Hanako Ikezawa

> "*Years of planning, months and months of execution. Wasted. I had Hanakos growing in a vat ready to harvest and Hisao just gets her to Rinnegan like that.*"
> ― Thomas
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## Physical description

### Weight

52 kg (114 lbs.)

Hanako Ikezawa is a student of Yamaku Academy. She suffers from severe social anxiety brought on by years of social isolation and mistreatment by peers. Unbeknownst to her, she is the product of immense amounts of manipulation by the Yamaku Academy Board of Directors.

## Background

Hanako was born in 1988 to two presumably loving parents. She lived a normal childhood up to the age of eight. During her eighth birthday, her house caught fire and both her parents were consumed in the flames, with her mother cradling Hanako to protect her. She lived with major scarring on the right side of her body, and an anxiety surrounding her birthday. Because of the unfortunate timing of the event, she has a small irrational belief that it was her fault the fire started. It's irrational because Thomas started it.

Since then she had been passed around in and out of homes and orphanages until she was of age to attend Yamaku Academy. From her first year of attendance, she made fast friends with Lilly Satou. With Hanako's vulnerability, Lilly took on a protector relationship with her. They continued this comfortable if slightly straining relationship into their third years at Yamaku. She has a keen interest in Cybertronians, billiards, and journalism.

## Plot

The events of Hanako's last year are variable due to the abilities of Heartbreaker but the general events remain concrete once the timelines collapsed for everyone. By this point in time, the Board of Directors, Thomas and Trevor, have implanted quite a few experiments within her and are starting to shift plans forward so that they will come to fruition by the time of her graduation.

Hanako meets Hisao Nakai in the library soon after his transfer into Yamaku. Hisao's interest in her causes them to brush shoulders multiple times until they become closer and, with Lilly acceptance, he's folded into their two person friend group. They spend their time amicably together and Hisao comes learn more about her. They celebrate Hanako's birthday together and Hisao starts to learn more about her condition beyond her physical scarring. Lilly and Hisao pick out a Master Piece series Optimous Prime for her due to her fondness for the series.

Chronological is a term that loses some meaning when Heartbreaker's effect is active but next a select series of events could be described as happening next. Hisao takes the wrong lesson to learn from Hanako's attempts to ween off Lilly and become her own person, his views tainted by how distraught she seems at her birthday. With the news that Lilly will be leaving them forever to live with family in Scotland, Hisao comes down harder than before and coddles her, treating Hanako like a delicate flower that would wither and die without his constant tending.

This sets Hanako off and the emotional burden of the last decade of her life comes crashing down. Not on her, though. On Hisao. She awakens Rinnegan, much to the shock and surprise of Thomas who had been tailing nearby ever since her emotional levels started spiking early that morning. She'd skipped several steps thanks to Hisao's little maneuver and he's now a smoking crater thanks to her newly acquired Shinra Tensei.

Heartbreaker thus ensures another pass for Hisao and ultimately Hanako. Having learned(?) from his past mistakes Hisao tries to let Hanako become her own person and in the end, acquiesces in letting her pursue her interests in the Journalism Club. Their relationship is saved and Hisao gets to live.

After graduation in Spring of '07, Hanako is officially abducted by the Board of Directors for more thorough testing to confirm that details of her genetic tampering weren't a fluke. She is then appointed as Head of the Xanthous Guard, a mostly defunct office with very little executive power given most members died.

She spends most of her days with Hisao, some weird alternate version of Lilly that was brought back with Heartbreaker, and studying for a journalism degree.

## Relationships

### Lilly

At first glance, they could be mistaken for long lost sisters in terms of public appearance with Lilly openly doting on Hanako and Hanako seeking out Lilly as her port in the storm of her social anxiety. Behind closed doors, however, Lilly pulverizes Hanako's pelvis into a gelatinous bone paste weekly. It's partly to establish dominance but they also blow off steam this way.

### Hisao

The little nerd who could. Hisao wormed his way into Hanako and Lilly's lives through his bumbling charm and his earnestness. Despite rocky timelines where Hisao is a dickweasel, they do get along famously and Hisao is able to actually realize and cater to her needs without coddling and overbearing, which Lilly can be sometimes.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Above-Average Intellect:** Hanako doesn't get to ply her trade very often as she's bogged down by her own baggage, Hisao, or an overbearing Lilly, but when freed she shows a sharp intelligence.
* **Above-Average Perception:** As with intelligence, once she loses her dead weight, she has a keen perceptiveness and a muddled but mature understanding of human nature.
* **Exceptionally Below-Average Charisma:** Due to her extreme social anxieties, it is hard for her to interact with anyone outside of her comfort group and shys away from all conflict. She has gained a distinct stutter during her orphanage stays.
* **Below-Average Constitution:** While not exactly with paper skin, her massive scarring does ensure that without prep and stretching, she cannot be too physically active lest she tear.

### Powers

Hanako has gained a few bestowals of power since her time at Yamaku. Mostly gained via genetic manipulation and direct grafting of super-powered organs.

As part of their ongoing experiments in genetic research into what can and cannot be spliced, grafted, implanted, and otherwise manipulated, the Board has genetically modified Hanako to be a Sharingan user after birth without the use of a set of eyes from a previous owner. Instead they opted to see if they could nurture a fully functioning set of eyes from only trace amounts of gene editing. They succeeded.

For most of the last three years, she's had a functioning Sharingan eye, but only in one socket. When Hisao coaxed it into a Rinnegan, bypassing several steps (such as Mangekyo and Eternal Mangekyo), it was a singular eye with the function of two, containing two retina, two irises, and giving the full gamut of ability expected.

This single Rinnegan eye gives Hanako the complete ability set of a Rinnegan user as listed.

## Trivia

* Due to the timelines collapsing, Hanako owns two of the exact same doll but with different hair colors and several Master Piece series Optimous Primes.
* Hanako has personally met Optimous Prime though in dark spirit form.