Kiku Ishimoto

Kiku Ishimoto was a character role-played by JustKiku.

"'it is I, the Kiku Ishimoto, the probably worst street bike racer in the entire universe, I can drift backwards, I like cats and I fought a bear, with nothing besides the top half of a hamburger bun.'"

Background Information
Kiku Ishimoto was an avid car and bike racer, working at the Overboost Drift School and Hayes Autos, both owned by her good friend Shane Powers. Kiku was an expert Drifter, able to even drift backwards, she owned an Elegy with a drift kit that she later sold.

Before coming to Los Santos, she was a part of a Russian mob selling drugs and then firearms. The people that her group sold for gave a tip off to the cops, making the buyers a group of UC cops and causing a shoot out. Kiku was detained, but managed to get out and ran away, jumped on a boat and came to Los Santos. She managed to break the chain of the cuffs while on the boat, getting the cuffs themselves off while in LS.

Due to her escape, she has multiple warrants from the Russian Government for illegal sales of firearms

Personality
Kiku was very much full send or no send.

When doing crime, she would use temp dye on her hair to change it to Black, when not doing crime her hair was usually dyed white.

Firefly
Racing in the Bike Scene for a while, Kiku made a lot of friends amongst the regulars such as Cassie Miller, Yuri Young, Sam Flynn, Scarlett Skye, Kelly Dean, Clarke Bishop and Suki Wright. She hung out with them not only at races but other times doing a Boost or just talking where ever they might be.

On the 4th of October, Kiku was invited to help with the initiation of Cassie Miller into Firefly by Scarlett Skye, the initiation being Cassie had to avoid the other bikers for 5 minutes. During this, Kiku provided excellent callouts and great teamwork, something Scarlett took notice of. At the end, Scarlett expressed her interest for Kiku to be a part of Firefly in the future, if she should so wish. At the time, Kiku was more interested in getting into Yokai as cars were more her thing, but appreciated the offer.

After being approached by Jordan Walker of Harmony with a potential offer of joining Vendetta and talking with Sam Flynn about Firefly, she decided upon joining Firefly. On the 17th of October, she made her interest known to Scarlett and joined Firefly as an associate.

On the 22nd of October, Kiku had her Firefly Initiation. Her goal to be to avoid the other members which consisted of Scarlett 'Ph0enix' Skye and Clarke 'Boden' Bishop, Sam 'Cob4lt' Flynn, Sai 'Psych0' Kou, Kelly 'Dingo' Dean and Jordan 'Trafficker' Elmore for 5 minutes. It was mentioned if the cops chase, that Kiku had to lose them, too. Proving herself to be adept at bike racing, she lost them within 8 minutes on her first attempt. In a 2nd attempt, the cops ended up joining the chase, ending up with Kiku caught and processed, sent to Bolingbroke. Despite this, Kiku officially joined Firefly as a member on the 22nd, October.

Joining Firefly strengthened her friendship with the group, with them becoming her family. She got close to a few members, mainly Sam Flynn. Ride or Die for the group and the OGs, down for any cause they had.

Following her part in the kidnapping of Clarke, being shot by Cassie and tortured by Psych0, the following events happened, there's more to be filled in here, but for now this is so it doesn't look weird that she went from family > death

On the 29th of November, Kiku had a meeting with Scarlett Skye at the observatory, talking about what she had done to Clarke, to Scarlett, how her loose lips were getting people hurt. Scarlett said she wouldn't kill her, not then, that she could live out the rest of her days knowing she's safe, until Scarlett catches up to her, that maybe Kiku can change things by the time Scarlett put a bullet in her. Kiku understood and felt she deserved what was coming for her, After this meeting, Kiku understood she was no longer a part of Firefly.

On the 30th of November, Kiku was picked up from the Overboost Drift School by Scarlett Skye and Suki Wright, who drove her to a train track bridge by Sandy Shores/Paleto area. It was here that Clarke, Suki, Scarlett said their final goodbyes to Kiku, before Scarlett shot her twice in the head, permanently killing her.

Clarke Bishop, the Mob, P.B
On the 3rd of February, 2022, Kiku, addressed as 'Ms. Zoteeva' received a dossier from a P.B giving her a proposition. He goes on to say that he knows Kiku is wanted by many agencies and it would be a shame if they were informed about her whereabouts, to keep her life a secret, he tasks her with finding a lost Little Bird, going by the name of Clarke Bishop.

