Here On Desolation Row {Nori Mae Jackson-Kinomoto}

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It's A Mad, Mad World

”Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.
Just try your best, try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.

It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be alright (alright).”

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Full Name; Noriko Mae Jackson-Kinomoto
Nickname(s) Nori Mae, Nori, Onee-chan (big sister in Japanese, called this by Tink)
Gender; Female
Age; 16 (Teen Ward), she is exactly 18 months older than Tink, 18 months younger than older sister Arisu Lynne
Face Claim; Shiloh (Canadian Pop-Rock Singer)

I Don't Like The Drugs, But The Drugs Like Me
Diagnosed Mental Disorder(s) Major Depression
Age Of Diagnose(s) 16
Suicide Attempt(s)/Murder Attempt(s) No, but has been a cutter on and off for two years
Do You Hear Voices? No

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Personality
Nori Mae seems like one of those anti-conformity, f-the-system punk rocker types. And on the outside it really fits her personality. But on the inside is a different story. They say that fashion is a reflection of the way the designer portrays everyday life or it could also be the way the designer feels at the time he or she sits down to sketch. Well, it’s the same way with Nori Mae. The goth-punk clothing is a reflection of the sadness and anger she feels on the inside. And the hate and torment she’s felt on the outside. Nori Mae was severely bullied from ages twelve until her recent admittance to Willowcreek.

Due to the bullying Nori Mae finds it hard to make friends, since she never knows who she can trust. She also tends to be more inclined to befriend those who are social outcasts, like herself. She is viciously protective of friends and most of all her baby brother Tink. She also is quick to react in a negative or verbally aggressive way because of all of the abuse she took. She assumes the worst in everyone, especially if they come from ‘preppy/rich’ backgrounds.

She loves Cosplay (something she got into during her years in Japan), music (she plays guitar and bass), manga/anime, Japanese candy (her mom regularly sends her bunches of it), punk/rock/metal music, clothes shopping, boys (selective but she does like a good Japanese boys or guitarist now and again), Union Jacks (the Great Britain symbol), and animals.

She is very close to her younger brother (she only refers to him as a girl in front of he and the other females, not in-front of nurses). She actually shares a bunk with him and she knows he relies heavily on her for support. Especially since their older sister Arisu Lynne (who was effortlessly converted through the Vaccine) wants nothing to do with either of them.

She isn’t very good with book learning, but she is excellent in street smarts since she spent many a night roaming the streets of Japan with her friends after concerts.

She is a very vulnerable person when put in the prospect of being physically hurt. She typically shuts down if being abused physically and can only hold on for so long when verbally assaulted. But, she always does her best to defend others.

Appearance
Another reason for being bullied was the sudden change of dress the summer after her last year of middle school. She was being bullied then and changed her appearance when she was told she was switching schools. She figured if she dressed tough, people would be less likely to bother her..she was wrong. But more about that later.

Nori Mae inherited more of her mother’s American genes than her father’s Japanese ones. She stands roughly 5’5”, more on the short side for her age. She also got her mothers bright blue eyes, matching perfectly to her brothers (Arisu Lynne looks like a miniature of their father). She has a more rounded face, and less almond-shaped eyes (though still enough to tell she’s got Asian in her). Her skin is pale, much like her brother’s, though tans more easily when she wants to. She has very full lips, identical to her mother’s. She is not thin, more of a ‘curvy’ girl, though not fat either. She has about 15lbs extra weight on her, though it’s only noticeable if she wears tight clothes. Her hair is pitch black, a trait she got from her father, sadly. She typically has some sort of coloring in the front half, mainly where her bangs are. The cut is a modified bob, with short bangs, longer fringe, though cut close enough she can only get the back in two very small pigtails. She typically accessorizes in heavy eyeliner, bright eye shadow, and nude lipstick.

Nori Mae loves tattoos and piercings. She has a ‘pin up’ sparrow on the left side of her pelvic bone, only seen in hip huggers, swimsuits, or underpants. She has a septum piercing, a normal nose piercing (left side), and a labret in the middle of her lip. She also has her left ear pierced twice, then the right ear three times (first set, second set on both, then right side has an industrial [piercing across both sides of the top] piercing). She would have gotten another tattoo, but she was put in Willowcreek.

Nori Mae also is obsessed with the punk fashion movement. She spends her time regularly in skinny jeans and interesting tops. She loves her Boys Scouts tee she kept from her last ex, even having her name embellished on the back. She wears it with long sleeve shirts. Tees are a must in her wardrobe, especially any with cocky sayings or of her favorite bands, also typically worn with long sleeves. She has a few halter under bust corsets she wears over tees, giving them a more edgy vibe. Converses are a god-send to her, she has multiple pairs though her ratty black ones with the checkerboard laces are her favorites.

