Sara Nome
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Sara Nome is a fictional character in the Macross universe. She appears in the prequel Macross Zero.
Since childhood Sara has been groomed to become Mayan Island's priestess/shaman, a position of great spiritual importance to the people of the secluded island. It also means having the mystical power of interacting with the island's mysterious alien ruins. A little-understood power that she manifests through song. She also gets the occasional vision into the future. This power seems to run through her family as her little sister Mao also displays the same abilities to a lesser degree.
As a child she agreed to let a visiting scientist test her blood (an act forbidden by the island's traditions) in exchange for a pretty bauble. The test confirmed her special properties and would later make the island's inhabitants the focus of research and then armed conflict. Due to this incident Sara has grown up suspicious of outsiders and very protective of her people's beliefs. She resents the wind of change that the abrupt arrival of U.N. pilot Shin Kudo brings to her home, yet she realizes how powerless she is against it as she forsees the destruction and violence that is to come.