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smokebombsandmirrors was kind enough to work from my scar chart to draw this reference for me. I think the worst of his back scars are hidden under his underwear… but they definitely give a good idea of what they look like. ;-; sorry Hakuba.
“Both of my parents are fine people – good breeding, intelligent, strong morals, very understanding and loving – but also extreme workaholics. They both come from wealthy families who have strong roots in their respective countries. Really, it’s almost unfortunate that they have so much in common – the pacifism, gentle hand, devotion to helping people – because they also share an extreme stubbornness that divides them so completely.”
“Hakuba Junpei, an only son, has worked hard all his life to establish his own mark on the world. Riding on the coattails of his parents, who were made rich by scientific and technological research, was something that he was satisfied with. Even though it would have been easy for him to never work a day in his life, he studied hard in school, went to a good university, put himself through the academy, and rose through the ranks of the Japanese police with nothing but his own blood, sweat, and tears. He is now the Superintendent General, the highest ranking officer in all of Japan.
"He’s a compassionate man, someone who is devoted to keeping the peace and promoting good will. He knows his staff, puts in as many hours as is humanly possible at the station, and makes it a point to introduce himself to every new recruit at the very least. I think that he may be more married to his work than to my mum, and I don’t think that he would argue with that, nor would the fine men and women that he is in charge of.
"Despite how overwhelmingly busy he is, my father takes a keen interest in the youth, and seems to have a real talent for finding and fostering those who show promise. He rules with a gentle, but firm hand, and is quick to give praise where it is deserved. This is not to say that he is soft – he is more than willing and capable to do whatever is necessary when called for, and will not hesitate to follow through with whatever decision he deems to be right and just.
"I admire my father greatly, even though we often do not see eye-to-eye on minor issues. It’s true that I harbor unfair resentment toward him for placing his work above me, but honestly, even I know that I can’t truly blame him for it. It is for the greater good. He is proud of me, and has said as such, and does attempt to make time for me when I ask… I think he’d do anything for me if he could… but that it something that I personally struggle with. I believe it is trait that I have inherited from both sides of my family.
"On a more personal note, should you be interested in learning something other than work, my father enjoys fishing, camping, and building model ships. Indeed, he has a veritable armada at home of all types, but he favors large battleships.”
"Marion Camilla Wickham-Hakuba was the first child of five and the only daughter. While her brothers- Arthur, Joseph, Martin, and Theodore, respectively -may be taller than her now, she has never lost her position as the one in charge. She grew up a lady, graduating from finishing school at an all-girls academy to go on to Cambridge university to further her studies in concert piano.
"Or, at least, that was the plan. Between obtaining her GED and attending university, she took a GAP year to go on various service missions, travelling the world to assist the Red Cross. It was then that she discovered her love of the humanities, which interrupted her studies two years later. After switching her major, she went on to graduate with honors and fled the country to go on a tour of philanthropist endeavors.
"This eventually led to her meeting my father in Japan, and, once married, she put her connections to work, assisting charities by arranging and hosting benefits, as she could no longer travel to do so herself. Even after moving back and reclaiming the estate in London, my mum has poured countless hours and funding into being a hostess for any organization that she feels is in need, and worthy of, her assistance.
"Through her efforts, millions of pounds have been funneled into the groups that need it most; particularly local, grass-roots groups that have heart, just need a bit of a lift. She loves her work, both for the fact that she is able to help people, and because she rather enjoys the high society atmosphere, and has said on several occasions that she never wishes to retire.
"As a mother, she is caring and energetic. Although she does not have a lot of time to spare (hence why Baaya has been primarily responsible for my car), the time that she does spend with me is extremely productive. She’s got a gift for reading people, and we’ve long since become good friends because she understands my need for respect and privacy. Although I could do with a little less meddling, I do believe that she has my best interests at heart, and very much wishes me to follow whatever I feel my path should be.
"Her personal interests include patronizing the arts, from visiting museums to dragging us all out for season tickets to the Royal Opera House, and music. She’s a talented vocalist, but even that cannot compare to her gift with the piano. Mum is also a very shrewd poker and billiards player — do not dare to test her, she will defeat you utterly and laugh about it behind a delicate hand.”
