#ouka

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character ouka shiunji

anime the children of shiunji family

character ouka shiunji

anime the children of shiunji family

Ouka has a real interest in languages. Not only do I believe she’d go out of her way to learn as many languages as she possibly can, but I think she really gets a kick out of hearing and talking in the languages so that she can learn the little colloquialisms, regional dialects, and the different ways that people use slang and such in those languages. She often gathers the parts of different slang, idioms, and such and uses them to pepper her own speech. I think, in a modern-day AU!, she’d really have gained a love for both valley-girl speech and a lot of slang terms and incorporates them into her speech patterns around her friends, though she still talks very properly and regally around those she’s not close to, knowing that others will judge her high-profile family based on how she looks and sounds.

A lot of the things about Ouka’s appearance are decided for her. She doesn’t get a lot of say in what she wears, the length of her hair, what makeup, skin care, and perfumes and such she uses. A lot of those things are chosen for her, to set her up as the royalty she is and to have her look appropriate to the part. The most say she gets is wearing her hair in twin tails, which she finds the most manageable given the length of her hair. Once she has her own choice in the way she can present herself and how she can look, I think Ouka would cut her hair much shorter, keeping it shoulder-length or shorter because it’s more practical and it feels freeing to her. When it does start to grow out, if she’s too busy to have it trimmed or cut right away, she tucks it up into twin-tails or into a high messy bun.

Going along with that, I think that Ouka is someone who doesn’t necessarily mind dresses that much. She’s had to wear them all her life. However, once she gets more say into her own wardrobe and has more choices, I think she popularizes women wearing trousers, since she’ll start wearing them when out touring the cities or when doing work where pants are simply more practical.

Unlike Teito’s sometimes antagonistic relationship where Mikhail, where he kind of fears Mikhail in some ways, Ouka considers Raphael a close friend and a true part of herself and has love towards Raphael, who she thanks for giving her the strength to protect those things she wants to protect.

Even after becoming Empress, I believe that Ouka still finds ways to work as a doctor in some capacity. She pours more resources in hospices, hospitals, and clinics and she’ll often visit them to see how the staff and patients are faring and isn’t above, during these visits, jumping onto the floor herself to help out. Because she often has her bodyguards with her, it's something that is allowed, though some within the royal family definitely look down and disagree with her actions.

Ouka was never allowed formal training in self-defense but was able to use her charm and persuasiveness to get one of her bodyguards, and all of her ladies in waiting, to give her some training in secret, which is why, even without Raphael’s help, she’s able to accomplish basic fighting skills.

Because she’s been taught from such a young age the importance of proper manners, of hiding her emotions, of putting on a ‘proper’ face to the public, Ouka can sometimes find it really hard to communicate with others, especially those she dislikes, or to connect with her own emotions. She’ll know what she’s feeling and thinking but learned behaviour means she automatically wants to shut those feelings away or pretend they don’t exist instead of allowing herself to feel them or to find ways to talk about them with others. She feels quite a bit of pressure to be ‘on’ when it comes to others, to speak softly and properly, to always be polite and elegant, and there’s very few people that Ouka will trust, even in her adult life, to the point where she’ll allow herself to be completely herself around, showing them all of her emotions, thoughts and feelings.

Ouka is really prone to nightmares. She gets them very frequently but never remembers, upon waking, more than brief snatches of the nightmares or what they’re really about. Because of this, she doesn’t sleep as well as she should and often wakes up at least once a night.

Ouka can’t tolerate spicy food at all. She doesn’t like it and finds anything above mild spice levels burns her mouth and leaves her stomach feeling upset for the next day or so. However, I personally headcanon that she really enjoys and tolerates sour things really well – she’d be the type who would snack on Warheads candy or drink the sourest soda without a second thought and without much reaction to it. I also think that, once Hakuren trusts her enough to show off his baking skills, that she falls in love with his baked goods and that they become one of her favourite treats.

yuki jika itu namamu

kuhembuskan doa yang begitu panjang

se tak putus sutra

se panjang laut styx

hadirmu membawa ragu, sedih dan bahagia

itu yang mempererat kami

itu yang memperkuat kami

dan yang memutuskan jawaban kami masing masing

anakku aku lemah terhadapmu

pengakuanku adalah akhir hubungan dengan ibumu

pisahnya ini adalah arti kehancuran hatiku

yuki aku berharap kau ada

agar aku dapat dekat dengan ibumu

dan selalu punya alasan untuk bertemu,

yuki kuharap kau ada

agar selalu dapat menggendongmu, dan agar selalu dapat membantumu

hidup ini tak akan pernah padam

namun apapun lahirmu, akan jadi karunia besar untukku

akan jadi karunia besar untuk ibumu

kami sempat berdebat makna hidupmu

kami sempat berdebat lahirmu

kami sempet mencari maksud lahirmu

iya ibumu menginginkanmu dari awal, sudah 3x sebelum lahirnya dirimu, menemui kegagalan

ibumu sangat yakin aku adalah ayah yang baik, namun aku bukan

ibumu sangat yakin aku akan menjadi yang bisa, namun aku bukan

masih banyak yang perlu kuterjang, masih banyak yang perlu kulalui.

aku hanya bisa menghidupi ibumu, sekarang, penuh luka penuh getir.

penuh darah, penuh sumpah serapah.

