Anahera "Valkyrie" - Human Street Samurai

[Asta]

Sheet in drive.

Born into a lower middle class lifestyle, Anahera had what some may consider a "probably okay" childhood. Her father, a Maori immigrant was a corporate wage slave at some now defunct or bought out corp in Seattle. Her mother, a naturalized citizen of Japanese descent did her best to provide her only child with as comfortable a life as she could, even managing to enroll her daughter in classes at a Rabbi Shylock's Krav Maga and Mohel franchise in their neighborhood when she was old enough.

Sadly the (comparatively) good times were not meant to last. When her father's department was downsized he lost his corporate gig, and the family fell on hard times. Eventually they lost their house and had to sell most of their possessions to pay debts and find a new smaller, shittier apartment. Even in this last small bastion of comfort there was no security to be had, a junkie hopped up on jazz and in the middle of a longhaul bender broke into their apartment to steal whatever they could find. Her father, still proud and unbroken by hard times did his best to fight back, but took a shiv to the chest and bled out before medical services could arrive.

Not long after her mother died of undiagnosed breast cancer that metastasized to her liver.

12 year old Anahera was just street savvy enough to find something resembling a homeless shelter to move into, and just good enough with her fists to avoid getting raped. Over the next 18 years she worked a variety of odd jobs and minor shadowrunning gigs. Emotionally stunted as she was by childhood trauma, she still managed to form a comfortable working relationship with one Jin Matsuo, another small-time runner. Jin is invariably the one that introduced her to the concept of never leaving a comrade out to dry, when he on more than one occasion pulled her out of the fire (sometimes literally) at his own expense. Eventually Jin caught a Lone Star bullet to the back of the head (official report says suicide), but his influence gave her the only thing that could be considered her moral compass