Sarah Palin

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***Sarah Palin*** is Zaza's best friend, and the only human member of the Questers who debuted in the chapter "Mysterious Boy". After meeting Zaza, they slowly began to learn about him, the Gems, and their past. Growing a strong bond with them, Sarah even stayed and comforted him as he went to them for comfort when all his gem ally’s were missing. They as well as Zaza were captured by the Questers and agreed to help save the earth. Since Sarah is a human, they’d train and learn how to fight using a sword with Pearl in "Robot wars". They eventually becomes a skilled combatant and often aids the Questers during times of conflict.

Years later, Sarah begins to devote most of their time to studying and applying to colleges. They stick by Zaza’s side as he deals with his years' worth of suppressed trauma. After helping Zaza cope, Zaza and Sarah decide to meet up with each other as they tour the country on college tours, and he tours the world to find himself.

it is heavily implied that Sarah has a crush on Zaza, though it is unknown if Zaza likes them back, or if they are in a relationship.

## Personality

Sarah is a curious child who is attentive to detail, preparing theirself for future events such as the upcoming school year or a mission in the wilderness, but can get distracted if they find something more interesting like reading or spending time with Zaza. Their hobbies include reading, violin playing, Piano playing, and formerly tennis playing. Sarah is usually level-headed but sensible, convincing Zaza about his obsession to certain topics and let them go such in "Mysterious Boy", but they feel guilty to the point of notably changing their behavior, including out bursting at Zaza in "Mindful Thinking" Learning that some things are natural, they decide to confront their emotions by making amends, clearing their mind and understanding not to let their emotions cloud their thoughts by keeping them in. They pass this knowledge onto Zaza, assuring him he had to be honest about how bad his feelings were so he could move on. "Great responsibility" shows Sarah’s leadership skills when they told Peridot and Lapis to be themselves and organized their efforts to fix the damage they did. "Change your mind" brings out this aspect of their personality, as they help Zaza, Alice and Peridot convince Blue, Yellow, Red, Orange, and Purple Diamond to ease up on their stifling rules and traditions so they would try to convince White, Black, and Rainbow Diamond to do the same.

Originally shy and introverted, Sarah rarely stayed in one place for long due to their parents' lifestyle and thus had been unable to form lasting friendships, which left them frequently feeling lonely. Their parents were very strict and didn't allow them to participate in common childhood activities, such as eating donuts or anything with trans fats and organize their daily activities. By this time, tennis was the only thing that they remotely enjoys in their life. This attitude had led them to flat-out lie about Zaza’s non-nuclear family due to paranoia at how their parents may react the only family member who knew was their sister, Olivia. Despite their obedience to their parents, they weren’t above exploiting loopholes, such as not buying snacks at a movie theater, but instead bringing them from Zaza’s home. They ate a donut when they weren't present in "Are you my dad?"  Sarah’s friendship with Zaza eventually gives them more confidence, eventually standing up to their mother about their strict upbringing and rules in "Nightmare Hospital", even revealing their involvement in magical affairs. They aren’t afraid to barge into the mansion while shouting "Surprise!" and have around Inkwell isle with Amber and Zaza, showing how comfortable they have gotten around the Questers. Their more carefree attitude and comfort towards Zaza when he feels he had made everyone miserable by abiding by Homeworld's conformities and traditions to impress the three top Diamonds. Which caused Peridot and Alice to fuse into Milky Quartz.

In chapter "Robot Wars" shows a more confident and aggressive side to Sarah’s personality when they learn sword fighting. Due to Pearl's negative reinforcement,

They began to display a reckless side, but this was quickly put out by Alice. It highlights their strong feelings for beloved ones through their dedication to becoming a knight for Alice. "Gem Hunt" continues to shown their confidence and dedication to the Questers in how they push them to split up to hunt the Gem monsters and is the one to lead when they, Alice, Zaza, and Bendy hunt the second monster through the forest, while respecting and obeying Pearl.

