i'm a cop

> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Raina
PRONOUNS: she/her
AGE: 32
CONTACT: bespeak

> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Mako
CANON: Legend of Korra
AGE: 22
CANON POINT: Post book 4

HISTORY: See the Wiki
PERSONALITY: Mako considers himself older than his 22 years would imply. Since he was a a kid, he's been derisively referring to other kids as kids. So, really, he's 22 going on 35? But this wasn't without reason: he's been taking care of himself and his brother since he was eight, when a firebender killed his parents. It's only recently that he's been able to move past focusing on survival and start investigating what he likes... which is investigations. After all, he's a fast rising star in Republic City's police force.

Mako is serious, at least on the surface, compared to his brother's goofiness, and he prefers to be the one in charge of decisions for what their little family does. He doesn't really take most of Bolin's suggestions seriously, even when they might be helpful. Bolin has no problem wearing his heart and emotions on his sleeve, while Mako is much more guarded, and very rarely does he lose control of his emotions.

He's distant and cold to others when he first meets them because he really doesn't care much about how much of a first impression he makes. Sure, he can smile and wink for the camera when necessary, but that really isn't his default mode when making friends. In fact, Mako tends to focus on cold calculations most of the time. It's evident in his trademark 'cool under fire' fighting style, and he's mused aloud on which would be better, going for Korra versus Asami as a girlfriend. You know. Back before he burned both those romantic bridges and friendzoned himself because of his indecision.

His cold calculations ALSO tend to forget to factor his own feelings into the equation. Once he gets close to someone, he will defend them and go out of his way for them, to an almost menacing degree. He did this with Korra once he got to know her, and with Asami while defending her father from the accusations of being an Equalist. However, he acts completely clueless about the difference in his behavior towards Korra after the first time her life is seriously in danger when Asami presses him, instead of thinking about what she's saying. He prefers to put the conversation off for another day, because he's not the most in touch with his feelings.

But heaven help you if you mess with one of his people. The few times that he does lose his temper, are usually focused on either being confused about how love works, or because someone he cares about is threatened.

So, even though Mako considers himself the head of the household, he's still prone to ridiculousness himself. His entire introduction to Asami was him getting hit with a motorbike, and then forgetting to be completely mad at her while she sweet talked him into a date. He makes excuses for doing things he considers childish, and hides behind his role as a police officer to get out of certain things. And he's still prone to petty fighting, occasionally with Bolin, and definitely with Asami while they were on the rocks. But it's more readily apparent with Bolin, as they are brothers and know each other way too well. Oh, did I mention he gives bad love advice to his brother? And makes some of the greatest facial telegraphs at his brother? Quite in contrast from his serious persona.

He used to be very attached to his Dad's scarf, his last memento he had of his parents. After all, while he is cold and guarded, he still had to watch his parents be brutally murdered when he was only a kid, and did take on the full responsibility for taking care of his brother. His childhood is more than reasonably stunted. But along the way, he and his brother found his father's family in Ba Sing Se. He had grown up enough to know that his grandmother needed the memory more than he did.

Mako has also grown up, and after achieving stability in his own life and constantly being around Korra, he's learned to put the greater good ahead of his own survival. When he was a kid, he considered the people stupid enough to fall for his and Bolin's cons deserving of what they got. But as an adult, he realized if he didn't find a way to destabilize Kuvira's mech, he would lose his friends, potentially his family, and definitely the city that he loved. He used his lightning bending to cause the powering mechanism to blow up-- not planning on how he was going to get out of there and survive, which was a major change in how he'd grown up since befriending Korra.

And, as a final word, Mako has the capability to make absolutely terrible puns. "Looks like you had some car trouble" indeed. Of all the suave things to say.
CRAU: N/A

SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: see here
SKILLS: Mako is a firebender, and a talented pro-bender. His probending style is similar to that of a boxer's, he keeps his arms in close to his sides, fists defensive of his face, and focuses on short, concentrated jabs at his opponents. He also can firebend without explicitly making firebending motions, aka the breath of fire ability. He and has brother tag team an officer with their respective abilities once.

He is also able to lightning bend, as well as redirect lightning. He shows the capability while one of the mecha tanks is shocking him, and he redirects the shock towards the mecha, frying its systems and knocking out the Equalist inside of it.

Mako is also the only person to show the strength of mind to defeat Amon's bloodbending long enough to shock him. It's only temporary, and he gets caught again later, but his cool under fire style does have some other advantages.

Besides that, Mako is extremely flexible and athletic-- he shows now problem lifting his brother over his shoulder, though his brother is definitely larger than him. And he's definitely had to pull some crazy moves to dodge some of the attacks thrown at him in pro-bending.

ALSO, he's crazy good at driving a motorcycle, and really excels at solving mysteries and puzzles. This fast thinking is part of what made him a good detective, and a good body guard during his short stint...

