Player Name: Cheska E-mail: paperlights at gmail dot com Preferred Contact:recipeh Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Sasha Braus Series: Attack on Titan Timeline: Chapter 36, "I'm Home" Canon Resource Links:Her wiki link. By the way, I will be using the Funimation spelling of her last name for personal preferences. I hope that isn't a problem.
Personality:
Sasha is a friendly girl, but for what it's worth, she may not be one of the brightest crayons in the box. She is the resident space cadet who usually misses the point that is obvious to everyone else. Whether this is because she is slow on the uptake or because she was raised away in isolation and lacks normal social skills, no one knows, but it's Sasha and that's how you get her. She's rather easy to take advantage of as proven by Ymir carrying her to bed after she was ordered to run until she died and Ymir playing Sasha's gratefulness into getting Sasha to do all Ymir's chores for her. She doesn't argue or fight about it; she just apologizes and does whatever Ymir tells her to do because of the small favor Ymir did (reluctantly and only so Sasha will owe her for it in the future.)
Sasha also makes for an easy scapegoat. When Jean and Eren begin arguing in the mess hall, Shadis comes in demanding what all the ruckus is about. Mikasa, in order to save Eren's hide, tells him that it was the sound of Sasha ripping a giant fart. Shadis doesn't even question the absurdity of it. He reprimands Sasha for doing it again, as if this is a common theme with her (and let's be real, it probably is), and tells her to learn some modesty. For someone as stoic like Mikasa to push Sasha into the limelight to save somebody else's neck, it goes to show that Sasha practically has a "kick me" sign on her back.
Still, while treated mostly as a comedy relief, Sasha is her own person who comes with her own very serious issues. She has a brave streak that shows the most when at the tender age of twelve, she leaves home to join the military, which in all truth, considering the high rate of death via Titan lunch, is a fool's errand. The event that triggers this is an argument with her father about their current lives and how surviving the way their clan has for what might be centuries is no longer a workable option. Sasha is bitter because while her father talks about raising horses for the government in exchange for money instead of hunting for food like they have been for so long, this means they will be working with people who consider Dauper the dregs of society and nothing more than just morons among the trees. While there is truth in this, the major cause of her bitterness is that Sasha is scared of outsiders and her father calls her out on this fear, telling her she cannot live a life without ever asking another human for help regardless of where they are from. Calling her a coward spurs her into running away from home to prove that she isn't a coward, not to mention that her father tells her not to return home until she's become a decent person. One could say her father just sent his only child off to her death to each her a life lesson, but Sasha sees it as an opportunity to prove a point. She may be a Dauper resident, but she isn't stupid and she is not a coward.
In addition, Dauper is rather far away from other towns and they have their own dialect and way of speaking. Sasha is ashamed of the way she naturally sounds compared to everybody else (think backwoods hick surrounded by them sophisticated there city folks), so when she joins the military, she begins speaking extremely formally, hoping this will change the way that people outside her hometown look down on her kind of people. That's to be expected when she's conversing with her superiors, but she does this even to her fellow peers and it's enough to irritate Ymir who calls Sasha out on it. When Ymir goes on to ream her about the real reasons why she joined the military, she's embarrassed about not knowing much of anything outside of what she was raised around, and even though another cadet, Krista, tells Sasha that it's okay to speak as she feels when she feels, Sasha acquiesces to Ymir's demands and promises to speak more casually to people, even though it'll be a hard habit to break. In time, she gets there. After all, she ends up spending years around these people. There's only so much formality they'll take.
While she may have her head in the clouds half the time, Sasha is well-versed in knowing when to use her former life to her advantage in the battlefield. She may not have the brains or the brawn, but she has instinct and boy, does she know how to follow her gut. She is one who keeps Mikasa from running head first into the hot mess of the Female Titan setting them up because she gets the feeling that when a creature screams the way the Female Titan does it means it's cornered and has nothing left to lose. This saves Mikasa's hide as soon enough a mass of Titans pour into the area in response to the call. She also thinks pretty quickly on her feet to save a fellow recruit from falling off the wall and when the situation boils down to it, she finds some semblance of courage inside herself even while she's pissing her pants in fear, as seen when she takes down a Titan on her own with nothing but a bow and an arrow. She could have given up like the rest of the cadets did when the headquarters were taken over by Titans and they were left with little to no fuel in the middle of the field, but she was the first one cheering them on, encouraging them to keep on fighting and not to be wimps and cowards at a time like this. She continues doing this, with even more fervor, once Mikasa joins in with her own encouragement speech and feeds off off Mikasa's harsh words with some of her own.
