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Sheena Fujibayashi
...I’m so stupid. Stubborn to the very end… I really need to start acting more feminine at times like this and let him rescue me. ... Heh, that wouldn’t be my style, now, would it?
QUICK FACTS
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY
HISTORY
SOCIAL
ET CETERA
...I’m so stupid. Stubborn to the very end… I really need to start acting more feminine at times like this and let him rescue me. ... Heh, that wouldn’t be my style, now, would it?
QUICK FACTS
APPEARANCE
PERSONALITY
HISTORY
SOCIAL
ET CETERA
QUICK FACTS.
NAME: Sheena Fujibayashi (real name unknown)
NICKNAMES: Banshee, Jubblies, etc. Thanks Zelos.
AGE: 21 (20 + eighteen months in Exsilium)
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 106 lbs
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown
MARITAL STATUS: T... aken?????????????? ??????
SEXUALITY: Stupid boys but ????
OCCUPATION: Ninja
HOMETOWN: Mizuho
PARENTS: Igaguri, adoptive grandfather
SIBLINGS: None
TRAITS: Tsundere, probably a 10, always doing something
LIKES: Small fluffy animals that talk, cooking, helping people
DISLIKES: Thunderstorms, racists, perverts
NICKNAMES: Banshee, Jubblies, etc. Thanks Zelos.
AGE: 21 (20 + eighteen months in Exsilium)
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 106 lbs
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown
MARITAL STATUS: T... aken?????????????? ??????
SEXUALITY: Stupid boys but ????
OCCUPATION: Ninja
HOMETOWN: Mizuho
PARENTS: Igaguri, adoptive grandfather
SIBLINGS: None
TRAITS: Tsundere, probably a 10, always doing something
LIKES: Small fluffy animals that talk, cooking, helping people
DISLIKES: Thunderstorms, racists, perverts
APPEARANCE.
She's the game's token "Japanese" person. Funny how no one ever points this out.
She's the game's token "Japanese" person. Funny how no one ever points this out.
PERSONALITY.
On the outside, Sheena appears to be a sort of yamato nadeshiko, a beautiful Japanese woman without makeup and other adornments, quiet and strong. But ten seconds in her company will shatter that entirely. She has strong convictions and opinions, and isn't afraid to speak her mind or put her life on the line for what she believes in. In the same beat, she’s very accepting and forgiving of others and their differences.
There isn't anything inherently wrong with her personality, except that it clashes violently with her ninja occupation. She was reluctant to assassinate someone, for example, because he saw that the target was innocent. While this marked her as a traitor, she had good intentions and believed in them more strongly than the job she was assigned. She almost got herself killed by trying to defend a town from Desians-- a situation she barely understood, and could easily have avoided, but she wanted to save the children she'd played with before.
She's quite idealistic, meshing well with Lloyd's personality and his beliefs; he saw the good in her, and she tries to see the good in others. For example, she gets mad at Zelos, but she admits she never thought he was a bad person (in the bad ending, where he betrays the party). It's possible that Corrine, her summon spirit, helped her keep faith despite how Sheena was treated for her failures.
She has a good heart, and acknowledges when she makes mistakes. Unfortunately, she sometimes clings to them too much. Her self-esteem isn't that great in the first place, having been adopted, but she was treated like an outcast when she screwed up her first summoning pact with Volt. The deaths of many people and her grandfather's coma weigh on her heavily, causing her to take things by herself to try to prove something, and to hide her shame. Ironically, she is most afraid of being left alone. She’s also very self-conscious about her body, which probably goes along with her special abilities; she was abandoned as a child, and says it might be because she has elven blood in her line somewhere.
Though she is normally good-humored about most things, Sheena has buttons and she does not like having them being pushed. Unfortunately, that’s Zelos’ only goal in life. He is the one person who make her fly off the handle at a second’s notice. If he’s not flirting with her and getting smacked for it, he’s the one to swoop in and drag her away from stupid decisions. They are presented as two halves of a whole, with Zelos being withdrawn and almost pragmatic in comparison to her self-sacrificial tendencies. It’s important to note that he tries to distract her from the loss of Corrine, even when the other party members don’t get it. Conversely, Sheena balances out Zelos’ idiotic way of thinking, reminding him that he doesn’t have to take things on alone. The flaws in their self-esteem are very, very similar… though most of the time, it’s hard to see past the slap slap kiss dynamic they share.
Despite her fiery temper and violent banshee tendencies, Sheena is well-meaning, generous and earnest. She'll apologize when she messes up, and do her best to make up for it. A tad sentimental, perhaps, but she honestly believes in making the two worlds a better place-- so that no one else has to suffer like her friends. Like Sheena herself.
