Tsuki Murakami (Oppaimanko) is a character played by laserwolf.
Background Information[]
Tsuki is a young Japanese girl born and raised in Osaka, Japan. While she was the daughter of Akinori and Hikari Murakami, it was her grandfather Keiichi she idolized. Keiichi was a man's man: strong features, confident, handy with tools, and a fine traditional Japanese blacksmith. He taught her the meanings of Loyalty, Trust, and Honor. He also was a fierce follower of American boxing, and during summers when Tsuki would visit, he'd teach her knowing life on the streets of Osaka can be rough. growing up in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world has proven indicative to her calm demeanor under stressful situations.
After awhile it began to be too much. under increasing pressure to marry, her family's refusal to let her ride motorcycles, her boring and un-manly boyfriend, staying out late in increasingly rough areas, she reached a breaking point when her grandfather suddenly died from lung cancer.
Tsuki took the pain and frustration out on everyone: she shunned her strict parents and her boring boyfriend (who was a copy machine repairman), and moved to Los Santos. Now unsuppressed and free, She can now indulge in the activites that were highly taboo for her before moving. Not a whole lot of finer detail is clear about her past at the moment - during conversations she often references hints at a life filled with back-alley illegal gambling halls mostly likely ran by Yakuza, the gang culture reference of cutting off tips of fingers for apology or discipline, and her uncanny ability to find, lockpick, and ride the wheels of nearly any motorcycle she comes across.
Becoming Mortelle[]
Weeks had gone by in LS, and Tsuki was making a meager living doing deliveries and helping clean up the city's trash with sanitation runs; which she early on was exclusively providing materials for Hutch Hutcherson. After aquiring a bat from HOA, she happened upon an altercation between a man and and a woman. they raised voices, and the man began hitting the woman. This instantly made Tsuki's blood boil: she took out her barbwire-wrapped baseball bat and pummeled the man mercilessly. By this time bystanders had gathered around, and someone had asked Tsuki if "she was in Mortelle". She wasn't but this sparked a curiosity. while buying lockpicks at Hayes Auto Body Repairs, Tsuki mentioned the incident to Roman Shacks, who knew the girls in the gang, and called Cara Lynn. They came and picked Tsuki up, discussed city goals, how things have been, what they are about, what they expect. After meeting most of the gang and it's leader, Cindy Tipton, she knew this was a place she could grow, and form her own new family that lives as wild as she wanted to.
Tsuki is currently a hangaround, working hard to support her fellow members and leadership. She hopes to become a member, however long that takes, because she has an immense respect for Cindy: they gave her a chance, helped her begin making better money, and found strong friendships within the gang, Often swiftly following orders and risking everything for the gang, even retrieving OG's motorcycle right from under officers on-scene. With several prison sentences already under her belt, she's rapidly adapting to be the wild and free version of herself most people dream about becoming.
Mortelle disbanding, leaving for Japan[]
Leading up to the Missile crisis that forced city evacuation, the Mortelle leadership decided to abandon the pink cage and dissolve the Mortelle group. Cindy has Mai and Sebrina assemble in 'The Office' (a difficult to reach balcony that overlooks the Pink Cage) for a meeting. Cindy is downtrodden while examining the losses, questioning why Mortelle was continuing to bleed members and one as ingrained as Zia. Having thought previous losses to be a result of her harsh leadership, Mai's more open leadership style not altering this trajectory leaves Cindy questioning what changes they could even make at this point to turn the gang around. The topic of the meeting turns to the question of disbanding.
Being the one to push the possibility into the discussion, Cindy quite obviously wants to disband but avoids outright saying it's her position, instead placing it in the hands of Mai and Sebrina, Mai openly wants to continue Mortelle and keep trying but being empathetic to Cindy's feelings and deferential to Cindy's position as leader and creator of Mortelle follows Cindy's position of putting the decision in other's hands. Sebrina is left holding the decision and ultimately makes the decision to disband (a decision made easier by her own plans to leave Mortelle that she had not shared with Cindy or Mai). With Sebrina's deciding vote, Cindy affirms Mortelle's disbanding.
Depressed and without direction, Tsuki left Los Santos to return to Japan and find purpose again. She spent a lot of time with old friends and got more into cars and motorcycles, building a Elegy Classic to run the backroads and highways of Osaka. After being in a gang, she would now occasionally do jobs for various organized crime groups, but was unhappy - traditionally, Japanese Yakuza never allow a woman into their ranks officially, so yet again she began feeling like an outsider.
Tsuki returning to Los Santos - removing alias last name[]
As the dust settled and people returned to Los Santos, Tsuki caught news of this back in Japan. Selling her belongings and her Elegy, she returned to a changed Los Santos that was full of opportunity. Finally feeling confident and safer, she finally reveals Oppaimanko was an alias and not her real last name - but that it was Murakami. She now explores the city, searching for a new group to work with and grow trust and honor with once again.
Trivia[]
• Tsuki often intermixes Japanese with her English; while usually thinking of the best way to say something.
• she has an absolute weakness for sweets and candy; and will often stop by UwU Café just for desserts.
• Cindy Tipton has rekindled her infatuation with gambling, resulting in Tsuki sometimes spending way too much at the Casino.
• Tsuki also has grown a trusting relationship with Santiago Madrid, Cindy's boyfriend and Vagos member, allowing the girls to sell drugs on their block.