Chris! Is That A Meme?!

At this point, Sara would perhaps wish to know who her missing father was or to meet the role model who inspired her. However, she doesn’t really believe in the usual wishing rituals as described, but rather putting in the effort for the work needed and having faith in HaShem has somehow taken her quite far. She isn’t afraid to indulge on the little rituals like here on the rare occasion, but it’s not what she believes in.

🌀 (swirl) - What is your OC's favorite shape?

Questions I haven’t thought of, but here we are! I’d say overall it’s boiled down to stars and circles. Triangles are a runner-up but Sara isn’t really concerned about this.

💎 (diamond) - What is your OC's birthstone? Do they match, or "fit", their birthstone and what it represents?

Again, a solid question I hadn’t really thought on before. I don’t actually quite know when Sara was born, aside from the fact of it being early 1944, probably sometime between winter and spring of that year. It leaves her birthstone to be somewhere between January and March, making her potential birthstones (briefly referenced from the international gem society):

January: Garnet. While commonly red (NOT Sara’s colour lmao), they’re associated with warriors, royalty and life-giving blood. While maybe it could work in certain contexts, I don’t think this fits her.

February: Amethyst. While a closer match, the royalty aspect still bugs me. While spirituality, mental clarity and healing are good points of contesting, I still don’t feel this is 100% her.

March: Aquamarine. The only stone *close* to blue, the sea theming, marital happiness and ‘superior intellect’ still don’t sit right.

On separate research, I’m more keen to associate Sara with either Sapphires, Lapis Lazuli and/or Opals. There is biblical context to this (which I’ll yap about and link to in each section!) but they feel right to Sara’s character than any birthstone given.

Sapphires:

Biblically, they're a representation of divine truth, wisdom, heavenly revelation, also symbolising purity and holiness.

As a detective to be, Sara is (of course) frequently in pursuit of the truth and has an ear out for wisdom, but over the course of the series, learns to open up to G-d's word coming into play and starts to engage with Him more than she used to before. On the subject of purity: she's never dated and never had a romantic partner (I have been making this joke since 2019, but regardless if she identifies with the term or not, she is still an ace detective.)

Lapis Lazuli:

Associated with royalty, divinity, the heavens (the pyrite in it reminiscent of stars), divine presence and authority, power, wisdom and divine favour. It is also considered one of the more 'confirmed' stones of the High Priest's breastplate in Ancient Israel, which - Sara being Jewish - kicks in extra.

For the project being initially named 'Moonrunner' and since developing a celestial visual and textual theme, alongside the shared symbolism sapphires', I find it more pertinent than I initially thought. As for the royalty aspect...

Opals:

Considered incredibly beautiful and rare in biblical times then as it is now (maybe less rare now?), they've had the representation of beauty, value and divine glory in the biblical sense.

Why choose this for Sara? I'm more used to baseline white with coloured fractals opals than not. Since her main palette is blue and white, I had to figure out a wonderful white gemstone somewhere.

In other words: