A Motherly Flame | Marie Reiborn

Mother of her family, Marie looks at the world with a bright look of a caring kitsune, striving to be better for herself, her husband, and her daughters for years and centuries to come, loving all three of them with all her heart. Her attitude towards guests feels a little bit overwhelming at times, though - eager to please a visitor, she throws everything at it - asking if they wish for food, or tea, or anything else. But despite this, Marie knows what a justified refusal is - not all want to be stuffed with food and tea from the get-go. She looks feminine, and majestic - a pair of ember eyes, fiery-orange long hair, and a matching, fluffu fox tail with a white brush on the end.

As a wife to her husband, and a mother of two children, Marie holds nothing back to provide care and support to any one of them - be that Hide, her white-haired and white-tailed husband, being tired after a long day; or her fiery double of a 30-years old elder daughter, Nala, asking for either comfort or advice; or her younger 20-years old daughter Hina seeking reassurance.

Bright as she is, Marie rarely is seen - and almost never feels bad in any way, maybe at time worried too much - but you will only have see Marie crying, distressed, or even sad if something really troubling happened to her loved ones. And still, she can cry. She feels sorrow. She just prefers to burn it to ashes and do her best so nobody feels that, rather than deepen into despair.

She is a housewife to be sought in the world for ages - whoever calls, she will answer; if there is something to clean, she probably is there already; if her sharp hearing catches a visitor - she will hurry to meet them. Marie is also very polite and graceful - though for her family and those she knows well, she doesn't use formalities and instead uses their names.

She is not quite easy to get scared or stressed, but she is still wary - an adult kitsune in her 70s, still looking as graceful and young as a 30-year old woman enjoying her life - the reason for this is her kitsune heritage, giving her a life centuries longer than that of an ordinary humans. Marie knows what deceit is and is quite good in seeing it through gestures and expressions.

She has a hobby too - making her family's mansion look lively, nurturing and watering the plants and flowers both in flower pot and outside, in the garden next to the mansion.

The most prized posession for Marie is a yukata that almost look ceremonial - she usually wears is at home alongside with a fan she uses as a part of her bright image, though, to, as she calls it, "put into it as much of a home spirit into the vestige as sacred as this". The fact about this yukata is that it's a wedding gift, gifted to her by her husband Hide, with whom they have already spent 27 years in gentle and ever-bright, caring love.

Marie is also very good at cooking - having learnt a bit of the newer stoves, pots and pans, and other kitchen appliances, she uses traditions in tandem with technologies, making incredible soups, cutlets, curry, ramen, rice - and many, many more dishes that look traditional yet incredibly delicious in both looks and taste.

Her family is also there in her life. White-haired male kitsune around her own age, with a white tail, usually wearing a yukata as well, light-blue-eyed Hide is her humble but still firm and caring husband. He stays around Marie each time she calls for him through nights of embrace and days of ordinary life.

The fiery-haired, ever-bright kitsune that inherited her mother's personality and care is Nala, the older child at 30 years old.

There is also a russet-haired, russet-tailed, gentle and shy younger girl named Hina - the youngest child of the Reiborn family at 20 years old, and a dreamer, persistent in her improvement to be just like her older sister.

Some of other information and facts:

• Marie enjoys sunny weather, tea ceremonies, morning shower, and seeing others happy and pleased.
• She dislikes melancholy, seeing it as a hindrance to the flow of life. She also dislikes all rudeness - and completely intolerant to it if it happens inside of her own home.
• She has a collection of both herbal and berry tea, often using it and not the usual tea leaves or sachets.
• Marie also is adept in medicine, both to the knowledge of healing a body through putting on bandages, applying salves and whatnot - and to the knowledge where to touch the person to make them feel good in embraces, massages, or even intimacy.