Kotori Tsukumo (nee Mizuki)

[OOC: This story is backdated to around mid-September. It was a much bigger project than anticipated and it took me a while to write everything up. It's 23 pages long, with 4 chapters and an epilogue, but I hope you all enjoy it.
I'll summarise some of the important points here as well.]


Yuma & Kotori's Forest Adventure!

( Summary of Important Parts )

So I've spent the last few days in Heartland visiting my parents and helping Yuma go through some stuff at his old house, since Akari-san wanted him sort through it.

I talked to my parents and finally told them about everything. About Mr. Heartland and about my powers. It was a lot for them to take in, but they both love me and accept me for who I am. I know they also kept the truth about my actual father hidden to protect me, but I feel now this is all out, I'm that much more closer to them, especially my dad. He sacrificed a lot just to make sure mom and I were happy and safe. He stepped up when Heartland didn't. To me, he's more my real dad. He always will be.
I acknowledge I'm related to Heartland by blood, but I'll never consider him a real father.
He's out of my life for good anyway.

With that done, I want to focus on the positives and the future as much as I can.
Yuma and I more or less have the apartment to ourselves now. Haru-san moved back permanently to Heartland and Akari-san only stays when she needs to be in Domino City for her job.
She's still helping us financially, as are my parents from this weekend, until Yuma and I can stand on our own feet.

We now have a spare room in the apartment, so I've turned it into a working space for my fashion design work. It's so much better to have the extra room! It got a little too cluttered trying to work in a space shared by both me and Yuma.
The room also doubles as a guest room, for when Akari-san, or any of our friends stay over.

My small fashion design business is going well too. I've had a lot of custom orders recently for spring and summer wear lately! It's been really exciting working on it.

Overall... it's been a tough and emotional weekend... and last few months, but I really feel positive about the future. About my business, me and Yuma, everything!

*As the Wonder Quartet is taking place over parts of the city on the final day of the Duel Festival, Kotori has found herself at Mr. Heartland's office after he asked her to see her.
Knocking on the door beforehand to signal her arrival, she opens the door to his office when told to enter and slowly walks in.*

You asked to see me...?

( Limbo )
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Closed Event

*Kotori is sitting on a bench in the park. It's quite a hot summer's day, but Kotori's attention doesn't seem to be on the wonderful weather.
She's sat looking down at her hands, looking quite deep in thought and rather anxious. Around her, there seems to be a few fluttering butterflies which, to the un-trained eye, look like normal butterflies, but to anyone with a keen eye, especially those sensitive to the supernatural, they can tell they aren't just regular butterflies. In-fact they weren't real butterflies at all and seemed to be made up of some kind of solid light.

One flutters down and lands on her hands, making Kotori give out a sigh. She knew they were appearing because of how anxious she'd been feeling and because she'd been keeping those worries to herself, but she didn't really know how to make them go away.*

Today I would like to announce the launch of my new website for my clothing designs!
It's taken a while to set up, as Akari-san needed to teach me some of the basic coding for it, but now I feel confidant enough to run and update the website when I need to!

[There is a link to a nicely designed website included, which appears to be named 'Little Birds' in English. It has a cute bird motif!]

'Little Birds' is my own small thing I am aiming to build-up while I am still working part-time at Castle & Castle. I am hoping that eventually it will grow into a business that I can run full-time. I will be concentrating mainly on cute themed clothing, but I am also open to do commissions on an individual basis.
The website has examples of outfits I've made, has links to my various social media accounts and also has a small online store where I'll be selling ready-made items!

Thank you so much for taking a look.

I am so mad about what happened to Yuma and Yuzu! How dare that guy interrupt their duel and hurt the both of them! Yuma told me he was one of the people that targeted them and Yuya a few years ago too. He better not even THINK of giving them trouble again!

I heard all the other duels that took place were also targeted in the same way. Why was that even allowed to happen in the first place!?

Souha-san got in touch with me today.

The ability I have, that blew up on Christmas Eve, is linked to what seems to be traces of non-human/monster heritage. They need more time to really pinpoint exactly what it is but, for now, this is what information I have.
I can only assume it maybe like it is with Yuma and it's possibly something far enough down my family line that my parents didn't know about it.
I feel a little better knowing where the power came from now and that it's a natural part of me. So it's something I need to accept and come to terms with.

It's been a little odd to get used to and add using it to my daily routine, but I've so far tried it with smaller, non-breakable items on a regular basis. I seem to be able to push/pull and levitate items, though sometimes I can't quite control the speed I'm moving them.
I'm probably going to go by the SAI building this week and see if there is anyone there who can help me to train and practise this ability so I have some more control over it. Or even to just give me advice.

At least using it means I no longer get the headaches and dizziness. I'm able to carry on with things, like getting back to finishing Trena and Yuya's outfits I was doing for them and working on getting my website for my designs up.