► WOO! He gives Ando Kensei's awesome helmet, gets super excited to hear that New York got saved after all then.... loses the excitement in a second because Ando tells him his father was murdered. He attends his father’s funeral and refuses to accept his death. He goes back in time to the time and place before his father's murder and tries to save him. His father has accepted death however. Hiro teleports them go back to the day of Hiro's mother's funeral and try to convince his dad that it's too painful. He runs into himself at the funeral though and realizes that he has to accept the death. He and his father return and he stays to witness the murder and finds out the killer is... Kensei. Shit. ► Hiro tells Ando and they investigate Kensei. They find out he's been going by Adam Monroe and teleport back to 1977 and find out Adam plans to release a deadly virus. Oh my god. Hiro teleports to Texas with the intention of killing Adam and stopping the virus. But.. Peter's on Adam's side and unwilling to believe that Adam is actually the bad guy. He stops Hiro. Hiro meets up with Matt Parkman and Nathan. They go convince Peter Adam's the badguy and stop the virus from being realizes while Hiro confronts Adam. He locks Adam in a coffin six feet under. Holy shit. ► SO! Hiro's the CEO of Yamagato Industries and bored as hell. JUST THEN! They get a DVD of Hiro's dad telling them to protect the stuff in the safe. Hiro opens the save because... he can't not open the safe and finds half of a formula to give people superpowers! WOW. DVD Kaito tells him to protect it with his life. ...And then Daphne, the super-speed girl, yoinks it out of his hand. Because she's hella fast she can move around still while Hiro has time "frozen." She gets away by punching Hiro in the face. Hiro really can't take a punch. Ando and Hiro contemplate how to get it back. Hiro teleports into the future to check if things'll be okay with that formula being stolen. In the future everything is chaos, people run for their lives, SIRENS AND SCREAMING, Ando shooting Hiro with redlightning and the Earth cracks in half! ...But the part where Ando looks like he kills Hiro is the most relevant to Hiro. He's pissy about it. ► Hiro hires people to track down Daphne. They find her in France and find out she's stolen everything ever! Even the Mona Lisa. He takes Daphne's 12th grade medal and says he'll give it back to her if she gets the formula half back. She agrees but pulls a knife out and threatens to kill Ando. Hiro has to back down and she takes the medal and the formula. BUT IT'S OKAY because Hiro reads Batman comics and put a tracking device on the medal. They follow her to a theater in Berlin. The Haitian is there and they think she's going to give the formula to him when in fact she plans to steal the other half that he has. They knock the Haitian out and while Ando and Hiro argue about what Future Ando did, Daphne gets away with that formula piece too. Then the Haitian wakes up and locks them in Level 2. ► They spent the entire time arguing and agree to help each other long enough to get caught trying to escape through the vent. Angela Petrelli has them sent to her office and tells them about the formula and that a mysterious someone is watching them all. And then she tells them to dig up Adam. :/ ► HI ADAM! Adam is so not happy though and doesn't want to help. Hiro threatens to leave him in the coffin if he does though so he has to agree. Adam takes them to a bar, gets the bartender to knock Hiro out with a punch ( HIRO LEARN TO TAKE A PUNCH MAN ) and ditches them. And then gets taken to Mr.Petrelli and killed. ;; Ando and Hiro talk until Daphne and Knox show up and offer Hiro a job. Knox says Hiro has to kill Ando to get it though. Hiro teleports back in time, sticks fake blood in Ando's shirt, then teleports back and pretends to stab him. Knox is convinced and Daphne gets upset because she thought Hiro was the good guy. She gives him a mission to go to Africa to capture the precog Usutu and then runs away.
► TO AFRICA! After getting hit in the head with a shovel twice, Usutu gives Hiro some stuff to have a vision of the past. He learns about Arthur Petrelli making Pinehearst. After waking up from the vision they find Usutu dead --- and then Arthur scrambles ...Hiro's brain. :/ ► Hiro now thinks he's ten! Because that just makes soooo much sense okay. He teleports them to a bowling alley to get waffles, plays pranks on people, then goes to a comic book store. This is what ten year old Hiro likes doing. Ando remembers the comic books about the future! They're supposed to go get Matt Parkman? Yeah. So they go looking for him and find him with Daphne-- who gets creeped out and runs away. They all follow her to Kansas and Hiro convinces Matt to go after her even when an eclipse starts that takes away their powers. Hiro and Ando go to the local comic book store! ► And there they find the guys from Robot Chicken-- I mean.. Sam and Frank, people that follow Isaac's comics and recognize them. Frank instantly wants to help them out and they all go through the comics. Hiro gets upset and doesn't want to grow up after reading about himself in Season 1 and 2. Sam convinces him it's okay. They all look for clues and Frank and Sam tell them about Isaac's legendary sketchbook being handed off. Frank notices a panel depicting Hiro and Claire back in time at Claire's babydrop. Hiro finds out where Claire is from the comic and teleports to her! ...And he totally arrives just in time to save Mr.Bennet from being killed by Sylar and Elle. He puts those two on a beach then takes Claire back in time to when Hiro's dad was giving Mr.Bennet the baby Claire. Holy shi- ► SO! He splits up with Claire and pretends to be a cook. He meets up with his dying mother, who gives Hiro his memories back and the catalyst-- which is that thing that does...something. IDK. It's like light that goes into the formula? Or...something. I HAVE NO IDEA. Okay so anyway-- Hiro tells his mother about his life. And then witnesses her death. ;; He back up with Claire on the roof and Arthur shows up to once again fuck everyone over. He takes the catalyst, Hiro's powers, and Claire and leaves Hiro clinging to a flagpole. Not cool man. ► He climbs back up and gets help from his younger self. They get the formula out of a safe and Hiro only manages to rip in in half before Daphne and Ando using their combined powers manage to get back in time and bring him back to the future. Hiro goes with Daphne to Pinehearst, punches Tracy Strauss in the face, and destroys the formula. ► Hiro has a lot of free time and no powers so he built Ando a batcave and an Ando cycle. He also put a GPS tracker on them. ...And then he gets kidnapped. And survives a plane crash. Okay. ► He teams up with Matt and Mohinder! But Matt is having freaky precog trance stuff or something and starts painting the future. They find Ando and Daphne-- who gets shot. Claire helps them escape. SO THIS SUPER POWERED GROUP consisting of Peter, Matt, Mohinder, Ando, and Hiro meet up and discuss Matt's future drawings. They split up. Hiro goes to India! They stop a wedding and Hiro learns that you don't need powers to be a hero. They get a message from Rebel to go save Matt Parkman! ► Matt Parkman is Matt Parkman's baby. Oh yeah. They learn he has the power to turn things on and off. They convince Janice, the mom, that they're there to save the baby and escape as Danko's men arrive because~ Matt Jr. turned Hiro's powers back on a little! Hurray! They get a ~Nissan Cube~ and set out to get the two Matts together. Hilarity ensues. Mohinder tells them where Matt is and they rescue him. Matt and Matt meet for the first time and it is a very happy moment.