Her development in Exsilium closely follows the attitude she displays in the Symphonia sequel. Having to train constantly and watch out for other people has mellowed her slightly, made her more like an older sister figure than just another teenage soldier. She is twenty as of spending a year in Exsilium, so it makes sense. She’s also aware that she will have to lead her village someday. If anything, the hard truth of war has made her fiercely dedicated to protecting innocents and making sure no one dies needlessly; she did this at home, too, but with far less people to rely on. That’s another thing: she has no Mizuho information network, so all of her intelligence and all of her footwork comes down to Sheena herself.
However, this comes at a price: she had to choose between going home and resuming her history, unchanged but still remembering everything that happened, or staying by the side of a friend she’d known since she was a girl, and leaving an alternate self to continue and make history go on as it should. On the surface, it looks like she made a selfish choice by staying-- however, taking Zelos back to a timeline where he was still alive posed its own problems. Also, she could not face her friends, who carried no memory of Exsilium and their lives so changed, to say nothing of the man she’d kissed.
Sheena thought it was wrong to force things on people who didn’t remember them. She was not the same as the Sheena who had first arrived in Exsilium, and Zelos wasn’t the same as the one she’d left behind. With the quirks of time travel and the alternate universes they’d made, she was sure things would proceed as they should, as if she’d never left.
Sheena is loud and occasionally very lacking in common sense, but she’s by no means stupid. She knows that trying to have a healthy relationship is damned impossible especially when you’re a world-hopping, chronically time-traveling couple. For the most part, she keeps her marital status to herself. She would rather not force PDA on anyone (and in fact she’d rather not have any at all). She would also understand if something happened and they were separated. It’s a risk she is ready to take, and she knows they’ll meet again anyway. What I’m saying is that it’s not really a big deal and she would move on. It is not the focus of her character development in Exsilium.
Sheena’s maturity is wrapped more around her relations through other people. Her roommates, Axel and Riku, taught her a lot about opening up. Because of them, she’s embraced her role as a sort of sister and admitted to Axel/Lea as much. She sees them as family, like her grandfather, even closer than some of her adventuring friends. They’ve spent a lot of time together on and off the battlefield, and she has helped them with their personal troubles (and received help in return). Though we’re given no real timeframe, it’s estimated that Lloyd’s original journey took about a year to complete, which would make Sheena’s closeness to her offworld friends not unusual.
Aside from her on again, off again relationship with Zelos, Sheena is really not that much different from her canon counterpart. Most of her character development happened in the original canon, and her subsequent appearances show her dealing with her newfound responsibility much in the same way as her development in Exsilium went.
There isn't anything inherently wrong with her personality, except that it clashes violently with her ninja occupation. She was reluctant to assassinate someone, for example, because he saw that the target was innocent. While this marked her as a traitor, she had good intentions and believed in them more strongly than the job she was assigned. She almost got herself killed by trying to defend a town from Desians-- a situation she barely understood, and could easily have avoided, but she wanted to save the children she'd played with before.
She's quite idealistic, meshing well with Lloyd's personality and his beliefs; he saw the good in her, and she tries to see the good in others. For example, she gets mad at Zelos, but she admits she never thought he was a bad person (in the bad ending, where he betrays the party). It's possible that Corrine, her summon spirit, helped her keep faith despite how Sheena was treated for her failures.
She has a good heart, and acknowledges when she makes mistakes. Unfortunately, she sometimes clings to them too much. Her self-esteem isn't that great in the first place, having been adopted, but she was treated like an outcast when she screwed up her first summoning pact with Volt. The deaths of many people and her grandfather's coma weigh on her heavily, causing her to take things by herself to try to prove something, and to hide her shame. Ironically, she is most afraid of being left alone. She’s also very self-conscious about her body, which probably goes along with her special abilities; she was abandoned as a child, and says it might be because she has elven blood in her line somewhere.
Though she is normally good-humored about most things, Sheena has buttons and she does not like having them being pushed. Unfortunately, that’s Zelos’ only goal in life. He is the one person who make her fly off the handle at a second’s notice. If he’s not flirting with her and getting smacked for it, he’s the one to swoop in and drag her away from stupid decisions. They are presented as two halves of a whole, with Zelos being withdrawn and almost pragmatic in comparison to her self-sacrificial tendencies. It’s important to note that he tries to distract her from the loss of Corrine, even when the other party members don’t get it. Conversely, Sheena balances out Zelos’ idiotic way of thinking, reminding him that he doesn’t have to take things on alone. The flaws in their self-esteem are very, very similar… though most of the time, it’s hard to see past the slap slap kiss dynamic they share.
