Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5105419-20131208080434/@comment-71.21.53.134-20141230080021

I don't think it would have worked out. The whole reason Kirito was able to push himself to defy the limits of the game was because of Asuna. He almost didn't do it, he almost just let himself die alongside her. Just my take on this of course, but Kirito noted himself in the anime (I keep procrastinating the light novels) that he used to just care about survival with nothing but him on the line players along the way helped him change that mentality, but I feel as if Asuna really gave him his own reason to want to continue rather than his thoughts about fighting so others could live.

Anyways back to the subject of her brother, It would be my guess that he's more like his mother and I couldn't imagine someone who relies on structure and stability so much to have lasted two years in SAO. I would imagine that he'd be one of the players who'd have gone insane or something. I could be wrong and he could have had Asuna's early mentality of a day being lost in the real world. Who knows. Either way, I severely doubt Kirito would stick by him if he was a weaker player than Asuna, besides love he stuck by her because her skill made her someone he trusted not to die in most cases.

It's debatable though if even if they became friends if Kirito could pull off getting them out of SAO. Would he have the same impact as Asuna? Or would he be like Klein?