Memory: ✿ her father's death under the Saigyou Ayakashi Received: Day 134 (Songbird's game) The Thing: Headcanon to fill in the gaps! Continuing the adventures of alive!Yuyuko. During her long periods of isolation, Yuyuko has gotten used to not seeing her father very often, as he is usually travelling for his job. Her mother is not in the picture--probably dead, though it's not 100% certain. One day, an attendant nervously approaches her with a battered message from a courier.
"My lady, Lord Saigyou has passed away."
She doesn't know what to feel. Her heart may turn to ice itself with the contained grief that she'd been struggling to hold back for a very, very long time now. If he was gone, then who would she have? Her father was so kind, so loving, despite everything that had happened. She can do nothing but sit in a ball in her room, alternating between crying her eyes out and feeling nothing at all. There are no visitors. The birds outside of her window do not chirp.
When she manages to gather herself up again, it feels like years have passed. She reads the rest of the missive--her father had known he was dying, and so chose to take his eternal rest beneath the most beautiful cherry blossom tree he could find. He passed away peacefully, but in the few weeks it took for the letter to arrive, even the people in her home town started speaking of the tree's beauty. It has an almost otherworldly quality to it.
She cannot bring herself to attend her father's funeral--for fear of something, something what? But she has to be strong. Now that her father has passed away, she must assume the position of family head.
Gleamed from it: ❀ her dad's name was "Saigyou" -- not sure if that's the surname or first name tho ❀ her family was most likely nobility; they had attendants and servants, addressed as "my lady" and "lord Saigyou" ❀ that plus her being the new "head of the clan" ❀ MY PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD ❀ she loved her dad a lot so this was a really hard blow ❀ what did she do, though, that her dad would love her "despite it"? was it connected to why she was in isolation? ❀ holy balls her living days were fucking depressing ❀ based on the glimpses of the antiquated setting seen here and in Shard 04, it can be inferred she lived a very, very long time ago. exact dates can't be determined, but it's no later than the 1700s.
Shard 06
Received: Day 134 (Songbird's game)
The Thing: Headcanon to fill in the gaps! Continuing the adventures of alive!Yuyuko. During her long periods of isolation, Yuyuko has gotten used to not seeing her father very often, as he is usually travelling for his job. Her mother is not in the picture--probably dead, though it's not 100% certain. One day, an attendant nervously approaches her with a battered message from a courier.
"My lady, Lord Saigyou has passed away."
She doesn't know what to feel. Her heart may turn to ice itself with the contained grief that she'd been struggling to hold back for a very, very long time now. If he was gone, then who would she have? Her father was so kind, so loving, despite everything that had happened. She can do nothing but sit in a ball in her room, alternating between crying her eyes out and feeling nothing at all. There are no visitors. The birds outside of her window do not chirp.
When she manages to gather herself up again, it feels like years have passed. She reads the rest of the missive--her father had known he was dying, and so chose to take his eternal rest beneath the most beautiful cherry blossom tree he could find. He passed away peacefully, but in the few weeks it took for the letter to arrive, even the people in her home town started speaking of the tree's beauty. It has an almost otherworldly quality to it.
She cannot bring herself to attend her father's funeral--for fear of something, something what? But she has to be strong. Now that her father has passed away, she must assume the position of family head.
Gleamed from it:
❀ her dad's name was "Saigyou" -- not sure if that's the surname or first name tho
❀ her family was most likely nobility; they had attendants and servants, addressed as "my lady" and "lord Saigyou"
❀ that plus her being the new "head of the clan"
❀ MY PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
❀ she loved her dad a lot so this was a really hard blow
❀ what did she do, though, that her dad would love her "despite it"? was it connected to why she was in isolation?
❀ holy balls her living days were fucking depressing
❀ based on the glimpses of the antiquated setting seen here and in Shard 04, it can be inferred she lived a very, very long time ago. exact dates can't be determined, but it's no later than the 1700s.