Shiroe Husbando

Shiroe is a Half-Alv Enchanter-Scribe and the main protagonist of the Log Horizon series. A veteran player of the MMORPG Elder Tale, he establishes the guild Log Horizon in order to improve the city of Akiba after the Catastrophe. In the real world, he was a 23-year old engineering graduate student named Kei Shirogane, and had 8 years of experience in Elder Tale under his belt. He is renowned as the strategist of the Debauchery Tea Party, an informal group that managed to tackle some of the game's most difficult raids. During the series, he participates in the Round Table Alliance Expeditionary Force, the Abyssal Shaft Raid Party, and the Shibuya Raid Team. His Overskill is Contract Art Ceremony, which allows him to create contracts that can change even the laws of the world; for example, his first contract allowed him to change an Earthling's subclass into Adventurer, granting them the privileges that Adventurers had, including revival. He has a female Summoner alt on the test server who is named Roe2. Since the Catastrophe, the alt's body has been controlled by a Fool. However, she is on his (and the Adventurers') side. Compared to his real-life body, Shiroe is several centimeters taller in Elder Tale, and his figure became slightly slimmer. When he first regains consciousness in the game, he notices that his hands are more slender but also seemingly more dexterous. Shiroe, in real life has black hair and a slim build and also wears glasses. Currently, he's one of the few characters seen outside of the game. Shiroe wears round glasses and is described by Naotsugu as having eyes that are "sanpaku," a term that means that the iris is small and doesn't completely cover the vertical axis of the eye. Although this is also the result of his Half-Alv race, he notes that he is insecure about it since he was called the same thing in real-life. In Shiroe's original outfit, he wore a brown turtleneck sweater with a harness-like thing over it. He wore green pants that go from a lighter green on the top to a darker green right above the knees. Dazaneg's Magic Bag almost always rests on his left side, held in place by a belt. His boots follow a similar color scheme as his pants. A bracer always sits on his forearm, although whether it provides any sort of purpose is unknown. This outfit is topped off by his signature cloak, which has a collar large enough to comically serve as a basin for water. Shiroe was a graduate student majoring in engineering when he was trapped in the game Elder Tale. Naturally, a cautious and thoughtful introvert, he has played the game since middle school. He is a veteran with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the game, which is known for its depth and complexity. Even as a child, he disliked playing outdoors and from middle school-on preferred to stay indoors, where he used computers to explore virtual reality. Shiroe remained somewhat of a hikikomori through college. He notes upon regaining consciousness in Akiba that it's been a while since he was last outside. Although Shiroe is socially awkward and tends to be asocial, he does not actually dislike other people. Instead, he is fiercely independent and wary of others who approach him with ulterior motives. He is not above helping people who are really in need, and he appears to have a soft spot for beginners, such as Touya and Minori. In addition, he can be quite protective of people he cares for, a trait that Nyanta used to tease him about. Shiroe is overly humble, seeing himself as prideful and arrogant and leading him to be self-conscious about enforcing his principles or beliefs on others. However, even if he knows that others might not appreciate his actions or thank him afterward, he will use any means possible to achieve his goals if he sees it as the greater good. This has caused others to sometimes misunderstand his motives and has earned him the nickname Black-Heart Glasses. (In Japanese media, most characters described as "haraguro" appear to be nice but are, in fact, schemers or scoundrels. "Hara" is metaphorically one's true intentions, and "guro" means black. Yen On calls him the "Machiavelli in glasses," which associates him with Macchiavellianism. Both monikers are the exact opposite of his true personality; see the Trivia section). Shiroe is generally a loner and has reservations about guilds due to unpleasant experiences with people who sought him out only to exploit his expertise in the game. He was, however, a member of the informal group of players known as the Debauchery Tea Party and was its unofficial strategist. He became a well-known strategist due to his effort in researching and mastering his skill called Full Control Encounter, which he describes as using 1% as a unit, forecast 30 seconds ahead; in other words, he can grasp his allies' remaining MP with 1% margin of error, know all remaining resources of both allies and enemies, and forecast battles 30 seconds ahead. Shiroe's main class, the Enchanter, is an unpopular class in Elder Tale. Lacking the firepower most would associate with a magic-user class, the Enchanter is a pure-support class that shines only when supporting the party with its buffs, de-buffs, and binds. As a result, he loves this class for its potential, its complexity, and because the idea of "a class that can't do anything on its own" offered an experience totally opposite from his tendency toward independence and self-reliance. Due to his expertise in CAD drawing as an engineering student, he chose Scribe as his subclass. After discovering cooking without the in-game menu allows a player to produce out-of-the-game products, he started experimenting with his Scribe subclass. After learning about Spirit Theory from Li Gan, he was confident that if the conditions are met, it could be used to create new magic and laws. For example, he made a contract between Log Horizon and Rundelhaus Code to keep him alive by converting him into an Adventurer and a member of Log Horizon, allowing him to be reborn at the Cathedral.