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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Leah
AGE: 20!!!
JOURNAL: hotforbabyleg
IM: guys you have this
E-MAIL: this too
RETURNING: RETURNING I play Lust, Riful, Sooraya, and Lady Shiva.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Atsuko Jackson
FANDOM: Michiko to Hatchin
CHRONOLOGY: She is post-series! So it's after she's taken Michiko back into custody.
CLASS: Hero! Grumpy... completely normal... hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Your character will be asked to keep a secret identity, but whether they keep to it or not, other Capes will be calling them by their super alias when it’s given out.
ALTER EGO: Atsuko Jackson, police officah.
BACKGROUND:
Set in a Latin-American world that's analogous to Brazil, Michiko to Hatchin is about. Well. Michiko and Hatchin. Hana Morenos is an orphan who knows nothing about her real parents and even less about familial love--her foster parents treat her like a welfare check at best and the family's personal workhorse at worse, and her siblings verbally and physically abuse her. Basically, her life blows, until the day when a strange woman crashes through her motherfucking window on a motorbike, lands on the breakfast table, and takes her away forever. The woman is Michiko Malandro, a self-proclaimed "sexy diva" who knows Hana's presumed-dead father, Hiroshi Morenos, from way back when. In the biblical sense. And she just escaped from the prison which she was thrown into, basically, because she was looking for Hiroshi. Michiko doesn't believe that Hiroshi is dead, and she wants to find him. And that's how Michiko and Hana, now nicknamed Hatchin, set off on an awesome Thelma and Louise style journey down the highways of pseudo-Brazil. Where does Atsuko Jackson come into play? She's the reason Michiko was in prison in the first place.
Atsuko and Michiko grew up in the same orphanage, and Atsuko was basically Michiko's puppydoggish follower from birth. They grew up together, they played games together, and they got in trouble together. And the trouble was Michiko's idea 99% of the time. As Atsuko got older and their pranks got more illegal, she grew to resent Michiko's control over her more and more, and eventually she was able to break away, becoming a police officer. When Hiroshi mysteriously disappeared and Michiko started making trouble, Atsuko was the one to arrest her and send her to Diamandra, the supposedly inescapable prison. Which she later escaped from. Atsuko was promoted to sergeant for her troubles, and abused her position accordingly. While Michiko was in prison, Atsuko occasionally tormented her, interrogating her personally, taunting her, and using her helplessness to smack her around. However, once Hiroshi's "death" was reported and Michiko was depressed, Atsuko also gave her a baby picture of Hatchin, knowing that it would give her hope again.
Once Michiko breaks out of Diamandra, Atsuko takes it upon herself to personally make sure she drags her back; after their first confrontation, however, Michiko manages to get her at gunpoint and escape. Angry and humiliated, Atsuko decides to work with Satoshi Batista, Hiroshi's old friend and partner and a crazy motherfucker in all respects. Satoshi is the head of the crime syndicate Monstro Preto, and he hates Michiko. After he captures her, Atsuko works out a deal where she'll buy Michiko off of him and they all go home happy. Except that it doesn't work out that way; instead, Atsuko's subordinate Ricardo double-crosses her and decides that it's much better to arrest Satoshi and Michiko without any pay-off. Unsurprisingly, this ends up in a motherfucking shoot-out. Michiko, who's had the shit beaten out of her and looks the part, escapes from the house where Satoshi was holding her, and she makes a run for it in a field--where Atsuko happens to be looking for her, with a crossbow. For the first time in eight episodes, the two women are face to face. Michiko calls Atsuko her friend, and asks her to let her go.
And Atsuko lets her go.
