The scent of perfume can make even the loneliest men fall in love.

Character Name: Suiko no Hana 花の水子

Gender: Female

Age: 17 May 587 - 17 May 628 , aged exactly 41.

Physical Appearance: Bred to be royalty, Hana's beauty is of bing cherries and flowers in full bloom. She's light, a fair sheen that's more white than gold, extending an air of breathlessness, of never knowing how to act in her presence. Her pale lips lay in rest beside earrings given to her by her mother, whose shape of face and tied hair match her daughter's exactly. She's nearly identical to her mother, as perfectly similar as two shadows, two lovers, two skies. There's a brilliance to the way Hana looks, a lavender, seafoam, aquamarine taste. She's one to be painted, knit into tapestries, sculpted and praised like art. Perhaps she's glass, with all the shimmer of marble and the fragility of clay. She's the rose petal drifting, floating atop perfume, landing softly among fragrant poison.

Personality: Hana is meant to be quiet. She's intelligent, cunning, calculating like a villain with the intentions of a hero. Heroine. Her demeanor bleeds authority, yet when she smiles the entire country can feel its blessing. Hana is the victim of status- while she adores natural sights, breathing in gardens and flies and tasting the ocean as if its waves lap over her tongue, she's trapped in the domain of rulers. And how deathly this was to a woman of silk and string, to fall under the scrutiny of men who were meant to be emperors, and to handle the responsibilities and timeline of an empress. She was once sweet and charitable, running through grass fields and dancing alone in her room. But years of traveling in the country labelled hers, witnessing her people's tragedies as they blamed their fates on the empire, seeing death as if each passing was at her hand- it weighed her down. Her past essence is now only an impression buried deep in a heart of war, gloom, and the devastation of a loathed empress.

Past: Born the second daughter to the first empress regnant ever to rule Japan, Hana was never meant to assume the title her mother bore. But her older brother died when when they were still children and her older sister ran away, never to be seen again. Abandoned by many and praised by few, Hana was too young when the world became hers. Her mother, Empress Suiko, is credited with a reign leading all the way to 628, but she died in 610, and Hana ruled in secret. The decision to keep her rule hidden from Japan was made by Prince Shōtoku and Soga no Umako, two men in the court of her mother's monarchy.; they convinced Hana that they wanted to keep the country from descending into turmoil, saying the death of her beloved mother would cause chaos, destruction, and agony. But these lies were sick, and Hana didn't realize this until her own death in 628. The prince and Soga no Umako died in 622 and 626 respectively, and the third regent, Soga no Emishi, the son of Umako, used the groundwork of his father's crafty plot to murder Hana two years later. He enjoyed influence in the court from then on, burying Hana in a field far from beautiful, and she was forgotten. The country never knew who she was, and how much she cared for them.

Reason to Live: Suiko no Hana doesn't care for vengeance, nor correcting and righting history. All she wants is to live the life she was meant to- one of kindness, of dancing and love. She wants to smile at others and laugh not hidden, experiencing a world windswept by the peace her mother had always taught her.