MIYAMOTO, SHIORI

Shiori “Sena” Miyamoto

18

Female

Japanese

Shiori stands at about 5’4” weighing 118 lbs with a slim, athletic, and curvaceous figure. She has straight, blonde hair reaching to about her mid back with bangs reaching almost her eye level. That said, Shiori’s eyes are aqua in color.

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The user utilizes their sword/rapier for a swift follow-up or initiating attack. The Sword Art is charged by bringing their hand up and off to the side. A complete charge of the SA causes the blade to glow white. Once the system takes over, the blade first comes down in a diagonal slash down the body of the opponent before coming back up in a second strike that follows the same path as the first strike while leaving a trail of light in its wake. After the passing of the second strike, the force of the Sword Art turns the opponent 180 degrees.

The user holds their sword/rapier off to their side at about shoulder level with the tip of the blade facing their opponent. After a moment of charging, the hilt area of the weapon projects a sapphire pulse of light as the blade glows a bright blue, signaling the full charge of the ability. Once the system takes over, the user’s weapon comes forward in a quick, 3 strike attack, 2 aimed at the upper body with 1 aimed at the lower body, leaving blue streaks of light in its wake.

Kind-Hearted
Shiori is simply a friendly, cheerful, and compassionate girl. She is easy to get along with while also cherishing all the friends that she does make. To compliment this, she can also be very formal and polite if she needs to be. She has a great sense of humor and can tease just as well as anyone else.

Intelligent
Though she doesn’t flaunt it, Shiori is very intelligent. She enjoys reading books and finds it easy to absorb new information to adapt to a new situation. Her intelligence also helps her with strategizing, whether from playing tennis in high school to a video game, coming up with a “game plan” is something she does well.

Reliable
As a determined and loyal girl, Shiori is very reliable when it comes to finishing tasks. She’s effective at keeping her focus on the task at hand and will do her best to get it done.

Sincere
Shiori prefers to be honest as lying is something that she hates. However, even someone like her may have to lie in order to protect someone else. Her sincerity also ties in with her modesty as she hesitantly accepts compliments and will often blush when receiving it. On the flip side, she is a bit of a tease (unintentionally) since she wears revealing clothing like low cut shirts, skirts, and blouses.

Unforgiving
Shiori hates being betrayed more than anything. To gain her trust and respect is easy, but once it’s gone, you can bet that you’ll have to give up an arm and a leg to get it back. While she isn’t one to actively seek vengeance against a person who has betrayed her, and may not even express hatred, she will certainly act in spite of the person if given the chance (such as not helping someone who didn’t help her).

Tsundere
This isn’t really much of a negative trait (depends on how you view it), but once Shiori finds herself attracted to someone, she will switch into a “Tsundere” mindset. She will suddenly turn a bit aggressive towards that person, act cold, deny having feelings for the person, and even pass off actions as superficial. This mindset comes from her knowledge of love (though she’s never had a boyfriend) through her books and has knowledge of the good and bad aspects of love so while she may seek it, she doesn’t want to suffer the bad of a relationship.

Cautious
This is primarily governing her actions when it comes to Sword Art Online. Her cautiousness stems from the deadly nature of Sword Art Online that has the player die when their avatar dies. As such, she will very rarely venture beyond the limits of her level with or without a party and is unlikely to take risks if she isn’t confident she’ll make it out.

Follower
Shiori may be able to handle her own in the game, she isn’t confident enough to be “leader” when it comes to group situations. She would much rather have someone else take the lead than do it herself. Though in certain scenarios, she may take the role herself if she knows what to do.

Shiori was born April 16th as the first daughter of a corporate businessman and fashion designer. Since her birth, her parents have been busy day in and day out. However, they weren’t always busy with work as they worked careers and not jobs. They were often taking care of themselves or going out on the town to spend the night frolicking. This left their only daughter in the constant care of a babysitter named Ayane who was a friend of her mother from the Fashion Designing industry even though her parents did provide her with clothing and anything she could really desire. But as a result Shiori didn’t really get the opportunity to experience the love of her parents.

As the years passed, Shiori spoke her first words, began to walk, and became aware of herself and the world around her; all of which her parents missed. Instead, Ayane, who had taken care of her since day 1, was the mother figure in her life. Eventually, Ayane did bring up the issue to Shiori’s parents, to which they brushed off as superficial, feeling that giving their daughter the finest clothes and food would be more than enough to compensate for their absence. Despite her growing frustration, she continued to care for Shiori even when she started school.

