Character: Kagura Sohma (
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Series: Fruits Basket
Character Age: Around 18.
Canon: Fruits Basket is the touching story of a cursed family who turns into the Chinese zodiac animals when they're hugged by the opposite sex and the happy house-keeping girl who tops them all. In this story of emo kids, cheerful people with secret emo pasts, and bastards who sleep with other people's moms, it's important to have a normal character. Luckily, that character is not Kagura.
Kagura is the boar in the family. Sweet and thoughtful, on first glance she appears to be an upstanding young lady. Unfortunately, she has something of a split personality and occasionally becomes loud, violent, and disapproving in her cousin Kyou's general direction, but it's out of love. Unfortunately, this love is not only loud and violent, but also super-strong, so that even Kyou's trained kung-fu is powerless against it.
Because she and Kyou are both from the zodiac, they can embrace without triggering their curse, so when they were young Kagura logically decided they should get married, and threatened Kyou with a knife until he agreed. Aside from her outbursts, however, she remains a well-meaning and kind girl who doesn't notice that she is occasionally absolutely terrifying.
Aah, excuse me...
You see, I came because I heard that Sohma Kyou was staying here now, and having been very close friends with him since childhood I wanted to encourage him to do his best and check on him. Even if he has Tohru to take care of him now . . .
But you know? It's a little embarrassing to say but I think I might have broken something on my way in. I didn't mean to! It was, ah, a little unexpected . . . I was going through the woods, you know? It was all full of animals I'd never seen, and one of them was an adorable cat. I'd never seen another cat like that before! It was just the color of my backpack--see, isn't it cute? But this cat was much bigger! And I wanted to take it home and LOVE IT AND TAKE
CARE OF IT.
So I was running after it! And something very big and purple came and tried to stop me. I think it thought I couldn't take care of a kitten, which was very rude! I AM VERY LOVING AND NURTURING. So I apologize very much but I might have thrown it into several of your very lovely trees. I didn't realize how unstable they were! And only when I went over to check on the trees did I see the purple something was a gorilla! I've never seen one that color before. Could it perhaps be an endangered species . . . ?
And then, well. I don't like to say that one thing led to another, but under the gorilla I saw a group of squirrels, trapped and scared. I didn't mean for that to happen at all! Not only that, they must have been very rare squirrels. They had tiny notepads and pencils and they looked very sad . . . So I immediately threw the gorilla off them again and checked if they were all right. As I was helping them I saw the notepads had very inappropriate drawings that looked like the covers of Shigure's novels, but with fewer clothes and more . . . well! Then one of them bit me and I think I got a little ANGRY, BECAUSE I WAS ONLY TRYING TO BE HELPFUL TO POOR DEFENSELESS ANIMALS, EXCEPT THEY WERE NOT DEFENSELESS AND OBVIOUSLY HAD NO IDEA HOW TO TREAT A LADY.
But! I know I haven't made the best first impression here by damaging your very rare trees and gorilla and talented-but-rude squirrels, but if you would still be willing to tell me where Sohma Kyou is I would be very grateful.
It's been a long time and I want to SHOW HIM MY AFFECTION.