“You would think that two such people would have a wonderful relationship, wouldn’t you? Alas… I suppose there are some things that even love cannot conquer in this world.”
“My mornings begin at 6am with some light exercise, a shower, tea, and a recheck of my schedule for the day to decide if I have a good enough excuse to wear my suit to school instead of that ghastly uniform. Often, this only happens once or twice a week, which is a shame.
"Once I have some sort of thing to take for breakfast, and an apple or bento for lunch, Baaya drives me to school. My father’s house is on the boundaries of Ekoda High’s district, so it’s quite the walk, even if I manage to catch a bus. Students are discouraged from driving, and Baaya claims that I’m dangerous on the road, so I let her handle it- not that there is any parking for students, anyway.
"We arrive between 08:05-08:15, depending on weather and traffic, and I immediately head to the lockers to trade my nice shoes for school slippers, and then, depending on the day, to the assembly or home room to prepare for class. Japanese schools are different in that the students tend to stay in one room and the teachers move between classes for different subjects, instead of the other way around.
"My days are spent taking ample notes on both a given sensei’s subject and on the behaviors of my fellow classmates. I have separate notebooks for these tasks, and log the latter in English to deter curious overlookers. Some of my classmates are of more interest than others – Kuroba Kaito, for one, with his antics and pranks, and Koizumi Akako for another, with whatever her current scheme is – but everyone has a profile in my database, as we tend to spend so much time together.
"Lunch is spent in the classroom on most days, though I’ll venture out to somewhere more quiet when I have a lot of work to do. This time is usually devoted to studying casefiles for my private clients or whatever the force has given me to work on, though I do, occasionally, use it for homework and essay writing.
"Contrary to popular belief, getting the grades that I do and maintaining them is no easy feat. I may be intellectually superior to many, but I still have much to learn about the nuances of the Japanese language and culture; kanji remains the bane of my existence, and I fear I may NEVER get the hang of the more abstract word-play jokes. More on this later, however. If I’m feeling up to it, I’ll eat. If not, I won’t, and then it’s back to lessons.
"Once class is over and cleaning duties are complete, I’m usually able to head out for the day as long as there is no cram school. Although club activities are typically required for students, I’ve had an exception made for myself because of my detective work. This is one area where I have allowed my father to pull some strings for me, which I am grateful for. I simply do not have time to spend two or so hours after school, every day, socializing. I have work to do.
"Baaya picks me up as always, right on time, and will drop me off at whatever appointment I have with clients, at the station for work, or will take me home to get started on my school assignments. Every one of them is done as early as possible so that I have time to check and recheck and do additional research if necessary. At least I’m able to have afternoon tea in the process.
"If I’m to get into Oxford or Keio, I must have excellent marks, particularly as transferring between countries often leaves gaps for required credits. I have them all, rest-assured, and in fact could nearly already graduate with what I have, but it adds one more thing to the application process that I’d rather not have the administration deal with — it’s annoying for them (which I’d rather not have them associate with me), and gives too wide a margin of error for my taste.
"After all of that, I’ll have dinner with Baaya and my father, if he’s managed to escape from work (which only happens once a week at best), and then return to studying, cross-referencing casefiles, investigating crime scenes, meeting with clients, preparing for Kaitou Kid’s heists, or, if I’m very lucky, winding down with a book before bed.
"Typically, I’ll end up in bed just after midnight, but I find it very difficult to sleep when there’s still so much to be done. Fortunately, the weekend is a splendid time to catch up – both on work and on sleep.”
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gabapple: I was asked to do a tutorial on how I draw Hakuba’s hair. Not a lot is explained, but I hope that it helps anyway!
Agreed. I come across that particular logical fallacy quite a lot, actually. It’s one thing when a person acknowledges they’re doing something bad and owns up to indeed being in the wrong because of it, but many are under the impression that acknowledging it suddenly gives them a blank cheque to keep doing it without consequence. As if admitting they’re doing something bad somehow makes it okay and suddenly anyone who calls them out on it is actually in the wrong.
