In reference to my characters of Miri and Nikita/Sasha. Anyone familiar with my Merlin stories knows Nikita/Sasha. As does anyone who has read my stories about the Arrow, Flash Supergirl. Sasha is the name of my semi-autobiographical character in ANY story I write that takes place in modern times. Whether Superman and J'onn are her closest friends or Aaron Hotchner and Spencer Reid in Criminal Minds.
What most people don't know is that Miri/Nikita/Sasha are all literally the same idea and the same person. An alien named Nikita called herself Sasha Jordan Scott to people who didn't know she was an alien. I introduced myself that is my autobiographical character introduced herself to the BAU of Criminal Minds as "Sasha Jordan Scott, most people call me 'Sarah'." And in any further BAU stories there is a character "Sasha Jordan Scott known as 'Sarah' to her friends".
Nikita, the Xavallen, the human looking alien through whose eyes ANY of Earth-9 or Earth-21 are seen in my stories shares none of my history and all of my perspective and personality.
She is also far similar to the names I was using back in the day, when I would chat with Hercules and Ioulus, Robin and his team in Sherwood. And when Beastmaster was one of my favorite shows and I basked in the glory and genuine wisdom of such a world. (The four lands the Mydlands, the territories, the uplands, and the downs. Beastmaster was described in its opening narration as taking place 'In an age when nature and magic ruled the world'). Nikita/Sasha was that same person. Literally she woke up after 17 years and found one last place to belong. She found an idea she would live to defend and a friend she would die to protect. This isn't part of my story this was my experience with that identity. One I wrote a shadow or a copy of. I wrote my Camelot/Merlin stories in memory and in testament to this part of my own life. This was literally my experiences with the show and what these character meant to me. Most but obviously not all comes out in my writings. My writings are not an imitation...they are a reflection showing as much of the substance as I can speak. Which is why they have so much substance.
"A horrible death at the end of a GOOD life is preferable to a quiet death at the end of an empty one." -- At least 3 characters I've written. As well as any TV character I'd cheer on. And the core of anyone I'd follow to hell and back.
Miri/Nikita/Sasha are various names for a semi-autobiographical character. It was my identity. All three of them are name I went by back when I traveled to Merlin, Stargate Sg-1, Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Beastmaster. Used at various times for the same person: me. My friends in Camelot know me by both names: Nikita and Sasha. Which is why I use those same names for my self-made character in Flash Superman D.E.O. stories.
In my final story I ever wrote about Sasha staying with her friends in Camelot, with Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot and Gwaine these friends who had known her for 6 years and she had known for just as long. It was my goodbye to the character but She was not saying goodbye. I finally had her state the attitude and belief that had guided her not only the entire time she'd known them, but ever since she was Miri, the child of peace, walking the Mydlands and ancient Greece. Anyway, they knew she'd rather spend one year of life worth living than 5 years of life where she might as well be dead. This was the other thing that drove her, as it drove so many of her role models: A horrible death that means something is preferable to a peaceful life that comes to nothing. It was originally close to "A horrible death and the end of a good life is preferable to a painless death at the end of an empty one."
I just didn't want her to say anything that Macabre or morose so I had her say it the other way instead. So the reason the Xavallen Nikita in my Alt Earth stories share not only the name but so many of the same qualities as the Nikita/Sasha from Camelot who was best friends with Gwaine, believed in Merlin and called Prince/King Arthur 'Kristaan' is that she is made as much out of that friend, that child of nature and of Peace that was Miri/Nikita/Sasha, as she was made out of the Mennonite, white, autistic a-typical fiercely loyal and far more open-minded than most, non-denominational Christian, damn near empathic American human. She just happens to be IN non-magical times. In a world full of current events-problems-awareness and struggles.
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