The Way of the Warrior,
Sara's version of Bushido for the modern era.

The Seven Guiding principles.

1.Gi: The right decision, taken with equanimity, the right attitude.
Always hold true to your own values and act accordingly. Do not force your
values on others, no one can be forced to be happy and there are many ways
to find happiness.

        --- she will base her decisions on her own values, mainly that of
this code of honor and on her hope of improving the world. She tries to
remember that other poeple see things differently.

2. Yu: Bravery tinged with heroism. Fear is a weakness that can kill you
and those you love. You must always believe in yourself and in your cause,
you must be whiling to make sacrifices. 
        --- She will not flee from a fight unless there is no other
option. She is willing to die for her principles, but is not as willing to
sacrifice the lives of innocents. If she can save the lives of innocent
people by dieing she will do so with out hesitation. She feels it is her
duty to fight so that others need not feel the misery of killing, She
feels that it is also her duty to die to protect the things and people she
loves. People are innocent, if she deems them to be.

3. Jin: Universal love, benevolence toward mankind; compassion. Including
Right View, perception of things and events from multiple perspectives not
only one.
        --- This comes out mainly in tht she can never turn a person in
need down. I was actually thinking of giving her Charitable to cover this
part, because in general it is such a basic part of personality. If
there's a kid in need of a home she takes them to hers. If someone needs
money she'll give them her last dollar.  If someone is in need of aid it
is her duty of help them somehow.
        --- Judging people should be done with caution, she tries not to
form opinions about people to quickly. And is always trying to look at a
person or thing from a different point of view before passing judgment.

4. Rei: Right action--courtesy and just action. Do what you must to be
true to yourself. Treat others, as you would have them treat you.
        --- She treats the bum on the street the same as the mayor of the
city. Which means that if she has reason to believe someone is a murderer
no matter what their station she will act accordingly. She tends of
apologize alot, for making judgements and for having to hurt people. Along
the lines of "I'm sorry but since you did not surrender now I will have to
take action against you." it is also a long the lines of saying to
someone, Talia-"I'm sorry", NPC - "huh?", Talia- "I'm sorry I thought you
were a bad person for a moment."

5. Makoto: Utter sincerity; truthfulness. Honesty in terms of always being
true to yourself.  If you are not true to yourself how can you expect
other to be true to you?  Lying begets lying and spawns distrust.
        --- She will not lie, lieing is based upon her view of the truth.
She will not stop others around her from lieing but she will make it known
that she does not approve of it, if they do so intentionally. This also
means that in general she tries to stay within the law. But she holds her
law/code higher than that of the Law. As in if the two are in conflict she
will stick to her own sense of honor and truth, not those placed upon her.
She doesn't like bending the rules, her or anyone elses, but will do so
for the greater good, or to maintain a more important rule. Such as lieing
and saying she did something to keep a freind out of trouble. But once she
lies she feels that she has to purge herself of it, and will tend to go
tell someone of her error as soon as she can.  As in, as soon as her
friend is out of danger, she'll say that she lied to save them.

3. Melyo: Honor and Glory, but always taken with humility, the truly great
need not say so.
        --- taking credit for what you've done, but not for what other
have done. Honor is the gift, that one gives herself. It's the pride that
one is allowed to have when you have done what is right and prevailed. It
is a gift to oneself this means that no one else needs to hear about is.
She does not Boost ever and most of the time will pass the credit on to
someone else.

7. Chugo: Devotion, Loyalty. Do not turn on yourself or those you love.
Believe in yourself and those you trust. Doubt is the seed of
destruction.
        --- She always keeps her word once given. She will finish every
task she is given and will not accept excuses from others when they don't
come through. Trust is something she is whilling to offer but as soon as
you betray it she is swift to remove any loyalties she might have to you.
She also tends to believe that people are good unlit proven otherwise. She
will also take the blame from other she feels undeserving of it. If the
party gets in trouble she'll jump up and try to take all the credit in
hope of getting the rest off the hook. For her friends she will sacrifice
herself with out thought.

The Greater Underlying Principles:

Pacification of the emotions; Vengeance and revenge are as the snake that bite
his own tail, everything you send out will come back to you.
        --- She avoids actiing on strong emotions such as Vengance, Revenge,
Hate, Lust, Dispair, Loss, .. etc. But she does act on love, loyalty, honor,
need, and rightousness. 

Tranquil compliance with the inevitable; Death and life are one, when your time
comes do not fear the consequences of your life. If you have lived life to
it's fullest then you shall have no regrets.
        --- This aspect makes her a little bit reckless incertain
instances. She is willing and capable of doing almost anything to protect
the people and things she loves. She believes very strongly in not having
any regrets.  She can and will make the big decisions swiftly, and without
regret. She may however appologize later(if there is a later) if she made
a bad decision.

Self-control in the face of any event; In the Calm of the storm one face any
obstacle with out distraction. Sometimes inaction is better than action.
        --- This is what keeps her from being reckless most of the time,
it ties in strongly with not acting on strong emotions. She tends to think
before she acts and tries to remind herself of it at all time. She has a
bit of trouble with this one when a life is in danger.

Respect all life, especially when you are about to take one. All things have
the right to live, but some loose this right. Fight for each breath as if it
were your last.
        --- She always accepts an honorable surrender, and will
methodically give people the option before attacking and especially before
any killing blow. She's not big on the sneaking in and getting the first
shot plan. She prefers not to kill poeple and tries to prevent others from
killing people around her unless it is absolutely necessary. If there is
no other choice then she will often burry or arrange for burrial of any
bodies out of repect for the those that died. She doesn't like to leave
dead bodies lieing around. This does not mean in the middle of an
important operation she'll stop and start burrying bodies. Only that when
things are settled she'll make an effort to make sure their remains are
handled properly.

Harmony and balance in all things. A person must be balanced in order to be at
peace.
        --- One can not be just a fighter, being a great swordsman does not
make you a happy person. She studies a wide range of things to keep
herself balanced. She has points spread into things such as Signing,
origami, surfing, astronomy, mechanic and anthropology. She's still a
great swordmen and combat person in general but she also has many
non-cambat ones as well.

Poverty. Material wealth is meaningless with out spiritual and mental
 wealth. Take what you need to survive.
        --- She should have no more than a max wealth of poverty level
struggling. And even then most of that money has been given away to people she
feels need it more than she does. She doesn't care much for physical
posessions, but there are a few things of hers that she would rather die
 than lose, that being her sword and a charm Kaji gave her. This also
means that she doesn't think much when destorying things. In this way she
tends to be rather thoughtless, she just forgets that other people value
their possesions. ie "Ooops, I'm sorry did that car mean something too
you?"