Maria Tachimi

Biography
Maria Tachimi (Japanese: 立見茉莉亜, Tachimi Maria, sometimes written as マリア) (November 11, 1981 - December 17, 1989) was a Japanese-American/Nisei girl brutally killed, eight days before Christmas, for being a tomboy.

Another motivation for her death was because one of the father of her killers believed she was the reincarnation of one of her Confederate ancestors, and others believed she was the next Anti-Christ and her mother was a witch teaching her daughter to go against Jesus and God.

Maria grew up where religion is infused with everyday life, and is almost 95% white, with her mother, grandfather and herself being the only ones of Japanese blood.

History
Maria Tachimi was born at 9:00 pm in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami to Satsuki Tachimi, a Japanese immigrant and Martin Kimmings.

Maria’s family was the wealthy Tarot Clan that dates back to over 150 years ago.

Satsuki almost died after giving birth to Maria because of the mother and the newborn baby's incompatible blood types after some of Maria's umbilical cord blood got into her bloodstream and had to be treated with anti-biotics.

Satsuki was warned many times not to have a child with Martin because it would put her life at risk if the child's blood type was A-. Adoption was out of the question.

As a result, She had no siblings.

Despite being born onto a life of privilege and wealth, She did not have an easy childhood growing up, She grew up in The Docks, a wealthy fundamentalist Christian neighborhood that her grandfathers lived in during the 1930s.

When she was 16 months old, she was diagnosed with a severe coconut allergy after having a coconut chcocolate bar at a café.

As a toddler, she was noted to like franchise appealing to boys such as G.I. Joe, she even mimicked gunshot sounds.

In 1984, she fell in love and became a huge fan of Transformers, which she would have as an interest her entire life.

At the age of three, she got her first Transformers figures, a Thundercracker figure, which soon would be associated with her ill-fated life and a Prowl figure.

A day after her birthday led to a house siege where a short and obese woman who wanted the birthday present Thundercracker for her son stormed into the house while Martin was asked if the figure was snatched from the woman's hands, when Maria was asked to come down with the action figure and the receipt was brought out, Maria told them that Yuu, Martin and Ichiro looked exhausted after coming home on her birthday.

During the violence downstairs, the three-year old and her uncle stayed in her bedroom, Maria was described as being in a very distressed state and was crying.

This would traumatize Maria until the end of her days, She did not have an easy childhood.

When she was IQ tested at the age of three, she scored an unusually high IQ score of 120, which is incredibly unusual for her age at the time, at the time of her death, her IQ was 140.

She took very good care of her action figures, in her room, she had small tubs to put any unused parts in.

A Canadian-American boy and his family moved next door from Texas since his father got a new job. He also had a mom, six older brothers, and a younger sister named Casey, who was also a tomboy. The boy was the same age as Maria and went by the name Joseph Wintergreen.

In the June 1985, Satsuki accidentally fell pregnant and had to abort the baby after the baby was causing her to fall ill after 10 weeks and would kill her if she gave birth, causing Satsuki to have an abortion.

At the age of four in 1986, her grandfather took her and several friends to see The Transformers: The Movie.

Maria was described as being very calm throughout the film and showed no emotion when Optimus Prime was killed off, looking at her figure when the Decepticons were thrown out and whispering names when the Autobots were being killed.

Maria did admit to being “a little shaken and in bemusement” when Optimus Prime died

A few days later at kindergarten, the boys who were with her minus Joseph Wintergreen, Peter Reade and John Millin accused her of being a sociopath.

As a result of this row, she cut off all ties except the three boys until Peter and John moved, leaving Maria alone.

The last years from 1987-1989, she spent her time at home playing with her Transformers, which she never let go even after the series ended.

On her 6th birthday, she received a black pet black kitten named Shadow much to her joy.

In elementary school she was a very good student but suffered bullying because of what she liked and her family.

At the time of her death, she had almost no friends, was heckled by female students left and right. She often wished to leave the Docks and go to Japan.

Death
At the final day of her life, Maria was led away by Josephine into thinking it was going to be a private girl talk, possibly an apology from her.

After Joseph was out of sight, Maria struck on the head and was tortured for a period of one hour and 23 minutes in the basement. Of course, during the period of the torture, Maria desperately fought for her life and tried to escape.

Her injuries included rib fractures and damaged organs, her skull being bisected in two, her legs being broken in three places and stabbed repeatedly.

Her body was discovered two days later on December 19th.

Aftermath
Maria’s death had an impact on the already deteriorating emotional state of her family, especially Ichiro, Satsuki, Yuu and Hiroshi with Satsuki being hit the hardest.

Satsuki said “She saved my life, but I couldn’t save hers.”

Saoirse II said ”The World holds all the tarot cards together, but it was too little, too late to save her, she brought the family together, but we couldn’t save her.”

Martin’s request was “Bury her somewhere near our home, but not too near” instead of the family plot like most of his ancestors.

She is buried in the meadows that could be accessed through a broken fence in the backyard with her grave marker being a small Japanese shrine, guarded by her black cat Shadow.

Maria’s parents, Satsuki and Martin died in a bank robbery just a day after their daughter was buried, before they saw Derek and Josephine face trial.

Her cat Shadow remained at her young mistress' grave until she died at the age of nine.

Her grandfathers both died into 2014 from suicide from depression and cancer, while her grandmothers died prior from a road accident and accidental poisoning.

Stacie died in 2018 and Derek died in 2019, 30 years after Maria’s death, partially avenging Maria and her parents.

Appearance
She is a grim-looking little girl of average height and weight, She wore a pair of shorts and a blue jumper, had near shoulder length black hair that goes almost above, making it look like a bobcut, and she is covered in bruises due to being brutally beaten by her female classmates.

As a ghost, she is covered in blood and more bruises than before, her clothes are torn her hair is has blood dripping down.

After joining the TT10, Her hair no longer has blood in it due to it being cleaned out, Her TT10 uniform is an Imperial Japanese Army uniform with some traits of US Army uniforms.

Personality
She was a shy yet spunky girl that loved masculine franchises such as basketball, Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, baseball, Thundercats, Turbo-Teen, ultimate frisbee, Rambo, WWF, M.A.S.K., Top Gun, Dragon Ball, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ewoks, Hot Wheels, Superfriends, Mighty Orbots, Captain Power, manga, anime, football, sports, and Sport Popples, which most of her female classmates (who were girly-girls) refused to accept and constantly made fun of her, teased her, mocked her and even beat her, however, some of her male classmates accepted it and they were devastated when she went missing and never came back, especially her closest friend and next door neighbor, Joseph Wintergreen.

At the final year of her life, she became more cynical and started to believe that things like religion-controlling, sectarianism and over-patriotism causes “tragedy” and “heartache”

She loves hanging out with her friend Joseph, playing sports playing with her Transformers, and doing "tomboy" things such as skateboarding, playing with boys and other tomboys, getting dirty and playing rough, watching WWE, and reading comic books.

When she was alive, she was noted by others that she was very intelligent as a toddler and a child, such as being able to name 200 horror films, being able to read before she even started school, spoke Japanese from an early age, She was noted to like reading and her parents appreciated her gift, She scored 120 on an IQ test when she was tested at the age of three.

She is unfazed by slasher or gory films, according to Joseph, she watched films like Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween as if they were “family film to watch on a day out”

As a ghost, she is ruthless and vengeful, she will hurt anyone who questions her being a tomboy.

She also has somewhat of a maternal side, calling Another Myla and Samuel "little tykes"

Also as a ghost, she is somewhat more coarse regarding her killers, which shocks her family because she barely cursed in real life, she called the adult Josephine a “fucking piece of shit that doesn’t deserve to breathe, or live” and the adult Susie, who was now a single mother a "scum-sucking whore", She even says that Stacie “fucked more boys than a prostitue in a whorehouse”

She also does not hold The Docks in high regard, calling it a “Christian fundamentalist Jesus-obsessed shit-hole".

Quotes
You think so, Satoko-nee?, you are a great friend ~ Maria and Satoko on themselves being tomboys and their experiences.

Please don't leave me here, Uncle Yuu! Take me, grandpa and mama with you! ~ Maria begging to go to Japan to get away from The Docks

It was a rainy day just like this one, the day I died, before Christmas, I had an argument with my mommy, I didn't want to see her, so instead of going home from school, I stayed a little and watched the rain with my friend Joseph, I played with my Transformers, it feels like they are my only friends, and then those nasty girls in my classroom found me, kidnapped me and dragged me in the school basement, and then they got a knife and stabbed me, many times, I was never found until 2 days later, I heard mommy and daddy died in a bank robbery 2 days before Christmas ~ Maria telling her death

I felt really sorry for poor Denise as she had been abused and beaten badly by her husband Derek. After my death and Derek was thrown in prison, Denise finally divorced her husband and got custody of her kids!

