medpacksapunch | Question meme?

NOT MUCH AT ALL, Jaina would love the work and feeling useful. She'd probably just ask that Sakura and/or her team handle any questing for parts because that part's a pain.

So how is amnesiac Sakura different from normal?

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The biggest difference is that in canon so much of Sakura's motivations are centered around Naruto and Sasuke. They are what drive her forward and who makes her strive to be better, stronger, faster. Without her memories, she has to find other things to be motivated by.

Jaina's most motivating memory?

When Jaina was about 18 years old, she was officially recognized as a Jedi Knight -- and at the same time Uncle Luke Skywalker has a Force vision and names her Sword of the Jedi, informing her it's her destiny to basically be a living weapon and spend her life fighting and generally taking the brunt of things so others don't have to.

It's probably the single most driving event in her life -- two decades pass and she's still obsessing over how to live up to the responsibility.

With Naruto's inconsistent tech levels, how do you figure Sakura'll take Aather's tech level?

Haha, on a meta level I feel like it's similar? Kishimoto has said he adds technology that he wants when he feels like it's convenient and keeps out what wouldn't make any sense (like guns. Guns render ninjaing kind of pointless, like that scene in Indiana Jones |D) and aather is kind of similar -- we have technology but not a lot of it or anything too handy.

So basically there will be a few things she'll notice missing (TV?) and things she'll recognize (Peridot has radio communicators, right?); I think mostly I'll just have to pick and choose what she recognizes. (not tech, but earlier I made a judgement call to have her know what a vampire is, because they know what zombies are...)

Castmate that would make things Interesting for Jaina?

The most Interesting would be getting wundertwin Jacen back. Jaina and Jacen have the most wonderful twin antics and I've always enjoyed playing them together. And it would be hilariously awkward because now Jaina remembers everyone -- parents included -- wanting him dead and herself telling them "yeah, and I should be the one to do it."

I would also consider any Young Jedi Knight or Solo-Skywalker family member amazing. Alternatively, Yoda would be the most special crack.

Same for Sakura?

I think Ino would be interesting, especially if sakura got her early-childhood memories of her back! But I also have a huge soft spot for Sasori, and her fight with him did so much to shape her as a fighter; I think it would be interesting to make them interact with very few memories between them, and to see what happens when they do remember 8')

#Useful Item (that she can't quest for or build) that Jaina misses most?

X-Wing! Jaina wants her starfighter back so much. She remembers begging her parents for a ship for her birthday, deciding to fix a 20-year-old crashed starfighter in secret so she could have one, the pride as she took off on her first mission as an official Rogue Squadron member, using live-fire flight training as a way to cope with stress...just fffffff wants to fly like that again so badly, but she'll never get to in Aather. Plus all the extra hours of fun performing maintenance she could have!

WE SHOULD THREAD that's not really a question though, uh. How much do you figure Sakura is actually interested in medicine, compared to she figured it was a way she could be useful?

WE SHOULD THREAD YES ;3;

I think she's probably fairly interested in it. It looks like that a lot of female ninjas get trained in healing, and Sakura was definitely motivated by wanting to be useful to her boys, but the level of skill she eventually ends up with sort of implies that she had to be interested -- she knows a lot about how the human body works, and also about medicinal herbs and where to find them/how to best use them-- it seems like she is at least passingly interested in that, or at least has enough interest to excel |D

I don't even know -- does Jaina ever face any 'you silly girl what are you doing being a mechanic" in her canon, or do people just accept that?

Hee, I'm glad you asked that, because it is a topic near and dear to my heart.

Jaina flips goofy stereotypical gender roles with her twin. Jaina's the one who likes playing with power tools and drools over vehicle engines. Jacen's the one who's all into emotion, and likes to hare off and play Disney princess with all the wildlife, and Jaina gets stuck cleaning up after him. When she's in her teenage years she tries the "pull hair and bully" method of demonstrating she has a crush on a boy.

Jaina's just too much of a tomboy for anyone in canon to be surprised at her doing things that we might traditionally expect a man to do. To the point that instead, Jaina shocks more people when she puts on a dress and tries to act girly than she does wearing a jumpsuit and getting engine grease on her face.

I understand there's something of a love triangle with Sakura pining after Sasuke, Naruto pining after Sakura and Sasuke just ignoring them both. Shipping opinions/predictions for the future? :3

Sort of hilariously, Naruto has better chances here-- Sakura lacks any of her Naruto-was-such-a-pain memories that made her not like him when they were young, and she likewise lacks any of the we've-been-on-a-team-forever family-like memories of him either. All she knows is he's friendly and fairly attractive and that's pretty nice!

I'm not sure how things will go with Sasuke, honestly; it will depend on how he treats her now, more than anything. Since being hopelessly in love with someone and just remembering that you are/were are two really different things.

Sakura is currently all about Learning Things to be Useful -- does Jaina have anything particular teachable skills?

She learned some gardening early on to try being useful herself. She's also regained her engineering and swordsmanship skills. Aside from being something she really enjoys, I think engineering is one of the skills we see crop up less frequently in aather, whereas most characters have fighting skill regains of one sort or another.

