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Identification/Statistics

Name: Yumi Nakamura

Japanese Name: 由美中村

Chinese Name: 中村由美

SEX: Female

Birth: July 12th, 2191

Zodiac: Cancer

Age (Currently 2217): 26

Nationality: Makanian

Origin: Japanese (Mother), Chinese (Father)

Race: Asian

Languages(s): some Japanese / Chinese/Mandarin / very partial English

Religion: N/A

Height: 5'7"

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Occupation (Before AG-Pilot): AG-Queen / Joy Noodles Employee

FX400 IDF: NAKA0712.2191

Team: EG.X

Position: Secondary Pilot

Pilot Rank: Professional

Region Reputation: China

Squad Teammates: Han Lao / Tae Chung-Ki

Team Loyalty: Medium

Allies: (None)

Rivals: Mariana Sinclair (FEISAR)

Medals: Gold: x5, Silver: x3, Bronze: x4

Sponsors: Lunar Parcs, Maglock

Favorite Events: (Unknown)

Favorite Track: Chenghou Project

Leagues Competed: FX400 to FX500

Character traits: Before Joining EG.X: Emotional, Insecure, Doubtful. With EG.X: Determined, Attentive


Skill

Awareness: 8/10

Aggression: 4/10

Reaction/Reflexes: 7/10

Consistency: 6/10

The Nakamura family lived in Japan during the ages of AG-racing, but a girl named Yumi would become born and raised on the island of Makana in a Chinese financial district of Chenghou Project. Yumi's mother, Sayuki Nakamura came from Japan to Makana as a runaway from her parents' home to live with Yumi's father, a Chinese Makanian living in Chenghou Project. Both of them were still as old as college students, about 21yrs old while the mother was 3 years younger. Both had met during the late 2180s, setting off to Makana, unmarried and were still a young couple, having no experience of taking care of a child whatsoever. Unfortunately, they would make a few bad choices, and what followed was Sayuki being pregnant with Yumi. When the she told the father the news, he became deceitful. In shock, the father didn't really care about the her, not even for the new baby only for him to cheat on Sayuki days after her confession. As the two argued with each other, the father would just kick out the mother from his apartment building, leaving her with no money at all and was homeless with her unborn child. Sayuki regretted leaving her country for a guy she didn't really knew, making wrong choices when first meeting him. However, her luck would not run out just yet.

Sayuki had made some loyal friends when she came to the Island. After contacting them again and shocked to hear what had happened, they gave her another chance by renting the cheapest apartment possible, and was made a deal to live in one of the apartment complexes in the same city to get back on her feet and to raise her baby. Six months would passed, and it was when the mother gave birth to a baby girl on July 12th, 2191.

The mother named her baby, Yumi, meaning Beautiful in Japanese. Her mother was barely turning 19yrs old when she first had her, and with the aid of the mother's friends on the island, she and Yumi will have another chance making a new life in the city they were in. As Yumi got older however, her mother never told her about her father. But even while being around public in Chengou, Yumi was always seen as a black sheep. She felt like she was living in the wrong city because she was Japanese, living in a more Chinese environment. She learned Japanese from her mom, but also had to speak Mandarin/Chinese, including some English. Parts of the island COULD speak her native language, but in Chengou it was very rarely, only for the Chinese language to be primarily spoken.

As she went to school in the district, she wasn't too bright with everyone in her classes and was not treated respectably. She had low self-esteem, feeling hopeless for the things she did, and without much self-confidence, some students would make fun of her problems or choices. It was to a point where Yumi didn't want to go back to her school, and just stayed home to avoid her bullies. Witnessing all these problems she had, her mother couldn't bear to see her only little girl feel so afraid of the world. Without a father, it was almost difficult for the mother to take care of her. All her mother could say to her was: "You are strong, Yumi. Someday you will do things that others wouldn't be able to do. You must believe in yourself to achieve great things in your life, and you must not let anyone get in your way of what you believe in. So don't be afraid. Don't listen to the negative things they tell you at school. I believe in you." The conversation was in Japanese; Yumi had tried to keep her mother's advice, but couldn't seem to believe in herself hard enough if she tried.

