Sarah

BASIC INFORMATION

Sarah

Species: Quoll

Sex: Female

Gender Identity: Female

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Pronouns: She/her

Languages Spoken:

-Ginlong (1st Native language, although she loses most of her ability with it as she ages and only remembers a handful of words and phrases into adulthood)

-Atlantean Basic with strong Ginlong Influence (2nd Native language, although this becomes more like Standard Galactic Basic as she ages due to her friend group)

-Aurean (Fluent)

-Iteru (Fluent)

-Squidian (Somewhat conversational)

Eye color: Brown

Hair/Fur Color: Black with white spots

Skin Tone: Very dark

Birth date: January 7th, 5 BR (Current age is 62, is 26 at the end of the series)

Death date: Still alive at the beginning of Insane Zane

Birthplace: Village near Kyabana, Yiri, Atlantea

Place of death: n/a

Burial place: n/a

Titles:

-Experiment #S4-R4H

-Knight of the Square Table (1 BR-present)

-Lady of the Falling Skies (1 AR-present)

-Honorary Iotannar (2 AR-present)

-Queen of Aurea (briefly before refusing the crown and letting Theodora become Queen)

-Chieftess of Yiri (52 AR-present)

Residences:

-Village near Kyabana, Yiri, Atlantea (5-1 BR)

-The Lawbot's Lab, Yiri, Atlantea (1 BR)

-Castle Arturia, Caerbannog, Arturia (1 BR)

-Villa on Cythousa Key, Argentolia, Aurea (1 BR-2 AR, 21-52 AR)

-Basilikos Palace, Astras, Aurea (1 BR-2 AR, 21-52 AR)

-Taftenkhamun's Apartment, Ishga (2-21 AR)

-Jubenar, Yiri, Atlantea (52 AR-present)

Affiliations/Loyalties:

-Chiefdom of Yiri

-Knights of the Square Table

-Kingdom of Arturia

-Kingdom of Aurea

-Aurean Alliance

-Galactic Treaty Union

-Republic of Atlantea

Family:

-Unnamed parents (Biological parents)

-Yangarra (Pet)

-The Lawbot (Temporary adoptive mother)

-Tate (Genetic source material)

-Weasel (Adoptive father)

-King Arturius (Double-adoptive grandfather)

-Boudicca (Adoptive grandmother)

-Aoife (Adoptive mother)

-Taftenkhamun (De facto 2nd adoptive father)

-Honorius (Stepbrother)

-Theodora (Stepsister)

-Harrison (Husband)

-Woobanyan (Daughter)

-Zed (Son)

-Pingar (Son)

Mentors:

-Weasel

-King Arturius

-Boudicca

-Taftenkhamun

10 Closest Friends:

-Taftenkhamun (He's basically another father to her)

-Michael

-Noah

-Julius Arius III (They briefly dated)

-Pompeia

-Maxwell

-Rohit

-Mahlea Lokhlaha

-Neza

-Ryan

Students:

-Honorius

-Theodora

-Harrison

-Woobanyan

-Zed

-Pingar

Enemies:

-Setzer's Robots

-The Cabal

-Tatian Empire

-UNISYN

-Mongoose Empire

BIOGRAPHY

    Sarah is a Quoll born on Atlantea 5 years before Book 1. Known by a Ginlong birth name she was tortured by the Lawbot into forgetting in favor of the name "Experiment S4-R4H", she was born and raised in a village somewhere in the Mullaring Desert on Yiri Island. Her life was relatively normal until at age 3, when she was playing outside and found an abandoned Quinkana nest in the dirt. There was only a single egg left, and Sarah decided to pick it up and take it home for her mother to cook it for breakfast. However, the egg started to hatch just when she was about to boil it. Out came a baby Quinkana, born right in their hut.

    Sarah's mother urged her to release it back into the wild, but Sarah refused because it was too cute. However, Sarah gave in and was about to take the creature home when her mother noticed that the reptile was closely following Sarah without command and was already cozying up to her. She said that the Quinkana had already imprinted on her and could not survive in the wild, so Sarah and her family were going to have to raise it on their own. Sarah's father named the Quinkana "Yangarra", meaning "from the Earth".

