#nogiku fuchi

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a bigger interest of mine recently has been Kasane. as with everything else i like, i want to incorpate it into TWST in a way.

more under the cut

because of the existence of magic in TWST, id like to believe the powder found in the lipstick is obtainable.

maybe the powder could be found on Sages Island? or maybe the Queendom of Roses. Itd still be incredibly hard to obtain either way. (unless Sams Shop is in question.. i think itd cost a ton though)

the first person to come to mind on who would use the lipstick in the first place would be Vil.

-do i think that just because hes an actress ? yeah..

but still, theres a possbilty of following a similar timeline as there is in Kasane. theres no way to replicate that though.

i think Vil is listed as an only child, but what if he had a sibling nobody knew about?

his mother isnt mentioned at all from what ive seen, but maybe she had left the lipstick behind? rather then the abusive father that Nogiku had to deal with, Vils father worked to raise him (and a possible sibling) with the utmost care.

with Vil being interested in acting and such, that couldve enabled his father to encourage swapping faces with his (supposed) sibling, due to the industry being heavy on looks.

or, Vil is not actually Vil. sorta like how when Nogiku swapped faces with Kasane, her stage name was Saki. maybe he would go through something similar?

for Habutas role though, i feel like Jack would be a good fit.

others i think that would use the lipstick would be Kalim and Jamil. Kalim doesnt have any evil motive behind his use of it, just using it behind his family had ordered him to. i would imagine Jamil to experience similar emotions to Neena, in a way atleast. this would be sorted at birth though, so it might just be normal for them.

another would be Cater.

-why ? just because. or maybe one of his sisters would use the lipstick on him. idk honestly Cater just kinda gives that vibe

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The thing in Kasane is that none of them are good people.

Kasane isnt a good person neither are Nina and Tsugumi, Nogiku isn’t that good of a person, both Yuuto and Iku aren’t resolved of the things they did, Izana and Sukeyo aren’t as black and white as they seem and obviously Habuta isn’t even close to a good person, BUT their all victims, they’ve all been traumatized and try to live despite or even directly because of that and their all GOOD people!

Yes Kasane is responsible for several peoples deaths even if indirectly yes she’s done her fair share of kidnapping and gaslighting, BUT she’s a good person who feels genuine guilt over what she’s done and try’s to repent for it, she’s gone through a lot of horrible things from the very start of her life and always felt less than human a lot of her worst stuff happened when she felt like playing the role society assigned her.

The role of a Monster.

Nina might have not experienced abuse but through her chronic illness she’s been traumatized and become an outsider of society in a different way, which dosen’t just cause her severe fear of falling asleep but her even bigger fear of being forgotten and it’s shown that people forget her and she becomes more and more lost as time goes on until she jumps from a building, BUT she’s done some horrible stuff too, mainly sexually assaulting (better said nearly) Kasane.

I’m not gonna touch on Tsugumi cause she’s pretty justified in what she did considering what she went through and knows.

Nogiku has done her fair share of bad things (killing her piece of human trash of a father dosen’t count), BUT she’s gone through some of, if not the worst abuse in the series and is mainly motivated through her trauma and rage of everything that happened to her and her mother, she and Kasane do seem to genuinely care about one another in the end after having found out all the truth of what truly happened to them and especially their Mother’s, in the epilogue we can see that she’s been able to move forward in her life and live again as a person with agency and control of her life, which she didn’t had until she killed her father.

While both Yuuto and Iku went through bullying in their live (Yuuto way worse and longer than Iku) and their both relatively decent people they both did some bad things (Iku for more kind and selfish reasons), BUT they did it to help Nogiku, (side note Yuuto and Nogikus relationship is kinda toxic in the beginning but they genuinely care about one another as people and respect each other at the end and seem to have a healthy relationship).

Now let’s talk about Izana, the woman who burned down an entire town that wanted to kill her the moment she was born.

Yes she’s killed innocent people in that fire and yes her decisions lead to everything else, BUT you need to keep in minde if it weren’t for one kind woman who hidd her away she would have been killed as an infant, because of a local legend, if they would have treated her as a human person from the beginning none of it would have happened. There’s alot more to her story but she really just wanted to be treated as a person and she loved to act and stand on the stage, both her and Sukeyo experienced horrible things because of Atae and both of them died in each other’s stead, Sukeyo jumping after Kasane in to the raging river after Atae pushed his firstborn child into it, saving her life and Izana staying in the mansion keeping an eye over Nogiku until she was taken into a field to be killed and buried at, they both genuinely cared about one another and loved their daughters DEARLY, their own and each other’s.

And now let’s get to the last character, Habuta Kingo, a bad man who genuinely cared.

See Habuta has done horrible things, some of the worst shit, BUT something, something he has NEVER done, would NEVER do and is DISGUSTED when suggested to do that or be compared to someone who did those things, is sexual abusing someone and committing rape. We see in a memory that (pretty sure it was his father) raped a woman and he saw it, it’s implied that that wasn’t a one time thing either and his help to especially Izana was always something he genuinely did because he cared and love her as a person and I do believe he genuinely cared about Kasane and what he thought Izana wanted for her and when he realized who he really killed that night for Atae we see all the guilt eating at him and after Kasanes death we see him lose his mind to his sorrow and even if he is technically right that she’s alive, it does not change the fact that at the end Kasane Fuchi is indeed dead.