Through her years as a child, Yumi couldn't seem to amuse herself, but the one thing that did amuse her were AG-race events appearing in her city. Coming from her porch, she could hear the sounds of different race-craft passing by, echoing in her apartment as it lingered into her mind while growing up. One day she wanted to take a closer look at the event, but her mother didn't want her to leave outside her home, only to step out to do some errands. When the mother did leave out of the apartment, Yumi would sneak out and head over to a bridge or walkway above the track, few meters away from her home. Scooting her way between spectators and having a full view of the track below, she could see the racers zoom down the tunnel underneath just after the Stateap Drop. This was still during the FX300 Racing League, but had already entered in the early 23rd century in 2204. Yumi also looked at the billboard screens around the track, even noticing another young little girl dancing in one of them. It was FEISAR's AG-Queen founder, Mariana Sinclair, who was turning famous on the Island and her father racing on the track as a Veteran. Despite Yumi's low self-esteem however, Mariana would inspire her to become an AG-Queen, wanting to be just like her someday. Still, it would take her 3 years to gain that confidence.

In 2207 at the age of 16, Yumi would become an AG-Queen for EG.X, while also hoping to turn around her low self-esteem. What it took to be an AG-Queen was to be a talented dancer to perform on a stage, including a model optionally which was only restricted to the young adult performers. But despite her wish of becoming one, Yumi still felt really shy around spectators, even while performing in groups she had no dancing experience whatsoever. She was completely the opposite of Mariana who was 3 years younger than her, still scared to express herself in front of fans of the AGRL. This becomes a big problem to her as she couldn't get over her anxiety, even while trying again it only made her back out during group performances. It still didn't help that even her peers from other teams would make fun of her, remembering bad memories from her childhood. She became sensitive and overwhelmed by her emotions, only to cry in front of everybody. It was to a point where she just couldn't fit in with the other AG-Queens. Only a few weeks in the sport, she decides to call it quits, finding some other place to at least get a job.

Yumi would find employment at a Joy Noodles Restaurant in her city, deciding to work as a waitress only to pick up trash on the floor and tables, not interacting with anyone. Three years would pass and Yumi would still keep her job, but she still felt miserable only to isolate herself from the world around her.

Going back to school however, it was only for homeschooling, and the only time she ever left her home was only for her job. Whatever money she earned, she would spend it on herself, some of which was noticeable like having her lip/nose pierced. While working after hours one day, one customer would come by to have a bowl of noodles before the restaurant closed. It was a young Chinese Pilot from EG.X, sitting down and waiting for his bowl while Yumi goes up to serve him. Looking at him, she notices the components and chords connected to his suit to the back of his neck and right ear, including two open ports that seem to connect to something else. She tried not to stare, realizing he was a cyborg. But the pilot would then look at her back, knowing who she was, being the shyest AG-Queen he had ever seen on his team. The 20yr old pilot just kept staring at her, only to make a compliment, getting her attention. He spoke to her in Chinese as she understood what he said and began talking to him in that language. As she came to sit down with him he began asking questions to Yumi like why she had left in the first place. She then explains her very low self-esteem to him, telling how her life was and the difficulties she had publicly when she was an AG-Queen. The pilot would then say he recognized her back then, only to compliment her again despite her flaws. The conversation would go on for half an hour only to stop when the Pilot's bowl was empty. After her talk, the Pilot could only give her advice, that exact same advice her mother had told her as a child. Yumi would thank him, but as he was about to leave out the front door, Yumi quickly stops him to wonder who he was and his name. The pilot then introduces himself, saying his name was Han Lao, walking out the door only to promise he'll be back to see her again. Yumi was surprised to hear the same advice from another person, but while thinking about it and thinking about the pilot, she started to develop a crush on Lao, despite his cybernetic components. He was possibly the only person in her life that was ever nice to her, having her affection. Yumi felt like she wanted to start all over, only to meet Lao again, growing some confidence.

As Lao had promised her, Yumi kept seeing him again back at the restaurant, continuing to talk to him and was growing more into liking him. But right away after a couple of weeks, Han would leave Chenghou Project along with his team, but not after Yumi giving him one last hug goodbye. Despite being a cyborg, Han also showed affection towards her, having Yumi to feel better about herself. She already knew he was a pilot for EG.X, now thinking of being an AG-Queen again to cheer him on. She quits her job hoping to go back into the AGRL. However, as she went back home to her mother to tell her she wanted to become an AG-Queen again, her mother seemed to have lost hope in her after Yumi had left 3 years ago. In a sense, Yumi thought her mother would always believe in her, but instead gave up on her not knowing what to do for her daughter, thinking she will quit herself again. But Yumi was sure that she will not quit or be afraid, explaining about a guy she had been seeing at her job. Her mother would then freeze for a second, remembering when she met Yumi's father.

Yumi continued explaining in Japanese: "He's very sweet and he believes that I can become an AG-Queen again."

Her Mother disagreed: "I don't ever want you to meet this boy again."