After this disaster, Atsuko and Ricardo are demoted to a post in a Ilha Azul, a rural town near a famous ruined city, where she starts to go stir-crazy. While she's on the job, she comes to pick up a captured would-be thief, only to find that she's a rebellious teenage girl who reminds her a lot of Michiko. Atsuko starts to get close to the girl, Vanessa, and they have a bunch of hijinks which aren't really important, culiminating in a daring search for a mythical golden vase underneath the ruins. Where the two of them find nothing and nearly die from carbon monoxide poisoning. But it does inspire Vanessa to go to the big city and find her aspiring musician boyfriend--which only reminds Atsuko of Michiko more. Realizing that finding Michiko is more important to her than maintaining her good name, she forces Ricardo to come along with her and search for Michiko in the "city of tomatoes", where a man calling himself Rock Morena (who looks exactly like Hiroshi Morenos hurrrrrr) is making a name for himself. Unfortunately, Michiko and Hatchin are able to escape from her once again, with the help of one of Hiroshi's old lovers; at the end of the day, she's just screaming "MICHIKOOOOOO" down an elevator shaft and shooting at them in her sassy jumpsuit. It is kind of pathetic!
Afterwards, she continues to follow Michiko and Hatchin. In the latest episode, she has an encounter with Hatchin during Carnaval and helps her hide from police officers, then ditches Ricardo with thanks for his help. Although she's loath to drag him into her search any longer, and has begun to consider his wife and family, Atsuko is still a woman on a mission. An obsessive, crazy, lesbionic mission. Unfortunately for her, he comes along anyway!
When Michiko and Hatchin try to hide on a train, unfortunately, Atsuko and Satoshi Batista (who is now completely bereft of henchmen, though still a powerful-ass motherfucker) are also on their way there--Atsuko because she suspects they're going to be there, and Satoshi because someone slipped him a poison roofie and he's just kind of stumbled his way there. To make a long story short, Satoshi kidnaps Hatchin and Atsuko and Michiko have another goddamn standoff. This one is different, however--Atsuko herself makes it obvious when she says "Michiko, I'm at my limit." It's happened one time too many for her. Unfortunately, Michiko is also uncompromising, since, you know, her daughter figure has just been carried off by a psycho killer. Atsuko needs to stop letting Michiko run away, and Michiko needs to save Hatchin. What results is popularly known as a bitchfight!
No, okay, I'm just kidding. Atsuko steps on Michiko's hand in high heels, pulls her gun, and makes to punch the living daylights out of her in a final act that'll pretty much piss on their friendship's corpse--and her hand never makes contact. She still can't do it. Vowing that from now on, if she ever sees her agan, it'll be as though they'd never met, Atsuko walks away, giving Michiko one last chance but effectively ending their friendship. Sad, sad music in Portuguese plays, she starts crying, her makeup streams all the way down to like, her chin, and in the end, she collapses on her hands and knees in the dust, still sobbing. I am not even exaggerating right now.
Michiko and Hatchin eventually are reunited, but not before A.) Satoshi has gotten filled with more lead than a motherfuckin' quail and B.) Hatchin has seen a man, perfectly matching Hiroshi's description, headed for a train station. That's right--he's running away again. Just as they're riding off to find his ass, however, cop cars zoom in and block off all the roads! After a brief chase, they're still stuck, and it looks like the two will finally be separated for good when a cop car rolls up and Atsuko's gigantic afro slowly slides out of it. She's as good as her word, and doesn't show any recognition of Michiko whatsoever. Despite this, Michiko insists on talking to her, and the two of them make one last deal--this time, it's mutually beneficial. Michiko, as it turns out, has already given up any dreams of forming a happy family with Hiroshi, and it's implied that she does in fact know what a tremendous dickhead he is, but she wants Hatchin to spend time with the father she never knew. In exchange for letting her and Hatchin go one last time, Michiko gets Hatchin and Hiroshi an airplane ticket to somewhere far away, and she voluntarily turns herself in to Atsuko. The last we see of her is when Hatchin and Hiroshi are watching the news that night; she's walking Michiko away, her reputation as an officer restored and her EXTREMELY ELUSIVE QUARRY willingly in handcuffs at her side. Basically, it's good to be Atsuko.
