<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">General</span></span></strong></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Username:</strong> Hiru Harada<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong> Hiro Hikari (Hiru Harada)<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong> Spectator<br/><br/><strong>Origination:</strong> Unknown. At (presumably) six years old, Hiru was found homeless on the streets of Korea in the middle of what was said to be the heaviest thunderstorm in years. The woman who found him. Asuka Hikari, adopted him almost immediately and took him in as her own.<br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong> Spectral<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong> Unknown. True age cannot be measured in current time-space or dimension. Presumed age at time of death: 19<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> N/A. Hiru’s soul has no sexual affiliation. In life, he was male.<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong></span><div class="floatright">(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc475/H1ru/HiruHarada.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">The necklace he wears holds a blue crystal inside a sturdy leather strap. The crystal glows when water touches it.</span><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Abilities/Weapons:</span></span></strong></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Melee:</strong>No special training. He relies on instinct and blunt improvisation in a physical fight. The only problem is, he weighs less than twenty pounds total. Due to the immense spiritual pressure that is used to energize the water that makes up Hiru’s body, it is extremely light where the normal volume contained in his body would weigh much more. So, in other words, his bare fist really doesn’t pack a whole lot of punch. Still, he’s more than capable of lifting heavy, solid objects and hurling them at super-human speeds, solely because of his tremendous spiritual pressure.<br/><br/><strong>Firearm:</strong> No knowledge of firearms or other projectile weaponry. He generally looks down upon gun fighting as impersonal and cowardly.<br/><br/><strong>Elemental:</strong> Hiru’s elemental abilities are solely based upon water. Themes for numbers 2-3 have been provided at the bottom of this file.<br/><br/> - - <strong>1. Thermal Vortex –</strong> Remotely control the temperature of any body of water. This technique combines both Hiru’s and the Death Keeper’s spiritual pressures to remotely create thermal vortexes within bodies of water. Hiru must be calm in order for the two spiritual pressures to successfully mix without becoming unstable.<br/><br/>- - <strong>2. Storm –</strong> Creates a heavy downpour within an area surrounding Hiru. He has to activate his true power to be able to gather moisture over the area he’s in, then using thermal vortexes can create rain, snow, hail or boiling-hot mist. Once again, Hiru must remain calm in order for his spiritual pressure to remain stable.<br/><br/>- - <strong>3. Waves –</strong> Uses sound waves to reverberate through a body of water, or a container of water. Can be a living organism. Again, remotely, Hiru takes hold of the element of water, usually from a safe distance. This time, the Death Keeper has no play in what Hiru is doing. If he loses control, there’s no telling what could happen, especially if the water he is controlling is inside the body of a living creature.<br/><br/>- - <strong>4. Shape-shifting - </strong> The fact that Hiru is dead leaves certain implications. One, his human body could not withstand the addition of a demonic soul, throwing off the balance of spiritual energy within. Therefore, his body quickly deteriorated, and was soon replaced when the demon materialized an exact replica by concentrating Hiru’s own spiritual pressure into a condensed material which, naturally, bonded with the life energy found in water. Therefore, the demon itself is capable of generating any shape, color and size it desires. Again, because of the lack in weight and density, his best bet for a weapon would be something sharp that could be easily drawn back together if shattered or severed from the rest of him.<br/>This also awards Hiru other interesting advantages, such as infiltration, identity fraud, voice augmentation(hence the lack of actual vocal-chords) and personally rendering himself into any desired form. He could take on the form of Inuyasha one minute, and the next he would be Jaws. Literally, his rendition of the shark from the movie.<br/><br/>- - <strong>5. Succubus - </strong> Because of the nature of the demon within Hiru’s outer shell, he is able to drain and absorb the spiritual pressure of any living thing at tremendous rates. If something has just died, and its spirit is still lingering, that would only make it easier for the demon to absorb that energy. Using this technique allows the demon to regenerate Hiru’s outer shell without having to use any of his spiritual pressure. It can also replenish Hiru’s spiritual pressure almost instantaneously, instead of having to rest after a large amount is drained at one time.</span><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Character</span></span></strong></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Personality:</strong> Hiru is extremely soft spoken. Most often he will go without speaking, even around people he is somewhat familiar with. He’s always thinking distantly, staring off into space. If it weren’t for that, nothing would slip past his perception. However, once he loosens up a bit, he can be one of the most light-hearted people you’ve ever known. The oddest thing about Hiru is his affinity for water. Not only does rain affect him, but the necklace he wears, with the blue crystal hanging from it, seems to have a connection as well.<br/>Any time Hiru is nearby when a storm is about to hit, he immediately changes direction and heads for that area, long before anyone would even think a storm was coming. More importantly about the necklace; the day Hiru died, it seemed to die with him. The leather crumbled to dust in a matter of days, and the crystal slowly shattered into millions of pieces, as if immense amounts of pressure were being added to it at a gradual pace. Now, the light that once shone from the necklace rests within Hiru’s spirit. Whenever it rains, two pinpricks of that same blue light can be seen glowing from the exact centers of his spectral eyes in addition to the light generated by his synthetic clone of the original necklace.<br/>Since Hiru is dead, he never sleeps, only goes into stages of stillness when he is resting. Usually, when he enters into this state he becomes completely silent, and can remain unresponsive even during the most aggressive physical provocation.<br/><br/><strong>Bio:</strong> Three days after Hiru was born, he was found abandoned on an island by the people who inhabited that island. He was wearing a necklace when they found him, a strong. When he was six, he disappeared from the island without any trace of where he had gone. The only thing the people remember is how intense the storm had been the night he had gone from them. The next thing Hiru knew, he was in the street, almost completely naked, and it was still storming. After a day of walking, he was found and adopted by a woman whose name was Asuka Hikari. She took him in, clothed him, named him, and enrolled him in school. The only reason she named him was, when she asked his name, he said nothing. He was foreign to the area. Eventually, he discovered the place he had come to was known as Korea. However, the woman who had adopted him was Japanese. Since Hiru was neither Korean nor Japanese, but he looked more like her than he did anyone else, she assumed he was the same as her.