Description
Name: Makoto Yorunohi 夜ノ氷 誠 (Group 3)
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Birthday: 10th October
Magical Element: Ice/ Darkness
Class Rank (Magic Skill): 4th (of 16)
Class Rank (Academic): 3rd (of 16)
Height: 5'12"/ 182 cm
Status: Single
Friends: Rentaro, Isamu, Kio
School: Thornwall Academy
Personality: Hard-working, honest, mature, wise, generous, easy-going
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((The characters from this story are magic-users who are members of an “Experimental Magic Class”. The class was formed by gathering top students from various magic universities. They live, study and train together in the remote wilderness.))
Short Bio:
Makoto is different from the other members of the magic class, as he comes from a remote shaman village and possesses unique tribal magic. While most others have one or zero animal summons, Makoto, as a shaman, is bonded with several creature companions, all of whom are feline. Makoto is very wise, mature, calm, and strong. He is endlessly kind and giving, and tries to act as a father-figure in the group. He loves to be social, help others, and play with his cats. He is usually accompanied by his main summon companion: Murumuru the purple cat.
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In-depth Bio:
Makoto was born the son of a very powerful shaman in a secluded tribal village known as Talltra. Although magic use is commonplace even amongst regular humans, tribes such as Makoto’s had been living and practicing unique spiritual magic for many generations, making Makoto’s magic different from that of regular humans. The Talltra tribe is a small village of about six hundred people, all of whom had been separated from modern society their whole lives. It was a simple place where children and adults lived in humble wooden huts, cultivated the land, and spent much of their time meditating or practicing magic. The tribe had a magical bond with the feline spirits that roam the forest, and most of the tribe members are bonded to numerous “summons”; winged cat creatures that accompany them.
Being born the eldest child to the tribe’s top shaman, Makoto’s birth was treated with great importance, and even as a toddler he began learning of his shaman duties. His father took him out into the forest and taught him how to understand the land around him, introduced him to the ice-element magic that his tribe practiced, and showed him to the feline spirits that guarded the area so that they might give him their blessing. As a very young boy, Makoto showed great signs of promise, never crying, always listening thoughtfully and always showing a strong and stable personality. His parents taught him how to read and write and how to meditate, and then gave him numerous daily tasks, such as reading the sacred scrolls that recounted the tribe history and having him recite several tribal chants from memory. As a boy, Makoto showed great talent in magic, dual wielding both ice-element and darkness-element magic, as his father did. His parents later had a daughter, and Makoto loved playing with his baby sister and trying to teach her what he had learned about their tribe.
As Makoto was prepared to one day take over as head-shaman of the tribe, expectations on him were high. For generations the shamans of the tribe had had to fulfil several tasks in order to earn their status, one of the conditions being that they had to be bonded with five summons by the time they were eleven. Makoto was able to bond with summons very quickly in his youth; many cat spirits materialised, bonding themselves with his magic and partnering themselves to him. By the time he was nine, he already had four summons, and due to his skill with magic and his love for the cat creatures, his father deemed him well on track to getting his five summons before he turned eleven. Makoto’s very first summon, who he had bonded to when he was just six, was Murumuru the winged cat. Instead of appearing and disappearing as summons usually did, Murumuru stayed with Makoto permanently to protect and help him. Murumuru the cat was wise and insightful, able to speak the human language, and he instantly became Makoto’s best friend.
Though he was excelling as a shaman-in-practice and was due to get his fifth summon on time, there was a disastrous event that shattered everything. Makoto had been told little about rival clans that existed in the same forest, and one day there was a brutal attack on the Talltra tribe that no one had expected. One of their enemy clans – the Nyfera clan, who used fire and darkness magic and were bonded with demon dogs – attacked Makoto’s village one night in cold blood. The demon dogs, who were horrible and powerful fiery creatures, stormed through the village, slaughtering cats and humans and setting fire to the houses. Makoto, who was ten years old at the time, cowered inside with his sister as outside they heard the roar of flames and the screams of their neighbours. Soon enough, the wall of his room was blown in and Makoto looked into the eyes of one of the demon dogs as it snarled towards him.
