Kurisu Makise

Kurisu Makise's History

Kurisu grew up with her father, Shouichi Makise, and mother, with her father being a physicists dedicated to studying time-travel. From a young age, she took an interest in her father's work and the two grew very close, with him gifting her a monogrammed spoon on her 10th birthday with the intention of gifting her matching fork the following year. However, this never came to be as by her 11th birthday, her genius ability started to shine through, leading her to disprove one of her father's theories for the first time. This resulted in him snapping at her and never gifting her the fork. As she continued to disprove his theories, Shouichi's resentment against his daughter eventually grew into pure hatred. This resulted in him taking out his frustration on his wife, leading to a divorce. By the start of the story, Kurisu had not spoken to her father in 7 years.

As a genius, Kurisu excelled in school. At her mother's suggestion, the two of them moved to the USA where Kurisu graduated college at age 14 with a specialty in Neuroscience. She was quickly hired as a researcher at Viktor Chondria University, where she became acquainted with Alexis Leskinen and Maho Hiyajo, with the latter becoming her best friend after bonding over their mutual affection for Mozart. They often intensively discussed about theories and slowly developed a bond where Kurisu would encourage Maho whenever the opportunity arose and always secretly looked up to her as her senior. A few years later she, Maho and Leskinen began working on the Amadeus system, an AI based on Kurisu's thesis to convert human memory into digital data. She was one of its first test subjects and reuploaded her memories from time to time. Sometime, she started posting on @channel with the name "KuriGohan and Kamehameha" which she regularly used due to missing Japan.

She was briefly part of an exchange program where she spent two weeks attending the all girls high school Ayamein (Ayamein Women's Academy) in Japan. She grew fond of the uniform and based her casual clothing off of it.

Several months before the start of the story, she is contacted by her father who, wanting to show off his newest theory, invited her to a press conference he was speaking at in Akihabara. Seeing this as an opportunity to reconnect with her father, Kurisu wrote a time-travel thesis that she intended to co-publish with him.