|| Get to know MARGOT “GOGO” TOMAGO who’s TWENTY-FOUR years old and is a GRADUATE STUDENT studying MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. She is from CORONA and is often times mistaken for ADELINE RUDOLPH while others say she reminds them of GO GO from BIG HERO 6. ||
bio & headcanons
Raised by two hardworking parents — a mechanic and a school teacher — Gogo had to learn how to fend for herself from a young age as her parents worked hard to make ends meet. She made her own lunches, cooked dinner if her family would be home late, figured out her homework on her own, and did small repairs around the house if something stopped working. It gave her a sense of independence from a very young age, making her feel as though she could only ever really rely on herself. She never held any bitterness toward her parents for not being around as much as the other kid’s parents, but she did grow up never really knowing how to ask for help.
Gogo’s fascination with cars and motorcycles started by the time she was 10. If she was feeling particularly lonely — a rarity, but everyone needs human connection sometimes — she would go to her dad’s shop after school to do her homework, but always ended up watching him fix cars instead. Eventually she was able to convince him to let her help; she learned how to change a tire, change the oil, and check an engine before her thirteen birthday.
Growing up in what might be considered the sketchier side of Corona, Gogo’s parents enrolled her in self defense classes by the time she hit high school, just to be safe. She fell in love with the empowering feeling of knowing she could kick someone’s ass, and still does kickboxing twice a week. While she’s never actually been in a fight, she gets a rush out of knowing she could win if she ever stumbled into one. She does threaten to kick someone’s ass at least once a week, and hopes everyone sees that she’s tiny but mighty.
The first time Gogo realized that science could actually be interesting was in her ninth grade science class. Their semester project was to create a rocket, and while everyone else in class struggled with the task, she relished in the challenge. She likes understanding how machines work, breaking them down and building them back up, only to make them better. Science was more than learning that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and could actually be, dare she say it, cool. By the time the semester was over, Gogo realized that she finally found her calling.
Up until she started making friends in college, Gogo spent most of her life as a bit of a loner. While she had a couple of close friends, she much preferred to keep to herself. Whenever she wasn’t taking apart every appliance in the house so she could put it back together — much to her family’s annoyance — she was playing video games or spending her time at the arcade. She still loves video games, and boasts having the high score on four different games at the Sugar Rush Arcade.
Despite her love of math, science, and video games, Gogo resents being called a nerd — even though she is a total nerd. She uses fashion to cultivate a badass persona, often wearing leather jackets, ripped jeans, combat boots, and dark colours.
While she might try to act like a rebel, her only form of rebellion was dyeing a streak of purple in her hair in college. She’s softer than she lets on.
Don’t let her tough exterior fool you — she likes a hug every now and then.
Gogo is fluent in sarcasm and often struggles to be genuine. This can sometimes make her come across as mean, but she never intends to be malicious. Although admittedly, she does like that her cold exterior intimidates and keeps away the people she has no interest in talking to. There’s a heart of gold behind the layers of sarcasm, it just takes some digging to get there. The closer you are to her, the more she’ll open up and show her softer side, but no one is completely safe from her sarcasm.
She has a bad habit of being quite stubborn and irritable. She’ll dig her heels in on a debate, even if she starts to realize halfway through that maybe she’s wrong. In her defense, she’s rarely wrong. She has little patience for someone that takes too long to do something you could do quickly, make careless mistakes, or is too cheerful first thing in the morning — mornings are for coffee and meditation, not for chatter. She has a short fuse and can become snappy, but she’s working on it. At the very least, she’s working on apologizing.
When she’s working on an important project, Gogo completely looses track of time and spends most of her waking hours in the lab. She runs on little sleep, accidentally skips meals, and forgets to drink water, surviving mostly on coffee and energy drinks. She never means to develop these bad habits, it just sort of... happens. She counts on her friends to check in on her, reminding her to drink water, get some fresh air, and actually sleep. She’s more grateful for them than she often admits.
After years of throwing together passable meals as a child, Gogo’s become incredibly passionate about cooking. While she’s never taken any cooking classes and doesn’t always have the patience to follow a recipe, she has a knack for flavour and somehow has pretty good luck with throwing a bunch of ingredients in a pan and having them turn out well. She hosts big dinners for her friends around Thanksgiving and Christmas — it’s her one way of showing how much she loves and appreciates her friends without having to say the words out loud.
She’ll deny it if you ask, but Gogo loves pop music. It’s guaranteed to put her in a good mood no matter what.
Gogo is an absolute adrenaline junkie. Whether it’s roller derby, sky diving, or just walking through a bad neighbourhood in the middle of the night, she loves the rush. It’s the same reason she loves thrillers and horror movies — she loves the feeling of being scared, even though there isn’t much that scares her.
She absolutely hates her first name and has insisted on going by nicknames for as long as she can remember. Margot is too girly, too proper, too much of everything she doesn’t want to be. She tried out a lot of nicknames, including “M” and “Go”, and eventually settled on using her last name. It wasn’t until she found her friends in college that she was dubbed with her new nickname, and while she resisted it at first, she finally grew to like it. It might be cute — and she dislikes most things that can be categorized as cute — but somehow it seems to suit her. But if she doesn’t know you well, she still insists on being referred to as Tomago.
wanted connections
friends, enemies, exes, general annoyances. all the usual stuff and anything else you can think of