The movies I have ever seen in my life were The Land Before Time, Kiki's Delivery Service, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Return of Godzilla, The Great Mouse Detective, All Dogs Go To Heaven, The Fox and the Hound, The Transformers Movie, A Chipmunk Adventure, My Neighbor Totoro, Big Top Pee-Wee, Top Gun, Dragon Ball: The Sleeping Princess of the Dragon's Castle, Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Poltergeist, Oliver and Company, Grave of the Fireflies, Poltergeist 2: the other side, The Jungle Book, Poltergeist 3, Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, Star Wars: the empire strikes back, Jaws: the Revenge, Indiana Jones and the Raider of the Lost Ark, The Black Cauldron, An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH, Beetlejuice...~ Maria talking about the movies she had seen during her lifetime

Joseph thinks it is his fault that I died and he blames himself, he feels guilty for not protecting me from those mean and rotten girls in my classroom ~ Maria

Joseph and I saw Top Gun together since I love jet planes! ~ Maria on Top Gun

Those girls, everytime I went to school, I cried many and many times, my teacher was a comforting lady, she was like a mommy to me, she would comfort me, the only times I could cry when I was in my room, the bathroom, or when I'm in mommy and daddy's arms, Satoko-san is like a mommy, like mine, she accepts on what I like and do, so does my daddy, Daddy was American, Mommy was Japanese, she looks alot like her, Satoko-san's just taller and has a larger bust-size, Mommy was around 27 when I died, Daddy was also 27 ~ Maria on her parents and the people who she sees just like a mother.

YOU ARE LIKE THOSE BULLYING GIRLS THAT kidnapped me, tortured me and KILLED ME! ~ Maria to Another Nicole.

Can I transfer schools?

You like Transformers, Rambo, M.A.S.K., Dino-Riders, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hot Wheels, sports, G.I. Joe, Thundercats and hate Barbie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, JEM, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake and Cabbage Patch Kids, too? Looks like we have so much in common, huh? ~ Maria to Samantha Hinkhouse

Wanna play with our Dino-Riders, Rambo, Superfriends, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, He-Man, and Thundercats toys together? It will be really awesome! ~ Maria inviting CJ the Otter, Satoko Samo, and Samantha Hinkhouse to play with her.

Unlike most kids who was the 1986 film, It was a-okay, it wasn't a great film, due to the deaths of most characters, Season 3, was also okay, it wasn't great, I did like Seasons 1 and 2, it had everything, from the awesomely cute Decepticon jets that looked awesome to the funny characters, I didn't cry when Optimus Prime died, I was only five, I didn't know what was happening, I kept my cool, However my favorite is, Transformers G1 IDW, one of the jets gets the cutest role ever, doesn't die, gets a dog, writes screenplays that should belong on a bad Fanfiction site, but they're funny, I like it the comics, they're really awesome! ~ Maria

When it was released, I thought it was awesome, It was also made with Japan and the US, my heritage, and my grandpa, who was a IJA veteran and officer, and unfortunatly, a POW guard, he tortured POWS during WWII, but he was a quiet, kind, funny person, when he came over, Oh my god, Transformers!, yes, Transformers is available in Japan, my mommy, after I died, each day, she would by some Transformers and put them in the basement I died in, some Japan, some America, my grandpa died in 2014 January 1st, he put Transformers in the basement after I died, I love the new ones, Armada Starscream, he's just cute, I don't like Kiss Players, gross and disgusting and he wouldn't buy me it, he thought I would hate it, he was right, one of my gifts was a Starscream dakimakura, I laughed because I was 8 at death, I gave it to Satoko, as she likes Starscream, I didn't know the ladies loved him, I like him, but he's not my favorite, my mommy often buys them to appease me, I love her, even when after I died, those girls that tormented me, they called me a "queer", "Ugly", "he-she," "satanist", "faggot", "gay", and "Tomboy scum", they spread rumors about me to other kids, touched me and infected other kids with "tomboy cooties", I was bullied in 1st grade all the way up to 8-years old. However, Joseph was always there for me. He stood my me and defended me from those awful girls. ~ Maria talking to Ri Dae-Jung and Marie.

I hate My Little Pony, with my heart and soul, that's for stupid girly girls, I don't like it, especially the new ones..... I accept bronies and I have a few friends that like My Little Pony and I don't want them ended up like I did ~ Maria on MLP and bronies

Arigatou (Thank you, Onee-chan) ~ Maria speaking Japanese to Satoko on letting her play with her Transformers

Shadow meowed in sorrow after I died. ~ Maria

Music, I also had a favorite kind of music, too! There is Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi and J-pop music! ~ Maria discussing her favorite music

The reason why I died is because my school didn't have the money to afford security systems or to hire security guards at that time. Plus they didn't have anti-bullying policies, either. The teachers and staff turned their back to make phone calls which gave those awful girls the liberty to snatch me up and beat me and stab me to death. Nobody even saw what happened! ~ Maria recalling the day of her death

Powerpuff Girls?, well, to be honest, I am not a fan, it's not as horrible, but it's not my favorite, It stereotypes both boys and girls, not all boy do gross things, some boys are polite, some boys act like bullies, same with girls. Yes, Buttercup is a tomboy like me...and Princess Morbucks is a spoiled brat just like Josephine! I never watched it growing up because it didn't exist in the 80's. ~ Maria on Powerpuff Girls.

BotCon? Is that where the Transformers fans go? I wanna go there someday! ~ Maria on BotCon

Unless it was a school uniform, I would never wear a skirt, and I never wore a single dress unless it was a kimono, I wore boy things, played with Transformers, Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Thundercats and anything a boy would like, I wore a tuxedo or a kimono during a wedding and a funeral and other formal events, many people respected my differences on what I chose to be, during a school party, I wore a military-like suit, with shorts, a dapper cap, and a buttoned up military-like shirt, had my hair tied up a little, and it made me look like a boy, grandpa said that I looked like him when he was in the Imperial Japanese Army, but I danced with a boy, which was one of my friends, he said when we were older, he wanted to marry me, If only I could see him again. ~ Maria

When I was in school, I would play Transformers with some other boys and tomboys, my parents said it was quite nice for boys to be playing with a girl, the boys respected my differences, my bedroom looked like a boy's bedroom, Royal blue, cobalt blue, navy blue, and more blue, not a single girl thing in sight. ~ Maria

I did have a few teddy bears, but my mommy could make hoodies, T-shirts, I gave one that had a Decepticon logo on it, one with the Autobot logo on it, a teenage Mutant ninja turtles symbol, a Thundercats symbol, and He-Man logo, my favorite Decepticon was Starscream, he was just....wow....he's like a rebellious teenage son, and my favorite Autobot was Bumblebee, as well being the kid-appeal character, he was pretty awesome, yet cute, Thundercats, to be honest, I liked the female member, she was badass and awesome, and my favorite was She-ra, still awesome, I liked badass female characters, instead of the cliché damsel in distress wusses that were in girl's series. ~ Maria

I remember this really funny moment, when I went into a toy shop with my mom buying new Transformers toys for my 4th birthday, I was really smart and I loved Transformers more than anything, It was the greatest thing ever made in history, just before half the toys were discontinued, I wore something like some Chinese PLA soldier would wear, a woman and her overdeveloped moron of a child who doesn't know what a tomboy is, my mom is scary when she's angry, the idiot's mother said "Why are you buying your daughter boys things? isn't Transformers for boys?!", then the kid, who was 3 was all like "Play with your dollies", then I said in a laid-back, A Reason-You-Suck-Speech kind of way "Look, I hate girly stuff, I love cool boys things, I don't care, genders aren't everything, I hate dolls, I hate Strawberry Shortcake, I hate Cabbage Patch Kids, and I hate Barbies. Yes there is a Doll Festival back in my country held in March, but not the kind of dolls here in America! Yuck!" ~ Maria

I didn't just like Transformers, I LOVED IT, but, the movie was a big shocker, I mean, it's not bad, It's a shocker when half of your favorites were killed off, I don't know how the hell they knew I was a girl, When I took a Jazz and the two Decepticon jets figure of the shelves. ~ Maria

I already had Thundercracker, My mommy was very wealthy, she came from a family of headmasters for schools, I asked her if I could keep it, she said yes, then the mom asked her to give it to her son, I was like "Heck no, woman, I don't care about my gender, I'm not wasting many US dollars on your overdeveloped semen shot of a child", my mom picked the toys I picked out and paid for them, I was laughing, then left the store, good times, good times.... ~ Maria talking to Wei Zhenghan.

