Born Feb 8, 2054  in Neo-Tokyo to a pair of MCT hardware engineers, Nao and Fuuki Nagaoka, with a single sibling -- her older brother, Kenzo -- Nagaoka was slated for the typical path through the corporation.Things, of course, were not always as one would like them. Kenzo fell in with the Yamaguchi-gumi, and as many do, after having proved himself, he started slacking. Motoko's parents paid the price of his failure -- for much of her childhood, she would live with them, safe, sound, and with a proverbial knife at her throat if Kenzo failed his superiors again. At age 12, her awakening kicked in, and coupled with the usual teenage hormones, she felt betrayed and rebellious. Betrayed by her parents for allowing her to be taken away, by the corp for not giving a damn. With the discovery of her awakened status by multiple interested parties, control over her tightened. This only prompted her to run away at sixteen. She became a shadowrunner, with all of the highs and lows that entails. Work didn't come often. Not for a sixteen year old kid still figuring out magic. But it made her enough to get by month to month, year to year, even if for the first few years, runs only came once every couple months. At 18, she met her first partner, a decker from the streets of Yakahama. The relationship with her sparked for a few months and fizzled out. At 20, she had her closest call with death. A bullet embedded itself near her spine. She'd been paralyzed waist-down for months until finding a doc willing to do the surgery cheaply enough to get her walking again. It'd be another year until she was able to walk unassisted. She still wears the bullet that'd been extracted, as a token of rememberance. Wanting to get back to running, she met her old fixer. The woman refused to give her any work, citing the failure that left her unable to walk for a year. Motoko burned that bridge, leaving what used to be her fixer unconscious on the ground, and with considerable resources to exact revenge were she ever to come back to Neo-Tokyo. With the last of her funds, she fled the country, first to Korea, then to the UCAS. Now she's here, fucking herself with a series of bad decisions.