Kobayashi, Hyacinth

HALCYONE

<<NAME>>

Hyacinth Kobayashi

<<AGE>>

17

<<GENDER>>

Female

<<NATIONALITY>>

Japanese/Japan

<<APPEARANCE>>

In Game Appearance
IRL Appearance

<<PERSONALITY>>

Positive
Motherly - If she sees anyone in trouble, she will immediately jump in to help whoever it is. She cares about all the younger players and tries to help them the best she can, especially true with her brother. If there are any players that seems down or depressed, she takes up a motherly role and take the time to comfort them.
Reliable – Whenever there is a task asked of her, even if she didn’t agree to it she will most likely do it. She hates letting people down so she will usually take up any task that is considered undesirable or difficult. If she says and promises to do something, she will find a way to go through with it.
Bold and Blunt – This can go both ways but mostly positive. Hyacinth is quick to say what is on her mind and tell the truth about things. She will not try to insult anyone unless they get on her nerves. She doesn’t really care what other people think about her as long as she is able to tell people the truth so they can improve.
Lawful – Whenever she sees some form of unjust action happen, Hyacinth is quick to jump into action. She will not hesitate to see and actively cause justice to be executed. For example if she sees a player killer kill another player, she will most likely jump in to arrest the player killers or worse, kill them herself.
Level headed – Hyacinth is able to think thoroughly and keep a level head no matter what happened. Even if she is in trouble or faced with a life threatening problem, she is able to think about the situation analytically and usually finds a way out.
Tech/gaming wiz – After she got into gaming, Hyacinth, immersed herself in the gaming world. That said she is very up to date on her technology and researches everything that happens in the gaming world. It is actually how she came across SAO’s beta. She knows a lot of gaming and online terms, associating what she knows into helping her clear the game.

Negative
Slightly Sadistic about certain things – When it comes to killing other players, Hyacinth usually would not support it. However, if someone deserved it she will get into the action of killing those that have done wrong. She may lose herself and brutally slaughter people that she thinks are evil and any associated with them unless she is stopped. It might not even be slaughter but she will be sure to make those who do wrong suffer.
Stubborn – When she wants to do something or thinks one way, it is very hard to sway her to change her mind. She will yell and argue about why her way is right, and if she can’t get through, she’d simply storm off to do her own thing.
Vengeful – If someone did something to tick her off like attack her or someone close to her, Hyacinth will seek vengeance. She will try to punish those to the same extent that they did her wrong.
Does not know how to express her feelings – She doesn’t know how to express love at all. She will usually try to ignore her feelings and pretend that she’s okay and normal. When she’s sad she bottles it up and hides it so she doesn’t show weakness to anyone. The only feelings she openly expresses are anger and happiness to an extent.
Always tries to solo and take all the burden – Because she feels guilty for dragging her brother into a death game, she tries to make up for it by doing everything herself. She will often go off by herself to grind and level up so she can better protect her brother and those she cares about. This leads to her overestimating her power and taking on more than she can actually handle.
Secretive – She keeps any personal information to herself and can be rather shady. If she doesn’t want anyone to know what she is up to, she avoids answering and moves on. It isn’t easy to get her trust either.

Additional
Hobbies: Gaming and Recreational Kendo
Like: Cooking when Brother doesn’t, Teasing her brother, Video Games
Dislike: Cleaning, Studying, Shopping, Wannabe Heroes

<<HISTORY>>

Hyacinth was the first born child between a loving couple among the middle class area of Japan. Nothing really significant happened while she was a baby. She learned to walk and talk. Everything a baby should learn to do. But then came another baby a year later, Hadden. After that the two grew up together and did everything together ranging from playing together to studying together. They even got an interest in Kendo and the Martial arts together. That said even though Hyacinth was older, Hadden was more skilled in Kendo than she was. So as Hadden moved up the professional ladder Hyacinth became more disenchanted. She tried to keep going and more and more she realized that even though she was good at Kendo she just didn't have the love for it as Hadden did. She kept going with it just for her brother but at the same time she tried to find something she loved to do as well.

After a while Hyacinth realized that professionally doing kendo and hitting people was not her thing. She didn’t like putting others in pain just to win some sport. So she quit and started to migrate to her computer. She fell into her own little world online and learned of the joys of playing and being someone else without worry. In turn her studies improved drastically as she spent more time to herself. She spent significantly less time with her family and grew fairly distant. Sure she still socialized with them when it was time to eat together but past that she would just escape to her room. It didn’t help that their parents started working more so they ended up having to fend for themselves. Hadden learned to cook and took on a lot of responsibilities and Hyacinth in turn managed her time so she could help around with cleaning after school before getting online.

Somehow she was able to snag a copy of SAO Beta so she played and became enchanted in the world of Virtual Reality. With her past knowledge of Kendo and her current knowledge of games she boosted through a good portion of the game. But as soon as she played something hit her. She realized that she wasn’t spending much time with her brother. She hardly knew him anymore and they used to spend so much time together. It was mainly her fault. So when SAO came out officially she forced him to play with her for the reason of “doing stuff together again”. When she got him to agree, she helped him through the process of character creation and played together with him in game like they used to when she still practiced Kendo with him until the dreaded announcement.

After Kayaba Akihiko made his announcement, she tried to process everything. At first she didn’t mind all that much. It wasn’t like this changed much in her life. She knew how to go about the game since she had been part of the SAO beta test too but then she realized that she had done it alone. Now she had to look after her brother and felt guilty for dragging him into such a life threatening game. She became angry at herself and was determined then to beat the game for her brother’s freedom, making sure if anything that her brother would survive any of their encounters.

SKILLS

<<CORE SKILLS>>	<<SUPPLEMENTARY SKILLS>>	<<EXTRA SKILLS>>
>>one-handed swords >>leather equipment >>tailoring >>parry	>>stitchwork >>n/a >>n/a >>n/a	>>n/a >>n/a

SWORD ARTS

BLADE WAVE. One-Handed Sword
2 Strikes, 0 Specials, 100% Speed, 100% Power

By placing her non dominant hand flat over the hilt of her sword for the span of two seconds the user can activate the sword art. The sword will glow a low white as she executes the first diagonal slash, a sky blue light trailing behind the initial slash. The user will then sidestep and follow up with a second diagonal slash in the opposite direction of the first slash with the trail of light shifting into white again.

BUTTERFLY FLOURISH. One-Handed Sword
2 Strikes, 1 Specials, 80% Speed, 70% Power

By twirling her sword in her dominant hand and then clutching the hilt of her sword, the user can activate this sword art. The sword will begin to glow gold as the user lunges forward for a vertical slash downwards at the opponent. The instant of contact against the blade will result in the gold glow shattering and creating a lighting effect of what appears to be small butterflies floating around the blade that will disperse and causes stun to target opponent. As this is happening the user follows up with a horizontal slash that has no additional aesthetic effects.

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