Tomoe Masako [WIP]
Age | 17 |
Species | Fyadorian Rat |
Pronouns | She/her |
Size (Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large) | Medium |
Build | Shorter than Vulpinsulan average |
Rank | Mukyū of Fyadorian Martial Arts |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Masako is a typically shaded Fyadorian rat (often called 'hooded rats'), dark brown from the waist up and white from the waist down, with a bit of extra headfur allowed to grow across the top of her head around her ears. She typically wears either a threadbare gi of the Fyadorian martial arts tradition, or a simple blue yukata when out and about. She has a quiet, respectful demeanor, the kind that would easily lead to her being overlooked or forgotten in her homeland.
PERSONALITY:
HISTORY:
Tomoe Masako is the great-granddaughter of Tomoe Hikaru, a soldier and defender of the Ryalor family who gave his life to ensure the royal family's escape during the Fyadorian Revolution. With the Revolutionary Government in power, this put the surviving members of the Tomoe family in an awkward position. Masako's grandfather Tomoe Isamu, then only a teenager, was sent to a reeducation camp to be reformed of his 'monarchist tendencies', and after spending five years performing hard labor there, he spent the remainder of his life working quietly on a farm in the countryside, married to a landless laborer's daughter who jumped at the chance to marry into even a sparse five hundred bu of rocky hillside to tend to. Isamu's son, Tomoe Minato, was born on the farm and aspired to join the ranks of the public servants, studying his whole life to pass the entrance exams for the National Academy; despite top marks on his exams, he was denied entry on the basis of his 'counter-revolutionary family lineage' and was forced to go back to the family farm in shame, marrying Ayami, the daughter of the town drunk, a few months later to quiet the scandal of an unexpected pregnancy.
It was into this line that Masako was born, raised under her grandfather Isamu's quiet, simmering resentment toward the new regime and her father Minato's bitterness toward the Ryalors for cursing their family to live in such terrible conditions. Masako absorbed both of these contradictory positions, honoring her grandfather by listening to his long reminiscences about how much better things had been under the Ryalors, and letting her father rant and rage to her about how the Ryalors had doomed their family by leaving them behind in Fyador, rather than honoring Tomoe Hikaru's sacrifice by taking his family with them.
Over the years, Masako learned from her grandfather and father's examples, patterning herself after their ambitions. From her grandfather, she learned the basics of the martial arts he had been studying before the Revolution. He himself had never learned more than the preliminary forms, and it was these he passed on to Masako. From her father, she learned to read and write Vulpinsulan, the 'modern language' used for international affairs. Still, with her family lineage, her future looked bleak; she would never qualify for higher education because of her family name, and marriage to the son of a farmer in even worse straits than the Tomoe family seemed likely to be her lot in life.
As he got older, dementia started to set in for Tomoe Isamu, and the family struggled to maintain the traditional respect for the elderly while dealing with their patriarch's shifting moods, lapses of memory, and unpredictable outbursts. Masako tried to bond with him through practice of the martial arts he'd taught her, hoping that the motions would keep him lucid, but increasingly he would slip more and more often out of the present moment, falling into rants against the revolution and in favor of the old Ryalors. This was easy enough to manage, albeit embarrassing, in the privacy of the family home; still, they could not risk him being overheard in public, and endeavored to keep Isamu on the farm as much as possible.
Eventually, bad luck struck the Tomoe family once more. During a rainstorm, a unit of soldiers from the Revolutionary Government came to the house to demand shelter. Unable to refuse, the family admitted the soldiers, doing their best to keep Isamu tucked away in a corner and excusing him to their guests as 'being unwell'. Minato, Ayami, and Masako doted on the soldier's every want, plying them with food and rice wine, trying to keep them in a good mood until they could go away. It almost seemed like the family might pass through the fire unscathed when one of the soldiers proposed a toast to the Glorious Revolution. This set off Isamu, who, in a fit of dementia, railed against the Revolution and ranted about how the Ryalors had been maligned.
The Tomoe family, horrified, did their best to ameliorate the soldiers, begging for their forgiveness for their unwell grandfather, but the soldiers, drunk on cheap rice wine and power, decided to make an example. They slew Isamu and Minato, set fire to the Tomoe household, and seized Masako and her mother Ayami, arresting them to come work as 'barracks girls' for them in the city. Knowing exactly what horrors and abuses would await them in such a life, the pair waited until the soldiers fell asleep, then fled into the night, running for the coast and the nearest port.
It was several days' journey, and by the time they arrived, both Masako and Ayami were exhausted and bedraggled. Still, they were both fugitives from a fallen house, and they needed to find a way out of Fyador. The plan they came up with was to sneak aboard an Alkamarian merchant vessel and hope for the best.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
As yet to be determined
POSSESSIONS/REAL ESTATE:
A simple gi
SKILLS:
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POSSESSIONS/REAL ESTATE:
A simple gi
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