She is rarely seen without some sort of mish-mash of bracelets and wrist cuffs on. This is to cover up the majority, and deepest, of the scaring from where she cut herself. She also is never seen without her admission bracelet on her left wrist. She hasn’t taken it off the entire length she’s been here.



History
Noriko Mae Jackson-Kinomoto was born in Tokyo, Japan to Kinomoto Yoshiro, a successful business man and Dixie Mae (her namesake) Jackson, a soft-spoken former southern beauty queen. Nori Mae (as she had dubbed herself from a young age) only stayed in Tokyo for sixteen months before moving to the Deep South of the US. Nori Mae, looking more American than her other two siblings (an older sister Arisu Lynne who was eighteen months older than she, and Ritsu [now called Tink] eighteen months younger than she), so she adapted more easily among the hateful rednecks.

At the age of four, when Nori Mae was five, her brother dyed his hair blonde which looked nice but did little to help the bullying. Nori Mae did very well in school from a young age, though was nowhere near the over-achiever her sister was and lived in her shadow constantly. She easily made friends with some of the girls in the her class who adored playing with her soft, silky, black hair.

When middle school was getting ready to start Nori Mae’s dad had to relocate the family back to Japan for his job. This threw a wrench in the family structure, as their father worked so much after the move that they rarely saw him. Their mother easily transitioned into an almost single mother state of mind. For the first two years of middle school Nori Mae had two best friends, Ayako and Hana who she spent every single afternoon with. But come the final year of middle school Ayako and Hana began to act more different than Nori Mae. Both girls had ‘blossomed’ over the summer and were suddenly the center of attention for boys and exploded in popularity. They left Nori Mae and became friends with only popular girls. Then the bullying started. Everything the kids could find to make fun of, from Nori Mae’s clothes, to her Americanized accent, to her lack of ‘blossoming’, to even her taste in old school American punk made her a target. The abuse was only verbal at first, then it became shoving in the halls, ‘bumping’ her with their shoulders, tripping her, and even Ayako and Hana joined in to keep their popularity.

At the end of her last year of middle school her brother had begun acting very weird and her father relocated to the US once more.

When Nori Mae found out she was moving she totally re-invented herself. She began to listen to the ‘I don’t care’ attitude of American punk more closely and emulated that. Thinking she would be left alone if she dressed and acted tough. Her mother bought her a new wardrobe of punk clothes (jeans, band tees, converse, got her industrial done, let her dye her bangs, the whole nine). Freshman year came and over the summer Nori Mae had blossomed as well. She finally looked more like a woman and less like a bad older version of her brother, who was now into mild drag.

She entered Beverly Hills Prep (a private school) with the idea in her mind that people would either leave her alone, or she’d become very popular. But when she entered and saw the majority of the kids were blonde, rich, and perfect she instantly faltered. This was a no-uniform prep school so she immediately noticed the Prada, Louis Vuttion, Jimmy Chou, and vintage Chanel. She felt like a fish out of water, though began to try to make friends with the ‘outcasts’ who liked the same things she did. She made friends with the other new girl, Coco (after Coco Chanel), and they hit it off immediately.

The name-calling started up almost immediately. And not wanting to ruin her chances at being popular, Coco began to occasionally join in. When Bliss Klein (as in Calvin Klein’s niece) chose Coco as her protégé all bets were off. Nori Mae had lost another close friend to ‘The Dark Side (popularity)’. The physical abuse became rampant. It got to the point Nori Mae was being held down while girls took turns pummeling her and even having girls claw her with their nails to watch her pain. She was beaten, called names, tormented beyond belief. And she became depressed. She began cutting herself after witnessing another outcast girl do it in the school bathroom. She hid it well, never allowing her parents to see it. When she turned fourteen she was coming home with her mother and older sister from a shopping trip when her brother’s best friend (and secretly she knew boyfriend) came running down the street shouting about their father beating Tink half to death. They came in to find Yoshiro standing over a curled up, bloodied, beaten Tink screaming in both Japanese and English. Their mother stopped the fight immediately and sent Yoshiro off to stay somewhere else. The next day while Nori Mae nursed her brother in bed, her mother filed for divorce. Six months later the divorce was finalized.

Shortly after Tink’s fourteenth birthday (when Nori Mae was fifteen) the Indivuality Reform went through, and after failing the Vaccine both were sent to Willowcreek. She has been there shortly over a year now.


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Siblings Arisu Lynne Jackson-Kinomoto (older sister, 17), Tink Jackson-Kinomoto (younger brother, 15, at Willowcreek)
Significant Other Dante, currently not in Willowcreek (on the run)
Children N/A[/color]