, Asuna, and Grandis from being friends with him.
* {{More Dakka}}: Wields an SMG.
* {{Most Wonderful Sound}}: In-universe example; Kazuto, Asuna, and several others note that Matthew's tutorial videos online has Matthew with an oddly soothing voice, due to a combination of the accent, the sound of his voice, and calm and professional demeanor.
* {{Troll}}: How he can behave at times towards his friends and enemies. While being {{The Bully}}, he's relatively harmless as he's very affable about his antics. When he's actually not affable, however, it's much more obvious to tell if he's outright antagonistic.
A former friend of Kazuto's who is a modern hardcore gamer with the [=MaterialEye=] who fails to understand the appreciation for vintage games such as SAO, and always looks into more relatively modern genres and doesn't like to look back on his past shames. Grandis notes the name and attitude of Matthew sounds familiar, but he can't put his finger on it; Matthew lives in the United States, and has in contact with Kazuto due to the fact Kazuto briefly had to work overseas in the United States for several months about two years ago. Things went sour between the two when their differences in interests became more clear over the years they had knock each other.
* {{The Bully}}: Is this to Chronicler. Unlike most examples of this trope, Matthew is actually fleshed out quite a lot.
* {{Digital Avatar}}: A skeleton in the form of a {{Sharp Dressed Man}} wielding an [[MoreDakka SMG]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His intrigue in technology and engineering seems to indicate his {{Digital Avatar}} to have modern day or otherwise futuristic equipment in some way or form.
* {{The Ghost}}: Is only known by his {{Digital Avatar}} outside of old photos and videos he has that friends can still access through social media. Grandis can easily recall what he looks like, but everyone else only seems to see him nowadays by his virtual avatar; even Ryōtarō does as well, though this is only because he hasn't seen Matthew in nearly a decade so he can't remember what he looks like.
* {{Hidden Depths}}: Seems to have an intrigue in architecture and engineering, which explains his former interest in a ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' {{Expy}}. Even then, though, he seems to have had prior knowledge of Grandis, but seems out of the loop regarding his Deity nature, only mentioning him briefly as "an old friend who remains stuck in the past", indicating Grandis to be another former friend of his.
** While friends with the main cast, he seems more acquainted with Ryōtarō than he does the other major characters, to the point Ryōtarō is still one of his friends to this day.
* {{In Series Nickname}}: [=TechNerd1169=].
* {{Jade Colored Glasses}}: Once was a nice kid with a naive view on the world and games, and grew up to become {{The Cynic}}.
* {{Jaded Washout}}: His {{Fatal Flaw}}. He started off doing very, very well in high school and upon graduating even held a fairly well paying job for a few years. However, eventually he lost his job and is still searching for a job, all the while he now lives alone with his now divorced father between a family that once consisted of his mother and daughter, who have since moved out along with the dog he used to love and cherish. With almost none of the joy or income of his {{Glory Days}} keeping him afloat, his descent into cynicism only grew worse and worse, leading to him losing friendships as time progressed because he believes his former friends never grew up like he did.
* {{Jerkass}}: Part of what he became as he grew older. Ends up being what causes him to drive off Kazuto, Asuna, and Grandis from being friends with him.
* {{More Dakka}}: Wields an SMG.
* {{Most Wonderful Sound}}: In-universe example; Kazuto, Asuna, and several others note that Matthew's tutorial videos online has Matthew with an oddly soothing voice, due to a combination of the accent, the sound of his voice, and calm and professional demeanor.
* {{Troll}}: How he can behave at times towards his friends and enemies. While being {{The Bully}}, he's relatively harmless as he's very affable about his antics. When he's actually not affable, however, it's much more obvious to tell if he's outright antagonistic.
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!! Ayano Keiko
!!! Debut: ???
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Anything that involves her and having been in France studying until coming back home to Japan for a while.
* {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}: Didn't know of the {{Shared Universe}} aspect of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code''? Keiko's appearance in her home turf doesn't bother shying away from the details the reader hasn't seen yet from the latter.
* {{Walking Spoiler}}: While in terms of her introduction in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' isn't all too noteworthy by the time it happens, what she had been doing and where the whole time until her debut is what actually is a huge spoiler though.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Anything that involves her and having been in France studying until coming back home to Japan for a while.
* {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}: Didn't know of the {{Shared Universe}} aspect of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' and ''Reflection Code''? Keiko's appearance in her home turf doesn't bother shying away from the details the reader hasn't seen yet from the latter.
* {{Walking Spoiler}}: While in terms of her introduction in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' isn't all too noteworthy by the time it happens, what she had been doing and where the whole time until her debut is what actually is a huge spoiler though.
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* {{Adaptational Wimp}}: Defied; he just has nothing to hide behind this time around, meaning whereas in the canon he could act like a {{Smug Snake}} all he wanted, here he risks his job, wealth, and everything else even remotely attempting to try and be like that because he's constantly surrounded by people or things either against him or trying to kill him.
* {{Dirty Coward}}: Immediately hauls ass with running when Stormcloud begins flying his way after having thrown insults his way.
