Gensoukyou:Sachi Kurimu

Background
There isn't much that can be said about Sachi. She grew up like any ordinary kid in the Human Village, led an ordinary childhood, made ordinary friends, and even grew to have an ordinary ambition. From a young age, Sachi began to take a liking to cooking, but more specifically she held particular joy when baking. As she grew older she became more proficient at baking, and at the age of 22, she even managed to open a bakery for herself. Although this didn't come without some disapproval from her parents, they were both farmers and believed that the hardest day's work and the most honest living could only be made out on a crop field. One day she hopes to bake the ultimate cake.

Kurimu Family History
Many years ago, Daigo Kurimu and his wife Akane Kurimu were two Japenese farmers around a time where farming was highly common in Japan. In the Meiji period, Japanese farming was highly dominated by the tenant farming system, but because of the overabundance of farmers, there was a slight economical crisis where in 1881-1885 the most common produce, rice, had its price severely depressed causing social uprisings.

This eventually lead to many peasant families were driven in to tenancy which in turn caused the land owners to get taxed more heavily. This meant that additional work was expected from the tenant farmers, even going as far as to selling their women in to prostitution. When Daigo and Akane were faced with this decision, they chose to leave farming all together and chose to travel with a group of Humans to a land known as Gensoukyou, a place plagued with the most vile monsters that could only come from nightmares.

The group of migrating Humans settled upon some land and founded the Human Village. Daigo and Akane were the only two farmers with notable experience with farming at the time so they created the Kurimu farm right beside the early village.

As time went on, the Kurimu family played its part in getting the Human Village to what it is today. Other villagers worked on the farm to gain experience and start their own farms while the lineage of Kurimu descendants continued to grow up, work and, and soon inherit the farm from their parents.

Power/Combat
Not much can be said for her combat potential compared to others. She's durable, full of stamina, and doesn't tire very easily. Like other humans, she has dabbled in using spell cards, but isn't fantastic at conjuring even the most simple shaped bullets. She has also tried to learn how to fly in the past, but the most she has ever been able to do is slow her falls somewhat.

Personality
Best described as being ambitious, Sachi will slave over her passion for baking for hours upon end to ensure she gets the best results possible. She was raised on a village crop field for most of her life, and as such she has grown to have a strong back and muscles that can work for hours before tiring. A hard day's work is every day life for her, so she doesn't mind working hard or tiring herself out from work. She might often find doing work quite relaxing. One problem she has had in the past is that she doesn't know when to quit, nor has she really got a good grasp on the limits of things. In the past this has seen her work herself in to exhaustion or over-complicating simple tasks.

Bakery
The bakery that Sachi Kurimu owns isn't exactly owned by her, she's using the space and has to pay off a fairly hefty debt to her landlord. Though this wouldn't have been the case initially as the original building was a single room house; however she required it to be changed in order to become a bakery meaning a wood-fire oven and a cold storage room had to be installed.

There is only one photo of the bakery, and it was taken just before the bakery opened for business. Since then it has garnered a few more things such as cooking utensils, surfaces, and a few chairs and tables sat at the front of the shop.

In the back room there is a small living space where Sachi spends her spare time, it's not very large and she doesn't own much beyond a futon, some old family possessions, and whatever else you can see out front. Overall, the bakery is rather cozy that serves as a home and business for Sachi, with most of it being dedicated to business.

Farm
Sachi was born and raised on her family's farm alongside many brothers and sisters, and started working on it from the young age of 5. The Kurimu farm was established 1886 and has grown quite large since then. It has helped the Human Village to grow along with it, providing it with all kinds of produce. The farm primarily grow rice due to how popular it is, but they also grow various other crops as well as raising livestock.

The ownership of the farm is usually passed down to the first fitting owner of the farm to marry and have kids while the previous owner, their parents, retire and live out the rest of their lives doing as they please on the farm. This means that those who want to inherit the farm will grow a strong sibling rivalry. This rivalry can get fairly extreme with two of Sachi's ancestor's having killed each other in an attempt to gain ownership of the farm. Sachi herself doesn't want the farm as she would rather stay with her bakery; but so far she has proven to be the only person worthy of inheriting the farm out of the rest of her brothers and sisters.

Another tradition is that the owners of the farm must gain some competence with using spell cards as well as other forms of magic so that in the case of a Youkai attack or something similar, they'll have a chance at defending.

The Opening of a Bakery
It hadn't even been a week since Sachi had opened her bakery when three customers in particular had broken a silent period. First came the scary faced Zen Shin Tan, a rather humble man looking for a gift to reward one of his workers with. Then came the famous Taoist, Mononobe no Futo who had never heard of the word cake before. Finally, Jade Suishohi, an immigrant Youkai from France, had decided to humbly crash the party, also drawn in with the expectation of cake.

Tensions were high as Zen and Futo were cautious around such a beastial Youkai, but a customer is a customer to Sachi so she served the Gargoyle regardless. Almost solving all quarrels, Sachi made Souffle for the whole group on request from Jade, who was longing for a nostalgic taste of home. Suffice to say, it went well and the whole shop appreciated the unique taste and texture the Souffle had to offer.

