Umeji Junko
We couldn't trace you after you disappeared. The next thing I heard from you was two years later in an impersonal letter saying you'd joined the Yakuza. You had the gall to blame your uncle for not retrieving you after Hideki died. What kind of a letter was that to write to your mother?
Overview
An accountant who spent most of her earnings on trying to find her son, Umeji Tatsuya. She insisted on returning early from America during a life-saving treatment and has paid for that with her long term health. It was bad enough that her husband, Umeji Hideki, had died of a heart attack. Her world fell apart after Tatsuya disappeared. She called in every favor she could muster, hired private investigators, and learned more about missing children than she could stomach. So she started a non-profit, Find Our Children, to help her with her search and provide her knowledge and connections to other families. When a letter arrived hinting that he was cutting ties, she collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Goals
An accountant who spent most of her earnings on trying to find her son, Umeji Tatsuya. She insisted on returning early from America during a life-saving treatment and has paid for that with her long term health. It was bad enough that her husband, Umeji Hideki, had died of a heart attack. Her world fell apart after Tatsuya disappeared. She called in every favor she could muster, hired private investigators, and learned more about missing children than she could stomach. So she started a non-profit, Find Our Children, to help her with her search and provide her knowledge and connections to other families. When a letter arrived hinting that he was cutting ties, she collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Continue to find grants and funding for Find Our Children to help locate missing kids. The group has rescued over 100 children and young adults from the grips of the Yakuza and worse.
Personality
Determined
Resourceful
Makes cookies every year for the festivals at Tatsuya's old middle school
Was broken at the loss of her husband and her son's disappearance. But she turned her energy into not only trying to find her son but to help other families with missing children.
Unable to forgive two people: her brother-in-law for failing her son and Tatsuya for joining the Yakuza so quickly. She sent her brother-in-law to do a simple job. He refuses to tell her why he couldn't find her son.
Mentally punishing herself for failing her son.
Sometimes gets so absorbed in her charity work, she forgets to eat.
Biting her fingernails
Even after 10 years - still startles with hope when she hears a voice like her son's
Views
Chocolate chip cookies
Walks in the sunshine, though time to do this is rare
Origami
Cow's milk (lactose intolerance)
Roses (prefers sunflowers)
Buddhist
Milestones
Degree in Accounting from Keio University in Tokyo
Kith and Kin
Umeji Hideki (deceased)
Umeji Tatsuya
Masuda Nori
Masuda Akihiro
Relationships
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Extremely thin. Tries to hide the effect with baggy clothes and makeup contouring.
Strong cheekbones and piercing eyes.
4' 10" (148 cm)
Baking
Origami
Singing (though she hasn't sang for more than 10 years)
Spouses
Umeji Hideki
(spouse)
Siblings
Children
Appears In:
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Liminal Chronicles Books
Short Stories
Liminal Chronicles Series bookcover art by Odette.A.Bach and text by Amy Winters-Voss. Short story bookcovers by Amy Winters-Voss
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