Havana De-Vo

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## Havana De-Vo

* Current
* Debut

### Nicknames

* Hav
* Vana
* Van
* Van Van  (Holly)
* Havan'  (Jasper)
* Cottonball  (Calyblanc guard)

## Media

### Debut

Chapter 3

**Havana De-Vo** is the True Guardian of World 2, and the romantic partner of Damaen Arcanes.

During Series 2: Destiny's Traitor, Havana returned to World 4 alongside the other True Guardians via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust. There, he travels through the Dark Woods and Meadow, climbing to the highest mountain of his world during a Mordue rush. At the peak of the mountain, he ascends into the Guardian of Guilt.

## Appearance

Havana is a soft pure-white male guardian with puffy white middle-parted hair to match, he wears a plait tied in a red bobble down the left side of his mane, and his nose and hooves are a pale reddish brown similar to his eyes, he has the appearance of an albino guardian, though does not carry this gene. Under immense emotional situations and influence from the dreamverse, he has been seen to grow rabid and his eyes pale over in a solid light blue tone.

## Personality

Though an outwardly gentle and soft soul, Havana fights a relentless internal battle to subdue the horrors eating away at his mind. He is possessed by a place he calls the ‘Dreamverse’, and any amount of disruption or violence in his life can cause it to spiral and turn him progressively more aggressive, Havana lives in fear the Dreamverse will fully take him over and cause him to commit acts far beyond his normal will or capability. In actuality beneath the curse, he is loving and sweet albeit dramatic and sarcastic at times, he suffers from depression due to his state, and relies on his dark humour to downplay it. Havana cannot be left alone from this either, and is highly reliant on others for support especially mate Damaen, whom despite loving dearly, he rightfully worries is in critical danger from Havana himself, and lives in turmoil whether Damaen would be better off with or without him.

## Relationships

### Damaen Arcanes

In November 2018 following their revivals, being forced to live together gets Havana and Damaen into a heated debate about their responsibilities as TGs, the two get into a violent fight which only ends when Havana realises they’re both in the same boat, and confused by everything they’re feeling, they end up making out after, in the following nights of which he cries for attention and closure to Damaen, who is too afraid of hurting him to give it. Only a few days after Orizon attacks the island with intent to find and kill Damaen and Havana, both of which Holly manages to hide, the damage of the fight takes a heavy toll on the pair, who end up comforting each other in the night and confessing their love, eventually starting a relationship. Though Havana’s mental state takes a drastic decline over the coming years rendering him needing near constant care, the pair remain utterly enamoured with each other, willing to go through anything if it means the hope of a brighter future is on the horizon for them.

## History

### Pre-Series

Brought into existence as a fully grown adult Guardian and sporting no distinguishable biological gender, he lived a solitary life on the planet he came to call ‘Dark Wood’ as an experiment of the gods to create a heartless, battle-hardened killer. The world was infested with Dark Guardians, as he would be the one to name them. Every waking moment was a struggle for survival, though not needing to eat, Havana had to sleep near constantly to retain energy, and even in rest he was still haunted. He did however find some peace in the many hotsprings that littered the world, DG’s seemed to fear the stardust filled water and tended to stay away, making them safer places to rest and quickly heal wounds. He also learnt to plait his mane to calm down when stressed, and usually sports one in the left of his hair.

He claims to be cursed by a place he calls the DreamVerse, a mental plane where reality seems to break that he hallucinates while sleeping or panicking. The effects of which seem to get stronger and more violent throughout his life, even following him to present day. The stress of his life both inside and outside his head can lead him into complete hysteria, he can become practically feral and violent against his will if the DreamVerse takes too greater hold on his mind, which was even more frequent during his original life as being alone meant no-one was around to calm him down from the space. In this state, even DG’s run in fear of him. Despite this, the true character beneath the curse was a lonely and beat down soul depressed from a life of relentless affliction. Orizon had expected a grand fight seeing what Havana was capable of, though as he approached to fight, the TG dropped to the ground, instead begging the god to put him out of his misery, and much to Ecalypse’s dismay, of course Orizon obliged.

Havana was revived and brought into World 8 in September of 2018, Orizon had promised him freedom from the DreamVerse in return for Holly’s death. However, overwhelmed by seeing other Guardians for the first time on Custos Isle, Havana decides instead to track down Holly who he finds at a bar. He spikes her drink leaving her knocked out and weak enough for him to pull into the DreamVerse with him where he was in control of the space. The two remain in there for what felt like days or weeks, though was in fact only a few short hours. Havana used the time to deceive Holly into revealing everything she knows, and after nearly giving up, he ultimately decides to side with her after growing too attached in their time there. In November 2018, being forced to live together gets Havana and Damaen Arcanes into a heated debate about their responsibilities as TGs, the two get into a violent fight which only ends when Havana realizes they’re both in the same boat, and confused by everything they’re feeling, they end up making out after. In the following nights of which he cries for attention and closure to Damaen, who is too afraid of hurting him to give it. Only a few days after Orizon attacks the island with intent to find and kill Damaen and Havana, both of which Holly manages to hide. The damage of the fight takes a heavy toll on the pair, who end up comforting each other in the night and confessing their love, eventually starting a relationship.

### Series 1: Means to an End

At the start of series one Havana seems to have adopted a new method to cope with his internal struggle, he continues to put up a naive and sweet facade to convince himself and those around him all is infact fine. Though the cracks soon seem to show as his state deteriorates whenever he is left alone, convinced he must preform some ritual to keep the verse at bay from taking over him, sadly counterproductively falling ill to it in the process, leading to him requiring constant supervision. Havana’s condition continues to go downhill as the series progresses, and his facade begins to break and reveal his true depressively broken self, despite this he still manages to show his love and reliance to the others, especially Damaen and Holly. It becomes apparent several times that he is able to pull other people into the verse with him, finally convincing the others this is more than just in his head. The full extent of the damage is discovered when Havana sneaks away alone one night to preform said overdue ritual, quickly becoming overwhelmed by the DreamVerse and drowning into a complete monster, he downs several bottles of pills to try and stop the pain before losing himself, his eyes turn blue mirroring that of a DG, and when Damaen comes to his aid he proceeds to brutally massacre him, going so far as to eat off his wrist in the frenzy. Havana begins to completely lose faith in that he’ll ever recover from whatever is wrong with him, though Damaen continues to assure him he’ll be with him and love him no matter what, leading him to drop the facade once and for all during the final fight, taking out his pent up anger at the verse on the DG’s and Orizon. The end of the series continues to be bittersweet for Havana, though he is grateful to now be surrounded by such unconditional love, the looming uncertainty behind the DreamVerse continues to haunt him, and his future looks beyond uncertain.

### Series 2: Destiny's Traitor

During Part 10, Havana returns with the rest of the True Guardians to World 2 via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust.

## Trivia

* Havana was created after Holly had fallen asleep at a house party and conceptualized him in her dreams. When she awoken, the song "*Havana*" by Camila Cabello was being played loudly. Holly chose to take the name of the song as a placeholder for the character, though evidently, this had never changed.

* Havana is the only True Guardian to have lived their entire life alone on their original home world.
* Havana would be approximately 23 years old if he was human.
* Havana is the only character known to have a direct and intimate relationship with the DreamVerse.
* Havana was the first non-human character to appear in human form via the DreamVerse (Chapter 58).