Despite this, tensions still managed to stay high. Even to the point that while Sachi was making another batch of Souffle to experiment with, she managed to cut her finger against the sharp edges of a cheap whisk. She shrugged off the cut but was bummed out by her last batch of eggs being ruined with blood in it. Regardless, she pushed on making her souffle, she could only improve in her mind. Eventually the heat quelled and the customers left Sachi to continue baking in her own leisure.

Log

Alarming Alarm
A few weeks after opening her cake shop, Sachi was already roped back in to some farm work. One of her brothers delivered a pig's carcass to her shop for her to clean and cut as she was the only one on the farm with decent butchery skills. After having a swearing fit at her brother for barging in with a dead pig while she was talking to some customers, she saved the job for later as she had other things to do first.

Sachi ended up running in to some trouble and had to do work around the village for her family's farm some more before she could cut up the pig. When she got around to the job, she discovered that her brothers didn't bleed the pig out properly so when she began chopping it up, she also made a bloodied mess, which would be what welcomed Sanae Kochiya's first visit inside the bakery, something that she thought was a murderer in the middle of hiding their evidence.

Terrified that she might have been seen by a murderer, Sanae tried to run from Sachi only to trip and drop her basket, spilling out veg and meat all over the ground. Eventually Sachi managed to explain that she was chopping up a pig, and that she was only covered in the blood of a soon-to-be-eaten animal. The two laughed it off and ended with Sanae buying some cakes while promising to advertise the bakery in turn for some fresh loafs of bred.

The next day, Sachi managed to obtain herself a wagon as a favor from her family for doing more work for them. She celebrated by going in to the middle of the village's market place to sell her fresh breads, as well as surplus stock from her bakery and family's farm. With harvest season right around the corner, business was good as her goods were cheap, attracting attention from buyers all around.

Although this also ended up attracting some wanted attention as the celestial from Heaven, Tenshi Hinanawi was in the village at the time looking to cure her boredom, get underpriced goods, or to cause trouble. At first Tenshi tried haggling with the baker by claiming another baker just down the street sold his bread for cheaper, but Sachi assured that her bread was of the highest quality, guaranteed by her family's name. However, that would be what ended up causing the most trouble...

Tenshi was very quick to speak ill against Sachi's family name, something that Sachi was very proud of; and the baker had none of it. With a stern warning, she ordered the celestial to leave; but Tenshi was also headstrong. Following this unwavering confrontation, Sachi was very quick to call out for guards on the top of her lungs, while also attracting the attention of surrounding villagers.

Indeed the situation exploded very quickly, and Tenshi looking shady didn't help her situation either. Before another minute had passed, the village guard had mobilized on the area, ready for combat; or worse. Sachi retreated to initial response guards and explained the situation as they tried to keep it from escalating - then Takamuko no Yoriyasu, a head guard of sorts, entered the scene after rushing over from across the village.

Fortunately the situation did calm down with Tenshi receiving a warning for being disruptive towards a villager - but this wouldn't last very long due to the gargoyle youkai familiar with Sachi, Jade Suishohi, deciding to come over and pick a fight with Tenshi. The two broke out in to minor combat which quickly devolved in to a sort of mutually assured destruction should they persist their combat around the guards. (For Sachi, she felt a form of triumph in the middle of it all. Tenshi, who refused to leave when asked by Sachi, was being pestered by Jade who also refused to leave when asked by Tenshi.) When tensions were already rocketing high, they somehow managed to be quelled without any more trouble...

And that was the first day Sachi spent with her bread wagon, being pestered by celestials and giving the village guards some more work. She called the day a success not only just because she made a good amount of money, but she got to paint an annoying celestial as nothing more than a hypocrite for the whole village to see.

Harvest Season
With harvest season officially beginning, Sachi has decided to devote some time back on her family's farm to harvest crops in return for being able to keep some for free. But first off, she needs to relocate some of her bread and tools back to the farmhouse. This was a good idea to begin with, but once she loaded up her wagon started making her way to the village exit, the wheel fell off! To make matters worse, the sun was beginning to set and she promised she'd be home that day. Fortunately, the kindness of Kagami Kidou and Rika allowed her to keep moving her wagon forward! As the setting sun turned in to night time, the journey went relatively smooth with no Youkai attacks. The three of them together must have discouraged any Youkai who might have thought they'd make an easy target.

Minor
Rosette Garrand: Rosette and Sachi know each other, Sachi has had something tailored in the past.

Trivia

 * Sachi can make a whole variety of confectionery goods, but the ones she has made in RP so far are: Strawberry Sponge Cake, Yokan, and Souffle.


 * Having grown up on her family's farm, Sachi has grown a number of useful skills. From horse-riding to simple architecture, and even a good talent for butchery; Sachi is very self sufficient when it comes to being a contributing villager.