A Flower For Every Season
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She watches the fire consumes her hair with nary an expression. Her lips may wobble a little, but she’s quick to bring it under control as she watches the flame licks at the locks she roughly cut with a knife. Father has always praised her nerves. It is one of her prides. She is not going to flinch now of all times.
What she’s doing…
It is necessary, she repeats to herself, hands clenched in her lap.
She cannot… Her parents, her Father doesn’t need a useless daughter. He needs a son, now more than ever, and if she has to become that son, renounces to her femininity, then so be it.
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- Part 1 of A Flower For Every Season
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Father has taken a risky gambit, announcing he had a son when Toshitada was born, but it had been a needed one. A son was a guarantee for stability, especially when your territory was so easily coveted. Daughters were fine for alliances or to form a last line of defense, but a son… A son was to succeed you, and keep the ie intact.
Only, for all Father and Mother have tried, they had only sired daughter after daughter, all while Father’s male relatives, his brothers and uncles and cousins, kept dying in battle or were felled by assassination or sickness.
Father could have adopted a boy into the Clan, but… He hadn’t.
Instead, the day Toshitada had been born and placed in his arms, his sixth-born child, he had looked at the babe crowned with wet, red hair as dark as blood and had announced the Kami had given him a son at long last.
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- Part 2 of A Flower For Every Season
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- English
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It stings her pride, knowing Father’s faint praises at his ‘son’s’ accomplishments’ with the staff and the bow and the blade would have never been heaped upon her if he only knew what genitals Jirougorou is truly hiding under her kimono and hakama.
It makes her hate him.
She’s sure it has always been Mother’s aim, and she can only mentally applause her for a well-played game.
A game motivated first and foremost by pettiness, as far as Jirougorou understands it. Pettiness, and power-play, and revenge, all rolled in one.
Who ever said women were simple, straightforward creatures?
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- Part 3 of A Flower For Every Season
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- English
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- 1,826
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- 1/1
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Neither Wife Nor Concubine by Quiet_Shadow
Fandoms: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers | Ronin Warriors
03 Jul 2024
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“… one cannot bend Nature to their will, Nao-chan,” Grandmother sighs in warning. “A woman body you have, a woman body you will always have, even if you cut your hair and boldly proclaim yourself a man to the face of the world.”
“I am aware,” Nao answers evenly. “But if I am to follow in my brothers’ footsteps to help defend this house and this family, then I’d rather do it as Naotoki than as Nao.”
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- Part 4 of A Flower For Every Season