The demon dog in his room lashed out, took hold of Makoto’s infant sister, and slaughtered her right before his eyes. Seconds before the dog was able to throw its bloody jaws upon Makoto himself, the demon was attacked and vanquished by the guarding cat spirits. Soon, the attack was diffused, and the remaining demon dogs turned and ran off into the night, cackling wickedly. Young Makoto, paralysed by horror, was taken in by his parents as they tried to extinguish the flame and tend to the victims. Makoto was traumatised and rendered mute by what he had seen, though his father, insisting that a future-shaman should have the mental constitution to brush aside such a thing, told Makoto to get his senses together. Makoto, however, was unable to recover from seeing his sister killed, and stopped responding to any orders from his father.
The shamans in the tribe became worried, as Makoto would not be able to ascend to the rank of shaman unless he met their very strict criteria, and many of his duties he was now unable to do due to his trauma. Not only was the boy rendered unresponsive and speechless by the death of his sister, but he had not bonded to a fifth summon by the time he was approaching eleven, and even his main summon, Murumuru, often disappeared. The tribespeople, despite praising Makoto so much before the attack, were now remarkably cold and insensitive towards him, not allowing his emotional ordeal to be an excuse for failing the strict tasks demanded of him. When Makoto turned eleven, his mental state had improved somewhat, but he had not bonded with five summons, as was required by all shamans-in-training. Having effectively failed to qualify as a shaman, his father became overwhelmingly disappointed in him, and the tribe instead began to discuss what was to be done with Makoto now.
Having received nearly no emotional support from his people, Makoto forced himself into a recovery, allowing time to heal his psychological wounds. Makoto had remained quite unaware of the scrutiny he was under, and didn’t believe that his father would go as far as to disown him due to failing a test. Makoto went back to studying, practicing magic, and regained most of his positivity and initiative over time. When he was thirteen, two more of his summons materialised, leaving him with seven – but still it was too late, and he could still not be accepted. Not understanding why people were now avoiding him, Makoto did everything possible to earn his family’s approval; working harder than ever before, studying and reciting scriptures well into the night, and even putting himself to physical labour around the village. Despite his effort, he was now considered a failure, and his father decided in secret to send him away while they figured out where he could fit into the tribe.
Soon after, Makoto was sent out of the tribe to attend a boarding school in a modern city. He was told it was for him to study the outside world and experience another culture, and Makoto believed this fully, not thinking (or refusing to think) that he was being sent away due to rejection. After arriving at the boarding school, Makoto vowed to better himself further as he experienced the outside world, excelling at studies and combat in his new environment. Makoto regained his composed and positive nature, finding happiness studying at the school, even if he didn’t make friends well due to being so different. At the boarding school he met Rentaro, a delinquent who continuously got into fights and who, because they were both ice-element users, declared Makoto to be his rival. Makoto wasn’t fussed by Rentaro’s aggressive attitude however, and instead ended up taking Rentaro under his wing to try to council him and teach him how to be a calmer person and to work out his issues. Though it started off with hatred, Makoto and Rentaro eventually became friends, as they were both outcasts in their own way and Makoto believed that Rentaro could use his help.
Makoto kept in contact with his family via letter, and when he graduated from the boarding school at the top of his grade, he was allowed to continue on to study at Thornwall Academy; a highly prestigious magic school. There he met up with Rentaro again, as now they were very close and Rentaro insisted on going to the same school as his friend. Makoto was proud that he had helped Rentaro become a better person, and believed that his family would be pleased to hear about his successful integration into modern society. Though he had done so well, Makoto was never invited back to the village. Despite being very wise, Makoto’s optimism disallowed him to think that his parents had sent him away for good, even if Rentaro had begun to suspect that, in reality, Makoto had been permanently banished from his tribe. Makoto and Rentaro became the top performing magic-users in the academy, meaning that when the Experimental Magic Class was being created, both of them were allowed to join.
Makoto grew into a very honest, kind and powerful person, and even when surrounded by powerful and intelligent people in the magic class, he remains a mature and respected figure that many of his classmates look up to. He does his best to guide those around him to the right path, and always acts as someone to talk to when people around him are troubled. He is the fourth strongest person in the class, and can command unique tribal magic as well as conjure up to fifteen different summons. Makoto believes he will return to his village as a shaman one day, even if those around him are sceptical of it. Makoto seems to have a very stable personality, although his childhood trauma left him with a crippling fear of dogs, and he never speaks about what happened to his sister.