PERSONALITY:
Atsuko is straightforward, smart, and in-control; she's a model cop, until something gets her emotionally where it hurts. She takes most things very seriously, and she'll take protecting the city seriously too, once she gets used to it. Atsuko is used to knowing what she wants and getting it through her own hard work and influence. She doesn't want to be in thrall to anyone or anything, basically. After "breaking away" from Michiko, I think she wanted really badly to assert herself and prove to herself that she was her own person, although in order to do that she..... kind of joined the police force because of its clear structure lolololol. Although that desire isn't as strong anymore, she's still very much her own person, and she doesn't like taking orders. That doesn't mean she's going to rebel, though; as a police officer, albeit a high-ranked one, she's grown very used to taking commands from other people. She just doesn't like it. And Atsuko is really, really, really easily annoyed when things don't go down the way she wants. In fact, she occasionally goes batshit and starts screaming MIIIIIICHIIIIIKOOOOOO while shooting down an elevator shaft.
Michiko is absolutely central to understanding Atsuko's character--partially because she's a secondary character in the series, but mostly because Atsuko is still deeply hung-up on Michiko, no matter how much she tries not to be. She needed to establish her independence from Michiko eventually, because even though she totally loves her in a platonic (and possibly nonplatonic, what do I know) way, she couldn't become nothing more than a sidekick who gives up her own opinions and freedom to stay with her. Atsuko remembers their friendship fondly, and deep down she is still Michiko's friend. I don't think anything is going to change that. Partially, I think she sent Michiko to prison less for revenge and more out of disappointment. Atsuko looooves Michiko despite her flaws, and she knows she's a good person. And she remembers her as an independent person, which I think is also key. Part of her disgust at Michiko doing all of this for Hiroshi, besides the "WHAT THE FUCK WOMAN YOU COULD HAVE ME AND YOU GET YOUR ASS SENT TO JAIL FOR THIS PASTY TOOL" factor, is that Michiko is supposed to be the one in charge. Despite Atsuko liberating herself from Michiko, she still has a perception of her as the strong, smart lady on top; how could she control Atsuko for all those years and act like such a controlled idiot over this guy? How could Atsuko let herself be the tagalong for someone who was so weak? How could he possibly be worth enough to make Michiko into what she became, instead of what she was when Atsuko was her friend?
So that's much of why she has so much disgust for Michiko in prison. And, of course, Atsuko wants to prove to her just how strong she's become, and how weak Michiko (who disappointed her and killed her expectations and made her feel like a fool, because how could she think she was so great when Michiko could go around and do this?) is now. She's childish, in her own ways. But she also loves Michiko. There's no doubt of that. She remembers their friendship happily, and even when she's in jail, and Atsuko is being a complete sadist psychobitch to her, she still gives her that picture of Hatchin. She gives Michiko hope, and she knows perfectly well what she's doing; because she's still her friend, and maybe a part of her really did hope that Michiko could break her way out. After all, that would be much more exciting, right? Chasing after her is really more satisfying than being a sergeant and doing cop stuff.
Atsuko can also be kind in her own somewhat prickly way, however; she cares deeply about Michiko when it really matters, despite her fixation on capturing her, and she has a similar soft spot for people who remind her of Michiko, like Vanessa. She doesn't express her emotions openly, but if she cares about someone, Atsuko will go through hell for them. She has a bit of a wild side, but without someone crazy to bring it out in her she's a very straightlaced person. She's also most definitely not a kid person, though she'll be civil to most children. Although she's much more polite than Michiko, Atsuko is still pretty self-centered at the best of times, and she doesn't have much patience for giving attention to people who she doesn't know. Still, anyone being really loud and obnoxious as a front is going to turn on her maternal/annoyed impulses like whoa.
POWER:
Atsuko has like no powers! None! Ever! The last time she was in the City, she gained the ability to use her whip like a prehensile appendage, which was pretty hideous, and I'd like to keep that. In addition, I would like to give her super-coordination/balance! Basically, no matter how hard she gets hit, unless she is directly smacked down to the ground she will not fall over. This really won't do anything except give her a slight edge in fights and explain... how she can fight in high heels all the time.
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COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: HELLO THIS IS A LINK
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FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
olesia I hate you
NAME: Leah
AGE: 20!!!