Despite her fiery temper and violent banshee tendencies, Sheena is well-meaning, generous and earnest. She'll apologize when she messes up, and do her best to make up for it. A tad sentimental, perhaps, but she honestly believes in making the two worlds a better place-- so that no one else has to suffer like her friends. Like Sheena herself.
Her development in Exsilium closely follows the attitude she displays in the Symphonia sequel. Having to train constantly and watch out for other people has mellowed her slightly, made her more like an older sister figure than just another teenage soldier. She is twenty as of spending a year in Exsilium, so it makes sense. She’s also aware that she will have to lead her village someday. If anything, the hard truth of war has made her fiercely dedicated to protecting innocents and making sure no one dies needlessly; she did this at home, too, but with far less people to rely on. That’s another thing: she has no Mizuho information network, so all of her intelligence and all of her footwork comes down to Sheena herself.
However, this comes at a price: she had to choose between going home and resuming her history, unchanged but still remembering everything that happened, or staying by the side of a friend she’d known since she was a girl, and leaving an alternate self to continue and make history go on as it should. On the surface, it looks like she made a selfish choice by staying-- however, taking Zelos back to a timeline where he was still alive posed its own problems. Also, she could not face her friends, who carried no memory of Exsilium and their lives so changed, to say nothing of the man she’d kissed.
Sheena thought it was wrong to force things on people who didn’t remember them. She was not the same as the Sheena who had first arrived in Exsilium, and Zelos wasn’t the same as the one she’d left behind. With the quirks of time travel and the alternate universes they’d made, she was sure things would proceed as they should, as if she’d never left.
Sheena is loud and occasionally very lacking in common sense, but she’s by no means stupid. She knows that trying to have a healthy relationship is damned impossible especially when you’re a world-hopping, chronically time-traveling couple. For the most part, she keeps her marital status to herself. She would rather not force PDA on anyone (and in fact she’d rather not have any at all). She would also understand if something happened and they were separated. It’s a risk she is ready to take, and she knows they’ll meet again anyway. What I’m saying is that it’s not really a big deal and she would move on. It is not the focus of her character development in Exsilium.
Sheena’s maturity is wrapped more around her relations through other people. Her roommates, Axel and Riku, taught her a lot about opening up. Because of them, she’s embraced her role as a sort of sister and admitted to Axel/Lea as much. She sees them as family, like her grandfather, even closer than some of her adventuring friends. They’ve spent a lot of time together on and off the battlefield, and she has helped them with their personal troubles (and received help in return). Though we’re given no real timeframe, it’s estimated that Lloyd’s original journey took about a year to complete, which would make Sheena’s closeness to her offworld friends not unusual.
Aside from her on again, off again relationship with Zelos, Sheena is really not that much different from her canon counterpart. Most of her character development happened in the original canon, and her subsequent appearances show her dealing with her newfound responsibility much in the same way as her development in Exsilium went.
HISTORY.
So there’s two worlds: Sylvarant and Tethe’alla, one flourishing and one in decline, neither one aware of each other’s existence except for a few special people. Sheena was one of them. She was sent to assassinate the Chosen of the opposite world so that Tethe’alla would continue to flourish, and also to restore honor to her village/herself/etc. She ended up staying because Colette was too nice and she got the feeling there was more to the story than what she’d been told. Like the others, she was drawn in and the true state of the worlds was slowly revealed. The most startling was that Exspheres were made from human souls, people who were kept in concentration camps (human ranches) and tortured in order to give some shiny rocks power. An awful difference between the worlds was that half-elves were basically enslaved in Tethe’alla and treated like criminals, while half-elves-- or Desians-- in Sylvarant were basically Nazis. Great.
Anyway, Sheena helped them along the journey. Colette became an angel, which meant losing her soul. Sure, Sylvarant would flourish due to the reversed mana flow-- but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that they were lied to, and Colette was born just for the purpose of dying. Lloyd and his friends skipped across to the other world to find a cure. Eventually they found it and Colette was back to herself. They made some new friends too, and helped out Sheena’s village. They discovered that the goddess they worshiped wasn’t actually a goddess at all, but an angel much like Colette was, and her evil little brother with the saintly smile was the one who split the worlds in the first place. Mithos Yggdrasill was also responsible for forming Cruxis, enforcing Desian rule on the declining world, and basically engineering several thousand years of genocide for the sake of getting his sister a new body.
Obviously this wasn’t cool, and eventually the party killed him and put the world back the way it was. There were a lot of inspirational speeches along the way. Yep.
