Shuffle : Kaede Background Profile

A little background on one of our star characters. =)

Eight years prior to the time Shuffle! takes place, both of Rin’s parents and Kaede’s mother are killed in a car accident. Kaede became traumatized from the incident, losing her will to live. Rin overheard the doctor saying that she needed a reason - any reason - to live. Rin then went to Kaede and told her that on the night of the accident, he was lonely and phoned his parents, asking them to come back. Since his parents and Kaede’s mother rode in the same car, he essentially told Kaede that it was his fault that her mother died. This caused Kaede to harbor a deep hatred for Rin. Upon emerging from her stupor, she began to choke him.

Since Kaede’s father decided to take Rin into their home, Rin constantly had to endure Kaede’s deep hatred of him. While putting on a front of being friends to her father, Kaede performed vengeful acts such as destroying Rin’s room and attempting to hurt him.

Later, some time during their junior high years, Kaede found a postcard while rummaging through Rin’s possessions after destroying Rin’s model ship— one of his most prized possessions. The postcard sparked her memory of the night of the accident, and she remembered that the reason her mother (and Rin’s parents) came back was because she had a fever, and she had asked her father to call her mother home. This meant that her mother’s death was to be blamed on Kaede herself, rather than Rin. Rin rushed in just as she finished reading the postcard, but he was too late to prevent Kaede from remembering everything and feeling deep guilt for her actions.

In order to atone for her actions in the past, Kaede decided to make herself Rin’s personal servant by cooking his meals and doing all the work around the house. Rin does not want this, but he is afraid of causing Kaede a relapse by not allowing her to punish herself in this way.

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