Changes: Makoto Ariga

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" I am Juliet ! I am JULIET !! I AM JULIET !!! "

---Ariga Makoto

Makoto, also known as Mako, is a transgender male-to-female teenager, and a classmate of Yoshino, and Chi, and a close, personal friend of Shuichi.

( Because Mako is a male-to-female transgender teen, Gender Neutral Pronouns may used when referring to Mako's perceived birth gender. Female pronouns are used when she is presenting as a female teenager. See this article. )

Appearance

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Personality

Makoto is unusually mature for their age, and is able to think calmly and objectively while providing advice to friends. Makoto also gets along well with boys and girls of the same age because of their good listening skills; Makoto often becomes an onlooker to what is going on in the other characters' lives, ready to offer thoughts about how to help out. However, Mako's maturity is often tempered with a lack of self-confidence and self-worth. Mako repeatedly tells best friend Shuichi that they can ( supposedly ) not ever present out in public as a girl as well as Shuichi can. In respective, Mako occasionally shows mild jealousy for Shuichi's looks and feminine behavior. But for Mako, friendship is vital to their well being, and shows unwavering loyalty to Shuichi. They both have frequent, very intimate conversations with one another, and enjoy trying on dresses and feminine attire together from time to time.

Makoto is an only child, whose parents run a bakery.

Mako's Story

Makoto first appears when the schoolmate circle of friends is in sixth grade, although being in a different class. Known as Mako for short, though mostly only to Shuichi, Makoto was also assigned male at birth, but has a female gender identity and wishes to be a girl, and shares Shuichi's interest in dressing as their correct gender of a adolescent teenage girl. It is this that spurs Makoto to become Shuichi's closest male-to-female transgender friend. Due to facial freckles and round glasses, Makoto is not able to ( supposedly ) appear as attractive as Shuichi when wearing feminine clothes and presenting as a teen girl, but this does not hold Makoto back from wearing clothing that affirms their female gender identity. A factor in Makoto's reasons for wanting to be a girl may be due to an attraction to other boys, something Shuichi cannot relate to.

When the decision is made to produce a gender non-conforming play of Romeo and Juliet for the school cultural festival, Mako is chosen, by a lottery system, to play the role of a male-to-female transgender teenage girl named Juliet. Mako at first is very apprehensive about the role and assignment, but slowly gains the self-confidence to practice and rehearse the lines and movements. At the beginning of the play, Mako, dressed in a girl's old-fashioned ankle-length empire dress, freezes up, and can not remember her opening dialog. But with a look of 'do or die trying' & 'death before dishonor' from Saori behind the curtain, playing the female to male Romeo, Mako is emotionally jolted and jump-started, and quickly begins the opening dialog for the play. Given Mako's shyness on stage, surprisingly, toward the end of the play, Mako now ignites with rapturous spirituality, and becomes a supernova, burning with pure passion for presenting as the teenage girl Juliet on stage She 'brings down the house' with the very convincing suicide death scene that Juliet does at the end of the play. At the after-performance party back stage, Saori presents Mako with a pretty bouquet of flowers for her portrayal of the dying Juliet.

Relationships

Towards Shuichi : Both Mako and Shuichi love to wear pretty dresses, as well as dressing in other feminine attire that is typical of young and teenage girls. Their friendship, as well as their fashion styles, helps to bolster each other's resolve to affirm their correct female gender identity. Later, Mako bitterly complains to Shuichi that they feel that they are not cute or pretty enough to be attractive to boys, but Shuichi points out that Mako's pleasant female personality and compassion is what is important, not necessarily one's looks.

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 ( Because Mako is a male-to-female transgender teen, Gender Neutral Pronouns may used when referring to Mako's perceived birth gender. Female pronouns are used when she is presenting as a female teenager. See [[Gender Neutral Pronouns|this]] article. )
+==Appearance==
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 ==Personality==
 Makoto is unusually mature for their age, and is able to think calmly and objectively while providing advice to friends. Makoto also gets along well with boys and girls of the same age because of their good listening skills; Makoto often becomes an onlooker to what is going on in the other characters' lives, ready to offer thoughts about how to help out. However, Mako's maturity is often tempered with a lack of self-confidence and self-worth. Mako repeatedly tells best friend [[Nitori Shuichi|Shuichi]] that they can ( supposedly ) not ever present out in public as a girl as well as Shuichi can. In respective, Mako occasionally shows mild jealousy for Shuichi's looks and feminine behavior. But for Mako, friendship is vital to their well being, and shows unwavering loyalty to Shuichi. They both have frequent, very intimate conversations with one another, and enjoy trying on dresses and feminine attire together from time to time.
 Makoto is an only child, whose parents run a bakery.
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 Makoto first appears when the schoolmate circle of friends is in sixth grade, although being in a different class. Known as Mako for short, though mostly only to Shuichi, Makoto was also assigned male at birth, but has a female gender identity and wishes to be a girl, and shares Shuichi's interest in dressing as their correct gender of a adolescent teenage girl. It is this that spurs Makoto to become Shuichi's closest male-to-female transgender friend. Due to facial freckles and round glasses, Makoto is not able to ( supposedly ) appear as attractive as Shuichi when wearing feminine clothes and presenting as a teen girl, but this does not hold Makoto back from wearing clothing that affirms their female gender identity. A factor in Makoto's reasons for wanting to be a girl may be due to an attraction to other boys, something Shuichi cannot relate to.
-When the decision is made to produce a gender non-conforming play of ''Romeo and Juliet'' for the school cultural festival, Mako is chosen, by a lottery system, to play the role of a male-to-female transgender teenage girl named Juliet. Mako at first is very apprehensive about the role and assignment, but slowly gains the self-confidence to practice and rehearse the lines and movements. At the beginning of the play, Mako, dressed in a girl's old-fashioned ankle-length empire dress, freezes up, and can not remember her opening dialog. But with a look of 'do or die trying' & 'death before dishonor' from Saori behind the curtain, playing the female to male Romeo, Mako is emotionally jolted and jump-started, and quickly begins the opening dialog for the play. Given Mako's shyness on stage, surprisingly, toward the end of the play, Mako now ignites with rapturous  spirituality, and becomes a supernova, burning with pure passion for presenting as the teenage girl Juliet on stage She 'brings down the house' with the very convincing suicide death scene that Juliet does at the end of the play. At the after-performance party back stage, Saori presents Mako with a pretty bouquet of flowers for her portrayal of the dying Juliet.
+When the decision is made to produce a gender non-conforming play of ''Romeo and Juliet'' for the school cultural festival, Mako is chosen, by a lottery system, to play the role of a male-to-female transgender teenage girl named Juliet. Mako at first is very apprehensive about the role and assignment, but slowly gains the self-confidence to practice and rehearse the lines and movements. At the beginning of the play, Mako, dressed in a girl's old-fashioned ankle-length empire dress, freezes up, and can not remember her opening dialog. But with a look of 'do or die trying' & 'death before dishonor' from Saori behind the curtain, playing the female to male Romeo, Mako is emotionally jolted and jump-started, and quickly begins the opening dialog for the play. Given Mako's shyness on stage, surprisingly, toward the end of the play, Mako now ignites with rapturous spirituality, and becomes a supernova, burning with pure passion for presenting as the teenage girl Juliet on stage She 'brings down the house' with the very convincing suicide death scene that Juliet does at the end of the play. At the after-performance party back stage, Saori presents Mako with a pretty bouquet of flowers for her portrayal of the dying Juliet.
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