How did you decide to app Sakura?

Hmm, well, I'm not really sure. I certainly like Sakura a lot, but she's def not my favorite character. I think part of it was that I did really want to explore what she'd be like, outside of a canon that ignores her half the time despite her being one of the three major characters. >_>a

The other is that I tend to do surprisingly well with characters who I like but who aren't necessarily my 'type'; I end up having to pay super close attention initially and put a lot of thought into how they speak and what drives them... Which usually is really fun and ends up with my being super invested.

Same for Jaina?

Jaina's one of my favorite Star Wars characters. In the past I've played her in her happy-carefree-teenager stages, and have just always wanted to properly play her with her twin. So when I started poking around and looking at Aather I saw that Aather had a Jacen! ...And it was adult Jacen! Normally I hesitate about the idea of playing with Jaina as an adult because after the end of Young Jedi Knights, canon is extremely rough on the Solo family. Jaina becomes a teen soldier with PTSD, Chewbacca and little bro Anakin die before she's 18, Jaina kills her own twin because he's gone to the dark side...over the years she's become driven to be an unemotional weapon, and the people around her are always worrying that she's trying to harden and push herself so much that she'll break. The authors say that it's a job for her just to keep herself going.

And it occurred to me that an amnesia game would be a really fun way to explore that progression, because Jaina is one of the characters that we literally see develop from birth to where she is now. In canon, when war removes her from her tight-knit circle of friends and her comrades are dying left and right she decides she has to push everyone away so their deaths won't hurt her and so her inevitable death won't hurt them -- that's the start of her slide into the strained, stressed and brittle adult that we end up with. How cool would it be to see how adult Jaina would change, having these memories come back to her with a team to support her? Would she stay the friendlier, less emotionally-armored tomboy she used to be? How would amnesia and memory regains alter how the Jaina versus Jacen thing played out? There was no question, I had to app her and see what would happen.

Then she was placed on a team that holds each other at arm's length -- and in fact ended up with a teammate putting a knife to her throat -- so she's stressed and closing off anyway, but oh well. XD

Are there others you'd be interested in apping?

Like I said to Raven above, I would kind of like to app Suigetsu, also from Naruto, because he is an adorable, sharp-toothed battle hungry brat whose body is more made of water than usual, and I think that would be fun.

But then I talk myself out of that idea because HEY I COULD APP FROM A DIFFERENT CANON and also because he is ALSO on a team with Sasuke and I don't need to play all of the Sasuke CR.

My other idea is one of the two twins from Night Circus -- he can read people's histories on their bodies and she can read their future in the stars, and together they train kittens to mimic what their parents do with lions. I think either of these could be fun.

So I have been imagining all the things Jaina could build with gemstones at her disposal.Lenses. Harder...cutting implements. IN AN IDEAL SITUATION WHAT WOULD SHE MAKE?

LAAAAAAASERS she already remembers how to make a lightsaber with gemstones and a focusing lens, so :3

Alternative pipe dream ideal situation answer: Jaina introduces solar power to Aather.

So now that we've had that thread, does Sakura have a first impression? |D

Sakura thinks she is kind of intimidating! But obviously very cool in a grown-up kind of way. She seems very no-nonsense. Or at least, no-nonsense that I'm not in on ;)

Same? :3

Sakura seems like a good kid! Slight stumbling block for Jaina is dresses as a conversation piece for Jaina is basically "just keep it off me." Privately she...does think it was kind of garish...BUT Sakura's obviously friendly and wants to be able to help people, which is always good. Would gladly talk to again.

Also if it helps with the intimidation factor, Sakura's taller than Jaina. She inherited her mom's shortness genes and just stopped growing at about 4'9. XD

When the time comes, how will the powercap affect Sakura?

Sakura will haaaaaaaaaaate the powercap. All of her skills are based off very tight control of her chakra, so it's not like she... wouldn't have the self control to be able to make sure she doesn't push the powercap

...but it's going to be things like "don't punch as hard as you know you can" or "don't heal as well as you should", and neither are going to be satisfying, and easy to forget to monitor in THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT

she going to end up with a lot of headaches and other such things, when faced with trauma, I imagine >->;

What does Jaina think of the Personae/Hero dynamic?

She haaaates it. And if all those extra A's comes across as melodramatic, that's probably the right sense. Jaina's complaints with the Personae break down to:

-Smokescreens. The Personae tend to be vague, evasive and generally a poor source of information.
-Powercap/skill blocking. Jaina and Jacen both tend to get very pissy when someone interferes with their connection to the Force; in Jaina's case, when her Force abilities are suppressed, she parses it as being smothered with a wet blanket.
-Personae and Heroes are not peers, regardless of the fact that things are framed as the Heroes being brought to help them save a world. Which leads to...
-The Personae take who they want away without warning. Particularly, they took away Jacen, which with their twinbond Jaina parsed as losing a part of herself, and they took Mal, who was a big emotional support for Jaina.

Speaking of, what's Sakura's point of view on the situation she finds herself in?

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