Meadow

* Anime
* Light Novel
* Manga

**Meadow** (草原 *Sōgen*), alias **Sara**, is one of the main protagonists introduced in *Spy Classroom* series. She is a member of the Lamplight.

## Appearance

Sara has short brown hair (referred to as 'permed' in the Light Novel), and slightly tan skin. In her spy uniform, she wears black overalls and a newsboy cap worn low over her eyes, a dark gray shirt with slightly puffed sleeves, and ruffled collar, and a black and white ribbon tied into a bow.

## Personality

Sara is a timid girl and self professed coward  who gives off the impression of a prey animal. She’s described as ‘the kind of girl you instinctively wanted to protect’. Sara loves her pets and sees not as a means to an end, but like friends who assist each other mutually.

Sara is humble to a fault, her humility boarding on an inferiority complex. Not even taking credit for things that were actually helpful. Since Sara spent the least amount of time in her academy out of her seniors, she considers them all her seniors, even Erna and Annette who are younger than her. That is the reason she calls them all 'Miss. At the beginning of Lamplight's creation. Sara could never find the courage to speak up during meetings because she felt as if she is weighing them down.So because of how 'worthless' she was, she decided to lighten the others' loads and repair the at-the-time falling apart Heat Haze Palace without even taking credit.

While Sara doesn't have flawless leadership abilities, unrivaled strength, or even an unbreakable spirit, there are plenty of things that she, and only her in Lamplight can do. Her kindness is an unmistakable asset in a team as full of oddballs as Lamplight. She sticks to her friend's side like glue, not abandoning even when the situation turns most dire. And while Sara displays traits of being timid, when it comes to Lamplight, she is anything but a coward. Risking her safety and the lives of her animals by sneaking into a an illegal, gated casino and helping Monika in a dart match against Matilda in Volume 4, Monika herself even commenting that sneaking down into the Underground Casino to help her must have taken a lot of guts.

## Plot

### Prior to Joining Lamplight

Out of all her peers, Sara attended her spy academy for the shortest amount of time. The only reason she became a spy was so she could make a living after her parents' restaurant closed down, Sara was the daughter of a chef and helped out with cooking in the family business. While attending her academy and even in Lamplight, the other girls around her were all full of dreams as aspirations, liked they became a spy to change the world, unlike Sara who had no such ambition when making that decision. Sara had no motivation that righteous.

## Skills

### Animal training

Sara calls her skill rearing for expedience. Sara’s skill, according to her, involves forging a bond of mutual trust between her pets. Her pets in question include a hawk (Bernard), a pigeon (Aiden), a dog (Johnny), and a group of mice. None of them are caged. The animals are skilled at delivering packages, creating diversions, tracking people, or anything else she can train them to do.

#### Aiden

Aiden is a chubby pigeon. Aiden is a carrier piegon who can also trail people as proved in Volume 4 when Bernard was out of commission.

#### Bernard

Bernard is an intense-eyed hawk. Bernard can carry objects and trail people. In Volume 2, he proved his strength by withstanding an explosion to save Sara, Lily, Sybilla and Grete.

#### Johnny

Johnny is a small brown dog, small enough that he can fit under Sara's newsboy hat. Sara claims he used to be a big biter when he was young, but become more obedient. This does not appear to be the case as in SSC 1, he bit both Klaus and Erna when they reached their hands out.

### Cooking

Back before her parents' restaurant shut down, Sara used to help with their cooking frequently. So Sara picked up their culinary skills.

## Relationships

### Pets

Sara refers to all her pets (which all seem to be male), as Mr., out of respect. She treats them less like pets and more like friends or companions who play an equal role to her.

### Bernard

Bernard and Sara had been together since before she even joined her spy academy. He is a brave, smart and irreplaceable member of Lamplight.

### Flower Garden

To quote Sara's narration "When it came to being a royal pain in the ass, nobody did it better than Lily." Even so, Sara still respects Lily as her senior, and appreciates her as a friend and member of Lamplight.

### Forgetter

While Annette is considered a 'problem child', Sara is outstandingly good at keeping her behaved

### Fool

While Fool considers herself antisocial, Sara is one of the only people she expresses no problem interacting with, often visiting her in her shed just to have casual conversation and express her woes. . Keeping Erna in line is a key part of her job that Sar, and Sara alone is equipped in handling.

### Dreamspeaker

Whenever Thea's stories turned sexual, Sara would turn bright red.

### Klaus

Sara look up to Klaus and thinks she isn't good enough to be a spy, however Klaus always pushed her and praised her skills to build her confidence, Klaus chose Sara along with Lily Greta and Sybilla for his big mission to take down Corpse, Klaus also cares for Sara's well being and respects her as a woman as shown when he personally showed up at the restaurant where Sara and Tarik were having dinner and stepped in to protect her from him, He also happily took Sara on a night on the town to make her happy after her heartbreak

## Catchphrase

```
"I'm code name Meadow--and it's time to run circles around them." - Meadow

```

## Gallery

Sara's light novel character designSara's Light Novel character designSara's anime character designSara's anime character design in her teaserSara's anime character sheetSara and Thea's profile from Volume 4Sara Box DVD illustration by TomariSara and Erna in Season 1, Anime, Spring, Teaser Image
## Trivia

* The name **Sougen** means "meadow, grassland, prairie, steppe, savannah/savanna" (草原).
* Sara's bedroom previously belonged to Flamefanner

## References

1. ↑ コードネーム《草原》（CV：佐倉綾音）「スパイ教室」ヒロインPV【ファンタジア文庫】
2. ↑ Spy Classroom volume 1, Chapter 1 Page 17
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Spy Classroom Volume 2, Chapter 2 Page 49
4. ↑ SSC 1 page 52
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 SSC 1 page 53
6. ↑ Vol 4 page 79
7. ↑ SSC 1 page 47
8. ↑ volume 2 page 120
9. ↑ SSC 1 page 73
10. ↑ SSC 1 page 139
11. ↑ SSC 1 page 68
12. ↑ SSC 1 page 63
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 SSC 1 page 80
14. ↑ Anime Ep 5 and 7
15. ↑ Vol 4 page 140
16. ↑ Spy Classroom Official Memorial Fanbook page 63