June Whittaker

June is a character in the Lovers DX series, appearing as a supporting protagonist in Lovers DX: Seishin.
==Appearance==
===Bodily Appearance===
June is a 43-year-old Japanese American woman with quite the physique. Her build is quite muscular, having to cope with the fact that her breasts were quite large for her stature at the time, working out enough to be able to stand normally. This allows her to move large objects with relative ease but gets her in quite a bit of trouble at times. She is stylized as a Shiba Inu, though only to the audience. Its purpose is to help contrast with her adoptive son, Nathan, and help match her with the rest of the family, who are similarly stylized.
She enjoys wearing her favorite shirt; a plain white t-shirt with the words "BIG MAMA" over the chest. She usually wears this along with a pair of blue jeans. Her old outfit from her time in the yakuza still fits her; a purple suit jacket with a darker snakeskin-esque pattern covering a dark purple pair of dress shirt and pants over a pair of similarly colored formal shoes.
===Tattoo===
June's tattoo is one of a wild bear clawing through the wilderness, past mushrooms and grass alike. This was once meant to symbolize her protectiveness of the family once settling in; willing to go through a lot just to keep most of them safe and sound, akin to a wild bear protecting her cubs. The wilderness adds to it, symbolizing that through everything, she will claw her way through to make it out onto the other side. This now could symbolize much of the same, except in the direction of her children. She would do a lot just to make sure they're still kicking, making damn well sure nothing could ever come to harm them if she could help it, clawing her way through life to make sure all of the ones she cares about make their way alongside her. 
==Personality==
June is an extremely angry person to her core. While hiding it well from those who see her in town, them not having much reason to dislike her since she composes herself as extremely friendly and outgoing, she will occasionally lash out and get extremely violent, leaving permanent scars on those who walk in her path. She very often takes the path of revenge, going out of her way to hit several times harder than whatever damage she was dealt. Though attempting to hide it, the facade slips once you start threatening her or her children. 
June cares a lot about her family, extremely protective and even working in tandem with them to defeat all those who oppose them. She even prefers killing others, choosing to give the families the guilt if the attacker in question has the intent to kill her. This seems to be compensation for the many, many friends she lost in her old line of work. It comes up from a past she prefers to keep secret, having chosen not to tell a soul who wasn't there for the events that took place. She attempts to keep it mostly to herself, looking to protect anyone close to her from the problems it may bring back up and looking to keep her past drama in the past where she believes it belongs.
=== Refusal of the Past ===
June heavily dislikes bringing up her past, mostly due to the personal scars and senseless death that occurred all the time in her former career; one such death bringing her to try and pretend like none of it ever happened at first. Though not over it, she is still willing to speak about it to anyone who was actually there for it, seeing it as something that doesn't matter. They already know, why bother hiding it? Having gained quite a bit of trauma from seeing some of the few people she actually cared about dying, she resolved to just stop caring. 
At the very least, she pretended she didn't care about anyone after that day. She still somewhat cares about humanity, though doesn't like showing it for fear that the one time she shows care for anyone, they'll die. The only real exception to this is her two children, who kind of have to be shown love and care since it's an essential part of early childhood. To compensate for this, she began to protect them heavily, fighting anyone and anything that would dare threaten them or her family. 
==Fighting Styles==
While women are usually weaker than men in regard to genetic strength, June's strangely large body forced her to adapt and train her unnatural muscular structure to handle the weight, becoming extremely strong in the process.
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=== Blind Beast ===
A style named after the blind rage used to power this style. Takes advantage of the fact she's stronger than she looks by throwing her weight around, using arms like blunt weapons, clotheslining, shoulder bashing, grappling, throwing, using large objects at her disposal, etc. Focuses almost entirely on power and destruction, akin to how a wild animal would fight if it had knowledge of professional wrestling. It works best under pressure, with a lot of enemies crowding her.
=== The Bear of Modelo ===
A style drawing back the power she held decades ago, using the technique she learned as a teenager for the first time in years. Only uses this style when she means business. All those other clowns fold easily to a wild, thrashing beast... only a man can take anyone using this style down. Combines her strength with more technique instead of going with raw power, using her stature as an accelerant rather than a crutch. Grabs that leave bruise just on their own, throws that break things on contact, kicks and punches like a guided missile striking a target; it's all there. Akin to a bear waking up from hibernation, stronger than ever.
==Background==
June Whittaker, birthname Kyo Ueno, was born in Osaka in 1976 to a very, very broken family. Her father was a tool constantly being used by loan sharks to make easy profits. Her mother was afraid of everything and kept all her children practically locked up constantly. Her brothers were hooligans, acting in gangs and constantly acting tough. Her sister was taken by the yakuza as collateral for a debt. Thus, she hated every second being in her home. 
School was no different for her. She was of average intelligence but didn't care enough to apply it. She constantly fought other students and even teachers, seeing it all as just a place for her family to dump her so she could get out of their hair for a while. She was incredibly quiet and didn't answer to anybody, instead choosing to speak with her fists to get her messages across. At age 16, she refused to go to school and refused to leave her room. A little bit after this, her mother would check her room one night to find she had completely vanished. She had run from home, never to return. 
No one exactly wanted to take in some girl who hated pretty much everyone and she sure as hell didn't want to go under anyone's wing anyway, so she ended up being homeless for a while. She lived off of shaking down other people she didn't like, mostly choosing those who were already starting fights to begin with. This was mostly out of a moral compass... though that compass was shattered years later after joining the yakuza. 
=== Induction into the Modelo Family ===
Kyo Ueno was angry at the world. She hated everyone and everything and her own situation wasn't all that good. In her mind, socializing wasn't worth it; nobody was smart, nobody was worth talking to, nobody cared about her, and she didn't care about anyone. She had problems with everyone, issues with the way people were and how they thought and how they looked and how they talked... You know who else had problems with everyone? The Buzoji Clan. So, she started knocking on the doors of the Modelo Family office. 
