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Clan
Role
Ethnicity
Birth Date
Sexuality
♢| Eighteen
♢| Female
♢| Green
♢| Green King
♢| Japanese
♢| March 16th
♢| Heterosexual
Hibiki stands at 5'9'', or rather, she would if she didn't slouch her shoulders and always hunch over. She's awkwardly lanky with feet and hands that are just a little too big for her and her nails are jagged and uneven, some being bitten down until they bled. She's very thin and bony with not much to say in the curves department which along with her boyish facial structure leads people to believe she's male, and it doesn't help that she purposefully trained her voice to sound masculine. Despite how brittle she seems, she has definite lean muscles - she doesn't just sit around in her room, she owns a punching bag she uses to train and she goes for runs every morning. She's deathly pale from staying indoors despite going outside every day, as when she goes outside she's so covered up with her hoodie and turtleneck that the sun can't worm its way through to her skin even then. Her eyes are a dangerous red and always have dark circles beneath them and her hair is long, stringy and green. She never wears makeup and would really be quite an attractive girl if she just looked after herself properly.
Her wardrobe mostly consists of baggy, skin covering clothes that are slightly too big for her and no dresses, skirts or heels. She usually is wearing her favourite purple hoodie, red turtleneck jacket, jeans and green sneakers. Another thing notable about her appearance is that she always has something in her mouth, usually bubblegum or her own knuckles and more recently cigarettes. Her late Right Hand smoked and ever since her death she's been attempting to pick up the bad habit but just can't seem to stomach it.
- Being shrouded in mystery | "If <JUNGLE> really knew their king was some teenage shut-in, they'd never take me seriously. It's the nature of hackers to keep to the shadows, anyways. I don't enjoy it, it has to be done." She lies. She loves not being in the public eye.
Showing off | "It's not my fault that I'm better with technology and the most powerful <JUNGLE> member. Every time I use my skills in front of someone I'm going to be showing off to some extent, it's not like I mean to." Once again, she's lying. She enjoys showing up people because of her own issues with feeling inept.
Pranking, trolling and generally messing around with people | "Sometimes when people are exposed to things they don't understand, for example my phasing ability, they can have difficulty comprehending what just happened. It's not that I take joy in the faces people make when their minds are blown." Why you always lying.
Roleplaying | "Egh... everyone wants to be someone else somewhat, I'm not excluded in that respect."
Yaoi | "..."
Hates:
- Public speaking | "*too frozen in quiet fear to provide a quote*"
Flirting | "If someone is flirting with me they're either stupid, being rude or both."
Honesty | "I don't - honesty is a value, isn't it? Only bad people hate values." The truth: Something in her dies whenever people honestly voice their opinions about her or anything she feels strongly towards but the worse is having to be honest herself, either to herself or to other people (especially when it's about... feelings...).
Interruptions | "You know when you're doing something, then you have to do something else, then you can't get back into what you were doing?"
Pretty much everything about her life since Naomi kicked the bucket | "Tch... such a casual way to put it."
Hibiki doesn't cope with eyes on her. The only person allowed to directly communicate with her is her Right Hand and since Naomi is dead she had to choose a new one, which she definitely did not choose by putting names in her hoodie and pulling one out. ... That person feels like a stranger to her and strangers to her are serial killers she hasn't met yet, which is probably why that when they meet in the VIP room of The Jungle she wears a box over her head and straps a voice manipulator to her neck. The box has one badly cut out eyehole and "J" written on it in permanent marker as well as a plastic crown balancing precariously on top of it. She only goes out for her morning jog and grocery run and pulls her hood over her head and keeps her turtleneck covering her chin and won't speak. She doesn't have to leave her apartment at all really because her jobs can be done at home. Her residence is a secret from her clan and if someone knocks at her door she'll hide until they go away. She prefers the company of animals to people, but every cat she's ever had ran away (probably to Alastair's doorstep) and every rat and hamster was an escapologist. Even her siamese fighting fish opted to jump out of its bowl rather than spend its life as Hibiki's not-so-cuddly companion.
Hibiki is ridiculously intelligent and didn't have to try to be. A child prodigy, she flunked high school because despite having a photographic memory and passing her tests with flying colours she couldn't be bothered to put in the time to do her homework and assignments and would just sleep in class with her headphones in, being exhausted from staying up all night playing games or leaking information that corrupt officials would kill to keep secret from the public. Well, that's when she was IN class, which was pretty much where she spent 7% of her schooling years. The other 93% she was ditching to avoid people. Yeah... that's probably why she flunked.
"Ergh" is Hibiki's trademark. "Ergh" and the occasional grunt and shrug. Her conversations have to be planned otherwise they don't exist. When conversing with her Right Hand, she has what she has to say written down in a notebook and she will be awkwardly reading what it says from underneath her cardboard box. A dozen different responses to his different reactions are written down also and she has painstakingly predicted the different ways the conversation can go and has written them out script style, just in case. She didn't have to do this with Naomi, who was in the process of teaching her to use her words without reading them off a piece of paper. In a fight, while people are quipping back and forth with hilarious one liners, she'll be the one who's kicking ass in silence.