► Matt just.. wants to go be a dad now okay so he leaves. Hiro has a plan! And Ando is bait in it. Also Hiro's head kind of hurts. Ando gets kidnapped and Hiro pretends to be one of the agents to get them to take them to their base. However, the glasses give it away and they escape from them but not after stealing a GPS. They go to Building 26! He tries to stop time but has a lot of pain when he does and suffers a nosebleed. Ando tries to convince him not to use his powers because omgwtfyouareinpain but he insists he must. They start opening doors, stealing pictures of them, and getting info. And Hiro's ear was bleeding at one point oh my god. They find Mohinder. Hiro freezes time releases all the captives and replaces them with agents. And then passes out. Mohinder warns Hiro not to uses his powers too and he should listen because Mohinder is a doctor --- but he doesn't and saves Mr.Bennet. And then passes out again. LATER they attend "Sylar's" funeral. ► SO! Back in Japan, Hiro and Ando run a superhero service. Dial-A-Hero! They save a cat. And during it Hiro's powers backfire and he freezes himself. Ando takes him back and Hiro informs Ando that he's dying. ;; He accidently teleports back in time to a night of a carnival where Kimiko started hating Ando. Samuel, the carnie, shows up there and convinces Hiro that things can be changed without completely ruining time. Hiro sets out on a mission to fix his past and those he loves. He stops Ando from dropping a slushie on Kimiko at the carnival. When he goes back to the present he finds they're now in love and engaged. Awww. Kimiko asks Hiro to give her away at the wedding omg and Ando worries Hiro might not make it. ► Just then Tadashi, an ex-employee, calls the Hero line and states he's about to jump from the roof. Hiro goes up to save him and finds out he was fired for photo-copying his ass. The guy jumps before he can be saved. AFTER 46 TIMES of trying to get this guy NOT to photocopy his ass, Hiro just sits down and talks to him. He convinces the guy to get another job if he's unhappy and Tadashi convinces him to tell Kimiko he's dying. Hiro goes and does so-- then accidently teleports again. ► He teleported right into Peter's apartment! Hey! He passes out on Peter, who puts him in the hospital. He thinks he was there to help Peter with something but Peter thinks he was there to help Hiro and takes his powers and teleports to get something to heal Hiro with. Hiro meets Emma and convinces her that her powers aren't a bad thing-- with the most adorable talent show ever. Emma tells him not to use his powers anymore and Hiro tells her about his mission to right his wrongs. He remembers Charlie and puts her on his list. And then.. accidental teleporting again! ► To the day of Charlie's death! He steals clothes and a boy catches him, whom he tells his goal to. The boy gives Hiro a white sheriff's hat because good guys wear white hats and bad guys wear black hats. He goes into the diner and spies on Sylar, who has a black hat, talking to Charlie. Sylar detects Charlie's blood clot and claims he could fix it. Samuel shows up and warns Hiro that this is an important moment for many people and changing it could be devastating. Hiro doesn't give a shit and stops Sylar from cutting Charlie's head open. He gets his past self to go back six months anyway so time isn't ruined and tells Past Ando to wait for his past self. Hiro goes to Charlie, who hugs him and agrees to go on the trip to Japan with him that he offered back then but her blood clot goes fatal and she's going to die. Hiro gets Sylar and offers to give him information about the future if he saves Charlie. Sylar only agrees after detecting Hiro's brain tumor and becoming interested. Sylar saves Charlie and Hiro tells Sylar that he's going to kill a lot of people then die alone and nobody will miss him-- which successfully fucks Sylar up good. Charlie is horrified that Hiro saved her and not the many people Sylar was going to kill and runs off. After having a chat about love with Past Mr.Bennet he reconciles with Charlie... only to have her get kidnapped by Samuel. That asshole.
