[hider=Touma Shirogane] [center]Touma Shirogane
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[color=brown]"People are cruel. There's no truer truth."[/color]
Licht
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[color=magenta]"If you're unable to fight, I'll do it for you!"[/color] 
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Age: 18
Gender: Male
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Build: Athletic

Personality: Discourteous, stubborn, and blunt. Touma is a defiant product of the harsh environment in which he grew up. He has been forced to realize that there is nobody in the real world who would come to your aid and that if you want something to be done, then do it yourself. Relying on nobody and distrusting everybody is how he decides he'll live his daily life. His quickness to anger at disrespect and his own refusal to respect figures of authority have landed him in a trouble on more than one occasion. 

He is not an inherently bad person. He is more reactionary than anything and does not set out to cause problems, though he is vulnerable to those that do. He is independent and loathes relying no another or being in somebody's debt. Oddly enough, he would certainly take a promise seriously. He does not do things that would cause him pain or irritation. Touma is unlikely to lend a hand to those in need unless he is forced to or he is the only person who can and he would do so with reluctance. It should come as no surprise he has difficulty placing trust in anybody else, and so he prefers silence and being alone. 

Of course, this is merely how he acts outside of the game world. Inside it, he differs greatly. 

Licht is a refusal of the world Touma has experienced. In his mind, she is an impossible existence. One that not only prefers company to solitude, but thrives on it. She is one who would throw her life on the line for a friend and goes out of her way to help those in trouble. She smiles, jokes, enjoys life, and cares for others while earning their friendship. She is the ideal "hero" he wished he had before he was forced to stand alone. As such, she can only exist here in the virtual world, where the impossible is possible. A place where one might live their dreams. 

Background: He prevails. 

Aside from his timid character, there was not a trait that should have caused unfavorable people to choose Touma as their target, but perhaps that simply did not matter. Since a younger age, he had been made to do random errands for his bullies and he received blows both physically and verbally on a daily basis. Worst of all, nobody had seemed to care enough to try stopping them. Students, perhaps fearful for their own well-being, turned a blind eye. Tattling seemed to only earn him more punishment from the horrible children that pained him. His parents, oftentimes overseas due to work, neglected him as well. He lived a really unfortunate and painful life, for a time.

But then things changed. 

Something snapped. 

It might have been his realization that things were bound to continue like this until somebody stopped it. Perhaps he came to understand that, if it wasn't himself, then nobody would. The only person people cared about were themselves. So... then he needed to stop all of this. 

A "routine beating" of his ended with a twist. The "main bully" of the group was the one being beaten. Instead of looking downwards and accepting the cruel treatment he had been receiving, he decided to dish out some punishment of his own. An unexpected strike caught his torementer offguard, and then many more left him in no condition to worry about anything other than if he was going to survive this retaliation. The bully was bloodied, his face swollen, and more importantly, absolute fear gripping his heart. One that took hold of the others as they arrived upon the scene. 

That was the last day Touma had been bullied. 

From then, his timid demeanor had changed in its entirety. He became aggressive. His victory over his bullies brought him confidence. There was no trace of the old, weak Touma left. He did not become the thing he despised, but he was feared by many in his school forever onward. Though this turned out only to entice even worse characters to approach him, wishing to strike him down for many reasons, all exclusively petty. 

He proved to be more than anybody could really handle, and at least in regards to local delinquents, he was infamous. But this life was not one he wanted. He came to desire a quieter life. One he knew was impossible. For some reason, there was almost never a shortage of idiots who wanted to knock him out simply for street credit. That meant that when he was outside, he was never really safe. Touma eventually came to understand that the only place he could feel safe or relax was at his home. And so Licht was born. 

She serves. 

An existence thought impossible. A person in complete contrast to Touma, one who expresses delight at the chance to forge new friendships and in assisting those in need. A hero to the weak and an enemy to injustice. Of course, this is all in the world of games. She can only exist where people can play make believe. Where people go to live out fantasies that could never happen in the real world. 

A person like Touma is not one who looks like they would play games, let alone play them as the opposite gender, but that is precisely why he choose a female avatar. To seperate reality and fiction. He knew deep down that had he chosen a male avatar, he might not have been able to keep an act up. Also they had all the best-looking equipment, though that last part is something he doesn't admit to influencing his decision even to himself. 

SAO is not the first game Touma/Licht has been a part of. Hopefully it won't be the last. 

Character class: Ranged

Level: 1  

Weapon: Bow and Arrows

Ingame skills:

Relentless - Attack Speed is increased. 

Furious - Damage is temporarily increased upon consecutive hits on the same target. 

Pursuit - Gain a temporary bonus to movement speed upon hitting an enemy. [/hider]