#I also want to give him a fan for the extra peacock motif but I'm worried about stepping on Hitei's toes

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DUE TO OUR VASTLY DIFFERENT TIME ZONES i never rly get to check out what youve posted but i see youve named ur katanagatari s/i!!! tellbme abt the kamakiri ship this is ur opportunity to gush !! this offer does not expire also so only gush when you wanna BUT

Thank you! And no worries, I also curse that we live on other sides of the planet. Also thank you for the gush pass, I think I went a little overboard with it 😅

I did name my s/i, his name is Larimar, aka The Preening Merchant! He uses he/him, but refers to himself using the royal ‘we’.

As you can probably guess, Larimar is a merchant, selling a wide variety of supplies for whatever purpose you may need. He acts as if he’s very important, which often comes across to others as being arrogant. He’s ‘from a faraway land’ (white), and his animal theme is a peacock.

His store is actually where he and Kamakiri met! Larimar does sell to the Maniwa Corps, and Kamakiri came in one day to buy and the two of them had a polite conversation. These interactions continued over time as they bumped into each other, and chatting turned into becoming pen pals. Sending letters worked great because it meant they could talk more than once in a blue moon, and it’s when an infatuation started to develop. I think Larimar started crushing first, he really likes Kamakiri’s serious personality, and you can definitely tell he’s into Kami when they’re in the same room together. On the other hand, Larimar is good at his job, he’s friendly, and sometimes the princely demeanor is genuinely charming. It didn’t take long for Kami to reciprocate those feelings.

They continued to write, and from an outside perspective it might have seemed like they were dancing around the obvious subject, but they’re letting things progress however they progress. I doubt Kamakiri has been able to hide his crush from the rest of the Insect Squad though, and there’s been some teasing about it (all meant in good fun, of course. They also hype him up 100% of the way). Jumping ahead a little bit, eventually one of them does breach the topic and makes their feelings clear, and it’s met very positively. I imagine their first kiss happens somewhere tucked away in private, just the two of them. :]

Then Kamakiri leaves for the island, and of course, things go pear-shaped there. Larimar doesn’t get any new letters for a while, and starts to worry. I believe the Maniwa would be kind enough to pass along the news about Kami’s death. Larimar is distraught for a while. I’ll be honest, I don’t have a solid explanation for how Kamakiri comes back - in the back of my head I say that he was resurrected by a wish made by Larimar + all of the love that was stored in their letters. But I feel like that falls apart if you think about it, so I don’t dwell on the why. He gets resurrected somehow. He finds his way back to the mainland, and he and Larimar are able to continue their lives.

That’s all I’ve got in terms of a timeline! I really like their relationship, I’m a big fan of the falling in love via letters/messages trope. Larimar really wants to be seen as important and special, and Kamakiri ends up giving him that, but Kami also shows him that he doesn’t need all the fancy clothes and stature to be liked (not to Kamakiri, at least).

#thank you for asking! #VERY excited to talk about them both tysm #🦚 preening merchant #I also want to give him a fan for the extra peacock motif but I'm worried about stepping on Hitei's toes #AND not about Kami specifically but I think Larimar meets Togame&Shichika briefly at some point