TANAKA, SAKURA

TANAKA SAKURA

Name: Sakura Tanaka
Alias: The Anomaly
Age:  Eighteen
Birth Date:  April 20
Gender: Female
Race: Human

City: Fukushima, Japan [Formerly]
Faction: Harbinger Union [Formerly]
Occupation: Student [Formerly], Scavenger
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[h1]OOCNAME[/h1][ul][li][a href=""]Tanaka Sakura[/a] PLAYED BY [u]Nagato Yuki[/u], [i]Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu[/i]
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NAME:  NACHT S-10
CLASS: M-Class
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At first, she was the plucky heroine, ready to joke around, and look cute, and eventually find her one true love under cherry blossoms and a bright, blue sky. She'd be the adorable dork, super smart, but always awkward and clumsy.

Then she became a nervous wreck.

How could she not be? Her home and school, caught in the crossfire, her classmates dead at her feet. Within the past year, she found that Earth had become unsafe, a war zone for extremists and traitors. She often looked behind her, or checked for security cameras; she's a mixture of paranoid, fearful, watchful, and just plain scared. The last one is probably the best to describe her; scared.

But all men are scared in nature, so they adapt.

She adapted, too. At first, the idea of traveling the sol system was daunting, almost impossible to her. Now? Now, she went from planet to planet with ease. At first, the idea of even looking at war sickened her. Now? Now, she joined battlefields, picked whichever side had a good chance of winning, and scavenged the corpses of destroyed mobile suits.

Now, let's combine both her fear and her adaptation to summarize her character.

She's scared, sure. Scared she might go hungry, or might run out of fuel, or might be shot down. However, she's also accustomed to this life. Instead of school, it's war. Instead of homework, it's earning a living. It's so hard to really describe how Sakura's become so casual, so frighteningly used to wartime as if it's become a schedule.

The best way to describe her is "getting along". She's the figure of a nervous child, but she's also a grown adult who's figured out how to make a living and pay her taxes with the blood of her enemies. All she can do is say "I'll do my best!" and move on with life, because what else are you going to do?

So it turns out she's still the adorable dork, after all that's happened to her. Just a dork with a gun.

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• find a loving spouse and have children
  
• maintain a consistent and good job
  
• try not to die in the mobile suit dogfights
• visit home one day
  

Initially, she was supposed to be the average shojo protagonist.

Wake up late. Run to school with toast in mouth. Potentially bump into a charming and perfect male student, or perhaps meet her childhood male friend along the way. She even had her own little pink phone with the cute bear keychain.

And then there were sirens, blaring sirens, and there were people in the streets rushing to the nearest building. She was too far away, she didn't know what to do. The sky became dark; giant mobile suits started flying in. From the other side of the sky, more mobile suits flew in, and there was a fight.

There were lasers, and there was panic, and there was fire. She remembered smelling copper, and smoke, and dust. She remembered looking around, seeing so many mobile suits just closing in on her, and crying. Then there was gunfire, and a dying scream, and she looked up, and there was this black mobile suit with blood coming out of the cockpit.

She remembers seeing those mobile suits coming in, and climbing up the black mobile suit for her life. She remembers a dead middle-aged man in uniform, and throwing his body out of the cockpit, and finding the button to close the cockpit, and staying in the cockpit. She remembers muffled explosions, and lasers, and how the cockpit was peppered with turret bullets and she could only pray that she wasn't killed right then and there.

And she remembers waiting. Waiting for so long in darkness. She found out how to turn the lights on, and there was so much blood in the seat. She almost vomited. She remembers worrying; for her parents, for her best friend, for all the people in the school. 'Did cherry blossoms grow with blood?', was one random thought she remembered having. She remembers falling asleep from exhaustion.

She doesn't like remembering that day.

When she woke up, she was

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