User blog comment:Miraiyuki/Mei Misaki's Mom/@comment-397235-20140510202254

Kirika is like her pen name (except she's an artist..."brush name?"). A lot of artists do things like that, I guess to differentiate their personal lives from their work or something. Of course, given that she refers to herself by this name at home, it seems to me she's more or less divorced herself from her actual name and familial bonds entirely, having become wrapped up completely in her weird doll maker persona at the expense of her daughter.