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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Ranoutofrun or just Ran
ARE YOU AT LEAST 16 YEARS OLD?: Way over. (though it would be awesome to be 16 again.)
CONTACT: Runoutofbuts on Plurk. Ranoutofrun@hotmail.com for email. Don’ have a OOC journal. Alternatively Ranoutofrun on Tumblr (but you’d have to be pretty desperate to attempt asks on tumblr at that stage)
CHARACTERS PLAYED: Not Applicable. 

CHARACTER INFORMATION

(Note: Given how ludicrous this au is I have decided to give you a hefty amount and er on the side of bringing too much to the game as opposed to too little.)

NAME: Hikawa Makoto (He’s Japanese meaning they write their surname first and refer to it as we would a first name.)
CANON: Kamen Rider Agito, powers taken from extended canon of Kamen Rider Kuuga.
CANON REFERENCE: Kamen Rider Agito wiki,  Kamen Rider Kuuga wiki, and Gurongi wiki for extra.

AGE: Late 20s to early 30s. Roughly canon age (since we don’t ever get a specific age for him) He looks about 27.

GENDER: Male.

YEAR IN SCHOOL/FACULTY POSITION: Faculty. (Sports teacher maybe?)
APPEARANCE:

Hikawa is a Japanese man with typical asian features consisting of straight black hair (though it shines dark brown in certain light sources) at shoulder length which has a distinct whisp to it that curves towards the back on each side. He has very dark brown coloured eyes which could be mistaken for black. He is unusually tall for a Japanese man as he sits at 6 foot (give or take 2/3 an inch).

Unfortunately despite his good looks he has horrendous teeth. Someone can easily spot them jutting out as he talks, the front ones are particularly obvious. (His actor in RL got them fixed immediately after this series but I seem to think that someone on a policeman wage in Japan wouldn't have the time or money to correct this as he did. So they stay.)    

Have a picture.

PERSONALITY:

Hikawa is a kind, good, respectful and earnest person who values people’s lives above all else, unfortunately he can fail to show these qualities since he at times can be rather unnecessarily serious.  He takes his job very seriously and breaking away from business is hard for him given his drive for doing what is needed and what is necessary. But as the case with most people, this often is determined by who he is around though. Some people he doesn’t mesh with well, such as Hojo (his unwanted rival/stalker in the show), or didn’t initially, such as Shouichi (the main character of the series), who tend to channel his less favorable traits as others with extreme opposition of personality juxtapose and expose his personality and his lack of confidence.  In contrast, most of the people around him find him a positive and reliable individual, in which they can’t help but look up to.

Sometime before the Agito series Hikawa changed his world view from pursuing tennis to pursuing justice as a policeman. When Kuuga (main character from Kamen Rider Kuuga) did not reappear, Hikawa chose to take up the mantle and responsibility of that position, if only as a good policeman. Even though he knew his skills were not the best, or his man made gear, though good, was nowhere near as powerful as their previous savior. He did it because he could save lives, and if he got hurt, it meant someone else didn’t get hurt or killed in his place.

Coming from this early background, Hikawa had still retained a particular naiveté on what is right and on humanity as a whole. Though he has been a cop for a while now, he does have his developed suspicions and experiences; it’s not hard for him to fall back onto believing the good in people when they want him too. In this regard he can be manipulated, and has been. But it also makes him far less biased, and that is where his appreciation for people, be mutant, Agito or merely human comes from.

Hikawa does have a playful side (and sass to boot) that he shows, jokes are often lost on him since he focuses so intensely on the goal, he forgets to have fun with it. A lot of this time is spend worrying about doing a good enough personal job for his work so he doesn’t turn off which can make it look like he is more of a workaholic than he actually is.

On an unfortunate side, Hikawa is also a ‘bit’ clumsy. Whether that is a physical or mental clumsiness, is undetermined, but he has shown signs of both. He does not like being called or pointed out about his clumsiness. Even though he can admit to his own personal failings, such as this inherent trait, doesn’t mean that he allows others to point it out and disrespect him about it. Especially people he doesn’t like or respect back. In this way he acts much like a hurt child, trying to deny an embarrassing and unfixable fault that gets him into trouble on occasion.

