Roanapur Connection

Father, Son and the Mother Hen

A/N: Hi everyone, 

I'm uploading the rest of the RC chapters that were done before the project was cancelled in 2020 after i forgot to put them here.

This chapter has been solely written by myself. In the limited time I have in my workplace and personal life with all of the work and other stuff I have going on. Since I want to keep on writing and improving all the time. No matter how frustrating or tedious I find writing at times compared to outlining or coming up with ideas. But these are the responsibilities that come with heading up a project like Roanapur Connection.

This is the first chapter of two parts (because as always, writing creep gets me going) that goes into the parents of CG character, Sayoko Shinozaki. Which sets up their role in RC, of their relationships to canon CG characters and some major characters of both fic. Especially Saburo's father, Taizo Kirihara. A character I always wanted to go into since seeing him in the anime. He was one of the most wasted characters of the series in my view, with the amount of history and implications of him and his relationship to some of the Japanese cast of CG. It wasn't originally the intent to make Saburo and Oboro married and Taizo Sayoko's grandfather. Since my original idea was that they were simply long time friends.

But Seth came up with the idea to make them married and I decided to go with it as it tied the two together better and simplified some of the relationships and ties, plus it gave me more ideas for Saburo's character as well. As it has much potential and doesn't contradict per say any CG canon on who's tied to what (plus this is a alternative universe anyway so broad strokes). Along with tying into plans I had already in other ways that will become clear in the future hopefully in the reboot of Liar's Dice.

As always, big thanks to BlackManaBurning for being a great help with her suggestions and pushing me to improve on parts of the chapter and Part Two I was unsure on writing.

Enough rambling from myself. Enjoy the chapter everyone :).

Blackmambauk

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"If you ever want the bon antique example of a family in Japan that engages in boardroom power plays and so on. The Kirihara Clan, led for generations by its control at all costs obsessed freak of an elder if his gaudy daughter, weirdo of a second son are anything to go by. Kirihara Taizo, no doubt aided by its sneaky underling clan, The Shinozaki's. His mope of a son is married to their quack of a leader, I mean seriously... who hangs a picture that Oboro hangs in their guest room, then again she had the nerve to grab my nose once as if she were grabbing a beak all because I noted that her profession was fake. About half the things that comes out of her little mouth makes sense only to her... the weirdo.

If you wanted to go down to Tokyo and complain about the price of rice farmers were charging within the provinces. Or stop a foreign business from intruding in your hometown . One chat to Taizo and he would sort it out. The old saying goes is that if a bureaucrat goes into a meeting with the man. They come out either sweating buckets of sweat, pockets filled or spine reconfigured to the man's full desire. Or if he has an eye on you like he did for dear Sumeragi Shizuka, what a disappointment she was in more ways than one. he will act as if you were his own child (yet he will refuse to acknowledge his own children for the most part if they disappoint him). He always like to "plant seeds" as he calls it and watch those flowers bloom.

The vulgarness of such a metaphor is why the man ranks little in my eyes despite all the power he holds even now. But then his late wife was certainly made of similar stuff. Must be why the two got on well. Along with why his children act the way they do.