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Sasami is the younger sister of Ayeka. She is a paradox of childishness and maturity. While she enjoys the childhood pleasures she laso harbors a deeper lever of maturity. Being a member of the Jurain Royal Family, she inherited some abilities. But she lost these during an unfortunate accident.
   700 year prior, when Sasami was very young, she was exploring the palace alone at the same time that Ryoko attacked her planet. Sasami had entered the Royal Tree Room, and was fascinated by the number of trees. She ran from tree to tree, while using the transporter pads, to speak to different trees on the various levels. Suddenly, a spaceship crashed into the palace and the force of the blow knocked Sasami off one of the ledges in the massive Tree Room. She fell several hundred stories and lay at the bottom, in front of Tsunami, nearly dead. When Sasami's blood touched the water that surrounded Tsunami, Tsunami took on human form and assimilated with Sasami in order to save her life.
   The original Sasami did not have a mark on her forehead. When Sasami ran out of the Royal Tree room and into the arms of her loving nanny, she had the same mark as Tsunami-two blue circles. This mark changed while Sasami was hugging her nanny into the double triangle shape that she currently has.
   The events of Sasami's assimilation were a secret that she harbored in silence for 700 years(although she was in stasis for much of this time). Sasami believes that she died that day and is now Tsunami's creation. However, Tsunami and Sasami are identical beings with seperate minds. When they are joined in one form, they will share the same mind, and Sasami will have a complete memory of the time she was seperated from Tsunami.
   Sasami weilds great power due to her assimilation with Tsunami, however her reactions tend to be instinctive. Tsunami is a part of her and while Sasami usually knows what to do, she may have very little knowledge why. For example, in OAV Episode #6, Sasami knows that Tenchi is in trouble even though she is on Earth, because Tsunami told her. Tenchi's Master Key informed Tsunami, whom in turn passed this information onto Sasami. Sasami ran to Funaho and recited the verse that would allow her to open a gateway to Tsunami so she could be united with her in order to save Tenchi's life.

                                                 From heaven to ocean
                                                 Ocean to earth
                                                Earth back to heaven
                                                Show me the path engraved by the light

   It seems that for Tsunami to be able to use all of her powers to their full extent, she and Sasami need to be united. When the two are joined, Sasami's reflection is visible in any mirrored surface. When they are not united, Tsunami's reflection is present or people see her image when they are not looking directly at Sasami.
   Sasami is a very forgiving person and does not seem to hold any ill will towards Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki. Instead, she is impressed that Ryoko is a space pirate with a long list of offences. This is surprising considering that they almost cost Sasami her life. Perhaps Sasami does not share that part of Tsunami's memory and is not aware that two of her closest friends nearly killed her.
   At the beginnin of the series, Sasami was portrayed as very young and naiive. But when Sasami was given responsibility(cooking, assuming Ayeka's role when Ayeka is grieving), she behaved in a way that was years ahead of her time. She also has some knowledge about sex as she knew that Tenchi's nosebleed (while in the hot springs) meant that he was a "naughty boy". Sasami appears to have matured greatly while she stayed at the Masaki house. This may be in part because she had to assume responsibilities that she never needed to when she was a princess on Jurai. Sasa also has a mischievious side to her, especially when she is bored. For example, she asked Tenchi to retrieve Ayeka's head ornament, but her playful laugh suggests that she knew it would be a failed case.