Maki

**Maki** is a 11-year-old girl who has a dream of becoming an artist when she grew up. She met Boyfriend at the park while he was feeling ill and wanted to battle him because she's a big fan of both Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

Hanako (MakiTaki), the creator of the Vs Maki mod, expressed her concerns and disgust of how Maki is treated amongst users who treat her as if she was their character. Remember, **Maki is A MINOR and MakiTaki's OC**, and that fact must be taken seriously. Here is the following list that you must follow and not break:

1. Do not roleplay with Maki as if she was your character.
2. Do not make inappropriate content of any kind, which is NSFW relating to Maki.
3. Do not make any other content that is deemed controversial and uncomfortable to MakiTaki and most users.

## Appearance

Maki has a long black hair. She wears a red sweater, a black bowtie, a black undershirt, white socks with red squares, and brown boots. Her expression is passive and calm as she smiles.

When she was 8 years old, she wears a light beige collared t-shirt with lederhosen suspenders and a black skirt. She wears black shoes and two socks, the left sock being thigh high and the right being ankle high.

## Personality

Maki is shown to have an enthusiastic, friendly, and calm personality despite having a not-so-wonderful family. She still smiles and stays positive despite everything being destroyed and dying around her as years pass throughout her adventure. This was also shown when she met Boyfriend and Girlfriend. She became very happy and challenges Boyfriend. She can be sad too as shown in the video of MakiTaki, *Door To Your Dreams: Acrimony* when she found out that she was dead all along.

## Biography

### Maki's Life

According to the video from MakiTaki which is *Maki: History*, the video started when she was 8 years old. She was living with her mother, father, and her 3-year-old sister, Sayaka. Her mother is drunk and her father is abusive and suffering from mental illness. Her parents argue a lot and every time they argue, she hides in her "secret hideout" with Sayaka. Because of that, Maki must protect Sayaka from them, especially her father. She has a dream of becoming a successful artist when she grew up and kept drawing ever since and show them to her mother but not the father due to being afraid that her father might be annoyed and hurt her.

Next morning, Maki and her father was found arguing over Sayaka. Her father got mad and threw a rock at her, causing a big wound on her forehead. Her mother saw it all and tries to save Maki from her father. Her father left after this, leaving Maki, Sayaka, and her mother.

Months pass and her father still didn't return home. Maki's mother always bring her and Sayaka to a wine shop to buy wine and sometimes her mother will ask Maki to buy cigarettes for her. Despite her mother doing a lot of awful things like getting drunk, seducing someone and more, she still loves her. While all of thus was happening, she met a boy in school named Shinichi. Maki is somehow in love with him but the thing is she is still 8 so instead she tried befriending Shinichi instead and show her arts to him.

Years pass, when Maki was 11 and Sayaka was 6, Maki's drawing skills are improving and keep showing them to Shinichi and she will even teach Shinichi her techniques in drawing. One afternoon, Shinichi was passing by Maki's house and saw her outside drawing something. Maki noticed him and tried to get to Shinichi to show her drawing but suddenly, a car popped out and ran over her, causing her instant death. It appears that the car that ran over her is her father's car. Shinichi, Sayaka, and her mother was shocked about this and cried. Her father went to jail after the incident. This caused to change their lives after Maki's death. Her mother became depressed and tries to protect Sayaka at all costs. Sayaka stays positive and gain new friends at school. Shinichi was very touched and he isolated himself for 4 years straight.

### Friday Night Funkin'

This is when Maki is already dead but she is visible to others. She found Boyfriend and Girlfriend and told them that she's a big fan of them. She challenged Boyfriend to a rap battle. After three songs, Shinichi came and challenges Maki. The thing is that Maki noticed something different to Shinichi as if she looked like some troublemaker or something but he won't tell her the cause of this and started the battle.