    However, things took a turn for the worse a year later when Sarah was 4 years old and playing outside with Yangarra. The Lawbot, one of the robots built by the evil Dr Setzer, was sent to "The Surface" (Atlantea's underwater civilizations' term for dry land) to do research on the civilizations inhabiting it, and was instructed to kidnap a young child from every civilization she encountered for research purposes. The Lawbot found and kidnapped Sarah and Yangarra after killing Sarah's parents and burning down their hut to make it look like they died in a cooking fire.

    As Sarah was not there when her house was attacked, the Lawbot lied to her and explained that she was a bot sent by Yiri Island's child protective services to pick her up after her parents died in a cooking fire. As a result, Sarah blamed herself for the death of her parents, claiming she could have done something if she was there. One of the first thing the Lawbot had Sarah do was make traditional Yiri weapons, such as the nulla nulla club, Yiri spear, woomera spear thrower, boomerang, and wooden shield. While Sarah had no experience with making the weapons herself, she had seen her father repairing hunting weapons and was able to replicate them pretty well from memory.

    Most importantly, at some point during her time with the Lawbot, Sarah was subjected to genetic experimentation on the orders of Dr. Setzer as part of his project to create the ultimate warrior who he would eventually use to overthrow both Tate and the Ishgas and rule the galaxy for himself. Tate's mutant genes responsible for his incredible magical power and villainous personality were inserted into Sarah's genetic profile, but Dr. Setzer mangled some of the genes during the process, resulting in Sarah being unable to access them except during periods of extreme stress, sadness or anger.

    Satisfied, the Lawbot tried to get Sarah to teach her more about Yiri culture, but Sarah was too young to teach her much. Angered and disappointed in her, the Lawbot simply abandoned Sarah and Yangarra one night when she was around 4 and 1/2 in the middle of the Mullaring Desert with only the clothes on her back and the weapons she made, while the Lawbot set out to kidnap an older Yiri. 

PERSONALITY

    At the time of her introduction, Sarah is a confused and traumatized child who suddenly finds herself abandoned in the most dangerous wilderness in the entire galaxy to die. If it weren't for Yangarra to keep her company and give her a reason to keep going in that desert, she probably would have died from dehydration or exposure out there. While generally a friendly and easygoing but somewhat hyper child in her normal state, when she flies into a rage or her life is in danger, she will tap into Tate's mutation bestowed on her by the Lawbot.

In these rage states, her intelligence is heightened drastically, her reflexes are faster than a bullet, she gains access to an immense well of power that allows her to land hits on unfathomably powerful beings, even at a very young age (such as when she was able to damage Tate enough in his 1st form to compel him to transform, all while she was only 6 years old), and most notably, she loses sight of her morals and becomes ruthless and borderline sadistic (such as when she started cursing out Yengwayo and repeatedly blasting fireballs at him, while she was only four years old, to Weasel's shock and slight horror). However, once the danger has passed, she calms down, or she tires herself out, Sarah reverts to her normal state.

While her rage states get her out of a lot of trouble, Sarah is still a scared child prone to fear. For example, when Sarah was being chased through the jungle by a hungry megalania, she thought she was about to die until her rage state kicked in and she was able to scare it off by blasting it with lightning.

While she hides this under her cheerful and easy-going demeanor, she feels extremely guilty for her parents' death, which she blames herself for due to the Lawbot's misinformation. Even as a child, she often finds herself waking up in a cold sweat remembering the smoldering ruins of her humpy and her parents' charred corpses. As she grew up, she eventually deduced that the Lawbot had lied to her about her parents' demise and had killed them herself.