► Samuel's all happy 'cause Hiro manages to teleport them back. And Hiro is the least happiest person ever. Samuel, the only person who knows where Charlie is, has Hiro agree to help him fix his own mistakes or he'll never give Charlie back. Hiro's first task is to go back in time eight weeks ago and steal a tape from Mohinder. Hiro switches the tapes and takes the one Mohinder had and saves Mohinder from being killed by Samuel. Mohinder refused to stay put for eight weeks and not try to stop Samuel so Hiro... put him in a mental asylum. Hiro's so nice guys. ► So Hiro's blackmailed into staying and Samuel refuses to tell him where Charlie is. On Thanksgiving Hiro informs Lydia about all this. Using her power, Lydia reads Hiro and then asks for him to take her back to the night Joseph, Samuel's brother, died. They do so and realize it was Samuel that killed him and not who he said did it. They go back to the present and Hiro tells Lydia not to tell anyone because then Samuel wouldn't give Charlie back. Later on Edgar accuses Samuel and Hiro doesn't back him up. Instead he saves him from being killed by Samuel and tells him he'll defeat Samuel. Samuel knows he did this and ...gets a circus freak to scramble Hiro's brain. ► Now Hiro can only speak in quotes from stuff ...because... because that's what happens when you scramble an otaku's brain I guess. He teleports to Japan and gets arrested while looking for "Sancho Panza." They take him back to Yamagato and Ando speculates it's all because of the tumor. Hiro insists they have to save "Dr.Watson" from "Arkham." Ando, being a huge nerd too, actually manages to figure out what the heck Hiro is talking about. ► Off to Florida now to get Mohinder out of that mental asylum! Ando signed Hiro up to get into the asylum so they can get in. They find Mohinder, Ando accidently takes his drugs, and hilarity ensues. They escape and the three of them teleport to Mr.Bennet's... and saw him kissing Lauren. Mohinder builds a compass and they watch and then Mohinder leaves. ...the show. And is never heard from again. Hiro then passes out again and starts dying. Ando takes him to the hospital-- and Hiro has some crazy dying life vision where his subconscious put him on trial and he fought to live. In real life, he had the surgery successfully removed. ► He gets his powers fully back. He then gets a note with an origami crane from another patient in the hospital. He goes to meet up with who it is and realizes it's Charlie! ...Only Charlie is old. It turns out she was left in 1944. She worked in a factory, got married, had children, had grandchildren and generally lived a pretty damn awesome life. Hiro wants to go back and time and save her by bringing her back to her own time. She refuses this however because she's happy with how her life went and then her grandkids would never exist. Hiro reluctantly agrees and blows her a kiss goodbye before going with Ando to save New York from Samuel and his freakish carnival. ► He gets there and Claire asks him to teleport all the super powered carnival folks away. Ando supercharges him and Hiro teleports them all to an unknown location. Ando and Hiro come back and witness Claire take a dive off the Ferris wheel because she was trying to prove a very poor point and exposed all the heroes to the world.
Personality: Hiro is a little kid. Seriously. He is bored with normal work and moans and groans about actually having to do it. He doesn't want to run a boring company, he wants to go out and play. Hiro spends his time reading comic books, watching shows like Star Trek, and dreaming of what it would be like to be a wicked awesome samurai. He wants to escape the real world and live in a comic book.
So when he gets to live in a comic book it's a dream come true. His powers are his favorite thing once he realizes he gets them. It's like a kid on Christmas getting the very thing they asked for. He immediately wants to go fight crime with them and save the world. He embraces them unlike a majority of the cast. They're all reluctant to accept them while Hiro takes it with pride. When he loses them he acts rather childishly about them. He gets extremely jealous of anyone that does have them like a kid who just found out everyone else has the new hot toy and he can't get his till his birthday. He clings to Ando while he has his and he doesn't-- trying to live the superhero life through him. Hiro just can't accept anything but the life of a hero.
He's not completely a kid though. Hiro, at times, acts maturely...well as maturely as one acting out life lessons learned from comic books can be. Something bad happens and he has to do something he's reluctant about --- of course it's a trial down the hero path. He does have his moments where he's not acting out a comic book. He is reluctant to kill Sylar at first because he realizes he's trying to ask for forgiveness (though he ...forgets that bit because Ando said to just kill him anyway) and he respects Charlie's wishes at the end not to remove her from the life she didn't have to live out.
But he's mostly a kid. Hiro, unlike the entire cast, has a strangely black and white view of the world. You're either a bad guy or a good guy. You can switch sides but you're never in between. Sylar can't be misunderstood. He's just evil in Hiro's head. Nathan is a good guy-- when he says he can't stop the bomb he's a bad guy -- but at the end he's a good guy again. He was never a neutral party. There's no such thing as Mr.Bennet's morally gray. He's just.. Wolverine. Extreme-acting good? Yeah. This faulters a little at points and towards the end of the show he was starting to lose this view a bit.
Hiro also goes above and beyond for what he believes in, falls in love hard and fast, and wants nothing more than to save the day.
Other: ► I'd be taking him from the beginning of/right before Season 4. ► Hiro canonly had a blog! You can read the entries right here. (http://heroeswiki.com/Hiro's_blog)
I finally finished Final Fantasy XIII. やった! It was easier than XII to play. Much easier to understand too. I'm not very good at politics and that game was full of them. I had asked Kimiko to decipher something Larsa said. She only rolled her eyes though and didn’t explain. It will forever be left a mystery.
I didn’t go to the doctor like suggested. I already know what he would say. I stayed in my office and hid from Ando. He found me though so I’ll have to go tomorrow. I hope he doesn’t come. Doctors only ever have bad news. _| ̄|○
Also do you need any Hero work done? We are going to have an emergency service. I put posters all over you can get the number for. It’s like the Batsignal and we’ll come when you call. Do not fear! Hiro and Ando are here!
I feel like Iron Man. Not having a secret identity is a-okay right now with advertising for Dial-A-Hero. I could be Iron Man… Maybe I can call everyone and start an Avengers. Dr.Suresh can be The Hulk.
Azaroth metrion zinthos, Hiro
Third Person:
The rain was pouring on the window. Pouring pouring pouring. Hiro stared at it with a dull look and sighed. Rain is miserable because it puts everyone else in a miserable mood. The workers will come in with soaked umbrellas complaining about how awful it is that things are wet. He's CEO now so he doesn't exactly talk to them a lot but he remembers when Ando and him were cubicle people and Ando would complain about CEOs and how they gets to come into work without worrying about the possibility of stepping in a puddle. He'll just stay in his office today in case the workers want to glare at him. Though it might make them feel better if they had something to complain about other than the rain? They'll go home going, 'That Hiro Nakamura and his Bruce Wayne lifestyle! Curse him!' instead of complaining about the rain and then later on he'll save them from a bad guy while driving the Hiromobile and---
Wait.
He doesn't own a Hiromobile.
The frowned slightly to himself and blinked a few times at the window. Different train of positive thinking before he tries to buy a Hiromobile. Strong rain equals a rained out baseball game which equals all the anime being on TV at the correct times. Yatta.
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Character: Helga Hufflepuff Fandom: Harry Potter Character Notes: I have written in her journal a history, a basic personality and notes section. I have taken the history, personality, and other bits from there.
History:Part 1 - The Ancestry Helga Hufflepuff was written to have come from the valley broad. In truth, she came from Wales. Almost a century and a half before her birth, her ancestors the Geats left their homeland. Götaland. was facing increasing invasions by both Muggle and Magical forces. The Hufflepuffs packed up their belongings and moved across the sea.
They did not move far.
The Hufflepuffs settled quite comfortably on the Isle of Anglesey where they lived for a few decades before moving again, this time trying to get away from the Viking raids. They had been there, done that and wanted to be finished with it. They moved north and eventually stayed on Holy Island. Employing both house elves and several charms, both restorative and defensive, they were able to turn a former Roman watchtower, Caer y Twr, into a very comfortable home.
For the most part, the magical family kept to themselves. Magical knowledge was written down into their family's grimmoire and passed to the next generation. In the time when there were no schools, this was how they taught their children. Everything that the owner knew, discovered and learned was recorded. When they became of age, the grimmoire was duplicated and handed over to them. Through a unique spell, what was written down in one Hufflepuff grimmoire was written down in all of them. At the time of death, their grimmoire was buried with them. By the time that Helga received hers, it contained over five centuries worth of information.
Part 2 - The Early Years Helga was born in the year nine hundred and seventy. Her parents were Eleanor and Llewellyn Hufflepuff.
Her kind nature was evident at a very early age. Often she would bring home injured animals, magical and non magical alike. Occasionally the animals weren't injured, Helga just wanted to give them a good home. It was very difficult for her to release them back into the wild but her parents always made her. There was one exception. She had once found two orphaned badger cubs. She had intended to release them once they were able but always they came back. After the fourth time, her parents accepted their presence.
Throughout her entire lifetime Helga was a doer of good deeds. It did not matter the size, it did not matter how difficult, the location did not matter nor did who the person was. If it would help and if the cause was just, Helga offered her assistance. She developed a nickname after a while, Helga the Kind.
She was charitable, accepting of others regardless of their station in life. Being kind was certainly not enough to make her the greatest witch of her age. Or was it? In an era of much violence and hardship, kindness was and still is a rare thing. It did make her stand out and people knew of her because of that. However, she wouldn't fully come into her legendary status until many years later.
With this kindness came a certain sense of naivety. Helga was an idealist and wanted to believe the best in people. Some found it endearing, others were a bit annoyed with it. It was something about her that others could take advantage of and she was deeply hurt by some betrayals. However, Helga was never taken advantage of for very long. She can only be pushed for so long before she pushed back.
Part 3 - The Founding Muggles were becoming increasingly paranoid. Attacks on folks suspected to be witches were on the rise. In most cases, real witches could get themselves out of trouble. Giants were a nuisance as well. Another threat came from the outside forces that were continuously threatening to invade, raid or take over. Something had to be done to ensure that the next generation was protected. They needed a place where they could be taught in safety.
It was decided that such a place should be built. Helga was asked if she would like to help and she accepted the invitation.
Over the course of building Hogwarts, Helga became very good friends with Rowena Ravenclaw. All of the Founders were friends but those two were especially close. It took a couple of years to build the castle. Wizards and witches from other countries had to be consulted for some aspects of the castle's construction. It proved difficult to get some of them to cooperate but in the end Helga's charm won out over their objections.
She always had the feeling that something was left out. Never could she put her finger on what it was. There was something missing and it constantly nagged on her mind. Helga had even gone so far as to ask Rowena what she thought. Rowena thought she was being ridiculous. They had planned for everything. Helga still had her doubts. It wasn't until she heard Godric complaining about the lack of quarters for the groundskeeper that Helga had her idea. They needed a room that could be anything even if that was a lavatory, laboratory, a spare room to study, a place to hide or anything else. Without the other's knowledge, Helga created the Room of Requirement. If a student needed it, they would find it.
Once construction began, the arguments started. Rowena only wanted to teach those who were intelligent and smart, in short young witches and wizards like herself. Godric only wanted to teach those of an adventurous spirit, those who were brave and not afraid of fighting that good fight. Salazar only wanted to teach the young magical folk that had been born to other witches and wizards, preferably those who were very cunning. At the very least he did not want to teach anyone related to the foreigners that were constantly invading and conquering England. Helga just wanted to teach anyone capable of doing magic. To her, it seemed such a shame to build such a large castle without using all of it.
The arguments lasted for weeks. The Founders had retreated to their separate corners of the castle. It threatened to break them up, even before the Hogwarts opened. Helga let them have their alone time. She believed that if they had time to cool off they would come to their senses. She was wrong. More weeks went by until Helga had finally had enough. They were past the stage of being ridiculous and were now just being childish.
One evening, Helga summoned them all into the Great Hall. She told them all a different reason for wanting to speak with them. If they knew the truth then they wouldn't have come. Measures were taken to prevent them from leaving and after they were all done yelling at her, she stated her reasoning for bringing them all together. She had a plan for settling their arguments.
They would each teach the type of child that they wanted. Rowena would select the smart. Godric would get the brave. Salazar would get the cunning. Helga would take the rest. It should take too long to speak to each child to determine where they belonged. Her plan ended up being a success.
None of them, except for maybe one, had any idea of what was to come.
Personality: Helga is a benign soul who values loyalty and hard work. She is warm, compassionate, and caring. In short, she possesses a great many traits that were not common in the tenth century. It didn't matter who you were or where you came from, everyone was treated with the equal amount of respect and acceptance.
However, all of that kindness came at a price. She is a little bit naive and sometimes people underestimate her because of it. Stupid, she is not. Helga wants to see the good in people and believes that everyone had the capacity to be good. Sometimes it just wasn't the case and it causes her to feel very sad, heartbroken even. She can go on the defensive quite easily such as when others think
Despite all of that kindness, Helga was fiercely loyal to her friends and family. She is rather like a mother bear in that aspect. No one got between her and her friends or her and her students. It just is not allowed to happen (by allowed Helga will do her best to put an end to it).
Helga is a natural when it comes to Herbology and Healing, in fact those are her strongest strengths. Coming in at a close second would be Charms. She can do limited amounts of wandless magic but it doesn't always work. She is also handy in a kitchen and with food charms especially. Helga has never met a kitchen that she didn’t like.
