<div class="floatright">(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/LSWSjr/KA_Makoto_zpsha70i2pb.png)(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/LSWSjr/KA_Makoto_F01a_zpsalbuw6jp.png)<br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Festival Outfit</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/LSWSjr/KA_Makoto_F02a_zpswl1op3sc.png)</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Formal Outfit</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/LSWSjr/KA_Makoto_F03a_zpsgue5mhav.png)</div></div></div></div><strong>Name:</strong>Makoto/Kaiya Shimizu<br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Year:</strong>3<br/><strong>Trap?</strong>Yes (most of the time)<br/><br/><strong>Clothing style:</strong>Makoto typically wears his uniform or some rather plain t-shirt and shorts combinations; as Kaiya he's just as happy to wear the sailor fuku during classes, but off campus he loves rotating though a wide selection of feminine outfits incorporating the color red.<br/><br/><strong>School activities:</strong>Drama Club (as Kaiya); Swim Team (as Makoto)<br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Alternative music, horror films and hot chocolate.<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>Cars, needlepoint and Shounen anime<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Makoto is very quiet and easy going, yet still capable of standing up for himself and his ideas if need be; and the young man is also quite generous and caring, spending much of 'his' free time at a local shelter for the unemployed.  As Kaiya, he becomes an outgoing thrill seeker, free of the concerns and sensibilities of his counterpart; and he instead spends a great deal of free time shopping, dating and hanging out with the other traps.<br/><br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Regardless of the dominant persona, they are old fashioned romantics attracted to both boys and girls, with Makoto having dated two boys and a girl and Kaiya having dated several additional boys.  That said, Kaiya has developed a reputation of being very 'liberated' and has no problems with giving 'favors' to his boyfriends.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Born as half of a pair of fraternal twins, Makoto and his sister Kaiya were thick as thieves growing up, the mismatched pair complimenting each other's weaknesses with their own strengths, much to the constant exhaustion and concern of their parents.<br/><br/>This was brought to an end when Makoto was ten however, mere meters away when his sister was fatally hit by a driver on his cell phone, reducing the boy to a mute shell for close to six months following.  After taking him to specialist after specialist without results, his parents found him sitting in his room one day, talking to himself as Kaiya whilst wearing some of his sister's clothes and over the following months this ritual of 'becoming' his sister had positive effects on his psychological recovery... to a point.<br/><br/>Over time, the elements of this coping mechanism took on an obsessive drive, the two persona's developing their own series of deeply ingrained behaviors and ticks leading to the pre-teen being diagnosed with a personality disorder.  In the most simple of terms, despite sharing the same set of memories, they are separated by two unique sets of compulsive mannerisms and cannot rationalize that at times they're just Makoto playing dress-ups.<br/><br/>Home schooled for several years following Kaiya's death, his parents were thrilled when they discovered Kirinozawa Academy and were more than happy to pay two sets of school fees if the institution was willing to accommodate their son's quirks.  Since then, the last three years have been far easier on the 'twins' with most faculty and students aware of his disorder and with even fewer willing to torment him for it, especially thanks to Kaiya's lewd reputation and ever growing list of boyfriends, past and present.