Momoko 'Mo' Ishikawa

Name: Momoko Renade Ishikawa

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Appearance:
Momoko Ishikawa is typical for a japanese-filipino mixed child. Short, tan, and strangely enough, curly hair. She stands at the short stature of five feet and two inches, making her way shorter than her male cohorts. She has a slightly too-round face and obsessively sculpted, expressive eyebrows that basically scream her emotions. Her lips are thin and usually pursed (she does that when thinking, if not sticking her tongue out) and eyes are a bright brown color, easily catching the light on a sunny day. Her figure is skinny and flat, not a lot to it really, but some soccer muscles do show in the right setting underneath tan skin. Mo's hair is a curly dark brown, though she usually highlights some colors to make it 'better' in her opinion. Once in a while, a blonde section creeps in, but only when she's feeling extra rowdy. Her parents do not condone of the hair, nor her wardrobe.

Mo’s ‘style’ per se, is a mixture of really interesting outfit combinations. Some are normal for a 19 year old singer, and some are just plain...weird. She loves to shop at the thrift store, and has a habit of ‘doctoring’ her discounted clothes to fit her unique style. She can go from wearing ripped skinny jeans and a heavy bomber jacket to 1940’s business casual within the same day. She tends to stay away from most warm colors, preferring the looks of the blues, greens, and purples against her skin-tone. Her hair is always styled, and though she may not act like it, Mo is very controlling about how she looks, and goes into more detail than she should. Mo might not pull off every outfit, but you usually can say you’ve never seen ‘that’ before when seeing her designs. When alone, it’s a pair of sweats and loose fitting 1990’s work-out gear, complete with falling off of the shoulder hot pink shirt. One thing's for sure, this girl carries herself well in spite of what she wears.


Personality: Mo (Or Momo, but only her family and her closest friend calls her that) is the type of girl to be very... rambunctious. If you meet her on a good day, maybe you won't even get cussed out! Momoko is a very honest about her feelings when it suits her (and mostly while insulting others), but also very guarded about emotions that someone could use against her, or might have someone sense that she is vulnerable or weak. Mo is very generous and giving, but she doesn't make a big deal out of it. Modesty over Marveling, she always said. She is always one to speak her mind and stand by her decisions, even if they are made for reasons she doesn’t remember. Momoko stays true to her word, and will be there when a friend needs her.

On the flip side, she's very guarded about her own emotions, and has a hard time articulating why she feels a certain way. She is also the type of person to bottle things up until she explodes, often leading a trail of disaster in her wake during the whole spectacle. She is very violent as well, feeling she was always the type of person to settle things with her fists before her words. Momoko is very determined and passionate about whatever she wants to do at this point in her life, and she can become quite obsessively work-oriented if it would bring her happiness.

That being said, she does have some time for a social life. Unfortunately, it tends to involve drinking (underage), spending time with strangers and playing music. She's got quite the singing voice, and it tends to get her into all sorts of shenanigans when she's drunk. Momoko is a very social person actually, and if you can get past how she digs into your life and never forgets any detail about you, you've got a life-long friend... that is until you wrong her. Mo might have a short temper and a bit of a grudge holding habit. She’s also deathly allergic to hazelnuts, has a strong dislike of birds, and is claustrophobic. Not that she’d let you know, or anything like that.

History: Momoko Ishikawa didn’t have the happiest home life. Her filipino mother was a college exchange student, prestigious in her grades but not her social life. Her father? A japanese sushi chef who worked at the college. She was pregnant within a month, and after giving birth to the child, promptly left her with her college-aged father, a tanner version of himself with curly hair. Of course he dropped out, how could he tell his parents about her? It was unheard of! He moved from the east coast to Chicago with his daughter to the more ‘minority’ setting, and tried to continue his job as a chef in several local asian cuisine restaurants during her young years. Often he was the ‘bad’ parent, but he was the only parent Mo had.

Momoko grew up in a mixture of her alcoholic dad, her dyslexia in school and the way people viewed her because she was asian. It was weird, seeing other girls with their mothers, while she never knew hers. Momoko grew up detached from the world, and not to mention her temper causing fights in her neighborhood. As she got older, she figured she could be more responsible, but her father, after finally opening up his own restaurant in an old foreclosed building, began a spree of gambling on everything. Momoko tried to work on the finances, and even took on part time jobs besides working for her father to help pay for the money he was gambling away though.

When it became too much for her, trying to be the parent her father was supposed to be, she just...quit. She graduated high school...barely... and started living at a friend’s house while her father was being persecuted for fraud. Turns out he did more with the money than she knew of, and was carted off to jail. Because she was old enough by the government to live on her own, she refused to move in with her grandmother and instead is crashing at a friend’s house until she can get a place of her own. She’ll have panic attacks as well, but the alcohol she acquired from their dirty old home before it foreclosed seemed to be helping with that. Though she never got into drugs, she did acquire a strong stomach for any type of drink, and it shows, though Momoko drunk is quite a sight to see sometimes. She visits her father sometimes, but at the moment she’s just trying to do a couple online classes with the laptop from her grandmother as a graduation present and to really take off with her music. It seemed to be the only escape growing up, and now that she has a guitar to teach herself, Mo really wants to make it big and show the world that she really does matter.
Sample RP:

Spoiler:

I like Mo so far. :3

Accepted.