This leads to Hikawa’s insatiable need in trying too much. He puts a lot of effort into everything he does and it comes out as persistence and sometimes sheer stubbornness. To Ozawa, his superior for his team in the series, he is known as ‘The man who never runs away’. With this in mind, this stubborn streak can swiftly fall into pride as he always takes on challenges both personal or intentional. He has to defy a person’s expectations and Shouichi Tsugami takes advantage of this quite regularly on show often with hilarious results, making him do or help with personal chores or bizarre competitions in which Hikawa had to prove himself to this man he didn’t think very highly of. His clumsiness would often ruin these though, humiliating himself in front of the man, much to the viewer’s pleasure. (See breaking 2 kinds of saws to saw through some wood, decorating himself with cream topping instead of the cupcakes, and smashing the dishes that were intended to be washed.)

The man is also a bit of a glutton, managing to eat 3 dinner plate sized meals in one sitting much to the horror of his companions. (He is rather tall for a Japanese man though) He likes to eat ramen at a local small cart near his workplace though whether or not he truly has an appreciation for the quality or simply because he wants to please his friends and workmates by going to their favorite eating spots is questionable; and this is a major trait to his overall character.

Hikawa has shown that his professional discipline outweighs his feelings on matters of human suffering and endangerment. He has enough strength and honour to put aside petty fights and fears for the greater good as long as it’s because of physical endangerment. Outside of them though he does his best but he has fallen prey to being human and his feelings may cloud his judgment on something given the circumstances and who is involved.

Hikawa time and time again will put his own feelings aside for the benefit of another or his team. This does have the opposite effect in letting his repressed feelings mount and he has under stressful circumstances come to words with the very people he is thinking he is helping out in what he really feels. In that way he is also a burst of emotion, held back by great amounts of resigned or practiced restraint.

Several times it is also shown in the Agito series that Hikawa can be lead to violence, if not at the least, aggression and harsh verbal disputes. Luckily much of these times it was at the most extreme of circumstances ranging from: confrontations with Hojo threatening to shoot at an ally, being under the influence of a powerful action controlling AI, and being emotionally distressed at finding out his idol is someone he doesn’t really respect at all and having it kept from him.

Disobedience is also a behavior Hikawa has displayed throughout the series on numerous occasions. If he sees enough reason to disobey or go against a person or orders he’ll do it. His honour and principles mean he will accept the punishment for it as he doesn’t believe he is above any rules or laws and he wouldn’t ever place the blame on another individual. Much like how he fights he takes the brunt of the blows of attacks, and takes them willingly, accepting them as a part of what is necessary.

The man is also stubborn. Hikawa will not often back down, even if it’s in his best interests. His persistence and determination is a double edged sword of sorts. And lately, he can be absolutely Oblivious. His abject obliviousness had Hojo wondering in show how Hikawa ever became a cop little lone a detective since he can be so blindingly oblivious to things that people are literally stumped at his inability to read things at any value. The main Agito rider plainly said to him multiple times and hinted at him being Agito said through both gest and seriousness, and Hikawa not once ever caught on until he de-transformed in front of him towards the end of the series. Fortunately this only happens sometimes.

Given the nature of this au, Hikawa has become more lenient on his own interpretation of what is breaking the law per se, knowing now that some things are necessary. It doesn’t stop him from citing infractions if he sees them going on by others if it is deemed unnecessary in his eyes. Hikawa has also been ground down and his world view more jaded then his canon counterpart but he will forever maintain that there isn’t a difference in his mind between a mutant and an average human, each are as valuable as the other. Who needs to be punished are the people responsible for create and maintain these divisions, whether they too be mutant or human alike.

POWERS/ABILITIES:

Normal mundane useful Abilities:

- Fit: He trains and stays at peak fitness level at all times, a requirement for his position on the force. If he feels he isn’t up to par on something often he will train/ work on his body for hours (even when he shouldn’t).

