Maki

Maki (マキ) is a background character introduced in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun.

Appearance
Apparently college aged, Maki has long curly brown hair and wears plain round glasses.

During her initial confrontation with her cheating partner, she wore a green cardigan, a knee-length dress and brown boots.

During her attempt to acquire ExitApp, she wore a loose ankle-length skirt and blouse, with her cardigan worn over her shoulder. She also had her hair braided.

Personality
Although appearing gentle and harmless, Maki is unstable as a result of her loved partner Ta's infidelity.

On initially confirming her suspicions of him cheating, Maki tried to stab him with a kitchen knife she had brought with her, in tears both during and after the thwarted attack.

After this incident and with her pregnancy, Maki became even more broken and unstable, disbelieving that Ta was a lost cause and not caring what others said, plotting to murder the other girl and make it seem like a suicide, believing that it was the only way to get him to love her again and that they'd definitely have a happy ending afterwards. She spoke in an absentminded, wavering tone, smiled in a faint yet crazed and insane manner, stood off kilter and listing as though drunk, and gave off a noticeable feeling of instability and danger.

Dream Ranker Arc


Catching her cheating partner in the act and confirming her suspicions, a tearful Maki tried to murder him with a kitchen knife. Her attack was intercepted by a brick which Shirai Kuroko teleported, forewarned by Miyama Shaei's predictions. Afterwards, an understanding Kuroko told her not to act so rashly, while Ta was beaten up by the woman he was with, having deny his affair, tried to claim she had just come up to him and tried to hide behind her when Maki tried to stab him.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (light novel)
With Ta seeing another woman and having become pregnant, Maki's mental state worsened. Despite others saying that Ta was a lost cause, Maki still believed that she could get him to love her again and attain happiness with him, if she could get rid of the other woman. With the appearance of ExitApp, a tool for committing suicide, Maki tried to obtain it, plotting to get her enemy to use it, so people would conclude she had killed herself no matter how unnatural it might look. However, her order did not arrive, due to efforts to crush ExitApp's sale routes, leading her to go to get it herself.

She ended up approaching developer Amahebi Saeka (seeking to stop others profiting off the deaths of others though the failed software she never intended to leak out) and Uiharu Kazari in School District 15's underground, as the latter was telling the former how she could stop it, which Maki said she would not let happen. Feeling her dangerous, unpredictable instability and a figurative minefield, Uiharu misinterpreted her words about how she wanted happiness and the suicide tool was the only way to get Ta-kun to love her again as her wanting to die to make her ex regret breaking up with her, telling her she would not find happiness that way, only for Maki to reveal how she wanted to have her rival die from it in a seeming suicide to claim happiness with him for herself. On being called insane, Maki responded by asking how an offered tool that makes it look like someone killed themselves could not be the perfect murder weapon.

With both Uiharu and Amahebi horrified at this development, and the former realizing how Maki had become so broken as she rubbed her lower stomach, the crazed Maki brandished a metal tape, declaring that everything would all be fine, that no matter what she said there and who hear it, nothing would change how things ended. She then moved to attack a frozen Uiharu, demanding that they hand over the key to her happiness. However, Amahebi stood in front of Uiharu and was cut by the sharp edge of the metal tape. She then flicked a drop of her blood at Maki, incapacitating her with her ability Scorpion Tail, but assuring her that the poison would only affect her mind and not her belly.