Physical Description: Makaio is physically impressive not because of his stature but because of how he caries himself. His skin is tanned and weathered from a life lived outdoors hunting down all assortment of nefarious villains. He keeps his hair long, shoulder length, sometimes tied up, sometimes unkept but always fabulous. He has well groomed facial hair and despite being physically imposing, has kind eyes that, for all his bluster, hide a deep sadness. He wears an assortment of jewelry: rings, necklaces, bracelets, all useful tools that he has transfigured as accessories. While he prefers to live outside, and shirtless, he is always aware that it is not considered polite to be homeless, and that he should buy clothes.

Mental Description: Makaio is mentally resilient have spent 20 years hunting down poachers, smugglers, and dark wizards. He loves to tell stories, not all of them perhaps truthful, or if they are truthful they appear heavily embellished (even if they aren’t). However, the transition to Hogwarts and “normal life” is still quite fresh, he has a distinct distrust for anything appear safe. The safest place is the most dangerous place in his mind.

Makaio is a sweet soul whose knowledge and love of various plants and animals is not easily surpassed, often putting himself in dangerous and deadly situations to rescue anything and anyone from falling into the wrong hands. His work and his wife are the two greatest joys and his life. With the shift to being a professor of Hogwarts he is eager to learn to love a third thing.

Biography:
Early Life
Makaio was born in a mountainside wizarding village on the Big Island in Hawaii. He grew up in a household whose father was tough and mother was even tougher. Their dual values of excellence and accountability left him feeling under appreciated and as if he was a continual disappointment to them. It would take him half a lifetime of trying to make them proud to understand that they only wanted to make sure he was the best version of himself and had a better life than they had. They were pure blood but from modest means on an island that valued honoring and valuing their resources above all else, instilling in him his love of nature and the desire to protect it from abuse.

School Life:

Makaio’s parents chose to send him to Tenusa in order to teach him a “proper culture,” requiring to stay with relatives in the area through most of the school year. As a student, left to his own devices, he started out wild, finally out from under his parents fingertips and eager, hungry to learn new things. His home culture had many tales of shapeshifters and myths of demigods and gods who walked amongst humans. Legends that fascinated him and drew him into a need to master transfiguration which he excelled at through the years, mastering complex movements and capturing the imagination of all who witness him cast. It wasn’t until his fifth year that he finally started to see how his own interests and passions lined up with his studies. He took a specific interest in transfiguration, care of magical creatures, and herbology as they shared an affinity with how he was raised. Despite, or indeed because of, his need to prove to his parents he was someone they can be proud of, he leaned on his heritage, his family, and dove like never before into his studies. And that is when he met Leilani, his one true and only love.

Leilani would play the most pivotal role in his life until her death 4 years ago and perhaps even now. She was the one who helped drive him into academics, completely smitten with his love for nature and, despite his appearance, handsome as it was, the gentleness she readily saw in him. Above all else, Makaio wanted to be the kind of boy/man that Leilani could love for the rest of her life. When no one else believed in him, when he felt he couldn’t go on, she was always there by his side and held him no matter what. The warmth of her embrace and the security of her love allowed him to push himself far beyond his own limits.

They would marry soon after graduation both having received high marks in their perspective interests. Though not interested in children, their love for each other burned bright and no matter how far Makaio had to travel, one thing was certain: Leilani would always be there.

Professional Life

Makaio’s talents quickly lend themselves to that of a tracker. His survival skills, and his ability to “listen’ to nature made him a valuable asset early on. A hard to find elusive creature? Send in Makaio. Need to find some poor herbologist who has a poor sense of direction? Send in Makaio. Whether it was being hired as a guide for an expedition, or needing to help chart courses in search for an elusive find, Makaio had a way of knowing where to go and what to do.

This would eventually lead him into contact with an uglier sorts of people: poachers, smugglers, and traffickers. As a ranger, his skills at transfiguration magnified his effectiveness at camouflage and trap setting to hunt and ultimately stop various devious activities in his areas. His ability to stop smugglers and poachers, as well as his ability to retrieve stolen goods, with stealth and minimal casualties earned him a spot at auror, with a focus on actively hunting down and foiling these plots. From tracking elusive creatures, to foiling poacher plans, to actively hunting them, Makaio rarely ever missed his goal.

Life in the UK

Makaio, despite the danger of his job, had one person who made his life worth living, and made everything worth protecting: Leilani Kāne. Their home life was peaceful. They immigrated to the UK 4 years ago, specifically Glasgow, Scotland and were just getting accustomed to the life there. Makaio was gone a lot and it was hardest on Leilani to adjust to a foreign culture. They made the decision to move so that she could be closer to where her promotion would take her. She was an accomplished racer in South East Asia and recently accepted a job as a coach for a UK based team.

Their life was not always easy but the always had each other. She was his lifeline and he made a promise he’d always come back to her no matter what. For the next 4 years their life, very different from their past experiences, became quite quaint all things considered. He would go off on assignment and Leilani would never once worry for her man. He was strong, talented, and, even beaten and bruised, always made his way back to her arms. Their bond and faith in each other were ironclad. However, this all started to change last year over an accident on Makaio’s last assignment.

Makaio was 4 days into his assignment, having gone through the last of his rations the day prior. It was morning for him when an owl came carrying a missive. He was drinking the last of his water reserve, having collected some from the rainfall, when he opened the letter. This was turning into a much bigger assignment and he had no back up. He was supposed to just recover a powerful stolen artifact for one of the local villages. Now, however, the new intel suggested he was walking into a trap, and the operation much larger than anticipated. Faced with the option to run and face his wife as a coward, or die trying to fulfill a mission, the choice was obvious to him…2 days later he was on his way home. The smuggling ring, by the time he saw his wife again was arrested and disbanded.

New Beginnings:

Leilani, however, was not as impressed as she thought he would be. The night of his returned they argued like they had never argued before. He would throw his life away just to make a point? Perhaps it was the way he told her, but something he didn’t anticipate was the fear in her eyes at the thought of almost losing him when he had the option to just come home.

“We’ve been together for almost 25 years,” she said with tears in her eyes. “I want at least another 50 before you decide to leave me.” Makaio conceded that perhaps it was time to embrace the life that they started building. However, even Leilani understood, leaving the field would not be easy. He wouldn’t retire to a desk job no matter how well the promotion paid, and he wouldn’t be put out to pasture either.

One weekend while Leilani was out with a friend, she was presented with an offer for Makaio. He didn’t have to give up the need to be useful! She went home to a rather bored Makaio to share the good news. There was an opening for the Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts. He would be brilliant for it and he could help train the next generation of little Makaios. More importantly, they would have the chance to be together more often. After some resisting, Makaio decided he would apply.

First Instance of Magic:

The mountains of Hawaii were beautiful and breathtaking. Ever since he could remember, Makaio, whom his father affectionately called Maki, would take him hiking up the various different ridges and teach him all about nature and the proper care of it. These were his fondest memories as they were so full of stories and legends, part of the reason he himself loves to regale about his own adventures. His father was a master storyteller and especially when they were with nature, his father got extra embellished. It was on one of these hikes at 6 when they were climbing a fairly steep cliff, it was a cliff familiar with him and he had insisted he could do it by himself - stubborn even at this age! HIs father went first to show him the path up but Makaio wanted to prove he could choose his own path. However, one wrong move sent him free falling down the cliffside. What would certainly have been his demised proved to be his first instance of magic as he bounced harmlessly at the bottom and rolled safely to a stop.