Yumiko Okumura

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  Yumiko Okumura

### Occupation

**Pre-Apocalypse*** Criminal Defense Lawyer

**Post-Apocalypse**

* Former Lookout for Coalport
* Former Member of the Hilltop Council
* Former Soldier for the Coalition
* Lawyer for the Commonwealth

### Family

* Tomichi Okumura (Brother)
* Magna  (Ex-Girlfriend)

### Ethnicity

* Japanese-American

**Yumiko Okumura**, also referred to as **Miko**, is a main character and a survivor of the outbreak in AMC's *The Walking Dead*. She was a member of Magna's Group and Magna's former girlfriend. After being rescued by Judith Grimes and Lucy Walsh from life on the road, Yumiko and her companions are brought to the Alexandria Safe-Zone, before eventually moving to reside in the Hilltop Colony. Sometime after the fair massacre and due to the lack of leadership, Yumiko becomes a member of the Hilltop Council. Following the Whisperer War, she joins the Commonwealth where she's assigned a career as a lawyer and is reunited with her brother.

## Overview

Yumiko is a weary, yet capable, fearless warrior, skilled with a bow. She is a fighter and a protector, but she's thoughtful and knows how to keep a level head. She is fiercely loyal to her ex-girlfriend Magna and the rest of her group whom she considers family and would do anything for their well being, including putting herself in danger and breaking the rules, acting as a motherly figure to them.

After moving to the Hilltop, Yumiko starts exhibiting leadership qualities. She's very pragmatic, able to keep calm and collected come up with a reasonable solution. After the fair massacre, due to Tara's death, there is a severe lack of leadership in Hilltop. This prompts Yumiko to step up and become a member of the council. However, this leads her to butt heads with Magna, the former leader of their group. Unlike Magna, who still refuses to completely trust the Hilltop, Yumiko fully trusts her new comrades, and becomes displeased and disgusted at Magna stealing some supplies after several members of the community were injured when a tree was knocked down by the Whisperers. Eventually this leads to the end of their relationship, though they still are on good terms.

Yumiko is shown to have good relationships with the majority of the group and is generally very friendly with others. Though she isn't willing to call people out, such as punching Carol for what she did to Magna. Later, Yumiko goes with Eugene, Rosa, and Ezekiel to Stephanie's location, where they come across Princess. Yumiko is the most untrusting of her, believing her to be crazy. However, eventually Yumiko sees that Princess is a good person and offers her to join the group, which she accepts.

At the Commonwealth, Yumiko is shown to be extremely observant and analytical. Despite not having even seen what the community is like, Yumiko correctly deduces that it's a large community, with a bureaucracy. Yumiko ends up becoming a lawyer at the Commonwealth, since that was also her profession before the outbreak. This causes her to become far more privileged than a lot of her other companions. She also reunites with her brother, Tomi, who she assumed was dead. She is shown to be confused as to why Tomi doesn't choose what the life of a surgeon would bring him despite his insisting that he is happy where he is. Yumiko ends up accidentally outing him, causing Tomi to become a surgeon.

## Pre-Apocalypse

### Oxford, England

Not much is known about Yumiko's life prior to or as the outbreak began, except that she had a brother named Tomichi and grew up with a father who has high expectation from his children. Judging by her accent, she was born and lived somewhere in England. She eventually achieved her Honours degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

### Cambridge, Massachusetts

After her success at Oxford, Yumiko moved to the United States where she studied at Harvard Law School. Years later, she became an U.S. citizen and a criminal defense lawyer where she met and formed a romantic relationship with her client, Magna, who was accused of murder. Despite Yumiko believing her client innocent, Magna did indeed kill a man in revenge for raping her female cousin.

At some point, she was also arrested at a student protest.

## Post-Apocalypse

At some point after the outbreak, Yumiko, her girlfriend Magna, and Magna's cousin Lia met siblings Connie and Kelly, Luke, Bernie, among other survivors. The group survived for several years, eventually becoming closer and seeing each other as family. However, as the years went by, several members of the group died.

The group resided in different communities, such as Jones Springs and Coalport, both which eventually fell causing the group's distrust in rejoining any other similar settlements.