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[Dec. 1] [Suikoden III] Blessed Carvings
Title: Blessed Carvings
Day/Theme: Dec. 1, 2014 "I wanted to make something strong">
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Yun, Yuiri, Alma Kinan OCs
Rating: G
After they had cleaned up the dishes from breakfast, Yumi headed off to the forest to hunt and Yuiri left to join Aunt Mayu and her team as they moved onto the detail work on the new house that had just been raised. Yun was too little to have any duties beyond household chores and thus was at her leisure until Great-Auntie's lessons in the afternoon. Sometimes this left her overwhelmed by a wealth of choices- go along to the lake if anyone else were fishing or swimming, volunteer to feed and play with the village chickens, stay in and draw or play by herself, go out and play archery or tag or any other game the handful of girls around her edge were interested in… Sometimes the spirit whispers gave her suggestions. Today they were sending her a message that, while vague, definitely urged her toward Yuiri.
She went to the door and sat down to put on her boots. They were tough boots, real ones, that made her feel like a big girl. She stood up and smiled down at them. Aunt Kayo, who specialized in leatherwork, had made them for her.
The building sight was just across the way, spread out along the side of the newest house. Yaya and Yuka were going to make vows to one another and then move into that house. They still hadn't decided what kind of village use they would put their front room too, but it had been made big with space for all kinds of options in mind. For the time being, they would let Great-Auntie move her loom and extra weaving things in. Great-Auntie'd never had quite enough space since Yun was born. It wasn't a real hardship- Great-Auntie was always saying that Yun was a blessing- but it did mean they were too many things crammed into the upstairs rooms and they were always tripping (especially Yumi when she walked in her sleep).
Yun skipped over and began curiously moving about the various women and their work. Now that all the main parts of the house were standing, it wasn't too dangerous for her to visit the site- nothing heavy was going to suddenly fall over and no hammers or nails or wooden tiles might fall from a scaffolding. Aunt Mayu was trying the pieces of a railing for the staircase to see that the joints would wedge together properly for a nice tight fit.
"It's like a puzzle," Yun said.
"Yes, but a puzzle that's not meant to be easily taken apart again," Aunt Mayu squinted at the portion in her left hand and reached for the sandpaper. "Building a house is sort of like putting together a giant puzzle as you make the pieces, I suppose."
"Do you see it all in your head first?"
"Now that I've worked on building houses for almost forty years I do. I used to have to sketch a lot more. And before that, when I was just an apprentice, I asked so many questions." Aunt Mayu was happy to reminisce about her days as an apprentice. The woman who had taught her almost everything she knew had not only been a skilled builder, but had traveled throughout the Grasslands prior to the Flame Champion's war, studying the architectural styles of the other clans. That was Suyu, who had built the house that Yun lived in. Suyu had lived there too, with Great-Auntie, but that had been before Yun was born.
"I came to watch Yuiri carve."
Aunt Mayu nodded. "Yes, you should. The spirit carving is a good thing for you to see. The patterns formed out of the wood are made to thank the spirits for what we've taken from their forest and to ask for them to continue to reside in and protect the house that we've built. Yuiri and the rest of the usual carvers will make most of them, but Yuka and Yaya will also contribute special carvings to the work to ask for special blessings on one another and their union."
"Like when the old lake house blew down in the last big storm," Yun remembered, "Yumi and Laya had gotten caught in the rain and hid in it the night before, but the spirits didn't let it collapse until no one was inside it."
"Yes, like that," Aunt Mayu agreed, amused at Yun's confidence in this interpretation, a sign of confirmation coming from the spirit-speaking girl.
"I'm going to find her then," Yun concluded the conversation and skittered off to continue her small travels amidst the various components of the building project. Laya was sorting nails. Yuka and Yaya were trying to choose between different fabrics for curtains.
There were the carvers, settled in a circle, piles of strange-shaped chips and curly wood shavings growing around them. Yun was careful to approach without startling anyone- the chisels they used looked pretty sharp. "Yuiri," she murmured from behind her seated sister's shoulder, "You're making feathers on a bird?"
"An eagle," Yuiri answered. The importance she laid on details and accuracy was part of what had led Great-Auntie to choose Yuiri as the girl to groom as her successor. "Because the eagle is strong and fierce and always protects her mate and young."
Yun studied the wooden eagle carefully- it was part of a single piece of wood that might become part of the frame of a window or door (it was hard for her to be any more specific, though if she asked, Yuiri would probably know) and flew surrounded by stylized clouds. The eagle was most complete starting from her beak and less toward her tail. Somehow her expression reminded Yun of Yuiri. She told herself not to giggle. "You're so good at so many things, Yuiri," she said instead.
"Skill is best supplemented by patience," was the wisdom her older sister offered in return.
Yuiri would live a long life, the whispers told her, with the time to learn and do and master many things. This was a happy thing to hear and add to what she knew without any spirits telling her- that Yuiri would undoubtedly make a wonderful chief.