NEW POWER: Sensory Tracking. If Mako has some aspect of a person he's looking for (recent direct contact for smell/blood/etc) he can track that person if he's focusing for up to half a day.
POWER REASONING: I decided I wanted to lean in to Mako's investigative capabilities, and to enhance those. Since Mako is likely to aim for joining the police force, I figured I'd focus on making the transition as easy as possible for him, given the technology differences.

> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: TDM note: the scenario in this tdm is that mako has amnesia, hence the lack of recognition of korra.
SAMPLE TWO: bkst meme

Name: Sarah
Contact Info: hypothetical
Other Characters Played: None
Requested apartment: Block 29, somewhere?

Character Name: Mako
Canon: Legend of Korra
Canon Point: Book 3, post episode 3
Background/History: Mako's wiki.
Personality: Mako is a teenager. It's worth throwing that out there, because it's obvious that he doesn't consider himself a teenager based off of how he derisively refers to his peers as kids more than once. As though he has any leg to stand on over them, especially considering his paramours, but I digress... However, part of why he doesn't consider himself a teenager is because he's been the breadwinner for himself and his brother since they were children. A firebender killed his parents when he was eight and he's been focused on survival since that day.

Mako is serious, at least on the surface, compared to his brother's goofiness, and he prefers to be the one in charge of decisions for what their little family does. He doesn't really take most of Bolin's suggestions seriously, even when they might be helpful. Bolin has no problem wearing his heart and emotions on his sleeve, while Mako is much more guarded, and very rarely does he lose control of his emotions.

He's distant and cold to others when he first meets others, because he really doesn't care much about how much of a first impression he makes. Sure, he can smile and wink for the camera when necessary, but that really isn't his default mode when making friends. In fact, Mako tends to focus on cold calculations most of the time. It's evident in his trademark 'cool under fire' fighting style, and he's mused aloud on which would be better, going for Korra versus Asami as a girlfriend.

His cold calculations ALSO tend to forget to factor his own feelings into the equation. Once he gets close to someone, he will defend them and go out of his way for them, to an almost menacing degree. He did this with Korra once he got to know her, and with Asami while defending her father from the accusations of being an Equalist. However, he acts completely clueless about the difference in his behavior towards Korra after the first time her life is seriously in danger when Asami presses him, instead of thinking about what she's saying. He prefers to put the conversation off for another day, because he's not the most in touch with his feelings.

But heaven help you if you mess with one of his people. The few times that he does lose his temper, are usually focused on either being confused about how love works, or because someone he cares about is threatened.

So, even though Mako considers himself the head of the household, he's still a teenager, prone to ridiculousness himself. His entire introduction to Asami was him getting hit with a motorbike, and then forgetting to be completely mad at her while she sweet talked him into a date. He makes excuses for doing things he considers childish, and hides behind his role as a police officer to get out of certain things. And even as a teenager, he's still prone to petty fighting, occasionally with Bolin, and definitely with Asami while they were on the rocks. But it's more readily apparent with Bolin, as they are brothers and know each other way too well. Oh, did I mention he gives bad love advice to his brother?

He is also very attached to his scarf, his last memento of his father and has been shown to use it sort of as a security blanket when he's nervous. While he is cold and guarded, he still had to watch his parents be brutally murdered when he was only a kid, and did take on the full responsibility for taking care of his brother. His childhood is more than reasonably stunted.

And, as a final word, Mako has the capability to make absolutely terrible puns. "Looks like you had some car trouble" indeed. Of all the suave things to say.
Abilities/Powers: Mako is a firebender, and a talented pro-bender, which is a sport combining firebending, waterbending, and earthbending. His probending style is similar to that of a boxer's, he keeps his arms in close to his sides, fists defensive of his face, and focuses on short, concentrated jabs at his opponents. He also can firebend without explicitly making firebending motions, aka the breath of fire ability. He and his brother tag team an officer with their respective abilities once.

He is also able to lightning bend, as well as redirect lightning. He shows the capability while one of the mecha tanks is shocking him, and he redirects the shock towards the mecha, frying its systems and knocking out the Equalist inside of it.

Mako is also the only person to show the strength of mind to defeat Amon's bloodbending long enough to shock him. It's only temporary, and he gets caught again later, but his cool under fire style does have some other advantages.

Besides that, Mako is extremely flexible and athletic-- he shows now problem lifting his brother over his shoulder, though his brother is definitely larger than him. And he's definitely had to pull some crazy moves to dodge some of the attacks thrown at him in pro-bending.

ALSO, he's crazy good at driving a motorcycle.
Items/Weapons: As of right now, Mako just has his scarf. Everything else was stolen from him.
Sample Entry: Please see for post.
Sample Entry Two: Please see for log.