Ochiba Nao
Financier of Kitakai
InSpector 2nd-class of the Syndicate
Description
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 120 lb.
Ethnicity: East Asian
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long simple black
Clothing: Gray or white business formal
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: A highly professional, all-business, utterly beautiful, and top-of-her-game Japanese woman of pure will and confidence
Supernatural Qualities: Though clearly she excels at her role, she seems content to let her inscrutable demeanor blend her into the background
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 5 (stylish); Style 4 (high fashion); Cloaking 2; Confidence; Icy
“This venture of yours will be costly to us all.”
History
Date of Birth: July 6th, 1978
Home: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Family: Ochiba Kafu and Ome (parents), Toichi (older brother)
Empowerment: Preordainment (family urban, upper middle class involved in finance, while she was always a bright student overshadowed by her brother's expected legacy; however, the 1990s Recession in Japan wiped out much of her family's wealth; she vowed to never let it happen to her; her Empowerment came in her first job after school when she worked as a hostess at a restaurant and her boss tried to cheat her out of her wages and her precise analysis of his fraud got her her money, ruined him, and impelled her college career), 1998
Mentor: Hata Zenko
The Test: Trial by Influence (mind now keenly aware, she applied her brilliance to her tax filing, which attracted "the government", recruiting her with a mild blackmail threat into the Syndicate; but her intellect soon spoke for itself and she excelled despite her family's humbled background, and she came to embrace Zaibatsu ideology anyway)
Comrades: Rai Nakada, Unari Michi
Key Event #1: Treachery (worked in the Syndicate initially as a low-level accountant/bureaucrat manager in Osaka; she improved her station through waste-cutting measures and cunning venture capital investments, which undercut her primary patron and manager, Hata-san)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (having proved her money skills, the Zaibatsu reassigned her abroad to the Kitakai Initiative to help fund the overall effort but also exploit the opportunity)
Key Event #3: Treachery (her time in Little Asia enabled her to sponsor several cutting-edge, early app developers in the area, poaching these Sleepers from Virtual Adept traitors and other Reality Deviants)
Transition: Victory (Nao eventually became known as the go-to "money girl" not just for the Kitakai but the entire Symposium)
Tomi-to-Zaisei Corner Office (Laboratory)
Location: Little Asia, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Structure: Apartment
Stock: Bugproof walls, beautiful and bulletproof picture windows, secure computer systems
Traits: Cloaking 2
Significant Other
Name: Unari Michi, 2004
Nature: Erotic
Unari
Weakness
Dollars & Sense
Nao is all about the Almighty Dollar (or Yen, whichever). She believes in the Union's mission but has disconnected herself from exigent concerns, especially those of the Masses (and who her greed often hurts).
Likelihood of Corruption
Average.
Though in the business of legalized vice, the Symposium keeps an eye on its agents and will subject her to reconditioning if she begins to show signs of corruption or deviance.
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