https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co 2024-08-03 daily 1.0 https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image01.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image04.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image05.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image02.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image03.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image11.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image09.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image10.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image12.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image06.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image07.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image13.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image14.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image15.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/image16.jpg https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/d2dd3bab.jpg Crane irezumi. It alludes to the name that he and his father was famous for in the Yakuza and it is 悪魔の鶴の鳥 (Akuma no tsuru no tori) or Devil’s Crane Bird. Bel got it when he was 18 and currently it was fading or turning grey. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/405fd6dc.jpg The color grey, inherited from his father who's eyes were a similar shade of color; or lack their of. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/dd9151bf.jpg Instead of developing dark skin over his scars, Bel develops a skin in the color and shine of gold. Bel bleeds red but as soon as the wound heals completely and scars, they turn gold. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/c67094b5.jpg Knife Fighting is one of the most dangerous forms of combat and it is also known as knife combat or blade combat. In essence, knife fighting is a violent confrontation where both you and your adversary are armed with knives or some close variation. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/210aa43a.jpg "Nagagi" is the word that the style of general kimono is identified. The form of kimono for men is almost same as one for women. The difference is that the color is quiet and it has no colorful patten. Bel often wears them around his home. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/4d86694d.jpg Another variation of "Nagagi" that Bel often wears around his home, usually without undergarments. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/eb1a18c0.jpg Bel spent time and energy looking for a place that is closest to the living aesthetics he grew up in Japan. Luckily, he found one of the surviving villas of a Japanese businessman who was looking to sell the property. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/b9994e65.jpg The property was modified inside to diminish the possible sunlight that could enter the house. He did this in a way that will preserve the outside appearance of the villa but apt to be living in by a Pride. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/8fd808ae.jpg Bartholomew, in his statue form, is kept in one of the rooms for safe keeping. Once a month, Bel visits his statue father and cleans the entire place while talking/updating his stone father about his life. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/26035e0f.jpg Bel's home reflects on how he kept his roots while serving the general population of Seoul. This was the closest he could get to have a sense of familiarity from his childhood and the greater part of his life before coming to Korea. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/f6544ba6.jpg Kanako Yoshida (mother) died from tuberculosis when Bel was 6 years old. Bel got his looks from his mother: hair and eyes. Kanako was a beautiful human and one could not immediately tell that Kanako was born a man. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/56a74a96.jpg Kanako fell in love with the foreign-speaking Pride, Bartholomew, when they first met. He always brushed Bel's hair and tells him how handsome and blessed he is to have a son like him. https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/8d3a3094.jpg Bartholomew Crane (father) is a formed Pride from overseas. He wandered the world until he stopped in Hokkaido and met Kanako. He learned Japanese for Kanako and eventually got married. The fact that Kanako was a man did not shake Bartholomew's resolution https://goldencraneofpride.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/aba5e62f.jpg to spend his life with him. When Kanako died, he persevered through life for Bel. By the time it seemed that Bel can go through life without him, he succumbed himself in an eternal sleep. His statue resides in one of the rooms in Bel's house in Seoul.