Hanzai Takara

**Hanzai Takara** is a mutant that makes his appearance in Diatela: Expanded. He is owned and played by Riela.

## Social

### Relations

Velasquez Valiente (adoptive father)
Dexter Cross (adoptive "mother")
Iota (adoptive sister)
Ainzvahl (relations unknown)

## Appearance

Hanzai has a very small frame, appearing quite frail. This allows him to be light on his feet, but he doesnt have much strength to back it up, barely being able to hold his own weight. At one point in time, he looked horribly malnourished, but he is alright now. His skin is very pale, and littered with freckles. While he tries to cover these up, he is also covered in scars of various kinds [I.e. acid, hot iron, knife]. He has dirty blond hair that falls to his mid back, and bright purple eyes.

His clothing is very unremarkable, as he follows the trends just enough to not stand out. The most comfortable things he wears are this: a black sleeveless compression shirt, dark brown t-shirt and pants, tan trench coat, and black combat boots. Typically his forearms are bandaged, sometimes that being overtop of the jacket sleeves, and he often can be seen wearing a red scarf.

As for accessories, he typically wears either small ring studs, or long red tassel earrings. Thick, round ish framed glasses are a necessity for him to see, and he has a few colours of them, but tends to wear black ones. He sometimes wears a purple amulet, and he almost always has a pinkish purple hair ribbon in his hair, keeping it tied up in a ponytail.

## Personality

Hanzai is a self proclaimed asshole, though a more accurate description of him would be a cactus. Prickly on the outside, soft on the inside. To most people, he comes across as brash and aggressive, but this was mostly a protective coping mechanism that he developed over the years.

He tends to be very crass, not really caring if he swears in front of people, but he noticeably toned that down around children. Speaking of children, Hanzai has a huge soft spot for them, taking on a very caring older brother act around them. He is extremely good with kids, though he will deny this to no end.

If one can break through the outer layer of his aggressive and mean nature, they would find a very hurt individual. Hanzai tends to have very little trust of people due to his past, so looking past the aggression, a truly damaged man is there. He wants nothing more than to have those he can trust and connect to people, but hss a deep set fear of anyone and everyone around him.

Trust is only given to select few. Only they will see the true self. A quiet young man, who has horrible confidence, and very little faith that he will even make it past his twenties. He is doing better, but still struggles with his PTSD a lot.

## History

### The Demon Child..

**Warning. The following section depicts imagery of child neglect, and abuse. If you are not in a good space to read, please skip to 'A New Beginning'.**

Hanzai was born to a couple that lived in Disaos, and unfortunately, things went downhill for him very quickly. His parents had been relatively well off, until their firstborn came along. Hard times struck the family faster than you could say Disaos.

The parents quickly turned the blame to Hanzai, branding him as a demon child, and taking out their frustrations at their misfortune on him. As young as 3, Hanzai can recall his parents verbally, and physically harming him.

During his third year of life, he was given a blood sister. As the parents were already struggling, taking care of the infant fell to a 3 year old Hanzai. This was not due to the parent's request, which in and of itself would be horrible, but from neglect of the infant. He was barely able to keep both him and his little sister, Azumi, alive, but he managed.

Hanzai developed a self-sacrificing problem, where he would constantly take the blame for anything negative that his sister did accidentally, to keep her safe from the abusive parents. This lead to him taking on punishments that were nothing short of literal torture. His sister would be there for him afterwards, helping him to patch up as best as she could. This went on for years.

### Judgement, and Retribution..

When Hanzai turned 10, he was brought before the judge to test for his alignment. His parents, knowing that they would get in trouble and lose their scapegoat if he was caught having injuries, made sure that they did not hurt anywhere that was visible on him for months in advance. This was the time that he was the least abused out of his first thirteen years.

He was aligned with Chaos during his examination, which was both filled him with relief, and dread. He had to remain with his family, but he could continue to protect his sister.

The cycle of abuse, and recovery continued for Hanzai over the next three years, until his little sister was judged. Once again, Hanzai felt both relief and dread at the result. She was aligned with Order. Azumi could get out of this hellhole.. she could provably find a better family.. but now he would be alone. Before she left, she gave her brother some hair ribbons, and a necklace that she had found. He would keep these as safe as he could.

After his sister was sent away, the abuse seemed to get worse, to the point that Hqnzai tried to run away. His parents were furious with him, and finally said that was the last straw out of the demon child.

Dragging him to the mad scientist, they actually sold him to Velasquez, under the guise that he was an awful child and needed to be properly disciplined.

Velasquez, who was not an idiot, could see the abuse of Hanzai's parents from a mile away. He was the one who ultimately reported the parents, but only after taking in the child.

### A New Beginning..

Sure, Hanzai was subject to a few experiments right off the bat, but it was nothing compared to what his parents had put him through. Now, he could no longer be considered human, but he had more of a way to defend himself. Not that that helped him at first.

He was extremely skittish around Velasquez, trying his best to avoid the man at all costs, and trying to preserve his safety. The scientist was not cruel to the child, but Hanzai was paranoid, and didn't want to let his guard down.

This all came to a head on his 14th birthday, where Hanzai ran and hid. His birthday was always the worst in terms of abuse, and he was afraid that it would be the same here. Velasquez of course looked for the child, but was not mad upon finding him. Mostly just worried, and concerned. He received gifts on his birthday, something he had never had before, and was mostly confused, and still a little afraid.

Things slowly got better from here. Hanzai grew to trust the scientist over time. There was still doubts in the back of his mind, that clawed their way out from time to time, but he was improving. It was during this year that Iota was built, and Hanzai took to her as if she was his actual sister. He was very gentle with her, and was quite happy.

However, on his 15th birthday, Hanzai had a relapse, slipping back into a panic due to the abuse and negative association with the day. He hid again. Iota was extremely distraught, desperately looking for him. When she found him, tears were shed, and Velasquez truly realized just how much help that Hanzai needed to recover from his trauma. It was from this point on that he became more like a father figure, rather than a guardian.

This turned out to work, as Hanzai was slowly beginning to trust them, though he still held great distrust for Dexter, who came over to visit often. Since his mother was the one who enacted most of the physical abuse, he was extremely wary around Dexter, but was able to remain civil.

### Come to the Now

Now, Hanzai is slightly better adjusted to the life he was forced into. He still struggles with sleeping due to the nightmares of his past, and he often has flashbacks, and flinches with any sort of loud noise. However, he is definitely doing much better.

He works as a sort of assistant to Velasquez, though that is mostly in retrieving higher up items, finding the stool, and helping out the 'victims' of the experiments. He doesnt really like the work, but he is able to give the victims something he never got, which was comfort, and a way out.

Occassionally, Hanzai accidentally calls Velasquez dad, but he denies that he does, since he is still trying to fully come to terms that he is safe.

## Trivia

- Hanzai's mutant ability is being able to heat up his body and the air around him to the point of ignition. This makes him quite resistant to the heat and any kind of fire damage, but he is incredibly weak to the cold, and tends to dress in layers because of this.

- Hanzai suffers from C-PSTD [Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] from his past, but has learned coping mechanisms.

- He always carries a pocket knife on him.

- He is extremely good with patterns, to the point of being able to solve puzzles and things like Rubix cubes very quickly. He also finds doing things like this relaxing.

- The ribbons he wears in his hair are indeed the ribbons his sister gave him.

- He hates his body, and always tries to cover everything up. He hates remembering what he went through.

- Hanzai has been hurt a lot by women, so he is quicker to trust men. This also leads to him being Gay, finding absolutely no attraction to women.

- He really likes cooking, and is very good at it.