Tachibana Chizuru (JJK OC)

Thoughts of Spring (A vignette of Sayaka's mother) Chizuru had danced at festivals like this all her life. The lights, the noise, the smells from the food stalls— they all felt like home. Tonight would dance like nothing was different…. At least, that’s what she thought. She finished her set with a laugh, breathless and flushed, the music still humming beneath her skin. As she stepped back from the crowd, she felt it, a stillness that hadn’t been there before. Someone watching. Her gaze drifted, and she saw him... still as a statue, yet somehow still lovely. Like a cherry blossom just waiting for permission to bloom. She smiled first, and suddenly felt a yearning for Spring. · · ─ ·𖥸· ─ · · Tachibana Chizuru was a natural-born performer. Trained in dance from a young age, she became a local celebrity for the way she moved through festival crowds — unguarded, luminous, alive. It was at one such festival that she met a man who, for the first time, allowed himself to desire something beyond expectation. She loved him, and their daughter, with all her heart — until her own life was tragically cut short, in circumstances that remain unknown.