M.A.K.O (FINISHED)

[M.A.K.O]

Basics

Name: Unknown

Nicknames: Mako (Marine-predatory Aqua-Kinetic Operative)

Age: 18

Birthday: February 10

Grade: 12th

Power:

Shark Mimicry - When Mako was a little boy, his shark mimicry power was much weaker, only including his dagger-like teeth, and the gills on the side of his neck, which allow him to breathe underwater. However, due to massive stress and trauma at the hands of the facility where he was experimented on and turned into the weapon that he is today, this power has been increased to a much more advanced stage. It should be noted that Mako has a ridiculously fast metabolism, which requires him to eat massive amounts of raw meat and fish in order to maintain both his body and his powers.

First and foremost, the experimentation intentionally left him completely, 100% blind. As a result of this, his body has adapted via his power, perhaps making him more deadly than if he could actually see. Rather than seeing through his eyes, he sees the world by sensing the electrical fields that surround all living things, as well as thermal signatures and the changes therein. While this robs him of the ability to see any real beauty in the world, it does afford him much advantage as a predator. He can sense when a target is weak or sickly or when their mood or state of mind changes to a degree. He can also sense the flare of thermal and electrical energy which often comes just before an attack or a power is used, which helps him avoid injury. In addition to his preternatural senses, he also has a highly developed sense of smell, which allows him to track targets by their scent and especially by the smell of their blood, as well as be more aware of nearby danger and potential threats.

In addition, his muscle fibers are thicker and more tightly grouped than those of a normal human, giving him his muscular appearance and physical strength and speed which is quite a bit greater than the average human being. On command, he can manipulate his skin, shifting it into a similar composition to that of a shark, meaning it becomes thicker, scaled, and very very sharp, affording him physical protection and a defense against hand to hand combat. While he can still be pierced or or damaged with severe impact, it is much more difficult to cause any real damage to him while he is in this state. The downside of this ability is that first and foremost, if he IS hurt while his skin is shifted, the damage takes much longer to heal, and is much more painful as well. In addition, maintaining this skin requires a lot of energy on his point, and so he often does not leave it activated for very long, switching it on and off as need be.

He also possesses the killer instinct of a mako shark, which is one of the most effective marine hunters in existence. This has several upsides for Mako, but two major downsides. First, it makes him deadly in the water. When combined with his teeth, senses, and enhanced strength and speed, fighting Mako in the water is a death wish, even ignoring his aquakinetic abilities. He is a predator, and the water is his natural habitat. In addition, even on the land his instinct makes him more effective in battle, allowing him to react quickly to his opponents, and make decisions and short term stratagems on the fly. The downside of this is that he does not have full control of his instincts as of right now, and must be very careful not to let them completely overpower his better judgement. Doing so would cause him to attack and attack without regard for the damage he takes or much self preservation. The angrier and more into combat he gets, the less he is able to control his instincts. In addition to this, he suffers from feeding frenzy, just a shark does. What this means is that if he is exposed to blood, or even the smell of it, he runs the risk of becoming completely lost to blood lust. In this frenzied state, his eyes turn a bright, glowing red, and his powers receive slight enhancement, as he is literally fighting with everything he has. However, in this state he is completely given over to instinct, lacking any real sense or rational thought. This puts him in real danger of being severely hurt or even killed trying to devour his target.

Aquakinesis - Aquakinesis is the ability to manipulate water. Water exists in many forms, whether it be vapor in the air, water in it's liquid form or even in its crystalline form of ice. Mako's greatest strength lies in manipulating water in its already liquid form. Having grown up in an aquatic tank, he learned quickly how to manipulate liquid water, even changing the pressure and surface density of it all on his own, with help from his instincts and plenty of time to practice. He can manipulate liquid water into various shapes and forms, from blades to whips, and is very skilled at using it creatively. As an example, a tactic he often employs against armored targets is to cover them in large, high density bubbles, which then explode, causing cavitation. He can create liquid water by condensing the vapor and water particles already in the air. This requires more energy, scaling with the amount of water created, but also allows him to be unpredictable and attack from unexpected angles. He is unable to manipulate ice, as it is too far from liquid water. However, if he can melt it and break it back down into water, it can be manipulated by him. When he enters a blood frenzy, the speed and

Minor Pheromone Manipulation - This is Mako's weakest power, and the one he is most inexperienced at using. He is able to manipulate a subset of his body's natural chemistry, allowing him to manufacture pheromones and excrete them through his skin and into the air. The primary purpose of this power is to confuse opponents, making them more aggressive or docile as the situation commands, in an attempt to help him control the flow of battle. However, Mako does not have anywhere near full control of this ability and often uses pheromones that he does not mean to. They can have a variety of effects, from inciting hostility or calm, to inciting lust or even fear. He can semi-direct this power by focusing on the feeling in himself that he wants to incite in others, but even then it's an inexact science. Often he does not use this ability except as a last resort. When in blood frenzy, he exudes a pheromone at all times which is meant to anger his opponent and force them to fight him.

Member Group: Neutral
Canon or not: Not

Appearance:

Mako is quite the imposing figure, standing at 6'7", and weighing in at about 200 lbs. Thanks to a lot of physical training and stress, as well as a factor of his shark mimicry he is very muscular, though he is more wiry and compact than big and bulky. His eyes are large with slitted pupils, usually a light violet color. When he is exposed to blood or his instincts begin to take over, they slowly shift red, from a dull pulsing scarlet to a bright glowing crimson when he is fully frenzied. At all times however, his pupils are a milky white, due to the blindness caused by the experimentation done on him as a child. His shark mimicry ability also gives him teeth that are long, and sharp like daggers, as well as gills on either side of his neck, appearing as three diagonal slits. He has long, shoulder-length, bone white hair, which falls at the front in bangs that cover nearly his entire forehead on one side, and on the other side his eye and part of his face. His face is very angular, with more triangular features and a high, sloping jawline. All in all he looks very threatening, and it's easy to see the resemblance to a shark in his appearance.

