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Ha-chan (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} agent_hyatt) wrote,@ 2008-03-11 20:22:00 |
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things I've been thinking about lately (instead of working on my thesis)
I've come up with a lot of personal fanon for Kaho.
- She's the only daughter of the head priest and priestess of Tsukimine Shrine. This is important because the "daughter of the shrine" has always been important.
- Her family hasn't left the area around Tomoeda for generations; Kaho is the first to study abroad. Her parents were proud of their little girl getting a broader view of the world than they ever had, but they also assumed that she would always return to the Shrine sooner rather than later.
- Kaho knew that just as she was born as close to the Shrine as permitted by the doctors, she would also die at the Shrine; she knew that almost as long as she understood the concept of death. However, it took her longer to realize that just because she was meant to begin and end her life at the Shrine didn't mean she was going to spend her whole life there.
- For most of her early life, she was always following some plan; either Clow's plan for her role in the fate of the Cards or her parents' plan for her to become the head priestess. Leaving Tomoeda with Eriol was the first time she made a decision based on her own plan for her life, instead of anyone else's.
- When she first met Eriol, she was surprised to discover that he appeared to be a boy; she had always pictured him as the ageless sorcerer Clow Reed. It took far less time than she expected to become used to the reality of Eriol instead of her image of Clow. (She also found out later that, as Clow had foreseen Kaho discovering the Moon Bell as a child, Eriol expected her to be a little girl and was momentarily surprised when the young woman Kaho greeted him.)
- While they don't disapprove of her relationship with Eriol, Kaho's parents would have preferred it if she had ended up with Touya. Not because of the apparent age; they thought that Kaho wouldn't be inclined to stray from Tomoeda and the Shrine if she had Touya, while Eriol only encouraged her to fly farther out and away from her childhood home.
- (One of) Kaho's daughter(s) later returns to Tomoeda and Tsukimine Shrine to become the "daughter of the shrine".
I was also thinking about an angsty post-canon scenario, where Kaho dies childless after only a few years married to Eriol; her parents afterwards blame Eriol for her death and especially ending the line of daughters of the Shrine. They feel that his "children" made Kaho decide to wait to have children of her own until it was too late, and that Eriol shouldn't have encouraged someone as young as their daughter to marry him when he was (apparently) already old enough to have a daughter less than a decade younger than Kaho.
I've come up with a lot of personal fanon for Kaho.
- She's the only daughter of the head priest and priestess of Tsukimine Shrine. This is important because the "daughter of the shrine" has always been important.
- Her family hasn't left the area around Tomoeda for generations; Kaho is the first to study abroad. Her parents were proud of their little girl getting a broader view of the world than they ever had, but they also assumed that she would always return to the Shrine sooner rather than later.
- Kaho knew that just as she was born as close to the Shrine as permitted by the doctors, she would also die at the Shrine; she knew that almost as long as she understood the concept of death. However, it took her longer to realize that just because she was meant to begin and end her life at the Shrine didn't mean she was going to spend her whole life there.
- For most of her early life, she was always following some plan; either Clow's plan for her role in the fate of the Cards or her parents' plan for her to become the head priestess. Leaving Tomoeda with Eriol was the first time she made a decision based on her own plan for her life, instead of anyone else's.
- When she first met Eriol, she was surprised to discover that he appeared to be a boy; she had always pictured him as the ageless sorcerer Clow Reed. It took far less time than she expected to become used to the reality of Eriol instead of her image of Clow. (She also found out later that, as Clow had foreseen Kaho discovering the Moon Bell as a child, Eriol expected her to be a little girl and was momentarily surprised when the young woman Kaho greeted him.)
- While they don't disapprove of her relationship with Eriol, Kaho's parents would have preferred it if she had ended up with Touya. Not because of the apparent age; they thought that Kaho wouldn't be inclined to stray from Tomoeda and the Shrine if she had Touya, while Eriol only encouraged her to fly farther out and away from her childhood home.
- (One of) Kaho's daughter(s) later returns to Tomoeda and Tsukimine Shrine to become the "daughter of the shrine".
I was also thinking about an angsty post-canon scenario, where Kaho dies childless after only a few years married to Eriol; her parents afterwards blame Eriol for her death and especially ending the line of daughters of the Shrine. They feel that his "children" made Kaho decide to wait to have children of her own until it was too late, and that Eriol shouldn't have encouraged someone as young as their daughter to marry him when he was (apparently) already old enough to have a daughter less than a decade younger than Kaho.
