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Name: Kimberly Arakaki
Nationality: Canadian-Japanese
Age: 17 (her birthday is on the 23rd of May /o/)
Rank: D
Team: nope forever alone
Tuner: nope also forever alone

Road/Regalia:
[nUP]

Air Treks:
Kimberly's a little bit of a unique case. Having lost both of her legs below the knee courtesy of a motor vehicle accident, she's been relying on prosthetic limbs to walk for the past year and a half. Her air treks, despite a superficial resemblance, aren't so much high-tech rollerskates as they are legs-with-sick-wheels-and-a-motor. The ability to shove extra doodads, gimmicks, and motors into where a person's leg would normally go, however, has given Kim's pair of Air Treks more juice, more speed, and more stopping power than they have any right to. They're also able to withstand a crapton of damage, absorb most shocks, and are generally very sturdy. As legs should. However, even extensive tinkering with the parts seems to be unable to make the Air Treks any lighter than how heavy you would expect a pair of prosthetic limbs to be.

Personality: Despite Kim's (newly-acquired [she got the haircut only a few months ago]) punk-rock-yolo-thug-lyfe appearance, Kimberly's actually a pretty well-balanced kid, if you just ignore the fact that she doesn't have any legs below the knee. Generally quiet, soft-spoken, and a little bit of a wilting flower among strangers (she's trying very hard to get over it), she's also sensible, practical, and perceptive -- with just a little bit of a competitive streak.

She's currently attempting to cultivate a 'cool-aloof' attitude. Her tendency towards silence, coupled with her appearance, has granted her more success than she otherwise would've been able to attain.

History:
To really understand Kimberly's life, you really need to understand that there's nothing really you need to get. An only child -- supportive parents, generally pretty good student (even if she could've used a few more friends from time to time), mentally stable, future secured, and raised between the two most stereotypically polite cultures on earth, there's really not much material for a gripping life-story in the first fifteen years of her life.

But then again, it's funny how one event can turn a life around so completely. Entire novels could probably be written about what happened after that. Crime-thriller, maybe. That seems the most likely genre. Biographies still seem terribly drab.

They said she was lucky to have been alive after being barreled into by a motorcycle clocked at going seventy miles an hour while crossing the road. Kimberly thought the exact opposite -- that she was terribly unlucky of her to have been the victim of what was essentially a freak accident because some hoon couldn't read a red light. A combination of the driver's veering, her diving out of the way, and blind chance had ensured most of her top half get out intact. The same could've have been said for the bottom half.

The rest really doesn't need mentioning -- the results speak for themselves. Though theoretically her legs weren't damaged beyond repair, it was far more of a challenge to treat spinal injuries (once again, doctors told her 'you're lucky you can still retain some use of your legs'. She wasn't very amused.). In the end, Kimberly had finally opted to have the useless bits of her limbs exorcized -- in no small part due to passing knowledge of Air Trek.

Rehabilitation took well over a year, and actually she still needs to go back for regular check-ups. Kim had to jump through a lot of hoops to get her prosthetics modified enough to pass as an Air Trek. So Kimberly keeps the whole Storm-Rider thing hush-hush in case that's something she's not supposed to do. Actually she's pretty sure it's something she's not supposed to do -- but even a taste of the raw energy of flying was too intoxicating to let go.

And just as she took to the skies, the skies seemed to take to her too. It's very likely the company that racing across the skyline at almost supersonic speeds got her was one of the things that prompted such a dramatic change in appearance. That, and the fact that a year and a half in rehab meant that she didn't have to keep up any more appearances with being a 'model student' after they'd switched to homeschooling her in acknowledgement of certain disabilities and insecurities.

Emblem: FLIGHT CLUB WHERE ARE THOU

Relationships:
ok she's not forever alone anymore but yeSAH FLIGHT CLUB WHOO

Likes:
-Birds (she has a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets that won't shut up, and she still loves them.)
-She likes quiet areas, being on her lonesome, and long walks at night in the park.
-Reading, libraries, even studying, to some extent.
-Observing other people.
-Staring into the stars on a clear night. She only does it when nobody's looking, though. Otherwise it makes her look like an idiot.
-Being able to walk. Too bad she'll never be able to again without the aid of prosthetics.

Dislikes:
-Despite her affinity towards avians, Kim's definitely not otherwise an animal person.
-Cooking, cleaning, housework, chores, and domestic things. She still does them, though. Because she's a good kid.
-Waiting around. It tends to make her jittery. And when she's jittery she likes to rock back and forth on her heels. Except now she doesn't have heels to rock back and forth on.
-Attention being drawn to her prosthetics.
-Actually any attention being drawn to her at all.
-Traffic lights, crossing the road, and generally automobiles. Taking to Air Treks is the exception, not the rule.

Extras:
-When not zipping along on Air Trek, Kimberly typically uses a wheelchair to get around -- and it's not something that she's particularly proud of.

