Stories About the Opposing Pairs

**Stories About the Opposing Pairs** is a chapter in *The Water of the Womb*.

## Plot

### A Story About Ephiram and Menashe

Red and Blue are in the Palace and discuss Red's late sisters, Green and Leaf. When Leaf was about nine, she was raped and drowned in the Oak's pool, and Blue's dad Maxie confessed to it. Two years after that, Green jumped off the bridge in the park and only her shoes were found. In the movie fragments, Silver Viridiana, the twin brother of Elaine, was taken by his father Giovanni instead of Elaine since he could pass as Italian. He and Elaine sent letters to each other, but Silver was taken to the Ark and later killed himself alongside Daisy Oak.

### A Story About Ebb and Flow

Carmine and Azzuro were kidnapped by some of Giovanni's minions and locked in a basement where they were forgotten about. The basement flooded and Azzuro got Carmine to safety while he drowned. Carmine went mute due to trauma, so her other triplet Bianca explains what happened.

### A Story About Kiss and Cry

Lorelei was kidnapped by a stranger outside the skating rink when she was eleven and abused for several years. She eventually escaped, but her family wasn't looking for her anymore because Prima, who's father kidnapped her, pretended to be her.

### A Story About Water and Oil

Max was part of Mayu Sugimori's gifted study and befriended Bill Cipher, who showed him hentai and convinced him to do something about his sister May bullying him. When he stepped on a egg from the family's chicken coop, May got mad and he assaulted her. May still hasn't forgiven Max, who feels extremely guilty about it.

### A Story About Smoke and Mirrors

Jimmy and Marina are twins in an incestuous relationship. Marina went to a party with Vincent, and when she came home she and Jimmy started making out. Vincent came back to return Marina's phone and saw them, and when word of their relationship got out, plans were made to separate them, but they ran away.

### A Story About Gall and Wormwood

Alain DeLis' father was sexually abusive, and when he took in Alain's half-sister Mairin, he spoiled them both to keep them quiet. Alain ran away when he turned eighteen so he could get money to get Mairin, but when their dad killed Mairin's chihuahua Chespie, she tried to kill herself, so Alain came back to see her in the hospital.

### A Story About Fits and Starts

Risa broke her leg and Dr. Proctor seduced her, but she later saw him molesting another girl and didn't report it. When Rick broke his leg, she worried that the doctor would hurt him too and ran to the hospital. Proctor didn't touch Rick, but he ended up getting exposed.

### A Story About Hammer and Sickle

Kuro protested the Vietnam War and Châu Ahn was a war bride abused by her husband. Kuro spit on Châu Ahn's husband's shoe and he was arrested, which allowed the police to assault him. Châu Ahn had cancer and suffered eight miscarriages. In 1974, Kuro and Châu Ahn had sex on the steps of the Palace, which got Châu Ahn pregnant with Kagetora, and they never saw each other again.

### A Story About Yako and Zenko

The Kimono Girls tell the story of the mothers of Kuro and Châu Ahn. It turns out their mothers were siblings, making Kuro and Châu Ahn cousins. Kuro's mother was taken by the Japanese during WWII as a comfort wife and escaped after the war with her son, falling in love with a fur trader who treated her nicer. Châu Ahn's mother was a trans woman that remained closeted her whole life and went to fight in both WWII and the Vietnam War. They died on the same day and their wills left the letters they never sent each other to Valerie.

### A Story About Annual and Perennial

Fennel Makomo was an intern at Silph Co. years ago and Dr. Zed raped her, causing both of them to lose their jobs. When her sister Shoro started her internship at Biotope, Zed was there and groomed her, convinced her to dye her hair to look like Fennel, and called her "Sharon". They're getting married and Fennel thinks Zed hasn't changed at all, while Shoro thinks otherwise.

### A Story About Flesh and Blood

Lusamine abused Gladion and killed his pets over his bad grades after her husband died. She stopped when Lillie was born, but this caused Gladion to resent his sister.

### A Story About Tooth and Claw

Reggie Shindai's coworkers at the kennel assaulted him, and Paul witnessed it and blamed the animals for not being able to stop them. Paul began abusing his pets and was caught leaving his affenpinscher Chimchar tied up outside. Reggie submitted to Vachir to get the charges dropped, but the Corrupt Cops were found out, so now the dog has to be rehomed.

### A Story About Hound and Hare

Chloe Cerise yelled at the family dog Yamper to go away, and when he did she went to look for him. Three men tried to assault her, but Yamper scared them off before they could. Since Chloe wasn't hurt, she forgot about it until years later.

