Mako Chitose
"Wonder who blabbed to them? Pisses me off."
― Mako Chitose, Symmetry Diamond, chapter 1.
| Mako Chitose | |
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| Japanese Name | 千歳 眞子 |
Mako Chitose (千歳 眞子 Chitose Mako) is Yuma's abusive mother, who first appears in Puella Magi Oriko Magica. She later reappears in Symmetry Diamond.
Personality
Mako is a confrontational, mean woman, who doesn't hesitate to slam doors in the faces of social service agents, or to yell at and threaten her daughter. She is shown to take her frustration and aggression out on Yuma by abusing her in many ways, including putting out lit cigarettes on Yuma's forehead, or kicking her away. She doesn't care at all when kicking Yuma into a cupboard causes a pot to fall on her head and wound her.
Yuma says in Oriko Magica that Mako and her husband would fight often, and that Mako would always say that it was Yuma's fault her father was never home. How true this is is unknown.
Story
Oriko Magica
In Oriko Magica, Mako is killed along with her husband by a witch. Her only lines are "It hurts... save me..." (paraphrased). Yuma later explains to Kyoko about her family situation and how Mako was abusive to her.
Symmetry Diamond
Mako reappears in Symmetry Diamond. When a social worker visits her after getting reports from Mako's neighbours about Yuma's abuse, Mako yells at her to leave, claiming Yuma has caught a cold and is on bedrest, and slams the door in the woman's face. Mako then threatens that Yuma is "going to get it" if she blabs again, implying she'll burn Yuma as she is holding a pack of cigarettes as she says so.
Oriko later sees a vision, after meeting Yuma in the park, that Mako's abuse of Yuma will eventually cause Yuma to go into cardiac arrest (presumably from a heart attack after a nasty burn or a similar fate) and die. It can be presumed that this is what happens to Yuma in several timelines when she isn't removed from her abusive household.
Later, Mako is called by her father-in-law. She tells him, when he asks about Yuma, that she's "quite mischievous" and is on bedrest due to a cold. When Yuma asks to talk to her grandfather, Mako has a fit of rage and kicks Yuma into a cupboard, where a pot falls on her head from the impact. Yuma sobs in pain; Mako says to her father-in-law that something appeared to have fallen from the cupboard and no, it wasn't anything important.
Oriko and Sasa later find Yuma collapsed on a road with a bleeding head. Oriko tells Sasa to get a doctor, but Yuma tells her not to, because Mako will get angry when she finds out. Yuma is present for Sasa's entire attack and even witnesses her suicide.
Luckily, Oriko and Kirika help Yuma find a new family with a couple of elders by the end of Symmetry Diamond. How Mako reacted to this is unknown. Yuma is later seen in the shelter with her new family in The Last Agate during Walpurgisnacht's attack.
Trivia
- Chitose "千歳" means a thousand years. "眞" means true, truthful, or honest, and "子" is a common female name suffix meaning child or girl.