Vague Silhouettes

This is a random dabble I wrote about Kakunojou and her parents.


As a child she loved dressing up for festivals, and parties, she marveled at pretty kimonos and hair pins, she adored fluffy animals and played with dolls. She was a normal girl by any standard and she was exactly who she wanted to be: the only child in a loving family.

Her mother was a kind a gentle woman famous for her humility.

As a daughter of a minor landlord who valued arts and education, she took lessons on language, music and dancing from private tutors with her sisters. As such, all five sisters grew up very accomplished and they all had many suitors.

Zagashira told her stories of how her mother charmed even the most callous men by her singing and dancing. You have taken after her, he would add, sometime, as an after thought. Other times, he would go on to tell the glorious saga of how her father won her mother’s hand dispite of her many other, richer and more power, suitors.

Five riddles, Zagashira would say, you mother declared she would marry who ever in the room that could solve all five correctly.

She sometimes wondered if Zagashira was telling the truth, because five riddles seemed too wondrous a way to choose a husband, and what father would allow his daughter to marry for such frivolous reason?

Yet, she never questioned him.

Her parents, after all, has long been reduced to two translucent characters that exist only in rich tales told to her, two vague silhouettes that occasionally dance in her dreams.