Haru Karter

**Haru Karter** was a Guardian born in Tennahram Village, Hutan in World 3, and one of the three sisters of Tommy Karter. She made her debut during Series 2: Destiny's Traitor in Chapter 111, temporarily brought back through the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust.

After pushing Tommy to come forward with the truth of her, and by extension, World 3's situation, her curiosity ebbed away into a truth hard to swallow. Nonetheless, she remained an active ally with the rest of the group, and attempted to escape onto the Umberbug while the World fell apart. She was met against Bast, and although she fought to stay, she was inevitably shoved out of the machine. She fell into a large vine growth of Tommy's, impaled by the large thorn. She fell silent, and reduced to stardust along with the rest of World 3.

## Appearance

Haru is a fluffy trans female guardian with soft pale reddish fur and a lighter undercoat, with light flecks dotted around her coat, her nose and hooves are maroon, and her fur poofs up on her cheeks and over her hooves, with her neck fur sweeping backwards, her eyes are an olive green. She has scars on her nose and back from a hunting attack in early life.

## Personality

Bright and social, Haru is always ready for action. She is usually lighthearted and sarcastic, loving poking fun at her brother Tommy with her other sisters, though she admittedly shares a closer bond with him than any other member of their family, given the part he played in her childhood of coming to accept herself properly. Haru is no stranger to getting involved in the village grind, being part of the hunting party alongside Aska and frequently getting into scraps with prey far larger than she probably should, though for this she is considered a highly valued member of the team, especially since her brother’s medical absence from it.

## History

### Pre-Series

Haru Karter is one of three sisters of TG Tommy Karter, alongside her littermates Aska and Sophie. Born after her brother was well into adulthood to parents Duram and Katrina as biologically male, though in her early teenage years she showed progressively more discomfort in this, confiding in Tommy most of all for support, with him initially being the first to address her as female in secret until she was ready to come out to the rest of her family. Her parents while evidently clueless as to the finer details have since wholeheartedly accepted her new identity, though most of her reassurance would still come from her siblings. Haru would struggle a lot in finding friends and in later life a partner, with most feeling unease around her because of this, though she would retain one particular long term boyfriend for a while, he would eventually leave under the fact that he desired children he couldn’t naturally have with Haru, which devastated her, and she would never again go looking for anyone else.

### Series 2: Destiny's Traitor

In series 2 she is first to notice something off with Tommy, and confronts him only to be told the truth about the revival situation, despite this she still agrees to help his new family in any way she can, even with the weight of her impending demise looming over her. As the world finally begins to break once more, Holly begs Haru to get into the Umberbug with them in at least an attempt to save her, though she initially refuses, claiming she couldn’t bare to leave her family alone to die. When trying to escape with them, a vine from Tommy’s ascended form distorts the ground around them, causing Aska to kick Haru to safety while she herself is crushed. Unable to cope with the scene, a devastated Haru turns back to run for the Umberbug, only to be met with Jacob attempting to shoot her out, and though she manages to bite his arm in retaliation, she is inevitably knocked from the machine and falls into another vine, impaling her fatally through the chest.

## Trivia

* Haru is the first Guardian out of any world revisited in Series 2 to have become self-aware of the situation the Umberbug had placed her in.