Makuon

Noisy Jackal

Sasha "Sashima" Majewska

Apollo

Juliana (Acquaintance)

Orion Valentine (Acquaintance)

[ ] "Makuon" [ ], known to the public as simply Makuon, has a bittersweet history involving gang life. Being born into the Grey Zone and currently being an adult, she has never seen the world outside of the Grey Zone and does not desire to. In her lifetime, she has been only loyal to one gang, only currently existing under the guise of a "gang leader" to a gang that doesn't even truly exist.

#### **Current Gang: "Llawrydd"**

*Also known as "The Llawrydd"*

Throughout her personal jobs and search for clues, Makuon does not use her given name when talking to those she is not close to, and prefers to be called "Llawrydd" or "The Llawrydd" when those who do not know her name speak of her. While she tells people that Llawrydd is also the name of her gang, she is really the only member, respecting her old gang.

The word Llawrydd can be translated to "Freehand" in the Welsh language. It was decided by her on a whim based on the languages she speaks and

#### **Former Gang: The Paperweights**

*Status: Shredded (Disbanded)*

The gang Makuon was born into. The gang had existed for many years, with Makuon being 16th generation herself. Despite what it may seem, the Paperweights gang existed even before the Grey Zone, only moving there seeking a more exciting setting from their previous locale. The Paperweights gang was ended when Makuon was a teenager, she has since been living a nomadic life in the Grey Zone. More about the Paperweights gang in a later section.

## Appearance

Makuon is a woman of Eurasian descent, her parents and ancestors descending from various nations across the continental area of Europe and Asia. Makuon about average height, has quite a slim figure, and wears a pair of cargo shorts, a turtleneck shirt, a short-cut jacket and in her attempt to look less suspicious and to not stand out too much. Her long hair is tied up in a ponytail with two long streaks flowing down along her sides, and she wears some bandages left over from past injuries, though she also prefers to wear them to hide some skin. Her obvious paper mask she wears pays tribute to her family gang the Paperweights, wearing it at all times and hiding her face. The paper is stapled to her face, though she only takes it off to do certain tasks like showering, or changing it when the paper dirties or rips.

## Personality

Having been secluded all through out her childhood and early teenage years, Makuon was never really able to build social skills to be a social butterfly, but she tries her best. She's mute around people she doesn't know and only slightly talkative around those she's comfortable with, alternatively communicating through sign language and through writing (although she doesn't usually make sense in English). On the topic of voice, she doesn't actually speak either- her voice is synthesized using vocal synthesis programs powered by a mobile device, accompanied by a small speaker hidden in her pocket. It is also known that Makuon has some trust issues due to her past along with having quite a short temper, making her quite scary when you catch her on a bad day.

During her sheltered childhood she was very diligent while studying, making her very smart and quite knowledgeable about various topics- but many things were not accessible to those strictly inside of the Paperweights' walls. Many things that might be common knowledge or common sense are new and confusing to Makuon. When encountering something strange or that she has never seen before, she may be overcome with a childlike curiosity and try to figure out what it is.

## History

Makuon was born into the Paperweights gang in the Grey Zone, but her past is more than just living within a gang. As a child Makuon was dead set on becoming a more serious gang member like the rest of her extended family, learning how to fight and defend herself at a young age and other survival tactics around the same time. Later in her childhood and pushing into her teenage years, through large amounts of family passing and new faces she encountered photography, growing to become obsessed with it and learning to use it to cope with the many deaths in her family. Leading up to her growing into a young adult, she had been doing more things outside of the gang's territory; be it tagging along with other members or scarcely practicing photography. On one specific day where Makuon had been practicing photography outside, she returned to the smell of ash and the burning of her home, seeing as it had evidently been raided. Her family was mostly dead and those who lived were fatally injured, leaving her lost and confused, and only living member of the Paperweights. In the years following the raid, she had come to teach herself about mechanics and eventually left her charred home for good.

## Weapons and Abilities

* Makuon's main weapons are her cameras, though at first thought they don't seem like weapons they are. Her cameras are heavily modified on her own, and along with being actual cameras they are also firearms. Her main camera has custom lenses of 3 different focal lengths and modes of firing respectively, all while both acting and looking like a normal camera. A wide 16-35mm lens is used for firing shotgun shells, a standard 24-88mm lens for SMG rounds, and a long 150-500mm lens for sniper rounds make the camera versatile, and the standard camera look hides it's lethality quite well. Her second camera she owns is about the size of a Fujifilm camera and has the same use, though only uses one lens and shoots pistol bullets and also still functions as a normal camera.

* Her other weapon a tripod named "Aberffraw", used (coincidentally) in three different ways. The tripod acts normally like a standard tripod, but also can be used as a medium-heavy weight blunt weapon thanks to its durable material and grippy design. The tripod's exterior also hides a small rapier-like weapon in the center, known as "the monopod". Lastly, the top of the tripod shoots out like a whipshot to provide long range utility, allowing it to be used for both grappling and attacking. The rope attached to the head when it shoots out is extremely strong, so using it to do things like hang off a ledge is possible.

Compared to her other talents Makuon's strength is not as great, but she makes up for it with incredible dexterity as well as having excellent accuracy and precision with her weapons. While she may not be physically powerful compared to others, her capacity to deal significant damage goes way up when she wields Aberffraw due to she designed it. Overall, her borderline superhuman athletic abilities are what most of her physical threat is concentrated on.

Additionally, when she kills a target- bounty or not- she leaves behind a single piece of paper stapled to their face, simply marked with an "X."

