#w.deadweapons

DEAD WEAPONS, a character introduction.

“I have an affinity for the vendetta that’s been rotting my bones since I was a child.”

Taira no Satsuki was the daughter of Taira no Masakado, a once admired saiko-komon to the Fujiwara-gumi before his uprising. Satsuki was born into ignorance as her family shielded her from her father’s occupation, fearing she may be scrutinized or possibly harmed due to his high ranking status as an administrator in Japan’s largest yakuza organization. In her youth, she was a happy child who never noticed her parent’s tattoos that littered their skin or the various guns hidden within their walls — living under the illusion that her mother was a housewife and her father was a devoted businessman. However, after her father’s failed uprising, the oyabun of the Fujiwara family agreed to the execution of Taira no Masakado’s family.

Satsuki awakes in the hospital with the man she known as ‘ojisan’ (uncle) all her life resting beside her. It was in these moments did the facade her family carefully fabricated began to shatter as her uncle relies the news of her parents death. Despite her family’s will, he was unable to care for Satsuki personally but he promised Satsuki a life where she’ll be loved — a life far away from this tragedy and away from the million eyes of the Fujiwara-gumi. After staying in intensive care for three days, she leaves for Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture where she molds into the identity of Tsukuba Takiyasha — the daughter of Tsukuba Rynosuke, a financial analysts, and his wife Tsukuba Kikumaru as she played the role of Tsukuba Yoshikado’s fraternal twin sister. Unable to release the rage that possessed her soul, she took it upon herself to learn to fight and defend herself at a young age. At the age of thirteen, she got pulled into an argument between her ‘twin’ brother and the crime boss of a local gang. Fearing for his life, Takiyasha prosed a deal — she’ll carry his sin of deceiving them and work as an information broker in their local hostess club for the exchange they must supply her weapons. 

imagine : plum wine, lavender evenings, messy handwriting, soft pulses, the smell of gun powder, sun gazing, anko mochi, gentle smiles, obsessive thoughts, strained voices and faint scars.

DEAD WEAPONS.

Yoshikado asked, “Do you think we were tragic lovers in a past life?”

Takiyasha hummed, pursed lips to the sky to taste the liquid honey of a tantalizing sun. “We’re not blood related, so even if we were, clearly I didn’t love you enough.”

He blinked, feeling the corodolium settle deep into his veins as he turned to his ‘twin’; sakura petals weaving through the ebony cascades of her hair. She was the catharsis of ardor that he idolized since childhood, staining him in her hubris and trauma. “Do you think you can love me now?”

authors note. there’s an old Japanese myth that says if two star crossed lovers commit dual suicide, then they’ll be reborn as twins.

— DEAD WEAPONS

genre : literary fiction, thriller, crime

caution warnings : major death, violence, gore, criminal acts

tropes : machiavellian, families of choice, multiple plot threads, friends to lovers, morally grey characters, metaphors, unreliable narrators and an all asian cast

status : drafting

a retelling of Takiyasha Hime that was inspired by the netflix movie “the outsider”.

In the midst of a coup, a son had died. And with no other choice, so did his family.

Born into inherit wealth from the bottom of society, Satsuki lived in complete ignorance with overbearing arms protecting her. But when she awakes in a hospital bed with a man she calls uncle resting beside her, she came to acknowledge the demon that was her father. Satsuki began to realize that she was the daughter of a Saiko-Komon, an advocate for Japan’s most feared Oyabun - a man who controls the largest yakuza organization in the country. After the death of her parents, Satsuki was stripped of her name and was forced to live into hiding; molding into the identity of Tsukuba Takiyasha — the spoiled daughter of prestigious family.

However, rage still fueled her veins and it made her high off the feeling. Taking the more extreme route, Takiyasha swore to avenge her family and reclaim what truly belongs to her. But to see the Oyabun dead would mean she needs to make an alliance with the men she loathes most.