Pariya Togonosh

**Pariya Togonosh** (パリヤ・トゴノシュ *Pariya Togonoshu*?) is a friend of Amir Halgal.

## Appearance

Pariya is a teenager
with long black hair, tied into several braids that reach all the way to her
thighs and left hanging outside of her headdress. Her headdress is made out of an
embroidered *tubeteika*, which she then
wrapped with a long cloth that covers her back. Her outfits consist of a long plain
tunic that almost reaches to her ankles, with pants that tapered towards the
bottom (*sharovars*) and decorated with
woven inkle (*jiyak*) on the fringe. Pariya
wears a short-sleeved robe over her clothes, and it is usually much more
intricately embroidered than the rest of her outfits. Because of her young age,
her clothes are usually in shades of red, mixed with turquoise. For footwear,
she wears boots with soft soles (*makshi*)
which are then slipped into *kavush*, a
pair of half-opened shoes with low heels. She wears a pair of earrings, several silver necklaces
and bracelets on both of her wrists. /

## Personality

Pariya is extremely frank
and has no problem of freely speaking her mind. However as she grows older and
slowly reaches a marriageable age, she finds her candid personality deters
potential suitors who are often shocked by her unfiltered opinions. Her habit
of speaking her mind is deemed as “too cheeky” by others, and sharing a desire
to get married which is common among girls of her age during the era, she tries
her hardest to hide her true personality in order to appeal for potential
suitors. However, her attempts to be more quiet and demure typically backfire because
she often overthinks and ends up blurting the wrong thing to say anyway. This consequently
creates further misunderstanding among Pariya and the other young villagers, and
thus leaving Pariya with very few female friends as well.

In truth Pariya is
actually a kind person and her honest words are never spoken out of malice, as
shown by how she stood up for Amir when she thought the other villagers were making fun of her eventhough
they were barely acquainted at that point in time. Once the other villagers overlook
her awkward and stilted ways of speaking, they also notice this side of Pariya
and start hanging out more with her.

Physical-wise, Pariya
is incredibly energetic, possessing great strength and health and enjoys
carrying out tasks that involve physical labour. She in turn hates chores that
are delicate and require patience, such as sewing. She believes this side of
her is unlady-like, and tries to hide it whenever she can. When it comes to
anything romantic and passionate, she can get easily flustered even when it doesn’t
directly involve her, as shown by how she blushes when Amir professed her love
for Karluk in front of her.

Due to her father
letting her play with clay when she was a child, Pariya grew up enjoying baking
as she finds the consistency of dough is similar to clay. She is skilled in baking
breads with beautiful designs that carry different meanings.

## Plot

Pariya is the only
child of the village’s potter and his wife. During her childhood her father
often let her play with clays, a pastime that her mother attributed to her lack
of skills in sewing because of how little time she spent on picking up a needle
instead. When Amir moved into
the village, Pariya became her first friend after helping her find a place to
bake in the communal oven area. Amir, being a little absent-minded herself,
completely overlooked Pariya’s awkwardness and found herself enjoying her
company and they soon became close friends.

Due for a marriage,
Pariya had been rejected by many potential suitors after they took offence by
her frank honesty. Discouraged after being rejected many times, Pariya often
had a very negative outlook on her marital prospect. When Amir and
Karluk went on a trip to Karaza, her father allowed her to join them, hoping
that she might have a better chance of finding a suitor in the city. As luck
would have it, while she was joining a feast held in the inn where they were
staying, she piqued the interest of a travelling merchant who inquired if she
was interested in his son Umar. Speechless, Pariya could only respond with a
blush.

Umar and his father
soon came for a visit to Pariya’s house, and after learning Pariya’s father
occupation, Umar’s father created an opportunity for them to know each other by
asking her to show him around the pottery workplace. Pariya, wrecked with
nerves on how to properly behave around Umar, accidentally pushed him hard when
he suddenly came close to her. Believing she had completely blew her last
chance of getting married, Pariya wallowed in self-despair while Umar on the
other hand found himself attracted to her due to her sudden outburst of
spirit.

The tribal war
resulted in Pariya’s home being completely destroyed, including most of the embroidered
cloths she had spent years preparing as part of her dowry. Having to start again
from scratch, her wedding had to be delayed by another four years which further
fuelled her negativity in getting married. However this misfortune turned out
to be a great opportunity for her to learn sewing properly from Balkirsh, who
is a master in embroidery. After knowing Umar, she even found herself much more
motivated to sew in order to impress him.

After learning of
the destruction happening in the village, Umar and his father came once again
to help the villagers rebuilt their lost properties. Nervous by the possibility
of Umar discovering her true nature and dumping her on their wedding day,
Pariya developed her own elaborate ideas on what kind of girl Umar would like,
even going as far as shadowing and later genuinely befriending Camora whom she
deemed as the ultimate perfect bride in the village.

Unfortunately
despite her best effort, Umar stumbled across her displaying her boisterous
personality in full blast when she was cleaning the canal that led to the
village. Pariya further wallowed in self-hatred, believing that Umar would hate
her after seeing her acting so disgracefully. Ironically, Umar also believed
Pariya actually hated him because she appeared to be so full of life and yet immediately
became quiet and gloomy whenever he came around.

## Gallery

### Volume Covers

Volume 8 Cover (Japanese)Volume 8 Cover (English)Volume 9 Cover (Japanese)