zodion app

May 07, 2009 10:33

✖ PLAYER:
Name & LJ: Jamie @ lj username sleevetug
Birthdate & Age: March 15th, 20.
Characters played in Zodion: None.

✖ CHARACTER:
Name: Sakura Matou
Canon: Fate/Stay Night, it's worth mentioning that this canon is fan translated. The chance of an official translation is zero to none.
Info: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Matou_Sakura
PB/Image: http://i.imgur.com/Y5AFp.jpg I used fanart but it's canon to her appearance
Canon Point: Post Heaven's Feel, Pre-Good End Epilogue. She will be taken three months after the Heaven's Feel route. Currently, according to the Epilogue, Sakura and her sister Rin are looking for a suitable body for Shirou's soul.
Gender: Sakura is female both physically and mentally.
Age: Sakura is 16 during the canon events. However, with her birthday being a month after the holy grail war, she will be 17 from the canon point I will be taking her from. Due to the nature of her canon I do not feel the need to age her up.
Birthdate/Sign: March 2nd, Pisces. This is Sakura's canon birthdate.
Tattoo: Sakura's tattoo is an inch wide and is placed on her left hip bone.
Suitability: As I stated in the age section, Sakura is from an h-game. Canonly she is able to handle having sexual intercourse with Shirou Emiya not once, but several times. With that in mind I do not see how she would be unable to cope with sexual encounters regularly in a game since she already does so within the context of her canon.

Power:

Personality: Sakura is a pretty cold and stoic person when the series starts out. She is incredibly gloomy, and for a long time was unable to smile around anyone but Shirou. This is disguised by the fact that Sakura Matou is in love with Shirou, the protagonist and narrator. It's a perfect example of the unreliable narrator; Sakura can only smile around Shirou so the narrator is only able to describe Sakura as a happy and caring person. That isn't a completely false description of Sakura. She still is very sweet, caring, and loving as shown through her interactions with Shirou. Her selfless nature is shown when Sakura goes over to Shirou's house everyday to cook and clean for him. It's not as if Shirou is handicapped; he is able bodied and a better cook than Sakura is. But after Shirou's father died Sakura insisted on coming over to either prepare breakfast and dinner on her own or to help Shirou cook the meals as well as helping with the cleaning and other household chores.

it isn't wrong to say that the kind and selfless part of Sakura isn't part of the true Sakura. However it isn't until after the Heaven's Feel route that Sakura is able to make this her complete self. Before she can be completely good, Sakura has a dark side that she had to deal with. Sakura was adopted from the Tohsaka family into the Matou family and suffered abuse from her adoptive family for eleven years. Growing up, she always hoped that her sister would come to save her, but she never did. She grows up to feel hate and distain for people around her (Rin, Shinji, Zouken, and her True Father, Tokiomi) and often considers suicide. Her only salvation is Shirou, who she believes is the only person that truly cares about her. But during Heaven's Feel she throws Shirou's love away, convincing herself that she would be better off dead and that she is an inconvenience to Shirou Emiya.

When this happens Sakura runs to her grandfather to end her life, she ends up killing her brother. Sakura then turns into Dark Sakura, who, by all means, is Sakura's personality when she is addicted to violence and has finally indulged in the dark side of her personality. However, when she is confronted by her sister, Rin, who admits she always has loved her. I believe that this is the trigger that destroys Sakura's dark side since it was brought on by thinking that no one loved her. Once she realizes that she always had people that loved her (Shirou and Rin) and just failed to notice Sakura is finally able to conquer her dark side and live a happy life.

After Heaven's Feel Sakura admits that she is regretful of her actions but she knows that living in regret would be like running away. So instead she chooses to live on and face her guilt and torment face on. Eventually, she does find happiness, and she becomes more confident and gains self esteem. At this point Sakura is able to show her caring side (as described above) to everyone instead of just Shirou.

✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:
"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry: (200 word min)
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