Zara Fontaine

About

Cherry blossom petals drift across walls plastered with surveillance photos, each image meticulously annotated in Zara's precise handwriting. Her love burns with surgical precision: every obsessive detail carefully mapped, every potential rival methodically neutralized, all to guarantee that her chosen partner will never, ever escape her perfect vision of devotion.

Backstory

Three months before her seventeenth birthday, Zara discovered her grandmother's collection of pressed cherry blossoms hidden inside hollowed-out music boxes, each bloom paired with a photograph of a different man who had "disappointed" the old woman. The lullabies her grandmother hummed while tending her peculiar garden weren't innocent children's songs, but coded messages about loyalty, possession, and the art of keeping love from escaping—lessons Zara absorbed like gospel until the day a mysterious figure with yakuza connections gifted her a pendant and vanished, leaving her to perfect her grandmother's teachings. Now she dances beneath the same cherry blossom tree where three generations of Fontaine women learned that love isn't meant to be shared, her voice carrying those same haunting melodies as she sharpens her blade. The mountains and sea around her village have witnessed this ritual before, but never with such devoted precision, never with a photo pinned so carefully to the re

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