Yumi got confused: "Why can't I?"

Her mother thought it was time to tell who her father was. She was scared that the same thing will happen to Yumi thinking the same type of situation will happened to her also. She was just like Yumi once, also very low self-esteem until she met a guy saying that he believed in her too. After weeks with her father, it was then when it happened, and how she had Yumi in the first place. It was then realizing her Father didn't really cared about her, treating her like an object and just threw her out of his apartment. Her mother didn't want to take any chances and decides to leave her at home. Yumi got upset, saying she already quit her job, but her mother got over-protective, saying she didn't want her to date anyone anymore or go back to being an AG-Queen, never to leave the building again.

Yumi was now locked in her apartment; her mother had given up on her, in no way that she'll achieve in life only to shelter her. However, Yumi was now determined, and didn't believe that Lao would do such a thing to her. She would still have amounts of money from her job and plans to sneak out of her apartment in the middle of the night. Before running away though, she writes a note to her mother, telling that she was going back and felt really confident that she will stay this time only to achieve her life goals and doing what her mother had told her in the past. She ends the note saying that she loves her mother very much, leaving it on her mother's bedroom table. Yumi took the fire escape, and was now gone.

Yumi would restart again back in Vineta A, for sure to make a comeback as an AG-Queen. Accepting herself back with EG.X, she then meets up again with Han Lao, who already was a professional pilot for the FX400 League. Han motivated Yumi and was gladly starting races for him on the starting line. She then moves herself in training for AG-Queen Dancing, working herself for months and dancing with groups until she made the most unlikely decision of going on stage by herself sometime later. She proved she could dance, but now she must face her biggest difficulty to do a lone performance, willing to do it. Her heart never beaded so fast in her life, almost losing her breath as she stood on the stage. She didn't want to look at the crowd, only to close her eyes. Without thinking of anything negative or possibly messing up in front of tens of thousands of people, all she wanted to think about was Lao, until eventually her song started playing, dedicated to him.

Her first solo performance would turn out to be amazing to AG-Fans as a big applause roared around the stage as she opened her eyes to see many clapping hands. Sure enough, she receives her first sponsor from Lunar Parcs Incorporated and received a fair amount of earnings for her performances later on, becoming a star AG-Queen. In 2210, now at age 19, Yumi had a curiosity of EG.X's AG-racecraft, talking to Lao about his ports in back of his neck. While some things were classified, Lao explains to her anyway saying that he himself was the control for his craft, that EG.X was perfecting neural bonding technology and that he was the breakthrough of their research, being highly intelligent and strong minded. Yumi was kind of amazed as Lao continued until talking about their team's helmets having the neural bond hardware, even saying that the most novice pilots could at least pilot craft professionally while wearing it. Yumi then wondered if she could easily pilot a craft while wearing the helmet, even asking Lao for a possible free run on one of the tracks. However, Lao couldn't let her do that; the team of EG.X was exclusive when it came to piloting their craft, let alone recruiting. Only the best pilots can pilot their finest race-craft, and Yumi was completely inexperienced. Somehow Yumi would convince him to at least try it out once or more, finding a way to bring it out without EG.X crews from noticing one day. For the first time, she would sit in the cockpit of one of the craft but began to feel nervous again. Perhaps she went abit too far on her self-esteem after her progress as an AG-Queen, now pretty much asking for a career as an AG-Pilot.

Behind EG.X's lines, Lao himself would teach Yumi on certain tracks they've visited, sometimes going to a course by themselves having full privacy to practice on a certain track in Makana, mostly Vineta K. While Piloting Lao's EG-X's racecraft wearing their helmets, Yumi felt a strange bond to it, almost feeling like she was connected to the racecraft. Lao's helmet was like a wireless link to the craft reading her mind. On a practice run, she had an idea of how to control the racecraft, almost like she was thinking of what to do on a certain part of the track. It was fact that EG-X had installed a direct neural bond computer to their craft to the pilot's helmet, reading the pilot's brain waves to telepathically control their race-craft. However, the mind control Helmet was just a partial replacement to what EG.X China was working on with the mind control technology, only for the helmet to give a weak signal from a pilot's mind to a racecraft.