Other: She is an Animagus, her form is a badger with a white stripe running from the tip of her nose to the end of her tail. With her Grimmoire, that has been handed down for generations, Helga knows a little bit about a lot of things. A little bit of knowledge can be dangerous.
[The scene opens on an old workroom. Much of the view is hidden thanks to a young, blonde haired woman standing in the way. She is not wearing anything anyone would consider modern or even recent. Helga reaches up and presses her finger into the mirror. There is a concerned expression on her face. She isn’t sure but she could have sworn that she saw something other than her own reflection in the surface, possibly.]
Hello? Is someone there? Oh, Helga, what are you doing? You are talking into a mirror. What would Rowena say if she could see you now? Oh, you know what she’d say. She would say that you are being quite silly in talking to a mirror. Well, at least it’s not the Erised mirror. That could go badly.
[Helga steps away from the mirror and sits down at a table; more of her workroom is visible now. It is a bit of disarray as though someone has just come through and recently decided to fling everything off of the shelves. Potion ingredients lay scattered on the floor. Tools and utensils have been flung everywhere with some even embedded to the walls. Helga is still in the process of cleaning everything up but the mirror, which as an intended gift, had taken precedence over her workroom.
She begins to tidy up her table, pulling various pieces of parchment, rags, and cleaning supplies together so that she may sort them. Helga sighs softly, Peeves is a terribly annoying thing to have to clean up after.
It’s when stands that she notices something in the mirror again. She could have sworn that she saw someone in it, not just her reflection. Helga tilts her head to the side and again approaches it.]
I know I saw something that time. Oh, bother. Godric, if that is you playing a joke of some kind I have to say that I am not amused or impressed. I have work to do.
Third Person: Helga thought she had found the perfect birthday gift for her dear friend, Rowena Ravenclaw. She thought it so well, that even several hours after purchasing it, Helga was still smiling. Carefully, she trailed her fingers over the mirror. There were many things that needed to be done to it. The mirror needed to be cleaned and then polished. It was very old and in poor condition, probably why Helga was able to aquire it so easily.
She shouldn’t use magic on this, she thought. That would be too easy and too impersonal for her very best friend. Knowing just want to do, Helga brought the mirror into her private workroom and laid it on a table. She didn’t want anyone to see it and practically no one came in anyway. It was the perfect place to hide it. Again, she touched the mirror, this time her fingers brushed over the silver triskelion and the interlaced Triquetra knots. Once clean it would be beautiful, Helga was sure and she knew just how to go about cleaning it up. With a smile still on her face, Helga left the mirror alone in her workroom to go and fetch a few things.
On, her way back to her workroom, Helga had the unfortunate timing of running into Peeves. There wasn’t much to be done about him. He had come with the castle and Helga was always unluck with him, he didn’t like to listen to her a bit.
“Hello Helga Belga Telga!” Peeves cried out, hovering several feet above her head. “Always work work work!”
“Hello to you too Peeves.” Helga replied, trying to be polite. “Yes, I like to keep busy, thank you.”
“I know! You should see what I left for you in your workroom!” Peeves cackled at her and then floated away.
Helga fit a pit growing in her stomach and raced to reenter her workroom. Her stomach sank into that pit. “PEEVES!” There were not many things that caused Helga to shout in anger. Her workroom being destroyed by an annoying poltergeist was one of them. Everything was a mess. It was going to take her hours to clean and restore everything. Why had he done that? If she knew of a way to get rid of him, Helga in that moment, would have used it. “Oh, bother.” She frowned as she examined the destruction. Helga approached the table and was dismayed to see that not only had several different kinds of potions been displayed on the mirror but so had a variety of potion ingredients. The mirror was no longer a simple restoration project. Some of those potions were never meant to mix. It was going to take her ages, she was sure.
It didn’t take her ages to clean the mirror, merely two hours of scrubbing until her fingers were nearly raw from the work. In the end, the mirror shined. And while Helga was pleased with her work, there was still more work to do. There was no time like the present and after Helga carefully hung the mirror on the wall, she got to work with cleaning the rest of the room.
Player nickname: Megan Player LJ:sanestlunatic Way to contact you: Email: sanestlunatic (at) livejournal.com AIM: Other: PMs work very nicely. :) Are you at least 15?: Y Current Characters: n/a
Character Notes: History:Tosh was born in 1975. In 1977, she and her parents moved to Osaka to live with her grandparents; they moved back to England in 1987. She attended university and graduated with distinction when she was twenty years old, and she was promptly recruited by Lodmoor Research Facility, a government think tank run by the Ministry of Defence. However, sometime around 2003, Tosh's mother was kidnapped by a group of extremists, and they blackmailed her into stealing the plans for a sonic modulator, then building one. She did so, and was arrested by UNIT. Thrown into solitary confinement and denied all rights, Tosh spent all her time in a small holding cell, contemplating her situation and worrying about her mother.
And then, one day, Jack Harkness came to visit her. He offered her the option of working for Torchwood for a minimum of five years, and revealed to her that the plans she had stolen shouldn't have worked; she had adapted them so that the device was functional. She became the second member of Jack's team, after Suzie Costello. (Torchwood Three had been all but eliminated in 2000, when the then-head of the team killed everybody but Jack.) Owen Harper was the next to be recruited, after the death of his fiancee, and then Ianto Jones. Shortly after Owen joined, he was asked to supervise the autopsy of a space pig that had crash-landed in London, but he was suffering from a hangover, so Tosh went instead. There, she met a mysterious man in a leather jacket who just called himself "the Doctor", who revealed to her that the alien pig was, in fact, not an alien at all - and then he disappeared.
Tosh also took on the duty of waking Tommy Brockless, a World War I soldier in suspended animation, once a year for a day. She grew attached to him over time, despite the teasing of her coworkers.
Like the rest of the team, she had a tendency to take alien artefacts home to experiment with them - until Suzie went slightly mad while experimenting with a resurrection glove and threatened the entire team, then killed herself. Suzie's vacancy was filled by Gwen Cooper, a former PC.