And then there's her eating. Most times, this is played off as a joke, haha look it's Sasha the big eater stealing food again. But behind her eccentric and greedy behavior is a very valid reason: she's been without food for so long and for so often she's developed a raging case of food insecurity. Any opportunity to grab food and hoard it is a good one, even if it's her own food, because who knows when she'll get to eat again, especially when food is already limited even for the soldiers, with most of the meat going to the big wigs and the upper classes in a place where something as simple as black tea is considered a luxury item. Her obsession with food is so bad that during an arrangement to trade two of her comrades with one of the deals being in reference to having access to all of the good food first, Sasha forgets that they're not only talking about humans here, but her teammates, and zeros in on the chance to be near delicious things, getting far too excited to be sane. It's really that sad.
As the story goes on, Sasha isn't featured as much as the rest of the crew, usually relegated to the sidelines with her best bud Connie, up to the point where she gets gravely injured and sits out for a while recovering. She, however, is shown to seemingly have gotten over most of her hesitation to fight for her and everybody else's life and to straight up kill a human being, becoming on occasion, what seems to be the squad sniper with her bow. Oh, don't be mistaken, she is still very much the class clown, still the comedy relief, especially when left to her own devices with Connie, still fearful and hesitant about things such as having to face the reality that some of her friends may not be her true friends at all, but she also is now battle hardened, a little more matured, and gets serious when she needs to. After all, she didn't make the top ten of the graduating class for nothing. There's something in Sasha that does well. It just needs the right conditions to come out and play.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Deerling Password: Atomic Fireball
They told her not to go into the tall grass, but she's been going into the tall grass all her life. You can't stop a hunter from going into the grass! That's where all the good prey is!
Or the good Pokemon, for that matter. If she's going to make it in this world, she's going to need something that's useful, like a horse or even a bear. Sure, she can't ride a bear, but who'd bother a girl traveling with a giant bear? No one, that's who.
After picking a nice spot to watch her prey from clump of thick bushes for an hour or two, Sasha's finally sneaking up on a nice decent level Pidgey, wanting one she can at least fly on later, if not get a bunch of eggs from. Suddenly, though, the flock flutters and scatters off because there's a sound that scares them off. Sasha hears it too and she knows good and well what it it is, even if it's a long minute before the perpetrator shows it's cold wet nose up on the scene. All of this doesn't stop Sasha from recognizing a lost cause, though.
"Oh my gods!" Sasha groans, faltering forward onto her knees in defeat, head hanging low. This is the third time that this has happened today. The third time. She's been nice for too long. All day she's been trying to shake this wild Deerling off her tail, even climbing up high hills, crossing ponds on foot, and still it just would not leave her. Something has got to give. A trainer cannot be a trainer if they can't ever catch a Pokemon. "Could you please stop following me?"
The Deerling makes a little noise, but it's a mystery if it's a sound of disappointment or a complete no Pokemon-style. Whatever it is, the Pokemon creeps closer to Sasha and noses at her arm. Come on, Human. Accept it! Train it! Be the very best like no one ever was!
"I said please stop following me. I don't know what you are..." A deer with a funny hat? A deer with a funny hat that can say its name? "...Or what you want, but please stop following me. I don't have any food to give you. I ate it all."
Little Deerling does nothing of the sort except stomp its foot in the dirt. Well, this must be an adamant nature one. Just her luck. She's going to call it Jean.
"Okay, fine, but when I turn you into dinner, don't say I didn't warn you."
With Sasha, that's an actual threat. Someone, anybody, please come save this poor Deerling from being turned into a spicy stew.
