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Tohru Honda | Fruits Basket | Reserved

[personal profile] humblericeball 2012-06-11 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
History | Personality: (This is a mixture of her background and her personality. More specifically, this is how her personality evolves over the events of the manga. I have added four paragraphs at the end that sums up Tohru's positive and negative traits.)

Tohru is, simply put, a remarkable person. From the beginning, her life was anything but easy. As a child, she lost her father while he was on a business trip. The way Tohru puts it, he got sick and he just couldn't get better. Because of his passing, she worried about her mother even more - and for good reason. Kyoko - Tohru's mother - nearly gave up on life after losing her husband. Yet, through Tohru's child-like persistence to make her mother happy, Kyoko finally came around. (For example: when Kyoko would come home, Tohru would phrase "welcome home" just like Katsuya used to say it. Additionally, the little girl more or less took care of herself during Kyoko's long absences. She would feed herself, keep herself entertained and keep the house cleaned.) It was one of Tohru's happiest days when Kyoko came home and apologized for almost leaving her little girl behind.

However, I don't want to over-simplify Tohru's relationship with her mother and father. Later on in the manga, Tohru admits that she was jealous of her father. She worried that he would take Kyoko away from her. I believe this caused the little girl to feel immense guilt when her father passed away. Thus why she took it upon herself to be so self-sufficient.

On a lesser note, Tohru did have a run in with a Sohma during her childhood. After being chased by some bullies, Tohru found herself lost in an alleyway. She didn't know the way home, so she just sat there and cried. Fortunately, none other than Yuki Sohma found her - yet he was too shy to introduce himself. However, once again, the motif of a Sohma leading Tohru home crops up. Yuki, unknowingly at first, led Tohru home, where Kyoko was waiting anxiously for her little girl's return.

While Tohru was in the midst of highschool, another tragedy struck. This time, the girl lost her mother. Kyoko was struck head-on by a car and pinned against a brick wall. She ended up passing away in the hospital with Tohru at her side. After her funeral, Tohru felt like a burden on the rest of her family. In fact, she was told as much by her relatives at the funeral. Yet her paternal grandfather said nothing of the sort. He opened up his home to her and offered her what he could. Tohru knew he was living on a pension, though. As such, she got a job along with going to school.

For awhile, things were calm. Then, her grandfather decided to remodel the house. Tohru lied to him and said she had a place to stay. In reality, she could have moved in with Hana or Uo (her two best friends), but she knew she would be a burden on them and their families. Thus she chose to live in a tent in order to make everyone happy.

Well, except her. Tohru is an incredibly selfless person who puts the needs of others over her own every single time. Even when she was stuck in a tent with all of her belongings - including a picture of her mother - she didn't blame anyone or feel sorry for herself.