Hiroshima -MAJOR WIP-

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-Major WIP-

Hiroshima

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*Note*: I may very well do this with everyone currently involved, being the one running this particular plot I see everything and generally tend to pick up more. Hiro particularly struck me first because of what happened in the Bird of Happiness chapter of the story, and after we found out where the spirits from this particular chapter, and in the next, The Goat Sisters were from. We've started to piece together the puzzle, but there is still a lot left unsaid.

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• APPEARANCE: At the beginning of Rule of Rose, Hiroshima is compared to that of a black goat that needed to be sheered to be taken to market. The sheering can take on several different meanings. In terms of punishment, it is a demeaning practice however in another case it shows a need to reveal more of your personal self, humbleness and humility. The sheering I believe at first came as a type of punishment, but in turn turned into an unintentional need to release inner demons that he had not thought about or didn't want to think about for many years. The sheering of his hair I believe was the release that Hiro had needed to be able to go forth and begin to stare at his sins in the face and come to terms with what he had done in the past. With the bruises still around his neck and wrists from being tied to a pole during the sheering process caused by rope burn is in a way a foreshadow to what was to come later as the group began their exploration of the house. They are all bound to the house by some force that they had caused for themselves, Hiro is bound by his guilt of what he did during the Nanking massacre. The longer he denied it's existance, the tighter the ropes around his wrists and the noose around his neck came. Such is shown when Cro and Hiro found the black goat plush dangling from the rafters with a noose around its neck. The ropes are a symbol for bondage, restriction and captivity. Until Hiro comes to terms with what he did, the noose will only continue to grow tighter until it chokes the life out of him.
  
  
• SPEECH and BEHAVIOR: -NOT DONE- How Hiro talks and acts to me seems to be more defensive and brash, almost as if how he speaks and acts is a series of different defense mechanisms.
  
  What does the author's description of the character's thoughts or feelings reveal about the people in the story? Do the thoughts or feelings in the story relate to a conflict? Do the thoughts or feelings in the story reveal anything about the character's personality, strengths, and/or weaknesses?
  
  
• THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS: At the beginning, Hiro seemed to be much more adamently outspoken about the twisted games; doing little things in defiance to what Ivan was doing as such as an example:
  
  "As a manner of thought, he took the knife from where it stuck, holding it tightly, and forced its blade into the bulletin board again, this time where the childish, crudely drawn 'rose seal' remained. Screw this."
  
  
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