Sakura Izayoi

Sakurahime Kokoro-Izayoi (), also known as the Sword Saint or Sakura Izayoi (), is a mercenary introduced towards the end of Axtaraia's Debut; where she pursues the bounty on Phoenix Runihura's head. In an attempt to claim the bounty, she gets side-tracked and encounters Koji Komatsu. After crossing blades with the dragon, she retreats. Soon after, Sakura is seen in Fenris City, where she receives a bounty on Koji. Eventually, she manages to cross paths with Koji yet again, and fails to kill the dragon a second time due to intervention, she then loses her will to fight and manages to get recruited by Koji, becoming the third member of Vagabond Aegis.
A mercenary from an infamous clan who possesses the ability to manipulate time. Sakura is a composed, polite, upstanding woman with a background shrouded in mystery, which leaves the entire group going off a tangent to piece together her past. Relatively easy to approach because of her outgoing and gentle nature, Sakura is a commendable woman with cruel tendencies, coming from a merciless clan that utilized her as a weapon of mass destruction, often giving no mercy. Having completely dissociated herself, Sakura went under the title of the Sword Saint. Until recently, she realizes she cannot erase the past, and because of that, she tries to move on by trying to overwrite that purpose set onto her by her clan, which led to her doing one last job for the money she needed to start clean, but ended up encountering a certain dragon, who manages to change her fate.
==History==
During her debut, she pursues the bounty on Phoenix's head, which leads her to the prestigious school Axtaraia. During that, rumors manage to spread throughout the school about the bounty, creating chaos, putting the schools in a free-for-all frenzy to find Phoenix. During this, Sakura makes her entrance infiltrating the prestigious school and eventually crossing blades with Koji Komatsu, who was caught in the crossfire. After fighting Koji, Sakura quickly retreated due to being spotted. During Arrival at Fenris, Koji spots Sakura in a mysterious alleyway. Koji then manages to eavesdrop on the conversation and realizes the next target was himself putting him on high alert. When spotted and confronted by Sakura, he goes under the alias of "Himitsu Kojima" and rushes out of Fenris to complete his first quest. Sakura manages to follow him and ambush him on the outskirts of Fenris, during which Koji is exhausted from his guild assignment. Koji pushes through the exhaustion and manages to trade blows with Sakura to protect the leviathan he saved during his quest. When the leviathan speaks out about being able to defend herself, she causes an attack that proves it, nearly wiping all three of them out. Koji and Sakura's attention focuses on the leviathan that nearly wiped them out, which caused Koji to yell at her. The two go back and forth relentlessly, and when Sakura points out they are still fighting, they both yell at her. Confused and astonished by the situation before her, Sakura couldn't help but laugh at the outrageous situation before her. The deadly situation quells down as Sakura loses her will to fight, as she was reminded of her sisters. When the three regain their composure, Koji asks Sakura to join his guild party, stating, "sigh, don't make me go through the trouble of finding another," she accepts, becoming the third member of Vagabond Aegis.
Being apart of Vagabond Aegis, Sakura became the primary damage dealer, being able to do devastating blows with proficient speed and expertise. Her addition to the party made for quick progression, seeing Koji's damage output was lackluster and Azalea lacking endurance providing a reliable and consistent nuker. Her role fits the team composition seeing Koji as the tank and Azalea as support, allowing for good combos, such as benefiting from team buffs and Koji's Twin Ichigeki tanking attacks. Sakura was able to grow swiftly and efficiently through her enrollment into the guild allowing her to gather more stored time and test her limits. Sakura also serves as a second-in-command for the guild taking over during Koji's absence and descend into Yami no Koitsu, being generally a better leader due to her having more common sense. Sakura isn't necessarily required, as Vagabond Aegis was functioning without her during the Athanatos Arc, as she traveled back to her village. Currently one of the people leading the clan, being deeply involved during Irino Sora's recruitment determining his placement into the party. One of the guides and leaders during the Nisshoku Arc, taking multiple things into consideration when preparing to settle a dispute with the Nisshoku clan preventing a future war. As of now, her status is unknown as the Izayoi and Nisshoku clans were both eradicated. Sakura was stated to be alive, currently looking for survivors of both clans to potentially rebuild a unified clan.
==Personality==
==Appearance==
==Etymology==
After one google search, Sakurahime () means "cherry blossom princess," Kokoro () means "heart" and Izayoi () meaning, "sixteenth night" creates a name meaning "Sixteen Nights of the Cherry Blossom Princess's Heart." Sakura's entire journey is to find a purpose beyond being a cruel weapon of destruction used by her clan. In a way, she is trying to find emotion and ways to express herself, and joining Koji's guild is the way to achieve that through the power of connections. Sixteen because the number sixteen denotes someone who is in search of wisdom and has an appreciation for both spiritual and analytical ideologies, which defines her journey to find more about herself and the world around her and her spiritual blessing and analytical fighting tendencies. Sixteen is also a reference to how many techniques she possesses.