Sasha Braus | Attack on Titan | Not Reserved
Name: Cheska
E-mail: paperlights at gmail dot com
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Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name: Sasha Braus
Series: Attack on Titan
Timeline: Chapter 36, "I'm Home"
Canon Resource Links: Her wiki link. By the way, I will be using the Funimation spelling of her last name for personal preferences. I hope that isn't a problem.
Personality:
Sasha is a friendly girl, but for what it's worth, she may not be one of the brightest crayons in the box. She is the resident space cadet who usually misses the point that is obvious to everyone else. Whether this is because she is slow on the uptake or because she was raised away in isolation and lacks normal social skills, no one knows, but it's Sasha and that's how you get her. She's rather easy to take advantage of as proven by Ymir carrying her to bed after she was ordered to run until she died and Ymir playing Sasha's gratefulness into getting Sasha to do all Ymir's chores for her. She doesn't argue or fight about it; she just apologizes and does whatever Ymir tells her to do because of the small favor Ymir did (reluctantly and only so Sasha will owe her for it in the future.)
Sasha also makes for an easy scapegoat. When Jean and Eren begin arguing in the mess hall, Shadis comes in demanding what all the ruckus is about. Mikasa, in order to save Eren's hide, tells him that it was the sound of Sasha ripping a giant fart. Shadis doesn't even question the absurdity of it. He reprimands Sasha for doing it again, as if this is a common theme with her (and let's be real, it probably is), and tells her to learn some modesty. For someone as stoic like Mikasa to push Sasha into the limelight to save somebody else's neck, it goes to show that Sasha practically has a "kick me" sign on her back.
Still, while treated mostly as a comedy relief, Sasha is her own person who comes with her own very serious issues. She has a brave streak that shows the most when at the tender age of twelve, she leaves home to join the military, which in all truth, considering the high rate of death via Titan lunch, is a fool's errand. The event that triggers this is an argument with her father about their current lives and how surviving the way their clan has for what might be centuries is no longer a workable option. Sasha is bitter because while her father talks about raising horses for the government in exchange for money instead of hunting for food like they have been for so long, this means they will be working with people who consider Dauper the dregs of society and nothing more than just morons among the trees. While there is truth in this, the major cause of her bitterness is that Sasha is scared of outsiders and her father calls her out on this fear, telling her she cannot live a life without ever asking another human for help regardless of where they are from. Calling her a coward spurs her into running away from home to prove that she isn't a coward, not to mention that her father tells her not to return home until she's become a decent person. One could say her father just sent his only child off to her death to each her a life lesson, but Sasha sees it as an opportunity to prove a point. She may be a Dauper resident, but she isn't stupid and she is not a coward.
In addition, Dauper is rather far away from other towns and they have their own dialect and way of speaking. Sasha is ashamed of the way she naturally sounds compared to everybody else (think backwoods hick surrounded by them sophisticated there city folks), so when she joins the military, she begins speaking extremely formally, hoping this will change the way that people outside her hometown look down on her kind of people. That's to be expected when she's conversing with her superiors, but she does this even to her fellow peers and it's enough to irritate Ymir who calls Sasha out on it. When Ymir goes on to ream her about the real reasons why she joined the military, she's embarrassed about not knowing much of anything outside of what she was raised around, and even though another cadet, Krista, tells Sasha that it's okay to speak as she feels when she feels, Sasha acquiesces to Ymir's demands and promises to speak more casually to people, even though it'll be a hard habit to break. In time, she gets there. After all, she ends up spending years around these people. There's only so much formality they'll take.
While she may have her head in the clouds half the time, Sasha is well-versed in knowing when to use her former life to her advantage in the battlefield. She may not have the brains or the brawn, but she has instinct and boy, does she know how to follow her gut. She is one who keeps Mikasa from running head first into the hot mess of the Female Titan setting them up because she gets the feeling that when a creature screams the way the Female Titan does it means it's cornered and has nothing left to lose. This saves Mikasa's hide as soon enough a mass of Titans pour into the area in response to the call. She also thinks pretty quickly on her feet to save a fellow recruit from falling off the wall and when the situation boils down to it, she finds some semblance of courage inside herself even while she's pissing her pants in fear, as seen when she takes down a Titan on her own with nothing but a bow and an arrow. She could have given up like the rest of the cadets did when the headquarters were taken over by Titans and they were left with little to no fuel in the middle of the field, but she was the first one cheering them on, encouraging them to keep on fighting and not to be wimps and cowards at a time like this. She continues doing this, with even more fervor, once Mikasa joins in with her own encouragement speech and feeds off off Mikasa's harsh words with some of her own.
