Sarah

Sarah Jyonna Skylar is a 14-year-old lavender girl who Antcruz’s roommate and best friend. After a traumatic incident involving child abuse, she ran away and started a new life in Miracle Island, and has since then made new friends, started her first romantic relationship with Dash, and became one of the highest-graded students at Miracle Academy, as well as getting a job as a fashion model for a clothing company on the island known as Studio Presence. Though her main focus is her social life and her status in school, she is supportive of her roommate’s hero status, often aiding him in battles with her powerful gun. She is a fan of pop music and mandarin chicken salad, and rumor has it that she has never taken off her hat in her life.

Backstory
Sarah was born on February 14, 2007. Her parents were always infamous for their frequent financial problems due to their incompetence when it came to work, but not long after Sarah turned 11 years old, they were fired for the “god-only-knowsth” time, this time with them feeling more unmotivated than ever, no longer applying for work and leaving them without money to provide for their daughter with. At this point, with them completely giving up, they would start to physically abuse her and take out their anger and misery on her, as well as emotionally hurting her further by calling her “useless” and “nothing but a fucking obstacle.” It was because of this that Sarah ran away from home one night, wearing scratched up and ragged cat pajamas and armed with a gun that she had stolen from the back of the shed that she was forced to sleep in quickly before leaving home. The next morning, after nearly 16 hours of hiking, she snuck onto an airplane that was heading for Miracle Island, with the fact that one of her former friends, Antcruz, had also moved there previously being taken into consideration. After making it to Miracle Island, for the first few days, she would be stuck in the same tattered up pajamas and drink from the ocean, often growing desperately thirsty, and nearly turned herself in to an orphanage, until she finally found Antcruz. Sarah told him about her experiences and how she got to where she was at that point, with Antcruz responding by helping her get cleaned up and get food. The two would begin to develop a stronger bond than the one they grew before Antcruz initially moved away, and a few days later, he would eventually allow her to live with him in his apartment due to failure to find a new home at that point. Antcruz would also help Sarah apply for a scholarship at Miracle Academy, and she would later go on to get a job as a fashion model for the girls’ clothing company “Studio Presence” and form a romantic relationship with Dash, another one of Antcruz’s close friends. After witnessing Antcruz’s first battle with Ava, Sarah has also decided to throw her hat in the ring and participate in his ongoing fight with her and Zane, once again using the gun that she had previously stolen from her parents’ garage as a form of defense to her advantage. Similar to Antcruz, her weapon had little to no other purpose up until this point.

Personality
Sarah is a lot more sociable and outgoing than her roommate, being able to easily make many friends during her earlier years attending Miracle Academy, and being widely respected by her peers as very approachable and fun to be around. However, she tends to grow lonely easily when there’s nobody around, especially when outside or in generally very open or dark areas, where she starts to feel very insecure, as triggered by her past traumatic experiences. This goes as far as her not being able to sleep unless Antcruz is in the room with her while she’s trying to fall asleep, which, while an annoyance to him, is respected. Sarah is also shown to have a playful rivalry with her roommate in some instances, most notably in the Artist Review series. While Sarah is Antcruz’s most frequent ally in battle, she is usually the most reluctant and nervous to fight, another showcase of her insecurity, but chooses to fight anyway, believing in justice in a similar way to Antcruz.

Appearance
Sarah has a lavender skin tone. She has long, black hair with spikes at the bottom, but has sideburns identical to Antcruz’s. A piece of her hair also sticks out from underneath her hat. She has dark blue eyes with two eyelashes on each eye. Her outfit includes her signature short, dark purple top hat with a pink stripe, which typically has a pinkflower placed on it. This flower was originally placed onto her hat for the first time by Dash, who stated that it “looked cute on her.” Since then, the flower has always remained there. The rest of Sarah’s attire includes a sleeveless, dark purple shirt with a pink button collar and a pink Studio Presence “SP” logo on its side, a pink skirt, purple slip-on shoes, and light blue earrings.

