A lot of things went wrong in practice. But what I find theoretically interesting about Kisara: She is marginalised either on an ethnic level, or due to some congenital disorder like albinism, within the culture she’s participating in. She is a former slave, or at the very least someone who was at high risk for being enslaved. She also seems to have some kind of fear of her inner power and anger, as manifests through the Blue Eyes. And when Set meets her and ‘saves’ her from the villagers, there’s this kind of question of what his motives are, and whether or not they’re just as exploitative as that of the people he’s saving her from. (It’s hard for me to not read his interest in her being, at least at first, an unholy mixture of ‘she’s hot’ and ‘she has a dragon ka i want to control inside of her’.)
But for some reason these things are hardly ever preserved in modern AUs or reincarnation blueshipping. And I kind of took it for granted that they wouldn’t be but- idk, upon further reflection, why not? It’s not as if ethnic marginalisation, congenital disorders, slavery, female suppression of anger, and Seto potentially being an exploitative asshole aren’t problems that we all must currently deal with in today’s world. And given with that Japan is a relatively popular destination for human trafficking... idk, it seems like it would be pretty fitting to cast Kisara in that type of role instead of, like, transfer student.
I mean, the only real problem I see with it is I’d have to do a bunch of research to cover these topics and themes with even the slightest bit of tact. Which I wouldn’t have to do if I had any interest in writing about school girl Kisara, heh.
