Mako Mori

Mako was born on April 23, 2003, to parents Sumako and Masao Mori, a sword maker. An only child, Mako grew up in a village in Tanegashima and lived a relatively comfortable and happy life with her mother and father. Mako is ten years old when the first Kaiju attacks San Francisco in 2013. She overhears the news broadcast on the radio. Sunday, May 15, 2016, marked the attack of the Kaiju Onibaba in Tokyo. When her father is diagnosed with cancer, Mako and her mother head into Tokyo to get him treatment. Afterwards, Tokyo is attacked by a kaiju. Mako and her family are bombarded by the people trying to escape. During the chaos, Mako’s shoe strap breaks and pulls away from her father in order to retrieve it. When she finally recovers her lost shoe, she loses her parents in the crowd and is left standing alone in an abandoned street. Distressed, Mako searches for her parents; she calls for her mother as the military converges on Onibaba. When she tries to hide from it in an alley, Onibaba finds her and tries to pull her out of the alley. However, the intervention of the Jaeger, Coyote Tango, saves her life. After Mako is saved by Stacker Pentecost, it was some time before Pentecost would encounter her again. In the aftermath of her parents' death, Mako is sent to live in an orphanage. When his friend was diagnosed with cancer, Pentecost decided to adopt Mako. Mako joins the Jaeger Academy in 2021. In accordance with her wishes, Pentecost becomes her teacher and trains Mako to become a Ranger at the academy. Her overall score in the Jaeger simulator is "51 drops and 51 kills". Despite Mako’s records in the academy, Pentecost is adamant that she remains outside of the battlefield and dissuades her at every chance.