Case in point, my depiction of The Witch in those last two One Word Stories with her. I wrote them in a manner that, on first glance, makes it look like Starswirl betrayed The Witch’s trust and she had a wiser vantage point she was acting on. But that’s only at first glance. Actually consider the implications of everything that happened and it becomes pretty glaring just how selfish and heartless she was really being. But in her case, she doesn’t make excuses for her behavior. She’s the villain in those stories full stop and makes absolutely no effort whatsoever to justify her actions in order to make them easier to swallow.
Japan, why must you be American in disguise? Is it because I don’t know ditty squat about you?
Hmm, yes. That’s exactly it.
When working on stories about Japan, it seems that many tend to forget that it’s well…Japan. It’s pretty different from America (and other places) and no matter who a person is or where they’re from they will get culture shock (which is pretty true when you enter different countries either way).
But, when it comes to certain aspects of Japan, it’s hard to accept or let the blunder slip by if something obliviously canon in the anime is ignored, especially if it’s something that’s true. I find it important for stories to be accurate because the best kind are those that honor the whole fandom by focusing on the details, the facts, the characters and when effort is put into making it seem real, it shows. You know, when stories that make you think like, ‘wow, this story is so good that if I didn’t know any better I would have honesty believe this happen for real in the book’ or something to that extent.
One of the first thing I’ll focus on is the fact that Japanese schools are not the same as American ones. But sometimes I wonder if writers honesty believe that they are. Or worst, they just didn’t want to do the research on it and Americanize Japan…well more like they made it America disguised as Japan.
To break down the information of what Japanese schools are like I’ve split it into three parts, A, B and C. The letter A contains all the facts and information about the elementary school from grade 1 to grade 6 in how it’s run and so on. The letter B is about grades 7 through 9 which is secondary school (the equivalent of junior high school). The letter C deals with the upper secondary education, which contains grades 10 through 12 which is high school. All together it’s explains how Japanese schools are run, the duties of the students and of the teachers. Basically everything that happens in it.
As a warning, there’s massive amount of information. So I hope it doesn’t scare you off.
Alrighty, so I’m making this post for a few reasons, to give those new blogs on tumblr a little leg up if they feel like they’re lacking in that something. These are just my thoughts an opinions so don’t take them to heart, I could be right or wrong but here’s what usually makes me want to RP with someone;;
1. A decent looking theme;; Though it shouldn’t seem like much, people look at your theme and judge you, it’s human nature and if you’re using one of the basic ones people tend to cringe. Just simply take the time out to fiddle around with HTML coding and looking at tutorials, or, ask for help.judging a book by its cover does apply in some cases.
2. About pages:: Having basic information on your muse/s ( be it canon or OC ) is critical, especially for an OC – it shows that you’ve brought this character to life from nothing and that they’re like a friend or family member. However, this being said don’t over flood the information so it’s a wall of text.
3. Headcanons and rules;; Another basic thing that 90% of people DO look for on a blog, as well as the main point of if you’re a single or multi-shipping blog, triggers that should be tagged. ECT.
4. CUT. YOUR. POSTS;; It’s said over and over again to cut your posts, because people don’t want a wall of text on their dash’s – ESPECIALLY mobile users because it slows the application down. There’s a post HERE on how to cut posts if you don’t know how.
5. Basic grammar;; This is a big issue. Quotation marks, capital letters to start off sentences and names, commas and so forth make it easier to read and understand what it is you’re trying to RP and get across to the other RPer ( with the exception of people that are non English speakers ) this is really a basic thing that needs to be known.
6. Personal posts;; While it’s nice to see funny stuff on your dash to read if you follow personal blogs, on an RP blog is another story, if you go to a persons blog and that’s all you see instead of actual RP it’s hard to actually gain followers in most cases – however that being said, things like images of your FC, clothes, food and what is involved with your muse is the exception of this rule.
7. Reply lengths;; The one main source of things is if you reply to a – for example – a 7 paragraph open rp with less than even one paragraph. That will never be replied to on the sole basis that it shows lack in interest. It’s not called being a bitch or picky, but when you put the time and effort into something – making a scene and story line set up for someone to throw half of that out. It’s annoying simply put. 5-6 para’s of reply is fine, 4 is stretching it but anything less just makes an RPer sigh and not want to RP with you. Harsh but true. Effort is everything.