- Former Policeman: Hikawa is a cop/detective and has much experience and skills as one. He can:

-          Shoot a large array of firearms accurately.

-          Can disarm others who have firearms and or other close quarter weapons. (also various claws and tentacles)

-          Knows a great deal of practical martial arts and uses them to apprehend assailants or prevent situations from escalating.

-          Talk down others and maintain control of a situation. (though it’s not one of his inherent talents)

-          Drive a car and several kinds of high end motorcycles.

-          Hand out speeding tickets.

-          Figure out and solve X-File type cases, and also normal human ones too.

- Tennis player: He is a good tennis player and has experience in other sports to.

Powers:

All powers are derivatives of kamen rider kuuga forms + some Gurongi.

Core mutation, being able to alter the anatomical composition of stuff in a limited proximity (or internalized Matter Substitution). If there is a better one, please let me know.

Similar to some of the technology that Apocalypse came across that fell from the sky over ancient Egypt, the Gurongi civilization revolved around relics and pieces of alien technology and material that fell from the sky from the Amadam ‘Meteorite’. Hikawa is capable of morphing into Kuuga , which is in fact a combination of ancient mutagenic ‘spacemetal’  that was harvested from this ‘meteorite’ thousands of years ago by two similar civilizations at war predating the current Japanese populace. As such Kuuga and the ancient violent mutant tribe called the Gurongi share similar powers and physical mutation likenesses but the underlying rule is that a person has to have the x-gene to start off with for it to work. Hikawa’s own latent x-gene mutation which never expressed itself in him until forced.  Each mutant that came in contact with the metal debris or objects derived from it has a physical mutation they can access which aesthetically looks to be a humanoid amalgamation of anything within the ancestor genome in human DNA. Kuuga assumes the look of a Stag beetle and, the pincers being more in the way of a golden crown or wreath though, and the armour looking like a cross between an insectoids carapace and tight fitting organic armour typically reinforced around by a trim of the golden metal fused with his body, embezzled with engraved ancient alien text.

The object is the catalyst and initially used to trigger a rapid controlled mutation in which it embeds itself into the host and enhances the nervous and muscular system of the individual while incorporating itself into the person and permanently becoming a part of them. Eventually the alien bonded parts will spread all throughout the body and into the brain thus starting to change and affect the emotional and mental side of a person’s behavior and or even personality.

The relic that Hikawa stumbles upon was a secondary, less refined copy. It was considered a failure and buried away and never used because it left the individual more like a Gurongi than themselves. Essentially polluting an individual (see horsemen for details). Given the behavior of the violent Gurongi, this stuff was never mean to be utilized for human physiology and such it makes humans irrational, apathetic or irritable. Hikawa’s  ‘protoKuuga’ form is mostly the same except that it’s always white, more chitchinous looking and it has a shorter crest on it and derives more from the appearance of the former gurongi leader N-Daguva-Zeba.

The Space ‘metal’ seems to actually be an abiotic biological mineral that can change states thus being able to be absorbed almost instantly into the human body as a kind of quasi liquid and or a solid mineral/metal. This material can be damaged by high very impact blows but does grow back and self-repairs with some sort of mimetic memory. It repairs itself through some sort of biological means or a chemical/matter conversion by absorbing more similar materials through the body. When severely damaged it could take weeks, months or even years to fully repair its core.  When it is damaged Hikawa’s mutant powers are severely limited or may even be non-existent since it also becomes incredibly painful to attempt to shape shift since it’s lodged into his nervous system.

Defensively:

Hikawa’s Powers include being able to reactively and instantly shape shift into his Kuuga form, an exoskeleton much like a beetles, which allow him to become fully amoured and protected from most light or medium physical damage such as punches and kicks from average humans, or change parts of his body. Kuuga has shown that it can repel high damage blunt force trauma, super strength blows a fair few of them before being taken out), some slashing attacks (without super strength behind the attacks), even bullets, but can be pierced with very high speed large mass objects such as a spear in weaker areas between the gaps. This also includes armour piercing high caliber rounds. Kuuga also has no defence to stronger acids and can still be attacked with poisons, nerve gas (lots of nerve gas) or even sonic abilities (which would be devastating to him if he were using his enhanced senses at the time). It does seem to have a natural resistance to naked flame and it’s own explosive attacks. So in conclusion, he’s a beetle, hard on the outside, squishy on the inside.

