Megani Cina/Personality and Relationships

Personality
The trait that Cina herself takes the most pride in is her ability to become utterly unflappable at a moment's glance. Having seen a great deal of incredible or outright ridiculous things over the course of her travels, she has come to believe that she cannot be easily surprised. While this grants her an impressively level head in most situations, it can also ironically make her that much easier to take by surprise; the automatic assumption on her part that she has seen most of what could happen before leads to her losing track of a rapidly-developing situation quickly. While she struggles to amend this during the course of the series and over the timeskip, it remains a thorn in her side. She also expresses this facade of world-weariness through the "Cina Number System", in which she keeps numeric track of every situation or phrase she had encountered before. Every time she faces one of them again, she announces under her breath (or out loud) the number of times it comes to now. This numerical system is occasionally extended to other aspects of her life, and she possesses the uncanny ability to list the number of times exactly she has done any one thing over the course of her life. The only exception to this rule appears to her childhood; indeed, anything from that period of her life typically goes unnumbered.

Cina places a great emphasis on experience, admiring others based on the amount they have and expecting less from the more naive, adopting an almost patronizing or overly-parental tone with them and acting if she has their best interests at heart (a notion that, while not entirely false, is not entirely true either). She is obsessed with getting as much as she can and become giddily excited at the chance to partake in something new, almost to the point of distraction. There is some level of discrimination in this, however, with certain subjects being rejected outright and her brooking very little compromise. Derived from this is a small tendency to lecture others, informing them about the various merits that can be found in even the smallest and most trivial of things. Cina is quite proud of the experience she herself has gained and will brag about it if given the chance. She appears almost overly reliant on this overall, to the point that when something truly unexpected happens she has trouble coming to terms with it. In this state her responses can vary depending on the nature of the surprise, though she tends to act either incredibly impulsively (deciding on the spur of the moment to leap aboard the newly-stolen Rechristiania) or incredibly nervous (breaking down and becoming incapable of handling the situation during the Beyond Reverse Mountain Saga for a long period of time). It can also take quite a bit of time for her to recover, though like with the amount of shock and ill effects this can range in length. She claims that she can never forget moments such as this, good or bad.

She also expresses visible shame when even a lot of experience tends to fail her, as exemplified in her skill at drinking. While she has been around a great deal of alcohol and alcoholics in her life, she is weaker than the likes of Kirein or Bayou Samedi and can only handle so much. In situations like this she takes on a more embarrassed persona and attempts to avoid any mention of her weakness in that area.

Her time learning the skills of acting and makeup has heavily effected her sense of fashion, and she typically mixes-and-matches a variety of both masculine and feminine clothing. She also intends to appraise both on the same level, offering compliments of the same nature to both men and women in various outfits. Indeed, gender seems a slightly more nebulous concept to Cina; she is the only female companion to not harshly object when Silve attempts to enter the girl's bath and seems only vaguely embarrassed at the prospect of being accidentally seen naked. Interestingly, the nature of her reaction appears to vary based on that of the person who has seen her. Despite this apparent lack of concern or outrage at such things, she is still one who does not suffer fools gladly and often resorts to more-cliche comedic violence in certain situations.

Cina has a great fondness for whistling, often seen doing it when not engaged in anything else or more menial work. It can be seen as a sign of confidence and is often used in battle to signify a turning of the tides in her favor. She is into it on a more than casual level, able to name certain tunes after hearing only a few notes and often seeking to learn more when encountered at any port the crew stops at. Despite her enthusiasm for it, she claims incapable of teaching it, as it was something that has come naturally to her since she was a child. She is often found doing it while perched on the edge of a crate or barrel, which she insists is more comfortable than any chair or pillow known to mankind. She truly feels more at home when surrounded by the maritime aesthetic, preferring a collection of dinghies, lifebuoys, and the like to sleep on than the finest bed and accompanying room that money can buy. Surrounded with riches and jewels her parents were transporting as a child, she seems to have little conception of their use as ornaments for people, thinking of them instead as additions to various appliances or furniture to make them look more fetching. As such, while she has grown used to the sight of people wearing them, she still appears slightly puzzled by them being used in such a way.

Contrary to others in the crew, Cina can apparently functions and desires nothing more than remarkably small amounts of food, claiming happily that her body can function fully with the least nutrients possible and often being the first to give up her portion when the food stock was in constant danger of running low. This is reflected in her fishing and hunting habits, her tending to attract smaller or sicklier game than the others. When called on this, she will on occasion try to brush it off and place it on the same level as those caught by others.

Cina is often regarded as the crew's "big sister" (the title of "mom" being rejected in light of her more immature moments), willing to help and comfort the other members whenever possible. She takes it more passively than her captain, allowing events to coincide for her to provide support instead of seeking out crewmembers directly (most likely due to her greater amount of duties aboard).