#eolyne sao

[kyasemi]

If I were to write a Eolyne x Kirito fic, when should it take place?

[shima-draws]

Eostar did you mean Kirito being stupidly over affectionate in public but everyone’s too afraid to say anything bc well. He’s the Star King,

[bluerosesinthenightsky]

I’m not sure if you’ve read the latest light novels, but I’m curious, what’s your take on EoStar (Eolyne X Star King)? Also, any theories on Eolyne? Do you think he’s Eugeo reincarnated? Something else?

Unfortunately I have not read the latest Light Novels. But I have heard of Eolyne and Star King Kirito, and have seen a few panels. And I do ship EoStar. And yes, I believe Eolyne is Eugeo, just not in the way people think.

I do believe Eolyne is Eugeo, but like I think of it in the way that is kind of like Alice Zuberg and Integrity Knight Alice, like how they're both their own person, but they still have the memories and feelings of their former selves and are really two people but also one whole person together.

So think of Eolyne like he's Integrity Knight Eugeo. He's Eugeo but also Eolyne, he's two people, but he's also one person. He has two identities in one body.

The only thing is, Eolyne hasn't unlocked what made Eugeo, Eugeo yet. He doesn't remember his time with Kirito, he doesn't know those feelings. They're deep down there, buried, and he just hasn't uncovered them yet.

[jnhatea]

them new characters really can't escape the kuroyukihime kirisuna's child theory

[saooutofcontext]

Kirito looked over at the commander, who was propped up on his arm, and grinned at him. He reached out and ruffled the flaxen hair spilling over the white mask.

"I'm here to rescue you, Eo."

[gloochi]

So I first heard about Toukouga Istar shortly before I started reading SAO. They seemed like a fascinating character, especially given the hefty gender ambiguity, but I don't think I was prepared for them to be such a very blatant parallel to Kirito?

(Also, I will be using she/her for Kirito here because she is such an egg, and this is my blog, so you can't stop me.)

But yeah, like, look at these descriptions of Istar.

Now compare these to an early description of Kirito along with a description of GGO Kirito.

Of course, it's not an exact match, but the flowing black hair and delicately beautiful face immediately stood out to me when paired with the long dark coat. There's even attention drawn to the very red lips for both Istar and GGO Kirito. Imagine a slightly older Kirito who didn't lose two years of growth to being stuck in a hospital bed and only subsisting on fluids who leans more into her feminine features instead of running from them. Doesn't that resemble Istar to you, at least a little bit? Adding on further, Istar is the first other person we see using incarnation flight in the modern Underworld, an art that Kirito thought she was the last remaining user of.

There's even the detail of their coat whipping like black wings, just like how Kirito does it.

When in comes to incarnation flight, Administrator just floated, and Gabriel manifested wings from nothing. It's only Kirito and Istar specifically who transformed their coats into wings (even being the same color). Eolyne is shown capable of it immediately afterwards, but notably, he just stands in the air as if there's solid ground.

Thus, Istar flying the same way Kirito does feels incredibly deliberate. Nobody else does it exactly like that.

The comparison of Istar and Kirito kinda feels similar to a comparison of Eolyne and Eugeo. They've got a number of similar features, but there's some notable differences in their personality. Where Eolyne feels like a more cynical Eugeo, Istar feels like a more immoral Kirito. Also, just like Eugeo and Kirito, Eolyne and Istar were close. Close enough to be able to hard read each other like this.

In fact, close enough for them to react emotionally to each other. I think they genuinely used to have the same bond Eugeo and Kirito had.

They were even close enough to have nicknames for each other, which they still always use when not referring to each other by full name. Plus, they fought in the finals of the Unification Tournament, just like Kirito and Eugeo were supposed to do before getting arrested, and just like what Kirito thought would happen if she had to seriously fight Eugeo, Eolyne defeated Istar in the tournament, and even this fight ended in a draw, despite Eolyne being exhausted already.

Also, I didn't have anywhere else to mention this, but it's notable that Istar's weapons are a saber and a handgun, which is very similar to GGO Kirito's loadout of a photon sword and a handgun.

