a.k.a. Shirayuri
| Name | MUSUME Yoi |
| Also Known As | White Lily, The Good Daughter, Lesbian-chan, Cybercheerleader, Girl with the Dragon Unmentionables |
| Biometrics | |
|---|---|
| Metatype | Elf |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 81.5 kg (180 lb) actual 59.9 kg (132 lb) apparent |
| Skin | Medium |
| Eyes | Brown |
| Hair | Black |
| Infometrics | |
| Date of Birth | Thursday, December 27, 2040 (Age 19) |
| Place of Birth | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, JIS |
| Nationality | Renraku Computer Systems |
| Legal Residence | Level 231, SCIRE, Seattle Metroplex, UCAS |
| Cyberware | Limb Replacement (Quadrilateral) |
| Relationships | |
| Family | MUSUME Kōta (Father, Human, 66) MUSUME Hanako (Mother, Human, 56) MUSUME Takeru (Brother, Human, 10) |
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| Latest | |
| Total | 15 |
MUSUME Yoi was born in Renraku corporate SIN. Her father, Kōta, was an architectural engineer and her mother, Hanako, was an agricultural geneticist. She had a typical Japanese megacorporate upbringing in the care of her mother: taught duty, respect, and service, when it was (and wasn't) appropriate to display emotion, and the consequences of misbehavior — but all in a gentle manner.
When she was ten, the arrival of a younger brother, Takeru, changed things. She lost much of the devoted attention of her mother to the newborn, and her father showed a degree of involvement with his son atypical of Japanese fathers. Yoi was still held to the strictures of her corpo-SINner lifestyle, and once private displays of affection, understanding, and praise were replaced with complaints about any lack of perfection in her academic performance.
She tried to meet her parents expectations and regain their affection to no avail. She eventually gave up on trying to please them, her desire for affection turning into one for any attention at all. She began stretching the rules set up for her, started with mild acts of rebellion — like choices in attire, music, and writing topics in school — and growing into petty crime like shoplifting and vandalism.
A few days after her fifteenth birthday, she was ditching school with NISHIYAMA Kōji, an older boy and the son of a senior vice-president, hanging out on his father's speedboat and drinking. When the truancy officers arrived, Kōji ordered Yoi to get them out of there — he claimed his father would severely punish him. Defiant of authority and inebriated, she agreed and swiftly got them underway. Between haste and intoxication, the attempt lead to a fiery crash in the busy harbor. Kōji was killed instantly and Yoi was horribly injured, losing both arms and a leg in the wreck.
NISHIYAMA Sakebu, Kōji's father, spun the situation to place the blame squarely on Yoi. Surveillance footage from the boat's security system never came to light, as it would have shown his son to be partially responsible for the situation. Combined with his son's other, more extensive misdemeanors this incident would damage his own reputation and career. Instead, the MUSUME family suffered the backlash. Her father was ruined socially, billed the father of an uncontrollable daughter that caused the death of a valuable corporate prospect. With minimal chance for upward mobility in the home office, he used every favor he had accumulated and got a transfer to Renraku America and the SCIRE project.
Yoi awoke from a medical coma two months later in the care of Dr. Vidhava, having been transferred to a hospital in the SCIRE during her family's move to Seattle. She had been fitted with four cybernetic limbs, the leg that survived the crash had been deemed too damaged to be kept safely. In the hospital, she learned the details of the arrangement, including the fact that her father had signed a non-disclosure agreement about the whole incident as part of keeping his job — an agreement that applied to her as a minor child.
Initially, her recovery and acceptance of the new limbs did not progress swiftly — the limbs and the new environment served as a reminder of the tragedy she was responsible for. She spent nearly three months in motive therapy before her brother, Takeru, helped her grow to love her new body. Visiting her in the hospital, he brought pictures of her drawn to look like a superhero with four golden limbs. Seeing herself a different perspective started her down a path of self-acceptance. She worked hard to acclimatize and learn everything she could about her new limbs.
Over the next few years, she transformed herself back into a child her parents could tolerate without too many complaints. She worked hard to catch up on her schooling, and even got a job in the SCIRE. Living in the arcology meant all of her needs were taken care of, so every penny-yen she earned went into modifications to her new limbs, bringing her closer to the superhero her brother saw her as.
It was at her after-school job, when she was grousing about needing more money for more extensive changes, when OKURA Keiko introduced herself. In turn, she introduced Yoi to people outside the Arcology, people that could help improve her financial situation without asking too many questions, as long as she was willing to avoid asking too many questions herself.
By nineteen, Shirayuri was a novice but skilled shadowrunner, working small jobs alongside Mae or other people the slightly older girl recommended. In December of 2059, Mae shared her plans to leave Seattle. She had one last job to perform in Seattle, right in the Arcology itself, and a lucrative one — reuniting a child with his mother — and wanted Shirayuri's help...