At first, they brushed her off. The women in the yakuza are usually prostitutes, assistants, or in through family connections. They didn't have much use for her since she very vehemently hated people; she wouldn't fuck anyone and probably wasn't too keen on filing paperwork for someone else. She wasn't made material and was just a kid in their eyes. They didn't listen to her until she killed the man who was keeping the door of the family office. Suzuki Modelo, the family patriarch, took this as a sign; It was a sign of skill, determination, power; She had a drive to get what she wanted, so he personally took her in and inducted her as one of the few female soldiers. 
=== Criminal Career ===
Her "naturally guided spirit", as Suzuki called it, led to her to rise quickly in the family. Her outlook on life steadily increased as she would swear an oath with a fellow family member, with them becoming oath siblings. Her sworn brother, Takeshi Tanimura, meant a lot to her. Out of the people that would die in her line of business, the people Kyo managed to actually care about no less, Tanimura would be there for her almost every single time. Their relationship got personal, to the point where she started calling him by his first name rather than being professional about it. 
As her job went on, she would keep opening up. She started caring about the rest of the family. She helped them out with personal problems, she set people straight when they needed to be, she made sure everyone pulled their weight, and she eventually became team captain. She finally felt like she belonged somewhere; that she could do something. Her biological parents practically disowned her. The Modelo family, to her, *was* her family. She protected them like they were and treated them like they were, inviting them to birthdays and holiday parties alike. This attitude would continue until the death of her oath brother, watching as his body floated down the river. 
Tanimura's death would cause Kyo to immediately shift back to where she was before; not caring about anything or anyone, hating it all. If anything, she became worse. She killed almost indiscriminately. If you pissed her off, you'd be dead within minutes; If you said something she didn't like, you'd be popped in the mouth. If you looked at her funny, she'd walk over and jab you in the eye. If you bothered her with some sort of act, she'd just slam your head into any nearby object. Her life was back into the waves of anger and discontent with the world: tired of life, yet too scared to die. 
This all culminated in the hit on a rival family from the same clan. 24 men. None of them lived. No one was spared, save for one; the family's patriarch. The only reason he was spared was because he told Kyo the truth about Tanimura. She had only known how he had died as opposed to why he had died. She was even told the killer was long dead. The truth was that Takeshi Tanimura was murdered by her own family patriarch, Suzuki Modelo. 
=== Leaving the Business === 
After learning that Modelo Family's patriarch was the one who killed Tanimura, Kyo was beyond angry. She was inconsolable. After all of this time, after he let her into his family on a silver platter, set her down with the job of a lifetime, cleaned her up, got her to talk to other people, and let her do as much damage as she wished, she had felt like he had just stabbed her in the back. Her oath brother wasn't killed by some Chinese mafioso that was shot immediately after. His killer was out there, still real and tangible; he was alive. So, she decided to fix that. 
After storming into the family office, she had requested to see Modelo, confronting him then and there. He had tried to reason with her, telling her that he was "too soft" and "wasn't fit for the business" and "he was going to rat any second". She had heard it and listened... and didn't care. She leapt past his desk, tackling him to the ground, and beat him to death. Her fists were covered in blood, and she had to fight the rest of the family present at the office just to leave. All in all, it left the patriarch dead and the rest heavily wounded. She quit then and there unofficially.
Immediately upon realizing the game was up and she was essentially a kill on sight for the Buzoji, she ran for a while before talking to an old friend of hers; a forger who got into the Heihachi Family, Kato Nijimura. Since they were good friends at the time, she didn't want to leave any traceable evidence, and she was going to retire anyway, she decided to come with as well. They defected to the United States under fake names: Kyo Ueno became June Whittaker and Kato Nijimura became Judy Whittaker, now technically her mother. 
==Relationships==
Skylar and Nathan Whittaker - Love. They're her sons, after all. Loves it when they visit, baking something for them every time they come over. 
Judy Whittaker - Great friends, respecting her heavily after Judy essentially threw away her life to bail her out.
Alastair - Fear masked under a cool exterior. Angry that he has what she never will, she feigns hatred. In reality, June is glad for the tough love approach he takes with her, coming to openly respect him by the end of the story. 
==Quotes==
"You're a guest, willing or not..." - June, baking a pie for Alastair, who is about to kidnap her.
"I-I'm not playing any game... What are you on about?" - June, concerned that Alastair is onto the fact that her niceness is fake.
"Seriously, Skylar. I hate to be using this language, but... awh, what the hell. You seriously fucked us. Like, hard. Extremely hard. We are amazingly fucked; we're going to lucky to live to the end of this week. Now, I know this isn't your fault and that sounds like a lot, but... maybe you'd want to spend the rest of your time with me?" - June, offering Skylar a peaceful last week on earth.
"If you're going to fight, you should extend your chances by picking your battles wisely, alright?" - June, giving Skylar some sound advice.
"They don't matter now. I'm not Kyo Ueno anymore. My name is June. And that's how it's going to stay for a while." - June, on her past.
"I mean...  I lost. I'm only a step away from breaking out some kneepads, so what else am I supposed to do?" - June, talking to Alastair after their first fight.
"Let's just go with it, alright? There's nothing we can do to stop Skylar now, and we might as well run with it. I love him, alright? I can't let him die; I'm going to at least help while he's still around." - June, making excuses to go hurt people.
"You don't intentionally get into fights; you just pull your weight when you're forced into one." - June, talking to Judy.
==Trivia==
* June's stylized appearance is a direct inclusion of an old original character from the artist @jinusenpai.
** Originally, the Whittaker family's last name was going to be Doggington, keeping the original character's last name.