Characters
- Hiromi
- Hiromi is an intersexual who was raised as a girl, who works as an office lady. She is the focus of the first part of the first volume.
- Ryoma
- Ryoma is an intersexual who was raised as a boy, but later in the story changes her gender to female. She is the focus of the second part of the first volume. At the beginning of the story, Ryoma is a teenager.
- Haru Hoshino
- Haru Hoshino is an intersexual who was born with both testicles and ovaries, but does not have a surgery during infancy to make him look like more of one gender than the other. At 10 months old he has to have his testicles removed due to a medical condition. From preschool through middle school, he always played with the boys his age in school, and is raised as a boy because of that. However in high school, because he was registered as female on his birth certificate, he is forced to live as a female for three years. His situation is complicated more by the fact his body is maturing in a more feminine way, such as developing breasts and menstruating, despite his wish to live as a boy. During his story faces struggles such as bullying and trying to accept his body for what it is, as well as making friends and falling in love.
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“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
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Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
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