Once upon a time, there was a girl named Laura O’Kello who changed Hakuba’s life. Whether or not this is a good thing is still up for debate, but the moment I saw this music video, it was just too perfect not to dedicate it to her.
Ahhhh, Laura. The girl who makes men dance the women’s part in the ballroom, talks her way out of everything, and turned down the detective because he wasn’t rich enough for her to even consider him.
Insanity
Hakuba does often wonder if his paranoia borders on insanity. He has a ridiculous amount of contingencies set up in the event of his untimely demise, most of which involves delivering information about his various cases into hands that he believes are capable of handling them. Sometimes, as he writes the letters that he sets aside for this purpose, he has to stop and ask himself if he is, in fact, insane.
Pawns
One of the reasons why my Hakuba hates the Spider that I’ve written in his backstory is that he uses a combination of white widow cocaine and a drug called scopolamine on his targets and bystanders… This allows him to produce those illusions, each tailored to a person’s individual fears (think Batman’s Scarecrow), and makes them very willing volunteers for whatever Spider wants them to do. For the criminals that he assassinates, it usually involves forcing them to play out their worst nightmare before they die. Since Hakuba’s not really a target, he’s only seen glimpses of this, but both times (especially the first), left him shattered, angry, and terrified.
Delirious
The nightmares will sometimes have this effect. It doesn’t happen often, but the nightmares, or something will trigger his PTSD and suddenly the eidetic memory kicks in and Hakuba turns from a professional, level-headed detective to a crying mess on the floor, or scrambling to escape. Just the right combination of triggers and you can have him screaming bloody murder and stuck reliving the past until he’s snapped out of it.
Hakuba is the type to fall quickly for many different types of people. It’s difficult for him to see just what’s going to stick, as there are so many facets of a person that are important, and he’s so very picky. Interest sparks for many, but very few go on to be flames, and fewer still turn into those long-lasting fires.
For him to fall in love with someone, successfully, it usually has to be a slow burn. Sparks of interest here or there, stringing along until it becomes a flame, but at some point there has to be a transition between Hakuba doing the pursuing (which is how he prefers to start things), to the other person showing equal interest and dedication.
Trust is built over time. Secrets exchanged. A healthy amount of dirty laundry on the table. Clear the air. Decide that they’re still in it, still willing, still interested. Accept him for who he is. He’ll accept them for who they are. And then it becomes a mutual partnership. Friends, lovers, soulmates. He hopes for marriage. And then sharing his life – all of it – with whomever becomes his mate.
Ideally, anyway. He’s ridiculously compatible with a lot of people, but rarely gives anyone a fair chance… too busy self-loathing and being defensive to, I guess. Ugh.
Headcanon for keyword: Torture
In Hakuba’s line of work, it’s often romanticized that detectives are kidnapped and tortured for information. Mostly, though, their work is a bunch of research and paper trails. There are confrontations, yes, which occasionally get violent, but they are not super spies like James Bond, nor are most detectives like Batman.
That said, being a super high school level genius detective comes with a certain sort of territory that brings out some of the worst, especially for one who is more a private consultant than a legitimate member of the police force. There have been a couple of times where Hakuba has found himself in a situation where criminals have tried to get information from him, one way or the other.
Terrified of this happening, Hakuba researched various methods to cope, which have actually come in handy. One of the things that criminals like to use is truth serums or other drugs, which Hakuba knows (from research) works by making the person feel compelled to talk. It’s not so much about truth as it is the culprit providing the topic, and the victim having to speak on said topic, which usually results in them spilling the information. So, Hakuba has invented several scenarios and speeches or reports, if you will, to give falsified or otherwise useless information readily enough that it confuses your captors.
I mean, this usually means getting beat up more… but at least the information is safe. He’s way more concerned about taking the secrets to the grave, though, so that’s something.
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1. What they smell like: Anise, wool, old spice, and paper, mostly.
2. How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): He likes to sleep on his side most often, slightly curled and on one side of his large bed. Tends to stay up until 1 or 2am, then gets up around 6am, give or take depending on his schedule.
3. What music they enjoy: Classical and Europop, mostly. He’s a sucker for Beatles, Muse, and Gaga…
4. How much time they spend getting ready every morning: 30-60 minutes, though he tends to prepare the night before, too.
5. Their favourite thing to collect: Books and odd liquors.
6. Left or right-handed: Right handed.
7. Religion (if any): Christian (baptized Catholic)
9. Favourite touristy thing to do when travelling: Photography and sampling all of the different kinds of food. …okay, really, it’s the food he loves.
10. Favorite kind of weather: Partially cloudy, cool enough to make wearing a jacket distinctly pleasant.
11. A weird/obscure fear they have: GHOSTS.
12. The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: Target shooting… and he’s pretty good at air hockey, too.
✚: What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement your muse can conceive? What makes it so frightening?
I think going blind would be the thing Hakuba fears the most. It would impair basically everything that he does, and he would lose so much independence and control, which he needs. I mean, he could relearn a lot of it and, with help, could get by… but it would be such a drastic change from everything he knows.
Which is part of why running The Butcher plot with Hakuba is so much fun~
♐: What is your muse particularly unskilled at?
Fighting. He’s been trained through the London police for self-defense and that sort of thing, but he is just not that great when it comes to much else. Hakuba can take a hit and has a decent right hook, but most of his skill with the physical aspect of catching criminals comes in the form of chasing and body tackling people.
Violence just isn’t his forte, really. He sucks at climbing ladders, doing yoga, and any sort of martial art.
…he’s not very good at drawing, either, but his stick figures are cute.
☩: Your muse is doing some intense spring cleaning. What is easy for them to throw out, and what is difficult for them to part with?
Easy to get rid of clothes because he loves buying new ones and tends to accumulate a lot. Once his closet gets full, he goes through and donates a large portion of them, all in very good condition… … so that he can go buy more.
Meanwhile, he never wants to let go of books, even though he has way too many. His idea is to just stick them in his parents’ libraries to clear room on his own bookshelves, because they’ll never have the time to go through and root them out.
☢: If your muse knew that they were going to die in 24 hours, name three things they would do in the time they had left.
…of course, that all depends on circumstance, but he thinks these would be ideal actions to take.
❦: If your muse was having a nightmare, what would be the worst one that they could suffer?
It would probably have something to do with his time at White Chapel Academy… A lot is tied up with that, and he’s managed to compound it by attaching other traumatic events to it, including his ex, the damned druggy ‘friends’ he had, and Spider. He just does not want to face what happened to him, or what he believes will happen to him as a result.
I have all sorts of HCs for my version of Spider that really just… made everything so much worse…~
☥: If events in your muse’s life had gone very differently to how they did, what would they have done with their life? What sort of occupation might they have chosen for themselves and would they, in your opinion, be happier than they are now?
I feel as though these two questions are related somehow… so let’s explore some possibilities… keeping in mind that this is all headcanon, since we know almost nothing about Hakuba’s actual history:
idk
