❝ She’s quite beautiful, no? But if you avert your eyes here, you’ll find something even more... enchanting. ❞ Behind Bonnie slithered Sotomi, coiled, poised lithe. Woman of serpentine structuralist, Sotomi slips between both human & doll almost silk-like. Ceramic arms scoop up the Ichimatsu doll Bonnie had been looking at, cradling the exquisitely-made doll with dark hair and equally dark eyes in an orange furisode handcrafted with golden embellishments. Her red lips split deep into a smile as she uses her skeletal fingers to comb through its chocolate tresses, a tender scene of what looked like to be mother & daughter. ❝ She’s one of my newest pieces. I’ve named her Tsubaki. She’s a little shy, delicate little thing. I’ve incorporated fall motifs in her design, such as autumn leaves on her furisode. ❞
Sotomi’s appearance is frightfully fantastic, a splitting image of a living, breathing, traditional Japanese doll. Her long, blue-black hair styled in a high chignon while two thick strands fall to frame each side of her slender face. Her brooding, black eyes faltering over the doll’s own visage, glazing over the rose of the doll’s lips quirked into an almost dreamy, yet sorrowful smile. Sotomi’s eyes look almost wet with tears as she purses her scarlet lips together, removing the doll’s dark bangs to leave a single kiss upon its forehead. In an instant, as Sotomi’s lips met the ceramic skin of the doll’s, it was almost as if Tsubaki’s expression changed entirely. A sad smile instantly flashing something much more sinister. Her smile looked as if it almost grown, the blurred ends of her tiny lips curling into a wicked simper. & in that same moment, it appeared that Sotomi’s expression was an exact replica of the doll’s, her lifeless black eyes leering over at Bonnie, corners of her lips curling to flash large black teeth and gums clicking in fiendish giggles that slowly descend into loud cackles. Sotomi uses a single white hand to mask her wretched grin, placing Tsubaki back to her original shelf.
❝ My apologies. Tsubaki just told me something silly. ❞ And with the skitter of a roach, Sotomi moves her skeletal body towards another section of dolls, life-sized dolls standing in large glass cases. ❝ Shall we move on with the rest of the tour ? ❞ // @sugarcorpse
