Rune

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## Rune? Sara? Rune Zhevitz

* Artwork
* Sprite
* Sprite (younger)
* Manga
* Vibaelia

Rune/SARA, a resident of Kadia City, is a bright and bubbly girl who approached Selphine and Ritona out of sheer interest. She first introduces herself as Rune, but later addresses herself as "Sara."
From Ritona's observation, despite her animated self, Rune/Sara has no signs of life or presence.

She also has a lot of strange contradictions in what she says and does, and often acts rather unnaturally.

From their first meeting, Ritona is suspicious of Rune, even though she fails to sense anything malignant to speak of. However, Ritona's suspicions prove valid later, as she and Selphine realize that they've only begun to prick at the shell of Rune's bubbly persona.

## As a child…

### Unofficial Description

Rune was a problematic child, being called “the devil in disguise” by many. She copied the mannerisms of others in order to seem normal, and was unsettlingly polite and well-mannered even after the incident. That, however, was nothing but an act. Rune was born without emotions, and the only time she felt something was when she watched something lose its life. This caused many problems, to the point where she’d abuse animals in the forest when nobody was around to see. Eventually, she planned her own suicide in order to ruin her family.

## Appearance

Rune is a girl of average height; who has long, azure hair in low pigtails, with unkempt bangs that part in the middle. She has big, emerald blue eyes, and you can see the camera lens in her iris.

Rune wears a dark purple jacket lined in pink, that reaches just below her chest, and underneath is a white shirt, underneath the white shirt is a black undershirt. She also has a white collar with a pink bow attached. Rune wears high-waisted jeans just slightly lighter than her jacket and they reach a few inches under her knee. She also wears black boots with a buckle on the side.

In fm2sa, Selphine puts Rune’s hair up in a side ponytail, kept up with a black ribbon, and then a gold hair clip on one side of her parted bangs.

As a child, Rune had her hair in two low pigtails kept together with pink ribbons, with azure and rather lifeless eyes.

Her dress was white with short, but flowing sleeves, pink braided rope that met up just below her chest, a dark purple collar, black lace lined in pink. The ends of the dress were sewn in a way to make it look poofy. She also wears black boots.

### Early design

Due to misunderstandings, Konatsu initially designed Rune as a male character. Munisix had imagined Rune as looking "girly", wearing a skirt and having long, black hair. However, when Konatsu redid the design, elements of the original male design remained, with Rune being given pigtails and pants, which Munisix later said that he preferred over his original concept.

## Rune's Origin

After her death, Cid tries to recreate Rune to fulfill the promise he made to Eline to not let Rudo be alone.

Cid remembered that he had read about a method used by royalty in the Inner Pole to pass their experiences and memories down to their descendants : It's a ceremony called the "Path-down".

The Path-down is a special kind of manakravte only royalty are able to use. But then he thought : As long as it uses mana, then there's got to be a way to recreate it using science. Through his research, he's discovered two unknown properties of mana :

1. The purified mana of a human will remain inside of a person long after their death.

2. In general, this mana can be subdivided into three types : "memories, experiences", the two of which form "emotions", all of which are saved in the mana. He decided to call this "memory mana".

Cid succeeded in extracting the memory mana from Rune's body and transfer it into the body of a Sister. He also managed to create a Sister that could inherit Rune's mannerisms perfectly. But then, there was a problem with that plan. If she didn't have any emotions, then she'd turn out exactly like Rune had. There'd be no point in that.

So. He figured out a way to extract the "emotions" from his own memory mana. Cid decided to give the mannerisms that formed the emotions inside him all to Rune. But then there was a problem with that too. Cid is from the Outer Pole, so if a huge amount of mana is extracted from his body, he'd die from some kind of reverse-manashock,

So, Cid decided. Lab 9's protocol would be the trigger to his own version of the Path-down.

"A machine that inherits Rune's memories, and carries emotions. Just who would that be? No... To be more precise, "what" would that be? People will fear it. I'll probably be called a blasphemous heretic for toying around with the deceased." - Cid's letter to Albas

## Trivia

* Rune’s condition is based on psychopathy, a condition in which lack of empathy and remorse can call for violent behavior.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.projectwritten.com/en/ms1
2. ↑ “Was Rune originally a boy? (Looking at the image in the concept art)”
3. ↑ https://ask.fm/aliceindissonance/answers/138097622656