Antcruz
Being roommates, Antcruz and Sarah have been shown to be best friends with each other, with a playful rivalry in some instances, most notably showcased in the Artist Review series of videos. Antcruz also cares deeply about Sarah and has empathy for what she went through in the past, most notably shown near the beginning of Sarah’s residence in Miracle Island, when Antcruz let her stay with him in his apartment, with the two of them becoming roommates since then. The two often go on adventures together when they’re not busy, and often aid each other in battles.

Nia
Sarah loves Nia just as much as Antcruz does, though Nia seems to have a stronger bond with Sarah than Antcruz, as when leaving the apartment, she is usually seen hovering right beside Sarah’s head or laying on one of her shoulders. She is also hidden inside Sarah’s backpack during school and usually sleeps in the same bed as her. This could be because Sarah had a stronger role in nursing Nia back to health when she crash landed on Earth.

Dash
Sarah and Dash have been romantically involved for a couple of years at this point. Similar to how his friendship with Antcruz started, Dash didn’t like her much at first, begrudgingly hanging out with her since both were friends with Antcruz, but Sarah’s charm and ability to bond with others would quickly get to him and their relationship would soon become stronger than ever before. The two care for each other more than anything else and go on dates very often, with dates being more common than Sarah’s sleepovers with Natalie. Sarah also has sleepovers with Dash occasionally.

Natalie
Sarah and Natalie are best friends, with Natalie being one of Sarah’s first friends since escaping to Miracle Island, meeting each other at Avery’s Super Spacecade while Sarah was still trying to find her way around. Since quickly becoming friends, they have often paired up with each other for their assignments at Miracle Academy and have often had sleepovers together, with the latter being much to Antcruz’s dismay. Sarah also looks up to Natalie in a similar way to how Natalie looks up to Antcruz, with Sarah admiring her quick improvements and determination in battle. Natalie has gone on record saying that one of the reasons she decided to work with bombs was so that she could outdo Sarah’s explosive bullets if they were to do competitions.

Trivia
- Sarah is voiced by me, although her lines require me to use a slower delivery when recording her lines due to the recordings having to be sped up. This fact is a common joke in the Artist Review series, particularly in the second episode.

- Aside from Antcruz and Antlia, Sarah is one of the earliest characters still being used, with her debut appearance dating back to October 2018.

- While Sarah is the second earliest character (third if Antlia is counted) to still be used to this day and the earliest secondary character to still be used, she isn’t the first secondary character. There were two scrapped secondary characters, the first being a teal guy named Strik in 2014 and the other being a purple guy named Copsee in 2015. This also shows that the idea for each character to be a unique color dates all the way back to 2014, just a year after Antcruz’s debut.

- Sarah was also the first character I created with the universe in mind as well as my first LGBT character.

- For a while, it was commonly believed that Sarah was purple before it was established that she’s actually lavender. Since then, this has become a running gag of sorts, as seen notably in Artist Review and some doodles.

- Sarah was meant to be Puerto Rican at one point due to some visual similarities to Antcruz. This was scrapped because I thought she felt too American.

- An early character bio for Sarah suggested that her favorite music genre was J-pop and that she was a huge fan of the music artist Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. I scrapped this because I thought it was too basic of a choice and overall disliked the idea of bringing real people into my OC universe to that extent.

- Another scrapped characteristic of Sarah was that she was at one point supposed to be a news reporter. This was scrapped as I felt it would make no sense for an (at the time) 12 year old to have a job like that, as well as it making no sense that she could easily juggle with her schedule with this job added on.

- Similar to the previous idea, the original idea for how Sarah and Dash would’ve met was that they would meet at an anime convention that Antcruz took them both to. I scrapped this because I thought it would’ve been too out of character for Antcruz and especially Dash.

- An unnoticed quirk that nobody has pointed out yet is that the flower on Sarah’s hat changes which side of the hat it’s on depending on the angle that Sarah is facing. This was actually completely intentional, as I thought it was similar to how Mickey Mouse’s ears rotate/shift depending on the angle and just thought it was easier to draw.