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yeAH UM I THINK THAT'S IT RTHRHRH
I HOPE IT'S OKAY I'M SORRY IF I GOT ANY DETAILS ABOUT THE AIR GEAR UNIVERSE WRONG I HAVEN'T READ IT IN YEARS AAA aaAAAaaAAAAA

IM SORRY

Description

Name: Kimberly Arakaki
Nationality: Canadian-Japanese
Age: 17 (her birthday is on the 23rd of May /o/)
Rank: D
Team: nope forever alone
Tuner: nope also forever alone

Road/Regalia:
[nUP]

Air Treks:
Kimberly's a little bit of a unique case. Having lost both of her legs below the knee courtesy of a motor vehicle accident, she's been relying on prosthetic limbs to walk for the past year and a half. Her air treks, despite a superficial resemblance, aren't so much high-tech rollerskates as they are legs-with-sick-wheels-and-a-motor. The ability to shove extra doodads, gimmicks, and motors into where a person's leg would normally go, however, has given Kim's pair of Air Treks more juice, more speed, and more stopping power than they have any right to. They're also able to withstand a crapton of damage, absorb most shocks, and are generally very sturdy. As legs should. However, even extensive tinkering with the parts seems to be unable to make the Air Treks any lighter than how heavy you would expect a pair of prosthetic limbs to be.

Personality: Despite Kim's (newly-acquired [she got the haircut only a few months ago]) punk-rock-yolo-thug-lyfe appearance, Kimberly's actually a pretty well-balanced kid, if you just ignore the fact that she doesn't have any legs below the knee. Generally quiet, soft-spoken, and a little bit of a wilting flower among strangers (she's trying very hard to get over it), she's also sensible, practical, and perceptive -- with just a little bit of a competitive streak.

She's currently attempting to cultivate a 'cool-aloof' attitude. Her tendency towards silence, coupled with her appearance, has granted her more success than she otherwise would've been able to attain.

History:
To really understand Kimberly's life, you really need to understand that there's nothing really you need to get. An only child -- supportive parents, generally pretty good student (even if she could've used a few more friends from time to time), mentally stable, future secured, and raised between the two most stereotypically polite cultures on earth, there's really not much material for a gripping life-story in the first fifteen years of her life.

But then again, it's funny how one event can turn a life around so completely. Entire novels could probably be written about what happened after that. Crime-thriller, maybe. That seems the most likely genre. Biographies still seem terribly drab.

They said she was lucky to have been alive after being barreled into by a motorcycle clocked at going seventy miles an hour while crossing the road. Kimberly thought the exact opposite -- that she was terribly unlucky of her to have been the victim of what was essentially a freak accident because some hoon couldn't read a red light. A combination of the driver's veering, her diving out of the way, and blind chance had ensured most of her top half get out intact. The same could've have been said for the bottom half.

The rest really doesn't need mentioning -- the results speak for themselves. Though theoretically her legs weren't damaged beyond repair, it was far more of a challenge to treat spinal injuries (once again, doctors told her 'you're lucky you can still retain some use of your legs'. She wasn't very amused.). In the end, Kimberly had finally opted to have the useless bits of her limbs exorcized -- in no small part due to passing knowledge of Air Trek.

Rehabilitation took well over a year, and actually she still needs to go back for regular check-ups. Kim had to jump through a lot of hoops to get her prosthetics modified enough to pass as an Air Trek. So Kimberly keeps the whole Storm-Rider thing hush-hush in case that's something she's not supposed to do. Actually she's pretty sure it's something she's not supposed to do -- but even a taste of the raw energy of flying was too intoxicating to let go.

And just as she took to the skies, the skies seemed to take to her too. It's very likely the company that racing across the skyline at almost supersonic speeds got her was one of the things that prompted such a dramatic change in appearance. That, and the fact that a year and a half in rehab meant that she didn't have to keep up any more appearances with being a 'model student' after they'd switched to homeschooling her in acknowledgement of certain disabilities and insecurities.

Emblem: FLIGHT CLUB WHERE ARE THOU

Relationships:
ok she's not forever alone anymore but yeSAH FLIGHT CLUB WHOO

Likes:
-Birds (she has a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets that won't shut up, and she still loves them.)
-She likes quiet areas, being on her lonesome, and long walks at night in the park.
-Reading, libraries, even studying, to some extent.
-Observing other people.
-Staring into the stars on a clear night. She only does it when nobody's looking, though. Otherwise it makes her look like an idiot.
-Being able to walk. Too bad she'll never be able to again without the aid of prosthetics.

Dislikes:
-Despite her affinity towards avians, Kim's definitely not otherwise an animal person.
-Cooking, cleaning, housework, chores, and domestic things. She still does them, though. Because she's a good kid.
-Waiting around. It tends to make her jittery. And when she's jittery she likes to rock back and forth on her heels. Except now she doesn't have heels to rock back and forth on.
-Attention being drawn to her prosthetics.
-Actually any attention being drawn to her at all.
-Traffic lights, crossing the road, and generally automobiles. Taking to Air Treks is the exception, not the rule.

Extras:
-When not zipping along on Air Trek, Kimberly typically uses a wheelchair to get around -- and it's not something that she's particularly proud of.

-------

yeAH UM I THINK THAT'S IT RTHRHRH
I HOPE IT'S OKAY I'M SORRY IF I GOT ANY DETAILS ABOUT THE AIR GEAR UNIVERSE WRONG I HAVEN'T READ IT IN YEARS AAA aaAAAaaAAAAA

IM SORRY