One time, a teacher tried driving a car, she made so many darn mistakes, we were just laughing at her ~ Maria to Sophie

I don't like the Wuzzles, but If you like them, I'm okay with that. The same probably goes to Strawberry Shortcake, The Get-Along Gang and Rainbow Brite. ~ Maria to Marilou.

My first Transformer toy was, the Decepticon one, Thundercracker, and the Autobot one Prowl, I thought they looked awesome and very cool, both were in very good condition when I died as I took very good care of them, even blue was one of my favorite colors, I liked jets and my dream was to be a pilot, It never aged since I died, I got it as a present from my Grandpa when I was 3 in 1984, I really liked it, I started collecting Transformers, it's kinda more of a hobby, I liked boyish stuff, when I joined a Female Transformers fan thing in the Ghost World, they were women and girls just like me that liked Transformers when they died, I made tons of friends, one of the even had.....A Starscream dakimakura! Oh my god! I was laughing! He must be the Android 17 of Transformers! ~ Maria telling CJ about a group she's in

I hated Cabbage Patch Kids, they were pug-ugly and looked like an obese baby made into a doll! they were so ugly that it made those witches from the My Little Pony movie look like Asian female soldiers! ~ Maria on Cabbage Patch Kids.

I bought a Megatron action figure for my friend Joseph for Christmas but I died before I got the chance to give it to him. So my grandfather Ichiro gave it to him for me, the shop owner was shocked, I was still into Transformers, I was bought toys from the Japanese toyline. ~ Maria

I remember Joseph Wintergreen, he was like a brother to me. I first met him when we were in kindergarten, but we became friends at a birthday party, a Star Wars one. We had so much in common, Joseph and I. He and his family moved to my neighborhood from Texas because his dad got a new job. He also had six older brothers: Liam and Ryan, who were twins and year older than him; Buzz who was three years older than him; and there were Tyler, Sean and Dylan, who were triplets and two years older than him. And plus, he had a one-year younger sister. His sister Casey was also a tomboy, too! Joseph had race cars with tracks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures, Star Wars figures and posters, E.T. Posters, baseball cards, karate belts, and even Dragon Ball manga! ~ Maria

Dragon Ball!, that was the manga and anime of the 80s! Uncle Yuu introduced me to the first volume of the manga and the first episode of Dragon Ball when I was in Japan! I got to see Kid Goku and Teen Bulma! ~ Maria on Dragon Ball

Maple Town?! Don't get me started on that. The silly main character Patty wears a dress. Bleh! I don't like dresses one bit, they are so overrated! Also, the happy-go-lucky, innocent feel of the show makes it look and sound very silly and babyish! Don't get me wrong, I love anime in general, but just not this. It's one of the only anime I don't like, because it's too girly. Sorry Sophie and Marilou, but this is my opinion. ~ Maria on Maple Town.

I was once asked if i believed in reincarnation, the process of being born, death and being born again yet a different form. ~ Maria.

Young-chol, I met him in the North Korea Ghost Universe, he's like an older sibling to me ~ Maria on Young-chol.

You don't like me speaking Japanese just because my grandpa was a POW guard that tortured yours, I know what happened to them and stop being a wimp, grow up, and look at what my grandpa is now, you don't like him, don't go near him then! ~ Maria defending her grandfather.

My grandpas don't like each other, one was a POW, he was daddy's daddy, and my grandpa was in the IJA and worked as a POW, I liked mommy's side, he let me who I wanted to be, daddy's side wanted me to like girly things, they argued all the time, even in the Ghost world, where they have an appearance of their younger selves, as they looked in 1945, they were both 17 when they joined in 1942, so they would be 20 when it ended, so both were born in 1925 when it ended, they were both 63 when I died, my grandfather Ichiro had yet to forgive grandpa Mikey for what he did to him during Mikey's time as a POW in a Japanese camp, he tortured him, torn his nails, beat him, my grandmothers love me, both mommy and daddy's side, daddy's mommy got on with grandpa and forgave him for what he did to my other grandpa, My grandfather, even in Imperial Japan, he was fascinated by Imperial Japan imagery and wasn't offended, neither did I, As I'm a Japanese-American, my mommy kept her family name, They considered me a Tachimi, So, I wasn't a Kimmings, which was Dad's surname, he allowed me to have my mom's surname so she could keep my lineage continuing into the family, Ichiro got me Transformers toys, I loved them, and Mikey, he wanted me to like girly things, which my mom sells for money, she had a license to sell things for money ~ Maria on her grandpa

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was sooooo awesome!!! I love the art of ninjutsu! My favorite is Leonardo because his signature color is blue!!! ~ Maria on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

My grandpa on mommy's side, before my gender was announced, he was quite shattered because I wasn't a boy, but he was shocked and fascinated to know I liked boy toys instead of girl toys, Mikey went pissed because of that, due to a glitch, the doctors said before I was born I was going to be a BOY, they got me boy clothing, we thought about it, and when I was born, my grandfather was like "Oh, what the hell.", I wore boyish clothes for the rest of my life, My grandfathers argued every single time, I was more interested in Ichi-Ichi's stories than Mikey-san's, his friends that he knew during WWII, were very friendly and I know what they did. ~ Marie on her gender.

I was very interested in WWII, and I asked my teacher about the leaders and what did they do, the ones I was mostly interested in were Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, Hirohito didn't die, the Japanese would had difficulty trusting the Americans if their emperor was on trial and the chance of falling to communism was too high. ~ Maria

And, those girls bullied me because I was more fascinated with Japan than America, but my friend Joseph came rushing to my defense. I remember watching Japanese game shows with grandpa when I was in....Japan; however, Mikey rejected all things Japanese and I find it understandable, and one time, I was with my grandpa Ichiro for February and didn't come back until a few days after Emperor Hirohito's funeral, I went there, grandpa told me he collapsed and his health worsened and he died from complications of duodenal cancer, he was 87 years old. When I got home, Mikey grounded me for a damn week after he learned what where I had gone. Just for going to Showa Tenno's funeral without his permission, he told me I was not allowed to watch The Transformers for a week and forced to watch My Little Pony instead. But thank god for my parents, Ichiro defended me, Mikey apologized a day later. ~ Maria on Emperor Hirohito’s funeral

I do not glorify Japan's actions during the six-year war, I found what happened to China very awful, Ichi-Ichi-san said it's okay to be nervous what your country had done in the war, he didn't like what happened in China either, I went a little numb, then, we decided to watch Transformers to calm me down. He blames my grandfather, He blames Ichiro for my death because he thought my Transformers phase was responsible how disgraceful ~ Maria on Mikey.

I love Transformers, it has a plot and a good one at that! ~ Maria on Transformers

I like Pokémon, Ichiro used to put the Japanese versions of the games and consoles on my shrine ~ Maria

My grandfather's first fight was the Conquest of Burma, Ichiro befriended a fox that he called Maria, it was only a baby, the fox died in 1953 at the age of 8, the officers let him keep it, when I died, I was 8 ~ Maria on her grandfathers

When I was in Japan, with Ichiro, daddy, and mommy, daddy doesn't trust Mikey-san to come because due to his hatred of the Japanese and fears he may to upsetting things, just in 1988, just before Showa died and his era ended, We went to a playground, I made new friends, and asked them what they liked and they asked me what I like. I loved it in Japan ~ Maria

My mommy didn't speak English until I was about 6, So, I spoke Japanese and English, Mikey didn't want me using it, Daddy told him "Dad, anymore talk like that, you don't get to hold Maria anymore!" ~ Maria

One time, I wasn't allowed to dress as Batman for a school Halloween party in 1987, I was six at the time, and their excuse was "Not an appropriate costume for a female student" and they sent me to the principal's office for "dress code violation" and the principal was planning to send me home to change into a much more appropriate costume for a girl. However, Joseph spoke up and stepped up for me, and at the end, they let me dress as Batman. ~ Maria

Joseph was my best friend. He defended me from my female peers whenever they bullied me. ~ Maria

I had many RC toys of WWII Japan and US ships and planes, I loved them. ~ Maria

You know what I hate about China, it's ongoing hatred for Japan for the bad things, it's been many decades, teaching today's children to hate a country for what they did to yours is immature and stupid, When Danny, Marie's adoptive daddy visited the DPRK, citizens and soldiers had no real reason to treat him like garbage or be nasty to them, but the Chinese, it's the exact, thing, the Nanking Massacre, Unit 731, rape and looting, Taiwan doesn't have this kind of stuff. ~ Maria

The reason Mikey won't let me play my Transformers because it reminds him of the Pacific War, Ichiro-san sees no connections, I loved the giant robots ~ Maria on why Mikey has a fear of the Transformers franchise.

