Tachibana Sakura

**Tachibana Sakura**, born as Tiria Felthehir, is one of the Warlords of Terra known by the ephitet "Moon Dancer." She is the fleet admiral of the 5th Alliance Strike fleet and the primary partner of Nigel Khornewal. She is first introduced at the end of the Transfer Arc during the Warlord conference.

Sakura is shown to be both intelligent as well as a skilled fighter. Despite being a High Elf, a race well known for its refined use of Magic, Sakura completely lacks any Magical Affinity. She has compensated for this honing her swordsmanship to near perfection, because of this she has been rightfully named as the Grand master of the Lunar Wind Style by the Swordsman's guild.

## Appearance

Sakura is a young elven woman. She has long and pointy ears as is typical of elves, slightly tanned smooth skin, and eyes with white pupils in the shape of a diamond star and irises which gradually shift from a light pink to a deep violet color from top to bottom. She has bright crimson hair which reaches slighly past her scapula, she usually styles it in either a high ponytail or a single braid, depending on what she feels like on a given day. She typically wears three earrings with turqoise gemstones around the middle part of her left ear, as well as a single earring with a white crescent moon on the base of her right ear.

Sakura's most common outfit consists of the standard Alliance warlord uniform, consisting of a clean white jacket with golden buttons and epaulettes, black uniform pants with two yellow stripes on the hips, and black combat boots. The chest area of her uniform features the insignia of the Warlords of Terra and alliance naval roundel over her right breat pocket, and a collection of various medals and ribbons awarded to her for her service within the Alliance military over her right breast pocket. Additionally over her uniform she wears a light pink and white checkered Haori. On her hip Sakura wears a crimson sword belt with the purple saya scabbard of her katana "Veil Breaker." Finally on her head Sakura occasionally wears a white and dark blue naval officer's cap with a picture of sakura flower on the front.

## Personality

Sakura is often regarded as a polite but snappy young woman. She tends to be respectful and avoid confrontation, but she will snap back with twice the intensity if someone challenges her to a verbal battle. She is also extremely competative, mainly with Nigel Khornewal who she will often go above and beyond to beat in the most mundane everyday tasks.

Sakura is extremely dilligent. Due to her lack of magic, she makes sure to train her swordsmanship and physical strength daily. According to Nigel, she has a routine of training for 3 hours every day, as long as she has enough time for it.

Sakura is typically quite calm in extreme pressure situations, but that does not mean she is completely without fear. On numerous occations Sakura has been shown to be genuinely scared of something, to the point where she attempts to hide behind Nigel, or if he is not available, she may completely dissapear from the scene if something which triggers fear in her is present.

Sakura seems to also have an extreme love for citrus fruit, particularly the legendarily sweet cherringe fruit. She seems to be obsessed with these fruits almost to the point of an addiction, and according to khornewal, her record for consuming a plate of cherringes is two minutes, a task which is impossible for even demigods.

## Relationships

### Warlords of Terra

#### Nigel Khornewal

Nigel is Sakura's primary partner. As the two are regarded as the weakest of the Warlords, with a power grading of only Lower 3 for both of them, they are often regarded as a single unit rather than two separate Warlords, their 3rd and 5th Strike Fleets also intensively cooperate with each other, as Nigel's 3rd fleet heavily leans toward cruisers and other larger vessels while lacking severely in smaller fighter craft, while Sakura's 5th fleet has an abundance of carriers and fighter sized craft while lacking in frontline vessels, the two fleets perfectly complement each other.

Similarly to their fleets, Nigel's and Sakura's personal strengths and weaknesses perfectly complement each other. Sakura herself is a powerful close quarters combatant with remarkable swordsmanship skills and an abnormally high physical strength when compared to most other elves, but she completely lacks the ability to use magic. Nigel on the other hand is fairly weak physically, only amounting to slightly above the average Terran male, which when compared to all other warlords, can be considered quite pathetic, however, Nigel has the advantage of being a skilled magus, with the added bonus of hosting an abnormal two magical affinities, these being Fire Magic and Ice Magic. Combined, the pair make up for each other's weaknesses in combat with Sakura being easily skilled enough of a swordswoman to make up for Nigel's ineptitude, and Nigel's ability to wield two types if magic at once making up for Sakura's lack of magic all together.

When it comes to their personal relationship, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that the two completely despise each other. When interracting with each other, the two seem to add in an insult or underlying mockery to almost every sentence they speak to one another. The two also share a bitter rivalry with each other and seem to be borderline obsessed with being better than the other, going as far as crying and throwing a tantrum if they lose in a major way. The two refer to each other in a very professional and cold manner, using their surnames while usually referring to even other warlords by their given names, Nigel also goes as far as referring to Sakura "Long ears," a derogatory term for an elf and a nickname Sakura is extremely disgusted with. However, this initial impression couldn't be further from the truth. In actuality Nigel is Sakura's best friend and the two are practically joined at the hip. Most other warlords never seeing the two separate from each other. The primary reason they piss each other off is beacuse they know each other so well that they are painfully aware of every button they need to push in order to get a reaction. The two are also aware of each other's limits and know what the other can and cannot do, this was demonstrated during the Eden Saga when Nigel was forced into melee combat with Arthur Camelot due to the Excalibur's magic nullifying ability, Sakura was immediately able to recognize when Nigel was about to reach his limit and interrupt her fight with Aman Thoyer in order to switch positions with Nigel and allow him some breathing room.