It doesn't help that whenever she is on her own without her notepad everything that comes out of her mouth is a compulsive lie. Hacking isn't the most honest of livelihoods, sure, but whether they're little white lies that cover up absolutely nothing or major ones concerning her ideals and image, she lies to herself and everyone that comes close. Perhaps it's habit, or a defence mechanism. The truth is she has multiple layers that need breaking through. Her decision to keep her identity secret even from <JUNGLE> is frowned upon by her own clan, she's changed her name so many times she doesn't remember the name she was born with, her current name is masculine and her looks are ambiguous enough without her never bothering to correct or confirm the pronouns people use for her. Everything about her is a secret and she wants to keep it that way. Don't let her keep it that way.
And I don't mean stubborn in the way of, "I will stand for what I believe in!" stuff. Pride is a deciding factor to how stubborn she can be. When she makes a decision she will defend it no matter what and convince herself she did well no matter how dismal things become. An example of how stubborn Hibiki can be on account of her pride is that she's lied to herself until she's rewritten her memories to convince herself that she made the right decision nine years ago.
Nobody knows how she rolls around her fold up mattress, blushing furiously and silently screaming while she clutches her BL manga to her chest when her OTP finally kiss. Nobody knows that she once held her umbrella out for a dozen ducklings and helped them cross the busy street to their mother, getting completely soaked in the process and not once considering that ducks are pretty much down with getting wet. Nobody knows that what someone considers a simple wink is a thousand arrows to her heart that leaves her twitching and bleeding out on the floor (the REAL reason why she hates people flirting with her so much). Nobody knows that her real voice sounds like what fairy floss and cake frosting would sound like if they had a voice baby (something only revealed if you hear her sneeze) and how her singing sounds like someone rubbing two balloons and a triangle together and nobody, NOBODY knows how she spent an entire morning remaking the shell of a snail she accidentally stepped on while tiptoeing her way to the letterbox. And ESPECIALLY nobody knows how she set her snazzy snail up on a snail date to see if his awesome new shell would get him points with the lady snails. But of all the things nobody knows about... not even Naomi knew that she's the secret author of the popular blog I Really Hope We Don't Crash in which she poses as a girl named Ujiko and talks about all the secret things nobody knows about her.
Your challenge is to try and break through to the secret Hibiki! Good luck, you're going to need it.
Note: While it appears that Hibiki is pretty damn high in Power and Intelligence - she is the most powerful, but isn't as experienced as using those powers in combat as the likes of Alastair, Kita and well pretty much everyone. She usually just phases through the flying fists while thinking of ways to get herself out of there asap. For intelligence, she lacks any sort of emotional intelligence and has trouble reading people.
It's been almost two years since she proved herself as king and thanks to how peaceful it had been her job was no problem whatsoever. Her Right Hand Naomi relayed messages between her and her clan and the worst she had to deal with was their constant complaining about HOMRA and occasional brawling it out with them in what she hoped was light-hearted rivalry... well, that's what she had to deal with then. This is now. Two weeks ago Naomi unfortunately was filed as one of the casualties in the string of mysterious murders, meaning that Hibiki's only trusted asset is gone and she now had the anxiety of meeting with a new Right Hand and the added stress of calming the bloodthirst of her clan. Since Naomi, who was well respected by her clan, is gone she's afraid that her clan won't respect her as a leader as she always doubted that they looked to her for guidance and instead viewed only Naomi as a trusted figurehead. She'd be right.
Hibiki's history is unknown to all but a few, Ryuu and Naomi. She was born into a wealthy family with a grand reputation to uphold and after a traumatic birth her mother was left unable to have any other children, forcing the weight of the family name onto Hibiki's shoulders - something neither she nor her parents were pleased by. She was so tightly controlled that she was instructed how to behave and talk to the point she simply memorised thousands of phrases and would speak as though reading off a script. She became afraid of interaction and strangers because of how much her parents stressed that every word counted and everything she did in the public eye would haunt her forever and what other people saw was all that mattered. She was a child prodigy, already brilliant and satisfied with what she achieved daily, but her parents pushed her harder. They didn't want her to be brilliant, they wanted her to be the best. In the end, trying her hardest to please them did not matter, because they adopted a son to inherit the company. He was inferior to her in intelligence and everything else (as far as Hibiki was concerned) yet was still the successor simply because he was male.
Technology and her computer had been her friends during her childhood. What she believed to be her only friends were the strangers on the internet she talked to. She loved how she could think and properly plan what she was going to say and how they didn't have to see her face and nobody looked at her or judged her. After her little brother was proclaimed the successor of her family her parents became hostile towards her and she knew there was nothing she could do to please them as she was. She sent out a message to her friends that she was running away and her best friend Pentaghastly invited her to stay with him in Tokyo. She was seen going on the way out, but wasn't stopped. By some miracle, she just managed to scrape by on her journey. Nobody came looking for her. When she got to the city she never found Pentaghastly. She was found hiding under a box by Naomi, who brought her to Ryuu. After proving her intelligence by revealing that she had pickpocketed Naomi and could name the entire contents of her handbag after glancing at it once and what was in her pockets after simply brushing her hands past them, he took interest in her and took her in.
That is the history Hibiki remembers.