I-I have a f-f-fear a-a-and ha-hatred of M---My Little P-P-Pony, I-I respect people that like it, but-but, As long they are not obsessive and force it, It just activates PTSD-styled flashbacks, when Mikey is yelling at me for watching "things made for boys" to girls trying to force me to destroy my Optimus Prime figure, and I ran away with it, the teacher saying "it's best if you play My Little Pony", and worst, being beaten....... ~ Maria before crying.

Konnichiwa? I don't like sissy girly babyish stuff! ~ Maria told to play with Rainbow Brite by Another Nicole

I don't like wearing helmets, they're too uncomfortable for me too wear ~ Maria if asked why she's wearing a WWII Japanese soldier's cap

I had the responsibility of taking the tainted Starscream figures to the South Side and unsuspecting teachers and their kids to find, I had to take my Thundercracker figure to stop me from mistaking my own Transformers for the germ bombs, so that means I couldn't take any Starscream figure, well, it was worth it enough, even though I can't die, I'm already dead, We tried using My Little Pony, but the idea was scrapped in fears I had to deal with my anti-Transformers or "you can't play with that!" flashbacks ~ Maria on the bubonic plague-tainted Starscream figures

For Halloween 1989, I dressed up as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Leonardo ~ Maria on her final Halloween on earth

Tea parties, makeup and dollies are for little girls....I prefer traditional tea ceremonies ~ Maria calmly to Another Nicole

In the ghost world, I was widely popular with WWII Japanese and American WWII Veterans, Japanese ones would show me their weapons and tell stories and US ones would show me and tell their war stories, but, US and Japanese ones....Mikey-san is the one nobody likes due to not letting me be who I am and he says I died because I refused to follow God's ways of gender, yes, Mikey was very religious and yet, he refused to forgive Ichiro-san and Ichiro didn't forgive him, Ichi-san loves talking to US veterans. ~ Maria

Mikey-san, well, He repressed me on using the Japanese language, I know he was in a POW camp, but not allowing your own granddaughter to speak one of her mother tongues is just wrong! even many other POWs agree, some WWII vets would often play Transformers with me, He realised how much this meant to me. ~ Maria

Even though I like sumo wrestling and WWF, it is a very dangerous sport to do and I heard people got bones fractured or broken. ~ Maria on wrestling

My mommy and my daddy prepared my school lunch the night before I went to school. Mommy prepared the Japanese dishes such as bento, the onigiri, the omurice, plum, green tea, miso soup and the sushi while daddy would add in a Hi-C juice box or a Squeeze-it, a fruit roll up, shark bites fruit snacks or fruit wrinkles. Sometimes he would put in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pie; it had vanilla pudding in it! He would put in a kiwifruit, an apple, an orange or a banana. On rare occasions, I would find a small bag of jalapeño cheddar Fritos lays chips in my lunch box. Daddy always made sandwiches for me, too! At lunchtime, Susie and Josephine one time saw me eating some ramen noodles, sashimi and sushi, they both thought it was really disgusting and gross. ~ Maria on the school lunches her mom and dad packed for her

I saw the Hillsborough Disaster on TV, I started crying like a baby when the people were getting crushed, and dead bodies lay everywhere, When I was alive, it was just 94, but after a few days, it went up to 95, then years after I died, it went up to 96. ~ Maria

Did you know, in the French version of Transformers: The Movie, guess what gender is Starscream? A female, I think they mistook his voice for a woman's voice, pretty funny. ~ Maria

I started haunting the girls, I wrote "Fuck you bitch" in Japanese in their rooms, and my mommy said to them it said "Fuck you bitch", They thought my grandpa wrote it, but it was me, in one of the rooms, I destroyed everything MLP related in their rooms and decapitated MLP figures made jewelry out of them and put it on her bed, it was funny seeing the reactions. ~ Maria

I thought Transformers just shown my ancestry, Japanese-American, and it connected mostly to both sides, the Autobots showed the American WWII side while the Decepticons shown more of a Imperial Japan side, I liked that. ~ Maria

My family except Mikey was planning to move to Japan in January, but, me and my parents died before we could even go, only leaving Ichiro to go, but for 22 years, he drew things associated with my dead, he drew a G1 Thundercracker figure and covered it in blood, probably from by gently slitting an arm, and using his finger to paint it on, a dead fox surrounded by Transformers, A picture with me badly hurt, reunited with my parents and Ichiro with the words in Japanese "I wish....", And the years 1981-1989 on many of them, he even wrote Showa 56 and Heisei 1 in Japanese upon dozens of dozens of times to fill an entire paper, and even my name written in Katakana was used, the last picture was a Japanese and American soldier holdings hands with me, They called his house "The House of a Thousand Tribute Paintings" ~ Maria

I'm glad I joined the TT10 community, they are people like me that like Transformers and they are girls. ~ Maria

It was not, Ri Dae-Jung! Come on, you have to see the little tikes, we have enough time before our next assignment. ~ Maria on Ri Dae-Jung's baby siblings

My great-grandfather Kenta and my great-grandfather Derek, grandma Sally's dad, Mikey-san's wife, they were both in the Battle of Iwo Jima, my great-grandfather was a little tease towards him but he was too polite to make rude or obscene gestures to US soldiers, Kenta was also the one who trained the Kuro unit, he called them 'The Asian equivalent of Irish rebels, just even worse ~ Maria on Kenta and Derek.

The 80's were cool, they were very memorable, we had the Terminator, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Dragon Ball, The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Rambo, Muppet Babies, Dennis the Menace, Voltron, Children of the Corn, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Adventures of the Little Koala, Lupin III, Gundam, Astro Boy, Heathcliff, My Neighbor Totoro, Starship Troopers, Alex Kidd, Atari, Dragon Ball Z, The Land Before Time, Ranma 1/2, The Shining, The Fox and the Hound, Silver Bullet, Full Metal Jacket, Masters of the Universe, RoboCop, Alien, Blade Runner, Duck Tales, Johnny Quest, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Ghost Busters, The Return of Godzilla, Guinea Pig, Halloween, Hannibal Lecter, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Indiana Jones, The Karate Kid, Poltergeist, Scooby-Doo, Super Sentai, Don't Go in the Woods, Sailor Fuku to Kikanjuu, Firestarter, Gremlins, The Neverending Story, The Ninja Mission, Streets of Fire, Gymkata, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Rogue, CastleVania, Cobra Kokuryuu Ou No Densetsu, Kid Icarus, Kung Fu Master, Nazo No Murasame Jo, Phantasy Star, Street Fighter, Tai-Pan, TRON, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Hello Kitty, Atlantis no Nazo, Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Castle in the Sky, Bubblegum Crisis, Grave of the Fireflies, AKIRA, Centurions, Pac Man, Double Dragon, Duck Hunt, Spider-Man, Dr. Slump, Doraemon, Nightmare on Elm Street, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and all sorts of other stuff. ~ Maria on the 80's

I owned a black kitten named Shadow, She was a 6th birthday present, she didn’t like my dad that much but took an instant liking to me, I spent my time with her, and when I died, She wouldn’t leave my gravesite until she died at the age of 9 ~ Maria

The bullying at school got so bad I even begged to switch to homeschooling and start a new life in Japan! ~ Maria

I've seen Japanese cartoons, they were cool, and when I met one man that was friends with mommy, all I ever talked about to him was Transformers. ~ Maria

My mommy liked the occult, magic, witchcraft and spiritual things, a little too much, to the point she would constantly talk about it at the dinner table, Mikey-oji SWEARS she's just doing this on purpose, mommy also owned witchcraft books, even it annoyed daddy, saying she was talking 'nonsense' when she wouldn't shut up about it. ~ Maria

There was one time in my school we had to research people who shared our birthdays, Joseph Wintergreen's birthday, was October 7th, unfortunately, he had to do an essay on Heinrich Himmler, and I did one on George Patton, It was actually pretty funny doing his, my mommy shared some of the same interests, like magic, the occult and witchcraft, and he thought mommy was the reincarnation of the Reichsführer-SS here's one issue, she has lots of Jewish friends and they don't find her creepy. ~ Maria

My great-grandparents had a very awful time in WWII, Kenta got injured a lot, and he was the sergeant to a bunch of Japanese rebel soldiers that he dubbed, "The Kuro Unit", and Kenta ended up dying of gangrene, I have met Neo-Nazis and they are fucking disgusting, my mother is very interested in Nazi Germany and WWII in general, especially Himmler and Rommel, and she thought their crimes gave the Provisional IRA a run for their money. ~ Maria

For Halloween 1988, I dressed as humanized Thundercracker, this would later be my inspiration for my TT10 uniform ~ Maria

My ancestors fought on the Confederates exclusively, the 1980's was when wearing a child-sized Confederate uniform for a Civil War commeroration was much more accepted than today, this was another reason Josephine, who was a cheerleader-in-training bullied me, she spread rumors about me on the playground, she gossiped, she called me a racist, an ugly bigot, a redneck, and all sorts of horrible stuff, even though a lot of them had to escape Ireland and England, mostly because they were poor or because of the Irish famine. As a result, Josephine got supsended from school and finally got kicked out for good when I died. Most of the other girls who tormented me were either suspended or given detention; some of them were expelled. ~ Maria talking about the Civil War.