* {{The Friend Nobody Likes}}: Everyone has it out to make this guy's life miserable no matter what their reason for keeping him around is.
* {{Rasputinian Death}}: [[spoiler:White Rabbit with Roy have to fight over Nobuyuki's corpse against Darigus, as Darigus is persistent in dragging the bastard to hell, but while Darigus successfully tears out Nobuyuki's soul, he leaves White Rabbit to consume the remaining biomass from Nobuyuki's actual body. As a result of this he's {{Killed Off For Real}} this time.]]
* {{Smug Snake}}: He still shows signs of it, just not as prominent considering how quickly he begins to become cowardly as the story progresses.
* {{Adaptational Wimp}}: Defied; he just has nothing to hide behind this time around, meaning whereas in the canon he could act like a {{Smug Snake}} all he wanted, here he risks his job, wealth, and everything else even remotely attempting to try and be like that because he's constantly surrounded by people or things either against him or trying to kill him.
* {{Dirty Coward}}: Immediately hauls ass with running when Stormcloud begins flying his way after having thrown insults his way.
* {{The Friend Nobody Likes}}: Everyone has it out to make this guy's life miserable no matter what their reason for keeping him around is.
* {{Rasputinian Death}}: [[spoiler:White Rabbit with Roy have to fight over Nobuyuki's corpse against Darigus, as Darigus is persistent in dragging the bastard to hell, but while Darigus successfully tears out Nobuyuki's soul, he leaves White Rabbit to consume the remaining biomass from Nobuyuki's actual body. As a result of this he's {{Killed Off For Real}} this time.]]
* {{Smug Snake}}: He still shows signs of it, just not as prominent considering how quickly he begins to become cowardly as the story progresses.
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* {{Anti Escapism Aesop}}: Part of his {{Foil}} aspects to Asuna; Asuna does use {{Escapism}} for her coping, but Kazuto much more prefers his real world down time with Asuna on a nice, relaxing evening and generally cuddling her, watching a movie together, or having sex. Despite all of the shit Kazuto has to put up with otherwise in real life, Asuna in his life makes everything worth it for him.
* {{The Cynic}}
** The scar he has on his face? That's a fresh scar from the past three months; Nobuyuki got too cocky and tried to manipulate Asuna into sleeping with him by making her think Kazuto was cheating on her, and when she refuses and Kazuto shows up to kick Nobuyuki out of the house, Nobuyuki draws and knife to attack and cuts part of Kazuto's arm and face, before Kazuto quickly overpowers him and Nobuyuki was arrested afterwards. It didn't last for long, as Ken bailed him ultimately, but Nobuyuki is an incredible wimp when it comes to the remote thought of trying to cross Kazuto again. Even Ken, after he bailed Nobuyuki even, took a baseball bat and knocked Nobuyuki out cold for a day for the troubles of having to pay to even bail the bastard out, especially since Ken now has respect for his son that was short lived.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}
* {{Descent into Addiction}}: What led to his smoking habit.
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* {{Emo Teen}}: Subverted in that he's an adult but he still looks and acts the part.
* {{Everyone Has Standards}}: Only tends to actively engage in sex with Asuna if he's home alone with only her around.
* {{Emo Teen}}: Subverted in that he's an adult but he still looks and acts the part.
* {{Everyone Has Standards}}: Only tends to actively engage in sex with Asuna if he's home alone with only her around.
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* {{Nerd Glasses}}: Not stated in the story he has them, but they're definitely there in his redesign.
* {{Nerd Glasses}}: Not stated in the story he has them, but they're definitely there in his redesign.
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* {{Good People Have Good Sex}}: Engagement to a girl whom neither you or her desire to wait until marriage for sex has its perks for a guy like Kazuto.
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* {{Cant Catch Up}}: Averted; [[spoiler:Kazuto, Asuna, Ryotaro, and Suguha get access to Phase 7 forms just like Chronicler does. Everyone else not from the canon cast not named those four get access to Phase 6 forms so long as they desire to make use of it, considering [[TropesAreNotBad Phase 6 forms are not that bad to be limited to]], [[AwesomeButImpractical considering Phase 7 forms are to Super Saiyan 3 that Phase 6 forms are to Super Saiyan 2]].]]
* [[spoiler:{{Fusion Dance}}:]] [[spoiler:With Kizmel into Kappa Noir.]]
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* {{Wham Shot}}: [[spoiler:Initiating a Phase 5 Hyper Evolution with Kizmel to become Kappa Noir. He's the first non-AI, non-Ultimorian to utilize the Phase System, and he's far, far from the last.]]
* {{Wham Shot}}: [[spoiler:Initiating a Phase 5 Hyper Evolution with Kizmel to become Kappa Noir. He's the first non-AI, non-Ultimorian to utilize the Phase System, and he's far, far from the last.]]
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* {{Dark And Troubled Past}}: He was a victim of bullying and drug abuse when he was younger, which is when he also began to learn to stand up to bullies as well as when he first met fellow victim Asuna and began to fall in love with her over the years. When Kazuto learned his father was abusing an AI just for his own pleasure, with Ken calling an AI "non-human", Kazuto viewed him as a {{Broken Pedestal}} because of the fact Kazuto knew too well that AIs these days were advanced enough to be considered truly alive.
