storypaint | untitled (Tomoyo gen)

Title: untitled
Length: 339 words
Prompt: 365characters sketches
Pairing: Tomoyo gen; Tomoyo/Sakura implied
Other: n/a
Excerpt: This is Entertainment Japan's spotlight on Daidouji Tomoyo, who left a legacy of beautiful music and incredible cinematography, and I am Masaki Michuru, reporting.

She was an actress in the finest degree, a woman who managed to wear her heart out on her sleeve, but no one noticed. She sang love songs to one woman but the whole nation loved with her.

This is Entertainment Japan's spotlight on Daidouji Tomoyo, who left a legacy of beautiful music and incredible cinematography, and I am Masaki Michuru, reporting.

Here I stand before the grave of Daidouji Tomoyo, who died ten years ago as of yesterday. She was perhaps the most influential artist on Japan for three decades. You can see that even today people leave little trinkets and flowers in her memory.

I'm here because very recently Tomoyo's personal diary and letters were published for the very first time, and the entertainment world is in shock to discover Tomoyo's lifelong love for her best friend, a woman that she only refers to in a code name. Though throughout the years Tomoyo made it clear that she was a lesbian, the name of her love-- or the fact that she was in love-- was never revealed.

Tomoyo's story, published under the name The Princess's Secrets has already become an inspiration to many. She describes her hidden struggle between keeping a friendship and confessing her desire, and in this book are the first drafts of many of her famous songs, some written before the age of thirteen.

Tomoyo never reveals her beloved's name, though plenty of experts have offered a guess. The most popular is Yamazaki Chiharu, her manager and a friend from elementary school, but Chiharu has also passed on and no one will step forward to confirm the story. Other suspects include Li Sakura, whom Tomoyo had not seen for several decades before her death, and Yanasigawa Naoko, another classmate.

Historians are eager to learn what sort of woman shaped Tomoyo's character, creating the need for such different public and private personas, but we may never know. Perhaps it was Tomoyo's wish to die with her secret.

This is Masaki Michiru. Back to you, Ken.