When I was with Joseph Wintergreen, I had a Famicom that mommy brought me as a 5th birthday present that came with 15-20 games at the time and I played it so much that I forgot that the NES and its games ever existed, in 1987, before the NES version of MAD's Spy vs. Spy was released internationally, he was angry why the company that made a game based of a black comedy comic would only be released in Japan, I thought it was because it MAD was more popular in Japan at the time, he actually had to teach me to play an NES system since I only used the Famicom and didn't know how NES cartridges worked. There were more NES games: there was also Metroids, the legend of Zelda, Kid Icarus, Kung Fu Master, Street Fighter, Tai-Pan, Jaws, Nazo No Murasame Jo, TRON, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Cobra Kokuryuu Ou No Densetsu, Atlantis No Nazo, Final Fantasy, Mike tyson's knockout, super Mario bros., DuckTales, Donkey kong, super Mario bros. 2, the legend of zelda, Tetris, Phantasy Star, ice climbers, double dragon, Mario bros, Duck Hunt and Castlevania! ~ Maria

One of the most traumatizing things I've seen was at a comic convention, There was a Black Lives Matter protest on a few kilometres away, it was 2017, there was an Avengers cosplay group, who's ages were 18-23, the eldest was the Iron Man cosplayer and the youngest was the Loki cosplayer, and while arriving, the protest got out of hand and one of the rioters took a gun off the police and fired three shots, it hit the Loki cosplayer in the back, and some of the cosplayers were terrified and was trying to help him, there was blood and he was groaning, but he bled to death on the way to hospital, his last words were "Annie.....Annie.....", and it was over, he was dead, The Thor cosplayer who was 23 shot himself and the group disbanded, and the girl Annie, who I assume was the Black Widow cosplayer went up to the rioter with the gun and punched him saying "Are you happy what you did? Killing Patrick?", the protesters refused to accept responsiblity and blamed the police and the shot Loki cosplayer, claiming that Patrick was in the way and then claimed the police shot him dead. ~ Maria

There was this crazy fundamentalist lady that visited and volunteered, she wanted literally everything with pagan beliefs or evolution banned, This included the following, Marvel films, Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Shrines, Buddhist praying rooms and the list never ends. ~ Maria

I never really liked McDonald's, neither did both of my grandparents, Ichiro could smell ammonia pink meat, and it put him off, I thought it looked gross. And so did my friend Joseph! ~ Maria on McDonald's

Ichiro said to me he liked Marvel Comics, his favorite?: Captain America, don't ask me how, he found Mikey's comics and he read them, he didn't give a dang about the Anti-Japanese sentiment. ~ Maria

One time, am extreme girly-girl took my comic and called me a nerd, the comic?: Loki: The Agent of Asgard, I had to explain most of Loki's fans were women. ~ Maria

My family do not accept homosexual relations in our family, we can make friends, but the reason is because we were taught that it was immoral and wrong, I was brought up Shinto, Ichiro even refuses to buy yaoi manga, I am all for LGBT rights, but, I cannot participate in a same-sex relationship. ~ Maria

Another reason Josephine hated me is because she loved coconut sweets, such as Mounds and Almond Joy, and when we were in elementary and preschool, both had to ban anything with coconut (which was a tree nut) it because I was severely allergic, unlike my great-grandfather, who also suffered breathing, rashes and a swollen stomach if he ate it, it stops me from breathing, it could kill me, I was also even allergic to Florida's national flower, so, my school couldn't plant them because the smell of it and touching it could kill me, the smoke of them while burning could even close my lungs up. Josephine simply asked her daddy if she and her family could move to Honolulu, Hawaii so that she could have all the coconut sweets her heart desired just after we walked away from them, and Derek replied, "We'll see, Princess. We'll see," ~ Maria

LGBT wasn't really the most supportive thing in my town when I was alive, and I hate to admit, I was a bit homophobic and as a girl brought up by Protestants and secret pagans on my father's side, we were taught it was disgusting and wrong, my mommy was confused by the whole thing, and I actually hate getting called queer because I'm not a homosexual, queer is a term for homosexuality, something I am not, I am no advocate for gay rights, but the worst is people forcing the agenda, when I saw the GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend, my family was against the whole thing, I saw a comment saying "give him one so queer kids can look up to someone who's strong and not afraid", Since when did kids decide their sexuality?, I love Marvel Cinematic Universe, Monster Rancher, Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Yokai Watch, Digimon and all that other stuff, but seriously, have we come to a point it's illegal to be straight? ~ Maria

I'm all for equality, but it you ask me, I choose to be a tomboy, I am not a trans in denial, I know boys who look like girls, I am not a female to male transgender, I don't identify as male, and my parents didn't bring me up like that, I did! ~ Maria

Liam and Ailin are a bit bewildered by the Japanese language, I cannot speak Irish Gaelic, Mia was the last speaker of the language in my family as a first language and the two were taught at a Gaelic-speaking school. ~ Maria

When I told Liam and Ailin about Tómas, the next time the brothers were over, they offered Mairead a free trip to the Republic of Ireland. ~ Maria

For the love of Inari, do not contact Michael with an Ouija board, you'll get a long string of curse words, when he was contacted via this, he spelt out "F-U-C-K-O-F-F-Y-O-U-B-A-S-T-A-R-D", When paranormalists went to investigate, he said so many cursewords, He told a female investigator that she "was a total bitch." ~ Maria

Even when the Transformers died down in popularity, I was still into it as ever, I actually thought the Pretender idea was actually kind of cool, I refused to throw them out and I kept all of them together. ~ Maria

I watched The Toys That Made Us Transformers, I ended up crying because it reminded me so much of my lost childhood, A childhood I never got back. ~ Maria

One of the most funniest moments to me, when I got the Megatron action figure, one of my mommy's friends wrote a note on the box that said "Do not Transform it!", I suddenly realized why, and If I was taking it to the airport, My mother that prove it wasn't a real gun, It was a Walther P-38, A Nazi handgun. ~ Maria

Two months before I died, Josephine's father was pestering my daddy because he and me were going home for a reeanactment and I went in a full blown out rant from him, telling him: "Who the hell are you to tell my father that he's a racist! I had relatives in the Confederacy, GET OVER IT! If you are allowed to commerorate Martin Luther King! THEN SO CAN MY FATHER AND THE CONFEDERACY! The Union was just as bad!" ~ Maria

I never cried once at Optimus Prime's death scene, even when Ichiro offered to take me out of the theatre when other parents and guardians did, which I refused, I just stayed there in silence and when the scene was finished, I whispered "Wow, that was dark", My male classmates thought I was a sociopath until I told them I wasn't bothered. ~ Maria

I remember GoBots, they didn't excite me as much and due to the high popularity of the Transformers, I was almost unaware that they were no longer selling, I just played with my Thundercracker figure, My mother didn't mind my Transformers fixation, and even bought those for me for Christmas, during Girl's Day in Japan, my uncle sent Japanese ones to me. ~ Maria

The next day was Christmas day 1989 and I was happy to be reunited with my mommy and daddy, but happiness shattered as we were sent to a terrible place called a purgatory. I was frightened for what would happen to our souls. ~ Maria on her reunion with her parents

Another reason I wasn't bothered at the death of Optimus Prime because I paid attention to the story and I knew both factions were fighting to the death, but still, the death of Starscream and the reformatting of Megatron to Galvatron still shocked and surprised me, not in a sad way, more like in a "Oh my god" kind of way. ~ Maria

When it was my third birthday, they feared I would choke on the Transformers toys, I didn't, much to my parent's relief. ~ Maria

My grandfather refused to allow me to watch news stories about Northern Ireland during the Troubles, He said I must go upstairs. ~ Maria

If you think black people cannot be racist, YOU are dead wrong! I was murdered by a black girl! she was not innocent! She was a racist little girl who hated the fact I was a tomboy, Japanese-American, and was friends with a boy she wanted to be with! Josephine was jealous because Joseph liked me. She called me Butterhead, Fuji, Godzilla-snack, Nip, Jap, Kamikaze, Cracker Jap, and fucking Tojo! ~ Maria to Mary Jinkers, who denies that Josephine Armstrong murdered her.

