#( i should finish yakuza or two to add majima eventually too )

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one day, i may consider adding gale on here too-- i'm a sucker for wizards

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Gift | Background for these two created by my friend below the cut |

Music for them : Love on the Brain - Rihanna

After the Pleasure King was defeated by Kiryu in Kamurocho, she left Tokyo as she had told Kiryu so she could begin another business somewhere else. She ended up in Osaka and located her first business in Sotenbori. As she was involved in a very peculiar kind of business... she quickly got in touch with people managing cabarets, including Majima.

The two of them met in order to discuss business several times, sometimes exchanging threats, as she was as vindictive as always and willing to take over the whole area. Realizing their businesses could rather complete each other, they eventually put an end to their « bickering ». After things finally calmed down, they kept seeing each other, first to establish their plans of action for their businesses, but little by little they started also to go to bars, to karaoke or simply out for a walk and a little chat.

When Majima asked her how he was supposed to call her, she replied she never gave her real name and, hoping she'd finally tell him, he said he'd settle for « Barbie » in the meantime. The thing is she never told him her real name (bad memories probably linked to it) so he'd always call her « Barbie ».

The girls at Club Sunshine started referring to them as « the old couple » since every time they saw them together they'd be either laughing, being flirtatious or yelling at each other as if they were going to jump at each other's throat... Especially her, but she quickly appeared to have the ultimate talent of pushing all his buttons down in no time.

The girls kept making remarks about how Majima seemed so much into fiery passionate women like the Pleasure King. Basically, everyone seemed aware of his crush. Including the main woman involved.

One day, she finally went straight to him, before letting out a « Invite me. » and, as Majima got all startled, she said they should stop pretending and that if he wanted to fuck her, he better invited her first.

Their first date started normally, playing pool, drinking, but she then asked him to get a 9mm so they could shoot stuff along the riverside. All that while drunk. When Majima refused, she became angry at him for being so « serious » and such a « killjoy ». Majima decided to stick with her to make sure she'd not get in further trouble. The last thing they needed was someone calling the cops.

They finished the night on a bench by the river, eating fried food Majima had bought and finishing some sake. They talked essentially about their past, his past as a yakuza and her past as a man and a prostitute, before she turned into a « business woman ». She kinda warned him that she was all about business and money but also that she was « fucked up » and commented on how funny and ironic it was that the very first true date of her life would have been with a man she hadn't had sex with. Majima retorted they could easily change that but she went home on her own.

Still they saw each other again. Again and again. They started an affair and things seemed to go really well for them, whether it came to their relationship or to their business. However, it turned out things weren't going so well in reality.

Basically, Majima asked her to marry him and she announced that she was leaving him, even leaving Osaka in the hope of finding herself a rich old man she would marry. She told him she always wanted to become rich, immensely rich, and that it was not Majima who would allow her to realize her dream and that she didn't love him anyway. Then she left Osaka, leaving Majima behind.

Two years passed and Majima married Mirei Park, only to end up disappointed and quite distraught again... and divorced.

Majima is nearly 30 years old when he meets with his « Barbie » again, in Tokyo. They meet in a dead-end street, which makes Majima remark that she's the one feeling cornered now. After some seriously awkward silence, he finally asks her how things are going now.

She married the rich old man she wanted, persuaded him to disown his children so she would get everything he possessed when he died and Majima understands easily, knowing her, that she then very efficiently « helped » her old husband to die.

She tries to explain him that, to finally get to this point, she sacrificed everything, everything just to be rich, to be where she is now. She swallowed her fears, clenched her teeth when people were mocking her or belittling her, she sacrificed her time, her whole days and nights, she gave away her body, she beat and humiliated others and she also let herself get humiliated and beaten, she gave up on all the values, all the morals she once held dear to her heart. And of course she put an end to every single lovestory that had started in her life. Majima, in Osaka, didn't stand a chance from the very start.

Majima finally asks her if it was worth it, if she'd do it all over again now (including leaving him), and she says yes without a single hesitation, without an ounce of regret. But she confesses that she lied to him, that she was in love with him but that money has always been her top priority, not feelings, not love, and she wanted to make things easier for him by giving him a good reason to hate her before she left.

Only to have Majima retorting he loved her enough to accept her stupid plan and to help her find a rich guy they would have killed together. Awkward silence again then they part ways again none of them being sure of anything at this point.

Time passes and it appears the rich dead man's heirs who had been disowned took it to court and took back all the heritage, leaving her with absolutely nothing. Basically, she lost her Kamurocho business, she lost the heritage so she finds herself with no money at all.

When Majima and her cross paths again, she's back to square one. She's working the streets in a shitty area (she fell really really hard). Majima first thinks of leaving like he hasn't noticed her, but feels totally unable to do so and finally approaches her.

Of course, this time, she seems really really happy to see him. She's a lot more flirtatious etc... and is actually exactly like when she needed to get something from him, back in Osaka after she had to leave Tokyo and her business there.

Majima ultimately refuses to help her since he's sure she's gonna use him like before then abandons him as soon as she doesn't need him anymore and he doesn't want to go through that again. She gets mad at him and he grows angry very quickly too. They have a violent argument and she even threatens to kill herself if he doesn't get her out of here. It could be just lies and emotional blackmail ; he knows she's manipulative and a liar, but he still feels like she didn’t lie about everything, especially about being attached to him. He just can't take the risk and take her home.

In the car, « I Wanna Take You Home », which is a special song for them, is on the radio and she soon starts to look away, feeling very sad, just to brutally turn the radio off, saying she can't listen to it anymore.

They finally reach Majima’s current flat and she goes straight to the bathroom which doesn’t surprise him since she had to deal with clients before he arrived. But the minutes pass and she’s still in there ; Majima kicks the door down and sees her with some pills he instantly smashes away. She tries to calm him down, swearing she didn’t take anything. But she had planned to take them initially tonight, not knowing she’d see Majima again (so she actually was sincere when saying she’d kill herself).

Realizing they still love each other, they sleep together. When Majima wakes up the next day, she’s practically at the door, ready to leave. She promises she’ll come back soon and that she has unfinished business (debts to pay) to attend to before she can finally stay with him. She also of course asks if he can lend her some cash, refusing to tell him anything and asking him to trust her. He still lets her go (last chance left to her).

[That’s all for now. It’s a resume and I hope I didn’t make too many mistakes when translating. It adds explanations also to the brutal change in Majima’s personality and behavior, since his “Barbie” is really fucked up too and the emotional shock didn’t help him.]