Also also, I didn't even mention the final scene of volume 27, where Lagi sees Istar and doesn't even hesitate to assume they're male (an assumption that I'd bet so much money is wrong, by the way, given Kawahara's love of limited PoVs that inherently leads to some unreliable narrators), despite them trying to present more fem or androgynous. It was Kirito specifically trying so hard (and failing) to figure out Istar's gender without making assumptions, and we notably don't know Eolyne's thoughts on the matter. He hasn't referred to Istar by anything other than name yet, nor has Istar themselves said anything in that regard yet either. I'm willing to bet that Istar was probably AMAB and is either transfem or some form of non-binary or x-gender as it's often called in Japan.

I feel like someone like this being one of the final antagonists of the series is VERY interesting. Like, the heavy focus on Istar's gender ambiguity paired with them being such a blatant foil to Kirito might actually push Kirito to think about her own gender presentation a bit, and considering the sheer amount of promo art of Kirito dressing fem over the last many years, I feel like Kawahara has an idea of where this will end already. 😁

[crimsoneveline]

at this point I have gone beyond "Why do you refer to her with he/him? Oh wait the majority considers her a guy" for just the obvious Kirito

like:

Eolyne? him? but she is a t-girl obviously? wait, that's just my headcanon!

Akihiko Kayaba? he? no,no she! wait, that's just within my latest wip (where Kayaba force femmes like 25% of the sao players)

[drivemysoul]

gf and i were talking on the phone on my lunch break and she said she’s been reading sao and keeps reading eolyne’s lines in my voice

[kiri-tired]

Eokiri time! B) SAO vol 24 has now been officially licensed and released!

Images distributed by thebrandsert & celest on twitter, buy the book for yourself here!

[momochizu]

From twitter request to draw sao characters blushing 😳😳

[kyasemi]

Is it worth it to get Unital Ring LN just to get some Eolyne and Kirito moments? I also kind of want to write a Eokiri but I have no clue about how they interact with each other and just Eolyne’s character in general. So I might have to get the volumes that are already out and translated. I’m just not up to date on what’s going on with the story arc and Eolyne and Kirito

If anyone wouldn’t mind sharing me like, notes about the LN and Eolyne and Kirito’s relationship and dynamic, moments etc., I would really appreciate it.

[shima-draws]

If you were hired to work on Sword Art Online, on the Manga and the Anime, and you were allowed to revive Eugeo, how would you go about doing it and how would the Yujikiri reunion play out?

OMG haha

I mean technically we’ve already got a pretty good foundation for that *points at Eolyne*

If I had to stick to canon as close as possible, I’d definitely carry through with the whole Eolyne is Eugeo’s reincarnation thing. He’d somehow recover all his memories from his past life and tell Kirito and it would be very very emotional and sweet and then they’d kiss. With tongue

[bluerosesinthenightsky]

There’s A Hollow Fracture In Kirito’s Chest...

{{Not A Title, Just an Attention grabber for a preview of a polyfic of different romantic/platonic dynamics between Eugeo, Kirito, Asuna And Alice coming to an A03 near you. Yujikiri is the main focus, and the poly stuff comes more towards the epilogue. How does it all play out? You will just have to wait and see!}} _ _ _

OBLIGATORY MAJOR SPOILER WARNING FOR Sword Art Online: Alicization Arc! Do not READ if you haven't finished the first half of the Alicization Arc! MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH INCOMING! YOUVE BEEN WARNED!

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There’s a hollow fracture in Kirito’s chest, a fissure stretched all the way vertically across the middle, it is wide and raw. Bleeding, red, agonizing and burning, yet all at once so cold.  

So cold… 

It was as if a blade of ice, so cold it burned, but so hot it was cold- had flayed him open. Cleaving through skin, muscle and finally carving against the bones within his ribcage. Where it punctured downwards, rending them until broken, and struck true into his heart. 

The frigid point piercing and plunging its serrated edge so deeply into it, that it found his very core, his soul and froze it over. 

There was a hollow fracture in Kirito’s chest. It was far deeper than it was wide, like a black abyss, swallowing him up whole, devouring everything he had left to give. 