I was accused of being a sociopath a day after we saw The Transformers film, I stayed very quiet for ninety whole minutes and paid the ultimate price, so, in 1987 and 1988, my only friend was Joseph, the other two moved away, So, sometimes, I played Transformers all by myself or with Joseph, the bullying continued from kindergarten to elementary school. I hated the school I went to, and I wanted to go to school in Japan, but grandpa Mikey said no. He told me to wait "a little longer" until they moved to Japan. I did not want to wait. I told Grandpa Mikey all of my stories about being bullied at school, He told me he will do something about it, but he could not drive, he developed epilepsy, these were just empty threats, He actually yelled at Susie. And as for Shadow, my sweet kitty would be there to come and cheer me up. ~ Maria

The Docks was not very friendly towards homosexuals, they got their houses vandalized with signs saying "God Hates Gays", This was normal in my neighborhood back then. ~ Maria

My family household had only one TV, so, if one was watching something, then the whole family had to watch it, My daddy knew the names of many Autobots and Decepticons. ~ Maria

My great-grandmother, Obasan Hiroko, she outlived her husband, they were Obachan Matsuko's oarents, her husband died in 1976 from COPD while Hiroko-san lived to 102, she died in 2003, She only spoke Japanese and was in her 80's when I died, I got told off by a KKK supporter for speaking in Japanese to her. ~ Maria

At the end of the 21st century, people will no longer be allowed to wear traditional clothes of any kind, girls will no longer be allowed to have just skirts & dolls, and boys will no longer be allowed to have just Transformers, anything to do with being a boy or anything, those SJWs are making sure only girls own Transformers, I didn’t want special treatment for being a female Transformers fan, I wanted to be treated equally, This is not the America Mikey fought for, this is the Divided States of America. ~ Maria

My mother and I were sometimes ostracized from society of The Docks, Parents were terrified of her, the way she acted, the way I acted terrified. I hated living there, and I wanted to live far, far away from there, like Japan, but grandpa Mikey said no, he told me that it was "a month" before we moved, but even he was disgusted at my murder. He believed my stories about me being bullied at school, but at the end of 1989, He told me to wait "until the end of the school year". He kept on making stupid excuses after excuses, but he did make his attempts to stop it. ~ Maria

Even in death, I still get sexist bullshit, At a Transformers convention, A boy went up and elbowed me, saying “girls should not be Transformers fans”, I beat him and his cronies up and he yanked my hair. Then the boy went crying to his mother, claiming I bit him, pulled his hair, lacerated him, threatened to slash his throat, gave him a black eye, knocked out one of his teeth, caused a nosebleed and dislocated his arm. His mom notified the security guard and to try to have me kicked out for excessively violent behavior until several people backed me up, witnesses said he was harassing me first, I only acted in self-defense and the security guard let me stay, Ichiro who was with me said that the boy was harassing her, he then went up to the boy, he did have a nosebleed, but a dislocated arm......That was a lie. ~ Maria

At my funeral, I heard Grandpa Mikey admitting that it was all his fault that I was dead because he took me for granted in life, refused to accept me for who I was and he also did not listen to me when I said that I wanted to move to Japan. ~ Maria

When I saw the Japanese version of Transformers, I think Starscream was supposed to be the “bishonen” of the Decepticons, the French version of the movie mistook him for a girl because of his Latta voice, Mikey and daddy thought he was a girl until I corrected him, it is somewhat a little funny.

It wasn’t that my parents and Mikey didn‘t believe me, Mikey retaliated and physically punched Derek when snatched my Cobra Commander figure and refused to give it back, He witnessed some of the bullying, he was a Papa Wolf, I was amazed that Ichiro even lived to 88, the last photo taken of him was, he looked very thin, as if he stopped eating, his skin was now extremely pale, he looked like a tuberculosis victim.

No, Mikey didn’t hate me, he disagreed my interests.

My mommy developed an interest in writing creepypastas, she wrote one about a possessed preowned copy of Pokémon Black version where a deceased teenager’s ghost possessed the cartidge, she made the final boss have an almost perfect-kill rate, N says “Kill me, again and again” and when Ghetsis spoke, something seemed different, it was the ghost of the girl speaking through it, it read “I am lonely, L O N E L Y, I AM D E A D, DIE DIE DIE DIE, HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME” then the battle would start, except, he had only one Pokémon, a Level 100 Hydreigon, but covered in blood and looks more monstrous.

My parents and grandparents, we usually went away for Christmas and Halloween, My family recieved complaints about our Halloween decorations, such as Barbie dolls being hung and realistic impaled corpses, they called my mother Vlad the Impaler of Halloween decorations, We didn’t really have any trick or treaters, on Christmas, My mother put out decapitated choir statues.

During the summer, I wore very loose pajamas to protect me from the subtropical heat at night and my parents made sure my duvet was thin enough not to roast me.

A girl dressed in typically male fashion and plays with toys like action figures is still a girl!, I’m no different than any other eight-year old girl!

One of the most horrifying things I found out about my family was my 5x great grandpa, his entire village, 98 villagers excluding him all murdered, he could have been just another peasant boy growing up a meaningless life in his village.

I hated elementary school, boys accused me of being a psychopath and girls accused me of being a slut. I wanted to switch to homeschooling in Japan real bad.

There was a teacher in elementary school who’s kid went to my elementary school, his name was Mr. Kellison and his son Jonathan Kellison, he was in first grade, so he was a year behind me, and he was a dick, Jonathan Kellison, was a dickhead. Why, you may ask? one day, he and his father decided to leave town on Friday, which you should never do if you’re a dick.

My parents told me that there was a teacher in high school who’s kid went to the same school, his name was Mr. Donald and his son James Donald, he was a sophomore while my parents were seniors, Mr Donald, was an asshole if my parents are to be believed and James threw a party at the teacher’s house, if mommy is to be believed, a girl was on her period, and oh dear Kami.......and put it on the teacher’s desk.

If both of my parents are to be believed, I was conceived during a wild college party. They didn't really want to have a baby right away...or get married too soon. They just wanted to take it slow and wait like everyone else, but what choice did they have?

Derek had many fucking excuses for his bitch of a daughter, Oh, she had fucking problems! She’s anti-racist!, She’s a FUCKING little princess!

I remember how people are whining about representation in media nowadays, Back in the 80’s, the closest thing I got to Japanese-Americans being represented in pop culture was Jotaro Kujo from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and that about was it, nowadays, they want representation for fucking everything! From gays to transsexuals, forcing diversity making characters where the only thing that matters to them is their fucking race!

GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend is a dumb campaign, not everyone needs to be gay.

My family had a tradition where they went into the backyard and a Tarot card was chosen, Michael had pagan beliefs and believed Tarot card meanings could help you in life, My great-grandparents Kenta and Aiko and great-aunt Sachiko went under the ritual, The Docks called it pagan and anyone married into the family will go under it as well like mom and grandma.

Derek tried to steal my Game Boy off me because he believed “only good and smart kids” should have it. Mikey and Yuu hit him across the face, hard and Shadow hissed at him. I am a good and smart kid! His son Michael tried to convince me to report him to the cops.

Years after my death, my murderer Stacie Harris, who was now 38, died in prison from blood poisoning six months after giving birth to her baby son, Lucas.

Mikey and Ichiro weren’t the only WWII soldiers in my family, Matsuko’s brother, Hiroshi Shizawa fought in the US Army as a Nisei soldier, When he found his father after the war ended, he slapped him across the face, Their relationship never recovered even when their father died from COPD, Hiroshi refused to go to the funeral, Hiroshi died in 1997 from kidney failure, Mikey got on with him very well.

Reiwa is such a beautiful name.

I once was picked to play Veruca Salt in a school play in kindergarten, even though I had no interest in playing the role. I declined and insisted they give the role to someone else (Josephine). Off set, I was very sweet and a tomboy, I had no interest in girly things, I don’t like mink coats, they don’t feel right, Mikey was the only one who looked old enough to be portrayed as Mr. Salt, Ichiro and Martin were said to look too young.