### A Story About Rags and Riches, Rack and Ruin, the Lion and the Lamb, and Harmony and Melody

Gloria Yuzuru was murdered at the Chess Olympiad in Calisota. Rose Gulab, the chairman of FIDE, had been estranged from his brother Peony before the murder and are now on speaking terms again. Piers and Marnie Nezu came to Calisota so Marnie could participate in the Chess Olympiad, but they were told that it was a mistake and Gloria took her place. Everyone thinks that Leon killed Gloria, and Hop isn't sure what to think of him. In reality, Marnie's friends did it because they were mad that Gloria was picked, which caused Marnie to hide in her hotel room. Gloria's twin brother Victor is traumatized by her death and doesn't want to play chess anymore.

### A Story About Pins, Needles, Thread, and Thrum

Tsubomi, Shoko, Anna, and Rikuo grew up in Miss Hattie's Home for Girls and were pimped out. They were adopted by families that didn't know it was an Ark warehouse and they are all happier now. Tsubomi was at the Chess Olympiad and asked Leon for directions to the restroom, and since from behind she resembled Gloria, this caused people to think Leon was guilty of killing her.

### A Story About Steam and Diesel

Ingo was sent to the Ark and escaped when the kids in the warehouse staged a rebellion, but he was left with amnesia. The therapist told his brother Emmett that revisiting the source of his trauma could uncover his repressed memories. Emmett misunderstood this and decided to rape Ingo to bring back his memory, which didn't work.

### A Story About Time and Tide

Cynthia's mom was raped and got pregnant with Verity, but she wanted nothing to do with her, so Cynthia raised her. Verity overheard her yelling with their mom on the phone that she never asked to be a mother, causing her to run away and jump off the pier. She lied and told Cynthia that she fell so she wouldn't feel guilty.

### A Story About the Cradle and the Grave

Hilda Shirasaki was kicked out by her parents when she came out as trans and she was killed in the Northwests' torture chamber. When her parents found out, they adopted Nate Kyohei and forced him to wear feminine clothing and called him "Rosa". At the Palace, Nate begged Mary Poppins to help him get away from them.

### A Story About Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish

Howard Clifford has a chronic illness and made his sons, Roger and Dick, give him blood transfusions. When Roger caught him experimenting on some of Giovanni's teenage runners, he planned to tell on him. However, Howard made Dick have sex with him so he could frame Roger for raping him.

### A Story About Shock and Awe

Bonnie Limone was put into Mayu's gifted program despite not being gifted so Professor Ratigan could have access to her brother Clemont. Bonnie felt alienated from the other kids, so Ratigan befriended her and tricked her into taking naked pictures of Clemont, which he used to blackmail him into sex so he wouldn't send them to all the colleges he applied to.

### A Story About Straightedge and Hardline

Anthea and Concordia Harmonia's father Ghetsis, leader of the animal rights group PLASMA, taught them and their brother Natural that all non-procreational sex was bad. However, they found out that he was abusing Natural when they heard him screaming. Ghetsis ended up being eaten by the Komodo dragon he kept in his room.

### A Story About Peaches and Cream

Fantina and Blanche were abused by their butler. Loosely inspired by *We Have Always Lived in the Castle*, Fantina put antifreeze in the sugar to kill him. Unfortunately, Blanche ate some too and died as well.

### A Story About Safe and Sound

Pippa Star has Sensory Processing Disorder, which causes speech processing difficulties, but people thought she was just stupid. Her mom beat her vulva with a belt for taking an apple and they ended up on the front lawn where Traynor and Luke, who are now her foster siblings, saw them and called the cops. Pippa was taken away from her mom and was diagnosed with SPD.

### A Story About Hot and Cold

Ayuka Ondo was abused by her father, which resulted in her getting pregnant with twins. She escaped after they were born and came back, but the twins were being abused too and tried to scare her away because she took his attention away from them. Ayuka tricked the twins into thinking their dad was in an accident in order to save them.

### A Story About Snowmelt and Rainfall

Alec and Zorua fell off a cliff, and Alec broke his leg. Zorua left for help, but came back with supplies instead. He explained that it was because America soldiers abused him at a base in Okinawa and he was afraid people wouldn't help them. Alec told him that a family friend used him for child porn until he looked too old. They both started crying and were rescued when people heard them.

### A Story About Toil and Trouble, Fire-Burn and Cauldron-Bubble

Avery and Bede Gardener were in a study that tried to prove that twin telepathy wasn't real, which involved torturing one twin while the other was asked if they felt anything. Avery was tortured and thinks that Bede knew, but he didn't. Klara, Marnie's twin sister, was stalked by one of the conductors of the study, but Marnie's friends killed him.

### A Story About Sicily and Naples

Giovanni helped his brother Leandro get custody of his daughter Acerola, who was produced when Leandro got drunk and raped Shauntal, by shipping Shauntal off to the Ark. When he found out Silver died in the Ark, he asked Leandro to help him get revenge.

### A Story About Jacob and Esau

Green is revealed to still be alive and is working for Bill by helping him kill people. Bill molested Leaf and convinced Green to kill her, which Maxie witnessed and took the fall for. Green's planning to kill Elaine because she thinks it will bring Leaf back.