With Gwen, the team faced several new challenges, such as Ianto's partially-converted Cyberman girlfriend, a cannibalistic series of murders, and an alien that survived on orgasmic energy. Tosh eventually met and fell in love with a woman named Mary, who gave her a pendant that granted her telepathic abilities. Though this enabled her to stop crimes before they occurred, it also allowed her to overhear the less than kind thoughts of her teammates. It turned out that Mary was an alien who wanted to use Tosh to infiltrate Torchwood; Jack persuaded Tosh that she was a threat (as it turned out that she was a wanted criminal on her own planet) and sent her into the heart of the sun.
Tosh was also transported back in time with Jack by Bilis Manger's manipulation of the Rift. Because she was the only one who knew how Torchwood's Rift-manipulating machine worked, she had to complete the formula that was stored on her computer and figure out how to communicate with the team sixty years in the future - which she did by writing on a card with her own blood. The team brought her and Jack back, and they then had to confront the threat of Abaddon being unleashed on the city. Jack sacrificed himself to defeat the creature, then disappeared after he came back to life - to travel with the Doctor, though the rest of the team had no way of knowing it.
The rest of them went on without him, because what else could they do? However, a few months after Jack's disappearance, they were sent to the Himalayas by the newly-elected prime minister, Harold Saxon. There, they were buried under an avalanche, taking days to dig themselves out, by which time Saxon had already been killed and the government was more or less back to normal, or as normal as the government gets in the Whoniverse (not very).
The team continued working without Jack - until a month or so later, when he suddenly reappeared in the middle of a hostage situation, shooting the alien blowfish holding a civilian hostage in the head. Shortly after that, John Hart, another ex-Time Agent, and an ex-boyfriend of Jack's, appeared through the rift, tricking the team into searching for five bombs scattered throughout Cardiff. This, however, was a ploy to get into the Hub unguarded and loot the blowfish's corpse. Tosh and Owen narrowly saved Gwen from death (she had been paralysed by John's lip balm), then returned to the Hub to catch John in the act. Unfortunately, John was tricked by an ex-lover of his, and wound up with a bomb attached to his body - in a panic, he kidnapped Gwen and fled. Torchwood destroyed the bomb by fooling it with a cocktail made of the team members' DNA, then bade farewell to John - just afterwards, the detonation of the bomb sent a shockwave through the Rift, sending them all back in time twenty-four hours.
Their next assignment involved the mysterious case of two dead burglars and the only witness to their intrusion (and consequent murders), a woman named Beth. She was incapable of remembering what had happened that night; a psychic probe revealed alien technology under the skin of her right arm - she was a sleeper agent from an alien society. Torchwood used Beth to track other sleeper agents who had suddenly gone active, deactivating the rest of them and barely saving Cardiff from the detonation of nuclear warheads. Beth was the last one left; she used her last shred of humanity to threaten Gwen, forcing the rest of the team to kill her so she wouldn't have to live knowing that she was an alien.
Each year, the team defrosted Tommy, a World War I-era soldier kept in cryogenic storage; the Torchwood members who came across him in 1918 knew he would eventually be needed to fix a time shift. They sealed instructions in a box that was keyed to open at the right time. Since joining Torchwood, Tosh placed herself in charge of Tommy, eventually growing attached to him over time. She's the one who took him on his yearly "day out" - and, before they discover that the time shift was about to occur, she slept with him. Shortly afterwards, the box opened, and Jack called Tosh to tell her to return to the Hub. He gave her her instructions, then warned her of something else - Tommy was executed for cowardice after he returned to his own timeline. Tosh was hesitant to make him return after that revelation, but she did so anyway, instructing the past Torchwood agents in what needed to be done. However, Tommy forgot about what happened in the future, so Tosh had to be psychically projected into the past to persuade him to stitch the time shift shut. Afterwards, Tosh was devastated, knowing that she'd sentenced him to death, and knowing that she had no other choice.
Sometime later, Gwen returned from a holiday with Rhys, only to discover that the rest of the team had changed to include a sixth member, Adam. He fit in so perfectly that it seemed as if he'd always been there. (The fact that he's an entity that alters others' memories in order to manipulate them may have something to do with this - he has to exist within memories in order to survive.) In fact, he established himself as Tosh's fiance, making Owen the nerdy one with the hopeless crush on Tosh. Luckily, Ianto's diary helped to reveal the true past to Jack - along with Torchwood's security footage - and Adam was captured. Jack convinced everybody to take retcon pills in order to forget Adam; they needed to find a memory that defined them and made them think of who they were. Tosh chose maths - how they're reliable and everything always works out properly. She mentioned moving into her first flat and wanting to have a flat-warming party, only to realise that she didn't have anybody she wanted to invite. All she wanted is for someone to see that she's special - taking the pill obviously make her forget the one person who did. Needless to say, they all took the pills and forgot Adam, then found a few things left behind in the Hub later. Tosh had a bouquet of flowers (sent by Owen when he was in love with her), which rather mystified her - Owen, of course, disregarded it entirely.
When terminally ill patients in Cardiff started receiving miracle cures, Martha Jones turned up to help the team investigate a facility known only as the Pharm. Owen tried to flirt with her, but she was clearly uninterested - in fact, she was engaged. Tosh commented on Martha and Owen, but Owen assured her it was going nowhere - they eventually agreed to go on a date. The team fitted Martha with contact lenses that transmitted a video feed back to the Hub. However, Martha was infected with the alien larvae, and her blood cells, mutated from traveling through time and space, allowed her to incubate the larva long past the time the previous "patients" did. Owen, Jack, and the rest of the team came to her rescue; Owen used a singularity scalpel to remove the mayfly from her stomach. Professor Copley, the man running the Pharm, threatened to shoot them as they tried to leave. While Owen tried to talk him down, Copley shot him in the chest.
Later, Martha prepared to perform Owen's autopsy, but Jack wasn't there; he was searching for the other resurrection gauntlet. He returned with the gauntlet and revived Owen - supposedly for two minutes - and the team said their final goodbyes, Tosh confessing her love for him. Owen didn't return to the dead, though, and no tests could distinguish anything. Their research eventually turned up a similar case of resurrection, when death came and took the souls of thirteen people. This time, it happened at a hospital; Owen sealed himself in with the entity of Death - briefly kissing Tosh first - and faced it down, defeating it.