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** His Gryphon mount is a {{Composite Character}} of the Gryphon from ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'' and ''{{VideoGame/Mabinogi}}''.
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* {{Curse Cut Short}}: [[spoiler:Just before he witnesses Chronicler's [[{{Frickin Laser Beams}} runic laser attack]] in the real world.]]
* {{Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu}}: [[spoiler:Nearly kills '''''[[PhysicalGod Grandis]]''''' when his real world body is taken over by Kirito.]]
* {{Good Smoking Evil Smoking}}: Normal, white cigarettes he has at hand due to his stress in real life ending up gaining the habit, but only partially influenced by his father since he never buys the classy cigars his father uses, and instead sticks to more mundane cigarettes.
* {{Good Smoking Evil Smoking}}: Normal, white cigarettes he has at hand due to his stress in real life ending up gaining the habit, but only partially influenced by his father since he never buys the classy cigars his father uses, and instead sticks to more mundane cigarettes.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: To varying degrees, such as sharing his father's smoking habit, to calling some people in SAO "edgelords" when he himself isn't any better at times and can equally be such a thing both in-game and in real life.
* {{Oh Crap}}: See {{Curse Cut Short}} above.
* {{The Stoner}}: Implied; while nowhere near as bad as his father, whenever the fic implies anything about Kazuto's past, he seems to have developed a smoking habit partially out of both stress and pressure in his life, but also due to an addiction at the same time.
* {{Super Powered Evil Side}}: [[spoiler:Kirito, whenever his avatar is used in the real world that is. Kirito is an alternate personality of himself based off of his in-game avatar's tendencies to slaughter just about every major enemy in sight to gain experience and loot, and is rightfully {{The Sociopath}} because of it. Despite Kazuto debuting as Kirito earlier in the story, it isn't until the Grandis fight that he shows that Kirito has a mind of his own here.]]
* {{Oh Crap}}: See {{Curse Cut Short}} above.
* {{The Stoner}}: Implied; while nowhere near as bad as his father, whenever the fic implies anything about Kazuto's past, he seems to have developed a smoking habit partially out of both stress and pressure in his life, but also due to an addiction at the same time.
* {{Super Powered Evil Side}}: [[spoiler:Kirito, whenever his avatar is used in the real world that is. Kirito is an alternate personality of himself based off of his in-game avatar's tendencies to slaughter just about every major enemy in sight to gain experience and loot, and is rightfully {{The Sociopath}} because of it. Despite Kazuto debuting as Kirito earlier in the story, it isn't until the Grandis fight that he shows that Kirito has a mind of his own here.]]
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!! Kirigaya Suguha
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: Cassandra Lee Morris
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'''Kirigaya Suguha''' recently turned 18, and begins the story celebrating her 18th birthday with her prized present, the [=MaterialEye=] VR hardware. Having had some minor experience with SAO in the past, she makes a new avatar to go along with her [=MaterialEye=] hardware so that she could properly adjust herself to the new play style. She quickly learns that not only does the [=MaterialEye=] have an unfair advantage for anyone using it towards the normal in-game mobs and other players who lack it, but she's immediately the target of interaction with a mysterious "edgelord" who contacts her in private and asks for her to show up at a tavern and meet him. When she does, she doesn't know of it at the time, but she is meeting her soon to be boyfriend in regards to who exactly this renegade male is. Or, at least, so she thought he was a renegade.
Receiving gifts after gifts from the man, she was surprised yet also suspicious as to why this man was helping her get useful items and a mount for the game earlier than one would normally be able to afford. The man, named "Chronicler", simply wanted companionship with a friend who wouldn't "disappear" like all of the others he had known. As Suguha spends more time with him until she has to go to bed, she ends up getting herself involved with a situation that has the man reveal himself as an AI who can utilize {{Hard Light}} to translate himself to and from the virtual and real worlds on a dime. Suguha, now meeting both the semi-confident and nervous sides of Chronicler, known also as his real name "Damion", Suguha gives him a {{Declaration Of Protection}} after she sees just how badly of a {{Dark And Troubled Past}} Chronicler has because of him having been used as a lab rat by her and her older brother's abusive father, Kirigaya Ken.
Most stories within ''Citadel of the Heart'' tend to avoid OC and canon character pairings; Suguha and Chronicler are one of the few exceptions in a major cast role. This is primarily done to prevent Suguha's infamous {{Incest Yay}} shipping with her brother from ever occurring in this story, and their blood relationship as siblings in this continuity only further solidifies that Suguha will never trying to hit on her brother here. Another noteworthy trait regarding Suguha is that whereas her canon avatar and some of her real life avatar has a {{Fanservice Pack}}, Suguha here does not have those traits too overtly much like her canon self. While she does have a modest, BB Cup bust size, and small but shapely hips, she's not exaggerated with her {{Fanservice}} traits like her canon self was. Leafa, in addition, is modeled more closely after her real life aspects in this regards, and lacks much of her sexualized traits from the canon.
