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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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