After it was finally agreed upon that Owen was definitely human, he rejoined the team - but was relegated to making coffee. Depressed after cutting his finger and not feeling it, he went back to his flat to clear out his possessions. Tosh arrived to help him - just to talk, really - and he blew up at her, breaking a finger to show her that he was broken - and then left, going down to the wharf to attempt to commit suicide. It didn't work - but then it turned out that Owen was the only one who could infiltrate the mansion of a reclusive millionaire, due to his lack of body heat. He talked to the old man, helping him to face his fear of death, and retrieved the alien artefact he'd come for. Later, he showed it to a woman preparing to commit suicide on a roof - telling her the events of the episode - and revealed that it was a beacon sent back to Earth in response to its transmissions to extraterrestrials.
Gwen's wedding occurred shortly after that - and, of course, they couldn't have any sort of event without aliens. Gwen became the host for an alien's baby - appearing rather pregnant - and the mother, a shape-changer, infiltrated the wedding, killing some of the guests before holding Gwen's mother hostage. Gwen shot the mother and Rhys managed to remove the egg using the singularity scalpel - and then Jack retconned everybody at the wedding.
After continuing their work - first facing a series of "ghosts" from old films of a circus, then investigating negative spikes of rift activity - the team was lured to an old building with signs of alien life. The building exploded, trapping everybody but Gwen inside - Tosh's arm was broken in the process. Once freed, they discovered a holographic message from John Hart. The team split up to investigate; Jack was captured by John again, then taken back in time by his brother Gray and buried alive. Meanwhile, Gwen, Tosh, Owen, and Rhys tried to resolve the chaos coming from the bombs Gray had planted throughout the city - John returned to the Hub, telling them that the nearby nuclear power station was about to go into meltdown, but that there were Weevils keeping them from it. Owen decided to go on his own, since he had a strange undead affinity for Weevils, and Tosh was to keep in contact with him in order to tell him how to disable it. Ianto, Gwen, and John were trapped in the cells by Gray, who then shot Tosh. After Gray left, Tosh managed to regain contact with Owen, carefully talking him through the process - he would be caught in the venting of the reactor, essentially burning him alive (sort of). They kept talking to the very end, Tosh attempting to calm Owen's rage at his ultimate death, without revealing her own fate.
Personality: An only child, Tosh spent most of her early life extremely close to her parents (and, while she was in Japan, her grandparents). Her high intelligence meant that she was ostracised in school - and she didn't really care to rectify that, preferring to spend time on her own, absorbed in books. Her grandparents were codebreakers for the British military in World War II, and they taught her the tricks of encoding and decoding while she lived in Japan. She went on to learn more about it on her own; it's still an avid hobby of hers to this day. She was especially interested in math and science, and her parents encouraged her to follow these interests, though her mother secretly wished that her daughter would be a little more feminine, or at least have a few friends.
Even though she spoke fluent and unaccented English when she returned to the UK at the age of twelve, the other schoolchildren still made fun of her for being quiet, intelligent, and polite. This drove her to continue to excel at academics, rather than drawing closer to other people. She graduated early, and continued to stay apart from others at university, because she was younger than most and lacked similar interests.
As an adult, Tosh still lacks proper interpersonal relationships. She's only been on a handful of dates, and is incapable of keeping a significant other for long. Her most successful relationship to date was with Mary. She's had a crush on Owen practically ever since he started working at Torchwood, but doesn't want to approach him for fear of inevitable rejection. She's jealous of his sexual relationship with Gwen, particularly when she overhears the two of them mocking her while they flirt when she's in possession of the pendant that grants her telepathy. Since Torchwood requires its members to distance themselves from family, Tosh can't even contact her parents, and she doesn't have any friends outside of work.
Basically, Tosh is brilliant and heartbreakingly lonely, slightly incapable of maintaining any sort of social relationship and, in fact, secretly a bit afraid of social situations. She still feels incredibly guilty for the situation that led to her mother being kidnapped and her subsequent incarceration in UNIT's solitary confinement. The confinement itself drove her a little mad - eating away at her from the inside, forcing her to focus on her guilt, the shame she'd brought to her family, the thought of spending the rest of her life trapped in a cell. The thought of what she narrowly escaped still haunts her.
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First Person (entry type): I've never quite been able to figure out what it is that draws me to Owen time and time again. It's a bit like a theorem that refuses to work out properly - you can apply the right laws to it, but in the end, none of it makes any sense. (Which really means it's not like a mathematical theorem at all, actually, but it's a useful metaphor.) He's attractive enough, true - perhaps not in the style that popular culture deems attractive, but that cocky self-confidence is more than enough to pull any girl who crosses his path.
I know it's a common cliche that women often choose the men that are worst for them, but I always imagined I had enough sense to keep from falling into that trap. He's not bad for me, precisely, not in the abusive sense of the word, he just…doesn't like me. I know that, have known it for years, and yet I've always persisted in my futile quest, through all the mockery and rejection and shagging all our female coworkers. Maybe I'm a masochist, or maybe there's something more.
That's what I thought when I first saw him, anyway - Jack brought him into the Hub, and for just a moment, he looked broken, absolutely devastated and lost, and all I wanted to do was help him pick up the pieces, because in that one moment, I saw myself mirrored in him. I've not seen that side of him again in all the time we've worked together; he's built up a facade of arrogance and callousness and cruelty to keep anybody from getting close to him. But I know I didn't imagine it; he keeps drawing closer and closer to that breaking point again. I think maybe I'm the only one who sees it - certainly he doesn't realise it - but when that day comes, he'll need someone to be there. I shouldn't spend my life waiting for him - but I don't want to leave him to his fate, either.
Third Person: The weather in Cardiff was rubbish. Granted, this was the case quite a lot of the time - some of the team members thought that the weather was influenced by the Rift, but Tosh had compiled the statistics any number of times in order to prove that wasn't the case. (Owen had muttered something about her having no sense of humor.) Really big spikes of activity actually were connected to thunderstorms, as the energy given off by the Rift excited the ions in the air - or, as Jack said, it was to give the whole thing a sense of drama.