## Associates/Relationships

**Bucket::** Makuon goes to Bucket a few times each week for various things. First and foremost, Bucket supplies bounties for Makuon to collect, consisting of either people or gangs to take out. Other than bounties, Bucket has various goods that she sells that can't be found at normal stores for a good price. Bucket also takes interest in Makuon's camera-gun hybrid weapon and her multi-purpose tripod, as they were handmade and crafted very intricately.

**Sasha "Sashima" Majewska::** Before Makuon had met important to her or her search in the Grey Zone, she had been infiltrating gang bases mindlessly in search of mindless revenge for the ones she had lost. On one of her gang infiltrations, a mysterious woman would be found interrogating the gang leader in a less than moral way- though that wasn't what it looked like to Makuon. She had managed to sneak up behind the woman in an attempt to take her down but she was met with a boot to the chest and was ready to fight. Despite her speed, the woman was able to block most of Makuon's attacks in the limited space they occupied, but eventually the woman had caught her leg and held her in place. "What business do you have with me?" she asked. Makuon was silent, but managed to get a phrase out with her synthesizer: "You and gang must die." The woman replied, "You think I lead these lowlifes? I'm just trying to do my job." Makuon had managed to free herself from the woman's grasp, and only said "Do what you will." as she swiftly disappeared. The two would find themselves meeting more as Makuon searched through gangs until they earned each other's trust, learning that they could both speak through sign language and sharing a hate for most gangbanging scumbags. Sasha would later help Makuon learn how to do detective work and they would find themselves together outside of their work often.

**Juliana::** As soon as Juliana entered the Grey Zone it was known to some, at the time newcomers in the Grey Zone were a specialty, and word of new blood spread like wildfire. Before Juliana could be found by anyone else, she had been found by Makuon by pure chance. With her at the time limited English, Makuon would try to warn her about the great dangers of the Grey Zone to no avail. In an attempt to prove herself, Juliana tried fighting the girl countless times on that night. She had little to no prior experience, and Makuon had the entire street to her advantage, jumping from wall to wall before Juliana's eyes could keep up. After hours of one sided combat, the girl simply asked "What it is you are wanting?", to which the woman simply replied with "Family". To the woman's surprise, the girl had stopped dead in front of her, giving her an opportunity to attack. Although Juliana was quick, Makuon was quicker, getting tripped as she tried to let out a swift right hook and being held down on the street. "There is no family, go back before you see them disappear". The weight had lifted off Juliana's back and she turned around to see an empty street and a figure fading away into the Light District's skyline. It would be some time before they would meet again, this time through an acquaintance of them both.

**Apollo::** Back when the Paperweights gang was still around, Makuon had become accustomed to living within the fenced off borders of her community. She took up photography and learned to care for the flowers in a neighbouring empty plot under a bridge, with the only draw being that she would have to sneak out to get there. She would do this on multiple occasions for the couple of years leading up to the gang's untimely demise. One of these times, before she went up to the plot she encountered a big guy with a bucket strapped to his back, caring for the flowers that she had been observing and photographing, and decided to watch him for a while. She took a picture of him, but the click of the camera caught his attention, and he turned around to show his face. Before she could try talking to him, he turned around and asked why she was there. "I came to see my plants," she responded. "Oh..." said the boy, but before she could ask anything back he had run off into the city, but never came back to the spot for as long as Makuon would go there.
(Makuon initially doesn't recognize Apollo with the box on his head in the future)

**Orion Valentine**:: Sometimes while out dealing with a bounty, Makuon tends to get a bit destructive when taking out her targets. Depending on how strong they are she might throw them out a window or across the street depending on the location. More often than not she unintentionally ends up totaling Orion's car, and she usually sees the car back at Bucket's when she cashes the bounty in. Though while they often exchanged glances and Orion shared some angry words, the last time Orion confronted Makuon about it he came to the realization that she was a girl, and he asked her out to dinner on the spot. She tossed him back into the driver side of his car.

**The Hate Crimes Committee**:: Consisting of Makuon, Dante, Eileen, and Shutterbug, the Hate Crimes Committee does what their name suggests. Consisting of 2 black people, an Egyptian, and someone with roots in almost all of East Europe and South East Asia, they seem to primarily target white people within the Grey Zone. They also are not very good at what they do, seeing as they mostly commit petty crimes and vandalism.

## Stories

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*These are short stories written by me about Makuon.* *I'm including them in the wiki to keep track of them, also so that others can read them. They're listed in order of creation, and more are to be uploaded later.*

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Incident D51 Audit Log

Happy Place

History Repeats Itself

## Trivia

- Makuon understands 6 languages- Welsh, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, and English/ASL- though she is only fluent in Welsh and Japanese. She mainly communicates in a broken version of ASL and through a vocal synthesizer.

- Her vocal synthesizer is the size of a phone and serves the sole purpose of allowing her to speak without speaking, like a text-to-speech device.

- Makuon can see.

- Only a few have heard Makuon's voice and lived to remember it.

- In Makuon's young adult years, she became a terror known as the "Origami Oni" to many in the Grey Zone.

- Makuon replaces the paper on her face with an identical one every few days due to dirtiness and/or standard wear & tear, as they aren't hard to recreate.

- Makuon has a green thumb and enjoys the little amounts of nature that exists in the Grey Zone.

- Makuon is a very good cook, despite not having access to very many ingredients.

- Makuon knows how to play the bass guitar, and roughly knows how to use a drum pad.

- Makuon's birthday is the 24th of February.