Half-Empty, Half-full, Either Way it's Filled with Blood
A/ at the bottom
Warning: Slight Gore, Ghosts, The Spooks, Disturbing Images, Creepy Children,
Mai Abasolo was born July third a healthy baby girl. She appeared to be normal up until the age of four. One day, she brought home an imaginary friend when she came inside from playing. For her age it wasn't that strange. Mai said her friend's name was Edochi Shinma.
After he came home she developed an interest in detective stories and police work. Her mother, Neoko, often took her to the library where Mai would come back with stacks of books much too complex for her age. Horacio, her father assumed she was only looking at the pictures. The librarian assumed that Mai's mother was allowing Mai to handle the books to teach about responsibility.
No one really paid attention to the books she was checking out. It wasn't until her parents heard her mumbling about Katsuta Kiyotaka that they started to worry. They asked her where she had heard that name.
"Edochi-san read to me what he did. He even explained the big words to me!" Mai grinned widely at her parents.
An exorcist was soon called in. Mai cried for months asking for her friend back.
When Mai was five she was enrolled in school. She had trouble making friends. He other children insisted there was something "freaky' about her. No one would work with her, if the teacher made a them, they would refuse to touch her. When the kids went outside to play some would throw rocks or clods of dirt at her. Mai quickly learned to stay inside and read. She continued her habit of reading crime related books. Even if she couldn't understand all the words her time with Edochi-san had helped improve her comprehension at a startling rate.
At home Mai could be found playing outside happily; she often played pretend. In the daylight Mai was care free, but at night the same could not be said. She slept with a nightlight and sobs could be heard from her room almost every night. Mai would get up in the morning with dark circles under her eyes. The lack of sleep caused her to fall asleep in class.
Mai was six when her father died. She knew exactly how it happened. No one told her; she dreamt it. It was only six months after his death that she had her dream. She was behind a teller's window at a bank. A man walked up to Mai or rather Horacio and demand that money be placed in a bag. Horacio calmly pushed a button under the desk he was sitting. Alarms went off. A deafening bang then pain, pain, pain and Mai woke up.
She tried telling her mother about it, but she refused to listen.
"Mommy! Please just… listen!" Mai shouted with tears in her eyes.
"I don't want to! I refuse to listen to it! How do you even know Mai? Who told you?" Neoko screamed at her daughter, gripping her shoulders shaking slightly.
Mai's school life continued to be painfully lonesome. Up until junior high school when Mai met a teacher that believed her. Oki-sensei was a well like teacher by both students and staff. She was taken-aback by how Mai was treated. Openly bullied in front of teachers and no one did anything. Neoko didn't have the time to spare to take in up with school board. Oki-sensei was willing to protect Mai from the bullies. She was willing to face the social backlash of doing so.
Mai was a second year in junior High when her mother collapsed due to over work. Mai stayed with Oki-sensei for the duration of the hospital stay. Only for Neoko to be readmitted for stage four breast cancer. There was nothing to be done; she died three months later.
Mai lived with Oki-sensei for the rest of her junior high before moving to Tokyo where she had been accepted into a high school. Before she left she made up her mind.
I will be normal.
As before I'm testing the waters with this because I'm a wimp. I don't know where I'm going with this. Help me. I hope I won't write Mai as OP I swear.
I thought of Mai showing powers at a young age because of that scene where she gets 0 out of 0 in her test thing…
She wanted to not get them right. She was happy she didn't get them right. Why? And thus this was born
Mai is half Japanese half Spanish because of her eyes. Even compare to Masako, who's the same age, she has large eyes. So I thought maybe she's only half Japanese. Plus It adds another meaning to the scene in The Bloodstained Labyrinth Arc. I've seen Mai as part American, Swedish, and British. I wanted to have an ethnicity that wasn't so… I don't know. But just so you know… Mai has dark skin. Well darker than the "creamy pale skin" that seems to be going on. Screw that! No offence to those that do write that line or some variant. But like our beautiful, adorable, Mai with dark skin that's it. Just Mai being Mai.
Oh right, so the name for Edochi Shinma was from Case Closed the Shin part and the Edo part. While the Chi part is from Keniachi or something? The Ma is from Q.E.D. all of which are detective Manga/Anime.
The name Katsuta Kiyotaka is an actual criminal. In 1983 he was arrested for a robbery-murder. However he was suspected of a total of 22 murders later, and he admitted to eight murders. Katsuta was executed in 2000.