Roleplaying as Ginyami Midorimori from Mahoutokoro
"English | Japanese"

If it had been solely up to Ginyami's parents, the meeting with Victor LaChance, EmmaLee LeDames, and Hirato Ichibangase would have never occurred. They were purist and racist enough to have refused to do business with anyone who did not share the same ideals they did. However, since Ginyami had started introducing new ideas they had reluctantly been testing out in order to try to prove him wrong, things had changed. Because, as it turned out, they weren't able to prove him wrong.

Ginyami's ideas of reaching out to appeal to and do business with wizardborn, half-blood, and even muggle-born magical folk turned out to be a great success for the chain of shops that was the Midorimori family business: Mahou no Midorimori - also known in English as 'Magic of the Green Forest.' More business associates meant more clients and more clients meant more customers. From there, it was simply a matter of Ginyami proving his point through statistics of supply, demand, and overall profits that he had a better business sense than his parents even at age 12.

This, of course, had to do with the unwitting influence of Sara Kohana on Ginyami. Since they had essentially grown up together from around age 10, Ginyami had learned a lot from Sara and it seemed the reverse had been true as well. The pureblood had noticed early on that the muggle-born he had later come to think of as his friend was very sensitive to the feelings of those around him. As Sara already had enough things to feel anxious about in his daily life, Ginyami had taken to being friendly to those who Sara seemed to unnerve just by being around him. Since Ginyami was often with Sara, Ginyami's social awareness, amicable nature, and considerate attentiveness toward others often balanced out Sara's unfortunately frightening features, disturbing beauty, and quiet disposition, making Sara easier for others to be around without seeming off put by him.

Prior to Sara, Ginyami hadn't bothered pretending to be nice to anyone except other purebloods, which he hated because he knew that they knew as well as he that everyone was faking and their entire interactions were basically for show. Once he had thought to put on that mask for Sara's sake, however...he'd learned that being kind and friendly to non-purebloods was actually quite beneficial to him. It was from there that he realized doing business with other magical folk outside of the purebloods' dying, shrinking, stagnant community would have provided his business and their family with a great advantage over the other, more conservative and traditional pureblood families... And that was how he had come to prove his parents wrong about applying their personal beliefs to their business.

For all of Sara's influence on him, however, and despite his broader mindset compared to his parents', Ginyami was still a purist and a racist. At least...he believed he was, conveniently deceiving himself into forgetting things like the fact that Sara was muggle-born and denying the idea that he considered Sara an equal. Because that was, overall, what Ginyami was best at - deception. He was so good at it, in fact, that he didn't even recognize when he was practicing it on his own thoughts. And there was no one who had been able to point out to him the fallacies in his way of thinking - at least not yet.

Thus, the confident young teenager didn't hesitate to accept the invitation from Lenape Remedies to meet with their representatives in order to discuss potentially doing business together. His parents had warned him that if he, as the heir to the family business, chose to get said business involved with such riffraff as impure foreigners, they would not help him. But that didn't bother the arrogant Ginyami, as he, at age 14 then, felt ready to deal with anyone - even adults twice his age. And he meant to prove it to his parents and the rest of the extended Midorimori family, too.

He first started by doing what he could to research those he was meeting with and to study what he came to learn of them, doing what he could to commit the information to memory before the appointed date of their formal introductions. Victor LaChance, EmmaLee LeDames, and Hirato Ichibangase all seemed like quite intriguing individuals, but it was fascinating to find out that it was the young lady of 12 years, EmmaLee, who would be taking over her stepfather's company once he stepped down.

He was surprised at how young her parents were starting her off learning the family trade, especially as a non-Asian family who didn't seem to bother with the conservative tradition of holding out for a specifically male heir. Still, he supposed, he had just about been her age when his own family trade was entrusted to him, so it shouldn't have been that shocking. The difference here was she seemed to have the support of at least one parent behind her while he did not. Not even a biological parent, either. How curious.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of mumajin technology he had access to as a pureblood, Ginyami had very limited resources from which to draw any information about Emmalee or her stepfather, Victor, other than the fact that Victor, at least, seemed to be Hirato's business partner from America. As for Hirato...well, at least he was already known to the Midorimoris which was how the invitation for the meeting had even managed to reach them in the first place. Hirato was a Japanese pureblood, after all.

Unlike Ginyami, his parents hadn't done much research on the people they did business with before they did business with them so long as they had a good pedigree by their standards. That meant that even though they'd done business with Hirato in the past, the invitation for the meeting with his business partner from America was a complete and utter surprise to them. They had even encouraged Ginyami to network with and befriend his son when they had been attending Mahoutokoro together. As soon as his parents read what had been sent to them, however, they'd wanted to burn the letter along with all their ties to Hirato Ichibangase, calling him a blood traitor along with a slew of other rude terms and cursing his name, but Ginyami had stopped them and taken the invitation for himself to respond to it on his own.

Upon asking around and contacting other purebloods, Ginyami had learned that Hirato not only did business with non-purebloods and foreigners, but he did business with mumajin, too. That didn't sit too well with Ginyami, particularly because, since his family specialized in magical plants, it was just asking for trouble to introduce such things to a mumajin market. Still, he was sure they could discuss that and his concerns if and when the time came for doing business with Hirato and Victor.

Having prepared as best as he'd been able to with the resources available to him, the 5'7" 14-year-old heir arranged the meeting to the best of his abilities. Thus, when the door to the building opened and Ginyami appeared, he was wearing a brilliant, polite smile, a very expensive-looking traditional kimono with a haori coat over it, and a pair of hakama pants. On his feet were tabi socks so he could wear his geta sandals. Upon seeing the trio, he bowed deeply at the waist, mirroring their respectful behavior. He had long since learned to swallow his pride in certain situations such as this one, even if he believed he was better than the people he was interacting with.

"Greetings, LaChance-san, LeDames-san, and Ichibangase-san! It is an honor to be meeting the owners of Lenape Remedies themselves; not to mention the future owner. I am Ginyami Midorimori, the only son and heir of the main Midorimori family. While I am afraid it will not be possible to meet with the current head of my family, for all intents and purpose of this business meeting, I am the acting family head, so please feel free to direct any questions, comments, concerns, complaints, and anything else to me." The fox-eyed individual righted himself, clasping his hand together cheerfully. "Also, I know my name is quite a mouthful and I do endeavor to get to know you all better, so in the spirit of casting aside address-based formalities, at least, please - call me Yami."

Ginyami then raised a hand and snapped his fingers, signaling a trio of people to enter through the door he had, each carrying a bouquet of magical plants. The bouquets were artfully arranged a variety of colorful, fresh flora that ranged in rarity, magical potency, and value. From Niffler's Fancy to Flitterblooms, all the plants had been collected directly from the greenhouses that supplied the Midorimori's business chain. He had speculated as to whether or not the people he would be meeting might have had plant allergies, but decided, eventually to deal with that if the issue cropped up. Anyway, it would have been terribly ironic if the owners of Lenape Remedies were unable to remedy their own ailments; especially something as simple as allergies.

"These are samples of the quality of the magical plants, herbs, and ingredients we sell at Magic of the Green Forest - which I will call 'MGF' for short. I thought they would make good welcoming bouquets," he explained as his employees offered the plants for the owners to examine. "I will have them set aside and bagged to take with you before we part ways today. That said...is anyone hungry?" He tilted his head with a cheerful grin. "I thought it might be easier to talk business over a meal - particularly after all the previous meetings you've had prior to this one. You must all be exhausted. Why not change things up a bit? My treat, of course."

@EmmaLee LeDames