JOURNAL: hotforbabyleg
IM: guys you have this
E-MAIL: this too
RETURNING: RETURNING I play Lust, Riful, Sooraya, and Lady Shiva.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Atsuko Jackson
FANDOM: Michiko to Hatchin
CHRONOLOGY: She is post-series! So it's after she's taken Michiko back into custody.
CLASS: Hero! Grumpy... completely normal... hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Your character will be asked to keep a secret identity, but whether they keep to it or not, other Capes will be calling them by their super alias when it’s given out.
ALTER EGO: Atsuko Jackson, police officah.
BACKGROUND:
Set in a Latin-American world that's analogous to Brazil, Michiko to Hatchin is about. Well. Michiko and Hatchin. Hana Morenos is an orphan who knows nothing about her real parents and even less about familial love--her foster parents treat her like a welfare check at best and the family's personal workhorse at worse, and her siblings verbally and physically abuse her. Basically, her life blows, until the day when a strange woman crashes through her motherfucking window on a motorbike, lands on the breakfast table, and takes her away forever. The woman is Michiko Malandro, a self-proclaimed "sexy diva" who knows Hana's presumed-dead father, Hiroshi Morenos, from way back when. In the biblical sense. And she just escaped from the prison which she was thrown into, basically, because she was looking for Hiroshi. Michiko doesn't believe that Hiroshi is dead, and she wants to find him. And that's how Michiko and Hana, now nicknamed Hatchin, set off on an awesome Thelma and Louise style journey down the highways of pseudo-Brazil. Where does Atsuko Jackson come into play? She's the reason Michiko was in prison in the first place.
Atsuko and Michiko grew up in the same orphanage, and Atsuko was basically Michiko's puppydoggish follower from birth. They grew up together, they played games together, and they got in trouble together. And the trouble was Michiko's idea 99% of the time. As Atsuko got older and their pranks got more illegal, she grew to resent Michiko's control over her more and more, and eventually she was able to break away, becoming a police officer. When Hiroshi mysteriously disappeared and Michiko started making trouble, Atsuko was the one to arrest her and send her to Diamandra, the supposedly inescapable prison. Which she later escaped from. Atsuko was promoted to sergeant for her troubles, and abused her position accordingly. While Michiko was in prison, Atsuko occasionally tormented her, interrogating her personally, taunting her, and using her helplessness to smack her around. However, once Hiroshi's "death" was reported and Michiko was depressed, Atsuko also gave her a baby picture of Hatchin, knowing that it would give her hope again.
Once Michiko breaks out of Diamandra, Atsuko takes it upon herself to personally make sure she drags her back; after their first confrontation, however, Michiko manages to get her at gunpoint and escape. Angry and humiliated, Atsuko decides to work with Satoshi Batista, Hiroshi's old friend and partner and a crazy motherfucker in all respects. Satoshi is the head of the crime syndicate Monstro Preto, and he hates Michiko. After he captures her, Atsuko works out a deal where she'll buy Michiko off of him and they all go home happy. Except that it doesn't work out that way; instead, Atsuko's subordinate Ricardo double-crosses her and decides that it's much better to arrest Satoshi and Michiko without any pay-off. Unsurprisingly, this ends up in a motherfucking shoot-out. Michiko, who's had the shit beaten out of her and looks the part, escapes from the house where Satoshi was holding her, and she makes a run for it in a field--where Atsuko happens to be looking for her, with a crossbow. For the first time in eight episodes, the two women are face to face. Michiko calls Atsuko her friend, and asks her to let her go.
And Atsuko lets her go.
