Character Development Day 1: Lamia
Describe your characterâs relationship with their mother or their father, or both. Was it good? Bad? Were they spoiled rotten, ignored? Do they still get along now, or no?
Lamia's birth parents were both killed during her youth, so many of her memories about them have blurred over the years. Kikai, who became Lamia's teacher and guardian after her parents passing, became a far more prominent as a father figure due to his daily presence in Lamia's life during her more independent years. Their relationship, however, was far from open.
Kikai was stern as a teacher and reserved as a guardian. He offered few kind gestures, preferring to act as a being to surpass rather than one to look up to. What little he told Lamia was of discipline and strength, his focus set upon improving her as a fighter. While some may have asked for a deeper relationship, Kikai was Lamia's savior; in her eyes he had given her a second life after she had lost everything, and so she was more than willing to live under the rules of his house.
However, Lamia's own feelings became more complicated as the years passed. There were few occasions for Lamia to leave the mountain plateau they lived upon, and so she was in Kikai's company most every day. Through this constant contact, Lamia began to blur the line between parental affection and love until she could no longer distinguish between them. However, her own sense of debt for what Kikai had given prevented her from ever taking initiative upon such feelings, and she ultimately distanced herself instead in the process of shutting them out. Their already strained interactions became fewer and fewer, until their relationship became nothing more than that of a student and her master.
Though they drifted apart over time, Lamia's feelings didn't diminish; perhaps they even continued to grow right up until the day Kikai died. There was little choice but to accept reality and move on when he passed away -- despite that, however, even now she holds her memories of him deep within her heart, never forgetting the impact he had in defining who she is now today.