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Name: Hiruko
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Description:
A young man with spiked blonde hair and blue eyes. He has an odd fashion sense and dark look, Hiruko usually appears cold at a glance to most. He can almost always be seen in his standard mismatched outfit with his dark off shoulder cloak in public. In the privacy of his own room where he'd like to keep to himself, he usually takes off the cloak and clunky appearing boots and is more relaxed.
Canon:
The Nightmare Inspector
Personality:
Due to his past before becoming a Baku, Hiruko comes off as aloof and sometimes cold to those who first meet him, and he finds it hard to put his trust in others at times. Despite this, he cares for others in his own way, and although he sometimes says things that may come off as rude or cold, his actions speak louder than words do in most cases, especially with customers. He does what he can to help resolve most customers' plights, though doesn't mind getting something out of it such as a delicious nightmare. However, he will only do what he's requested of to help his customer with their nightmare, and will not go out of his way to make them worse.
He has no problem with bloody outcomes, and has taken delight in the bloodier side of nightmares on occasion.
Role:
Dreamscaper
History:
The current baku who resides in the Silver Star Tea House that appeared after Azusa had left. He walks with his customers in their dreams in hopes of getting the luxury of eating a delicious nightmare afterwards. Seeming rather selfish and apathetic, he is actually very caring of his customers and often goes out of his way to help them, although he would never admit to it. Being a baku, he cannot eat anything but a nightmare, or he will ultimately end up coughing up blood. The bloodier, gruesome, and pain-filled a nightmare is, the tastier he finds it.
Before Azusa had passed on the baku to him, Hiruko was known as Chitose Kurosu. He served no real purpose in the world other than to be a simple toy to his masters, which resulted in being tied up and being tortured in various ways, including his limbs being broken so that he couldn't run away or kill himself, leaving him unable to do anything but think and scream. He often fantasized of the life he wanted, but his fantasies went too far and were deluded, which eventually changed into a nightmare. It is described in the manga that his nightmare had "consumed" Azusa when he took him to the Delirium to have his fantasy become a reality, and in the process Hiruko became the successive baku of Azusa. Azusa found him in the rubble of a cellar after the Great Kanto earthquake.
After Mizuki Asahina fell into a deep slumber, Hiruko went to the Delirium to get in contact with it's owner, Kairi, for answers while he made Hifumi keep watch over both Mizuki and the Tea House. He eventually ended up in the Dreamscape, and joined the Dreamscapers in hopes of helping his friend.
Abilities:
Hiruko takes customers and himself into their nightmares with the help of his cane, Formalin, always using the phrase "Sleep now... Leave this world behind". When Hiruko has finished resolving the customer's problem within the nightmare, he rewakens them with the phrase, "Time to wake up". The nightmare's contents are sucked into Formalin's orb where they are stored until Hiruko is ready to eat them.
Formalin can be used as transportation inside of nightmares, or inside the Delirium, (possibly outside of those places as well) similarly to how a witch rides a witches broom. It can also fly to any destination and pick up objects on his command.
Immortality- As a Baku, he cannot really die and is not really human. He can suffer serious injuries in a customer's dreams, in one case trying to prove a point to one customer by falling off the edge of a building only to get back up moments later as if nothing happened. However, once outside of the dream his injuries remained and needed to be treated but wasn't too bothered by them.
Agility and Reflexes- He's surprisingly quick on his feet, able to protect Mizuki and quickly disarm a hostile customer in a matter of minutes.
Weaponry:
While not necessarily a weapon, his cane Formalin can be used as a blunt force weapon.
Not a weapon, but something Hiruko keeps close to his person is his briefcase. He dislikes when others touch it, but it makes for a good intimidation method so long as no damage comes to it in the end.
Fears:
Mizuki getting seriously hurt or dying, ending up in a similar situation to Chitose's before he ended up in the Delirium. Or becoming Chitose again and letting the nightmare consume him and his sanity.
Respected Others:
Mizuki Asahina- Azusa's sister, and Hiruko's friend more or less. He wouldn't openly admit it however.
Hifumi- While he considers Hifumi an annoyance, he doesn't want serious harm to come to him. He would rather die than openly admit to caring about the man however.
Naamu- He tolerates and respects the cat more than Hifumi on most days.
Other Information:
An eerie and cold feeling is said to overcome anyone to pick up the briefcase besides Hiruko, Naamu (Hifumi's black cat) does not seem to be affected by the cold feeling as he is often seen sitting on it however. At one point, Hiruko had been stabbed in the chest. Since Bakus can't die, other than the pain he felt he eventually recovered.
He's also willing to learn how to weild actual weapons, more particularly swords and knives.
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