Karina Takahashi

Karina Takahashi is a character role-played by Kari.

General Description
Karina Takahashi is a business women who plays a part in multiple different company's around Los Santos

She has an immense passion for business, and those she cares about in life. Originally from Japan, she left her past behind and has been living in America for quite some time in an attempt to start anew.

Personality
Karina's personality is generally upbeat and positive energy, though sometimes scary when you rub her the wrong way. Karina is very loyal to those she does let become her friend. Kari is very skilled at socializing, which has lead to her forming many connections around Los Santos.

Background
Karina Takahashi, born as Takahashi Hikari, a dead name that only her family back home knew until recently- was born to her Canadian mother and Japanese father in Sakai, Fukui Japan, as their one and only child. Growing up, the family visited Canada as often as they could to see her mother’s side of the family, but due to her father's position in the Yakuza, they stayed primarily in Tokyo, Japan. When Karina was still fairly young, her father broke the news to her that her mother was murdered by a rival Yakuza family in an attempt to get Karina’s father. The details of the attack were very limited to Karina and assumingly her father and who was exactly behind the murder of her mother was never found.

Living now only in Japan with her father, her mother who once shielded her from the awful life she was born into was gone, and her father began pushing Karina to take part in the Yakuza ways of life. Although it was his way to make sure Karina was able to take care of herself and defend herself if needed, she never wanted to be a part of this life. As the years went by Karina was taught the ins and outs of guns, and an array of different weapons, but the one thing that caught her attention the most that she excelled at using were the knives. Her natural talent with knives was praised by her father and her Yakuza family, which caused them to push Karina more into helping with any enemies they faced.

As her teenage years went on, Karina secretly planned her escape from the Yakuza. Slowly stashing money on the side by doing small gigs of her own without her fathers knowledge. Not having many close ties to anyone when it was time to sneak away in the dead of the night Karina left without turning back and made her way to start her new life.

So with a new ID that had it written, she was 19, a now legal adult, and a new name she had picked from an old nickname, Kari turned into Karina, as well as her mother's family name, Dawn, Karina left Japan to make her new life. It was rough the first couple of years of Karina's new life, as she didn't really know what to do with her newfound freedom. She had been so used to living under both the strictness of her father and the Yakuza family's ways of living, that she quickly started feeling lost. It didn't help that due to her upbringing she lacked a lot of everyday skills that someone her age would normally have. Making friends was also hard, as she knew she could never tell anyone about her past. The loneliness of her newfound freedom started weighing hard on her, but Karina knew going back to her father was never going to be an option for her, so in hopes to fill the void she was feeling, she found comfort in her knives again. Her confidence with her knives grew the attention of others. This attention may not have been from the best people to gain it from, but Karina soon found a place in the world with her knives and accepted it.

The comfort of this attention didn't last too long though as Karina knew it wasn't for the best, and after a couple of years of continuing this life, Karina decided that she wanted to move on from it and made her next move to America. She came across a city called Los Santos, and fell in love with the island. This time, she decided to keep her love and skills with knives more on a need-to-know basis and lived her life as a regular everyday civilian. She got a job as a mechanic in a small shop called Harmony Repairs and spent her nights hunting and fishing to get by. She made a good life for herself. As time went on, Karina learned she had a good eye for business and by making connections around Los Santos Karina has come to have many jobs, as well now own her own very successful business.