Josephine was very spoiled rotten brat who acted like a baby and Derek refused to discipline her so Denise stepped in to do so. ~ Maria

However, Derek would physically and violently beat his wife, bang her head against the wall, whip her with a belt or hit her with whatever blunt object he got his hands on whenever she tried to discipline Josephine. Poor Denise, I felt really bad for her. i am glad she divorced that fat bastard ~ Maria

And if things weren't bad enough, Josie threw a temper tantrum because she wasn’t allowed to bring coconut sweets in the house due of my rare yet life-threatening allergy. My allergy was so severe that I could even get a reaction from people who have eaten them. ~ Maria

Also during Halloween, We have a party and all the guests had to wash their hands in case they touched me and when I’m Trick or Treating with Joseph we have to tell the person giving us the sweets not to give us coconut sweets. I am also wear my coconut allergy ID bracelet on my wrist at all times BTW. ~ Maria

The only dress I would wear was a Japanese kimono, I like kimonos, They come in all shapes and sizes.

Mikey said to me he didn‘t hate Derek because he is black, He hates him because he’s a fat bastard and a yellow-bellied coward with no honor, no moral or decency. He taught me that he who lives without honor will end without honor.

Death comes for us all. But something worse will come for Derek when he dies, it will be without honor.

I went to Nanjing for a visit in 1988, I met Zhiyu’s sister, who went back to China, Me, Satsuki and Ichiro were told not to look too Japanese, my Mandarin was decent enough, but not enough to read text, I’ve been to the Nanking Massacre Museum, The guide was a pretty nice lady.

In my afterlife, I discovered new things! The Internet, deviantart, fanfiction, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and a lot of changes since I left earth, I kind of dislike DeviantArt, like yaoi, vore and yuri, But I love the new JoJo series, whoever is playing DIO in the English dub, he was awesome!

My mother made friends with an Avatar The Last Airbender cosplay group while we were at a convention, the problem was, their Ozai, a Chinese-American 27-year old named Yeng, was a mute, he could read, sign, but not actually speak, ironically, It was their Azula that had to help him around since he couldn’t talk, Turned out they were a triad operating as an Avatar cosplay group in North Supernannya’s rundown Chinatown, Consisted of kids young as 13 to an elderly man, their name is the Xué Hú Triad, North Supernannya’s rundown districts are becoming more like Roanapur from Black Lagoon everyday.

Shortly after she died from old age at age 9 which is 63 in cat years, I was overjoyed to see my beloved Shadow again in the afterlife!

If I were to be reborn, I would come back as...let me think.....maybe someone from Ireland, but I don’t want to leave my family.

Now you know how it feels to watch somebody you love die.....YOU RUINED MY LIFE! ~ Maria to Josephine after her father’s execution.

They turned me into a monster CJ, but those memories of Joe and my family are still pure.

My favorite Shonen Jump hero is actually Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, he fights for peace and justice in the wasteland and is very forgiving.

My tarot meetings taught me kindness, understanding and peace, but to me, Josephine and Derek are beyond forgiveness, You got to be as kind as Japan’s emperor or as evil as Shoko Asahara to think he deserves to be forgiven.

Nah, Horror films never fazed me, even as a four-year old they never fazed me, My favorite was Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween, maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I also like Japanese horror films, too!

What really pissed me off about Derek he did the exact same things to 12 other families like threatening to take kids away from their parents, this included a young couple that migrated from Saudi Arabia from 1977 to 1978, threatening them to take away their 2 year old daughter because they were Muslim, even threatening them it was “Christian area”, a family from China that practised Taoism from 1974 to 1976, even a family with a blind child wasn’t exempt in 1981 for six months because he believed it was the parent’s fault he couldn’t see, except their kids made it out alive, but I did not. If I had the chance, I would have reported that fat bastard to the police.

I’ve been to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial with my family in 1987, I had a lovely time, Japan wasn’t the only place we’ve been to, I like the ships and stuff, Alot of Japanese tourists like mom visit it, because it’s shared history, We share it, We visit around December time, Josephine unfortunately was on the same plane as me to see her Aunt Whitney and threw a major hissy fit over my allergy, She and Derek ended up getting kicked off the plane and even getting put on the No-Fly List, There was also a warning about eating peanuts on there due to a 21-year old Chinese student’s severe allergy.

Not everyone can get off being normal, and one more thing, all those rich fat bastards preaching charity while doing the opposite and bitches who think life’s only about boyfriends and makeup, I don’t want to hear any of you speak your mind from the same perspective as those hypocritical assholes.

I do remember Christmas when I was seven, We spent it in a community center, everyone I’d ever met was there, Mihai encourages the citizens there to be nice to those not of their faith so they can learn and accept, despite Derek’s wealth and charisma, He’s not that well-liked by the older neighbors, Josephine threw a massive tantrum in front of the center because she didn’t get the “doll” she wanted, Now, I got the recent Dragon Ball volume, some action figures, My great-uncle came as well. Oh yeah, Josephine's grandma Cass beat her ass, she gave my mom the latest JoJo volume, knowing how much my mom was a huge fan.

I remember a policy from my first-grade class, not any other class because my teacher was a fucking bitch, If you brought in cake for your classmates on your birthday, You weren’t allowed any because “you brought it in for your friends” and it‘s “selfish“ and “bad manners for you to have some when you brought it for everyone else”, I didn’t bring in birthday cake because no one gives a shit about the poor little Japanese-American bitch and most of my birthdays were celebrated at home.

Yes, I vividly remember the Monster with 21 Faces, I was two years old and I vividly remember my mother forbidding me and my uncle from buying anything made by Glico during our holiday to Japan, when they targeted Morinaga, I remember my mother forbidding me from eating any Morinaga candy with Yuu.

One of the weirdest rules in my class is that you weren’t allowed to bring in menstrual pads and tampons, now, I died before I had to put up with that fucking shit, they claimed it was to protect the values of younger kids and to protect their minds, Ugh, fuck that.

Conversations
Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: Have you been ever told that you couldn't do something because of your gender?)

[Maria nods]

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: What are your favorite things?)

Maria: "Transformers, manga, anime, J-horror, Japanese cinema, G.I Joe, He-Man, Micro Machines, The Karate Kid, Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Super Sentai, Hot Wheels, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider-Man, Gundam, Masters of the Universe, J-Pop, Batman, Cyborg 009, Astro Boy, Thundercats, Superman, omurice, sushi, bento, comic books."

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: What is your nationality and race?)

Maria: "Translation: I am Japanese-American, my mommy is Japanese and my daddy is American."

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: What is your birth year?)

Maria: "Showa 56, 1981."

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: Death year?)

Maria: "Heisei 1, 1989."

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: So, you died after Emperor Hirohito's rule?)

Maria: "Hai, just when The Current Emperor's reign started."

Ban Young-chol: "" (Translation: Oh, okay, how old are you?)

Maria: "" (Translation: 8 at death, 38 if I was still living)

Ban Young-chol meets Maria

[Maria and her three main killers stare at each other]

Maria: "" (Translation: Do you know who I am?)

Stacie: "So, you're the one that wrote threatening messages on my room when I was a child!"

Maria: "" (Translation: I'm the girl you murdered! Now I place a curse on your family!)

Stacie: "My infant son Lucas was taken away from me and given to my ex boyfriend."

Josephine: "I told you, you were gonna be shot for it!"

Maria: "" (Translation: SHUT UP! THOSE PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT OVER AND OVER! JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH!)

Josephine: "You're lucky I'm an adult woman!"

Maria: "" (Translation: And your reputation is doomed for life, the people know what you did, and you were never able to go out anyway, and you know, I'm a ghost, I have the strength of a grown adult. Death comes for us all, Josie-kun. But far worse will come for when you die...it will be...without honor.)

Josephine: "Besides, that hat makes you pathetic!"

Maria: "No, you are the pathetic one, you are a horrible and jealous person."

Missing poster
Mutiple copies of her missing poster was shown everywhere on Miami, Florida. It reads:

POLICE DEPARTMENT OF MIAMI                                                               HAVE YOU SEEN ME? MISSING A 1989 yearbook picture of Maria Tachimi smiling. (not text) MARIA TACHIMI 8 YEARS OLD LAST SEEN DECEMBER 17 DESCRIPTION: Date of Birth: November 11, 1981 Female, 8 yrs. Height: 124 cm Inches Weight: 50 lbs. Near Shoulder-Length Hair. Dark Brown Eyes. Wearing: Blue shorts, a dark blue jumper. Last seen Shown Holding Thundercracker Action Figure (Favorite toy). Maria will respond to being called “The World” as per family tradition.

Persons Having Any Information Are Required To Call

Obituary
Satsuki and Martin wrote an obituary for Maria.

It also features a message written by Satsuki to Derek that he was beyond forgiving.

“1981-1989

Assigned card: The World.

Our cherry blossom suffered until she died.

We buried her somewhere near, but not too near, Maria, We buried you in the meadows, you can look up at the beautiful landscape as you sleep.