There are a few key points that change depending on the player's choices in the game, the most famous of which being the 'Character Affection' system. Like Dragon Age but cuter and with slightly less dying, but just as much betrayal. Here's a quick rundown of the choices that canon usually defaults to and also how they affected Sheena:
Firstly, Lloyd chose the Colette path and would eventually journey with her. Though he spoke to Kratos in Flanoir, Zelos' life was spared (this is according to manga canon, which ties up everything quite nicely). Sheena fought Kuchinawa, a childhood friend who wanted her dead, and won. Igaguri, her adopted grandfather, woke up from his long coma and declared Sheena his successor. Sheena has not became chief yet, but will assume her grandfather's position shortly before the events of the sequel, Dawn of the New World. Sheena's crush on Lloyd remained unrequited, and they all went their separate ways after reuniting the two worlds.
This is the canonical affection path according to several sources (drama CDs, the game and its sequel, and the manga, which is faithful to the game).
In addition to the above, Sheena spent fifteen months in Exsilium. During those fifteen months, she endured several bombing runs, gruesome missions, witnessed excessive loss of life, and fought so hard she nearly passed out. Several times. She also dealt with the deaths of several friends and disappearances. The most important thing she did was build bridges between Zelos, who came from the bad ending where he died, and the rest of her castmates, who didn’t seem to understand he wanted nothing to do with them.
After Zelos was kidnapped and nearly died, and she had discussed some things with her closest friends, she came to the realization that 1. Zelos liked her and 2. she liked him back. So, yeah, they tried to have a serious relationship in a war game. This didn’t actually go as poorly as one might expect, since they’re both adults and used to fighting, though it meant they had to make some hard decisions when the time came for Exsilium to shut down.
Knowing what she did of the future and alternate timelines, Sheena gave up on any hope of dragging Zelos to her world-- and possibly erasing him-- and instead chose to go with Zelos to whatever world he ended up on. Though they had plans to go with Asbel Lhant to his homeworld, she’s taken from before she could leave Exsilium/post-apocalyptic Earth.
Anyway, Sheena helped them along the journey. Colette became an angel, which meant losing her soul. Sure, Sylvarant would flourish due to the reversed mana flow-- but that didn’t matter. What mattered was that they were lied to, and Colette was born just for the purpose of dying. Lloyd and his friends skipped across to the other world to find a cure. Eventually they found it and Colette was back to herself. They made some new friends too, and helped out Sheena’s village. They discovered that the goddess they worshiped wasn’t actually a goddess at all, but an angel much like Colette was, and her evil little brother with the saintly smile was the one who split the worlds in the first place. Mithos Yggdrasill was also responsible for forming Cruxis, enforcing Desian rule on the declining world, and basically engineering several thousand years of genocide for the sake of getting his sister a new body.
Obviously this wasn’t cool, and eventually the party killed him and put the world back the way it was. There were a lot of inspirational speeches along the way. Yep.
There are a few key points that change depending on the player's choices in the game, the most famous of which being the 'Character Affection' system. Like Dragon Age but cuter and with slightly less dying, but just as much betrayal. Here's a quick rundown of the choices that canon usually defaults to and also how they affected Sheena:
Firstly, Lloyd chose the Colette path and would eventually journey with her. Though he spoke to Kratos in Flanoir, Zelos' life was spared (this is according to manga canon, which ties up everything quite nicely). Sheena fought Kuchinawa, a childhood friend who wanted her dead, and won. Igaguri, her adopted grandfather, woke up from his long coma and declared Sheena his successor. Sheena has not became chief yet, but will assume her grandfather's position shortly before the events of the sequel, Dawn of the New World. Sheena's crush on Lloyd remained unrequited, and they all went their separate ways after reuniting the two worlds.
This is the canonical affection path according to several sources (drama CDs, the game and its sequel, and the manga, which is faithful to the game).
In addition to the above, Sheena spent fifteen months in Exsilium. During those fifteen months, she endured several bombing runs, gruesome missions, witnessed excessive loss of life, and fought so hard she nearly passed out. Several times. She also dealt with the deaths of several friends and disappearances. The most important thing she did was build bridges between Zelos, who came from the bad ending where he died, and the rest of her castmates, who didn’t seem to understand he wanted nothing to do with them.
After Zelos was kidnapped and nearly died, and she had discussed some things with her closest friends, she came to the realization that 1. Zelos liked her and 2. she liked him back. So, yeah, they tried to have a serious relationship in a war game. This didn’t actually go as poorly as one might expect, since they’re both adults and used to fighting, though it meant they had to make some hard decisions when the time came for Exsilium to shut down.
Knowing what she did of the future and alternate timelines, Sheena gave up on any hope of dragging Zelos to her world-- and possibly erasing him-- and instead chose to go with Zelos to whatever world he ended up on. Though they had plans to go with Asbel Lhant to his homeworld, she’s taken from before she could leave Exsilium/post-apocalyptic Earth.
FRIENDS.
