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| - The reasons are both myriad and disturbing. She's apparently a licensed pharmacologist, so the birth control seems plausible. Considering that Makihisa only died soon before the game starts... *ends thought and chugs a gallon of brain bleach*
* Makihisa had stopped raping Kohaku before his death. Akiha walks in mid-rape once, and stops the practice from then on. Also, Kohaku was raped for several years, beginning when she was very young, long before she could study medicine. This would make her claim that she studied medicine to take care of Makihisa even more sensible (if she found a method to counter his inversion impulse). There's also the matter of SHIKI, who's apparently had sex with Kohaku in some regard, at least during Hisui's route. (Though that might have been Roa's influence, like what happened to Shiki in Ciel's route...)
* How about...since Kohaku's abilities basically gave Life Energy/Stabilization to whoever "partakes of her fluids", a side effect was that any fertilized egg dies from the effect long before becoming viable.
* So...sterile, then. It seems possible, since Synchronizer ability apparently isn't an inherited trait (Hisui mentions that they were born to normal people), and something like that would be a genetic dead end.
* Nope. It's explicitly mentioned that they came from a family of Synchronizers, the rest of whom had been wiped out (probably in a conflict relating to the Demon Hunters Association). Kohaku was probably given sterility drugs by Makihisa.
* Found something on the TYPE-MOON wiki about their situation:
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* Ah. Still, I guess compared to the Nanaya or the Tohno, the Fujou probably can be considered normal....
* The ghost-girl from the first Kara no Kyoukai movie?? Compared to Tohno, maybe, but the Nanayas are the Archers of Tsukihime (made powerful purely on effort).
* They were badass normals, to be sure. I was referring to using innate talent and powers rather than magic...then the irony of calling a magic-using family "normal" struck me.
* If by normal you mean a system of massive inbreeding in order to ensure they continue to develop perfect muscle memory and a killer instinct towards anything they detect as non human, then yes they are normal.
* Kohaku started... serving... Makihasa at around the age of eight or nine. He was forced to stop several years back. That leaves around three years when she could possibly get pregnant (12-15ish), and it's not like she was raped constantly all day long. There's no way she could actually survive that, because she would need to eat and drink. Plus, there would be no way to keep it hidden. Most likely she was only used when Makihasa had some temporary sanity in order to preserve it, as Synchronization is used more to improve the natural abilities than to heal. So it enhanced his ability to stave off his Inversion Impulse. Since he wasn't sane very frequently and even less so as he, and by extension Kohaku, got older, this would mean she wouldn't actually have had that many opportunities to catch pregnant. As for being impregnated by SHIKI? Yea, I could see some birth control, but most likely Nasu didn't really want to think about it and therefore she merely never got pregnant it wouldn't be anything permanent like sterilization because that's something that would be rather tricky to keep secret from Hisui or Akiha. It does involve surgery and leaves the patient bedridden for at least a little while.
* The lack of frequency was assumed (of course not every day, partly due to physical limitations, partly because Kohaku's power seems longer-lasting than that, if Akiha is any indication), and the guess was being naturally sterile...but thanks for the nightmares.
* No problem! But judging on the assumption the actual rape itself wasn't very frequent, there's no particular reason why she should get pregnant as incidents would also have declined as she got older. The time frame isn't so long that it's either highly unlikely or likely. Also, the Fujou clan she comes from are an anti-demon clan. Perhaps they can't be impregnated by a family like the Tohno or Kishima.
* Any frequency of more than once a month would presumably carry that risk, and since before Akiha's intervention, it was frequent (and violent) enough to be supremely traumatizing, I would assume more than once a month was the case. As for the second part, I wouldn't think so. The Fujou were a line of mages, sure, but the twins were apparently from a branch family, and the demon blood doesn't always express itself (case in point: the Arimas). This conversation is just full of happy thoughts, isn't it?
* Well, if we're going by the assumption that it only happens when he's sane in order to prolong being stable, then in his journal he mentions how time between lucidity is increasing. So at the point of actually being at a child bearing age it might happen several times a month, but then not happen again for another year. And don't forget, apart from being raped it also started before she was ten, she was locked in a room all by herself, had no one to talk to, was treated like a thing and placed all her hopes on someone she watched playing in the garden. That's traumatizing enough without needing it to happen very often. Also, the branch family thing is probably just means that their family was the family of Synchronizers judging by the fact that the Fujou's were a mage clan yet it's noted that the trait for Synchronization is passed genetically. As an additional happy thought that just occurred to me, SHIKI probably only started fairly recently as he has only recently begun going out to kill, drink blood and eat people. He was chained up before. That only leaves a month or two for pregnancy from him.
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