The age of 8 was when Shiori finally began to ask about her parents and question their involvement in her life. While young, she confronted her parents and wondered why she didn’t know them or barely recognize them. Seeing their daughter so heated brought the realization that what they were doing wasn’t enough. Following the confrontation, Shiori’s parents at last got involved in the raising of Shiori, though they were now 8 years late. Soon after, Shiori’s parents had a second child, a boy, making Shiori a big sister. As expected, Shiori’s parents drew their attention to the baby in an attempt to “right” the wrong they have done to Shiori, unintentionally making it worse for the young blonde. But by now, she was used to the absence of her parents and simply focused on school. Whenever she had free time, she taught herself how to cook.

By her early Teenage years, Shiori had become independent. She maintained contact with Ayane for guidance when she needed it, but when it came to everyday life, Shiori took care of herself. With her hormones kicking in, her mother’s beautiful blonde hair, and curvaceous figure began to grow onto Shiori. This in turn made her quite popular in school, but with her focus on her grades, she always turned down requests for dates or relationships, keeping her desires confined to the books that she read. When she reached the first year of high school, Shiori joined the tennis and swimming teams as a way to keep active and give her less reason to go home while also maintaining her figure. Being on these teams opened her up to a lot of new friends and made it easier for her to cope with the absence of her parents as she gradually felt that her team mates and classmates were her new family.

This continued on into her second year of high school where she met a new member of the tennis club named Kiyomi Akimoto, a redhead kouhai. The two became quick friends as the two shared the same interest in tennis, swimming, reading, and sense of humor. But Kiyomi was a bit different than Shiori as she was also a gamer girl who often plays MMORPGs. It was through Kiyomi that Shiori learns about the game Sword Art Online that utilizes a Dive System with the NerveGear and creates a 3d Virtual world. It was rapidly becoming a phenomenon in the gaming and general community.. It was no surprise as it was the first of its kind and one that uses only close ranged combat.. No magic of any kind. Even if she was a girl that never played a game in her life, all of the advertisement and hype from her friends (especially Kiyomi) intrigued her enough that she wanted to give it a try.

For the first time in her life, she went to her parents to give her the funds to buy herself a NerveGear and reserve a copy of the game. At first, they were skeptical about giving her a game, but with her excellent grades and active lifestyle, they felt that she deserved it and gave her what she wanted.

On the day of the release, Shiori called up Kiyomi to find that she already had the game and was waiting for her to “Dive” and meet up in town to begin their journey. Without any hesitation, Shiori tells Kiyomi that she is going to dive immediately and they both hang up. Slapping on the helmet and inserting the game, she starts her first link into the virtual world known as Sword Art Online.

Once in the game, Shiori sets her in-game name to “Sena” and her appearance to closely resemble her actual looks though with red hair and thicker bangs and green eyes instead. As soon as she is teleported into the game, she stares in awe and excitement at the amazing spectacle that technology has birthed. It was truly a magnificent achievement in her eyes and the realistic appearance of the graphics was astounding. But as a new player in the MMO world, she spends a bit of time in the beginning town, reading the manuals from the Beta users and studying up on the gameplay and the mechanics of combat as well as the interface of the HUD. In the middle of her studying, she finds herself suddenly teleported into something that resembled a courtyard with everyone else, just as confused, teleported beside her.

Questions fly left to right only to realize that no one had any idea what was going on and figured it was just some sort of introduction to the game. All of the sudden, a massive image of a red cloaked dark being appears over them, sealing the courtyard off and introduces the game to the players. However, the moment that the apparent Game Master reveals the truth; that dying in game meant death in real life, panic set in. Not only among the players around her, but in Shiori herself. Her heart pounded in her chest with the fear that set in. It was a terrifying shock to her as it now meant that she was stuck in a game that she did not know how to play and dying here meant death. It felt like a cruel twist of fate. The second shock came when the mirror appeared in her hand. She looked into it, expecting to see the red haired avatar, but instead sees herself. She drops the mirror in surprise, only for it to shatter into data and looks around. Low and behold, everyone else’s appearance had changed. There were confused faces as well as men dressed as women… Just what kind of game was this?...

After the “introduction”, Shiori finds herself back in town, slightly depressed though she wasn’t the only one by far. With all of the mumbling going on around her, she wanders off to the center of town and sulks onto a bench, starting to reflect on her life, wondering what she had done wrong to deserve something like this. Throughout her “soul search” she felt as if the ones who had wronged her were her parents and for a second, even blamed Kiyomi for getting her into the game. This continues on for almost an hour, wondering what she could do, and from what she could hear around her, she wasn’t the only one planning. It takes her a while, but she figures that the only way out is “through”. Regardless of the fact that just one person beating the game frees everyone, Shiori felt that sitting around waiting for that time would be worse than waiting to die. Even with the threat of death, she resolved to remain calm, level-headed, strong, and make an effort at proceeding forward rather than sitting around waiting for death or the game’s completion that may or may not come.