It starts as sparring, which Elysia has said is the wrong word for whatever it is that Kujira and Niya do, which is to say that it's less about either of them getting better and more about both of them getting hurt. The last time they did it, Kujira just about shattered Niya's arm, and Niya had laughed like it was funny. It starts as sparring, and ends with Niya on top of Kujira, pinning her, staring down at her with cheeks flushed and chest heaving from exertion, eyes huge and hungry, grinning, challenging, mean.

"You lose, Jira," Niya says, a lying sing - song, but the sharpness is softened by the glee, by an almost childish excitement, as if they'd shed years and traumas just by virtue of proximity. Kujira groans and tries to move, and Niya pushes them back down, movement not - quite - sparring anymore.

( a thought / not a kindness, exactly, but a thought / kujira under other people. niya isn't usually jealous. it's fun, to feel something serrated and new. but the not - kindness isn't about that, it's about the fact that kujira is —— )

Niya watches her, posture shifting, breath shifting. Hah.

( kujira is letting them. )

Kujira tries to sit up again, and this time when Niya pushes her back down, they follow, close, close, slow, maybe to tease, maybe so she can stop them if she wants —— until their lips press to hers. To see if Kujira will keep letting them. To see how their lips feel. To erase the bad times. To tease and mock. Because they've wanted to kiss her for a long time.

name: chiasa and arisu shirogane

gender: both are non-binary, though chiasa leans more towards feminine presenting.

general appearance: chiasa takes after kira more in appearance, with the same color of eyes and a resting expression that takes after her mother's. they also style their hair in a similar way, and she grows to be around 5'9" in height. she has a small cut on the shell of her left ear that she got when she cast a spell for the first time. meanwhile, arisu takes after fumi more when it comes to the same shade of hair and eyes, only slightly shorter than their twin at 5'10". they usually have their hair a bit messy, often due to spending time outdoors, and had taken to dressing like fumi a lot ever since they were young. both the twins have rounded ears rather than pointed like kira.

personality: both of the twins are often seen as quiet, only ever talking to each other or their own close circle, their voices leveled and never raised. the difference is, while chiasa speaks only what is necessary once you talk to her, arisu is like a damn that suddenly can't stop talking the moment the first pleasantries are out of the way. they have been very close to each other since they were born, often said because they have two souls that are one in the same. definitely have twin telepathy and they use it to freak out their parents a lot.

special talents: i think both of them would have their own kinds of passions, but it's one of the things that can help distinguish between the two of them. chiasa enjoys music, she loves playing songs on her piano, while arisu needs to be persuaded to come back inside after spending most of the day outdoors with nothing but a sketchbook and her art materials, with runes scirbbled onto the margins.

who they like better: i think fumi, because the twins got to see fumi a lot more earlier in their lives while kira was always worried about them, making sure that inheriting fragments of her chaos magic didn't do anything that might hurt them. they love both their parents a lot, they just find it earier to come to fumi at certain times.

who they take after more: chiasa takes after kira while arisu definitely inherited a lot of fumi's mannerisms.

personal head canon: chiasa who struggles with technology vs arisu who fixes their twin's cellphone every time it does something weird (it literally just froze because of too many apps being open and too little storage space.) chiasa who's more competitive than arisu, arisu who is being hauled out of their nap by chiasa because she needed a sparring partner.

[ chiasa to the left, arisu to the right ]

It isn't fair to her — truly — and even Niya knows it. But it's hard not imagine Maria in Kujira's place, if only for moments. It's hard now, a rare sun - soaked day, no violence, no bloodshed. It's the closest Niya has come to seeing Kujira as a human being, this replacing - her - with - one, but Niya, even as warped as they are, knows that's shit. But they can't stop, or don't care enough to. It's hard to know, even to them.