He knows that she is located in the same area as Kiku, which is how they found her, he wants information on Clarke provided to him. If Kiku is able to get close and gather this information for him, in return he will not tell the agencies of her whereabouts and if she did an outstanding job, even clear her warrants and provide her with a way home.

Kiku finds Clarke through the bike racing scene and gets close to her, joining Firefly in the process, whilst all the time providing information to P.B while Clarke has no idea that she is. However, Firefly turns into a second family for Kiku, but she has no choice and continues to provide to P.B for her family back in Russia.

November 5th, 2022
5th of November, 2022, Kiku assists P.B who had flown to Los Santos. They meet Clarke at the Paleto Bay Pier, where Kiku asks if Clarke has any weapons and takes her shank. After Clarke and Petros have a talk, all 3 get into the car and Kiku drives them down to the Russian Docks, the ride being quiet with Kiku not speaking.

They take Clarke aboard a ship, a few words are exchanged between Petros and Clarke before she is knocked unconscious by Kiku. Kiku stays behind in Los Santos while the ship departs for Russia. Later in the day and the following day, Scarlett informs Kiku and other members of Firefly of Clarkes disappearance, Kiku maintains the façade that she isn't involved.

While doing Dodo with Sam and Scarlett, the three run into Dingo possibly being arrested for sale of drugs by Aziz, Gunner and Ripley. Kiku, being a jokester shouts out "Did you guys find my weed stash in the dumpster again?", asked to repeat by Gunner and then who's it is, she replies "mine". Dingo is let off free and Kiku is arrested for spontaneous utterance, learning there's actually weed in there she laughs it off.

The troopers cut her a deal, they let her walk if she phones someone and makes a prank call that she's getting a Held Until Trial and raided, Kiku decides upon calling Scarlett, making the claim that the weed they found is leaked to some big investigation and they plan on raiding her, she goes on to say that she has a gun given to her by Yaeger that is extremely hot, then hangs up the phone. A few moments later a gunshot can be heard and Scarlett is brought down into the prison cells, having just shot Dingo believing the prank, because he didn't own up to the weed.

Kiku is shocked, but also amazed that Scarlett would do something like that for her, willing to kill someone on her behalf. With Scarlett going to be sent to Bolingbroke, Kiku assaults the troopers to get herself sent up, with them arriving during a riot happening. Scarlett and Kiku talk, they talk about Candice and relationships, where Kiku reveals she hasn't been in one since Russia, where she believed them to be her soulmate, who had passed away. She slept with Candice to see if she would feel anything, it was fun, but she felt like she cheated on her last partner. She believes that her partner would want her to move on, which is why she tried. She mentions that Tidal and Ryder both said they were interested in her and she wasn't, however she feels Cobalt is interested and that she can't keep telling people no, when in reality she doesn't know.

She briefly mentions to Scarlett that she and her old partner were both parts of a fairly large Family back in Russia, selling stuff for them and it didn't go well, which is how she ended up in Los Santos.

November 7th, 2022
7th of November, 2022, Cobalt and Kiku, believing Scarlett is in Russia, attempt to hotwire a plane at Los Santos International to go themselves when Scarlett called up Kiku. Scarlett was upset that they intended to follow, as she believes it would likely be a one way trip for herself and any others, she drives to meet them at LSIA.

Kiku provides information to Scarlett in their talk, such as a road out of the area connecting most places in Russia. Scarlett mentions that she can't tell them everything. Kiku mentions simply, nobody knows everything, that they all live complicated lives full of pain and misery, that this is her 2nd family and she has a lot of mistrust and doubts, she lost her first family before clinging to this one and passed up many opportunities. Following this she asks Cobalt to step away so she can speak to Scarlett alone,

She goes on to say there's no excuse, no point beating around the bush, she had one shot of getting her past to go away, that the person Clarke mentioned they couldn’t trust,  is her. She reveals that if she didn't find Clarke, P.B would tell the Russian Mafia as well as the Russian Government where she is, as well as her family. That is why she wanted to go with Cobalt to Russia, to make things right as she didn't realize how close Clarke and Scarlett were. After everything Scarlett did for her, it's all she could think of to make things right. When questioned by Scarlett, she says all she saw was one chance to not be hiding her whole life, however after how close Clarke and Scarlett were and all they were willing to do for her, she regrets it, that if Scarlett pulled out her gun and shot her - she would understand.

