AU History: (Already discussed with the other members of the Sailor Moon cast and brought to speed on their AU.) Makoto is, like the rest of her cast, a reincarnation of one of the warriors in the final battle during the Savior-Era of Union’s history. She’s unaware of her former life, but only that some things feel familiar for some reason. And she gets that funny feeling around some people that she knew formerly.
Her in-game history is as follows: In what was supposed to be a quick day trip for Makoto’s parents, a date alone while she was at school, the Fearow they were riding on ran into huge gusts of winds and the Kino parents fell from off the back of their Pokémon companion, dying upon impact, mercifully. They were able to leave her a tidy nest egg that a ten year old girl could comfortably subsist on until she graduated, if she was frugal. Since then, Mako has been alone and would have stayed that way if she hadn’t met, and bonded, with a newly hatched Mareep.
While she was alone with Cotton, Mako attended school but had trouble connecting with others for a while because she was grieving so much. She loved her parents and was very happy with them, but with their sudden deaths and her lack of an extended family, she grew disenchanted with those around her, pushing former friends away and causing some of them to be angry and pick fights that ended quickly. Instead of friends, she spent time learning how to cook and fight hand-to-hand. Her schoolwork suffered a little, since it didn’t interest her much, but she always managed to just barely squeak by to the next level. Over time, the Pokémon reminded her that it was okay to be happy again and she slowly made friends again, first with Usagi, Rei Ami and Minako at school and later Michiru and Haruka.
Upon meeting the others, she begins to have dreams. They make little sense to her, dealing with scenes that seem to be from history books, but have happened to her. But that they hardly seem like they’re real, except for the feelings she has about her new friends that she can’t really explain either.
Canon Personality: Makoto is a good-natured, kind girl at heart. However, her above-average height, slightly gang-like looks, and rumors made it hard for her to make friends. While some people, like Umino and Naru, said that she was scary and was expelled from her former school, the truth of the fact is that Makoto was lonely and following what she felt was her destiny when she transferred to the school where Usagi and Ami attended. (Granted, her actions of pulling on the guidance counsellor’s tie and telling him frankly that her hair was natural and that she wasn’t wearing the uniform of the new school because it was too small didn’t help her ‘scary’ rep.)
Her parents, from what we later find out, died in a plane accident, leaving Makoto to fend for herself from a relatively early age—though with what means is never touched upon. She outwardly doesn’t seem to mind it, but it does impact a lot of things she does. Her loneliness is also a weakness that the enemy has exploited. In the first chapter of the manga where she appears, the enemy has brainwashed the handsome, older boy who runs Crown Arcade who Makoto has a slight crush on to make her vulnerable. It’s only the quick actions of Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon that keep her from falling victim to the ploy.
In retaliation, she picks up the monster du jour (a bride of all things!) and body slams it to the ground before receiving her transformation pen and becoming Sailor Jupiter for the first time. After dispatching General Nephrite with her powers, she is welcomed as the fourth member of the team. She then tells the other scouts about a boy who broke her heart at her last school, a boy who Motoki (Andrew) reminded her greatly of, but she admits that transferring to Juuban was to find something more important than a lost love, something that was waiting for her to show up.
However, when she transforms into Sailor Jupiter, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. She uses her physical prowess and lightning-based attacks to protect the denizens of Earth and her friends, putting special focus on Sailor Moon since she is actually the princess of the former Moon Kingdom. She works in tandem with the other members of the team quite well, despite their outward differences, often combining their powers to do things like teleport to and from the moon or to channel their life force through the Crystal Sword so that Princess Serenity could use it to defeat Queen Metallia.
To make up for the fact that she is the tallest of the Inner Scouts and participates in martial arts (lending to her tomboyish, violent reputation), Makoto has gone the exact opposite way in her personal hobbies. She prefers things like the very girly shade of candy pink. She loves to bake and cook. In fact, that is exactly how she manages to befriend Usagi—by sharing her very excellently prepared bento with the ever-hungry Usagi after saving her at least twice in the same day. She dreams of being a bride and wishes to put her talents of cooking and growing plants into working in a bakery and/or flower shop. She wears the very distinct and pretty rose earrings that are her signature.
Keeping in that vein, once Makoto allows Usagi to persuade her to be friends, she is steadfast and extremely loyal. She shows her gentler, calmer side to the other girls and, eventually, allowing those they go to school with to see that side of her as well. She teases Usagi about her terrible grades, all the while admitting that her own aren’t much better with a bit of a laugh. However, when the chance to study with Ami and Rei, the best students of the Inners, presents itself, she tries to take advantage of it as best she can. With mixed results.
