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One of the newest members of Vident Obscura right after graduation and member of Gold Team, Lieutenant Sarah Marine Aruana is a notable Solas Tempus officer mainly known for the research of ancient artefacts and the derelict ship DSC Starsailer. Currently assigned to Nimbus Station for deep space observation and support. She also graduated for general science and medical assignments if required, not being a temporal specialist.
Personality
In a nutshell
Sarah is Intelligent, caring, eager, energetic, persuasive, kind, brave, resourceful, vigilant and agressive when pissed off.
More details
She is a good willed and enlightened girl with a big sense of curiosity about everything. Insecure and a bit fearful when young, she becomes more confident and brave as she grows up and the responsibility as Voice of Light weighs more and more on her shoulders. She doesn't like it, but gives her best to do what she is expected to do. Oftenly, she demonstrates her wish to have only a normal life like the other dragons and perhaps become an explorer. Just like her sister, Sarah oftenly demonstrates to have a strong motherly instinct over the others even if they are completely strangers for her. This makes her good at dealing with children, to interact with teenagers and blend in with them. But there are also times when she acts as the adult of the situation to try solve conflicts only with words.
It is not rare when Sarah joins a conversation and speaks too much, often about the dragons, science or any matter she knows at least a good portion about what the matter is. If not, she may ask a lot of questions due to her curious way of be. Because of this and the will to know the truth only, she is a terribly bad liar, being easy to tell when she is not saying the truth or hiding something. When the matter is about the dragons, she says she does not speak in name of them, but is easy to know that she will defend in an argument if necessary after some minutes in a conversation with her. Other than that, she has plenty advices to give as a counselor. She also doesn't have the greatness syndrome and hates when someone assumes that from her only because of her origin or her responsibility as Voice of Light.
Although Sarah prefers solve conflicts with her words alone, the time will come when she needs to defend herself or the others. For this matter, Sarah possess the mental and physical strength to overcome hostility, but not emotionally. Sarah believes that the evil is not worthy of mercy and she is capable, even of killing, to ensure "the end of evil". But it is hard for her, as it is for any other normal person.
As consequence of her origin being related to the Ancient Dragons of the Before Time, Sarah have a strong chinese-like behavior. She almost never touches someone, not even for a handshake. She's polite, and know very well how to behave in front of authority, royality, or any other sort of important or famous people.
After some time living on Earth with her friends, Sarah learned to behave more like them and started to not think that much about touching. In a few years, she learned how to live like the humans as if she were one. This does not affect the way she behaved before, however, being only something she got used after some time.
Sarah has a good ear for music, aspiring to be a great musician someday. She likes many musical styles and to play many instruments. Sarah got this taste for music after listening to several songs on Earth. Her favorite genre is Jazz, but enjoys to play a bit of everything. She plays a custom made Ibanez SRAS7 bass with some fretless solos in the middle of the song sometimes. She also plays a regular acoustic guitar for songs that she cannot play with the bass and she can also play drums. Sarah also knows the basics of piano but cannot play any classical songs or anything too hard.
She also likes to write her thoughts, what she learns and her logic involved in a paper notebook along with some drawings of objects, people and places. She has many of those notebooks, one for each adventure or matter of study. She says it is easy for her to learn and/or remember things when she writes or draw it by observation.
Special Skills
- Self Defense Combat Skills
- Sarah knows just enough to defend herself and overcome hostility.
- High Degree of Intelligence
- Sarah likes logic games and conundrums are her favorite. She also knows a little about everything and is a quick learner
- Highly Perceptive
- Sarah often makes notations of what she learns, being very detailed about her subject. Because of this attentive look about the world and her surroundings, Sarah has a trained sight and attention about everything, even if her memory might fail sometimes.
- Prodigy Linguist
- Sarah's native language is not the English, but one which is the root for many languages and dialects on Earth and outside it. She can decipher and speak almost any dialect by simply referring to her native language. It is not perfect, and she may fail sometimes. Because of this, she has a bit different accent for English. The same is not applied to writtings, becoming way slower to learn if those languages use another form of writing other than the regular alphabet and the symbols of her native language.
Special Abilities
- Superhuman Speed, Dexterity and Endurance
- It is not as high as many would think, considering how she did not develop her physical abilities beyond common levels. Good luck to catch her running, though.
- Perfect Pitch
- Sarah can identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. This helps her mainly while playing a musical instrument or singing.
- Empath/Partially Telepath (Mind-meld)
- Just like betazoids, she can sense people and their emotions more intensely than by simple observation. She cannot read people's thoughts without a technique similar to the Vulcan's mind-meld.
- Water Affinity
- As a Water Dragon, Sarah can breathe underwater and is relatively fast swimming. She possess attributes that makes a quick stay underwater easy, having some difficulty for longer stays. She is not an amphibian. She is also slightly more vulnerable to fire and another heat based attacks. Extreme environments will also affect her health more, because of her higher necessity of hydration.
- Detection
- Just like betazoids, she is empathically aware of other people and is relatively capable of locating them only through this.
Early Life
Born during the Eclipse of the Ancient Dragons under the name of Sara Hayashi, Sarah is the adopted daughter of the Matriarch of Dragon of the Seas, Masako Haruyama. She attended to Venthur Academy until the teenage and then have classes at home on her own pace (which was faster than the other teenagers) and finish the equivalent of high school earlier than everyone.
Escaping Death
After finished with her studied, the Matriarch required her to do tasks which conflicted with Sarah's own ethics and morals, resulting in arguings between the two. Later the Matriarch would attempt to murder Sarah out of fear, seeing how she was very persuasive with the other dragons and would want to avoid a possible overthrow. She was spared from death by her own father, Shiro Hayashi, and given time to escape Dragon of the Seas aboard the DSC Starsailer. The starship faced difficulty in escaping, however, as it was being constantly shot by Dragon of the Seas' weapons. When 'Starsailer' finally got some distance, all its systems stopped and the ship was found adrift on the edge of the alpha quadrant in the uncharted space by the USS Legacy.
Rescued by the Federation
Sarah was found unconscious among the dragons of Starsailer in a critical health condition. She and the others were rescued but after hours in 'Legacys sickbay, she was the only one whose vital signs stabilized, with the others dying. It is unknown as to why she was the only one who survived but the medic responsible for her later informally relates how her cells were renewing at a faster pace than observed from the other dragons, very likely because of being this young.
A date with the devil
After one year on Earth for recovery, rehabilitation and also learning the language and culture of Earth, Sara goes by the name of Sarah Marine Aruana, surname and last name of the medic who took care of her. She also finally sets off to travel with the very crew whom rescued her, USS Legacy. Later on, Legacy was assigned to the neutral zone, and Sarah wasn't allowed to remain as passenger onboard until they come back, so she was asked which place she would want to visit while they were out and would be on their course. One of the programmed stops before going to the neutral zone was near the Schatten Star System, the place Sarah requested to make a stop to feed her curiosity about the system.
After proper communication between the captain of the Legacy and Kitara Yasei, the commanding officer of Nimbus Station, Sarah got clearance to visit the station. This is where she met the Admiral Lance Thomas at the Finnegan's Tavern during the Night, with only the two at the tavern. See Sarah & Lance PSL
Overshadowed
After informally told about Vident Obscura, Sarah got interested in the artefact hunting area and later applied for Solas Tempus Academy. She completed the cadet course in the science and research division and was assigned to many outposts throughout the last years, the last one being Nimbus Station to actively work as an officer for Vident Obscura.