After this disaster, Atsuko and Ricardo are demoted to a post in a Ilha Azul, a rural town near a famous ruined city, where she starts to go stir-crazy. While she's on the job, she comes to pick up a captured would-be thief, only to find that she's a rebellious teenage girl who reminds her a lot of Michiko. Atsuko starts to get close to the girl, Vanessa, and they have a bunch of hijinks which aren't really important, culiminating in a daring search for a mythical golden vase underneath the ruins. Where the two of them find nothing and nearly die from carbon monoxide poisoning. But it does inspire Vanessa to go to the big city and find her aspiring musician boyfriend--which only reminds Atsuko of Michiko more. Realizing that finding Michiko is more important to her than maintaining her good name, she forces Ricardo to come along with her and search for Michiko in the "city of tomatoes", where a man calling himself Rock Morena (who looks exactly like Hiroshi Morenos hurrrrrr) is making a name for himself. Unfortunately, Michiko and Hatchin are able to escape from her once again, with the help of one of Hiroshi's old lovers; at the end of the day, she's just screaming "MICHIKOOOOOO" down an elevator shaft and shooting at them in her sassy jumpsuit. It is kind of pathetic!
Afterwards, she continues to follow Michiko and Hatchin. In the latest episode, she has an encounter with Hatchin during Carnaval and helps her hide from police officers, then ditches Ricardo with thanks for his help. Although she's loath to drag him into her search any longer, and has begun to consider his wife and family, Atsuko is still a woman on a mission. An obsessive, crazy, lesbionic mission. Unfortunately for her, he comes along anyway!
When Michiko and Hatchin try to hide on a train, unfortunately, Atsuko and Satoshi Batista (who is now completely bereft of henchmen, though still a powerful-ass motherfucker) are also on their way there--Atsuko because she suspects they're going to be there, and Satoshi because someone slipped him a poison roofie and he's just kind of stumbled his way there. To make a long story short, Satoshi kidnaps Hatchin and Atsuko and Michiko have another goddamn standoff. This one is different, however--Atsuko herself makes it obvious when she says "Michiko, I'm at my limit." It's happened one time too many for her. Unfortunately, Michiko is also uncompromising, since, you know, her daughter figure has just been carried off by a psycho killer. Atsuko needs to stop letting Michiko run away, and Michiko needs to save Hatchin. What results is popularly known as a bitchfight!
No, okay, I'm just kidding. Atsuko steps on Michiko's hand in high heels, pulls her gun, and makes to punch the living daylights out of her in a final act that'll pretty much piss on their friendship's corpse--and her hand never makes contact. She still can't do it. Vowing that from now on, if she ever sees her agan, it'll be as though they'd never met, Atsuko walks away, giving Michiko one last chance but effectively ending their friendship. Sad, sad music in Portuguese plays, she starts crying, her makeup streams all the way down to like, her chin, and in the end, she collapses on her hands and knees in the dust, still sobbing. I am not even exaggerating right now.
Michiko and Hatchin eventually are reunited, but not before A.) Satoshi has gotten filled with more lead than a motherfuckin' quail and B.) Hatchin has seen a man, perfectly matching Hiroshi's description, headed for a train station. That's right--he's running away again. Just as they're riding off to find his ass, however, cop cars zoom in and block off all the roads! After a brief chase, they're still stuck, and it looks like the two will finally be separated for good when a cop car rolls up and Atsuko's gigantic afro slowly slides out of it. She's as good as her word, and doesn't show any recognition of Michiko whatsoever. Despite this, Michiko insists on talking to her, and the two of them make one last deal--this time, it's mutually beneficial. Michiko, as it turns out, has already given up any dreams of forming a happy family with Hiroshi, and it's implied that she does in fact know what a tremendous dickhead he is, but she wants Hatchin to spend time with the father she never knew. In exchange for letting her and Hatchin go one last time, Michiko gets Hatchin and Hiroshi an airplane ticket to somewhere far away, and she voluntarily turns herself in to Atsuko. The last we see of her is when Hatchin and Hiroshi are watching the news that night; she's walking Michiko away, her reputation as an officer restored and her EXTREMELY ELUSIVE QUARRY willingly in handcuffs at her side. Basically, it's good to be Atsuko.
