Subject: Let's see...
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Posted on: 2022-11-02 16:48:25 UTC

I don't really give much weight to zodiacal signs when chosing my characters' birthdays, I tend to instead either hide references or simply go with whatever feels "right" to me.

Sergio, being born on October 27th, is a Scorpio. Which quite fits with his characterization, too, but it shouldn't be a surprise since he started off as my self insert and his characterization started off literally as Fictionalized Me (and thus shares my birthday, and yes I am said to really behave like a Scorpio),

Nikki, as she is a badfic clone of Sakura Kinomoto, shares the latter's birthday which is April 1st. As such, she's apparently an Aries, though she doesn't seem to share much in the way of that sign's associated traits, and her "template", Sakura, does even less! CLAMP surely chose April 1st with a different type of symbolism in mind.

Corolla is a bit of a peculiar case. Her birthday is (officially) May 25th, which is around the day I discovered the PPC. As an Unison Device from Lyrical Nanoha applying Earth-based astrology to her makes little sense. Still, she's a Gemini, and that sign still kinda fits with her.

Ami was born on December 28th, so she's a Capricorn. I felt that a birthday towards the end of the year fit with her, but she does seem to share some of the Capricorn's traits.

Keiko's birthday is just two weeks after her mother's, on April 13th, so she's also an Aries. I dare say it fits her better. Hajime shares her same birthday, being literally her alternate universe incarnation, but like Nikki doesn't really incarnate an Aries much. Their birthday is a reference to the day Mai Dire Fine, the fanfiction where it all started, began.

Kathleen was Aelit's self insert in Mai Dire Fine, so she shares his birthday which is July 31st. As such, she's a Leo which also kinda fits with her.

Faith's is on February 13th, chosen to be a rough inversion of Kathleen. That's Acquarius, which like Nikki is a complete miss in traits.

Fun fact: some of the bits associated with Sergio and Nikki are interesting. Their signs share the same ruler (Mars) and detriment (Venus), but their signs' element are kinda inverted between them. Sergio's sign, Scorpio, is a water sign and such associated to "emotion, empathy and sensitivity" while Nikki's, Aries, is a fire sign and such associated with "assertion, drive and willpower". Which, if you think about it, are kinda swapped between the two characters!

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