Strength. Nobility. Honor. The Masamune Family subsisted on these traits for their family members. Among the people of the Old Kurenai district, It's widely believed that the Masamune were a notorious family of strong-willed warriors in Kurenai of old, and this is might be when those defining character traits came to, well, define them.





So it makes the case of Masamune Masumi even more interesting, as, instead of strong and noble they were weak and cowardly. The traits that their mother and father held dear to them, Masumi had almost none. As the youngest of 3 children, Masumi was quickly pegged to be the weakest of the trio, both physically and character-wise. This was something that their other family members would poke fun at them for, constantly comparing them to their two older counterparts, and even going so far as to exclude them from family events, stating that they were too weak, and their inclusion would only serve to damper the mood and hold the other kids back.



Soon enough, Masumi became tired of being treated as less-than, and so, in order to garner the respect of their family members, they simply pretended to gain the traits that their family desired, feigning newfound confidence and strength, all at the cost of their true feelings.