A murky nebulous, akin to the night sky, yet there was no light to guide his way, no stars speckling the canvas of the lonely void to bring him back home. 

Why? Why wasn’t there any light? 

He knew why. 

His light, his star, it had burnt out like a supernova and had left him all alone. 

Isolated and suffocating in his own despair. That’s right… his heart had been plundered and his soul pillaged, and all that remained was ice. 

Kirito’s home didn’t exist anymore. 

There was a hollow fracture in Kirito’s chest and in that hollow space between his bloodied and shattered ribs, was a single blue rose. 

It was withering, yet a sheen of glistening frost had crept over the surface of its beautiful petals. 

Beautiful just like…him. 

Beautiful it might be it was still just as ugly.  

A merciless constant reminder of being so brutally bereaved of his beloved partner. 

It was as if the frost had frozen Kirito in time. Forcing him to remain in that exact heart-stopping and spine-chilling moment. When the sword, that was responsible for this fractured and icy hollow in his chest, shattered and then dispelled and released his precious partner. Leaving him to plummet to the floor. 

Leaving him all but lifeless, his crimson cruor pooling like a sea of ruby rose petals underneath him. His frame severed into two halves, leaving him a shell of something once whole, by the sword of the ruthless ruler of the Underworld. 

“EUGEOOOOOOOO!!!” 

The guttural and wounded growl, of Eugeo’s name, detonated like a violent gale. It surged rapidly out from Kirito’s vocals like a swirling storm and echoed within those damn forsaken walls. 

And she with her long lavender hair, fitted with a dress as white as snow, looked on. 

Outwardly, one might mistake her for a holy being, innocent and pure, full of love and light. 

If Kirito didn’t know better, he would have thought her an angel sent from the heavens above to collect Eugeo. 

But the angel was a devil in disguise, staring mockingly and sneering with a smirk so vile that Kirito had come to despise it and her. 

That despicable woman, no not a woman, she was naught but a callous and cold creature with no capacity for loving anyone put herself. She had love for herself alone and her insatiable bloodlust for control over all. 

The Administrator, Quinella, were she still alive now- Kirito would have hunted her to the ends of the Underworld and he would have slaughtered her. Then he would have used system commands to bring her back and slaughter her again, and again, and again… 

Over and over… until not a trace of her fluctlight remained. He would raze her away, permanently deleting her from the system, and by the time he was finished it would be as if she’d never existed. 

Yet nothing could be done now. Though Kirito’s body was in the present, his heart and soul and sense of self and time had been frozen in place. It froze over within an impenetrable barrier, an icy cage. Of which the only key that could set him free had long since melted away. Leaving it forever locked and leaving him in everlasting lament. 

A part of him had died with Eugeo that day. That dark and dismal day, the day that Kirito’s star went out, the day that his precious little Eugeo… 

His best friend and his ever-loyal partner, his everything… 

His beloved Eugeo. 

His icy blue rose. 

Burned and melted away in a baleful blaze of crossing blades and blood. 

_ _ _ There you have it, that's the preview! I've wanted to rp a Yujikiri reunion for a long time, but no one has ever come to the call and actually committed. So I decided to write something my damn self, and make it into a fanfic. this will be a self-indulgent Yujikiri reunion fic, with a small side of poly dynamics between Kirito, Eugeo, Alice and Asuna scattered throughout the fic and in the epilogue. If polyamory isn't for you, then this fic I'm writing isn't for you.

Please do NOT start a ship war in the comments, or reblogs, or even screen shotting this preview and making it into a ship war, thank you. This fic won't be exactly like the Yujikiri reunion I have in my head rp wise. Rp wise would be a much simpler premise, and it would be strictly Yujikiri, and not as long and as lore heavy.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed what you've read so far. I don't know if it's obvious or not, but Kirito is having a nightmare. He's reliving Eugeo's death over and over and has been every night for YEARS.

I take no responsibilities for anyone's emotional turmoil.

[berserkyuya]

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Unital Ring Kirito

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[lost-in-yujikiri]

New Sword Art Online vol 26 sneak peek illustrations

[thegayfromrulid]

It's heeeeere!