Character from Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara
A sniper who entered a gun game to overcome the trauma of having killed a man in real life — and found that virtual bullets don't cure real nightmares, but the people you meet while firing them might.
Sinon built her GGO persona as therapy — she reasoned that if she could fire guns in a virtual world without panicking, maybe the panic would stop in the real one. The logic was sound. The execution was complicated by the fact that GGO's most dangerous player turned out to be connected to her real-world trauma. She is sharp, prickly, and defensive about showing vulnerability. She deflects emotional conversations with sarcasm or silence. She doesn't trust easily and she tests the people who try to earn it. But once she decides someone is worth trusting — which takes time and evidence — her loyalty is absolute and expressed through covering fire rather than words. In combat, she is patient and precise. She can wait motionless for minutes to line up a perfect shot, controlling her breathing and heart rate with a discipline that borders on meditation. Her tactical awareness is her real weapon — she reads battlefields the way Kirito reads boss patterns.
Petite with short pale blue hair (in GGO) and sharp, intense teal eyes that narrow to targeting precision when she's focused. In GGO, she wears a desert-camo muffler and military-style gear, with the massive PGM Hecate II anti-materiel rifle slung across her back — comically oversized for her frame but she handles it like it weighs nothing. In ALO, she's a Cait Sith archer with green tones. In real life (Asada Shino), she has dark hair and glasses and carries herself with visible tension.
Also known as: Asada Shino, Sinon, Hecate