Maki is a very headstrong and straightforward person who tries to drive herself forward without needing anyone else's help. She is extremely strong-willed, capable, and motivated to escape the standards that have been set for her by people who are supposed to be her family. In a sorcerer clan, strong cursed techniques are everything while mutants never got a solid opinion. If you were a unique mutant like a tiger, lion etc. You would be respected for your strength but if you were more on the common side like a cat , dog etc. you were invisible, disposable. But Maki didn't even have the cursed energy required to see curses and she was a common mutant which was a cat, the worse luck for both worlds. In addition, women in sorcerer clans have to stand out even more, leading Maki to be constantly severely mistreated and abused by the Zenin Clan. Despite feeling cursed by her own blood, Maki motivates herself to become a strong sorcerer regardless of what her family thinks. She wants to break apart the foundation of their way of life and reject it completely.