#konome

Essential Japanese Seasonal Flowers - Mid Spring

Adding to the summer yukata series, here’s Konome in a darker colored set~ o/

She has a name! 桜井 心愛 (Sakurai Konome). She’s going to be a part of Ryousuke’s family tree as his sister, but they’re not related by blood.

I’m still working on the backstory for the both of them, but the gist of it is that they’re genetically and cybernetically modified humans who were orphans when they were taken in for the experiment. Ryousuke, who was old enough to remember his name, formed a bond with Konome and eventually took her under his wing at the lab and gave her the name Konome.

And because it’s Ryousuke, her name can also be read as ‘Cocoa’, which he prefers to call her by. (The kanji for Konome can be read as 心=kokoro and 愛-ai. You get ‘Kokoa’ if you drop the last syllable of each word.)