Hadal

Hadal is a vigilante that was once part of the doomsday cult, Augury of Poseidon. As part of the Vigilante Guild, he does odd work here and there for people based on their prices. He occasionally does work for the Augury as well. As a civilian, He is Hadal Mochizuki, and is enrolled at [Near City] College as a psychology major. Recently he's been making plans to move back in the Augury as a school therapist for the omen children.

## History

### Childhood

The child between pro-hero Riptide and a Trench Atlantean. Hadal was swept away from his mother as a baby while they traveled through a storm, and she was trying to reach the nearest land civilization. He was discovered washed up on a beach by Bonefall Town locals and given up to local law enforcement as most didn’t want to involve themselves with the inhuman looking baby. Hearing about a strange child, the Augury of Poseidon took an interest in procuring him and masqueraded as said law enforcement.

He was put into the care of Augury member Misty Reyez, with nine other kids as part of the Zero Group. Hadal was kept in secret for a few years while they figured out the extent of his natural-born power. He was introduced to the group at six years old and assigned as Reverie’s partner.

During their childhood, Hadal spoke fondly of the ocean, despite having no true memories of his own of the place. There was always something in the corner of his mind that reminded him that it is home, and where he should be— not within the Augury. He’s made several runaway attempts, never getting far, the furthest he’s gone was outside the facility, where he realized there was nothing for miles on end. The attempts began to lessen as he grew older.

### Adolescence

Grew up very close to Reverie and would frequently be snuck into Reverie’s home to spend more time together. They mostly trained together with 001 and 003— Vega and Dire, as a two-part group for distraction and infiltration missions. Hadal grew friendly with both his peers, more so Eclipse than Dire.

As Hadal and Reverie went on more missions together, facing intervention by heroes and other organizations, Reverie spoke of his doubts about the Augury. His worries were never processed as something genuine or serious to Hadal, and so life went on.

There was only one instance where Reverie began to sound more and more convinced, they needed to leave and tried to convince Hadal to run with him. The topic is never brought back up again after the topic heated into an argument, and eventually, a physical brawl.

On a mission that led to Hadal facing off a group of teen heroes, Reverie revealed their location almost immediately, turning both of them into the group in exchange for helping them leave the Augury behind. Hadal was enraged by Reverie’s decision, while he stuck around through the exchange, the moment both of them are secured Hadal runs away, back to the Augury.

His caretaker turns away Hadal, as both were labeled as traitors, whether Hadal agreed with Reverie’s choices did not matter anymore. With a new growing grudge towards Reverie, Hadal set off on his own with some small help from Misty.

### Adulthood

Hadal decided to focus his energy on discovering himself outside the Augury, just who he was and what he was obviously not— human, as his caretaker once admitted to him. His only clues were the strange gills on his neck, so he started making his way to the closest coastal area: Bonefall Town.

Later, Vega and Dire contact Hadal to help them enact an aggressive takeover of the Augury. Before they begin their attack, they’re intervened by Reverie and his group, who were given a tip about the attack. After a curt agreement to talk further, Hadal convinced Reverie and co. to help them with their plan.

In the aftermath, Vega is placed as the new leader of the augury, and old friends reconvene on a rooftop. Hadal and Reverie reconcile, though their friendship changes, as it never truly goes back to how it once was.

Reverie offers Hadal information that he wasn’t previously privy to, files that both the heroes and the augury had on him— hoping to aid in Hadal’s search for his origins. Hadal narrows down his possible place of birth in the ██████ trench but finds himself unwelcome as he’s obviously different from the deep sea Atlanteans he finds.

As for his paternal side of the family, he discovers his shared parentage with Reverie’s teammate Dewey and Augury groupmate Forge.

## Personality

Free and unbothered by the difficulties in life, he forges his way through everything with an air of indifference. Hadal lives on the idea of rolling with the punches and to live on your own terms, and embrace the best and worst of everything. He has a rather foul temper, and sharp tongue, never having been reigned in much by his guardian or friends. His stubbornness definitely doesn’t help, an unstoppable force to go against when provoked. He’s mellowed out through the years, becoming more pensive. Hadal is optimistic about life, but he tries to be realistic with his expectations despite that. He’s far more ‘in touch’ than his old partner, Reverie.

When he was younger, Hadal was a bit more zealous in the belief of the Augury god, Halcyon. He was much naiver and more optimistic as a child too, hanging onto the words of Reverie like they were everything. He tended to get into trouble a lot, whether through disobeying orders or getting into fights with other kids, Reverie was always the one to have him pardoned. Thus, his later nickname “hound”, for following Reverie and always being protected by her.

* LIKES: exotic pets, swords, woodcarving, fishing, the moon—astrology, the beach, bar games
* DISLIKES: the ocean, swimming, cats, being pitied

## Abilities

### Powers

**Shadow Manipulation:** Users can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows.

* **Shadow Travel:** Can step into shadows and travel through interconnecting darkness. there must be shadows around to travel.
* **Dimensional Storage:** Is able to keep things within darkness, objects and people.
* **Shadow Mutilation:** The ability to inflict damage to the victim via shadows.
* **Shadow Weaponry:** The ability to wield or create weapons with shadows. Hadal has two empty switchblade handles he uses to form his shadow swords.

### Weakness

* Can only manifest ability when there are cast shadows to use.
* **Fragile Bones:** Trench Atlantean heritage gives him weaker bones than humans
* **Aquaphobia**: drowning exp with malformed gills.

## Notes

* He's a sagittarius [birthday 12/8]
* Assumed NEOhuman by the public
* Half-human; part of a fish-like humanoid species that live in the deepest trenches— a subcategory of Atlanteans
	+ His hair isn’t really hair, texture is there but is more akin to running water
	+ His black sclera only appears when using his abilities
* Gnc trans masc
* Talks with his hands, paces or moves in a small space if he’s standing up. The longer he talks the more erratic his movements get.
* Smokes; only when under a lot of stress/pressure
* Adopts the surname Mochizuki when reintegrating into society