This is somewhat mitigated by the low to medium level regeneration that can typically fix up broken bones, puncture wounds and even some critical trauma in a few minutes to hours depending on the severity of the injury. Pain normally tapers at equal pacing to his regeneration.

Hikawa can also be saved from death however this can take days if not weeks to complete. Though he can technically die, since his regeneration is outside his own mutation and works independently it can simply work on his body until it is repaired again. During this stage he is sort of in an unconscious, coma-like hibernation and so he does not rot and decay from natural causes. The limitation of this though is that if an environment is deadly or he isn’t taken out of a nonlethal environment, he’ll still remain dead, and his regeneration can do nothing about decapitation or being completely vaporized. And so it shouldn’t. Also it’s traumatizing so limiting this is great for all parties.

Offensively:

Kuuga can also change ‘modes’ so to speak. Depending on what properties is needed the armour can reactively mutate to suit the circumstances. Each ‘mode’ has its own pros and cons. If he needs a speed form he trades in physical hitting power and slightly less staying ability. If he needs pure defensiveness he trades in speed and agility, if he needs to reach a target that’s too far away to leap to he will enhance his speed, jumping and agility but will lose any heavy hitting power with super strength. His last main mode he can achieve is used most for sniping in which he switches on his enhanced sensors and can absorb 100% of every detail from every sense unfiltered and unlimited from a range starting from about 200 meters. The concession is that it is very dangerous as the input is substantially too much for him to process and causes pain, weakness and eventually unconsciousness. He can only maintain it for a mere 30 seconds, enough to shoot something high speed out of the sky, but that is it. The only way for this adaption to grow is to work on it. And that would be a slow process.

(Eventually Kuuga can maintain more powerful forms, depending on mental and emotional state. This, game wise, would take a while and best not utilized early game.)

For Hikawa to change 'mode', unlike his reflexive shape shifting, he would have to be focusing on what kind of adaption or tool he would need for a change to start until progressively becoming more engrained. In doing so he can turn normal objects with an abstract resemblance to the desired weapons he needs. It does this by anatomically changing the composition of both itself and anything the person is touching through his mutant core ability. His morphological properties that allow his shape shifting to take place can create an addition to an ideal/substitute object. Thus forming a kid of mixed carapace and metal rimming around the object, becoming essentially a part of him. He still needs to hold it or it reverts back after a while as it has nothing to sustain its structure. The limited variety of weapons he can conjure is a double sided spear, a sword of whatever kind he needs, and a strange crossbow gun that can shoot a barb that detonates into an explosion if it penetrates inside or clips a target. The barb glows with compacted energy so is easily recognized.

In Kuuga form, Hikawa possesses  a moderate amount of super strength. He can easily push cars  and can stop some if they were rolling to him, though not at high speeds. The angrier he gets the more strength he seems to possess as adrenaline reacts similarly in this form. Most often though, his physical hitting power would be considered high normal, but graduates up into easily smashing up walls  and pummeling metal objects.

kuuga's final attack usually end up exploding anything he kicks/stabs/shoots with hard enough force and intent much like Gambit’s charged kinetic attacks. But it forcefully energizes the insides of a thing and it detonates within. He has to focus the energy transference impact down his limbs depending on what he is using. As a limitation he cannot ever do this with his bare hand alone. It has to be either his foot or with the particular weapon he is holding. The reasoning for this is that the nerves on the base of the foot are bare and open so the impact directly forces contact between the two, a fisted hand does not. And an open palm lacks the strength of leg impact. A weapon on the other hand has no limitation. (shhh just run with it)

(Just to make clear, this is a finisher attack, it is in no way normal or used unless the battle is about to be done or at dire of emergencies. This power initially starts off weak and it takes multiple hits with this finisher to even potentially kill a physically strong and healthy super opponent until he practices. Very defensive or super strong individuals could also potentially shrug this off, making his most powerful attack completely useless. He hasn’t any practice on this either.)

