Aleksandra "Sasha" Ivanovna Pokryshkin

**Aleksandra "Sasha" Ivanovna Pokryshkin** is one of the main characters from the *Brave Witches* anime and light novels.

Sasha is Orussia's greatest ace. Her engineer father made her get familiar with mechanics early on in her life to the point where she is said to have a "mecha fetish". Aside from being the combat officer of Brave Witches, she is also an engineer and a combat instructor due to her achievements in the military. That being the case, she is a perfectionist and structured, causing her to clash with some of her teammates and gets headaches for the amount of Striker Units she needs to fix.

In the AWA Fics, Sasha is a student at the AWA Academy.

In the XP4 Fics, Sasha debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Brave Witches.

## **Appearance**

Sasha has a mid-length messy blonde hair and has blue eyes. She wears a dark-blue high-collar shirt over a dark military jacket, dark-blue skirt, black pantyhose and black shoes. She also had a black headband on top of her head.

## **Personality**

Aleksandra is structured and sometimes perfectionist, often acting as foil to the hijinks of Krupinski and the carelessness of Katajainen. With Nikka, Aleksandra is portrayed as especially close; despite the constant headache of having to repair Nikka's broken units, it has brought them together in a certain "care-taker" sort of way.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

Sasha is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is part of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Brave Witches**

In Chapter 1, Sasha is seen scolding Hikari Karibuchi, Naoe "Nao" Kanno and Nikka "Nipa" Edvardine Katajainen inside the main hangar of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing when suddenly the Misssisippi Four crashes down from above and when Edytha Rossman and Gundula Rall arrives, she witnessed the males getting apprehended until the situation got diffused.

In Chapter 2, Sasha, alongside the rest of the witches, are seen inside the meeting room of the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing where the Misssisippi Four introduced themselves to them and proceeds to get to know each other.

In Chapter 3, Sasha, alongside a few of the witches, are seen being trained by Joey Hollard in the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing and later dropped out.

In Chapter 4, Sasha is present when the Mississippi Four, Georgette Lemare, Hikari Karibuchi, Naoe "Nao" Kanno, Nikka "Nipa" Edvardine Katajainen and Sadako Shimohara returned to the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing after fighting the Emotionless where they introduced Keisuke Hijikata and Viktor Vale to everyone. After introducing themselves to each other, Keisuke and Viktor explained their situation to them when Eddward "Double D, Edd" Marion Smith and Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke made a contact and revealed that aid is on the way.

In Chapter 5, Sasha, alongside a few members of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing, is seen being trained by Joey Hollard in the main base when they witnessed the arrival of a Pyramid-shaped Neuroi and before they could do anything, the Neuroi was destroyed by a beam of light and later witnessed the arrival of the Union Vanguards. As Sasha and the rest got to know better the members of the Union Vanguards, she witnessed Joey getting reprimanded for his disrespectful behavior towards Marcus "The Kane" McGee, she then proceeds to confront Marcus and declared her disapproval towards his relationship with Malvina Rasputin and Marcus responded by shoving two fingers into her nose, much to her shock. Afterwards, everyone decided to continue on their conversation inside the base.

In Chapter 6, Sasha is present in the assembly inside the meeting room somewhere in the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing.

In Chapter 7, Sasha is seen inside the kitchen somewhere in the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing where a strange figure made them breakfast and later revealed themselves to Bow Hothoof. Later that day, Sasha is present in the meeting room where Bow introduced himself before springing into action when an army of robots and a Neuroi made their presence.

In Chapter 8, Sasha, alongside the Mississippi Four and the rest of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing, are seen taking on a group of Neurois before witnessing the Central Command decimating an army of Emotionless-Neurois. They then tried to destroy the remaining Emotionless-Neuroi but were thwarted by the arrival of Descend and Lucas Lee before fleeing, much to everyone's dismay.

In Chapter 9, Sasha, alongside Oswald "Ozzy" Wizner and Hikari Karibuchi, are seen in the hangar somewhere in the main base of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing where she is seen working on Hikari's Strikers while having a conversation with Ozzy at the same time when Tomomichi Motomiya arrives and handed the boy a box of items, much to his gratitude. She is later seen in the dining room where Kylie served everyone Pork Sinigang for dinner. The next day, Sasha was attacked off-screen by Evil Norman and took her form, she is later found by Marcus "The Kane" McGee, Gundula Rall and Edytha Rossman somewhere in town. Gundulla then mentioned that Edytha is looking after Sasha in the infirmary.

In Chapter 10, Sasha, alongside Edytha Rossman, arrives at the hangar where they warned everyone about the oncoming threats to which everyone sprung into action.

In Chapter 12, Sasha, alongside the Mississippi Four and the rest of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing, are seen taking on a group of Neurois and Emotionless in the skies, and managed to emerged victorious in the end. Later that day, Sasha is present in the main hangar of the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing where the Summoner made her presence and witnessed Marcus "The Kane" McGee declaring war against her.

In the Epilogue, Sasha is present when it was announced that the Heroes Coalitions and the 502nd Joint Fighter Wing officially finalized their alliance and later that night, Sasha boarded the Central Command as everyone made their way back to Neo-Earth.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition: Neo-City Diaries**

In Chapter 107, Sasha, alongside everyone, is seen inside the Central Command where Suzuka "Suzie" Takahashi told them to puts some pants on but Yoshika Miyafuji reassures them that they don't need to do that. Upon their arrival back in the Training Camp in Neo-City, she was introduced by the Mississippi Four to Alexander "Xander" Campbell II, Claudia Campbell, Cedric Gordon, Luluco, Nephren Ruq Insania and Willem Kmetsch.

## **Abilities**

Aleksandra's inherent magical ability is known as "Image Memorization"; when her magical ability is used it allows her to remember and never forget anything and potentially everything from complicated Technical Plans to her breakfast 10 years ago; though this is only the case when she uses her magic on when she views and experiences things; upon activating her ability in such instances she will remember and never forget. Her ability provides her with many technical details to a degree better, deeper and more technical than from normal recollection of memory for most people, possibly even better than photographic memory as she can remember such details and experiences easily and at will if she uses her magic to recall such details and events.

This ability is indispensable in a strategic and tactical level as well as for study and practical repair of equipment and machinery, including having prior experience repairing strikers thanks to the use of her magical ability. However due to the many accidents and crashes Nipa is involved in she mostly uses her magical ability for the repair of Nipa's striker the most, with very little application of her magical ability in combat use as a consequence.

## **Trivia**

* Aleksandra is based on Russian ace Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, who was nicknamed "Engineer" when he was a teenager. Pokryshkin scored 47 of his 65 victories in American-made Bell P-39 Airacobras, making him the highest scoring P-39 pilot of any nation, and the highest scoring pilot flying any American fighter design. His 65 victories made him the third highest scoring Allied ace.

## **External Links**

* Aleksandra I. Pokryshkin at World Witches Series Wiki