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* ExhaustedEyebags: Rain has some very noticeable ones under her eyes, and they're used as a visual shorthand for [[DelicateAndSickly her frail health.]]
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* TheUnreveal: Ultimately, Claroa goes through with taxidermying Rain's head after she passes away (On her own request, no less, since he by that point had become [[LikeADaughterToMe so fond of her]] that his desire to taxidermy her had left him). The reader never gets to see what it looks like in full, but Claroa's narration emphasizes that he took the utmost care to preserve her features down to the smallest details as well decorating the head with the garments Rain requested, all in order to honor her memory. The PigMan who comes by admires the head's unrivaled beauty as a result.
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** Claroa was raised by his unloving parents during his childhood, who were too strict, leading to his current personality as [[ThePerfectionist a perfectionist]]. Even marrying his future wife did nothing better for him.
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** Claroa was raised by his unloving parents during his childhood, who were too strict, leading to his current personality as [[ThePerfectionist a perfectionist]]. Even marrying his future wife did nothing better for him.him, which especially got worse when said wife and infant child left him due to his job as a taxidermist.
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* AbusiveParents: Claroa was raised by his unloving parents during his childhood, who were too strict, leading to his current personality as [[ThePerfectionist a perfectionist]]. Even marrying his future wife did nothing better for him.
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** Claroa was raised by his unloving parents during his childhood, who were too strict, leading to his current personality as [[ThePerfectionist a perfectionist]]. Even marrying his future wife did nothing better forhim.him.
** Rain had abusive guardians, too. They seemed to consider her more akin to a pet than a child [[FantasticRacism due to being a cat-human half-breed]] - When Claroa finds her, she turns out to have never been taught how to speak, and her sleeping out in the hallway instead of the room he offers her implies that her former caretakers forced her to sleep on the floor. Her nightmare in chapter 1 leaves enough implications of the numerous ways they inflicted pain on her: Not only is she surrounded by knives, broken bottles and open-palmed hands about to slap her, her female guardian also hunches over her to [[EyeScream gouge out her eye with a fork]], and a length of rope wraps around her neck. A short flashback also shows her in the aftermath of getting beaten senseless with a bottle and getting screamed at.
* AmbiguousSituation: Claroa finds Rain roaming the streets of their town and ponders whether the child ran away from home or if her guardians actively abandoned her. The story never clarifies which is the case.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Rain stays with Claroa, despite knowing that he mainly took her in (At least, at first) because he wanted to add her taxidermied head to her collection? Because he's the only one to ever show her kindness, treating her like a person and sincerely wanting her to be happy and live her short life to the fullest. Once she learns how to speak, she tells him that she's offering him her head out of her own free will and not because she feels forced to because she genuinely likes him and is grateful to him for everything he's done for her.
** Claroa was raised by his unloving parents during his childhood, who were too strict, leading to his current personality as [[ThePerfectionist a perfectionist]]. Even marrying his future wife did nothing better for
** Rain had abusive guardians, too. They seemed to consider her more akin to a pet than a child [[FantasticRacism due to being a cat-human half-breed]] - When Claroa finds her, she turns out to have never been taught how to speak, and her sleeping out in the hallway instead of the room he offers her implies that her former caretakers forced her to sleep on the floor. Her nightmare in chapter 1 leaves enough implications of the numerous ways they inflicted pain on her: Not only is she surrounded by knives, broken bottles and open-palmed hands about to slap her, her female guardian also hunches over her to [[EyeScream gouge out her eye with a fork]], and a length of rope wraps around her neck. A short flashback also shows her in the aftermath of getting beaten senseless with a bottle and getting screamed at.