8. Tags;; Tag triggers like the plague. Spiders, blood, self harm, religion, everything that could be classed as a trigger .Tag it. Because it’s the right thing to do is all.
9. Icons / Face claims;; Though it shouldn’t be a big thing to some people, others like the use of icons / gifs. Depending if you use a Real life FC or Anime FC DOES put you in a certain ring of RPers and it’s hard to break out at times. Though 99% of the time people don’t care that much about FC’s – you really just need a description of your character to help things along.
10. Autoplay music;; Just autoplay music can be a pain if it’s loud, screamo and ear killing – things like softer and more melodic are fine but please, 99% of people don’t want to scream from being scared when hopping onto your page.
11. Critique vs backlash;; There is a huge difference, a huge one when giving a mun crituque and telling them straight out they have a shitty OC and should give up. Take in mind that people are very sensitive and words do hurt people. So, put things nicely when telling an Rper if they’ve made a mistake or something as such.
12. Using ‘* *’;; Simply put, it looks messy. In crack RP’s and what not it’s line – but in long RP’s it’s a little sore to the eye and not many people will like this style.
13. Bugging a mun for reply times;; It’s a no no. Don’t do it. A reminder once in a while is cool. Bugging and saying to do it is a no no and will make an RPer want to DROP the thread.
14. Don’t be intimidated;; No, seriously if you say you’re intimidated to RP it hurts us as an RPer as well and really most of us are just happy when someone comes into our ask box with something to say.
15. IC doesn’t mean OOC;; A big thing that people tend to forget, the mun and muse are different people, have different thoughts and opinions. Just because the muse hates your muse doesn’t mean the mun hates you as a person. Though if you’re worried simply ask.
16. Godmodding;; Never assume what your RP partner’s muse is going to do. It’s unfair and unjust in battle threads ( which need A LOT of communication to be done right ) never assume that the muse is weak, that they can’t handle themselves in a fight etc. Also, if your character has been injured and they don’t have these all mighty healing abilities – they will be screaming in pain and agony and not moving much.
17. Ask Memes;; Muns reblog it to write things and get new partners. They enjoy having their ask flooded with drabble requests, text message prompts and ‘I wanna RP with you’ symbols, however, this being said if you’ve never intereacted with their muse before don’t send in personalized / NSFW meme’s. It honestly makes things rather awkward and hard.
18. Favoring RP’s;; Mun’s WILL have and play favorites, this is a fact that they are human. Never, ever say that you hate a mun for such a thing, it will make them cringe away from you and not want to RP with you. Most of the time your reply will be done and in the drafts. Chances also are that you play favorites as well.
Scar Chart
(Drawn by smokebombsandmirrors – thanks again!!!)
((I’ll probably write about these later, but he doesn’t want me to at the moment, so… yeah, I’ll come back to this at a later time. HOWEVER I can say that the animal scars were from WATSON, that cheeky bird!))
((he also wants me to specify that MOST of these scars are very thin/light; it’s just a few on his lower back that are awful.))
The Wickham-Hakuba Estate in London:
If you thought the one in Japan was bad, the one in England is absolutely ridiculous. Granted, Hakuba’s mother inherited it, and it’s been in the family for a very long time. It’s constantly being renovated and improved, too, as she hosts events there on a regular basis. Large, ritzy affairs for charities and organizations to have their benefit parties. It boasts a ballroom, large dinner/reception area, sitting rooms, dozens of guest rooms, indoor and outdoor pools, expansive grounds and gardens, a lake, and so on. Excessive, yes, but his mum puts it to good use. Currently, the only people living there are Marion (his mother) and the staff – groundskeepers, maids, cooks, etc.
Also, it’s actually only barely in London at all, technically speaking… about as far south-west as you can get. That’s one of Hakuba’s favorite things about it – it’s far enough away from the city to be nice and private, but close enough that they don’t have to go far to be back in the thick of it.
Even better – the stone dividing wall around the property backs up to a nature preserve and, as a child, Hakuba found a section behind hedges where it had fallen apart. Thus, roaming wild woodland was an easy thing for him to do, and he did it often.