PERSONALITY:
Atsuko is straightforward, smart, and in-control; she's a model cop, until something gets her emotionally where it hurts. She takes most things very seriously, and she'll take protecting the city seriously too, once she gets used to it. Atsuko is used to knowing what she wants and getting it through her own hard work and influence. She doesn't want to be in thrall to anyone or anything, basically. After "breaking away" from Michiko, I think she wanted really badly to assert herself and prove to herself that she was her own person, although in order to do that she..... kind of joined the police force because of its clear structure lolololol. Although that desire isn't as strong anymore, she's still very much her own person, and she doesn't like taking orders. That doesn't mean she's going to rebel, though; as a police officer, albeit a high-ranked one, she's grown very used to taking commands from other people. She just doesn't like it. And Atsuko is really, really, really easily annoyed when things don't go down the way she wants. In fact, she occasionally goes batshit and starts screaming MIIIIIICHIIIIIKOOOOOO while shooting down an elevator shaft.
Michiko is absolutely central to understanding Atsuko's character--partially because she's a secondary character in the series, but mostly because Atsuko is still deeply hung-up on Michiko, no matter how much she tries not to be. She needed to establish her independence from Michiko eventually, because even though she totally loves her in a platonic (and possibly nonplatonic, what do I know) way, she couldn't become nothing more than a sidekick who gives up her own opinions and freedom to stay with her. Atsuko remembers their friendship fondly, and deep down she is still Michiko's friend. I don't think anything is going to change that. Partially, I think she sent Michiko to prison less for revenge and more out of disappointment. Atsuko looooves Michiko despite her flaws, and she knows she's a good person. And she remembers her as an independent person, which I think is also key. Part of her disgust at Michiko doing all of this for Hiroshi, besides the "WHAT THE FUCK WOMAN YOU COULD HAVE ME AND YOU GET YOUR ASS SENT TO JAIL FOR THIS PASTY TOOL" factor, is that Michiko is supposed to be the one in charge. Despite Atsuko liberating herself from Michiko, she still has a perception of her as the strong, smart lady on top; how could she control Atsuko for all those years and act like such a controlled idiot over this guy? How could Atsuko let herself be the tagalong for someone who was so weak? How could he possibly be worth enough to make Michiko into what she became, instead of what she was when Atsuko was her friend?
So that's much of why she has so much disgust for Michiko in prison. And, of course, Atsuko wants to prove to her just how strong she's become, and how weak Michiko (who disappointed her and killed her expectations and made her feel like a fool, because how could she think she was so great when Michiko could go around and do this?) is now. She's childish, in her own ways. But she also loves Michiko. There's no doubt of that. She remembers their friendship happily, and even when she's in jail, and Atsuko is being a complete sadist psychobitch to her, she still gives her that picture of Hatchin. She gives Michiko hope, and she knows perfectly well what she's doing; because she's still her friend, and maybe a part of her really did hope that Michiko could break her way out. After all, that would be much more exciting, right? Chasing after her is really more satisfying than being a sergeant and doing cop stuff.
Atsuko can also be kind in her own somewhat prickly way, however; she cares deeply about Michiko when it really matters, despite her fixation on capturing her, and she has a similar soft spot for people who remind her of Michiko, like Vanessa. She doesn't express her emotions openly, but if she cares about someone, Atsuko will go through hell for them. She has a bit of a wild side, but without someone crazy to bring it out in her she's a very straightlaced person. She's also most definitely not a kid person, though she'll be civil to most children. Although she's much more polite than Michiko, Atsuko is still pretty self-centered at the best of times, and she doesn't have much patience for giving attention to people who she doesn't know. Still, anyone being really loud and obnoxious as a front is going to turn on her maternal/annoyed impulses like whoa.
POWER:
Atsuko has like no powers! None! Ever! The last time she was in the City, she gained the ability to use her whip like a prehensile appendage, which was pretty hideous, and I'd like to keep that. In addition, I would like to give her super-coordination/balance! Basically, no matter how hard she gets hit, unless she is directly smacked down to the ground she will not fall over. This really won't do anything except give her a slight edge in fights and explain... how she can fight in high heels all the time.
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COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: HELLO THIS IS A LINK
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: dabbadeedabbadie
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
olesia I hate you