Michiko Sanderson
Michiko Sanderson- Arasaka
Michiko Arasaka (荒坂 美知子), is the head of the Hato faction of the Arasaka Corporation and founder and CEO of Danger Gal. Unlike the rest of her family and corporation, she allied with the US government after the Fourth Corporate War. Michiko Arasaka is the daughter of Kei Arasaka, and granddaughter of Saburo Arasaka. Most of her life was kept secret from the rest of the Arasaka family, especially her grandfather Saburo. Born in the United States, she held a dual citizenship for both Japan and the US, however her descent is pure Japanese. She also had access to many assets of the Arasaka Estate and a bodyguard, Kenichi Zaburo, one of Arasaka's top Solos and her personal bodyguard since she was four.
Physical Description
Body Features
Cybernetic Left Arm
Mental characteristics
Personal history
2000s
Michiko Arasaka was born in 2008 in Night City, United States, to Kei Arasaka and an American citizen mother of Japanese descent. Due to Kei's status in the Arasaka Corporation, she and her mother were kept secret and hidden in Night City to avoid them becoming a target. Kei also wanted to avoid Michiko from meeting her grandfather Saburo, who would be displeased that his granddaughter was half-American. At the age of four she was assigned a personal bodyguard, Kenichi Zaburo, a highly trained Arasaka Solo and the nemesis of Morgan Blackhand. Due to all this, Michiko had a sheltered early life, being unaware of her family's darker side and the company's schemes.[5][6]2020s
After the death of her father in 2023 during the Fourth Corporate War, Michiko was suddenly faced with her family company being hated as one of the instigators of the war, and being blamed for the Night City Holocaust after President Elizabeth Kress blamed the bombing on Arasaka, despite the fault lying on Militech and the United States. As a result of this, Michiko faced deportation to Japan despite being born in America.[5] To prevent this, Michiko, utilizing her youth, intelligence, and thousands of fans who believed in her innocense, traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Kress, to apologize for her family's participation in the conflict and to plead her case to remain an American citizen. Michiko's meeting had proved successful and she was able to remain in Night City and finish school.[5] After turning 18, she dated Adam Smasher for some time.[6] After finishing high school, Michiko entered Stanford University, where she majored in criminology. When she graduated three years later, she started her own business as a detective and found the Danger Gal private investigation firm. On the surface, the firm specialized on cases for socially prominent clients for astronomical fees, while in truth they dismantled Arasaka operations in and around the United States. Also around this time, Michiko started to act perky and naive in public to hide her skills in criminology, being a staple of parties and events from New Hollywood to Europe.[5] In late 2020s,[7] when Arasaka broke into three factions, a small group of the corporation chose Michiko as their figurehead in hopes of giving them legitemacy, and started the Hato 鳩 (Dove) Faction, even though she did not want to affiliate with her family and the corporation at the time. The faction was the liberal wing of the corporation, and unified those who sought deeper reforms. They were the least powerful among the three factions.[8]2030s - 2070s
Michiko married detective Marc Sanderson, her partner, after a "particularly exciting case", and took his surname. She kept her bubbly, enthusiastic act into her thirties, and was a constant sight at almost any important social gala. She also grew the Danger Gal into a highly succsessful firm with her cases, making headlines for two decades by 2040s. Michiko had grown into an elegant, lovely woman who could read a room like a book and yet never revealed anything to her suspects other than her happy, cheerful façade she kept up. Behind still was her loyal bodyguard Kenichi Zaburo, however he was not as visible to the public as he once was in her teens and no longer wore Arasaka branding.[5] In 2038, Michiko heard the movement of the Arasaka nuke, which was salvaged from the Arasaka Tower after the Night City Holocaust by Samantha Stevens. She followed the group of edgerunners moving the nuke for some time but had to delay meeting them to deal with a group of Arasaka who wanted to capture and use the nuke for their gain back in Night City.[9] Finally catching up with the edgerunners, who were facing a panzer tank, she helped them by destroying it with her two attack AV-9s. She met with the group and explained to them the nuke's backstory, her girlish voice changing into a sharp staccato after being shown the trigger codes. Wanting to dispose of the nuke, Michiko offered them her help and followed their car with her AVs to their destination of Los Alamos Labs, wishing them good luck before returning to Night City.[9]
Current Location
Year of Birth
2008
33 Years old
Birthplace
Night City
Children
Current Residence
Night City
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Short Straight Black, Dyed Blue
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Other Affiliations
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