Karii Maki

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## Appearance

When Minami (perceived male) has transformed into and presenting as a female, but not presenting as an anime girl wearing a 'battle maiden' outfit, but instead is taking on the anatomically correct body of and presenting as an ordinary female teenage girl, she uses the name Karii Maki. Because the two share the same body, much of the physical appearance of Karii is similar to that of Minami. Karii has Minami's height, but is not too tall to be a typical teenage girl.

She has a rounded face, with slightly full cheeks, and a rounded, blunted chin. Her hair is silky, shiny smooth, worn in a shoulder-length hair style of many small bangs that drape across her forehead and around the sides and back of her head. Two cute bangs cup her eyes on the sides. She has bright blue hair color, with pale, sky blue highlights. Karii always wears a huge red bow at the back of her head, wider than the width of the head, with any style outfit that she wears. She always has a 'cow lick' protruding from the upper right side of her head. Karii has big 'anime girl' eyes that also have a bright blue color hue to them, giving her face a slightly sexy, erotic appearance and demure. She has expressive eyelashes and eyebrows that add to her feminine mystique.

Karii has normal shoulders, a normal neck, and a slender, attractive body build with feminine features. She has average size hands and feet for a girl, but long, slender, attractively shaped legs. She has an ample sized bust, proportionately a little larger given her slender body. She has a light beige skin tone that is creamy and even over all of her body. Overall, Karii Maki is a very attractive and desirable teenage girl, and with more and more time presenting as such a pretty girl, she comes to understand just how attractive she can be, wither for social good or for attracting trouble. However, only four girls (and one cross-dressed boy who doesn't know, but has their suspicions) know that Karii is destined to execute the abandonment of their perceived male appearance, and eventually take on an authentic female gender expression.

Karii presents herself at school, but never during regular class times and activities. Instead, when she was given both a summer and a winter female school uniform of the high school, she will wear her uniforms around the school during off hours and after school. The official female summer school uniform that she wears (shown above) consists of a white, short sleeved shirt with a red bow in the front at the base of the neck, a tan colored vest, a blue, black, and white plaid, pleated mini-skirt, white knee-high socks, and oxford shoes. For casual wear, her very first outfit was a pretty dress that she borrowed from childhood friend Karin. Karii soon begins to accumulate girl's clothes for herself, and hides them in her bedroom at home. She acquires a white shirt/brown mini-skirt combination, a French Maid's cosplay outfit, a Sailor Fuku (a girl's sailor suit school uniform), as well as proper girl's underwear (see Chapter 5), and many other outfits. She even buys her first girl's swimsuit, a sexy, revealing French cut bikini, and wears it to the beach with her friends. Karii is very exacting about what she wears, dressy or casual, and always wants to look her best. Mom wonders why the laundry detergent keeps disappearing, as Minami washes all the girl clothes in secret at home.

## Personality

Much of Karii's personality is a duplicate of Minami's personality. However, as Karii Maki continues to delve into all things feminine, and pursue such an ultra-kawaii fashion style and lifestyle, her personality is beginning to evolve away from Minami's male personality, and into her own expressly feminine personality, unique to herself. Simply put, Karii, the girl, is much happier and inspired than Minami, the boy. Many of the personality traits are the same as Minami's, however, certain personality traits are unique to herself, as she becomes more and more entrenched in all things feminine and girly in appearance and attributes. Given her desire to experience as much as possible of all that is noticeably feminine, Karii has a pronounced streak of narcissism in her personality. This can be seen from the many chapters wherein she is trying out various fashion styles and even female cosplay, as well as always gazing at herself in the mirror in her bedroom.

Karii is easy going, almost to the point of being though of as a border-line bimbo. She presents herself with obvious enthusiasm for her clothing styles and for going out in public and having fun. Such exuberance bestows upon Karii a propensity for risk-taking. She will dress at home in her bedroom, without her parents knowing or suspecting that their offspring is actually a girl at heart. Karii as also becoming well known at school, even though she is not a registered student. She just likes to wear the female school uniform around the school campus. Karii can become wrapped up in her transformations, therefore, she has become somewhat self-centered. Not to say she is uncaring for those around her, it's just that she places her transformation above all else socially. This leads her to many a time having a neglectful attitude toward other necessary activities, such a school work, or duties around the home.