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: Cassandra Lee Morris
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'''Kirigaya Suguha''' recently turned 18, and begins the story celebrating her 18th birthday with her prized present, the [=MaterialEye=] VR hardware. Having had some minor experience with SAO in the past, she makes a new avatar to go along with her [=MaterialEye=] hardware so that she could properly adjust herself to the new play style. She quickly learns that not only does the [=MaterialEye=] have an unfair advantage for anyone using it towards the normal in-game mobs and other players who lack it, but she's immediately the target of interaction with a mysterious "edgelord" who contacts her in private and asks for her to show up at a tavern and meet him. When she does, she doesn't know of it at the time, but she is meeting her soon to be boyfriend in regards to who exactly this renegade male is. Or, at least, so she thought he was a renegade.
Receiving gifts after gifts from the man, she was surprised yet also suspicious as to why this man was helping her get useful items and a mount for the game earlier than one would normally be able to afford. The man, named "Chronicler", simply wanted companionship with a friend who wouldn't "disappear" like all of the others he had known. As Suguha spends more time with him until she has to go to bed, she ends up getting herself involved with a situation that has the man reveal himself as an AI who can utilize {{Hard Light}} to translate himself to and from the virtual and real worlds on a dime. Suguha, now meeting both the semi-confident and nervous sides of Chronicler, known also as his real name "Damion", Suguha gives him a {{Declaration Of Protection}} after she sees just how badly of a {{Dark And Troubled Past}} Chronicler has because of him having been used as a lab rat by her and her older brother's abusive father, Kirigaya Ken.
Most stories within ''Citadel of the Heart'' tend to avoid OC and canon character pairings; Suguha and Chronicler are one of the few exceptions in a major cast role. This is primarily done to prevent Suguha's infamous {{Incest Yay}} shipping with her brother from ever occurring in this story, and their blood relationship as siblings in this continuity only further solidifies that Suguha will never trying to hit on her brother here. Another noteworthy trait regarding Suguha is that whereas her canon avatar and some of her real life avatar has a {{Fanservice Pack}}, Suguha here does not have those traits too overtly much like her canon self. While she does have a modest, BB Cup bust size, and small but shapely hips, she's not exaggerated with her {{Fanservice}} traits like her canon self was. Leafa, in addition, is modeled more closely after her real life aspects in this regards, and lacks much of her sexualized traits from the canon.
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!! Jed
A wolfdog hybrid between a German Shepherd and a Timber Wolf. Kept in an abusive lifestyle since birth, Kazuto found it after he heavily lost a fight against an, at the time, stronger dog as Jed was kept in a dog fighting lifestyle since he was very young, and bred specifically with a cruel sort of {{Min Maxing}} in mind for combat. When an inspector found Kazuto illegally keeping the dog, and after Ken had framed it as a "vicious beast", Jed was taken away from Kazuto's custody before the first arc began, and by the time the second arc begins, Kazuto had legal ownership of Jed and thus the dog is returned to him as Kazuto, as well as Asuna, now live back in Kazuto's family home now that Ryotaro had worked on expanding it and made it possible for both Kazuto and Asuna to live there as well as Ryotaro. Naturally the sight of an intimidating dog partially unnerves Ryotaro, but since Ryotaro had long grown used to the much bigger Stormcloud, he isn't as afraid of Jed as he used to be.
!! Tropes that apply to Jed
* {{Canine Companion}}: For Kazuto.
* [[{{Emotionless Girl}} Emotionless Dog]]: Very, very quiet and tame even during his time away from Kazuto; in fact, the handlers for him until he was given back to the Kazuto just wanted to {{Screw The Rules Im Doing Whats Right}} and just give him back to Kazuto, since they knew a little too well from how much self control Jed had that he is an innocent soul who was framed, since otherwise he would've long since attacked someone had Ken's audacious claim been true.
* {{Morality Pet}}: Why Kazuto worked as hard as he could to save him and restore his own custody of him.
* {{Shout Out}} Explained more in-depth below, but aside from the fact this Jed is part German Shepherd, he gets his name and hybrid nature from a real life Malamute based Wolfdog known as Jed, who was used to depict the disguised form of the Kennel-Thing from ''John Carpenter's The Thing''.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: In the behind the scenes to ''John Carpenter's The Thing'', the dog used in the movie as the initial host of the titular alien is a wolfdog named Jed, from which this Jed gets his name from. Jed was pointed out behind the scenes to have acted his parts eerily well, and was extremely quiet and well-behaved on the set, indicating a fairly good amount of training in him. This particular tribute to Jed, due to his training from Kazuto both before being taken away and after being returned, is noted to be {{The Stoic}} for the exact same reasons his real life namesake was, to the point both in the film and in real life, the dog gave a very {{Uncanny Valley}} type of performance, because of how much the Malamute's genes were subdued by the Wolf genes. Malamutes are normally very energetic and prone to being loud at times, but Jed, despite being part Malamute, was dead silent even during the opening chase scene.
* {{The Stoic}}: Doesn't emote very much, barely barks, and only makes vocalizations at all when prompted to or when he knows an intruder is on the property. See {{Shown Their Work}} and {{Shout Out}} above as to why this is how he's portrayed.
