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Kokiden

Maker:
Fantasia Doll
Head Sculpt:
Vivian (2016/7 version)
Skintone:
Normal (blushed to match the body)
Body:
Impldoll Starwoman MGB (custom color)
Sex:
Female
  • Face-up artist(s):
    Me
    Modifications artist(s):
    Raentheria (chin sanding mod), BlueSand Aesthetics (to fix shoulder issues with the body)
    Date of acquisition:
    Sept 2017 (headsculpt), September 2021 (body)
    Provenance:
    Headsculpt bought via DoA Marketplace, body from ACBJD
    Reason for choice:
    I have a soft spot for realistic female sculpts, and I thought she'd look great as the character's mature version!
    Worst Points:
    Body: Impldoll shortened the shoulders without informing ACBJD or updating their own listings of the change -- this caused some engineering issues that I had to have a modder fix before it caused excessive scratching on the shoulder areas
    She was initially shelled as a SartoriaJ Yvonne. Her current headsculpt used to be assigned to another character (specifically the warpaint version of my favorite female doll).
  • Eyes:
    SOULinAboxDOLLS Liberté
    Wig:
    Hand-ventilated by yours truly
    Favourite colours:
    Black and red, with touches of gold
    Fashion style(s):
    East Asian traditional/fantasy, the occasional modern casuals
  • Name story:
    Her mother named her after an antagonist in "The Tale of Genji". While many readers reviled the Kokiden Lady, she was not a stoically suffering woman like the other heroines in the story -- a fact to which the strong-willed Adhara was sympathetic, owing to what she had to do to survive in a male-dominated world. The name is written as 弘徽殿: "great", "beautiful", "hall/court".

    (Strictly speaking, her name should be written as Kōkiden, but for simplicity reasons, I use the normal "o" when typing it out.)
    Character age:
    Appears as early twenties
    Character gender:
    Bisexual
    Offsite roleplay:
    This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.
    EDO PERIOD TIMELINE
    Relationship tree here.

    Kokiden was the elder of a set of fraternal twins that Zhèng Guórén (a high-ranking police lieutenant, also known as Takashima Jinsuke) sired with Adhara (the alias of Ozaki Kaguya, matriarch of a proto-yakuza syndicate). Her younger twin, a brother, was Kokichi. The siblings' birth came at a time when the syndicate's succession was under contest. Despite having an adult grandson descended from her now-deceased husband, Adhara had chosen another person as her successor because she had judged her grandson to be unfit to lead. Faction struggles in the syndicate resulted in many casualties, including the then-infant Kokiden.

    Kokiden's murder nearly destroyed Adhara and Guórén's relationship. But contrary to making Adhara capitulate, the killings only served to galvanize both her and Guórén's efforts to stop her errant grandson's rampage. Furthermore, Kokiden's release from her mortal body unleashed her true form as a feathered serpent, a valuable and loyal ally to her parents. Nonetheless, once things quieted down, she was able to carry on a relatively normal (if it can even be called such) parallel existence in the Spirit World, cared for by her mother's supernatural friends and often visited by her birth parents.

    Adhara never became Guórén's official wife, but he acknowledged their children and made them legitimate members of Takashima family. Although deceased, Kokiden received a coming-of-age name on the day she would have attained it in the human realm: Koyuri, written to mean "heart of excellence". She later became the significant other of a spirit her parents fostered, Maiya.

    L5R RPG TIMELINE
    TBA

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