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The Crest
of Love: Sora Takenouchi
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| Here's Takenouchi Sora, the 'current
girl we all love to hate'. More hating than loving, that
I know. Many people think that she's dull and without a personality, and
other straight hate her for she's in between Tai and Yamato. Me? Like in
many other terms, I just... don't care. Sora sure is too soft for the common
tomboy stereotype we're used to (I've never seen her pound Taichi a la
Akane, or throw in a Misao-like tantrum -- and I would've liked her better
if she did), but an in all, Sora is not half the bad some paint
her. Principally, she's NOT an homophobic, stupid, blind bitch,
as I've seen in many fiction. Nothing in the series itself really suggest
so. And myself, I don't feel she'd do that. So check my Online
Stuff and you'll see that she's the one I represent in the clique "The
Danger"...
11-year-old Sora herself is a childhood friend of the Yagami siblings, being a classmate of Taichi and ace of the girl soccer club. Her father died, so she lives with her mother. Sora's mother is the owner and heiress of the family's famous flower shop, specialized in the traditional Japanese flower arrangement style, the 'ikebana'. Since early childhood, Sora has never been in good terms with her mother, who is very conservative and disapproves her boyishness. The art of flower arranging is one of the virtues that are better seen in the Japanese women, following the ancient stereotype of the sweet and compliant perfect Japanese girl, so Takenouchi-san fears that her daughter may not find happiness and a man who loves her if she doesn't accept her feminity. However, Sora has misunderstood this and thinks that her mother cares more for the shop than for her own daughter, and is afraid that she'd turn like that when she grows up. It explains why she's so maternal to Takeru and Mimi, and the affair of her believing that she wasn't worth of her Tag and Crest of Love. Her digimon partner, Biyomon (which I personally think of as an annoying birdie), helped a deal to heal the wound, as seen in 'Sora's Crest of Love' and the Eighth Child Saga. Following her mother's wishes partially, in Digimon 02 the now 14-year-old Sora has gotten rid of her tomboy side and accepted her girlishness. She plays tennis instead of soccer, and works part-time in the Takenouchi's ikebana shop.
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Not bad, dude, not bad. The Bakemon episode is their debut... and their
farewell. Sora did what she thought right in the moment, making him the
leader, even when she herself wasn't sure of it..., and we all knwo what
happened. After it, Sora kept the advances in the playful side, taunting
Jyou mercilessly whenever she had the chance. It reminds me of Rurouni
Kenshin's Megumi, who uses the tease to annoy Kaoru, but nothing else --
showing that the 'kitsune onna' knows that she has it lost from the start.
Jyou would at first feel attracted by her calm-and-cool, but the 'old reliable'
himself knows that he's not her kind (but he is Mimi's, or Koushiro's...
*lol*) and that Taichi is the first one with the option to win her. Sora,
meanwhile, wouldn't bring herself to break Mimi/Koushiro's heart with her
hands. So again, I wouldn't give JyouRa too much of a future.
I confess and surrender! * white flag twitching*. I'm a female, but
I appreciate good Yuri (girl/girl) fiction. Well-written MiRa fictions
are my 'treasure, little pleasure' (thank you, Depeche Mode); and as much
as good Sakura/Tomoyo, Kurumi/Manami and Haruka/Michiru fics, I may add.
Mimi interacts a lot with Sora, the other girl in the team until Hakari's
late arrival, and they mostly share the kind of intimacy that little cute
girls usually share. Secrets, hugs, high-fives, maybe two or three kisses
in the cheek. Mimi admires Sora deeply and sees her as a sorta model; and
it was Sora who made her see the wrong of her ways, in a touching scene
of 'Princess Karaoke'. While I still think that Jyou is the
one for Mimi, in a way I love to think that the 'other' option for her
would be Sora.
Two words: NOT possible. Like Taichi and Jyou, Sora and Koushiro hardly
have a moment to have a real talk. Sora's not the Kaho Mizuki type, also;
younger boys don't seem to be her taste. So let's not have much more with
it. I absolutely think this WON'T happen.
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