Haxin Payne

Harris Payne (brother)

Taketsuchi Auchi (ancestor)

Karen Foster (enemy)

Haxin Payne is a recurring prosecutor who appears in every Hexepta game. He was born to the Payne family, and is the youngest brother of Winston, Gaspen and Harris Payne.

## Law Career

### Family Drama

At some point during his early career, his brother, Harris Payne, was accused of forging evidence by a defense attorney named Karen Foster. He was promptly disbarred and arrested following his trial. Believing in his brother's innocence, Haxin swore revenge against Foster.

### Law Professor

After the exchange visit, Payne decided to start teaching in Hexepta Legal Academy. As the academy had its own legal system, Payne decided to stand in their courts as a prosecutor. However, he was once again humiliated when he opposed Argus Hakan during the student's mock trial. Unable to face the headmistress after his embarrassing performance, he fled the school.

#### Prosecutor's Exchange

In 2019, after Payne had somehow escaped from the academy without alerting the headmistress, he visited Answell, England as an exchange courtesy of the Prosecutor's Office. While he was there, he stood in the Crown Court to prosecute Richard Kingsley, who had been accused of killing his co-worker. Being up against a rookie, Payne was overconfident and was thoroughly beaten and shamed. He immediately returned home.

### Revenge

A year later, Payne returned to the court to prosecute Terry Chens. His motive was to defeat Karen Foster and humiliate her as revenge for accusing Harris of forgery. Unexpectedly, Argus took over the case at the last second, but Payne saw this as a blessing, and that he was sure to defeat him now that the child was in unfamiliar territory.

Allowing Argus to take control proved to be a mistake as, not only did it result in Payne's loss, but if Foster had stayed as the lead defense attorney, she would have thrown the case.

A few days later, when Prosecutor Adrianna Lockheart was arrested for the murder of the mayor, Payne instantly recognized her as Karen Foster assigned himself to the case. However, when he discovered Argus Hakan was to defend her, he was overcome with fright. As a result, he allowed Storm Sente to prosecute in his place as his assistant, despite Payne himself never appearing during the trial.

After he learned that Argus won the case, Payne promptly packed up and fled the country.

### Return to Answell

Not long after the trial of Adrianna Lockheart, Storm Sente ran into Payne again, this time prosecuting full time in England. His career was proving to be much more successful here than in Hexepta, and he had decided that this was a natural result of Argus Hakan not being around to trounce him. In reality, the reason was because the standards for defense attorneys were at an all-time low because of the FemCon Incident.

### Defection

Having faced defeat in both America and England at the hands of Argus and Storm, Haxin fled both countries in shame. After his boat capsized, he found himself joining a gang of pirates. As they sailed the seas searching for treasure, Argus Hakan washed up on the ship much like Payne did. Coincidentally, a crew member eventually got accused of stealing the captain's treasure on the same day. When Argus showed up to defend the man, it was Payne who suggested he be put on trial so he could finally defeat Argus. He did not succeed and was forced to walk the plank.

### Magical Prosecutor

At some point after the trial on the pirate ship, Payne stumbled upon a magical book and was sucked into its world. Despite being initially taken aback by the fairy tale setting and that there was no apparent way home, he happily adjusted his life to this new world and started prosecuting magic crimes. He quickly became the most famous prosecutor in the land and was named "The Magical Payne." His reputation plummeted once Argus Hakan showed up and defeated him once again.

## Personality

Like his brothers, Payne is excessively smug and gets overconfident the moment a trial seems to be going his way, but generally has trouble making arguments otherwise. He is also one to hold grudges, particularly against Karen Foster for her accusation against Harris Payne, and Argus Hakan for repeatedly humiliating him in court.

## Name

His full name is a play on "hacks in pain," which is similar to the meanings of his brothers' names, Winston and Gaspen Payne.