Male Minami has had a childhood friend as their constant companion and intimate friend for a long time. Karin has always valued the close friendship that she has had, and in fact, since she has gone through puberty, she has fallen in love, albeit an unrequited love. Karii Maki appreciates the friendship and intimacy with Karin, but is not aware of Karin's romantic love for her. This because Karii is so wrapped in her own self, she sometimes takes people's feelings and differing situations for granted. This flaw in her personality is slowly being tactfully addressed by Karin, and Karii's other friends as well. However, the flaw is no barrier to Karii showing strong loyalty to her friends, and will offer help and encouragement to them whenever they need it.

Contrasting Karii's less than desirable facets of her personality, is the fact that she can show compassion to others, even ones not rightly disposed toward her. This is seen when during the day at the beach, she symbolically offered a hand of friendship to Kaitani Zakurow, another teenage girl who is not so friendly to most people. When Karii was upset and anxious because she could not detransiton back to male Minami, it was Karin who also showed compassion to Karii, offering companionship to her, even offering to do a sleepover with her. However, this was misunderstood by Karii, possibly because of Karii's unsettled female personality traits. Karii did not realize the sacrifice that Karin was making towards her, with Karii giving the appearance of a lack of appreciation. But as Karii continues to pursue her transformation from perceived male to authentic teenage female, she takes all things in stride, and continues to show a desire to live her female life to the fullest.

## Karii's Story

As a way to safely present as their correct gender of female, male Minami joins the Maho Shoujo Club to be able to transition to that of a pretty teenage anime girl. However, she becomes dissatisfied with the limited amount of time she can spend as such, and therefore figures out a way to transition to that of an ordinary teenage girl. Now with two female presentations ( Maho Curry and Karii Maki ), she now has many more opportunities to be out and about presenting as a cute teenage girl. She comes to actually spend more time as Karii Maki then that of an maho shoujo girl, and most often presents as Karii when she does things together with Karin Saku.

Karii is especially pleased with wearing all sorts of different ultra-feminine outfits. She reaches several milestones in her transformation by wearing her favorite teenage girl's outfits and fashion styles, as well as being out in public, many times with Karin, to be seen and judged by others. In an effort to learn all about teenage feminine fashion styles and things of interest to typical teenage girls, Karii will many times consult with, and sometimes badger, Karin for advice, commentary, critique, and overall encouragement. This has the potential to turn out badly, if it were not for Karin slowly beginning to adapt to having an intimate girl-with-girl friendship and shipping with another girl, namely Karii. Karin is slowly finding out that she can acknowledge to herself that she is okay with being socially and romantically bisexual. It remains to be seen if Karii will be attracted to boys or girls, or both.

Male Minami's best male friend, Naoya, becomes infatuated with Karii Maki when he sees her roaming the school grounds wearing the female high school uniform. Naoya does not know or suspect that Karii Maki is the correct gender presentation of his best friend, Minami Maki. Karii Maki tries several ploys to get Naoya to supposedly forget all about her, but those incidents only serve to indelibly burn Karii Maki's likeness into Naoya's mind, heart, and soul, and to stoke his romantic fires. However, Karii is rather neutral towards him, giving the implication that she, Karii, may be only romantically interested in other girls. One will have to see, only time will tell.

As Karii Maki's story is revealed in the manga, and as the story progresses, more and more evidence is shown and piles up as an valid acknowledgement that male Minami is, in fact, a male-to-female transgender teenager. The absolute devotion and enjoyment shown by Karii is something way beyond the mere indulgence in supposed cross-dressing. Karii's transformation is unique to her and herself alone, however, one can see how she did what she had to do. That is what makes Karii's / Minami's story worth telling in the manga format and by this Wiki.

## Trivia

In the Japanese language, the first name 'Karii' is feminine, and means one who is exceedingly beautiful, one having a good heart, one who is very clever.