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Spindly Shadow

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"Very well then. Forgive my intrusion, ladies. It seems as if I have forgotten my place and foolishly led myself to assume that my own desires for a sensibly calm night would not be an affront to your 'playdate.' How utterly ignorant of me to believe I should be permitted the same amount of consideration. As for advice regarding the uncomfortable lack of warmth in the fort. I would first advise O'Dare to refrain from entertaining such a frigid rudesby."

Throwing the blanket back over the top of the pillow fort, Vincent vanished in a twister of darkness

"S'pose those would be a start," Jewel replied as she made her way over---picked up the hatchet first. Good condition, though a little stained on the handle.

so, this is an old comms post, but

i'll also keep doing 10$ doodles/meme scribbles. also, reach me here and not the blog listed, bc this is the only one i really log into anymore.

|| Asks || Anonymous ||

I have a headcanon post here about her naming.

Some habits that carried on from her previous life include jewelry making (though with different materials), hunting in rivers, and ritualistic bear worship. Nature is her home.

She remembers the lore of the Korpokkur and looks upon them fondly. Like them, she too collects small things and finds hideyholes to store her keepsakes. She still looks for them under butterbur plants when she crosses them.

The absence of her culture’s tattoos is relevant. They were meant to please their gods, make a woman look marriageable, and to ensure a place in the afterlife among one’s ancestors. Jewel didn’t see her tattoos through and was murdered before she could have them completed. I’m still fleshing the details of her death out but basically because she didn’t follow tradition, she’s lost in the afterlife with nowhere to call ‘home’, and finding a home becomes a huge overarching theme to her character.

Though Jewel did not get tattooed during her human life, the markings will show through in her Bankai. Still fleshing this idea out too.

As a little girl, Jewel always had an interest in rocks. Whenever she would go to a nearby river with her father while he fished, she was making piles of her favorite rocks while watching him work.

Her mother always found her playing with her beaded necklaces. She would find Jewel wearing them, putting them around the base of her rock piles, and in multiple little hideyholes where she had tried to stash them away.

Her parents started calling her Tama, or "ball; bead;" for her penchant for collecting stones and beads and playing with them.

The name Jewel came to be from her father, being a foreigner who knew English and was a translator. It was what he would call her when they were alone.

Seeing as family names weren't a thing in Ainu culture, Jewel didn't have a last name. She knew her father did but it wasn't something that was instilled into her.

Her father made an effort to teach her English as she grew because she took an interest in it.

|| Anon me Q's about Jewel's family! ||

No, there isn't.

Jewel's father was a traveler and translator. Nathan had a wealth of stories and experiences under his belt, and even though the ship he was on crashed upon the shores of Hokkaido during a storm and wiped out everything of meaning to him, he kept a healthy mindset and set off to start a new life. The sky was the limit in his mind.

Jewel's mother was well known in her village. Friendly. Giving to a fault. Reliable. Heshiu loved being a maternal figure and helping out new mothers if they sought it. Freedom meant giving to her -- her time, labor, and emotional readiness for others.

Fureppo was an angry old woman. Many in the village avoided her due to her fiery temper. She was never the same after losing her husband, and often kept close to her own family and avoided others. She felt chained to her misery and bitterly accepted her fate.

Nathan was all over the place with Jewel. He wanted to teach her how to hunt and set traps, but also wanted her to learn embroidery and how to create beads and pendants with her mother and grandmother, while learning multiple languages. Normally, an Ainu child would've leaned into a role based on gender, but her father -- being a foreigner -- always wanted to push boundaries. Jewel loved his attention and learning from him, but their time together often felt like crossing off a to-do list and Nathan often overloaded her and caused her to throw fits from time to time. He put a lot of pressure on her to be as accomplished as possible as young as possible.

Heshiu was almost never around Jewel one to one. Because she loved to look after and/or adopt other children, her attention was often divided. Jewel had more of her mom's time when she was a baby and toddler, but it dwindled as she aged. When it came to getting her traditional tattoos, Jewel vehemently refused, in part because of the pain, but mostly to spite her mother. She rejected the idea of 'looking attractive to suitors,' and, 'being ready for marriage and a family.' Nathan and Fureppo couldn't convince her either. Deep down, it was because of the growing resentment towards her mother and not wanting to be like her. She made Jewel feel invisible and unwanted in the sense that her mom never made her a priority. It felt like a slap in the face to Jewel to see her mother so present in her community but not with her, in their own home. Jewel's efforts for her attention were nil by adolescence. Jewel came to view Heshiu as a ghost -- a non present presence that shared some of her features, but wasn't there for her (her only biological child). She was abandonment in the flesh; a ghost passing through.

When Jewel wasn't with her dad, she spent the most of her time with grammy Fureppo. Fureppo -- despite her anger and unresolved grief -- found a sense of peace with Jewel. The two of them would organize beads and rocks, brush out fur pelts, and garden together. Jewel became the ever interested ear for grammys' stories ... and her traumas that she would get on tangents about that left Jewel feeling sad, confused, and introspective. These were taboo conversations, as Ainu did not traditionally talk of death, but Jewel was curious and continuously probed her for information. Jewel loved Grammy because Grammy cared about her perspective and what she thought. She treated Jewel like her own person rather than a vessel to impose her desires upon.

Each member of her family was more or less comfortable in their lives, but they brought up an emotionally suffocated girl who was uncertain in her own identity and internally shriveling in her own loneliness. She was raised -- torn between Nathan's expectations, Heshiu's neglect, and even shouldering some of Grammy's emotions. Her mom and dad made her feel like she had to perform for their love, rather than simply being loved for who she was. Grammy filled that hole to an extent, but not without emotional baggage.

Woman’s neck ornament with medallion (shitoki), Unknown Ainu, late 19th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

beaded neck ornament with lacquer medallion; black and turquoise alternating beads, with a few marbleized beads in center on R and L outer sides; medallion in dark brown lacquer, with leaf patterns on top and bottom, and swirling delicate linear designs on R and L edges; metal disk in center with three smaller disks, with tiny leaf shapes inside Size: 21 1/16 × 7 in. (53.5 × 17.78 cm) Medium: Beads (glass), plant fiber, molded metal, lacquered wood

Chikarkarpe robe with heart-shaped embroidery, Unknown Ainu, late 19th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

navy and brown striped robe with navy blue applique trim on sleeve cuffs, bottom half of body, yoke, and back center, all with lighter blue, curving embroidery patterns, including some small heart shapes along lower section; solid blue interior lining Size: 54 × 46 ½ in. (137.16 × 118.11 cm) (overall) Medium: Cloth: cotton; cotton appliqué and embroidery