[ new character vote ] - Official discussion

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Can anyone tell me who is sakura?

*deep breath*
To go more in depth than the people above, Sakura is the original fighting school girl. Starting her fighting career at the age of thirteen (the year she first saw Ryu fight, and when she idolized him), and becoming a street fighter and Street Fighter Alpha 2 at the age of 14, Sakura is a fighting prodigy. Without any previous training other than her 13th year of life, she went off into the world to fight Ryu, and on the way met Sagat. I'll assume she beat him in the fight that ensued, due to him falling so much since his defeat from Ryu, and because Sagat's midboss in the game isn't Sakura.

Meeting up with Ryu, she fights with him. Winning, though because Ryu "lets" her, Sakura is left with only a momento of Ryu as he leaves and declines her a chance to be his student on the grounds that he still needs to learn himself.

SFA3: The whole story behind sfa3 is kinda freaky. She's still looking for Ryu, but this time to find out the true meaning of the word "fight". She meets with E. Honda, who tells her of where Ryu could be, and then she goes off. Along her journey to find Ryu, Sakura meets up with Ken, and I believe Sagat as well. Then they find *Psycho* Ryu and Bison, and Sakura and Ken fight off Bison while Sagat fights with Ryu. We all know M. Bison loses, and that Ryu returns to normal, and then Sakura promises to become ten times stronger than she is.

...And that's pretty much all of her SF history. We don't really know what's happened to her since then.

.....Oh, and I voted (needless to say) for Sakura, because she's kawaii and she kicks ass. (excuse my language)