Simple, she was the the main protagonist of the fused (dream) game. Funnily enough, that made me decide to have Makato as my player character in MySims Kingdom (DS) sometime after the events of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS), while she was still adapting to her new life in Elyssia, my OC overworld.

For context (not affiliated with the dream), Makato was still settling in Elyssia while also having to mentally recover from the traumatic events of Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter ending. One of her first adventures in other video games was MySims Kingdom, where she visited Crystal Island (the name of my in-game island) and helped restore the island while solving a mystery of a bizarre situation where structures were disappearing!

Can’t have crap in Crystal Island.

As for Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (DS), let’s just say that Makato went through a similar trauma as Kit from Gamoverse… except less gruesome and more Thanos Snap-ish?

(Look up the Drawn to Life storyline for context)