Maki Zenin - Sweaty trainer

Personal Description: Species: Human

Birthday: January 20, 2002

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Height; 170 cm (5'7")

Hair Color: Dark Green

Eye Color: Amber

Relatives: Zenin Clan Ogi Zenin (Father) Unnamed Mother Mai Zenin (Younger Twin Sister) Naobito Zenin (Uncle) Naoya Zenin (Cousin) Unnamed Uncle Jinichi Zenin (Cousin) Toji Fushiguro (Cousin) Megumi Fushiguro (First Cousin Once Removed)

Occupation: Jujutsu Sorcerer Student

Affiliation Zenin Clan Tokyo Jujutsu High School

Grade: Grade 4

Appearance: Maki is a young woman above average height with an athletic build. She has small green eyes (amber in the anime) and long black hair (dark green in the anime) normally tied into a short ponytail. She had fringes of hair over her forehead with smaller strands framing her cheeks and used to sport different pairs of glasses that allowed her to see curses.

While still a member of the Zenin clan, Maki wore a traditional outfit, a white yukata, and a black hakama. Maki's original Jujutsu High student uniform consisted of the traditional long sleeve jacket with a pencil skirt. As a first-year student, she wore thick, long tan socks and black shoes with her uniform. As a second-year Maki wore a different pair of glasses and sported black leggings instead of socks.

While training for the Goodwill Event, Maki wore a purple tracksuit a black jersey with tan shorts over her leggings.[8] While training Yuta Okkotsu, Maki wore the same top with darker shorts. Her casual clothes consisted of a cyan hoodie over a white shirt with pink horizontal stripes, white shorts over black leggings, and white boots.

Personality: Maki is a very headstrong and straightforward person who tries to drive herself forward without needing anyone else's help. She is extremely strong-willed, capable, and motivated to escape the standards that have been set for her by people who are supposed to be her family. In a sorcerer clan, strong cursed techniques are everything, but Maki couldn't even see curses. In addition, women in sorcerer clans have to stand out even more, leading Maki to be constantly severely mistreated and abused by the Zenin clan. Despite feeling cursed by her own blood, Maki motivates herself to become a strong sorcerer regardless of what her family thinks. She wants to break apart the foundation of their way of life and reject it completely.

Maki can come off as rather cold at times, even to her classmates. She is the leader type, but Maki is very tough on others and tends to be impatient and hot-tempered. She doesn't seem to respect Satoru Gojo as a person due to his very goofy attitude. Even as her teacher, Maki often refers to him as a moron. Maki trained Yuta Okkotsu harshly because she wanted to see him get stronger and fight beside her, something she would later impart on Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki as their senior. She's taught them all highly advanced situational awareness and how to properly wield a variety of weapons, even if they had to get beaten up a lot in the process

Maki was initially very mean to Yuta because of his shy attitude and openly told him he had no business attending Jujutsu High as a cursed human. While working on a mission together, they learned to understand one another, and she realized they weren't so different. She asked Yuta why he enrolled in the school, and he told her that he wanted it to be acceptable for him to live. Maki told him that's what Jujutsu High is all about and encouraged him to use his curse to save people.[16] She has repressed many of her emotions to maintain her trademark tough exterior. She hasn't expressed romantic interest in anyone, and Panda enjoyed teasing her about this as first-years. When it came to Yuta, this embarrassed Maki enough to lash out at Panda in a temper.

Following their first encounter with Suguru Geto, Maki and Yuta talked about why Geto referred to her as the "failure of the Zenin clan". Maki initially played it off as if being born a non-sorcerer gave her a perfect excuse to leave because she hated the clan for a variety of other reasons. When Yuta inquired as to why Maki chooses to be a sorcerer, Maki said it's because she's got a bad personality and wants to be a grade 1 sorcerer to spite the Zenin clan. Yuta admires Maki's strength and revealed he wants to be like her, strong and resilient. Yuta awkwardly offered to help her stick it to the Zenin clan, but she called him an idiot and said it was something she needed to do alone. She had spent so long rejecting the need to feel accepted that she became flustered that Yuta kindly recognized her strength. Maki left the conversation to gain her composure and then reminded herself that she should not go feeling like she's finally been recognized.