Higashiyama Makima

## [ YOKOZUNA DORM ]

> Vice Housewarden of Yokozuna and leader of the Higashiyama Clan, which leads the Bureau of Kemet and the Bennu Dragon Temple of Eelama. Stoic and quiet, he acts as a pillar of stability and strength for the dorm's students, and is frequently called upon to handle damage control when students in the dorm have fights with each other.
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**Higashiyama Makima** is a playable double Flora character in *Twisted Wonderland*.

He is the current head of the Higashiyama Clan, the clan successor to Higashiyama Nayuta, and the General of the Bennu Dragon Temple, making him the absolute commander of the Bureau of Kemet for Eelama.

## Appearance

Higashiyama is a short, fair-skinned young elf with short, white hair. He is often shown with a stoic look on his face and rarely is shown with his eyes open.

### Dorm Uniform

His dorm uniform is similar to the rest of the Yokozuna students, with the only distinguishing feature being his solid gold hairpin. His outfit consists of a white long-sleeved shirt, a black tie, black pants and brown shoes.

## Personality

On the surface, Makima presents himself as a gentle, sociable, and friendly person, often shown relaxing and slacking off with the rest of his underclassmen despite his position as the dorm's vice housewarden. Behaving with a relaxed and confident demeanor to reassure his underclassmen and expertly keeping his enemies as close to him as physically possible in order to eliminate them later. However, this is only a façade that he uses to fulfill his ultimate goal: After Nobunaga's overblot, Makima begins to reveal his true colors to his underclassmen, which actually helps him to foster a closer relationship with them. Makima is actually quite the calculating person who believes that those not of Yokozuna Dorm are nothing more than "baseless pigs" who can do little more than obidently obey orders, likening those in Savanaclaw to be intrepid "pests" with lesser brain power than a simple insect like a fly or a beatle.

A little-known fact about him is that he's extremely busy and stressed, as he has to deal with the constantly quarraling underclassmen, while juggling his other duties as vice housewarden of Yokozuna. Due to his duties, he loathes small talk, wanting people to get to the point. Though extremely well-concealed Makima has intense social anxiety and prefers to isolate himself from other people. He has a sense of detachment from his movements in the outside world and is described as being emotionally detached from his fellow underclassmen.

While he is not particularly well known, with more than half of the school's Housewardens and Vice Housewardens having no idea that he existed, those in his Dorm (Yokozuna) have noted him to be incredibly kind and he has inspired intense loyalty to those who are in his Dorm. His alarming effective workaholic nature and straight-forward demeanor makes him the easier person to talk to about problems in schoolwork and he works at such a fast pace that he is leagues ahead of most people when it comes to any important affairs or problems with the system of the dorm or even it's electronic and other such mechanical problems.

Being the leader of the Higashiyama Clan, Makima cares for the well-being of the common people and often tries to optimize the profits of the ordinary people rather than aiding the wealthist clans, describing the common people as being easier to connect with, than the common people. A steadfast person, he constantly pursues goals for the sake of improving other people's lives and he is shown to be extremely in tune with the current market sharing and the things that the common people crave more than anything else. He is also a family person, as he had taken the position of clan leader, General, and absolute commander per his dying elder sister's wishes as a way to relieve her from the concerning burdens and physical toll that it was taking on her health. Despite the death of his sickly elder sister, he still continues to carry on his duties as clan head as a way to honor her memory.

Makima is shown to be cunning and mischievous, as both Trey Clover and Cater Diamond note him as unpredictable and tricky to understand, with the latter strongly disliking him as a result.

## Background

His family is a clan descended from the bloodline of one of the three God-Kings of Huan, believed to be either Huiqing herself or one of the two brothers. It is most likely that it is one of the two brothers, since there are no historical records proving that Huiqing even had any blood-line descendants (direct or otherwise). He is the second-born child of his parents, being the second heir to his family and was believed to have had a younger brother who unfortunately died young as a result of an unknown blood-born pathogen while his sickly elder sister was brutately murdered in the clan's estate along with all of the estate's patrolling guards by a rival clan, intent on taking their position in the Emissaries.

## Skills and Magic

### Unique Magic

His unique magic is called "Bloodline of the God-King", or "God-King's Bloodline" (; lit. "Exalted God-King's Divine Bloodline") in Japanese. For a limited amount of time, his magic has the ability to "*be enhanced beyond the limits of even fae magic practioners.*" It can only activate after blood is strewn on the ground from a wound that has been either self-inflicted or inflicted by somebody else, depending on how much blood is strewn on the ground when this unique magic is cast, also flucuates the strength that it possesses at the moment of activation. It is displayed for the first time when Makima utilizes it (at near full-strength) in order to prevent Ruggie Bucchi from injuring one of his dorm's underclassmen.

## Trivia

Makima's name is written in katakana (マキマ), though it seems to have no special meaning to it. However, the "maki" (マキ) in his name seems to be from "Makita", which is the name of a Japanese manufacturer of power tools that also creates chainsaws.

* Unbeknowst to the members of the Higashiyama Clan, Makima has split-personality disorder, otherwise known as dissociative identity disorder (DID), a disorder in which a person has multiple personalities that can individually seize the body at any time.
	+ Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a passive biological trait in Makima's family tree but since neither of her parents (both members of the Higashiyama Clan) or even his own siblings inherited the disorder, it is far more likely that this manifested as a result of his contract with the **Fox Demon** (狐の悪魔 *Kitsune no Akuma*). Kitsunes being emotionally detached and unsociable creatures, viewing the world through the cruelty that humans have brought upon them and their race.
		- Being contracted to a Demon, makes him physically stronger than any ordinary elf, as a result many of his underclassmen suspect that he is a demon of some kind as a result of the proof of his contract with the Fox Demon showing up on his sign as glowing elegantly placed lines.