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yogen wants to hear ur cr
pictured: you, talking about what ur character thinks of someone else
step 1: post with your characters
step 2: respond to others with the characters you have CR with (or not, i aint gonna stop you)
step 3: get all the details on how their characters feel about yours!
step 4: return da favor?
i havent made one of these in a while it ok
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Sara is so interesting because if you look at the way that the game is set up, as well as other hints, it seems that ASUNARO has three characters that were sent up to be a heir in some sense of the word: Midori, Ranger, and Sara; however, by their own actions the company ruined all three. Ranger was a failed project due to Gashu's meddling, Midori was killed by Alice (and while there's an argument to be had here about his hubris, there's no way he could have gotten as far as he did without ASUNARO's blessing,) and Sara proves to be dramatically different than expected due to their efforts at balancing. In that sense, it can be said that all three are failed projects by the company's standards and are connected by that thread of being doomed from the start due to the way that their lives were set up. But it doesn't seem that any of them make that connection.
With all that said, Sara and Komaeda are the first two people who realy reached out to Ranger and for that reason alone she's special to him in a way that can't be replicated. There are others who can get close to him and move up on the priority list, but hers is fixed in place and won't budge regardless of how much she changes. He was resentful and begrudging at the offset, and to a point he still resents the fact that she was given all the care and attention that he lacked, but I think over time he's come to see her for what and who she is and been able to make the connection between the two of them accordingly. They're just two people who were doomed from the start.
There's that, and the fact that she mentioned "reviving" him via using his chip, and he's very soft on her and cares about her a lot. It's really all pieced together to create a unique connection that he doesn't have with anyone else, where they don't necessarily have to agree or understand each other on all fronts for him to have this genuine kind of care for her. Sara is one of the reasons he took it seriously when Satou mentioned finding a way for people to go back to their worlds and revive. I don't think Ranger wants to go back, but I do believe that he wants her to be able to find and live the kind of life that she wants. They're cousins but he also has a little bit of dad energy with her, and I think it's so funny how him and Komaeda have wound up wanting to take care of her. But he really sees her for what she is and wants her to have better.
It's also a little funny because she does break his priority system in a couple of different ways. Ranger values people in the same way that the company doers, and so it's based on a person's merits rather than emotional sentiment. His list tends to wind up being Komaeda > ASUNARO > Sara/Shin > everyone else, with the latter being fluid and changing depending on the situation. But this is in terms of having to choose whether to keep Mr. Blue or Ms. Red, but if he wants to have his cake and eat it too and that means keeping her a long with them.
But it also means that he's willing to push back on the first two for her in a way he doesn't tend to for others. Part of that is just that Ranger is as God made him, but it's also that he tends to hold anyone on that upper tier to his own standards. He can carry a lot, and he can work through things, and this and that, so even if he logically understands how frail people are it's still difficult for him to factor it in and it's easy to let them dangle because he'll believe that they can handle themselves. It's really just that his standards are too high lmao, but either way, Sara managed to cut through that in a way that's hard to do so now he sees her as more or less what she is - a vulnerable teenager, and if that's hard for him to compartmentalize he's at least realized that she can't be pushed too far or she'll crumble. It came up with Komaeda before where he warned him not to push her too far, and I'm sure he'll get hissy with Midori too.
Anyway, I just think a lot about how she tipped the first domino in his character development and really is the reason he's the way that he is now. That's so wild.
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and the point about them three being doomed asunaro heirs is interesting...waiting for nankidai to update so sara can realize who her dad is................. i totally believe gashu and meister were out drinking and bragging about how cool their kids are and then ruined them both! uggh its killer how they were both used for this sucession plan, even if they both had different roles.