One of Hikawa’s own and original mutations not altered is his affinity to energy, or in most cases brought out as electricity. This power is related to his core mutation, being able to alter the anatomical composition of stuff in a limited proximity (or internalized Matter Substitution), but is more of a secondary and unwanted power that he can’t really control much. It’s expressed when he is emotional, an intense heat in a limb, a random static charge, or a slightly charred held object. It mostly just affects himself.

With great power comes great inconveniences. When not transformed, he has a completely useless human mode, with some slight addition to senses and general wellbeing. If you want to take him out, getting him then is when you want to do it.

Intentions:

The powers I have described, though nowhere near as powerful as they could be in Kamen Rider canon (and end game shouldn’t be put in yet since game is starting) are only an average of what can potentially be expected in the game. I don’t want to start out fully powered up (and it’s an au, a very bizarre au). I would like to play him learning to overcome the shity parts of his powers and developing them like you would in the series. Perhaps even paralleling the Gurongi a bit more and not follow the formula. This is a different version even in canon.  I don’t like to power game, I just like interesting characters with interesting powers.


AU HISTORY:

Earlier life for Hikawa very much embodied the Japanese provincial way of life, calm, local, less stress driven than the rat race of the main islands. His family, comprising of a twin brother an older sister and his parents, were lucky enough to inherit family property so the family did little traveling even around Japan but his living style was modest enough and he was a happy child.  Hikawa was brought up in the province of Kagaki-ken, part of one of the smallest provinces in Japan, a seemingly small and low key area often overshadowed by the larger and busier areas of Japan. Despite this they weren’t strict adherents to tradition though his father could be particularly domineering when it came to family image but overall they were pretty lax. Much of his behavior grew from this more rural way of living being tightly surrounded by others, having more concern for others around him and needing to be useful to the whole, and never standing out.

Very much a jock of the two, his brother took the more charismatic approach often making the more naïve and straightforward Hikawa jealous since his family always overlooked his intelligence. For a time he wondered if his brother liked it that way. Around his mid teenage years he started to notice odd things about his brother but never amounted it up to anything; just an odd feeling. Despite being close to his family and loving them all, his brother and he are not on particularly good terms mostly because his brother had a tendency of manipulating Hikawa in odd and uncomfortable ways. Some of the reason as to why he eventually left the family’s home province was to get away from the negative and inhibiting influence it had on him.  

Midway through high school Hikawa developed a strong interest in tennis and began to play at an increasing level year after year, in part due to the need to be acknowledged by his parents but most of all to attempt to draw attention away from his brother and onto himself in some regards. Though he did have a genuine passion for the sport, and wholehearted support from his teachers/ schoolmates and family, he broke off his nigh constant practice over time. Sometime between his final years in high school when his core responsibilities and maturity set in, he had seen the stunt increasingly as immature, and helping in hurting his already waning relationship with his twin. Owning up to these lessons, his dedication and passion in becoming a professional in tennis is replaced by a willingness to go into a more selfless profession where he believed it benefited his personality more. He decided to join the police academy.

As he went on and proceeded with his new life goal, as with all other applicants, he was quickly filtered into Tokyo and trained up rigorously. From the couple of years he stayed there, his ending year coincided with one of the most bizarre years in recent Japanese history. The Gurongi appearance.

Beastly, remorseless and motiveless, the ancient tribe of mutants called the Gurongi were mistakenly reawakened by an archeological dig uncovering their tomb. The Gurongi were particularly brutal and sadistic murderers; shape shifters that could morph into monstrous forms and use impossible weapons and powers against the Japanese people. The police force took massive casualties in repelling and eventually helping to eradicate them all, with a significant portion of help from the being only known as by the majority as unidentified lifeform number 4. Given how dire the circumstances were, the only people in the force who weren’t conscripted to defend the public from them were the students. But Hikawa heard stories. Mostly focusing on the mysterious mutant hero. He admired whoever he was and what he could achieve with its powers. Saving people and helping to defend those who could not. He was gracious and thankful, but still very much naive. Hikawa wanted to be a hero.