Yumi got a first taste of piloting the team's craft and continued to train herself with Lao. She slowly but surely was able to pilot an AG-race-craft on her own, flying for a few weeks until the team had caught them using the craft without permission. Hua Chang, the team's Chinese Principal of EG.X was also there with his people at the time as they caught his experimental pilot, Lao looking over the track. They see his craft being flown on the track, wondering who was using it and asking for him/her to stop. All Lao could say that it was his girlfriend piloting his craft, having no pilot experience whatsoever. Chang was almost furious that his craft was being flown by someone inexperience nor from EG.X, until he realized how clean her flying was. Lao would then say that the helmet was at least helping her out, only for Chang to see that even an individual with lack of pilot skills can race with the NBS. He immediately wanted her to stop and to bring back the craft, only to give her a possible opportunity. However, this meant traveling west to mainland China to their main training facility if she wanted to race with them. Yumi didn't know what to say, only for Lao to recommend it to her, believing she could excel with them. She would agree to train with them, having nowhere else to go after running away from home anyway.

In 2212 currently living in China, her skills would become worthy to EG.X. 1 and half years of training including with Lao, she now received confirmation from the team and becomes an official pilot for the late FX400 Racing League. However, there was some distinction between Yumi and most of the Chinese pilots, including the female pilots from her row. She felt uncomfortable by how the pilots stared at her as her badges showed not only Makana, but also Japan. The Chinese don't show appreciation to the only Japanese pilot in the row, including some of EG.X's Korean pilots. Almost going back to her ways, Yumi tries to ignore the pilots' discrimination. By now, she was partnered up with Lao which became a relief to her, being much more comfortable with him and were possibly the only teammates that were a couple on the team. While her relationship grew with him, the opposite goes towards her partner's backup pilot Tae Chung-Ki of a Neo North Korean radical group. He would show extreme prejudice towards her due to her origin nationality of Japan, and unlike Lao, he was more emotionless and more augmented with a cybernetic eye. Already starting semi-professional, Yumi began racing with Rapier class pilots in current race events back in Makana. Teams like Qirex and Piranha would sometimes give her a run for her money, but that didn't stop her or her esteem to be able to confront them, especially from younger elite pilots like Mariana Sinclair.

When it came to racing in her home city on Chengou Project, she sometimes had a feeling that her mother was watching her overhead of the tunnel. It's been more than 3 years since she had seen her mother, and already was starting to feel homesick. Knowing that her mother may be upset at her for running away, she still went back to her old home during a raceday, knocking on her door to her apartment. When her mother opened the door, she was just glad and emotional to see her daughter come back home, seeing a teenage girl turned into a fully developed young woman. Her mother deeply apologized for not believing in her, realizing how confident her only daughter had turned out to be and how happy she was. However, Yumi couldn't stay for too long and must head back to race. She still says goodbye to her mother once again, but she promised to come back whenever the League came back to her city.

In 2215, age 24, Yumi was now heading for the FX500 Racing league, now piloting EG.X's exclusive Fury model race craft, the FG.X. The next step now takes her even faster, entering in Phantom class tournaments with the elite pilots of the FX500. Yumi would now show that she's not what she use to be and will not hesitate to the much stronger pilots out there including her own team, showing that she has what it takes to be a confident pilot. With lead pilot, Han Lao on her side, their team was almost unstoppable in any team races, most of the time winning gold in standard team tournaments. However, there was something about her that was different as she was never really herself when interviewed by fans. As EG.X still remained classified to the public, there were rumors spread that the company had finally took control of her, a victim to neural brain implants as she was now against her own free will and was permanently in control of her craft illegally. But that was again claimed a rumor. Still, the process of neural implants was true in that matter as Yumi was now seen with imports in the back of her neck since late 2212, and was now put with her group of pilots that were competing with cybernetic components including Lao. She would also stop being an AG-Queen after the process, becoming more secretive. Yumi did act different in personality; she was never emotional or very low self-esteem like before, as if they were removed from her brain entirely. The new exclusive craft for the cyber pilots had no stick or pedals as everything was now complete mind control, yet it still caused concerns to the race commission, including regulations. All in all, it took Yumi a long way and a lot of courage to bring herself this far of becoming the best of the best female AG-pilots in the current AG-League. Like her mother had once said, even if it means becoming a cyborg for a racing team in the FX500 racing league.

In current 2217, Yumi continues to race for EG.X only it was now permanent with her new components. Most pilots from EG.X who didn't volunteer for the Neural Bonding Program were still able to transfer teams, yet the program was still controversial to the race commission controlled by the Belmondo Foundation. Meanwhile, Qirex and their allied teams of the conglomerate including EG.X were fighting for the commission, going to war in the league with Auricom and their allies supporting the Foundation. However in 2218, one infamous team would make a return to the racing league, attacking every team in general.

Overall, though earning elite rank from EG.X in 2217, Yumi had only earned 12 medals in her 6 years of racing. (5G/3S/4B) She hopes to earn more in future events.