Mako Swanson

Mako has tanned skin and short Dirty-Blond hair. He is about 5'11" and weighs in around 156lbs. He has brown eyes and no piercings or tattoos. He has a scar across his shoulder blades from a fishing incident. He looks athletic and looks like he is in good shape, which he is. He carries a trident with him at times when he is fishing for his district and at other times he just has a net with him. He also has a conch shell necklace that he wears at all times around his neck, that was his best friends.

He is usually wearing his purple and orange wet suit when he is doing underwater fishing for his district. When he isn't fishing for his district he is in regular people cloths. Which consists of a orange t-shirt with a big purple number 4 in the middle of its chest, with a pair of orange and purple camo shorts. and a pair of black water shoes with the individual toes which allows him to be more athletic and aerodynamic.

Mako is the kind of person who is very fun to be around when he isn't doing something he needs to be doing. When he needs to be serious he is very serious and its best to not cross him when he is in a serious mood, because he will do whatever it takes to get to the finish. When he is determined to do something, odds are he will do it no matter the outcome. Mako is very competitive when it comes down to it. He always finishes his portion of fishing the fastest and always tries to get the most amount needed. He very rarely loses, and if he does he quickly avenges it.

When he isn't working or competing he is a very fun and down to earth guy. He likes to joke around and play games, even tho he doesn't get to as often as he would like to. He has been know to be a bit of a clown at times, but always mans up for his actions. He loves his friends and family, and would help them no matter what that needed. Mako loves to be in the water and swimming around, it allows him to feel so free and he just gets lost inside it and it feels as if no one else int he world is around. He is able to hold his breath for extended amounts of times from practicing over the years.

Mako is afraid of failure, and to let his district, family and friends down. Mako doesn't do very well in heat, he's not used to being in hot areas for long. Mako doesn't have any major needs or wants in life, he just wants to be happy and around water. He has also been know to get sad at a certain part of their fishing area, when he isn't working. His friend had died when he got trapped under a rock and drowned. Mako was devastated by this and blames himself for his friends death. He feels he should of been there to help instead of rushing to finish what he needed to do. His friend is the reason he wears the conch necklace around his neck at all times to remember his best friend.

Mako is the only son of Roger and Sharon Swanson. His father is the manager of the Fisherman while his mother is one of the top net makers of the district. The two of them grew up in the district, and their families were close. Both of them were able to avoid the reapings growing up and then fell in love. Soon after they got married and decided to have a baby. They wanted to get a girl, but were instead blessed with a boy, and they loved him just as much, even more in some ways. Mako grew up in the district loved by his family and grew up with the neighbors boy who had their son a month after them and named him Axel.

Mako and Axel grew up fishing and making nets for the district and they were inseparable from one another. They did everything together and eventually ended up always in competitions with each other trying out best one another. Most of the time it was Mako who came out on top, but every once in a while Axel would come out on top, which would push Mako to try harder. Eventually they both became two of the best fisherman of their age group and always brought in a great haul when it came to underwater fishing.

One day they were having a contest and Mako was way a head and finished before Axel so he got onto dry land and sat down to wait for Axel to come up soon after. Axel was not too far behind Mako, so he swam faster to try and catch up. As he was swimming, he wasn't paying attention to his surrounding and he accidentally bumped into a pile of rocks. Axel looked aorund and nothing seemed to have moved, he turned around and as he did a big rock rolled off the top of the pile and landed on Axel. He struggled to try and get away, but the weight was to much and he was trapped under it. He wiggled and wiggled to try and get out, but to no avail.

Time passed on and there was still no sign of Axel, so Mako jumped back in the water to look for him and to see what took him so long. As he was swimming along he saw something under a rock down below and he moved closer and saw it was Axel. Mako quickly tried pushing the rock off him, and eventual Mako was able to do it, but it was too late and Axel had drowned by that point. Mako was devastated from the loss of his best friend. Mako didn't know how to take this, and slowed down on everything. Mako took Axel's Conch shell necklace and has worn it everyday since.

One day Mako came to the conclusion that he rather embrace his friends name, instead of moping around in it. Mako got back to where he was and fished harder, longer and faster to make up for the time he slacked off. From that point on, whenever Mako was int he water he felt more close to his friend and he loved that feeling. He spent as much time as he could in the water from that point on and enjoyed every minute of it.