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CHARACTER SHEET & CHARACTER BIO - TANAKA SAKURA

🕑 Added 2023-02-19 22:10:19 +0000 UTC

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Tionna Backup

Happy birthday Sakura 🥳

Blup

i hope 🤞

Blup

new chapter tdayyy

Bre

Yes thank you just wanted to confirm my friend was trying to say he was middle child

Alonté Gordon

Okay so this is making me want to go down in a rabbit hole of thought again. Because every time I feel I know the story I know I don’t. But I had this feeling as well. You articulated this beautifully. Such a good take on this. I want to know more so bad 😭 like hello loop 🔁 I’m coming in. Because that’s where it’s throwing me. So many subtle suggestions, phrases and the way the characters react to each and others. This is such a great take. Especially since they have given us the character sheets as well. Thank you

Kida Williams

I love the character sheets!

Blup

if u mean is shoto the oldest brother then yes i believe around chapter 11 it says this

Tasi Scanlan

She’s so beautiful 😭😭

Babycakes

This is a really good refresher but it has me thinking even more. I just love this story so damn much ❤️

Bre

Is shotos the oldest?

Syn

Ahhh thank you!! I’m actually so bad with names no matter hard I try :3 I’m glad you liked the analysis

Blue Meringue

Makes sense 😅

Blue Meringue

Oo this analysis is amazing!! (Also youre half right, Turtle is the agressive syndicate persona ((the one currently fighting for control)). If I remember correctly the little one is called Sho-Sho!)

Syn

I’d like to preface this by saying I study psychology and am a therapist and love this artist and work and this is gonna be a lot but mainly just guesses! Ok just some Sherlock Holmes stuff. But up until this point it seems as though she killed herself or that’s what has been eluded too. The first letter of the part that was blacked doesn’t seem to start with S for suicide but rather it looks like an it could be a H. Like for Hiro. Of course it could be a t (maybe took her own life). But based on the way the Authors really prioritizing mental health and things like that I doubt they’d shy away from just saying Suicide. On top of that we don’t really know the reason why shoto not only left the clan but clearly snapped and regressed. Sure this could point to the violence dealt all throughout his childhood, but he was mostly resilient and it seems like with most there was a straw that broke the camels back so to speak. Not only did it repeat the generational curse of their half baked Oedipus complex (wanting to murder their father not be with his mother) it also created a split personality where it was no longer safe for the main personality to “rule”. I’ll use regressed 1 (R1) for medium regressed shoto which is his normal personality now and regressed 2 (R2) for deep regression which is his little persona I think this personality is called turtle only because I can’t remember the individual regressions names regressed 3 (R3) the one currently fighting to be the primary (the stabby stabby kill one). Ok so once again we know that at the sight of violence shoto breaks down now right as though he has PTSD. But he’s not scared when it comes to telling these people off rather it’s only triggered with some type of fighting. He’s not scared on the hand that he’ll be hurt by the way he’s acting because the point of the regressions are so that they can protect you. If he was scared of that then he would let R3 come to the surface to protect rather than him forcing his way up. In fact it seemed the little time R3 spent on the surface shoto broke down far worse. It seems to me that R3 is the one that holds the most memories of his mother his past and all the bad things. As we saw already R1 has no problem recalling other violent things about the syndicate in fact was perfectly fine telling you about their inner workings and stuff like that. So it’s not the memory itself of the Tanakas or violence itself that triggers shoto. If you’re with me this far this is where Sakura comes in but this is a lot I know lol. So going back to the beginning Hiro tried desperately to “show shoto a taste of what his life was like”. It almost seems he forgets exactly why he killed his father in the first place exacting the same type of sick preversions on Shoto. It seemed however that shoto “never learned” despite all the fucked up ways he tried to teach the head of the family. I haven’t seen much of Hiro but from what I have seen it seems as though he has Narcissistic personality disorder. Anyways we notice at a time that shoto doesn’t have many bruises on him any more and it seems as though Sakura has more and more. I’m assuming that Hiro decided to flip the switch and was like “oh it seems nothing I do gets through to you but you love your mother huh? You love your mother right? I’m gonna start hurting her Everytime you ‘fuck up’” (please be aware of the air quotes im using). Probably the reason shoto never made a mistake and trained harder than his siblings. Both because he couldn’t and because he didn’t want them to take his place. Now there is the point with that friend who died in the ‘light novel’ I’m assuming that Hiro had him killed or the friend from what it seemed was using shoto and Hiro found out. He was probably tested and asked if he would rather a higher position in the syndicate or money or something or shotos hand and so he went missing. I’m assuming this because it doesn’t seem that his father is necessarily homophobic as Icihibans relationship (sorry if I got the name wrong I have really bad dyslexia and I’m really bad with names lol). So now I’m assuming something happened. Maybe Shoto saying he would be leaving the syndicate or something else and Hiro killed Sakura and made shoto watch. This is probably the reason why Hiro says that “shoto is trying to get back at him” or things along these lines because he did something fucked too shoto. I have more theories and a broader explanation but I already feel this is too long lol. Once again I love love love this story, it’s depiction of mental health, and love <3 thank you for reading!

MovieFanatic

Oh yeah you’re right we might get something in the future like a flashback about her story more and how she died

Blue Meringue

Oh no not Hiro, Im talking about Sakura. Theres a print with Hiro and Sakura when they were way younger where Sakuras already been abused, and both that and bits of info weve gotten about Sakura (and Hiro) imply she was being abused by someone else beforehand. Im not denying Hiro was and still *is* abusive at all, but her state in the character sheet seems to have taken place earlier in their relationship, before things got bad between her and Hiro.

MovieFanatic

Yeah I saw one where he remembered his dad letting him get assaulted as a child but it’s evidence he did physically beat up his wife and especially shoto since he’s the eldest and I wonder if he had gotten help would things be different

Kurutta Hito

You're welcome ! Sadly, that one is a bit of spoiler !

Blue Meringue

Actually based on previous prints, its implied this physical and sexual abuse stuff happened before Sakura and Hiro got together (or at least before they were married). Hiro was definitely unhealthy af and abusive towards his whole family, but I dont think he was the cause of her physical state in these drawings

Blue Meringue

Thank you! Aww that's sad 😭 Assuming its not a spoiler, was it like genuine fell out of touch or "best friend mysteriously started avoiding/mysteriously disappeared" type of out of touch?

eladwodahs

She kept a diary...... hm, curiouser. She really got dealt a rough hand

Kurutta Hito

Since this is a spoiler-free question, it will be answered. Sakura fell out of touch with her best friend when she was 16 years old.

Kurutta Hito

Also for some clarity, Hiro never sexually assaulted Sakura. Her story will also be deeply explored in the comic.

Sara Conceicao

She was so beautiful. I hope to see her more in the future about her past🖤

MovieFanatic

This is so sad why did Hiro do this to his family he seemed so happy at the beginning he’s complex but what he did to shoto and his wife and kids is unacceptable and I wonder how his story will end