disakiti dan dirusak

ibumu terlahir tanpa dicintai oleh siapapun, dan membutuhkan pria yang sangat besar di hidupnya,

ibumu membutuhkan ayah yang besar dan kuat, ibumu membutuhkan suami yang gagah dan penyabar.

namun ayahmu ini, yang membuahi ibumu di malam ini sesaat ibumu pulang kerja, dan tidak langsung ku lucuti semua kain ditubuhnya. tidak bergeming menerima buahnya.

ada wajah di dirinya yang bahagia, ada wajah di dirinya yang memaksa untukmu ada.

sayangnya ayahmu ini tak sadar, yg kutahu ibumu hanyalah manusia yang dipisahkan dari kakakmu anak pertamanya.

hadirnya dirimu penyembuh luka

hadirnya dirimu pemberi makna

hadirnya dirimu membentuk asa

yang membuatku bergeming adalah ibumu banyak melontarkan ketidak percayaan, dibalut sunyi dan dibalut ketidak pastian, seakan meremehkan ayahmu yang pernah bertemu seribu orang dihadapannya. itu yang membuatku ragu, akan adanya dirimu dari buahku.

yuki, aslimu meis

yuki, aslimu anak Okka atau bukan aku tetap mencintaimu

yuki, ibumu biyya yang sangat ingin memiliki anak, dengan begitu salah dipikirannya dengan begitu penuh hasrat dia mengaminimu.

penuh dosa memiliki kakakmu, penuh dosa memiliki dirimu.

yuki, terimakasih hadir didunia ini, aku akan janji merawat ibumu, hadirlah di mimpiku untuk memastikan itu.

yuki, ayah yang menjadi pria ini, mengakui kau anakku dengan atau tanpa ibumu tau.

yuki, pria yang menjadi ayah ini, mengakui kesalahannya, dan kebodohannya.

diremehkan sekian banyak orang, diremehkan tidak perlu dicintai dan dinikahi pun tak apa.

ini pelajaran pertama ayah padamu nak, cintailah dirimu sendiri, ayah akan ada disisimu, dengan atau tanpa ibumu.

Early in December 2023, one of my favorite artists posted that she was going to be selling a 2024 daily calendar for the 30th anniversary of Final Fantasy VI.

I was so excited for this that I immediately went through the processes of setting up a shipping account for purchasing items from Japan to be shipped to the US.

The calendar arrived last week and I'm ecstatic. For lots of reasons. I don't even know where to start.

First, let me say that this artist - whose handle is Ohju (おじゅ), and whose store name is Ouka (追歌) - is an absolutely delightful and generous person. It's because of her help that I was able to learn how to set up the process of shipping to the US. She's fielded some of my weird (but hopefully respectful) questions, and has overall just been extremely kind and patient when she didn't need to be. A very sincere and appreciative どうもありがとうございます to her. ❤️

Okay, the next amazing thing is that she sent me more than just the calendar. In fact, the package I received included the following items that I was not expecting:

3 postcards (one of which is a GORGEOUS illustration of Hydaelyn from FFXIV)

3 sheets of stickers

1 sheet of stamps

4 sheets of stationary

A mini zine she made named Relic Hearts that features illustrations of various FF6 accessories (this is akin to her amazing art depicting FF6 weapons for SWORDTEMBER 2020)

A handwritten envelope with a handwritten note inside it. HANDWRITTEN, people! That's a touch of love right there!

Here are some pictures of these delightful extras. The first picture is how everything was packaged when it arrived.

(I didn't realize until later that my dog can be seen in the picture below. Whoops! 😂)

Here are a couple of pages from the Relic Hearts zine:

To reiterate, these are all things that were sent in addition to the calendar, which I haven't even talked about yet. I was truly blown away and became giddy like a child, like they were a bunch of surprise birthday gifts. THANK YOU for all these extras, Ohju-san! 🤩

So - the calendar itself. The first part is a 36-page booklet that contains empty spaces labeled with a month and day. The second part is a small, prism-shaped desk display containing seven sets of peelable stickers. The stickers are similarly labeled with a month and day, and the idea is that each day you peel off the current day's sticker and put it in the matching space in the booklet.

Her illustration on this depicts the process much more clearly than my bumbling text.

The dates in the empty spaces in the booklet are sometimes sequential, but sometimes not, so you can't always predict how the stickers are going to line up.

Each page in the calendar also contains some reflections and thoughts from Ohju-san herself about FF6, detailing some of her own history with the game as well as some of her own headcanons.

The calendar doesn't "start" until April 1st, 2024, so for now I'm just holding onto everything. I'm honestly a little scared to even use it; everything is so beautiful that part of me wants to just preserve it in its packaging forever. But that's not what Ohju-san intended, so come April 1st, I'll peel my first sticker to put into the booklet, and will then have another 364 days to look forward to.

Finally, a few other artists also contributed pieces to the calendar. I haven't seen any of their pieces yet, but six pages of the calendar are dedicated for their stickers, so I know which dates will be theirs.

I'm intentionally limiting the pictures I post in order to respect Ohju-san and the other artists' work. But here are a few pictures of the calendar materials.

There's even a guide sheet for where everything goes, just in case you get lost (which I absolutely will).

Anyway, this is one of the most amazing collections of fan merchandise I've ever seen. I'm extremely grateful to Ohju-san, and I can't wait to start using this calendar.

Please check out all her other artwork. Honestly, everything is stunning. She can be found:

https://narche.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/ojup