After the revelation, Scarlett angrily states that she doesn't want Kiku to go to Russia, that she's lucky to not be on the ground, lucky that it's raining and she's not burning. Kiku is surprised that she didn't get shot, but Scarlett mentions that Cobalt is the only reason she is alive, but if she does try to get on that plane, or Scarlett comes back without Clarke, she would hunt Kiku down to ends of the earth. Kiku offers her help, as she knows the lands, she sends a copy of the dossier she received to Scarlett and mentions her going there with no expectation of coming back, that even if she was just used as a stepping stone she would have no regrets, however Scarlett turns her offer down.

Scarlett leaves and Cobalt asks why she isn't going. Kiku reveals to him that she is the rat, the one that was watching Clarke. She explains to him the same things she explained to Scarlett, that P.B, Clarkes Grandfather has huge connections, was looking for Clarke and offered to get the Mafia and Government to stop looking for Kiku. Cobalt mentions he trusted her with everything, to which she retorts "isn't that the point?". She isn't proud of her history, her past, but just because she's stupid doesn't mean her family needs to run and hide.

When asked if she's just getting closer to Cobalt to get a better shot at Clarke, she replies with "Good question, very good question, because I don't know the answer". At first she was just watching over, to move on, to be able to get her life easier. But not anymore, even without the warrants, no more running, her pain isn't gone, just passed on. She didn't get close to Cobalt to get closer to Clarke, it's what she told herself at first, but there are genuine friends and connections. Knowing she won't be going, she gives Cobalt the keys to her bike and says he best go and get ready.

November 8th, 9th, 2022
On the 8th of November, a day after Scarlett and Cobalt left for Russia, Kiku comes clean to Cassie about how she spied on Clarke and caused her to be kidnapped and taken to Russia, how she did it for her family. Later, Kiku meets Cassie at the Batcave, a spot where Firefly meet up. Kiku apologises, that she isn't asking for sympathy, it was just a means of survival. She mentions she was at Bike Racing to keep an eye on Clarke, and that she did her best to stay quiet but other people started approaching and talking to her, wanting to be her friend, then she joined Firefly. Cassie wished that it had stayed at just friends, that she didn't need to join to give information. Kiku attempts to get Cassie to understand her perspective, that she didn't know Clarke, a random person for her family was something she couldn't pass up. Cassie, upset that 3 members of the only family she has left could be dead because of her actions, that she also lost Kiku, shoots her, putting Kiku into critical condition and the ICU.

On the 9th of November, Kiku received a call from Sai Kou, an OG of Firefly and her friend, he asked her to meet him at the Oil Fields. Unbeknownst to her, Scarlett had given him her dossier before she left and given him control of the situation while she's gone. Kiku ended up at the slaughterhouse in Cypress Flats, where Psych0 tortured her, cutting out her tongue and crushing it, crushing her hands leaving her with no way to snitch, to alert the Russians that more people had gone over. While being questioned by police, she didn't give up who had done it, only telling Candice off the record that it was someone she knew.

November 23rd, 2022
On November 23rd, Kiku notices a Double T with a familiar red paint like the one Scarlett Skye owns at the Vinewood Bennys. In response she sends Scarlett a text, believing she's back in the city, glad that she made it back and hoping that everyone is okay.

Kiku receives a text from Clarke, asking to meet her. She replies that she is free whenever and is at the Mirror Park Gas Station, Clarke picks her up in Scarletts S2000 and drives to the Russian Docks aboard a ship, lacking a tongue Kiku communicates by writing down notes and using gestures. Clarke questions her as to why she did it, Kiku reveals that she did it to be free of the Mafia and Government, but it never happened. She is informed that the extorting won't be an issue anymore, and neither will her warrants, as P.B and Clarke had a little 'conversation' and neither have to worry about P.B anymore.

Clarke mentions she's unsure what to do with Kiku, that she pushed Suki off the Maze Bank Tower as she believed her to be the informant, and Suki ended up in a wheelchair. Kiku returns the shank that she took off Clarke on November the 5th, Clarke holds it up against her neck and lightly scratches her neck, causing Kiku to make a muffled noise. She then brushes it down her arm, saying that she is an angry person, but she believes people can overcome their past. She goes on to say part of her wants to kill Kiku, the other part thinks she just deserves a little hurting, before knocking her down with a hammer. Clarke plants a boot on her throat and says "Remember Kiku, you live because I let you. Hope we can put this beyond us. I hope you get a tongue so you can speak again."