She loved Transformers, G.I. Joe and Shonen Jump manga.

Maria and us were due to move to Japan next month, she went out of her way to ensure that I didn’t feel alone in my hardships, she even read some of my favorite manga.

She found the fact that one of Hokuto no Ken’s villains had a real-life rare condition where all your major organs, including your heart are mirrored interesting.

She had a very gentle yet strong-willed nature, It didn’t matter if she was in accidents or anything else, she was always worried about us, Ichiro and Mikey.

On November 20th, 8 days after Maria’s birthday, Derek tried to take her away and duped the CPS that Mikey was sexually molesting her, he was pissed

In your final year, you developed a very cynical view, where you believed patriotism and religion-control caused heartache and pain.

It was from hell since 1983.

Your death just shattered everything, the emotional wellbeing of this family, everything.

You’ll never be able to go to a new school, make friends and live happy.

The kind and courageous characters you read like Kenshiro and Jonathan forgave people who hurt like Souther and Dio as you read Hokuto no Ken and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, but to us, Derek and Josephine are both beyond forgiving.

You've got to be kind as Japan’s new emperor or evil as Myra Hindley or the Man with 21 Faces to think that religious tyrant deserves any forgiveness.

This feud led to your death.

Maria, Rest in peace.”

It also features a note written by Satsuki to Derek

”You and your daughter killed my daughter.

How can you live with yourself?

Are you proud of yourself of what you did to me and Maria?

My family and in-laws either would have to be kind as Jonathan and Kenshiro or evil as Dio and Souther to think that a tyrant like you and his daughter deserve any forgiveness.

In short terms, You’re beyond forgiving, To you, abusing your wife and lying to your two elder children was a hobby

You took the fact my family did things differently on an young child that you took away from us

Have a great time in prison.”

In Another vs. Normal Party: Abduction
Maria is one of the central ghosts in the game. In one cutscene, alongside her parental both grandfathers and ancestors, she is seen crying in her old classroom and will not be available until you deal with her relatives to find out what happened to her, she is sensitive to light, loud noise, and having one of her Transformers, He-Man, or Thundercats toys being taken, Joseph offers her a Masterpiece Starscream, a Donatello action figure, a He-Man figure, a Mario plush, a Luigi plush, a Elite Seekers Transformers gift set, and a Marvel comic book, With her saying his nickname “Joe?”.

Maria outfit turns white and she grows white angelic wings, having found peace and salvation in the afterlife.

It’s been revealed that she and her parents end up in the Ghost World soon after. Her religion is a mix of Tarot-based paganism and Shinto with small hints of Christianity in the mix.

Abilities
Billingualism: Speaks her mother's native Japanese and English

Transformation

Telekinesis: She is fully capable of telekinetic powers much like her 3x great uncle Ailin, but it is mostly limited to making her jet Transformers flying in the air, These powers are nicknamed “The World”, They only become to Ailin’s level to protect her family, even stronger.

Flight

Theory Smash Brawl Bio:
Name: Maria Ami Tachimi

Age: 8/38

Nationality: 1/2 Japanese 1/2 American

DOB: November 11th 1981 (Scorpio)

DOD: December 17th 1989

Location of origin: Miami, Florida

Info: A young 8-year old Japanese-American tomboy who loved boyish things so much it costed the girl her own life at the hands of her jealous female classmates only eight days before Christmas.

Likes: Transformers, tarot card reading, Grave of the Fireflies, J-Horror films, sashimi, Gundam, goldfish scooping, Marine Day, Kousoku Sentai Turboranger, Battle Fever J, Super Robot Red Baron, robots, Hot Wheels, paper lanterns, Japanese literature, kaiju films, Cyborg 009, Astro Boy, Lupin III, Castle in the Sky, Mario, Dragon Ball Z, Donkey Kong, playing with other tomboys and boys, Captain America, Race Car tracks, sushi, onigiri, ramen noodle soup, hi top sneakers, primary colors, Iron Man, Thundercats, jet planes, Metroids, Ultimate Frisbee, Ewoks, Droids, Rambo, Casey Wintergreen, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Voltron, history, samurai movies, anime, manga, kimonos, Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels, learning about American Civil war and World War Two, leaving The Docks, kimonos, playing sports such as baseball, soccer, hockey, basketball and football, He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sports Popples, NES, Game and Watch, the color blue, going to Japan, Super Mario Bros, Mighty Orbots, M.A.S.K., The Land of the Lost, being with friends, Joseph Wintergreen, The Legend of Zelda, Speed Racer, Super Sentai

Dislikes: makeup, Barbie dolls, KFC, McDonalds, fast food of any kind, Josephine Armstrong and her father, Susie Hollister, Wuzzles, ballet classes, not being allowed to go to Japan, playing the role as Veruca Salt, Stacie Harris, coconut, Christianity, not being allowed to leave The Docks, Strawberry Shortcake, dresses (except for kimonos), being forced to leave Japan which is her refuge from her troubles, ballet flats, high heels, dangly earrings, glittery bracelets and other jewelry, Lisa Frank, being grounded by grandpa Mikey, Daisy Duke shorts, pastel colors, being threatened by Patty Lennyson, her toy robots getting snatched from her, skirts (unless it is school uniform), hair accessories, being forced to stay on The Docks, dolls, princess movies, hair bows and ribbons, flower patterns, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Maple Town, the color pink, Cabbage Patch Kids, being sent back to The Docks, Derek's harassment towards her family, Rainbow Brite, being bullied, tea parties, people that say she should like "girly" things.

Trivia

 * She is fluent in both Japanese and English, and speaks very little Mandarin and Korean.
 * her favorite animal is the fox
 * She was in second grade when she died
 * She suffers PTSD-style flashbacks if exposed to My Little Pony-related things, even a slight glimpse.
 * She is mentioned in Josephine Armstrong's burn book as a "Grotesque little Asian queer who makes out with her Transformers", a "dirty and ugly whore whose homies are her Transformers", "kissed Joseph Wintergreen", and "has a bad case of infectious tomboy cooties"
 * For Joseph's 8th birthday, she bought him a Transformers Starscream action figure
 * As a 1989 christmas gift for her friend Joseph Wintergreen, she bought him a Transformers Megatron action figure before her death
 * she sent and received pen pal letters from her pen pals from Japan who are tomboys and boys
 * For her school lunch, her mother made Japanese dishes, such as bento, miso soup, onigiri, omurice, dragon rolls, California rolls, makizushi, okazu, sashimi, cooked rice and ramen.
 * For Joseph's 5th birthday, she, her mother and her father went with him and his family to Walt Disney World
 * her favorite football team is the Miami Dolphins
 * She suffers hayfever, as a result, she is allergic to hay
 * At the time of her death, her school lacked funds for security systems. Also, her state did not have any anti-bullying laws.
 * her favorite movie is E.T. The Extraterrestrial
 * Never watched another football game until her 8th birthday since the Hillsborough disaster.
 * her favorite basketball team is the Miami Heat
 * Her favorite cereal is Fruity Pebbles
 * Her birthday is on Veteran's Day.
 * Her American side is of Irish and English descent due to both of her paternal grandparents.
 * She is severely allergic to orange blossom flowers which is a very rare allergy
 * She is also allergic to coconut, inherited from her great-grandfather Kenta, which stops her breathing properly, resulting in it being banned in her preschool and elementary school to protect me, also a very rare allergy.
 * Her favorite comics are Captain America comics and a collection of them from Ichiro despite him being used as a hero in anti-Axis propaganda during WWII.
 * She uses an EpiPen that she keeps in a Marvel Superhero belt bag to deal with her allergies. She also wears a coconut allergy ID bracelet
 * She was heavily noted by her classmates that she never cries at sad scenes in films or documentaries, which misled people to think she was a sociopath.
 * She was taught to use her kanji name (茉莉亜 ) if she is in Japan.
 * Her kanji name uses the Chinese characters for “Jasmine”.
 * She almost forgot GoBots existed, probably due to the high popularity of Transformers.
 * Her blood type is A-.
 * Her parents are technically adopted cousins due to Ichiro being adopted into the Kimmings family after the war, making Satsuki Mikey’s niece and Martin Ichiro’s nephew, making Maria’s grandfathers technically her half-granduncles and herself technically first cousin once removed to both of her parents
 * She likes reading tarot cards.
 * Her chapter in the Lore of the Kimmings-Tachimi is called “Twenty-One: The World, Apocalypses”, referring how her death caused her family‘s downfall and her tarot card.
 * Her favorite Shonen Jump hero is not actually Goku, It’s actually Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, with Maria liking his kind and forgiving nature.