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♕ CHILDHOOD:
Kimi and Kazu’s parents were (and are) often very busy, so they spent a lot of their early childhoods on inventing games of pretend to play. The one thing most of those games had in common was some sort of loose ‘hunter-versus-hunted”, “predator-versus-prey” theme. “Cats and rabbits”, for example. They almost spent more time on deciding who got to be whom than they spent on actually playing...until Kazu decided one day that actually, they didn’t want to be a smelly cat, ever, thanks. So things worked out fine.
✿ HAPPINESS:
Just looking into the mirror often cheers Kimi up! She’s a certain kind of vain about her face, see. First of all, the facial features she’s always known she’ll grow into are nothing if not “cute” -- doe eyes, button nose, near-eternal youth. The kind of face that compels one to think “innocence” -- that would compel people to think “innocence” here, too, under different circumstances. (In practice, on the other hand...)
Kimi tends to oversell the “twee” factor, in her facial expressions, in her mannerisms...in practice. So whether she herself actually comes off as “cute” to anyone is debatable. But her sense of vanity isn’t about that, so it’s okay! She’s got plenty to make her happy here.
♕ CHILDHOOD:
Kimi and Kazu’s room was absolutely stuffed with toys when they were young. (Technically it still is, even if only Kimi lives there now, and even if Kazu took about half of the hoard with them to Saipan.) For much of her childhood, Kimi watched as the collection steadily increased: in leaps and bounds on every birthday or major holiday, and at a steady trickle as she told her moms all about the exciting doodads the other kids had throughout the year. None of them were particularly expensive, but many were newly-released and fairly trendy at the time of their purchase, and that her family had money for this and not for, say -- pills and pillows and salves and insoles for her mothers’ ever-aching heads, necks, joints, feet -- was not something that young Kimi ever thought to question.
(She tended to break a lot of the toys she received, actually, driven by a desire to take them apart to see how they worked. Kimi feels kind of bad about this now. She has a number of colorful spare parts stuffed in a box somewhere, in case she ever finds the lost pieces needed to put those toys back together.)