While Makoto can be scary due to her size and her somewhat short temper, she balances it out with hobbies that she pursues both out of a love of them and because they are more feminine than she is typically perceived. She finds it difficult to make friends, but once she has, they are friends that she will lay her life on the line for.
Revisions (sorry about cutting it so close.)
Her in-game history is as follows: In what was supposed to be a quick day trip for Makoto’s parents, a date alone while she was at school, the Fearow they were riding on ran into huge gusts of winds and the Kino parents fell from off the back of their Pokémon companion, dying upon impact, mercifully. They were able to leave her a tidy nest egg that a ten year old girl could comfortably subsist on until she graduated, if she was frugal. Since then, Mako has been alone and would have stayed that way if she hadn’t met, and bonded, with a newly hatched Mareep.
While she was alone with Cotton, Mako attended school but had trouble connecting with others for a while because she was grieving so much. She loved her parents and was very happy with them, but with their sudden deaths and her lack of an extended family, she grew disenchanted with those around her, pushing former friends away and causing some of them to be angry and pick fights that ended quickly. Instead of friends, she spent time learning how to cook and fight hand-to-hand. Her schoolwork suffered a little, since it didn’t interest her much, but she always managed to just barely squeak by to the next level. Over time, the Pokémon reminded her that it was okay to be happy again and she slowly made friends again, first with Usagi, Rei Ami and Minako at school and later Michiru and Haruka.
Upon meeting the others, she begins to have dreams. They make little sense to her, dealing with scenes that seem to be from history books, but have happened to her. But that they hardly seem like they’re real, except for the feelings she has about her new friends that she can’t really explain either.
Canon Personality: Makoto is a good-natured, kind girl at heart. However, her above-average height, slightly gang-like looks, and rumors made it hard for her to make friends. While some people, like Umino and Naru, said that she was scary and was expelled from her former school, the truth of the fact is that Makoto was lonely and following what she felt was her destiny when she transferred to the school where Usagi and Ami attended. (Granted, her actions of pulling on the guidance counsellor’s tie and telling him frankly that her hair was natural and that she wasn’t wearing the uniform of the new school because it was too small didn’t help her ‘scary’ rep.)
Her parents, from what we later find out, died in a plane accident, leaving Makoto to fend for herself from a relatively early age—though with what means is never touched upon. She outwardly doesn’t seem to mind it, but it does impact a lot of things she does. Her loneliness is also a weakness that the enemy has exploited. In the first chapter of the manga where she appears, the enemy has brainwashed the handsome, older boy who runs Crown Arcade who Makoto has a slight crush on to make her vulnerable. It’s only the quick actions of Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon that keep her from falling victim to the ploy.
In retaliation, she picks up the monster du jour (a bride of all things!) and body slams it to the ground before receiving her transformation pen and becoming Sailor Jupiter for the first time. After dispatching General Nephrite with her powers, she is welcomed as the fourth member of the team. She then tells the other scouts about a boy who broke her heart at her last school, a boy who Motoki (Andrew) reminded her greatly of, but she admits that transferring to Juuban was to find something more important than a lost love, something that was waiting for her to show up.
However, when she transforms into Sailor Jupiter, she becomes a force to be reckoned with. She uses her physical prowess and lightning-based attacks to protect the denizens of Earth and her friends, putting special focus on Sailor Moon since she is actually the princess of the former Moon Kingdom. She works in tandem with the other members of the team quite well, despite their outward differences, often combining their powers to do things like teleport to and from the moon or to channel their life force through the Crystal Sword so that Princess Serenity could use it to defeat Queen Metallia.
To make up for the fact that she is the tallest of the Inner Scouts and participates in martial arts (lending to her tomboyish, violent reputation), Makoto has gone the exact opposite way in her personal hobbies. She prefers things like the very girly shade of candy pink. She loves to bake and cook. In fact, that is exactly how she manages to befriend Usagi—by sharing her very excellently prepared bento with the ever-hungry Usagi after saving her at least twice in the same day. She dreams of being a bride and wishes to put her talents of cooking and growing plants into working in a bakery and/or flower shop. She wears the very distinct and pretty rose earrings that are her signature.
Keeping in that vein, once Makoto allows Usagi to persuade her to be friends, she is steadfast and extremely loyal. She shows her gentler, calmer side to the other girls and, eventually, allowing those they go to school with to see that side of her as well. She teases Usagi about her terrible grades, all the while admitting that her own aren’t much better with a bit of a laugh. However, when the chance to study with Ami and Rei, the best students of the Inners, presents itself, she tries to take advantage of it as best she can. With mixed results.
While Makoto can be scary due to her size and her somewhat short temper, she balances it out with hobbies that she pursues both out of a love of them and because they are more feminine than she is typically perceived. She finds it difficult to make friends, but once she has, they are friends that she will lay her life on the line for.