<br/>Once enrolled in school, Hiru showed immense aptitude, far surpassing his entire grade in a matter of months. However, from the first day he was getting picked on for his differences. Halfway through his first year, he picked up a steel chair and threw it at another kid for trying to steal his necklace. He was expelled the next day for attacking a teacher who had tried to take it from him during a test. The teacher was promptly transported to a hospital shortly before Hiru was removed by police escort from school grounds.<br/>Hiru was put through counseling, which taught him to lie tremendously well when dealing with interrogation. He was also enrolled in home-schooling with a local private tutor. He went from grade 1 to grade 7 in four years. After those four years, his step-mother couldn’t afford his classes anymore. So, for the next three years, she saved her money for when she could give him more advanced material. However, the public school system had spoken with Hiru’s anger management counselor, and decided to let him back in. So, at age twelve, Hiru entered into 8th grade. Which would last him about half a year.<br/>A certain girl in his class had grown quite fond of him. She would always want to spend time with him. He didn’t mind, she was a nice person. The only problem was, she was always fascinated by his necklace. She always wanted to look at it, and it made him uncomfortable. Finally, one day, she reached out and touched his necklace trying to grab it to get a closer look. By the end of the day, he was once again expelled from school. He had broken her hand when he grabbed it, slamming it into a desk. He then pushed her back, causing her to fall over a chair. The back of her head slammed on the floor, cracking open and bleeding profusely. She was rushed to the hospital. Hiru, for the second time, was given a police escort off of school grounds. Only this time, he was arrested. The police took him to a juvenile detention center, where they tried to take his belongings, including his necklace. Hiru had other plans in mind. He escaped from custody and ran. How he escaped was a mystery, since the intensity of the explosions that destroyed the building should have killed him. His body was the only one missing from the wreckage.<br/>For years, Hiru searched for a new home, jumping between world after world after world. He began to notice that the pace of time in each new dimension seemed to be different from the last. Some of them were so far off from what he was used to, he eventually gave up trying to keep track of his own age. All he could do was stay alive. He ate out of dumpsters, he robbed people and stores for food, he even took clothing when he needed it. But he didn’t mind. His whole life, he’d known that his mother had been gone. That none of the people he’d met were his family. They couldn’t be called family, because they weren’t related to him by blood. He knew that family was blood, and he could not be convinced otherwise. He took advantage of people who tried to help him, and did whatever he could to stay hidden from sight. To this day, no one knows where he is. Those who do don’t know who he is, or where he came from. And the only thing he knows is that he doesn’t want to be there.</span><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Miscellaneous</span></span></strong></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Death Keeper:</strong> The Death Keeper is a demonic entity which acts both parasitically and symbiotically. It chooses its hosts while they are in the process of dying, when the soul is just partially separated from the physical shell. This is when it takes its host, weaving its own spiritual essence between the host's body and soul, keeping them tied together, trapped in the world of the living. It breaks down the body of its host, only to rebuild it into something stronger and more durable than before. The body of the host will lose all unnecessary organic material, which will likely be replaced by the physical body of the Keeper itself. Bones, muscle, and all internal organs will gradually be purged, making way for the complete physical bonding between demon and host. The worldly appearance of the demon is that of a dark, decomposed skull with several root-like tentacles protruding outward from its back. Through the eye-sockets, if one looked closely enough, one would see the blackened heart of the demon still beating inside. As for the spectral appearance, it’s basically the same thing, only its ‘head’ and ‘tentacles’ are glowing bright red, with a brilliant, almost white light glowing from within the center of its head. Since this is the spectral body of the demon, it is relatively transparent to those who would look upon it. That is the image each host sees before they are taken as their spirit is trying to escape from its earthly shell. Although the Death Keeper awards its host a continued existence in a look-alike body, it has been known to act on its own from time to time, leaving the host completely helpless to watch through its eyes.<br/>Since it takes so long for a single host to diminish, the is no knowledge of the origins of this demon, except to the oldest of beings in existence. This is aside from the few lucky enough to have encountered the demon and not be possessed by it. But those who know, know that it chooses the body of a host at the time of death because this is the most stable method of possession. Also, it does have parasitic tendencies. If it goes too long without a fresh spirit, it will turn inwardly and begin to feed off the spirit of the host. Regardless of what small freedoms it grants the host, its behavioral tendencies are strongly parasitic.<br/>By the Death Keeper’s count, the host at some point ends up trying to take advantage of the Death Keeper’s power, exhausting their own spiritual energy in the process. Eventually, they are consumed by the demon itself. However, one who forms a stable bond with the demon in spirit as well as thought could easily gain access to seemingly limitless resources of power, becoming virtually immortal. However, the chances of that happening are greatly diminished by the demon's preference to seek out the most arrogant, self-centered, angry and violent forms of life it can get its hands on. That is, if it had hands.</span><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Themes</span></strong></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Hiru</span></strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">Cowboy Bebop AMV: Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Se71zCOos#)<br/><br/></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Death Keeper</span></strong></span></div><div class="floatright">Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere - Faces of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5p5bbW4bE#)</div><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Weather Control</span></strong></span><br/>Gorillaz-On Melancholy Hill Official Video [HQ-HD-Lyrics] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPp4f3-U34#ws)<br/><br/><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Body Control</span></strong></span></div><div class="floatright">Deftones - You've Seen The Butcher (HD Official) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAcXSMyCEw#ws)</div>