Day/Theme: Dec. 1, 2014 "I wanted to make something strong">
Series: Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Yun, Yuiri, Alma Kinan OCs
Rating: G
After they had cleaned up the dishes from breakfast, Yumi headed off to the forest to hunt and Yuiri left to join Aunt Mayu and her team as they moved onto the detail work on the new house that had just been raised. Yun was too little to have any duties beyond household chores and thus was at her leisure until Great-Auntie's lessons in the afternoon. Sometimes this left her overwhelmed by a wealth of choices- go along to the lake if anyone else were fishing or swimming, volunteer to feed and play with the village chickens, stay in and draw or play by herself, go out and play archery or tag or any other game the handful of girls around her edge were interested in… Sometimes the spirit whispers gave her suggestions. Today they were sending her a message that, while vague, definitely urged her toward Yuiri.
She went to the door and sat down to put on her boots. They were tough boots, real ones, that made her feel like a big girl. She stood up and smiled down at them. Aunt Kayo, who specialized in leatherwork, had made them for her.
The building sight was just across the way, spread out along the side of the newest house. Yaya and Yuka were going to make vows to one another and then move into that house. They still hadn't decided what kind of village use they would put their front room too, but it had been made big with space for all kinds of options in mind. For the time being, they would let Great-Auntie move her loom and extra weaving things in. Great-Auntie'd never had quite enough space since Yun was born. It wasn't a real hardship- Great-Auntie was always saying that Yun was a blessing- but it did mean they were too many things crammed into the upstairs rooms and they were always tripping (especially Yumi when she walked in her sleep).
Yun skipped over and began curiously moving about the various women and their work. Now that all the main parts of the house were standing, it wasn't too dangerous for her to visit the site- nothing heavy was going to suddenly fall over and no hammers or nails or wooden tiles might fall from a scaffolding. Aunt Mayu was trying the pieces of a railing for the staircase to see that the joints would wedge together properly for a nice tight fit.
"It's like a puzzle," Yun said.
"Yes, but a puzzle that's not meant to be easily taken apart again," Aunt Mayu squinted at the portion in her left hand and reached for the sandpaper. "Building a house is sort of like putting together a giant puzzle as you make the pieces, I suppose."
"Do you see it all in your head first?"
"Now that I've worked on building houses for almost forty years I do. I used to have to sketch a lot more. And before that, when I was just an apprentice, I asked so many questions." Aunt Mayu was happy to reminisce about her days as an apprentice. The woman who had taught her almost everything she knew had not only been a skilled builder, but had traveled throughout the Grasslands prior to the Flame Champion's war, studying the architectural styles of the other clans. That was Suyu, who had built the house that Yun lived in. Suyu had lived there too, with Great-Auntie, but that had been before Yun was born.
"I came to watch Yuiri carve."
Aunt Mayu nodded. "Yes, you should. The spirit carving is a good thing for you to see. The patterns formed out of the wood are made to thank the spirits for what we've taken from their forest and to ask for them to continue to reside in and protect the house that we've built. Yuiri and the rest of the usual carvers will make most of them, but Yuka and Yaya will also contribute special carvings to the work to ask for special blessings on one another and their union."
"Like when the old lake house blew down in the last big storm," Yun remembered, "Yumi and Laya had gotten caught in the rain and hid in it the night before, but the spirits didn't let it collapse until no one was inside it."
"Yes, like that," Aunt Mayu agreed, amused at Yun's confidence in this interpretation, a sign of confirmation coming from the spirit-speaking girl.
"I'm going to find her then," Yun concluded the conversation and skittered off to continue her small travels amidst the various components of the building project. Laya was sorting nails. Yuka and Yaya were trying to choose between different fabrics for curtains.
There were the carvers, settled in a circle, piles of strange-shaped chips and curly wood shavings growing around them. Yun was careful to approach without startling anyone- the chisels they used looked pretty sharp. "Yuiri," she murmured from behind her seated sister's shoulder, "You're making feathers on a bird?"
"An eagle," Yuiri answered. The importance she laid on details and accuracy was part of what had led Great-Auntie to choose Yuiri as the girl to groom as her successor. "Because the eagle is strong and fierce and always protects her mate and young."
Yun studied the wooden eagle carefully- it was part of a single piece of wood that might become part of the frame of a window or door (it was hard for her to be any more specific, though if she asked, Yuiri would probably know) and flew surrounded by stylized clouds. The eagle was most complete starting from her beak and less toward her tail. Somehow her expression reminded Yun of Yuiri. She told herself not to giggle. "You're so good at so many things, Yuiri," she said instead.
"Skill is best supplemented by patience," was the wisdom her older sister offered in return.
Yuiri would live a long life, the whispers told her, with the time to learn and do and master many things. This was a happy thing to hear and add to what she knew without any spirits telling her- that Yuiri would undoubtedly make a wonderful chief.