Personality
May. 20th, 2012 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scentofwhiteplums On the surface, Tomoe is the perfect Japanese lady - quiet, refined, graceful and an accomplished housewife. She doesn’t show her emotions in the ways that people normally do - she doesn’t smile or frown or cry, unless she is completely overwhelmed by emotion.
This means that to people who don’t know her, she will seem cold, or even emotionless, but she does show emotion, provided you know how to look, so people who know her well will be able to read the little signs she gives, especially as, as she gets to know someone, she will become warmer and more open.
Tomoe feels things incredibly deeply, whether guilt, self-loathing and hate – or love, happiness and forgiveness. Because of this and her inability to express these powerful feelings she sometimes finds herself at the mercy of her emotions, as they come spilling out.
Tomoe’s capacity for forgiveness is incredible. Whilst she starts out attempting to get revenge on Kenshin for the murder of her fiancé, she ends up seeing the lonely, hurting young man behind the Hitokiri who killed her fiancé, and instead of continuing in her plan to get revenge; she forgives him and attempts to act as a sheath against the madness consuming him.
Tomoe is extremely loyal and self sacrificing for those she loves - she adores her brother and father, and when her fiancé died, instead of simply moving on, she attempts to get revenge, and when she falls in love with Kenshin and marries him, she abandons all thoughts of revenge and devotes herself to helping and protecting him in the only way she can.
Tomoe is brave, but not in the way you would expect. As a young samurai woman of the time, she showed great courage in leaving Edo and travelling to Kyoto by herself, and when she realizes she has been tricked by the Yaminobu ninja who hired her into betraying Kenshin, she attempts to fight back, causing her to be knocked unconscious.
Lastly, Tomoe is often consumed by guilt – not only does she believe that it was her inability to express her happiness that caused her fiance to go to Kyoto in an attempt to impress her, causing his death, she also feels guilt about how Kiyosato would feel about her love for Kenshin, and about how she ended up leading him into the Yaminobu’s trap.
This means that to people who don’t know her, she will seem cold, or even emotionless, but she does show emotion, provided you know how to look, so people who know her well will be able to read the little signs she gives, especially as, as she gets to know someone, she will become warmer and more open.
Tomoe feels things incredibly deeply, whether guilt, self-loathing and hate – or love, happiness and forgiveness. Because of this and her inability to express these powerful feelings she sometimes finds herself at the mercy of her emotions, as they come spilling out.
Tomoe’s capacity for forgiveness is incredible. Whilst she starts out attempting to get revenge on Kenshin for the murder of her fiancé, she ends up seeing the lonely, hurting young man behind the Hitokiri who killed her fiancé, and instead of continuing in her plan to get revenge; she forgives him and attempts to act as a sheath against the madness consuming him.
Tomoe is extremely loyal and self sacrificing for those she loves - she adores her brother and father, and when her fiancé died, instead of simply moving on, she attempts to get revenge, and when she falls in love with Kenshin and marries him, she abandons all thoughts of revenge and devotes herself to helping and protecting him in the only way she can.
Tomoe is brave, but not in the way you would expect. As a young samurai woman of the time, she showed great courage in leaving Edo and travelling to Kyoto by herself, and when she realizes she has been tricked by the Yaminobu ninja who hired her into betraying Kenshin, she attempts to fight back, causing her to be knocked unconscious.
Lastly, Tomoe is often consumed by guilt – not only does she believe that it was her inability to express her happiness that caused her fiance to go to Kyoto in an attempt to impress her, causing his death, she also feels guilt about how Kiyosato would feel about her love for Kenshin, and about how she ended up leading him into the Yaminobu’s trap.