Anyways what I’m trying to say is that none of them are genuine good people but they aren’t bad either, their just people, who were shaped through the injustices that happened to them.

It’s about how the dead can still illuminate the path of the living.

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Kasane introspective piece

Kasane is born ugly, but her mother is beauty and grace, stunning in her presence.

Kasane has a house but no home to come to. She knows nearly everyone in her school but she has no friends. Kasane has a guardian but her guardian is just as bad as her bullies.

Kasane’s bullies mock her day in, day out. The strangers she meets on the streets flinch away from her like they’ve laid their eyes on a monster. Kasane’s guardian embezzles the inheritance left for Kasane and has no shame in using it to buy whatever catches her fancy.

But Kasane has a gift from her mother, more than enough to make her beautiful and desirable, to stardom.

(Gifts to Kasane, but certainly poison to those her lips touch.)

And Kasane will come to know beauty and masks and lies so intimately that it might as well be her entirety.

There is a play, and Kasane is casted as Cinderella as a joke. Ugly Cinderella, whose inky curtain of hair covers every inch of her face.

But for all the reluctance and unwillingness to be a laughingstock, Kasane feels a rush of thrill for the first time in forever. She belongs on the stage, just like her mother. Her blood thrums and her character- Cinderella is her and she is Cinderella. No longer is she ugly Kasane, liar and victim. She is now Cinderella and has dreams of a better life.

But that soon falls away too. Nishizawa Ichika tries to put herself into the feet of Cinderella, and she needs Kasane off the stage to do so.

Kasane grits her teeth and lies, hoping someone will catch it.

No one realizes, and so, Nishizawa Ichika replaces her.

Or at least, Ichika was supposed to. After all, who’s to know the switching of faces when there was no one to see it?

It is only a pity that Ichika falls down down down and hits the ground from too many floors up.

After all, two can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.

Igarashi Iku-senpai was the only one to have ever come close to Kasane without the intention to harm. And that was enough said.

Iku-senpai was like a sun, Kasane mused, pulling people into her orbit, bright and daring and so happy-go-lucky all the time.

To have met again years later was a great surprise, even if there was no possible way that Iku-senpai could’ve recognized Kasane.

And yet, somehow, she did.

(A long long time ago, Kasane would have admitted tentatively that Iku-senpai was perhaps the only one Kasane could ever call a friend.

A long long time ago, Kasane would have been happy that Iku-senpai was far far away from death.)

Kasane has been putting on a mask called Nina Tanzawa for months now. Playing as someone else is difficult work, but Kasane will do it, because she is now someone who everyone who gazes upon with awe.

Deep, deep down, Kasane envies Nina. Beautiful Nina, with tired parents, and a childhood stemming from a troublesome syndrome. But still far luckier than Kasane’s own hell of a childh-

Kasane scowls, shaking herself out of it, she would not let herself look upon that time again. Not when she has everything she wants, right at her fingertips.

Peering into a mirror, all that is reflected is “Nina Tanzawa”, with her head held high, shoulders back, red tinted lips curling into a smirk: one who has gotten to the highest point of life and can bathe in luxuries easily.

Yes, Kasane thinks, I am Nina Tanzawa now, actress and happy, but mostly above everything else, beautiful and important.

It all comes crashing down once the real Nina throws herself off a building. Habuta runs himself ragged, picking up the pieces and making negotiations with Kasane’s guardian and paying the hospital bills.

Kasane cannot find it in herself to be anything but glad that Nina is not dead, only a Sleeping Beauty. Despite her eagerness to take from the beautiful, she had never wished for Nina’s death.

(But in a private corner of her heart, she cannot disagree that she is relieved that she has not lost the easy, cultivated path to fame.

She has been spoiled by what beauty brings her, and she is greedy for more.)

Kasane should have known. How could have she thought she was lucky enough to come across someone who would not have any relation to her mother when their faces were almost identical?

Nogiku, beautiful Nogiku, with eyes far too old for her age, and yet naivete shining through for the simplest of things. Nogiku was radiant, but she was dulled and cracked from the bitterness of life.

Nogiku was... for a lack of better words, entrancing. She drew Kasane in, with the bottomless depth-sadness, really-in her eyes, how sometimes her involuntary actions were unusual responses to what should’ve been common in normal childhood.

(Kasane laughed as she caught herself, she was a hypocrite. After all, she was just experiencing her own should've-been-childhood as an adult now.)

When Nogiku confirmed her betrayal against Kasane, Kasane nearly crushed her hands underneath her robes of Lady Macbeth. Her face, though, said nothing of the pain in her hands, nor the crushed state of her heart, and only a light smile sat itself on her dainty face for the audience.

Acting had never been so important, yet so useless to Kasane.

(Perhaps, Kasane lamented, perhaps, if they’d met under different circumstances, if they never had a feud that began before their births, if they simply hadn’t been so unlucky, maybe they could’ve been bosom friends.

