

When Kirito logs in to ALO with his SAO account, all his SAO skills and points
and even Yui's heart are loaded; so we can conclude that the same thing must
have happened to his avatar, too. If so, why didn't Sugu recognize him and if
not, why is that?


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Why didn't Sugu recognize Kirito in ALO


When people were trapped in SAO, their avatars became exactly similar to their
real-life bodies, so recognizing someone from real life was possible there.

**Kirito at SAO:**

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UDbjQ.jpg)

**Kirito in real life:**

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rzasj.jpg)

But in ALO, it's totally different.

See Sugu and leafa as an example:

**Real Life:**

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uBijO.png)

**ALO:**

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oZic0.png)

Kirito's avatar in ALO may **resemble** his character from SAO, yet it's still
different. A player with that avatar could look totally different in real
life. And people that play MMORPG's are not use to talk about their real life
at the game.

So, Leafa didn't recognize Kirito because there was no reason for her to do so
in a game like ALO.


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Suguha didn't resemble her true self because it was a different machine in the
anime but by the same creators... remember how they "asked them to touch
themselves all over so they resemble the same?" Remember how there were
mirrors and when they looked inside of them they looked exactly the same as
what they look like in the real world? Maybe that's why. One, because f it's a
different machine, then they might've forgot to make it so you had to touch
yourself all over, two, because they didn't receive any mirrors in Alfheim.


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When Kirito went onto ALO it said that his apearence will be randomised,
however, since all of his data was transferred from SAO he looked the same as
he did in SAO which was exactly how he looks in real life but when Sugu saw
him she would not have thought it was her cousin because all the looks had
been randomised.


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