Despite all their training and preparedness, Sarah froze during an encounter with one of the Gem monsters they are hunting, as the other remaining Questers used their powers to fight. They later confide in Zaza and Bendy about freezing during their first mission in the next chapter, causing Bendy to tell them they should stop overthinking things and follow their instincts in battle, just adapting to win.

In Qftim: a new era, taking place two years after the end of the fifth volume, shows how much Sarah’s feelings for Zaza have grown, as shown at the start of the movie, they wait for him, along with Peridot and Alice, to return from Homeworld and kisses Zaza on the cheek before leaving for space camp, and is quick to return on Lloron after learning of the danger posed by Spinel. They later help the other Questers save Inkwell Isles citizens from the poison from Spinel's Injector. During this time, they expresses concern for Alice and Zaza during their final clash with Spinel, especially after the battle causes the Injector to explode, and relieved to find them both alive and safe in the aftermath.

## Physical appearance

Sarah is a young Mixed-child with Carmel brown skin and a slim figure, and is slightly taller than Zaza. They have red and blue sparkles and strands in their hair. They have a round nose with blue eyes with thick eyebrows and has dark brown wavy hair that varies in length.

From their debut to "Mysterious Boy", Sarah’s hair was back-length. At some point following their capture and redemption from the Questers, they had their hair cut down to a shoulder-length bob and added bangs. Following the two-year time-skip between "Change Your Mind" and “Qftim: a new era”, their hair has since regrown to a back-length, but they keep it in a bun.

Sarah is usually seen in a variety of different outfits and dresses, including light blue, green, and white clothing: In the first intro. In their debut, they wear a multi colored sweater, with a pink bra. The colors consist of black, pinkish red and blue, like their hair strands. They wear pink shoes with socks in their debut. In later chapters, they dawn differently cloths, such as a white, button-down, collared tank top, pink button-up shorts, and peach sneakers with white bottoms, laces, and socks.

During training, Sarah often wears a purple fighting outfit with a red bandana around their waist. they are barefoot, and their arms are covered with bandages. On missions involving outer space travel, Sarah usually wears this purple fighting outfit.

As of the new era, Sarah is now taller in height, almost the same height as Zaza, with slightly thicker limbs. They also wears a white blouse and blue shorts. Later in the fic, after attending space camp, they wore a blue flight suit.

Throughout a new era, Sarah appears in a variety of clothes, most notably a black shirt and blue jeans, with white stockings and pink sneakers

## Gallery

Sarah concept art #1 (2019)Sarah concept art #2 (2019)Sarah redesign (2023)
## Trivia

* Sarah uses They/Them pronouns.
* Everyone says they look like the TikTok logo and they HATE it.
* They love nature, the woods and forest specifically.
* They admire the gems and other Questers a lot (mainly cuz they've never been around anything but humans cuz of their mom)
* Is very shy in crowded areas.
* They were ECSTATIC when meeting Felix, cuz he’s like their idol and they read all his books.
* Sarah and Bendy bond over the fact they both like Felix.
* Sarah is jealous (/lh) when she finds out Bendy and his siblings are like Felix’s kids.
* Loves lofi music, it’s incredibly soothing for when they study.
* they’ve never had a donut before, until Zaza took them to get one in “Robot Wars”.
* Rain is not their strong suit, but they do like thunder.

* Is more of a Tea person than anything else.
* They think Rei is very cool, and wants to know more about her.
* Gives everyone nicknames or code names.
* Is kinda scared of Basar and Shizuka.

* Was really scared of Lions or any other animal until meeting Lloron.
* Hates how their parents treat them, they don’t respect them or their choices in gender.
* However their sister Olivia doesn’t mind and never misgenders them.

* They’re inspired by Connie from Steven universe, and plays her role in this universe.
* Their old design was just a copy of E-Girl Sally, so I decided to redesign them into their own character!