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[hmuet]

name: hoshiko abadie.
age: 20
nationality: french-japanese.
residence: paris.
family: alain abadie (father), yuriko ayakura abadie (mother), charles kiyoaki abadie (younger brother)
education: the academy of painting and sculpture where she studies painting, she's a very late/new wave practitioner of japonism.
languages: french, english and japanese.
sexuality: homoromantic asexual.
interests: art, literature, japanese culture.

background: not much in hoshiko's backstory has changed from her original verse to a modern one, except the years. fast forward a century, and alain abadie is sent as a diplomat to Japan where he meets and falls in love with socialite, yuriko ayakura whom he marries and has hoshiko with. some ten years later, he's called back to france and takes yuriko and hoshiko and their newly born boy, charles, with him. they live in a paris suburb and everything's idyllic from an outside perspective, but yuriko misses japan a lot and never really finds her footing in france. she feels foreign and estranged and it begins showing in regular bouts of depression where she isolates herself and finds it difficult connecting with her children. growing up with a talent for drawing and painting, hoshiko quickly discovers that if she talks to her mother in japanese about things she remembers from japan, she is easier to connect with and she spends a lot of her childhood doing that, taking a great interest in japanese culture and language herself. when she finishes school, she enrolls with the academy of painting and sculpture where she focuses on learning more about painting and art in general. she focuses on japanese-inspired motifs and her teacher says she's going to start a new wave of japonism. hoshiko says, it started long before her. he thinks she's talking about manga. she knows she's talking about her mother.