Makoto Midori

"Warning! The following Character Page contains spoilers for Northbound: The Chariot Girls." Makoto "Mako" Midori is one of the leading characters in Northbound: The Chariot Girls, and later, making an appearance in Abyssal Realm Of the Divines. Mako was formerly the sole heir to lead her father's dojo, one of the last remaining dojos that teaches a magically infused Old World technique, known as the Iaijutsu. While being a very capable mercenary within the Chariot Mercenary Guild, people tend to avoid her due to her monstrous strength. Being labeled as a freak and nicknamed as "The Beastly Butcher."

Being very careless about her future, Mako aims to seek a life of true freedom. Without the restraints of laws or rules that keep her bounded.

Her current ranking in the Guild is Dragoon.  Mako is a rehabilitated criminal who is later revealed to have killed her Father in a sparring match. Exiling herself from the dojo and being hunted by her Father's former students in an attempt of avenging him, Mako vows to never use her sword, Blood Drinker until she sets things right for him. During the Siege of the North, she breaks this vow, using Blood Drinker and her inherited Iaijutsu techniques to buy Beryl and Team Ruber time assisting Ivory against the revived Sir Gwyn.

Appearance
Mako is a large, muscular woman with green hair that's tied up into a shoulder length, green pony tail with bangs covering the right side of her face. She has greenish skin with a lighter colored underside. She has prominently sharp teeth with inverted eyes and yellow pupils that give off a faint, bioluminescent glow. Mako has a large shark tail with a slightly damaged tail fin. She dresses in a tight, dark colored top with a white, neck window collar and a very long dark greenish sash that covers the lower half of her torso. This sash doubles as a holster to hold her sword.

Mako's usually seen with a large kanabō, a spiked war club typically seen wielded by more brutish Onis. Its her preferred weapon, claiming she "picked it off an Oni" she had killed in the past. Her sword on the other hand, appears to be an ordinary katana, with bandage wraps covering the entirety of the handle. Its blade however, has never been seen out of its sheath by any of her peers.

Personality
Mako is very vulgar and crass, and has a tendency to be very easy to anger. She doesn't care much about thinking things over, preferring to charge into things headfirst above all else. Her simplistic mindset can give off the impression of her being simple minded or even very reckless, but in reality while both are true, Mako revels in fighting and will resort to it above all else. Her aggressive nature, foul mouth, and bloodlust for battle makes her one of the least approachable members of Team Ruber due to how monstrous she can come off as.

Mako is constantly searching for worthy opponents to fight, constantly seeking out her need to grow stronger. She likes to boast about how skilled she is in her craft, often doing this as a way to seek out competition.

While Mako heavily dislikes thinking, her instincts are sharp and will usually know when she's bitten off more than she could chew. Her bloodlust is kept in check by Felicity and the other members of Team Ruber, keeping her grounded and not allowing her to succumb to her beastly instincts.

Early Life
Born in The Surface City to the West of The Frontier, Mako was the sole heir to the Miyako Dojo ran by her father. Throughout most of her childhood, Mako was told that her mother had died when she was a baby. She spent most of her days training and honing her skill in wielding a blade. Mako was unsurprisingly very talented and adept with a sword, being one of her father's best students, making her a worthy heir to inheriting the dojo.

Unstable Magical Discharges
Mako was born with overflowing magical energy, energy she is unable to properly wield and fully control. Because of this, Mako does not understand her own strength, sometimes overcharging and amplifying the most mundane objects and causing them to explode due to the high influx of magical energy. This is mostly prevalent when she is angry or stressed, though Mako tends to be cautious in handling things because of this.

Enhancement and Reinforcing Magic
Knowing basic magical skills, Mako is able to utilize Enhancement and Reinforcement magic to an unquantifiable degree. Mako is able to amplify her body tenfold to withstand more damage, or amplifying her strength. If Mako is careful enough, she is able to reinforce any objects or weapons she's holding, making them practically unbreakable. Mako's results are not consistent however, due to her uncontrollable magical energy.

Sharpened Instincts
While being more animalistic in nature, Mako's instincts are much sharper than even her marksmen peers in Team Ruber. Her senses allow her to read the tide of the situation, and allowing her to act accordingly, though she only uses this as a sign of whether or not to run away from a fight she can't handle.

Mako's sharpened instincts however allow her to have better reflexes as well.

Abyssal Aquatics
"The following Skills and Abilities below contain spoilers relating to the Endgame of Chariot Girls." === Blood Drinker === A specialized sword custom made for the Miyako family's techniques. Its a honing device used to focus any and all unstable magical energy the wielder has into a single decisive slash. Mako's sword, Blood Drinker, is one of these specialized swords forged from petrified Vigorite. While normal Vigorite is a common powersource used by most machines, Petrified Vigorite is an empty vessel that can store magical energy.

Enhanced Art: Miyako Gymnopede
Mako's altered form of the Miyako Iaijutsu. Due to her very unstable magical energies surging in her body, she is able to unleash more deadly slashes using Blood Drinker. Mako is able to unleash large waves of magical energy slashes at her opponents, almost functioning as a projectile in itself for long distance targets. Her magical energy using this technique is so intense, it allows her to cut through practically anything, and to some extent, potentially being able to disintegrate opponents.

Beastly Arts: Sound of Piano, Nocturne
Mako concentrates all of her magical energy into Blood Drinker, overloading it in the process. While visibly not displaying any motions using her sword, a distinct ringing can be heard coming from her. Faster than a blink of the eye, Mako is able to unleash a flurry of quick slashes on her opponent, using her magical energy as an extension of her sword to reach further distances. This can only be initiated if she is fully concentrating. This runs the risk however of Mako shattering Blood Drinker using her immense magical energy, while also severely exhausting herself both mentally and physically in the process. This technique was crafted and molded to fit Mako's use of of the iaijutsu, making this her very own signature move amongst her predecessors in the family.

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