Sarah, while cheerful to the point where she frequently annoys people, has a blunt side to her that often results in her stating the obvious, even if it's insulting to some people. She also is very friendly to animals, especially her pet Yangarra, whom she has forged an essentially inseparable bond with. Killing animals is something that very visibly bothers her, shown most notably when she was starving out in Yiri's outback and she tried to feed herself solely on wild plants and what she could scavenge from already-dead animals. Only when she ran out of these and had no other options but death did she kill and eat a small bunyip, the traumatic experience of which gave her nightmares for years. This love for animals is also what prompted Sarah to adopt Alinta as a joey, as leaving Alinta in her dead mother's pouch would have surely meant her death.

While Sarah is well-known for fearlessly and ruthlessly taking on absurdly powerful opponents in her rage states, she is averse to fighting in her normal state, and sometimes has been known to run scared from powerful opponents, such as Yengwayo before he enraged her by injuring Weasel. As a result, Sarah in her early years does not do well in single combat.

Other than her two parents, the first major relationship she forms is with the Lawbot, one of Dr. Setzer's elite robots and indirectly a servant of Tate. While the Lawbot gave her food, water, and a place to live, she was always cold and emotionally unavailable. She subjected Sarah to painful genetic experimentation, injecting her with a serum infused with Tate's genetic material that gave Sarah similar mutations. As a result, Sarah had her superpowers, but also a severe case of aichmophobia that persists even into her adult life. As a result of this aichmophobia, Sarah never fights with a sword or knife, instead using a boomerang, a club, or magic. As a result, she was terrified of the Sword of Calesvol in her early years and had constant nightmares of having to one day wield it. As her time with the Lawbot went on, the Lawbot subjected Sarah to progressively more extreme and more abusive training to try to bring out the superpowers she was supposed to get from the injections. When the Lawbot realized that the only way to get Sarah to tap into her powers was to torture her, she gave up and abandoned her out in the desert to die. As Sarah grew up and began to fully understand and piece together the extent of the Lawbot's abusive behavior, she developed a vengeful vendetta against the artificial lifeform, although not nearly as pervasive as Taftenkhamun's revenge quest against Tate.

When Sarah met Weasel, the two developed a strong bond almost instantly and Weasel basically adopted Sarah as his child. The two very much enjoyed spending time together, however, things started to fray when Weasel had to spend more and more time away from her to prepare for his fight with Yengwayo. This resulted in Sarah stowing away on Weasel's ship when he went to Planet Squid to confront Yengwayo, putting Sarah in incredible danger. When Weasel sacrificed himself to block an attack from Yengwayo that was meant for her, Sarah blamed herself for causing his death by stowing away on the trip, something she struggled to forgive herself for for the rest of her life. When Weasel transferred the Shadow Spirit to her on his death, Sarah was taken aback by the decision, as she was only four years old at the time and completely unready for that responsibility. While she would eventually grow into it as she matured, for much of Sarah's childhood, the thought that she would one day have to save the galaxy stressed her out immeasurably, was the source of many nightmares, and was something she on some level saw as a punishment for stowing away with Weasel to battle Yengwayo.

King Arturius and Boudicca were great mentors who taught Sarah a great deal about controlling her magical power and helped her harness more of it without going into a rage state, though their relationship was never particularly strong due to Sarah spending much of her childhood on Aurea, far away from them.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Sarah, four years old at the beginning of Book 1, is an anthropomorphic eastern quoll, standing at around three feet and one inch tall. Like others of her species, she has big, monochromatic black eyes, a pink snout, a long prehensile tail, and black fur with white spots covering her head, back, tail, and arms down to each elbow. While her hands and feet are both largely humanoid, her fingernails and toenails are longer, sharper, and more clawlike than those of a human. However, apart from her quoll-like head, fur, nails, and tail, the rest of her body is essentially indistinguishable from that of a human. As seen on the parts of her body not covered by fur, her skin is essentially indistinguishable from that of a human as well, and is a dark shade of ebony. 

When she was first found in the wilderness of Yiri, Sarah wore a combination of the shredded rags she was abandoned in and some animal skins she was able to scrape together into an outfit. Once she was taken to Arturia, these were swapped out for a child-sized dress, and when she was brought by Pompeia to Aurea, that was in turn swapped out for a long tunic.