!! Jed
A wolfdog hybrid between a German Shepherd and a Timber Wolf. Kept in an abusive lifestyle since birth, Kazuto found it after he heavily lost a fight against an, at the time, stronger dog as Jed was kept in a dog fighting lifestyle since he was very young, and bred specifically with a cruel sort of {{Min Maxing}} in mind for combat. When an inspector found Kazuto illegally keeping the dog, and after Ken had framed it as a "vicious beast", Jed was taken away from Kazuto's custody before the first arc began, and by the time the second arc begins, Kazuto had legal ownership of Jed and thus the dog is returned to him as Kazuto, as well as Asuna, now live back in Kazuto's family home now that Ryotaro had worked on expanding it and made it possible for both Kazuto and Asuna to live there as well as Ryotaro. Naturally the sight of an intimidating dog partially unnerves Ryotaro, but since Ryotaro had long grown used to the much bigger Stormcloud, he isn't as afraid of Jed as he used to be.
!! Tropes that apply to Jed
* {{Canine Companion}}: For Kazuto.
* [[{{Emotionless Girl}} Emotionless Dog]]: Very, very quiet and tame even during his time away from Kazuto; in fact, the handlers for him until he was given back to the Kazuto just wanted to {{Screw The Rules Im Doing Whats Right}} and just give him back to Kazuto, since they knew a little too well from how much self control Jed had that he is an innocent soul who was framed, since otherwise he would've long since attacked someone had Ken's audacious claim been true.
* {{Morality Pet}}: Why Kazuto worked as hard as he could to save him and restore his own custody of him.
* {{Shout Out}} Explained more in-depth below, but aside from the fact this Jed is part German Shepherd, he gets his name and hybrid nature from a real life Malamute based Wolfdog known as Jed, who was used to depict the disguised form of the Kennel-Thing from ''John Carpenter's The Thing''.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: In the behind the scenes to ''John Carpenter's The Thing'', the dog used in the movie as the initial host of the titular alien is a wolfdog named Jed, from which this Jed gets his name from. Jed was pointed out behind the scenes to have acted his parts eerily well, and was extremely quiet and well-behaved on the set, indicating a fairly good amount of training in him. This particular tribute to Jed, due to his training from Kazuto both before being taken away and after being returned, is noted to be {{The Stoic}} for the exact same reasons his real life namesake was, to the point both in the film and in real life, the dog gave a very {{Uncanny Valley}} type of performance, because of how much the Malamute's genes were subdued by the Wolf genes. Malamutes are normally very energetic and prone to being loud at times, but Jed, despite being part Malamute, was dead silent even during the opening chase scene.
* {{The Stoic}}: Doesn't emote very much, barely barks, and only makes vocalizations at all when prompted to or when he knows an intruder is on the property. See {{Shown Their Work}} and {{Shout Out}} above as to why this is how he's portrayed.
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* {{Omnicidal Maniac}}
* {{Our Gods Are Greater}}: Has Ultima's ego, but here it's justified for his debut; he's the first ever Phase 7 Ultimorian Deity known to have existed.
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* {{Story Breaker Power}}: Had he existed any earlier in the story, he would've been beyond stupidly overpowered. Justified with his power though considering he's the {{True Final Boss}} of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and thus his immense power is justified.
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* {{Ultimate Lifeform}}: His debut IMMEDIATELY dethrones ALL of the prior Ultimorian Deities in terms of his sheer power; he's the first ever Phase 7, and it definitely shows how he bridges the gap between Phase 6 Ultimorian Deities, and Phase 8 Primordial Deities, indicating that the two different types of deity once shared a missing link only just now being reborn.
* {{Vile Villain Saccharine Show}}: He makes every other villain in the canon or otherwise in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' into nothing more than specks in an eternal void of an ocean by comparison.
* {{Vile Villain Saccharine Show}}: He makes every other villain in the canon or otherwise in ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'' into nothing more than specks in an eternal void of an ocean by comparison.
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* {{Eldritch Abomination}}: '''''Jesus Christ...'''''
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* {{Foil}}: To Ultima; both of them are to varying degrees {{Deity of Human Origin}}s, but rather than an egotistical asshole with a hidden heart of gold, EXODUS is a heartless monster with an even bigger ego.
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!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!! Voice Actor: Bryce Papenbrook
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!! Voice Actor: Bryce Papenbrook
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! General Tropes
* {{Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits}}: How some of them first met each other, until...
* {{Shell Shocked Veterans}}: Kazuto implies he has spades of this, but it's not very noticeable. The others to as well to varying degrees, but it's more prominent in Kazuto's backstory.
* {{True Companions}}: How everyone progressed or are still progressing in the cast.
