yae sakura is so everything to me she's a tragic lesbian (canonical) in every sense of the word. she was the daughter of her village's miko and was forced to kill her little sister (whom she was desperately trying to save) in a ritual! her father literally took her hands and made her stab her sister all while her sister was comforting her and asked sakura to become the best miko! this incident made her lose faith in here village and the god it prayed to because the ritual had worked and she couldn't come to terms with devoting herself to a god that would ask of a child's slaughter!! BUT SHE STILL STAYED BECAUSE OF HER SISTER'S ASK!! she would continue these ritual sacrifices while also grieving and committing every child's name to memory!!! she would mourn them alongside her sister while resentment for her village festered!!!! this resentment was ultimately the thing that drew the herrscher (kinda like. a god.) in the black box (an artifact that kallen brought) to her, corrupting her and possessing her in a way!!!!! sakura's collusion with the herrscher was because of all her pent up resentment! and her relationship kallen!!!! kallen (who's design is based off of a nun and is a jesus-like character) ran away from her home with the stolen black box because she the rulers of her nation were corrupt. in sakura, she found a new home. and in turn, sakura found a new home in her!! kallen was the first person since rin that made sakura happy! kallen was the only person that ever validated that sakura's resentment!! so even when kallen was the reason why the herrscher found sakura, kallen was still ultimately the reason why sakura snapped out of her possession and turned against the herrscher!!!!!! ITS ABOUT LOVE AND HOME AND RESENTMENT AURHGHGHHGGHHG. even when sakura and the herrscher were trapped in the black box together because sakura couldn't get away in time, she held on to the image of kallen, fully believing that her beloved would come save her. and by the time she DID get out of the box, 500 years had passed and kallen had long been dead!!! fun fact kallen was sentenced to execution and during her trial she stated "the herrscher girl is innocent and i am in love with her!" I HAVENT EVEN MENTIONED HOW HER STORY TIES IN SO BEAUTIFULLY WITH THE PREVIOUS ERA.