A year later, the Gurongi defeated and with the police force spent and much of it disillusioned from literal warlike conditions, they then attempted to recover and forget about the savage and bizarre events that they had lived through. With the exception of the continual uncertainty of the Grongi or even worse ever coming back, and the absence of their former protector, the MPD invested vast amounts in defense against future attacks; but for Hikawa life returns to the norm. He is sent back to his home town where he finishes being trained up to be a traffic cop for the prefecture. Quiet and low key, he rapidly becomes restless with his position given the previous year he had experienced.

Sometime in early 2000 he managed to stumble across the ferry called Akatsuki just outside of the local marina. It had become embroiled in a bizarre unnatural weather phenomenon while on a patrol by the coastline. He managed the heroic save of all of the occupants of the passengers and crew of the ferry, braving the torrential waters himself. Given that the incident was an embarrassment to the rest of the marine services and its unexplainable qualities, the higher ups attempted to quash the incident by sticking a gag order on all of the victims and Hikawa himself, but ensuring his cooperation by promoting him to whatever posting he chooses. Not being that aware of this deceit he didn’t read much into their actions and accepted a position in Tokyo as part of the SAUL department  (Strategic Assault  against Unidentified Lifeforms) where he believed he could continue the work that his hero had started.

A new slew of impossible murders started occurring after that time almost on que. A certain sect of Gurongi that escaped from being killed off two years earlier and adapted to life in the current time, decided to steer their games into a more subtle and unnoticed approach. Promptly acquiring  a field promotion to a full detective specifically for the department, eventually it is deduced by Hikawa that they were targeting people with mutations and their blood lines to eradicate them, the kinds of people that wouldn’t be easily missed.

After some time with the murders not relenting a thought occurred to him to perhaps go back to the source and check through the original findings collected from the Gurongi tomb and to speak with some of the original team to see if anything else could be extrapolated to better fight and understand them. A break opens up when he offhandedly receives a tip from a former researcher who translated the ancient Gurongi text announced they had recovered a secondary item not originally found by the first team in an adjacent tomb away from the main one recently, but were confiscated by higher ups and had been placed in a holding facility. Feeling like he had nothing else to lose by taking a look he breaks in to the science division’s storage facility to check it out given that it had by that stage been classified by the government.

Hikawa collected with the alien object after a violent earthquake struck the building, wrecking half of it, and in a matter of seconds the object had instantly dispersed into him causing a chain reaction of pain and metamorphosis. His initial change was without warning and not at all immediate but the end result was the same. Without any conscious reasoning the newly minted kaijin as an entrance to the world several of the people within the facilities not caught in the aftermath of the earthquake and heads out.

After prowling around unknowingly, he found himself in an unfamiliar part of town, exhausted and with only a vauge sense of the time spent as a rampaging  monster. Still not quite sure what had occurred he continues on to work only to learn of what had transpired around the Tokyo and outlier regions. Conveniently lost to the larger aftermath, the peoples caught in the facility were chalked up to environmental circumstances. Hikawa was starting to know better. Still with an edge of denial it wasn’t until he caught himself seriously contemplating casually murdering a fellow officer and unwanted rival that something was very wrong with him. Even after the incident what he thought was just a one off thing lingered within his thoughts as simply an everlasting desire for hunting, ever calculating, and a strange apathy he hadn’t felt before. The mind of a Gurongi.

His life at started to go downhill rapidly. The Japanese government with the aid of the police force’s cooperation was willing to actively expose mutants and changes to the department made it hard to defend the victims of the second wave of murders. Because they were mostly under wraps, there was a distinct bureaucratic lack of direction that Hikawa was increasingly to believe was purposely aimed at keeping the status quo in unwanted mutant citizens being killed off by the remainder of the Gurongi. Tied with his increasing instability and his lack of knowledge on how to deal with it too start to hurt is largely low self-esteem and confidence, while having to maintain a position and a secret that lends directed hatred to what he apparently has become.  He had always dreamt about becoming a hero, but it hadn’t occurred to him he might have become an irony.

