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SAO - AW connection thread
For @KaoriHikariLF

I can't cover all connections because there are untranslated LN volumes but I'll do my best to mention them in order.
In Accel World the characters play a VR game called Brain Burst, it has a lot of features taken from UW-1000x time

Accel World also inherits Incarnation from SAO's Alicization arc.

The kanji words (心意, Shin'i) is exactly the same as what they used for Incarnation in Alicization as well. See in: https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Alicization

The term called "Zero Fill" is the inverse effect of Incarnation, it's when the characters experience a complete lost of will to fight or PTSD, their avatars will be subdued by the system, they can't move and can't do anything, similar to Kirito's situation in the start of WoU

In AW vol 20, Kuroyukihime mentioned that she got a program called "SSS Order" (sth that can hack many things in the game system) from her teacher, Graphite Edge, a dual-wielding Brain Burst player. The SSS Order looks similar to Star King's insignia in the end of Alicization.

In the game SAO vs AW Graphite Edge got the same voice actor as Kirito (Matsuoka Yoshitsugu). His skills have similar names to Kirito's skills:
Slant
Vertical Square
Vorpal Strike
Starbust Stream
The Eclipse
Elucidator
He taught KYH Vorpal Strike, Starburst Stream and The Eclipse

From AW v19: two people fighting over a person who looks very similar to Alice. Graphite Edge's story is about Dev A who wanted to destroy the Fluctuating Light (Alice lookalike) but Dev B (who looks like Kirito) wanted to save her, but in the end the FL was sealed and B gave up.

If you guys read the story told in previous tweet, it said Brain Burst was actually created so that future generations can take the stage to free the Fluctuating Light.

Theory: the War between Dev A & Dev B is actually the Inter-Intelligence War mentioned at end of Alicization

More theories: Dev A is believed by many to be Star King (and also Graphite Edge). Other theorized that he's Eolyne or PoH

Unital Ring is a game where it merged all Seed-based VR worlds (ALO, GGO, remnants of SAO, etc.), the players' status are all reset to level 1, if players die in game they can't log back in and might lose all data, though UR arc is being written and it hasn't merged UW yet.
In AW

Brain Burst inherits Underworld tech and when players die in game, they will lose all their data AND their own memories of the game as well. Some other VR games in AW are also the same. So it's theorized that VR game in BB inherited from a Unital Ring game that already merged UW.

In UR there is a girl named Kamura Shikimi who came to see Asuna for some unknown reason. In UR game there is a female player called Mutasina who is believed to be Shikimi because when you write her name in reverse it's the plant "Anisatum", it's also the meaning of "Shikimi".

It's revealed in AW vol 23 that the old family name of Kuroyukihime's mother before marriage is "Kamura". So Shikimi is likely KYH's mother.
In UR Shikimi is the leader of Virtual Research Society, while in AW, White Cosmos (KYH's older sister) runs Acceleration Research Society.

Both Shikimi and Asuna used to go to Eterna Girls' School. In AW it's also the same school that White Cosmos is studying in.

AW vol 23 also dropped some more bombs:

- Company KAMURA (which Kamura family runs) owns Soul Translator Technology and implemented it on Neurolinker, the AR-VR device that all AW characters use. Neurolinker is developed and sold by their rival RECT (company of Asuna's father)

- KYH's Fluctlight (her soul) was not born by the same people who gave birth to her body, it was taken from another baby & transmitted into the body she's inhabiting in. KYH is an experimented product, it's also hinted that she's not loved in her family as a genuine person.

- KYH thinks that the barcode on her neck (20320930) which is also the same as her birthday in reverse. She thinks she can find out the truth about her origin with this date.

I think people used to take the fact that KYH shares the same birthday with Asuna (09/30) and theorize--

that she's KiriAsu's daughter (along with her skills). Though now I don't know if they can like this theory any more knowing all of these info now.

In AW vol 25, White Cosmos mentioned that in a virtual world existed long before Brain Burst, there were many players to came from different games, and one guy proposed that players all join forces to defeat the game, but despite a lot of people agreeing with him it didn't happen

Theory: If that virtual world is indeed UR, the guy is Kirito who is also Dev B in Graphite Edge's story, Fluctuating Light is Alice, it meant they didn't beat UR, and Alice was locked away up to the far future of Brain Burst in 2046 and Kirito & co. could never see her anymore.

It also makes sense because in AW there is no mentioned of AIs living with humans or their AI rights, so if SAO-AW are really connected in UR, something bad definitely happened that might make the world scared of AI and it created 2 opposing sides (destroying AI or protecting AI)

In AW there is an AI (who's implied to be a Fluctlight like Eugeo & Alice) and she was once controlled by Acceleration Research Society (which White Cosmos runs) and Haruyuki freed her.

Final note: please take the theories in this thread with a grain of salt because with more info revealed in the future they might end up wrong. I don't want to cause anyone's disappointment for nothing.

Thanks for following this thread.

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