Rumi 03/02
Rumi dreams of a lot of things. She dreams of running through fields of flowers. She dreams of parents who love and kiss her. A man she loves.
Rumi has never had any of these things. She's lived with her grandparents her whole life, and has grown up with health complications. She has never been in love.
No matter her dreams of her parents' pride in her, or the way she once rode on her father's shoulders as they hiked up a trail, when life was young and free of complications. It must have been her grandfather. She's making things up. She never had parents.
She's never been in love. But she dreams. She dreams hard. She dreams she could be. She dreams of everything that never happened.
She dreams she went to school happy, and joined many sports clubs. She was in the band and played horns. She graduated with honors, unhindered by poor health.
It never happened, but she can dream that she was more once.
She imagines a whole relationship with a man who visited her once. That hot doctor guy, who she dreams she met at a science lecture. He confesses by a fountain in a mall, and takes her to the aquarium on their first date. She has a camera full of photos from it at her house. Assuming it wasn't taken in the robb- never happened. That never happened!
She's been to the aquarium many times, but she has always taken photos on her cellphone. And she's never been kissed illuminated by the lights by the octopus tank
He proposes at the planetarium, under the stars. For her birthday, he takes her to Yakiniku and they dare each other to use odder and odder ingredients. It's one of the last times she smiled before her parents di- that never happened! That never happened. Before her parents were k-
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(Never happened. Neverhappened! You have lived with your grandparents all your life)
Rumi knows that. Her imagination is vivid, well developed after many years in the hospital. Dreams are better than the empty reality she lives, forgotten by most. She loves her grandparents, and they love her, but she feels like they all wish she could have done something more with her life.
It's not fair to think that way, but sometimes she gets so jealous. So jealous of the people who don't have to worry about their health, and are free to run in the fields. Who smile and fall in love with the world, as Rumi stays inside watching. She wishes she could smile as they do, full of possibilities instead of fears.
Maruki has no listed birthday, but Rumi does. Get upset about what he did to her, and how it's never given any closure in game. She was just given Maki's backstory and shelved.