What's Donna's relationships like with her sisters in the 63 sainw?
[SAINW!Donna is a very broken young lady who is slowly piecing her mind back together and rediscovering who her sisters are in this new reality. Angie is the one who found her and has gone totally Mama bear over her, and in doing so brought a lot of the Angie back to SAINW!Michelangela. Donna’s probably the most comfortable around her, for many reasons. It a bit odd to Donna how easily she finds herself accepting being the younger sister in the new dynamic, and Angie does tend to push her around a lot for her own good, which frustrates her to no end sometimes, but Angie was the first familiar thing she found in this new world after breaking out of the void, and Angie is in many ways her anchor back to sanity. Despite the fact that she’s probably changed the most, paradoxically, Angie is the one who still feels the most familiar.
Lea is still very much Lea. Older, and broken, and blind, but still Lea, and Donna brings back the gentleness that thirty years of hell ground out of her. If Angie pushes Donna around in a coddling way, Lea is very much the opposite. Lea pushes Donna to her absolute limits, but her reasoning is the same. She has her missing sister back, and wants her to stay in one piece. For all it hurts, Donna is very grateful for that. She hates how much of herself she’s lost in the void, and trusts Lea absolutely. Angie and August worry Lea’s pushing Donna too hard, but Donna trusts that her leader knows what’s best, for all that she loses her temper while in the midst of it.
I haven’t had a chance to play SAINW!Donna off Ella yet, but I imagine, like Raph, Ella is the most visibly delighted to have Donna back, and spends every moment she can as close as possible to her. Ella is also the one who gets the biggest kick out of the fact that Donna is now the smallest of the four of them, and won’t hesitate to be the most physically demanding. While Lea and Angie push her around in metaphoric sense, Ella will actually just up and haul Donna around if she thinks that’s what’s best. While that makes Donna about as happy as you’d expect, Ella has always had a knack for making Donna feel safe, and that’s amplified a thousand times in the SAINW reality. They’re all family and she loves them all dearly, but when Ella’s nearby, all her old memories reinforce the feeling that nothing can touch her so long as her grouchy big sister is near. It’s part of why she doesn’t protest being carted around nearly as strongly as she otherwise might.]