Kyoko Mori

Kyoko Mori, Chief Engineer.

**Kyoko Mori** is a character from the epic space adventure *Space Pirate Captain MacTaggart*. She is the Chief Engineer on board the *Stellar Typhoon*, and one of the major protagonists.

## Persona

Kyoko Mori is the very shy and sweetly spoken niece
of Jaws MacTaggart, and acts as the Chief Engineer onboard the *Stellar Typhoon*. In common with many
residents of the Hinode Cluster, Kyoko is quite proficient technologically, and
she can usually be found tinkering with some contraption of her design.
However, the nature of her work means that Kyoko tends to shut herself away
from the world at large.

Perhaps because of this, Kyoko tends to have a very unique perspective on the
world she lives in. Things which seem normal to other people are completely
absurd to Kyoko, like the concept of scented shampoo, or pre-packaged bags of
ice. However, she isn't stupid by any means, and in fact can be very
intelligent and insightful at times.

Kyoko has few friends, but those she does have, she cherishes as if they were
members of her own family. One of her closest friends is Leslie Kennedy, her
immediate superior onboard the *Stellar*
*Typhoon.* Kyoko empathized with Leslie's dark past, and offered herself *as a*
shoulder to rest on in times of trouble, although Leslie can often be seen
returning the favour more often. Another of Kyoko's friends is Alasdair Geddes,
her Assistant Chief Engineer, and in fact she has steadily become an *item* with him.

Kyoko acts as a peacekeeper to her friends, and *their* enemies, and also
as a meditating force between people of opposing factions who'd be tearing each
others throats out without her interference. However, she tends to get upset
by conflict, and will try to avoid it if she can help it, but if this isn't possible, she *will* get involved.

Kyoko has rather old fashioned tastes, preferring, for instance, to listen to
the music her parents grew up with. Her musical taste is one of the things that endears her to the similarly old-fashioned Alasdair, with *Baker Street* being a mutual favorite.

Kyoko is also a keen rail enthusiast, thanks to her mother, and in her spare
time can almost always be found with some book or magazine on the subject. She
also has a copious collection of models of all kinds, many of which she made
herself. As well as this, Kyoko sometimes makes trips to film and photograph
aspects of the different railway systems, not only in her home system but
across the galaxy.

## Physical Description

In comparison to most other characters, Kyoko is pretty diminutive, only standing at 2 foot 10 inches tall. She rarely considers her height to be a problem, except for when she has to be lifted up by Alasdair when they kiss, as she only comes up to his shoulders. However, her short height is compensated for somewhat by her also having the largest breasts out of the main female characters.

Kyoko has violet eyes, and long raven black hair. She ties this up in a
ponytail using one of a large collection of hair bands. Kyoko's demeanor is
very beautiful and graceful, but she can be serious when she has to be.

Kyoko can generally be seen wearing bell bottom jeans and a plain white
t-shirt, over which she sometimes wears a *Bert Raccoon* style hoodie. On
her right arm she wears an armband with her name written on it in Japanese
kanji, in common with the other members of Jaws' crew.

Besides her normal clothes, Kyoko will sometimes don the traditional kimono for special occasions. She also has a martial arts gown that she exercises in, sometimes alternating between this an a black ninja outift.

Kyoko's night-wear tends to vary, but she most commonly wears either a set of pink pyjamas or a pink silk nightie. However, Kyoko has increasingly taken to sleeping in a set of red lace underwear, given to her by Alasdair as a Valentine's Day gift, whenever she goes through one of her *naughty phases*.

Kyoko wears a thick pair of glasses, which reinforce her nerdy image. She also has a bent ear (thanks to an incident at school), on which she wears a single earring. This gives the impression that the earring is weighing her ear down.

## Background

### Early Life

Kyoko was born in the Port of Minato, a
city on the planet Tenchō, in the Hinode Cluster. She is the youngest of six
children, including (from oldest to youngest) Hiro, Akiko, Shigeru, Kazuko and
Noriko. Her parents are Saburō and Kumiko Mori (Née Kaizoku). Saburō runs an
interstellar haulage and salvage company, while Kumiko is a locomotive driver in
the Minato Dockyards.

Although one gets the impression that Kyoko lives an impoverished life, in fact
it was quite the opposite. Since both her parents had high paying jobs, Kyoko
and her siblings were able to live quite comfortably. Kyoko was (and still is)
very much the baby of the Mori family, being adored by her parents and looked
down upon (but not necessarily in a bad way) by her older siblings.

Even at a very young age, Kyoko was very good with technology, and could often
be found inventing some revolutionary gadget. In elementary school, Kyoko was that nerdy kid we all knew at school, and was
sometimes the target of some rather vicious bullies. However, Kyoko *did*
have one friend, a vixen by the name of Bunko Kondō, who kept her safe, and
acted as someone for Kyoko to confide in.

However,
in junior high school, the pair began to drift apart, mainly because Bunko was
jealous that Kyoko was *developing* faster than her. Tensions came to a
head when Bunko tried to claim that she'd experienced a growth spurt overnight.
Kyoko got the last laugh, though, during a swimming class. When Bunko attempted
to show off with a high dive, not only did her top come off, but she
inadvertently revealed that she'd been stuffing shirts down her top to boost
her *womanly assets*. The pair (of *friends*) broke off their
friendship after this incident.

With no friends to help her through the rigours of school life, Kyoko felt that

she was as good as dead. But she needn't have worried. Her natural beauty and *developments*, which had alienated her from Bunko, now enabled her to become the object of affection for many of the boys (and even some of the girls) in her senior high school, and though she wasn't a fan of her *bustiness*, she was welcoming of the attention.

### Joining the *Stellar Typhoon*

Nothing much happened in Kyoko's life
until late 3006, when she was visited by her aunt Keiko, better known as Jaws
MacTaggart. Jaws had recently lost her right arm in a katana battle with her rival,
*Princess Midori*, and she hadn't quite
adjusted to life with one arm.

At
the time, Kyoko had been developing a robotic arm as part of a school project,
and Jaws took interest in her work. She commissioned Kyoko on the spot to
create an artificial limb replacement for her arm. Even though she was never
given a deadline, Kyoko worked hard to have the arm created in time to give to
Jaws as a surprise Christmas present.

Impressed by Kyoko's speed and efficiency, Jaws took her on as her resident
tech-girl aboard her cruiser, the *Stellar Typhoon*, employing her
services to create several weapons to use on her enemies, as well as to
maintain and improve the *Typhoon's* various weapons and systems.

Kyoko
led a relatively sedentary-if rather lonely-existence until 3009, when Alasdair
Geddes was made a part of the crew. She fell in love with him the moment she
saw him, and then again the moment she *heard*
him. Needless to say, she was delighted when Alasdair was made her Assistant
Chief Engineer. Though their relationship is at the moment *strictly professional*, per request by Alasdair, the promise of
moving on to bigger things *is*
there...

## Trivia

* Creator Craig Black has said that his decision to make Kyoko a Japanese character stems from the Japanese being well known for their technological achievements. Black has also admitted that Kyoko is his idea of a good girlfriend; sweet, shy, preferably with glasses, but still strong-willed and independent.
* Artist Jake Elmer has cited Kyoko as his favourite of the series' characters, and is in fact an indirect co-creator; it was him who suggested that Craig Black should create a character responsible for maintaining Jaws MacTaggart's robotic arm.

## Creators' notes

* Jordann Edwards had pointed out that he'd like to have Janice Kawaye (*My Life as a Teenage Robot*, *HiHi Puffy AmiYumi*) on board as the voice of Kyoko.