## Trivia

### Lore

* "Forever" is a strong word to her.
* Maki being happy and positive even though everything is being destroyed and dying around her is pretty unnatural but actually it's just her trying to hide her sadness, not because she's too stupid to understand of what was going on.
* Maki's full name is Maki Ochiko.
	+ This was mentioned in MakiTaki's series, *Door To Your Dreams*.
* Maki can make herself visible to others even though she's already a ghost by simply "activating" it.
* Maki swears more than Shinichi.
	+ Only in front of Shinichi, not in front of people.
* Maki hates it when she messed up in her drawing, even in one bit. She will throw a tantrum and trash her drawing.
* She has a weird ability of seeing ghosts, even when she isn't dead yet.
* Every Maki's birthday, Shinichi would gift her a cat stuff toy, pillow, or any cat stuff because she loved cats so much.
	+ Shinichi actually gifted her an actual cat once, which made her very happy but she saw that her father is punching the cat when she isn't around and when the cat died because of her dad, she got very mad.
* There is a time in where she will snap then try to plan on killing other people.
	+ This will happen when she gets very mad. This personality activated once when she saw her father killing the cat. She got very mad and thinking of killing him.
* Maki is also somehow suffering in mental illness but it was never mentioned of what kind of illness.
* Maki loves chocolate and would ask her mother to buy chocolate cake every time when it's her birthday.
* One of her drawings shows Boyfriend and Girlfriend in it in *Maki: History*. This proves that she is a big fan of Boyfriend and Girlfriend.
* Maki owns a Nintendo Switch and uses it a lot, specifically Splatoon.
* Maki is kind and patient to her troublesome classmates, however, she gets really upset when they tease her and bully her, or even destroy her drawings. What Maki didn't know Shinichi would roast them even if it means to make them leave Maki alone.
* Maki has a bad habit of rolling off of beds.
	+ This is the reason why she sleeps in her "secret hideout" instead.
* If either Maki or Shinichi break the "vow," then Maki will disappear.
	+ The "**vow**" is Shinichi's promise of being with Maki and making her happy for the rest of eternity.
	+ This "vow" happened after Maki's death and Shinichi finding out that Maki can still pretend to be alive. Then if they broke it, Maki will never be seen again.
* After Maki's death, Shinichi made a dating game about Maki being the girlfriend so he could be with Maki forever but after learning the fact that Maki can still be seen, he broke the game.

### Vs Maki mod

* In the files, there is a video called "MAKI\_GIRLFRIEND.mp4" in which shows Maki just staring at you with static that pops out every second for 3 minutes straight. Then before the video ends, she will talk saying: **I am still here**. Then the video ends.
	+ This is a reference in where Shinichi created a dating game where Maki is the girlfriend after her death.
	+ The "I am still here" is also a reference of Shinichi not noticing that Maki can still be seen despite being dead.
* There is a meme in the files called "frick\_nintendo\_lol.png" in where Maki lost in Splatoon then she'll throw a tantrum and breaks the switch.
	+ This is a reference in there's a chance that she will be impatient and wouldn't accept losing.
* Her sprite sheet is called "a\_ghost.png"

### Physical Appearance

* Her socks' design (which are the red squares) is a reference to "Nagito Komaeda" from Danganronpa 2, stated in MakiTaki's twitter thread about Maki.
	+ She also stated there that her name (Maki) isn't based off "Maki Harukawa" from Danganronpa V3 and she hates it when people says that it is.
* Maki is slightly taller than Shinichi.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1362895216173285379
https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1379333211738624000
3. ↑  https://www.instagram.com/stories/makitaki/2539277609829781996/
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1389031963420368898
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1374267874705993729
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17865557273438865/
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1378902837527199744
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1379713677713047564
9. ↑ https://instagram.com/stories/makitaki/2539393220861889089?utm\_source=ig\_story\_item\_share&igshid=uaua7ba4r3bn
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1374941300412227585
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1376049443003232259/photo/1
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1384144684457492483
13. ↑ https://instagram.com/stories/makitaki/2539393807217252267?utm\_source=ig\_story\_item\_share&igshid=1pb38kymbli1q
14. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1373938862855057409
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1377671474211852290
16. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1379710323473588226
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1380504685316960258
18. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1387687880735088642
19. ↑ https://twitter.com/makitaki/status/1373655420393287682