Nojiko Miyazaki

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Nojiko Cyrus is a secondary character in the story Summer's Gone and is the adoptive mother of Nika and Nami.

## Appearance

Nojiko has a shoulder-length black wavy hair, medium sized brown eyes and a smooth typical East Asian skin. A rather good-looking woman with healthy physique and exudes warm and friendly aura that many other characters found comfortable with, including Bella who known to be very suspicious or even hostile to strangers.

She currently stand at medium height, comparable to most of her female peers in her social group and friends. Thanks to her regular exercises and routines, she has a rather athletic-like body, which she prefers to hide under her conservative clothing as opposed to most other female characters who likes to flaunt their body by wearing more revealing clothes.

A tattoo can be seen on her left shoulder - three Chinese / Japanese kanji characters next to a branch of Sakura flower.

## Personality

Nojiko is a hardworking, mature and responsible adult woman, having single-handily raised two children that is not even hers own biological child - a testimony of her kind character. Despite being a single parent with an average income and facing two difficult children, she did not fail to teach her adoptive children important life skills such as first aid and emergency recovery positions. She also seem to be quite wise and patient, where on number of occasion she disagrees with Nika's action but still respect him and let him be as he sees fit. Still she is protective over her adoptive children, not beyond feeling emotional seeing them becoming college students like real parents do.

Beside her motherly role to Nika and Nami, she is rather conservative, and was labelled as a prude by Nami as they never seemed to discuss about anything sexual openly. (Though she was stern correct Nika about discussing female periods.) She also seems to enjoy exercising physically, having interests in jogging and tennis.

In social situation she seems rather confident even though her social group is full of upper-medium to upper class families, she is rather comfortable and even befriend a few of them.

## Background

Not much is known about Nojiko, except she physically appears to be East Asian. However her first name Nojiko hint an origin of Japanese descent, similar to Miru from Where It All Began.

While many characters appeared in Summer's Gone is strongly hinted to have family connections with characters from Where It All Began, Nojiko remains a mystery and almost no hint to have any connections with others, except being friends with a few.

It is revealed that Nojiko did not come from the city that Summer's Gone currently sets in, and moved here while Nika and Nami were young (many years prior the events of Summer's Gone).

## Notes & Trivia (Chp 5 Beta)

* Her first name Nojiko is a reference to the Japanese manga **One Piece** by Eichiro Oda.
	+ The name 'Nojiko' in Japanese may be interpreted as 野路子. Each character stands for:
		- 野 - the open wildness, countryside, nature-like.
		- 路 - road, path, route.
		- 子 - child
	+ Interestingly Nami being Nojiko's adoptive daughter, somewhat mirrors characters of the same name with their adoption-relationships in One Piece too.
	+ Depends on the version of the Summer's Gone, her surname in the older version is **Cyrus**, while during Chp 5 Beta her surname is **Miyasaki**.

* Her font colour is grey.
* Despite Nojiko dislike of cats, she once took in a stray cat named Moogle into their house, where she even bought a cat tree of it.
* Her tattoo have three Chinese/Japanese Kanji characters, which can be read as following:
	+ 智 - short for Intellect or wisdom.
	+ 福 - short for blessing or fortunate.
	+ 平 - short for peace.

* The picture on her tattoo appears to be the Japanese Sakura flower tree, well-known for beautiful pink blossom during March-April months in the year.
* Her current hobbies/interests are:
	+ Writing/books - She is currently writing a book for children, and have regularly been attending a book club with her friends.
	+ Tennis - to keep herself mentally happy and healthy, she currently doesn't but would love to play tennis regularly.
	+ Jogging - she is a regular jogging, often in the morning before getting some bakery rolls for Nami.
	+ Golf - which she plays with Nick.

* Currently Nojiko works at a hospital/clinic that includes an accident trauma/injury department. However it is currently unknown what her specific role/specialism is.
	+ She is not referred by others with a 'Dr' title, which hints that she may be more of a specialist nurse/technician than a licensed Doctor.
	+ She had voiced her dislike working at her current clinic and dream of opening one of her own, so that she doesn't have to put up with her current colleagues who frustrates her because of their differences in work ethics.
	+ She met Nick while she worked at her current clinic while Nick was hospitalized after a motor accident, which eventually led to a romantic relationship with him.

* Nika had mentioned that one time she wore a similar perfume to Bella & Helen of the Von Halen family.

* On multiple occasion it's discussed by Nika and Nami that Nojiko is lot more conservative than others, as she is more of a prude and dislike wearing promiscuous clothes.
* Not much of background is known about Nojiko, including her previous dating history nor family history. It's unknown whether she had married or dated previously before Nick, or even attempted to have her own children.
	+ Nojiko seems to prefer to keep her personal life a secret from others, as it's not even known by Nika nor Nami how long she had been dating Nick until they were introduced and met by Nojiko in chapter 4, nor that she had been friends with a couple of wealthy/famous individuals.
* Her current close/best friends are Charlie and Emilia as shown during the book club scene.