DRABBLE #1

[onelittlefeather]

Cute little Aoi-chan brings her mother a flower that she’s found growing stubbornly in one of the cracks in the playground asphalt and Dai-chan laughs upon receiving it, saying “thank you very much” in her politest voice and kissing the top of her daughter’s head. It’s rare for Dai-chan to laugh, being generally a very serious person, but at the times when she does, it’s most often around Aoi-chan. Miu observes the scene playing out before her like the best Takarazuka musical – except, in Takarazuka Dai-chan would have played an entirely different role and it’s difficult imagining her happier in any other than the one she’s performing right now, crouching down to correct the arrangement of the pleats in Aoi-chan’s skirt. The role of a mother. Not generally the role of an otokoyaku, but Dai-chan isn’t an otokoyaku anymore. She’s an Old Girl. And a dancer, perhaps despite her age.