But simply drippy weather was perfectly normal. This didn't make Tosh any happier about the water running down the back of her neck. She frowned at the detector in her hand - it was meant to be waterproof, but there was a chance some moisture had managed to foul up the sensors. The readings were precisely what they were supposed to be when there was Rift activity present - but the only other creature in the alley was a cat.
"Ianto," Tosh said into her communicator, "are you positive you've got the right coordinates?" It wasn't like Ianto to play jokes on her; the rest of the team might (or Gwen and Owen would), but Ianto was - well, not quite a friend, maybe, but the closest thing she had to one.
"You're right on top of it," Ianto confirmed.
Tosh eyed the cat warily. Jack had told her stories about carnivorous rabbits, but she'd figured at the time he'd just been taking the piss. It looked like a perfectly ordinary cat, albeit one that was just as unhappy about being soaked as she was. She shrugged philosophically and decided this was the sort of thing that was best used for getting back at one's coworkers for that trick with the aluminium foil they'd played last week.
"I think you'd better send backup," she said, contriving to sound as innocent as possible. "With a few tins of tuna fish. Or maybe a cheeseburger."
Edited 2011-02-07 20:42 (UTC)
Undertaker | Kuroshitsuji | I was pretty drunk when I wrote this, no lie | 1/great question
Player nickname: Liz Player LJ:effin_science Way to contact you: Email: enticementofscience@gmail.com AIM: effinscience Other: Pretend I came up with something witty to put here Are you at least 15?: Y Current Characters: Birkin, Kid (the other one), Justin
Character: Undertaker Fandom: Kuroshitsuji
Undertaker | Kuroshitsuji | And then I found five dollars | 2/idk
Character Notes: History: Alright so. This here motherfucker, who may or may not have actually fucked his mother, god knows he’s creepy enough to possibly be That Type, is the most badass librarian ever. Even more badass than my mother, who is a fierce bitch through and through. He also likes hanging out with dead bodies (note the name/title/it could actually just straight-up be his name) and commenting on their expressions of agony. Because he is a sick fuck. The sickest of sick fucks.
Okay, so. Once upon a time, there was an old man from Nantucket this dude was a Shinigami. But only in the anime. He since retired because I’m willing to guess that he wanted to get a nice condo down in Florida. Sadly, he must’ve needed the health insurance or something, because he ended up in London working in a morgue. I’d say “poor thing” but he really. Doesn’t mind at all. So yeah, he goes and. Stuffs dead people? I don’t actually know, he just seems to talk to corpses and badtouch them. He delivers coffins and stuff too, but usually he ends up peacing the fuck out pretty quick. Granted, he’s so pale that I wouldn’t want to be outside for very long if I were him either.
So yeah. Nowadays he hangs out with dead people and goes to hang out in the Shinigami Library – they have books about movies about people’s lives there, I’m not making this shit up – to shelve stuff and make Ciel wonder why the fuck he’s there.
Also he’s evidently got some really pretty eyes.
But yeah, then Ciel comes to him for help/information about Jack the Ripper’s victims and demands payment: HE WANTS LULZ DAMN IT.
Yes, yes really, I swear to fuck, I am not making this up. He, literally, does things for the lulz.
So yeah, in order to get information from him, Ciel and Sebastian need to make him laugh. Luckily, he’s ticklish and Sebastian is a creep.
And then, he disappears for a while. Because he’s one of those characters like Birkin who’s only important in theory. But yeah, he really only shows up when Ciel needs to play detective and runs out of options and needs to get creeped on by UT which is totally what I’m callin’ him now. Personality: Creepy, but then, what else would you expert from me at this point? But no, he’s sufficiently odd. He likes being creepy because, well, people’s reactions to his behavior is hilarious.
He’s got connections with the underworld which is why he ends up being an informant for Ciel; weird, supernatural murder victims show up at his morgue and so he gets to find out a lot of things about their death that Scotland Yard wouldn’t get to know, because they’d pay him with Victoria’s cashmoney which he has no real desire for. Nope, he does his thang in exchange for a serious case of the giggles.
He’s very informal to people of a higher rank than him, probably once again for the sake of a reaction. Undertaker lives his life devoted to researching the deceased, taking out their organs and studying them. He tends to call the dead people chillin’ in his place of business his “guests” and enjoys talking to them and sharing his tea and biscuits with them. Other: tl;dr – he’s Stein without a barber or a nail file. No but seriously. (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090815134846/kuroshitsuji/images/thumb/2/2c/Undertaker_shinigami.png/827px-Undertaker_shinigami.png) Additional Links:Mmmyup (http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Undertaker)
Undertaker | Kuroshitsuji | Great story, tell it again! | 3/3
First Person (entry type): Heeee… How fun this place is. How very interesting. All you other poor souls trapped here are highly amusing. Especially the two I’ve already met. Poor Earl, poor butler; you both must be suffering so~ No time to recover after catching a murderer, you have to deal with this place on top of it all. It must be so awful from what everyone’s been saying, heeheeheh.
It seems from the bit of research I’ve done on this place people tend to ask for favors using this, yes? In that case… Fair waterfowl, tell me all your best jokes. Make me laugh, I do so love the feeling. Make it a good one, and you might even get a reward~
Third Person: His sides hurt, which said nothing of the breath he was so very desperately trying to suck in. It was utterly ridiculous – even he had to admit that, despite his odd sense of humor – but for some reason, it absolutely set him off until he was doing what he could to cling to the edge of a bookshelf to hold himself up as his uproarious laughter echoed throughout the library. Undertaker had only just managed to stumble into the stacks before he burst out into his outrageous laugh. He realized, on some level, that it probably made him mad as a hatter to be laughing so hard at this, but at the same time…
But at the same time, watching Grell shamelessly flirt with the ever-dull William in a last-ditch attempt to barter his beloved chainsaw-shaped Death Scythe back into his possession was the most ridiculously funny thing, and it was only made funnier by that long suffering expression on the poor bespectacled Shinigami.
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