I found a wonderfully detailed analysis of Satsu’s character on Season 8 of the Buffy comics. Stormwreath studies virtually every panel Satsu appeared in and gives us his own clinical interpretation. Here’s an excerpt:

Recent developments would tend to suggest that Satsu is becoming a major character in ‘Buffy’… In fact, if the show were still on TV instead of in comics I suspect she’d be added to the main credits by now. (Instead, she gets to appear on the alternate cover of 8.11, and in at least one more cover in the current arc). The problem, of course, is that compared to characters who appeared for years on the show - and had a living, breathing actor to depict them - we don’t know that much about her.

That’s not to say she’s a non-entity, though. (And there are plenty of compelling characters who only appear on paper… there are these things called “books” which used to be quite popular once… [g]) So as a hopefully helpful guide to people who want to get to know her better, I decided to put together a giant picspam of all Satsu’s appearances in the comics, and analyse what they say about her character. Some of which is probably self-evident, while other conclusions I come to might be really pushing the evidence to the extreme. I’ll leave you to work out which is which…

Click here to read the complete article: All About Satsu.