[ When Mako was very, very young, she lost her mother and father and her entire family in the attack on Tokyo. Back then, the international terrorist group 'kaiju' were still relatively new, still hitting with less frequency, less coordination. They were sloppy and messy and left evidence all over the sites, but that didn't make the pain they left in their wake any less devastating.
It also didn't didn't make the survivors any less bitter and filled with the lust for revenge, either.
She's the only known survivor of the attack and she's immortalized in newspapers but she doesn't give a shit about any of that, she just cares about revenge. At seven years old, all Mako can think about is how she's going to get back at the bastards that destroyed the city, and her parents. She's filled with hate and anger and she fights her way to the top of the newly formed jaeger program, a division separate from the CIA and FBI and MI5 and all the secret government agencies in the world.
It's a combination, a joint effort to take them out, and you know a terrorist group is a serious threat when every nation contributes soldiers, volunteers.
She's assigned to a partner, as they all are, and they don't particularly get along, not at first. She thinks Raleigh is too risky, takes too many chances in the field and gets others killed. Raleigh thinks Mako is too stuffy and rigid and they don't really see eye to eye.
But it's after they have a go at a couple kaiju agents that they see how well they fight together, how connected they can really be.
Then it gets better.
Their hotel is incredible in Dubai; their in the tallest tower, pool extending out and over the city, glass bottom so you can shit yourself while you have a swim. Mako likes it, she doesn't know if Raleigh does. She likes the exhilaration of diving in, keeping her eyes open and watching as she goes. They're undercover but it's late, they're done for the night and she strips down to bra and underwear, steps to the edge, and dives in. ]
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It also didn't didn't make the survivors any less bitter and filled with the lust for revenge, either.
She's the only known survivor of the attack and she's immortalized in newspapers but she doesn't give a shit about any of that, she just cares about revenge. At seven years old, all Mako can think about is how she's going to get back at the bastards that destroyed the city, and her parents. She's filled with hate and anger and she fights her way to the top of the newly formed jaeger program, a division separate from the CIA and FBI and MI5 and all the secret government agencies in the world.
It's a combination, a joint effort to take them out, and you know a terrorist group is a serious threat when every nation contributes soldiers, volunteers.
She's assigned to a partner, as they all are, and they don't particularly get along, not at first. She thinks Raleigh is too risky, takes too many chances in the field and gets others killed. Raleigh thinks Mako is too stuffy and rigid and they don't really see eye to eye.
But it's after they have a go at a couple kaiju agents that they see how well they fight together, how connected they can really be.
Then it gets better.
Their hotel is incredible in Dubai; their in the tallest tower, pool extending out and over the city, glass bottom so you can shit yourself while you have a swim. Mako likes it, she doesn't know if Raleigh does. She likes the exhilaration of diving in, keeping her eyes open and watching as she goes. They're undercover but it's late, they're done for the night and she strips down to bra and underwear, steps to the edge, and dives in. ]