Uncovered that his hero ‘Kuuga’ in the end vanished and escaped from Japan due to the Japanese governments betrayal by attempting to secure and study him as  a laboratory specimen in hopes of making more of his kind. He had little reason to stay. Afraid that he could end up killing the people he cares about he fled the country with only a vague plan in mind besides creating as much distance he could from the his home land. Find Kuuga. If only it had been that easy. The man Hikawa is searching for was renowned for being elusive and ensorcelled by an insatiable wanderlust. America was all he had been given as a placing. And after he had learned of the dishonorable knowledge of what his government had attempted to do, he felt a responsibility to also do something about it. He compiles as much information he could gather and made a run for where the man who was Kuuga most likely had gone. 

On his journey to find an impossible man he ends up in the company of Xavior who suggested he stay with him in his school, wanting to help with his mutant powers control. So they made a deal to live here and Xavior would help with tracking down the man when possible.


SAMPLES

NETWORK SAMPLE:

Video-

[Serious eyes are facing you. It must be important.]

Good evening students. This is Hikawa from the Sports department. As you all know we have all been graciously supplied with some of the best sports facilities and equipment you can come across. I also know that a fair few unappreciative individuals like to show their displeasure of what they consider a useless subject.

And it is sad that I must inform you of my severe displeasure at coming back at end of day to find the entire sports departments ball supplies, replaced by fruit.

[Hand comes out with offending object.]

How is anyone supposed to hit this thing?

[Queue exaggerated hand gesture and shrill voice.]

Especially a fruit that’s not even round. You could have at least given me fruits of a, of a… circular nature. I could have worked with that…

[A finger thumps clearly on a table near the cameras edge of vision. It’s not seen but definitely heard.]

Er, If I were desperate enough, that is.

[A stiff and clear frown of irritation and pursed lips leer at the camera failing to cover the awkwardness felt of the conversation. The head turns slightly flustered and eyes dart back and forth and finally settle onto the lump in his hand.]

These unidentified fruits are not replacements for expensive sporting equipment.

[Hand smacking the table is heard this time.]

Please replace them!


LOG SAMPLE:

The full leather black chair flexed comfortably as Hikawa routined his office, wheeling around the desk to sort out the work load for tomorrows happenings. The organized piles very much mirrored the setup he had for the years he worked at the Tokyo police office. It was a small comfort that makes the loss less pronounced and a good habit he had retained.

Nipping it at the bud, he quickly stamps those current thoughts from his head. Thinking about how he got to be here is always risky. It made him upset.

He’s still not sure why he had been offered to stay here. What exactly did they get in return? A detectives eye? A bodyguard? A non-certified teacher? Still not quite sure how to tackle the angle of this lopsided deal. Honestly, it is more convenient for his own situation. He’d have thought that being around children of all things would be more a risk than how he had been dealing before. Well, it was nicer and more comfortable he admits. Kind of like the comfort of the rural closeness of his childhood days, living together, knowing each other, the physical proximity, the little niche rituals. He shrugs.  Given how large living and bullheaded Americans views are to space Hikawa simply resolved that to his culture’s upbringing. Of anything he’d seen of this country, the people were focused more on pushing others away.  It’s funny though that was exactly what <i>he</i> is doing.

Could be something in the water?

No, he’d been doing that before he had come here.

Coming to some useful conclusion; somewhat relieved to get to given he wanted to get back to work; Hikawa gives himself a goal after his mental shakedown, to become more inclusive.

Divvying up the necessary papers an item slips out almost purposely as a reminder. On the blurry black and white photo, a vague human shape caught walking away from an indistinguishable building. Flipping it around, only a simple ‘Somewhere in Mexico’ and a set of numbers is written. Cradling his hands and leaning on his chin, after a careful contemplative look he slips it back into the pile haphazardly.

Alas there is no time to flounder on the personal subject for long; he has a physical education pop quiz to finalize. Pursing his lips with a slightly humorous roll of his eyes he gently sighs.