Sakura Birthday Headcanons
Let the record show that I did not forget Miss Sakura’s birthday headcanons, I’ve just been drowning in schoolwork lately. Nonetheless, they’re here now and I’m fairly happy with how they turned out this year, so I sincerely hope you enjoy them! :D
‣ In a critical healing situation, do yourself a favour and stay out of her way. Sakura’s not cruel by any means, but her personality can really change when someone is in critical enough condition. She may be teary-eyed and worried, but when it comes to getting this person what they need, she won’t hesitate to give orders and push people out of the way if they’re not helping. That doesn’t mean she never has compassion for a panicking family member or someone who doesn’t know what to do, but if you’re not someone who knows how to handle it, move along — this girl does and she’ll do it the best it can be done.
‣ It’s not an overwhelming anxiety on par with abandonment issues, but since Mikoto passed away, Sakura’s been… a bit nervous about death. Not so much herself — although that is something she occasionally thinks about — but the loss of her siblings and retainers. Before the events leading up to her mother’s death, death was a sort of weird, out of the picture thing. She knew her birth mother and her father died, and that was sad, but she can’t remember a time when they weren’t gone. Mikoto is the first time that death has touched something that Sakura loved so deeply, and knowing how to respond was difficult. I imagine she probably used to have dreams worrying about what would happen if one of her siblings or retainers was to get seriously hurt or injured, and what she would do if something happened to them. They were probably confused by the big hug they got the next day.
‣ Playing her koto is a calming activity for her. It sounds a bit cheesy, but she’s often able to lose herself in the music whenever she plays. She doesn’t need to worry about the troubles of the world, or think about all of the things that are running through her mind at any given moment. She can just focus on the music and plucking the strings, enjoying the familiarity of songs she’s played before and the sound of the notes as they reach her ears. Sometimes she’ll even try to make it part of her nightly routine for days on end, soothing herself with it until she feels ready to fall asleep.
‣ She knows it’s not good for her, but screw it, Sakura will eat dessert at any point in the day. If dessert is the question, then the answer is yes. Her favourite is mitarashi dango, but she’s also partial to mochi (any kind of filling is good, but she likes strawberries best), purin, and dorayaki. Though she’s a princess and is used to having these things made for her, she loves watching the castle staff and local bakers and confectioners make the desserts. For one birthday, Mikoto even made arrangements for her to get dango-making lessons with the rest of her siblings. Sakura was overjoyed and had a great time laughing and playing with her siblings. She secretly wants to try for another round after the war, this time learning to making purin (at least partially because she thinks watching Ryoma, Hinoka, and Takumi get increasingly confused by their inability to get the shape right would be amusing, though she’d never admit it), but she’s a bit shy to ask just yet.
‣ Unlike Takumi, Sakura has much less complex feelings about Mikoto’s longing for her lost child. Rather than feeling like she might be replaced by Corrin, Sakura more so found herself joined in Mikoto’s longing for Corrin’s return. Corrin was presented to her as such a dreamy concept, a long lost-sibling like in a fairy tale, so she didn’t think anything of it. She used to daydream a lot about what her lost sibling would be like, and what adventures they might have all together… and she definitely thought about how great it would be to see Mikoto overwhelmed with joy at the return of her child.
‣ As a princess, she tends to focus very much on the social and humanitarian aspects of her work. She’s technically expected to be a good hostess too, as well as a producers of heirs, she’s… not so into that first one due to her dislike of parties, and though she’s already gone through her coming-of-age ceremony, her family has no intention of marrying her off and getting her started on that… So she gets to do stuff that permits her to focus on improving life for people in Hoshido and caring for them when disaster strikes! She much prefers this to the other avenues she could take, although someday she hopes she’ll be at least half-decent at hosting parties — if only to make it less difficult to go to them.
‣ Sakura has the sweetest singing voice, and isn’t a bad dancer, either. She learned to sing from Azura when she was a little girl, and the two of them would often sing together as they did day-to-day tasks. Takumi, on the other hand, is the one who taught her to dance — he’s always been pretty good, so she got a real kick of dancing around with him then, too. She’s often too shy to showcase it, but she loves to do it in more private moments with friends and family. If you catch her singing by herself, though, she’ll probably turn bright pink and apologize.
‣ Sakura's dolls were apart of a family-wide birthday gift when she was about eight. It was a pretty cute gift, all things considered: it started out with just two dolls. One of her, and one of Corrin, from Mikoto. Then, as part of his gift, Ryoma gave the next. Then as part of hers, Hinoka gave the next. They all gave Sakura a doll as part of her gift so she had a collection of their entire little family, which she was absolutely delighted by. Everyone got big hugs and thank yous that year, and she’s treasured those dolls ever since.
‣ Sakura likes all animals, but she particularly likes bunnies. She loves how soft and fluffy they are, and likes their docile nature. She would love to have one as a pet, but there’s never really been a good time for her to get one. Instead she just feeds the wild rabbits that make their way onto the castle grounds, enjoying watching them munch their greens and twitch their sweet little noses.
‣ She was inspired to become a healer after watching Mikoto heal one of Takumi’s scrapes when they were small. He’d been scraped up pretty badly after a fall — the two of them were probably playing somewhere they shouldn’t’ve been — and he was bawling his eyes out. Sakura sat there the whole time, holding his hand, and watching as Mikoto kindly and carefully patched him right up. Sakura was so mystified by and envious of her ability to fix all of his wounds and comfort him that she begged Mikoto to teach her how. Mikoto thought it was a great idea, and offered to teach her, as well as hire her a tutor for when she wasn’t available.
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