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Approved Character Michiko

I'm Only Dancing

Inactive Member
Name: Michiko (born Jin Hyaejun)

General Information
Species: Geshrin
Gender: Female
Age: 23

Family/Creators: Jin Maeyoun (Father, deceased)
Jin Joo (Mother, deceased)

Faction: Independent
Occupation: Musician
Rank: N/A
Current Assignment: Clearly to rock out and enlighten the world with musical fusion!

Physical Characteristics
Height: 151cm
Weight: 37kg

Build and Skin Color: Michiko is very gauntly built. She is rather angular, and is, in fact, underweight due to drug addictions. Her skin is very pale - unnaturally so, likely for the same cause as her skeletal build. It is a little unnerving to some, looking at someone as damaged as she.
Face and Eye Color: Michiko is ferret faced with a touch of sly charm to her - when she isnt under the influence of drugs. Her eyes are a pale, lucid grey; and they often hold a deep sorrow. However, they also often look completely blank, or at times, utterly appathetic.
Hair color and Style: In the past seventeen years, Michiko has rarely cut her hair. It is long and unkempt, falling well past her shoulders. Though rarely tangled and usually clean, her hair is hardly cared for. It is frayed and unruly, and she makes little effort to change that.

Distinguishing Features: How hard is it to spot a junkie?

Psychological Characteristics
Personality: Though she is generally a rather loving person, Michiko is very depressed, and has become addicted to a number of narcotics and opiates. In fact, to say she is depressed is an understatement. She has gone to the point that she simply doesnt care. The world continues around her, and she feels numb about everything.

On those occasions that she can be found both straight-minded and not reeling in depression, she is generally very outgoing. She is slow to make friends, however, and prefers to keep others at arms length - avoiding close relations is the only way she has found to keep people from disappointing her.

Likes: Music, films, books
Dislikes: Life, authority, reality, herself
Goals: To make it through one more day...

History
Hyaejun was born in YE 04 to loving and nurturing parents. For twelve years, she lived happily, not really caring about the outside world. She was educated as any other child, and she learned from her mother to cook. Life in Kyoto made it necessary for her to learn Japanese in addition to her parent's language, and she picked it up very quickly.

And one further thing marked her early life. A love of - and an immense talent for - music. Her first guitar was given to her at the age of seven, and she quickly blossomed into an accomplished guitarist.

At thirteen, her parents were killed in a freak accident which Hyaejun never learned the details of. She blames it to this day on the Takehara Robotics Firm for which her parents worked. And, she probably blames them rightly. But the truth may never be known.

The next two years were difficult for Michiko - she lived in the streets off other's pockets and generosity. It was around then that chronic depression began to sieze her. It was also during this time that she became addicted to heroin, among other things. These addictions didnt make supporting herself any easier, and she likely would have died, had not a passerby suggested she could perform for a living as he heard her play.

Her performing career began in dingy bars, though she gained something of a reputation from her playing. The income from it was always frivolously spent - she fed her body, her addictions, and bought herself more instruments. After a year of such performing, she adopted the name "Michiko", and found a place in larger venues.

The past seven years have found her more depressed by the day as she grows more and more professionally successful, but her personal life remains a rapidly crumbling memento of what might have been.

Skills:
Art and Vocations
Michiko is an excellent vocalist and guitarist. In fact, excellent may not be the proper word. She is incredibly talented as a musician, with incredible technical skills plus innovation to spare. She is capable with most instruments - usually, she can pick up an instrument for the first time and play it reasonably well. Guitar, however, is her paramount capability. Vocals are a close second.

Knowledge
Although she is often too drugged to call upon it, Michiko does posess a very complete working knowledge of recent history and of Yamataian law.

Culinary
Before the death of her mother, Michiko (then Hyaejun) would spend long hours with her mother learning the secrets of cooking. That is to say she is capable of cooking many Korean and Japanese foods very well. She is hardly a professional chef, but she is certainly capable of making food worth eating.

Communications
Michiko is fluent in both Korean and Japanese, able to speak, write, and read quickly and fluidly. When high (which is often), it isnt unusual for her to mix together Han'gul and Hiragana scripts as she writes. When in her right mind, her writing is very precise and efficient.

Rogue
During her time on the streets, Michiko learned some of the basics of being a footpad. Generally, she is able to lift a wallet with little trouble, or perform sleight of hand for money. She doesnt much use it anymore...
 
Don't get too excited, Wes. It's not healthy. I didn't like the length on first glane, but the history was good. I think this is the first junkhead I've seen in a while, it'll be nice to see where she goes. Good job.
 
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