Yoshiki Umehara

Yoshiki Umehara is an alcoholic detective in her thirties, who's best friend is a gay high school teacher. A bit immature and hardly by the book, she's a dedicated detective nonetheless and very good at her job.

Initial Conception
Yoshiki was created as for a Persona roleplay, taking the Temperance Arcana and the Ma'at persona. In high school, she was a well-known delinquent, and her family ran a pharmacy that was struggling. After learning she was pregnant at 18 and having just graduated from high school, her family intended to arrange her marriage to her boyfriend and have them both work at the pharmacy. Yoshiki balked, running away to the city to have an abortion (claiming economic reasons, which is legal in Japan), and go to college. She ended up becoming a prefectural detective stationed in her hometown after graduation. Despite her dislike of teenagers, she became the unofficial leader of the group, attempting to teach the girls how to defend themselves properly and even becoming the guardian to a friend's niece after he passed away. Later, she also became the guardian to her much younger brother, who was the heir to their family's company (which had become very successful and expanded after Yoshiki left home). Her boyfriend was a 30 year old virgin.

Yoshiki Umehara (Prime)
Yoshiki's backstory is essentially the same as her initial creation, minus the Persona. She and her best friend, Akito (Aki), live on the Citadel. She works as a detective for C-Sec and he is a high school gym teacher. Yoshiki spends most of her free time getting drunk, and Aki regularly brings her home and cleans her apartment (which is littered with beer bottles). Yoshiki does not think she has a drinking problem, or a problem with personal responsibility. She does keep loaded handguns and tazers in her apartment.

Yoshiki begins an affair with Isaac, not realizing that he is the serial killer she is chasing. She also befriends Maria, bonding with her due to their similar professions and being duped by Isaac, who has a strange talent for bedding otherwise intelligent women just before they meet the person they'll spend the rest of their life with (see also: Ro Jackson). This causes her to rethink her lifestyle and realize that she doesn't want to be alone; however, she is convinced that she will be, because none of her relationships seem to work out (probably because she's an irresponsible alcoholic with a gun). She is also more open about the sexism and ageism in Japanese culture, which has caused damage to her self esteem.