And then there's her eating. Most times, this is played off as a joke, haha look it's Sasha the big eater stealing food again. But behind her eccentric and greedy behavior is a very valid reason: she's been without food for so long and for so often she's developed a raging case of food insecurity. Any opportunity to grab food and hoard it is a good one, even if it's her own food, because who knows when she'll get to eat again, especially when food is already limited even for the soldiers, with most of the meat going to the big wigs and the upper classes in a place where something as simple as black tea is considered a luxury item. Her obsession with food is so bad that during an arrangement to trade two of her comrades with one of the deals being in reference to having access to all of the good food first, Sasha forgets that they're not only talking about humans here, but her teammates, and zeros in on the chance to be near delicious things, getting far too excited to be sane. It's really that sad.
As the story goes on, Sasha isn't featured as much as the rest of the crew, usually relegated to the sidelines with her best bud Connie, up to the point where she gets gravely injured and sits out for a while recovering. She, however, is shown to seemingly have gotten over most of her hesitation to fight for her and everybody else's life and to straight up kill a human being, becoming on occasion, what seems to be the squad sniper with her bow. Oh, don't be mistaken, she is still very much the class clown, still the comedy relief, especially when left to her own devices with Connie, still fearful and hesitant about things such as having to face the reality that some of her friends may not be her true friends at all, but she also is now battle hardened, a little more matured, and gets serious when she needs to. After all, she didn't make the top ten of the graduating class for nothing. There's something in Sasha that does well. It just needs the right conditions to come out and play.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Deerling
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: TDM network-style thread with Noctis.
Victory Road Sample:
They told her not to go into the tall grass, but she's been going into the tall grass all her life. You can't stop a hunter from going into the grass! That's where all the good prey is!
Or the good Pokemon, for that matter. If she's going to make it in this world, she's going to need something that's useful, like a horse or even a bear. Sure, she can't ride a bear, but who'd bother a girl traveling with a giant bear? No one, that's who.
After picking a nice spot to watch her prey from clump of thick bushes for an hour or two, Sasha's finally sneaking up on a nice decent level Pidgey, wanting one she can at least fly on later, if not get a bunch of eggs from. Suddenly, though, the flock flutters and scatters off because there's a sound that scares them off. Sasha hears it too and she knows good and well what it it is, even if it's a long minute before the perpetrator shows it's cold wet nose up on the scene. All of this doesn't stop Sasha from recognizing a lost cause, though.
"Oh my gods!" Sasha groans, faltering forward onto her knees in defeat, head hanging low. This is the third time that this has happened today. The third time. She's been nice for too long. All day she's been trying to shake this wild Deerling off her tail, even climbing up high hills, crossing ponds on foot, and still it just would not leave her. Something has got to give. A trainer cannot be a trainer if they can't ever catch a Pokemon. "Could you please stop following me?"
The Deerling makes a little noise, but it's a mystery if it's a sound of disappointment or a complete no Pokemon-style. Whatever it is, the Pokemon creeps closer to Sasha and noses at her arm. Come on, Human. Accept it! Train it! Be the very best like no one ever was!
"I said please stop following me. I don't know what you are..." A deer with a funny hat? A deer with a funny hat that can say its name? "...Or what you want, but please stop following me. I don't have any food to give you. I ate it all."
Little Deerling does nothing of the sort except stomp its foot in the dirt. Well, this must be an adamant nature one. Just her luck. She's going to call it Jean.
"Okay, fine, but when I turn you into dinner, don't say I didn't warn you."
With Sasha, that's an actual threat. Someone, anybody, please come save this poor Deerling from being turned into a spicy stew.