Mako

Mako was the maternal grandmother of Tenko Shimura and Hana Shimura, mother of Nao Shimura, and wife of Chizuo. She died when her grandson's Quirk went out of control and became the catalyst for Tenko's upbringing into becoming the most feared villain in the world.

Appearance
Mako was an elderly woman with a black bob cut and glasses.

Personality
Mako was shown to be a caring woman who loved her family. However, despite her caring nature, Mako is disgusted of how her son-in-law treats his children to admire and talk about Heroes. It is implied that she is aware of her son-in-law's mother, Nana Shimura, being a Hero, but her Kotaro does not want to do anything about her since he believes that she abandoned him for the sake of others. Despite how much she hates the abuse, Mako was hesitant of talking to her son-in-law of treating her grandchildren with animosity out of fear that he will kick her and her husband out.

While she did not intervene with Kotaro's abuse towards her grandchildren, she was shown consoling her grandson, Tenko, telling him not to cry as it would upset her as well. When Kotaro physically punished Tenko in anger; however, Mako and the rest of the family knows Kotaro crossed the line and joined her daughter and husband in confronting her son-in-law, wanting to put an end to the abuse.

Unfortunately, her caring nature was not enough to prevent Tenko's growing frustration and hatred, and that lead to her and her family being killed when the boy's Quirk spiralled out of control.

History
She and her husband, Chizuo, lived in the house of their daughter, Nao Shimura and her son-in-law, Kotaro Shimura, who permitted them to have an everyday role in their grandchildren's lives. Although Mako spent everyday with her family, she was disgusted by the abuse Kotaro subjected his son, Tenko Shimura to for liking heroes. Everyday, she keeps witnessing Tenko's abuse growing more violent, especially when Kotaro kicked him out in the backyard to make him sleep for the rest of the night all because Tenko was playing Hero in the house. Mako asks Kotra if he's being too strict to his children about liking Heroes.

Although Kotaro agreed, he still lamented of Tenko being unable to develop a Quirk despite being five years-old, and tells Mako and her husband they need to understand the misery of Heroes.

Later, after Mako consulted with her grandson, Tenko and Hana ends up digging into their father's private studies and peeks into the picture of his mother, Nana Shimura. However, when her father discovered she went in his office, she said it was Tenko out of fear of being abused by him. Mako and the rest of the family watched as Kotaro took his anger out on Tenko. Later that night, Mako and rest of the family have had enough of Kotaro's abuse and came with her daughter and husband to confront him. Nao angrily tells Kotaro that they will no longer play by his rules after what he did to Tenko. Kotaro admits he went too far beating his son. His wife tells him that she is done with his rules if he is going to resort to violence, and she asks him if he didn't want to build a happy family. He replies that it wasn't supposed to be that way.

Unfortunately, their actions to intervene came too late that would have severe consequences on Tenko. At that night, Tenko's Decay Quirk manifested, and he ended up killing the family dog. When Hana came to apologized to Tenko, she screamed in horror when she finds out that the family dog was killed by Tenko. She turns around to tell her parents, but Tenko begs her to help him, only for his Decay to become out of control and he ends up killing Hana by decaying her.

Mako, her husband, and daughter appeared after they heard Hana's scream and came to the backyard, only to be horrified after witnessing Tenko killing his sister. Begging for help, Tenko tries to reach his mother, but he touches the ground and his decay spreads, accidentally slaughtering them in the process before going finally broken and killed his father with Decay and destroying the house. All that remained of her was her hands, which were recovered by All For One and Tenko added them to his villain costume after he became Tomura Shigaraki.

Meta Liberation Army Arc
As Tomura faces off against Re-Destro, he is suddenly overwhelmed by the sheer power of his Stress Quirk, forcing him against the corner. Re-Destro seizes Tomura's hand and starts to snap it, severing two fingers, for its part in killing many of his subordinates. however, Re-Destro unknowingly starts destroying the hands on Tomura's suit. This triggers Tomura's instincts, allowing him to be able to decay part of his hand by using only two fingers. This phenomenon surprises and causes Re-Destro to throw Tomura away immediately, and then releases his Ultimate Move Stress Output Burden that tears through several city blocks in an attempt to kill Tomura. The resulting attack sends Tomura flying.

However, Tomura managed to survive, as he touched and destroyed the attack. Tomura takes the preserved hand of his father out of his pocket and tells Re-Destro that he is right about him, that he truly exists only to destroy as he begins to remember when he was Tenko.

After remembering his past to the time being alone and being found by All For One, Tomura finds resolve that those helped him become who he really is. Tomura then breaks away from his past trauma by crushing his father's hand. With memories of his past returning, Tomura decides to break free of the shackles of his trauma and deems the hands, including Mako, unnecessary before Tomura gleefully unleashes his full power with nothing holding him back anymore. The effects of Tomura's Quirk has gone beyond its limits. Tomura laughs triumphantly with a desire to destroy anything that stands in his path.

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
As Tomura laid unconscious after his procedure was interrupted, he experienced a warped version of his past, culminating in a shadowy version of All For One appearing before him. Constructs of his family desperately try to stop him from following in All For One's footsteps, but Tomura destroys them without hesitation, telling them not to reject who he is.

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Trivia

 * Mako's first name contains the kanji for "truth" (真) and "child" (子).

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