==Combat Statistics==
Dimensionality: 3-D Physically, 6-D via time Manipulation
Name: Sakurahime Izayoi-Kokoro, Sakura Izayoi, Sakura Kokoro (Alternate Timeline)
Origin: Ark: Roleplay
Gender: Female
Classifications: Human, Samurai, Sword Saint, Izayoi Descendant
Powers and Abilities:
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Power Modification, Power Mimicry, Power Nullification, and Power Absorption (Skills/Traits are inscribed into the soul which resist any outside interference unless the interference is stronger than the soul's resistances. Because of this, it is also possible to resist the affects of specific law-based powers), Plot Manipulation (The narrative of Our Story is ultimately determined by the Authors who oversee all entities, making any attempt at manipulating the plot futile unless such interference can overpower the abilities of the True Authors), Time Manipulation (Izayoi Descendants are "immune" to temporal based attacks), Power Mimicry (Izayoi's Blessing prevents any utilization of Izayoi Arts of anyone, not a direct descendant. The prerequisite requires the user to consume stored time, meaning unless the user can consume time, they can't utilize Izayoi Arts. Izayoi's blessing is a skill inscribed into the soul which resists any outside interference unless the interference is stronger than the soul's defenses), Sealing (Izayoi's Blessing grants the user resistance to sealing), Magic (Izayoi's Blessing reduces the effectiveness and potency of all magical attacks by 35%), Void Manipulation (Survived being turned into nothingness by with spears made of nothingness), Plant Manipulation & Earth Manipulation (Shiki No Uta grants Sakura resistance to elements relating to nature), Radiation Manipulation (Unaffected by Elder's dr'll resonance's which emitted radiation hundreds of times worse than the chernobyl), Resistance Negation, Status Effect Inducement (Shiki No Uta; grants the user a resistance to vulnerability inflicting debuffs, which essentially removes one's resistance), Empathtic Manipulation (Kokkoro's Blade grants the user resistance to emotion-related skills and traits), Elemental Manipulation (Vagabond's Champloo. All elemental attacks will have their damage reduced by 85%; earth, water, and fire receive additional damage mitigation of 10%), Physical Attacks (Physical attacks have their damage reduced by 45%), Analytic Prediction (Mental blade clears the user's mind, which makes it impossible to predict them), Causality Manipulation (Gained the resistance to causality manipulation as a whole as an effect of Imperial Advisor, which grants resistances to people when hearing a detailed explanation of how a certain skill or ability works by the Imperial Advisor herself), Area of Effect Attacks (Heavenly Mannerism. Reduces the damage of Area of Effect attacks by 45%)
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==Trivia==
Sakura's fourth form is a reference to the angel number four. According to google, angel number four is associated with self-expression and self-fulfillment. The definition provided by google aligns with how her fourth form was developed to help her escape the Izayoi clan and try to become her own person rewriting her title as Izayoi's weapon and fulfilling her purpose to become her own person. Sakura's fourth form being the ability to sever concepts, reminiscent of her breaking her ties to said clan.
Sakura's initial name was Sakura Izayoi, being changed as the author accidentally realized it sounded too close to Sakuya Izayoi, who possesses the same ability to manipulate time.
*Sakura's last name was inspired by Miku Izayoi. As the author at the time of her creation, the author was maining Miku Izayoi in Date a Live: Spirit Pledge.
Sakura was the first Izayoi character created, being the Ark Progenitor of the entire clan chronologically instead lore-wise. Pandora, Caelum, Hanami, Elder, Nyx, and every other Izayoi clan member came after her.
*Izayoi, who is the progenitor of the clan lore-wise is also represented by a Fate Grand Order, just like Sakura.
Sakura's birthday follows the same scheme as every other Akrka character being the same as someone he knows in real life. Sakura shares the same birthday as his older sister.
Sakura has the least amount of screen time out of the main trio in Koji's guild before the arrival of Hanami Izayoi.
Sakura is the deuteragonist of Ark's visual novel, which is a direct copy and paste of the events of Akrka's plotline in Ark's third season. Due to some retconning, the antagonist of said storyline was removed, thus rending it non-canon.
Sakura is one of the only characters to have had an alternate version of themselves involved in the plotline. 
*Alternate Azalea, who is a slave.
*Alternate Sakura, who is a clanless vagrant.
*Alternate Sakaya, who is domestic terrorist.
Sakura is the first throwaway character turned into the main character creating a cycle where Akrka turns side characters into main characters, just like Hanami Izayoi and Almace Alcatraz.