Mako's style is generally meant to hide his features. He wears larger, usually baggy clothes such as long-sleeved shirts and sweatpants or baggy jeans. This is because people tend to run or be afraid when he shows them his appearance. It also serves to hide his musculature, allowing him to take enemies by surprise with his strength and speed. At near all times, he wears a sleeveless hoody over whatever else he has on. The hoody is all white with black trim and a black hood, a black symbol on the front depicting a shark with its mouth open wide. He has the hood up on this garment at nearly all times to hide his face from anyone he might come across.

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Mako's personality is incredibly split, between what is essentially his true personality, and the one that his animal and killer instincts create within him. The shark within him is incredibly confident and aggressive. This is the personality which is most usually seen in Mako. He is very rarely flustered or intimidated; more often he is the one doing the intimidating. This side of him enjoys taunting and teasing others, using his shark-like appearance to scare anyone who comes across him. He will not back down from an argument or a confrontation. Even socially and sexually, the shark within him is not one to be shy or timid, and when under the influence of this he will talk with others, albeit in a very predatory manner, and express interest in someone he finds attractive or intriguing. The shark never questions itself, never questions its abilities, and rarely backs down from a fight.

Mako's true personality is far less confident and open. In truth, he hates himself. He hates the animal instincts inside of him, which force him to be violent and aggressive. He hates that he must eat raw meat to survive, that he feels the need to attack everything and everyone. This self loathing can often especially be seen when Mako feels a blood frenzy coming on. As powerful as it makes him, he hates it, and will do everything he can not to give in. This personality is often vying against his inner shark, and is in fact the part of him that makes him want to hide his face and body with his clothes. It is the side that wants to avoid everyone, to get away, to be alone. He often asks himself if he is a monster. And if he is a monster, why was he even created in the first place?

In confrontation, Mako's personality shifts almost entirely over to the shark. His instincts kick in, and the desire to hurt and kill are predominant. This happens not only when he is physically attacked, but verbally challenged. As stated earlier he is incredibly aggressive and will never back down from an argument, nor will he back down from a fight unless he is stopped physically. Even then he simply becomes more violent and angry, fighting back like a caged animal. It is a great struggle to maintain control of himself when he is in conflict, and as a result he often does not, giving himself over to the predator within him. When Mako fights, he fights to kill. When he blood frenzies he is completely beyond rational and moral sense. He will not only fight and kill, but devour anything that gets in his way.

History

Family Members/guardians:

Unknown

History:

When the gifted first began to become apparent, the United States government, in partnership with other international powers, decided that they needed a way to contain the population suddenly appearing with powers too great to be controlled. It was with this in mind that Ashford Academy was created, to store these gifted children, and sell them of as soldiers, to be used as was seen fit when the time was right. At the same time however, the same international partnership had another thought. What if soldiers could be MADE out of gifted children, instead of waiting for them to grow on their own? When they recieved word of a child in the continental U.S. who had begun to manifest shark-like physical traits, they decided to begin a new project. All-terrain soldiers. They kidnapped the young boy, just 12 years old, and wiped his memory, intent on turning him into a weapon of war.

Mako's first memories are of a water tank. Cold and dark, he was frantic, slamming up against the glass and trying to escape. Of course he couldn't the cage was built specifically. When the lights finally came on, he could see a sterile white room, equipment everywhere. This was the room he would be staring at for the next five years of his life. It wasn't long before the experiments began. They knew that he possessed shark mimicry, but it was still in its early stages, having only manifested in small amount. This was not enough for them. Through electrocution, torturous procedures and stress tests, they began to force his powers to mature and evolve at a rate much higher than they should have, leaving him blind and forever changed. It wasn't long after this that several other children of similar age arrived at the facility. He knew nothing of these other subjects beyond their existence, as he was kept separate from them at all times.

Years passed like this, and each year Mako lost more and more of his humanity. His body began to change and adapt as his power evolved, his water manipulation growing stronger and stronger as well. His malice for the men grew as well with each procedure, with each "training" session. He vowed that he would make them pay, all the men in the white coats. As his killer instinct grew with him, the shark like aspects of his personality slowly began to develop. At 16 years old, Mako got his chance. For the last few months he had been playing docile, as if they had managed to break him. He obeyed without question, did the tests willingly and played his part. When they made the mistake of letting him out of the cage, believing him to be complacent, he struck. In a blood frenzy he attacked, killed and devoured all of the scientists in the immediate vicinity, before making his way through the facility in a rampage, killing a total of 15 before breaking his way out.

Upon exiting the facility, he found himself in what was the countryside of Munich, Germany, though of course he had no way of knowing that. Hearing and sensing soldiers coming after him, he ran, slamming straight into the biggest man he had ever seen besides himself. Seeing that he was in trouble, the man shoved him towards the woods, taking up an iron pipe in his hands. When Mako called after him and asked who he was, the man spoke, in a low voice without turning around. "Wolf." Without another word he charged into the soldiers after Mako, holding them off and giving him time to escape. His freedom however, did not last. Not three weeks later he was caught, still in the forests near the facility, hunting local fauna. Upon his capture his short term memory was wiped, and they tried to go back to turning him into a weapon. They were unable to do so. Now almost completely lost to his shark-like nature, he battle tooth and claw against them at every opportunity. At last, convinced that he was too dangerous and unpredictable, they sent him to Ashford, hoping that he would either be killed or beaten into a more docile nature. For the last year he has been at the school, laying low, and waiting for an opportunity to escape, and destroy the ones who turned him into a monster.

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