Despite often having to do the opposite, Sakura trusts that Nigel will protect her if the need for it ever arises, this is also implied with the way Sakura seems to hide behind Nigel when in the presence of Warlords that she is fearful off, such as Natsuo Raijeru and Anarchis Volk

#### Cornelio Fivios

As two of the oldest Warlords, Sakura and Cornelio have known each other for a while. According to Sakura, the two used to be good friends, but as Cornelio continued to modify his body with crests and cybernetics to increase his combat effectiveness, he began to gradually lose his humanity, causing Sakura to begin distancing herself from him.

#### Vivian Van Gladiadora

Not much is known about the relationship between Sakura and Vivian, but the two seem to be at the very least cordial with each other. They greet each other when passing by and share some small talk during downtime if they happen to be in the same room. Sakura also mentions that Vivian is one of the Warlords that has stayed in touch with their humanity. It can also be assumed that Vivian is attracted to Sakura due to her quirk of *"Being horny for anything and everything with tits." (as said by Khornewal)*

#### Edward Fallenfire

Sakura seems to feel toward Edward similiarly to the way she feels toward Vivian. Edward seems to be another Warlord she has respect and admiration for. Sakura also mentions that she finds it extremely admirable that Edward is able to accomplish so many great things and be a part of the Warlords despite his total lack of vision.

#### Natsuo Raijeru

As is expected of someone who is known by the ephitet "man eater," Sakura is extremely fearful toward Raijeru. She seems to be quite uncomfortable with his presence and she hides behind Khornewal in order to feel safe. In fact, some of the only times Sakura is seen showing genuine affection toward Nigel is when in the presence of Raijeru, such as when she grabbed onto Nigel's hand and pressed agains his side when Raijeru stopped to taunt her in the hallway of the Pacific citadel on their way to the Warlord conference.

#### Rokuro Ube

Sakura and Rokuro seem to engage in mutually ignoring each others existance. This most likely isn't from any malice toward each other, but instead due to the fact that before the Warlord conference in the Transfer Arc, the two most likely didn't even meet due to Rokuro being the current newest member of the Warlords, as such the two haven't had a chance to get properly acquainted.

#### Lukashenka Von Dracht

Sakura seems to have some form of disdain and dislike toward Lukashenka. While not as intense as her fear toward Raijeru, Sakura did mention feeling uncomfortable around the Vampire king as well as shivering at the sight of him, most likely from disgust due to the extreme grotesque nature of his ability rather than from any sort of fear, as she does not hide behind or press against Nigel while in the presence of Lukashenka like she does with Raijeru.

#### Anarchis Volk

Sakura and Anarchis have yet to appear together in the story, but when Khornewal comments on Volk's absence during the Warlord conference, Sakura says that she is glad that the man was not present, as she is terrified of him. With this information it is safe to assume that Sakura would act toward Anarchis in a way similar to how she acts around Raijeru, such as hiding behind Khornewal and avoiding eyecontact.

## Major battles

Tachibana Sakura Battles

**Otoru village Arc**

* Sakura and Nigel vs Dustvaan Mauler
* Sakura vs Adam Craw

**Sorcerer Academy Arc**

* Sakura vs Kudo Seros
* Sakura and Nigel vs Artira Kanovarus

**Barren valley Arc**

* Sakura and Nigel vs Crater Wasps
* Sakura and Nigel vs Roundtable Squadron
	+ Sakura vs Aman Thoyer
	+ Sakura vs Arthur Camelot
* Sakura vs Jana Yamagata

**Iduraciel Arc**

* 1st battle of Iduraciel
	+ Sakura and Andromeda Squadron vs Disciples of Nog
	+ Sakura vs Arkturon Novak
	+ Sakura vs Nigel Khornewal
	+ Sakura and Amalia Van Ornell vs Arkturon Novak
* 2nd battle of Iduraciel
	+ Sakura and Nigel vs Sagitarius Rylaek

**Two Heavens war Arc**

* Battle at Dragon's maw
	+ Sakura and Jana vs Niloi Tarabaros
	+ Sakura, Nigel, Amalia and Thesis Duvarak vs Heraklios and Skyorn
* Battle for Valor's Keep
	+ Sakura and Nigel vs Orchane Meleador
* Final battle at Vode Ahn
	+ Sakura and Nigel vs The twins
	+ Sakura vs Orchane

## Quotes

* "Shut the fuck up Khornewal!" *-Sakura's catchphrase*
* "The strength of one's resolve is more worthy than the strength of one's body. What is physical strength worth when one is not capable of wielding it?" *-Sakura to Orchane Meleador after defeating him.*
* "You're a terrible pilot." -*Sakura to Nigel Khornewal after their crash landing on Eden.*

## Trivia

* Sakura is currently the only canon character capable of peeling a cherringe with her bare hands (Titan does not count as he uses a mechanical arm to do it.) Technically making her stronger than some Demigods.