But those were only pipe dreams for an innocent, naive child, and Kasane was anything but.

Not with all the screams and whirlpool of horror that would consume her if she ever looked back.)

Kasane understands what she’s done, but there is little remorse, if any left, now that she taken so many faces and destroyed so many people’s lives.

Nishizawa Ichika was a cute child, yet she was a bully armed with a sharp tongue. Oh well, Kasane tells herself, at least she was a given a chance. It was just an accident, very unfortunate really, that Nishizawa-san fell off the ledge.

(As she said those words, Kasane brought her hands and laid itself against her porcelain skin, right where a long deep scar should have been, and smiled her gentle, yet empty smile that failed to reach her eyes.)

Nina was lovely woman, but was always pulled down by burdens and expectations. (A flicker of remorse, true genuine regret, filled Kasane’s eyes, but they always disappeared a second afterwards.)

Nina, who suffered from her sleeping disorder, but had caring parents to make up for it. Nina, who had crippled self-worth, but a sprouting seed of hope and ambition. Nina, who feared sleeping, but had more than enough persistence to chase it off. Nina, who had been at the end of her rope, met Kasane, who gave Nina a reputation, false as it may be.

Yes, Kasane chuckled with no real humor, life was fair to Nina. It was only that Nina was too fragile, too weak to change herself.

Nogiku has a sort of beauty that radiates from more than just having a pretty face. Undeniably so. Kasane pities her really, such beauty, yet so much more misfortune than good.

Kasane thinks that this is a fitting punishment for a betrayal for someone like Nogiku: being reduced to nothing but a figure locked up, just like her poor, poor mother, trapped in a basement where light never reaches, never getting a chance to quench her thirst for vengeance.

(Kasane’s eyes dim and grow colder. Kasane had no intention of waiting for her death when there was still so much more for her to do.

She muses, had Nogiku let the matter rest and left the past where it belonged, neither of them would have been in such states: one who was locked inside a room away from prying eyes, and another having too many secrets to keep before they would all spill out.

But truly, like mother, like daughter, in too many ways alike.)

Kasane reminisces of times before the betrayal, before identities were realized, before everything went wrong, and Kasane realized the only she could truly depend on was herself.

When they’d meet in the small, quaint cafe, Nogiku would stare at Kasane, as though searching for something, but Kasane had a feeling she wasn't really looking at her. No, her gaze was one of resignation for the same results, and then Nogiku would catch herself and divert her gaze, and the topic would change.

When they had sat on the gritty sand of the beach, Kasane would catch the momentary happiness giving way to sorrow. No, instead of “giving way”, it would be more accurate to say that in Nogiku, happiness and sorrow lives in tandem, and more often than not nowadays, sorrow and rage and resignment fills her face now that she lives like her late mother.

Kasane would linger on those moments, where neither knew the identity of the other, and their time would be spent as friends, talking of the mundane and boring.

(But Kasane understood Nogiku’s wish for tabula rasa- a blank slate. After all, was that not what Kasane wished for at the end of everything, where she could throw her ugly self away and become a different person?)

All the world’s a stage, Kasane waving off the memories, and I am the last one laughing.

She turns and once she steps past the doorframe, she is no longer Kasane anymore. Now she is someone else entirely.

Kasane looks back and all she sees are hands clutching her legs, any inch of skin, trying to drag her into the pool of darkness they arise from. Trying to pry them off does nothing, her hands only slip through, and behind her is her mother in all her wondrous glory, young and smiling a familiar smile that doesn’t reach her eyes.

Kasane hates it. She hates the image of her mother, whom everyone seems so attached to. She wants to yell and scream and throw tantrums, because Fuchi Sukeyo does not need to be alive to still be important.

She is so tired. No matter who she becomes, no matter how diversely beautiful her face become, all everyone seems to need is Fuchi Sukeyo. All Kasane is, is just a substitute for a dead woman.

Kasane knew she was walking under the light of her mother. But she thought she had broken away from her shadow, when she survived the role of Lady Macbeth.

Kasane has lived too long in the light of the stage, her ears have been filled with the applause and cheers of the crowd, her eyes have gotten too used to the light, that when she falls into the unforgiving abyss, she has forgotten how it felt. She is in a black hole, void of sound light and the happiness she’s worked so hard to attain.

But who is the applause really for? The product of her wondrous acting skills she plays as or Kasane herself? (Kasane knows the answer to that question, and she cannot help feeling bitter, like someone has stolen what should have been hers.)

How ironic that her life of happiness is her ultimate cause for her unhappiness. She is nothing but a bystander watching her credit stolen by her own creation, the puppeteer behind the puppet.

(Kasane understand now: while she may be the last one laughing, while she may be the winner, she is all alone, playing a game for someone else)

What is Kasane when all she is, is a lie?

Kasane burns like a shooting star, fast and instantly. Kasane fuels herself with a hatred for her ugly self, her desire for beauty, her life on the stage, and with the help of her lipstick, she manages to rise to the top, but it’s not forever. All stars wink out eventually.

Nothing in Kasane’s life was permanent; everyone has come and gone. Kasane should have expected it, but she had deluded herself with how great she’d become.

Oh well. As Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage.”

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