* AmbiguousSituation: Claroa finds Rain roaming the streets of their town and ponders whether the child ran away from home or if her guardians actively abandoned her. The story never clarifies which is the case.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Rain stays with Claroa, despite knowing that he mainly took her in (At least, at first) because he wanted to add her taxidermied head to her collection? Because he's the only one to ever show her kindness, treating her like a person and sincerely wanting her to be happy and live her short life to the fullest. Once she learns how to speak, she tells him that she's offering him her head out of her own free will and not because she feels forced to because she genuinely likes him and is grateful to him for everything he's done for her.
* CoveredWithScars: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] with Rain. Though they're never shown to the reader, Claroa takes note that her body is covered with cuts and burns as remnants of the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her [[AbusiveParents former caretakers.]]
* DelicateAndSickly: Rain's illness leaves her with low energy due to her bodily values being bad, and she frequently ends up bedridden with a high fever. There's also mention of her having to take heart medication, and towards the end of the story, she even has trouble walking and is implied to mostly have to use a wheelchair.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Rain turns out to be ''very'' good at reading people, a skill [[HadToBeSharp she had to learn to spare herself more pain]] when she lived in an [[AbusiveParents abusive household.]] She's able to sense very early on that Claroa is not as aloof and detached as he likes to make himself seem and that he carries a lot of sorrow in his heart. The man [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] at one point how Rain is practically reading him like an open book.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: Rain turns out to be ''very'' good at reading people, a skill [[HadToBeSharp she had to learn to spare herself more pain]] when she lived in an [[AbusiveParents abusive household.]] She's able to sense very early on that Claroa is not as aloof and detached as he likes to make himself seem and that he carries a lot of sorrow in his heart. The man [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] at one point how Rain is practically reading him like an open book.
* EyeScream: Rain's left eye is damaged beyond repair, only wearing a bandage over it when Claroa finds her and in her flashbacks, though Claroa gives her a proper eyepatch when he takes her in. Rain's nightmare in chapter 1 reveals that her [[AbusiveParents abusive guardians]] gouged it out with a fork.
* FantasticRacism: [[DiscussedTrope It's only brought up briefly,]] but animal-folk and half-breeds are at least implicitly discriminated against by the [[HumansAreBastards human population]], and it's heavily implied that the reason Rain was abused by her former guardians was due to her being a LittleBitBeastly. Claroa even outright refers to it as "racism" when he talks about how humans don't often approach him for his services.
* FantasticRacism: [[DiscussedTrope It's only brought up briefly,]] but animal-folk and half-breeds are at least implicitly discriminated against by the [[HumansAreBastards human population]], and it's heavily implied that the reason Rain was abused by her former guardians was due to her being a LittleBitBeastly. Claroa even outright refers to it as "racism" when he talks about how humans don't often approach him for his services.
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* TheNameless: Rain's real name is unknown.
* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Rain's name is not her name at all. It's a nickname that Claroa gives to her, which counts as a MeaningfulName since she was firstly found during a rainy day, two days ago in Chapter 1.
* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Rain's name is not her name at all. It's a nickname that Claroa gives to her, which counts as a MeaningfulName since she was firstly found during a rainy day, two days ago in Chapter 1.
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* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Claroa is considered very creepy due to his fascination and obsession with collecting and preserving the heads of dead people, even telling Rain when they first meet that he'll take her in if he gets to preserve her head when she dies. He's also rather aloof and [[PerpetualFrowner dour]] and prefers to keep to himself, though the FantasticRacism against animal-folk and half-breeds probably doesn't help, either. However, from the moment he takes the girl under his wing, he does nothing but treat her with patience and kindness; He tells her right away that she's free to leave whenever she wants if she doesn't want to stay, gently tells her that there's nothing to be afraid of in his house and to be open and honest about her feelings, gives her a name, clothes and a bed to sleep in, takes care of her whenever she's bedridden with fevers and teaches her to speak and read. And all of this is ''before'' he grows to cherish her as if she was his own child.
* TheNameless: Rain's real name isunknown.
unknown, though it's implied that she was never even given one in the first place.
* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Rain's name is not her name at all. It's a nickname that Claroa gives to her, which counts as a MeaningfulName since she was firstly found during a rainyday, day two days ago prior in Chapter 1.
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* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Rain's name is not her name at all. It's a nickname that Claroa gives to her, which counts as a MeaningfulName since she was firstly found during a rainy
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* SoapOperaDisease: It's never revealed exactly what illness Rain has; The only thing that's mentioned is that her bodily values are low, that there's no cure for her and that she'll eventually succumb to it.
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* StepfordSmiler: Rain starts out giving Claroa plastered-on, fake smiles and nodding at every single one of his suggestions, even when their first meeting involved him telling her that he wants her head when she dies (Though he also tells her that she's free to leave if she doesn't want that). Claroa bluntly tells her that he knows a coping/defense mechanism when he sees one and that he wants her to be honest with her feelings... And though it takes a while, the kindness and patience he shows her finally causes the poor girl [[CatharticCrying to burst into tears.]]
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In an unnamed city, a [[FunnyAnimal black anthropomorphic cat]] known as Claroa works as a taxidermist, whose job is to "shrink" the heads of the deceased and store it inside his own home and add it to his collection. Enter Rain, a cat-eared girl who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness, and [[YourDaysAreNumbered only has three years to live]] before her eventual death.
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In an unnamed city, a [[FunnyAnimal black anthropomorphic cat]] known as Claroa works as a taxidermist, whose job is to "shrink" the heads of the deceased and store it them inside his own home and add it them to his collection. Enter Rain, a cat-eared girl who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness, and [[YourDaysAreNumbered only has three years to live]] before her eventual death.
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''Rain's Head'' (雨の首 ''Ame no Kubi'') is a {{Seinen}} SliceOfLife written and illustrated by Creator/MikiUsami, which was self-published by her. It was firstly released on 6th of June 2021, completing with a total of two volumes and eleven chapters until its conclusion on 20th of September 2021.
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''Rain's Head'' (雨の首 ''Ame no Kubi'') is a {{Seinen}} SliceOfLife written and illustrated by Creator/MikiUsami, which was self-published [[{{Doujinshi}} self-published]] by her. It was firstly released on 6th of June 2021, completing with a total of two volumes and eleven chapters until its conclusion on 20th of September 2021.
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* BreakingOldTrends: In a very unusual twist for Creator/MikiUsami's works, ''Rain's Head'' is the first of her mangas to focus on the main character Rain being DoomedByCanon, specifically the [[YourDaysAreNumbered terminal illness]] that is slowly killing her, as the story's main plot.
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* BreakingOldTrends: In a very unusual twist for Creator/MikiUsami's works, ''Rain's Head'' is the first of her mangas to focus on the main character Rain being DoomedByCanon, [[ForegoneConclusion doomed to die]], specifically the [[YourDaysAreNumbered terminal illness]] that is slowly killing her, as the story's main plot.
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* DoomedByCanon: It is impossible to hide Rain's fate as a secret. Anyone who simply reads ''the'' first chapter will easily show that Rain has a terminal illness that would kill her in three years.
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* ForegoneConclusion: The first chapter reveals that Rain is suffering from a terminal illness, as mentioned by Claroa, of which she will be dead within the next three years. [[DoomedByCanon There's no guessing what will happen at the end.]]
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* ForegoneConclusion: The first chapter reveals that Rain is suffering from a terminal illness, as mentioned by Claroa, of which she will be dead within the next three years. [[DoomedByCanon [[DeathOfAChild There's no guessing what will happen at the end.]]
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!!SPOILER WARNING: As this work has ''A LOT'' of DeathTropes, of which heavily pertains to the titular character, all spoilers will be [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked here, no exceptions. Tread the page with caution!
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!!SPOILER WARNING: As this work has ''A LOT'' of DeathTropes, of which heavily pertains to the titular character, all spoilers will be [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked here, here]], no exceptions. Tread the page with caution!
