Nanairo Arshavin

Seven (セブン) is a new game-original character featured in the game adaptation Sword Art Online: Lost Song. Seven's ALfheim Online avatar is a Pooka. Her real-life name is Professor Nanairo Alsharvin (アルシャービン). When being interviewed in real life, she is addressed as Dr. Rainbow.

Background
Professor Nanairo is an MIT alumna from Russia who has appeared in the news as a wonder scientist. She is researching the formation of virtual societies within online networks and is the leader and most conspicuous member of the «Shamrock» guild, though de facto leadership of the guild has been assumed by Sumeragi.

On top of her real life career as a scientist, Seven presents herself as a singing idol in the virtual world, and her songs promote peace. According to her fans, she writes the lyrics to her own music.

In moments involving Kazuto and Suguha in the real world, while she is being interviewed on television, she talks about how she admires the achievements Akihiko Kayaba made when he created Aincrad, but makes a point that they don't justify the incident he caused. When speaking alone with Kirito, she mentions she wanted to play SAO but wasn't able to. Despite the crimes Kayaba committed, she wants to use his idea for virtual reality as a springboard for her own research, saying she wants to see where the players of VRMMO's want virtual reality's future to be, despite the way races are divided in ALO.

Lost Song
Soon after Kirito and friends logged into ALO, which had recently been updated, word about Seven's popularity and fame spread throughout town. She was first spotted by Kirito and others when she and Sumeragi entered the town plaza and were immediately surrounded by fans, some begging to join Shamrock. Her cuteness eventually won over Klein, who become one of her fans as well.

She makes her first major appearance in the story when she bumps into Kirito in town while trying to hide from Sumeragi, following when everyone else logged out for the day. In more cutscenes that followed, Seven started to seek out Kirito so they could talk more, all the while still being tailed by her fellow Shamrock members and Sumeragi. When meeting Kirito at Agil's shop, Kirito asked Agil to keep the fact he met her a secret from the others for the time. They enjoyed talking with each other and Kirito started to learn more about how her research stemmed from Kayaba's work with Aincrad.

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