! Kirigaya Kazuto
!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!! Voice Actor: Bryce Papenbrook
The seemingly lead protagonist of the fic until it becomes clear his younger sister is the true lead protagonist, '''Kirigaya Kazuto''' is around his early twenties and has moved up in the world since he started playing the now ancient by today's standards ''Sword Art Online''. Having gained a job as an active beta tester for the game, he is begrudgingly having to work alongside his bastard of a father, Kirigaya Ken, despite the restraining orders he and his fiance Asuna have filed against Ken. Despite this, aside from a few exceptions, his strained relationship with his father is oddly sympathetic despite how heinous of a man his father can be at times. While it is true that Ken is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone, Kazuto is a {{Hypocrite}} regarding his complaints about his father by comparison; whenever he makes said complaints, he's often no better than his father if not worse in some areas no matter how hard he tries to be the better man of the two. For as much as Kazuto is thankfully not beating Asuna at all in private, Kazuto at least is serious when he says he hates how Ken treats women like trophies; even Kazuto is consistent with his genuine love for Asuna.
Not only that, but there are times where Kazuto can truly show he is a kind person, even with the genuine life troubles he has to deal with. Kazuto, when interrogating Chronicler in their first meeting, asked if he has any reason to believe Chronicler is indeed a legitimate threat or not. While Chronicler went overboard with the demonstration even if nobody was harmed, he at least treated Chronicler like an actual human being and not an "AI monstrosity" as his father claims him to be. Kazuto even seems supportive of Chronicler's relationship with Suguha as well, considering it's clear that he sees the potential in Chronicler for him to be a good man for his sister when previous suitors have failed her before. Not only that, but while Kazuto is currently having to live away from him for a while, he keeps a wolfdog as a personal guard dog who he had successfully tamed since it was a pup he had found abandoned on the streets, and despite the wolf heritage, he has managed to keep perfect control of the dog at all times when he's present with him. Currently he's fighting the law to get his dog back to his side, since Ken framed the poor canine into having attacked him on purpose.
While Kazuto stays somewhat consistent with his canon self, he does diverge a bit in having noticeable flaws in his characterization; the fact he kept the wolfdog and raised it properly would've been one thing, but he did not legally have a license to keep such an animal in the first place and had the dog taken away from him the moment Ken framed it, and now he's fighting for his right to have his canine companion back. Much like Ken, Kazuto has a smoking habit which occasionally makes him sick, his occasional drinks with alcohol whenever he's severely stressed, sometimes being too aggressive in the bedroom with Asuna by accident, and even being somewhat morally dubious like his own father. Still, he tries as hard as he can, no matter how much his life can be a living nightmare, to be the better man of the two, and improve himself to places his father never could.
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: To Suguha, and to Chronicler as well.
* {{Broken Ace}}: He was once a high level player in ''SAO'', but he stopped being active for a while and the raised level caps made people surpass him by a long shot.
* {{Broken Pedestal}}: He clearly once worshiped his father, and even had a respect for his work; whatever happened that strained their relationship was rendered permanent once Ken was ousted for his abuse of Chronicler.
* {{Canine Companion}}: Fenris, his wolfdog, once he gets the legal rights to him back in the second arc.
* {{Childhood Friend Romance}}: Implied to have been the case with him and Asuna; the two knew each other since they were kids, and the two of them bonded incredibly close to each other as the years progressed. Eventually it led to them being engaged prior to the story's beginning, and eventually married later in the story.
* {{Happily Married}}: Engaged for the early parts of the story to Asuna and eventually marries her.
* {{Heroes Prefer Swords}}: Most of the times, because swords have a very fast attack rate and thus a very high DPS to counterbalance having a weaker damage stat than other melee weapons.
* {{Heroes Want Redheads}}: Engaged to and marries Asuna in the whole fic.
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!! UD-?? EXODUS
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: Paul St. Peter
'''EXODUS''', AKA [=AI#999=], is the most powerful AI ever recorded on the international database. Having a file size of 999 yottabytes, the AI would be incredibly dangerous if it ever materialized into reality like the others; due to its sheer size and programming function, it already has the ability to do so, but it appears to be oddly dormant. It takes the form of an absolutely gigantic, humanoid figure with a halo forged of pure energy in the form of a giant serpent. If Vishnu is stated by many to be the destroyer of worlds, than EXODUS lives up to the title of being based on the Mythological Shiva the Destroyer. The biggest mystery is that nobody knows who created EXODUS; perhaps EXODUS is a literal God in the machine; a {{Deus Ex Machina}} that desired to create itself into the perfect, ideal incarnate form for itself to use and wield into the real world as a means of bringing about its own chaotic order to the real world and every known life-form to exist in the process.
!! Tropes relating to UD-?? EXODUS
* {{A God Am I}}: The mere instant it awakens it declares itself this, as it materializes into the real world and leaves a gigantic, several mile wide sinkhole where he stands.
* {{Arc Villain}}: Of the fifth arc of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and also the {{True Final Boss}} of the story at the same time.
