Maki Takayama

* Wolf Game
* Wolf Game Another
* Phantom Wolf

> "*I'm honestly just as confused as I was before...*"
> ― Maki, Episode 1
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**Maki Takayama** is a character and participant in the Wolf Game. She is a reporter for a weekly magazine.

## Appearance

Maki has bright blonde hair that's done in a pixie cut, covered by a large brown hat. she wears yellow triangle earrings, with the same yellow triangle being on her red choker. She has a gray-brown jacket draped over her shoulders, on the collar of this jacket has fur at the end. Maki has a black tank top on, with dull cyan shorts. Under the shorts she wears full length leggings that are red with three upside down triangles on the front of both legs. The triangles on the right leg being white, black, white while on the left its black, white, black. She wears black sneakers with white souls and white tongue, held on with a light blue strap.

Maki usually carries her camera in her right hand.

## Personality

Maki has a laidback and kind personality. However, she is shown to have a sly side to her otherwise good-natured demeanor, such as when she threatened to kill Yukinari Shimotsuki in Episode 3 if he did not assist her in helping to cover up her murder. Furthermore, she immediately turns on him when it proves beneficial for her to do so, trying to pin all the blame on him during the trial and making him out to be the culprit.

## Plot

 The following section contains spoilers about the main game! Proceed with caution.

* Wolf Game
* Wolf Game Another
* Phantom Wolf

### Backstory

After the murder of Rintarou Iida and Misaki Mori's parents, Maki interviewed them and wrote an article about the incident, leading to it gaining a large amount of publicity. This resulted in Rintarou and Misaki getting harassed by reporters.

### Chapter 3

Unlike previous episodes, Episode 3 has two wolves, Maki and Yukinari Shimotsuki. In the library, Maki kills Osamu Nagai, which Yukinari walks in on. She nearly kills him too, but he manages to explain the situation before she can do so. Together, they burn the body with a sort of timed explosion for 30 minutes after his initial death.

During the trial, the pair attempt to shift the blame on Chie Komiya who had been performing rituals previously using candles. However, Rintarou Iida comments on Yukinari's suspicious behaviour before the trial, making the group realize that Chie is innocent. Maki tries to put the blame entirely on Yukinari, pointing out the bandage on his hand that could've been from cutting himself with a knife. Yukinari uses the agenda that Osamu had to his advantage, as it likely stated at 11:30 that he was in the library with Maki, not Yukinari. The pocket watch he carried revealed the time of death, and Maki was found guilty.

#### Execution

Maki must answer questions in a certain style to please the judges. If she fails to do so, she'll be crushed under a 10 ton weight. Paparazzi-like wolves and sheep take pictures of her in a celebrity-style interview as the judges watch from the sides. She gets a different prompt each time, until the 3rd prompt simply reads, "die". She is then crushed to death.

### Chapter 1

Maki's body is found in a bath tub. She has a cut on her body however her actual cause of death was strangulation. Kou is believed to be the Wolf but it's later found out that Takuo is the actual Wolf and he tried to frame Kou.