#Flashback: Impregnable Defenses

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Forspoken Photo Dump 206: Junoon; The Blossomwoods, Part 3

[bestbonnist]

I've thought about this A LOT, and I've come to the conclusion that it's not likely that Kahaku fucked. Here's why:

Hayase's other successors have all been introduced to Fushi as preteens around the Nameless Boy's age before they give birth. If they fail to seduce them, fine, then the creepy shadow men from Kahaku's flashback choose someone to impregnate them and then the successor will be killed before her granddaughter is born to pass on Hayase's faie, if she survives until then. The successors have no choice in the matter. They're heavily monitored by the Defense Corps., so there's no chance that they would be able to go out and choose who to fuck (or to not fuck anyone).

Since the shadow men wanted to move on to another female successor instead of Kahaku as soon as possible, it would make sense if they also picked someone for Kahaku to fuck as soon as possible. But if he had a wife/designated person who would bear his child that's definitely something he would mention to Fushi upon meeting, just to make it even clearer that he's heterosexual.

But there have probably been instances of male children being born to Hayase's direct descendants and then starting other branches of her family, which is probably where the shadow men came from. And those men, although probably initially intended as backups, became the true heads of the family and Defense Corps. with Hayase's direct descendants acting reduced to mere puppets. But they probably still had someone who could give birth to another one of Hayase's reincarnations just in case.

i’m still confused over kahaku’s my family will carry on my will part since kahaku was the only male child from that generation and presumably the only child iirc? did kahaku impregnate someone before joining fushi?

the hayase family requirements are to (1) train to protect fushi (2) get pregnant (or get someone pregnant?) as soon as possible (and now that i think of it could that be why the mothers typically die young, because of childbirth complications?) (3) find and try to get immortal dick.

hisame doesn’t answer fushi’s question about who her father is. are the fathers random men (does she actually know who her father is?) because if it was a long term relationship i assume they wouldn’t want their wives / mothers of their children dedicating their lives to another man. and kahaku asks parona-fushi to be his wife.

this is actually interesting to me, we don’t really know much about the inner family workings yet. their family is fundamentally structured around fushi.

[sorayahigashikata]

Chapter 71: "She's got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill her."

[iusfelis-blog]

Flashback (an embarrassed and/or a scared memory)

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    “MOMMA!”

Soft feet scurried against a too-posh rug. She was trying to run out of the room, away from the large monster that had broken in and was likely trying to kill her. It didn’t say anything as it entered, didn’t even seem to have any trouble with the security system…

‘The Penthouse is suppoed to be impregnable. That word means-’ She knew what impregnable meant. Unable to be breached, unable to be ruptured or PREGNATED by anything or anyone without the proper security clearance. 

    But there he was… Dripping in onyx, bloodied and broken, out of breath and lumbering toward the girl who’d fallen and begean trying to… to will herself out of existence by pressing into a corner. “Momma! Momma! MOMMA, HELP!” Where was she? Why hadn’t she- Did he already get to her? Was she dead?

The idea made her short breathing even shorter. Panic was a lot fiercer than logic, she couldn’t think to run away, couldn’t think to grab one of the MANY tools of self-defense and protection littered around the penthouse… She was just a girl, staring into the mangled face of the demon who’s all but killed her mother and ruined her existence.

  She didn’t want to close her eyes, didn’t want to hide herself that way, but with each approaching footstep she couldn’t’- she couldn’t not retreat into herself. The abyss was preferable, far preferable, to looking into his eyes as he-

    “Cleopatra?!” MOM?! The sound of a bullwhip tearing through air opened her eyes immediately. She’d caught the beast at his wrist, yanked him to the floor and dragged him out of Cleo���s room. The girl sat there, shivering and immeasurably concerned until the sound of a couch being stressed and a face being slapped wafted through her open door frame. 

  She… She …

    “It’s okay, honey. I took care of him, you don’t have to be scared.” She’d taken care of him? Who was he? Why did he come here? How did he get in? She had so many questions, so much to ask but- but Selina didn’t stay long in Cleo’s room. Once she made sure the girl wasn’t crying any more (sobbing softly didn’t count) she was gone. Door locked, off to take care of the attacker… or- or the vandal, whomever- whatever he was.

    “Cleopatra!” The young woman stepped out of her room, the next morning, still- still afraid of the world outside her broken window, to see her mother posturing with a few suitcases and an old man… “Cleopatra, you remember Mister Pennyworth, don’t you? He’s going to take us on a ride to the ‘stush’ side of Gotham. Get dressed, there’s someone there that needs to speak with you.”

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