* {{Deconstructed Character Archetype}}: Of {{God Mode Sue}}s, {{Villain Sue}}s, and {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}s. While it is true that EXODUS is an incredibly powerful, immense God of a life-form, there's also the consideration that due to the interference with the natural order of the network world within the fic, that it was inevitable that the AI life-forms would emerge a champion to serve as their ultimate soldier; a very, VERY literal {{Deus Ex Machina}} incarnate into physical form, as due to Ultimorian Deities already being a part of the story prior, its evolution into its current form was accelerated immensely to respond to what it perceived to be a threat to itself. In addition, the sheer incredible prowess it developed can be blamed on two things; the {{No Nonsense Nemesis}} nature of EXODUS, and the fact Sixth Phase Ultimorians were already a thing long established in this story. Not only that, but Kazuto, Asuna, Suguha, and Keiko should never had access to such forms for themselves to begin with, it perceived that the threat was further intensified as the Ultimorian Deities infecting the local life-forms, so not only did it rise to power beyond what is currently known. As a result, it deemed itself an Ultimorian Deity because that was the only known name it could take for itself as it had risen to Phase 7; Phase 7 Ultimorians, by technicality, are always Ultimorian Deities official or not.
* {{Destroyer Deity}}: Based off of Shiva.
* {{Deus Ex Machina}}: '''''The trope personified.'''''
* {{Expy}}: Of Deusmon, and God Grade Appmon and Ultra Level Digimon as a whole.
* {{Hard Light}}: A unique version in that it doesn't even need it; it can freely traverse all realities to and back because its sheer power by the time its able to function allows it to essentially become {{The Omnipotent}}.
* {{Physical God}}: Comes with the job resume for this guy.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: The guy's file size, in the yottabytes, in modern day computers would require SD cards occupying roughly twice the size of the Hindenburg to store for a single yottabyte. Considering EXODUS is a {{Kaiju}} nearly 555 meters tall, its sheer file size is translated into a gigantic, real life body to properly store its ungodly amount of data.
* {{Square Cube Law}}: Why this guy took so long to materialize and construct itself prior to establishing itself as a major threat.
* {{True Final Boss}}: Of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', due to the fact literally nobody else possible outside of the Primordial Deities could remotely pose anywhere near a threat as it can.
* {{Voice Of The Legion}}: It's voiced by Paul St. Peter after all.
* {{Walking Spoiler}}: Its existence throws everyone for a loop and makes everyone realize that they need to act fast to deal with this guy.
* {{Wham Line}}: "I am a Seventh Phase Ultimorian Deity; EXODUS! Prepare for Judgment!"
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! General Tropes
* {{Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits}}: How some of them first met each other, until...
* {{Shell Shocked Veterans}}: Kazuto implies he has spades of this, but it's not very noticeable. The others to as well to varying degrees, but it's more prominent in Kazuto's backstory.
* {{True Companions}}: How everyone progressed or are still progressing in the cast.
! Kirigaya Kazuto
!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!! Voice Actor: Bryce Papenbrook
The seemingly lead protagonist of the fic until it becomes clear his younger sister is the true lead protagonist, '''Kirigaya Kazuto''' is around his early twenties and has moved up in the world since he started playing the now ancient by today's standards ''Sword Art Online''. Having gained a job as an active beta tester for the game, he is begrudgingly having to work alongside his bastard of a father, Kirigaya Ken, despite the restraining orders he and his fiance Asuna have filed against Ken. Despite this, aside from a few exceptions, his strained relationship with his father is oddly sympathetic despite how heinous of a man his father can be at times. While it is true that Ken is a {{Jerkass}} to everyone, Kazuto is a {{Hypocrite}} regarding his complaints about his father by comparison; whenever he makes said complaints, he's often no better than his father if not worse in some areas no matter how hard he tries to be the better man of the two. For as much as Kazuto is thankfully not beating Asuna at all in private, Kazuto at least is serious when he says he hates how Ken treats women like trophies; even Kazuto is consistent with his genuine love for Asuna.
Not only that, but there are times where Kazuto can truly show he is a kind person, even with the genuine life troubles he has to deal with. Kazuto, when interrogating Chronicler in their first meeting, asked if he has any reason to believe Chronicler is indeed a legitimate threat or not. While Chronicler went overboard with the demonstration even if nobody was harmed, he at least treated Chronicler like an actual human being and not an "AI monstrosity" as his father claims him to be. Kazuto even seems supportive of Chronicler's relationship with Suguha as well, considering it's clear that he sees the potential in Chronicler for him to be a good man for his sister when previous suitors have failed her before. Not only that, but while Kazuto is currently having to live away from him for a while, he keeps a wolfdog as a personal guard dog who he had successfully tamed since it was a pup he had found abandoned on the streets, and despite the wolf heritage, he has managed to keep perfect control of the dog at all times when he's present with him. Currently he's fighting the law to get his dog back to his side, since Ken framed the poor canine into having attacked him on purpose.
While Kazuto stays somewhat consistent with his canon self, he does diverge a bit in having noticeable flaws in his characterization; the fact he kept the wolfdog and raised it properly would've been one thing, but he did not legally have a license to keep such an animal in the first place and had the dog taken away from him the moment Ken framed it, and now he's fighting for his right to have his canine companion back. Much like Ken, Kazuto has a smoking habit which occasionally makes him sick, his occasional drinks with alcohol whenever he's severely stressed, sometimes being too aggressive in the bedroom with Asuna by accident, and even being somewhat morally dubious like his own father. Still, he tries as hard as he can, no matter how much his life can be a living nightmare, to be the better man of the two, and improve himself to places his father never could.
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: To Suguha, and to Chronicler as well.
* {{Broken Ace}}: He was once a high level player in ''SAO'', but he stopped being active for a while and the raised level caps made people surpass him by a long shot.
* {{Broken Pedestal}}: He clearly once worshiped his father, and even had a respect for his work; whatever happened that strained their relationship was rendered permanent once Ken was ousted for his abuse of Chronicler.
* {{Canine Companion}}: Fenris, his wolfdog, once he gets the legal rights to him back in the second arc.
* {{Childhood Friend Romance}}: Implied to have been the case with him and Asuna; the two knew each other since they were kids, and the two of them bonded incredibly close to each other as the years progressed. Eventually it led to them being engaged prior to the story's beginning, and eventually married later in the story.
* {{Happily Married}}: Engaged for the early parts of the story to Asuna and eventually marries her.
* {{Heroes Prefer Swords}}: Most of the times, because swords have a very fast attack rate and thus a very high DPS to counterbalance having a weaker damage stat than other melee weapons.
* {{Heroes Want Redheads}}: Engaged to and marries Asuna in the whole fic.
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!! UD-?? EXODUS
!!! Debut: ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition''
!!! Voice Actor: Paul St. Peter
'''EXODUS''', AKA [=AI#999=], is the most powerful AI ever recorded on the international database. Having a file size of 999 yottabytes, the AI would be incredibly dangerous if it ever materialized into reality like the others; due to its sheer size and programming function, it already has the ability to do so, but it appears to be oddly dormant. It takes the form of an absolutely gigantic, humanoid figure with a halo forged of pure energy in the form of a giant serpent. If Vishnu is stated by many to be the destroyer of worlds, than EXODUS lives up to the title of being based on the Mythological Shiva the Destroyer. The biggest mystery is that nobody knows who created EXODUS; perhaps EXODUS is a literal God in the machine; a {{Deus Ex Machina}} that desired to create itself into the perfect, ideal incarnate form for itself to use and wield into the real world as a means of bringing about its own chaotic order to the real world and every known life-form to exist in the process.
!! Tropes relating to UD-?? EXODUS
* {{A God Am I}}: The mere instant it awakens it declares itself this, as it materializes into the real world and leaves a gigantic, several mile wide sinkhole where he stands.
* {{Arc Villain}}: Of the fifth arc of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', and also the {{True Final Boss}} of the story at the same time.
* {{Deconstructed Character Archetype}}: Of {{God Mode Sue}}s, {{Villain Sue}}s, and {{Generic Doomsday Villain}}s. While it is true that EXODUS is an incredibly powerful, immense God of a life-form, there's also the consideration that due to the interference with the natural order of the network world within the fic, that it was inevitable that the AI life-forms would emerge a champion to serve as their ultimate soldier; a very, VERY literal {{Deus Ex Machina}} incarnate into physical form, as due to Ultimorian Deities already being a part of the story prior, its evolution into its current form was accelerated immensely to respond to what it perceived to be a threat to itself. In addition, the sheer incredible prowess it developed can be blamed on two things; the {{No Nonsense Nemesis}} nature of EXODUS, and the fact Sixth Phase Ultimorians were already a thing long established in this story. Not only that, but Kazuto, Asuna, Suguha, and Keiko should never had access to such forms for themselves to begin with, it perceived that the threat was further intensified as the Ultimorian Deities infecting the local life-forms, so not only did it rise to power beyond what is currently known. As a result, it deemed itself an Ultimorian Deity because that was the only known name it could take for itself as it had risen to Phase 7; Phase 7 Ultimorians, by technicality, are always Ultimorian Deities official or not.
* {{Destroyer Deity}}: Based off of Shiva.
* {{Deus Ex Machina}}: '''''The trope personified.'''''
* {{Expy}}: Of Deusmon, and God Grade Appmon and Ultra Level Digimon as a whole.
* {{Hard Light}}: A unique version in that it doesn't even need it; it can freely traverse all realities to and back because its sheer power by the time its able to function allows it to essentially become {{The Omnipotent}}.
* {{Physical God}}: Comes with the job resume for this guy.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: The guy's file size, in the yottabytes, in modern day computers would require SD cards occupying roughly twice the size of the Hindenburg to store for a single yottabyte. Considering EXODUS is a {{Kaiju}} nearly 555 meters tall, its sheer file size is translated into a gigantic, real life body to properly store its ungodly amount of data.
* {{Square Cube Law}}: Why this guy took so long to materialize and construct itself prior to establishing itself as a major threat.
* {{True Final Boss}}: Of ''Sword Art Online: Special Edition'', due to the fact literally nobody else possible outside of the Primordial Deities could remotely pose anywhere near a threat as it can.
* {{Voice Of The Legion}}: It's voiced by Paul St. Peter after all.
* {{Walking Spoiler}}: Its existence throws everyone for a loop and makes everyone realize that they need to act fast to deal with this guy.
* {{Wham Line}}: "I am a Seventh Phase Ultimorian Deity; EXODUS! Prepare for Judgment!"
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