Hazama=Honoka

**Hazama=Honoka**, also known as

## Appearance

Hazama's appearance is taken after the shady, creepy archetype, depicted with bright green hair akin to Terumi's human form. He wears a simple a long dress coat-suit over a standard black suit with a white shirt underneath, short brown knuckle-less gloves, and brown steel-toed shoes (that conceal hidden knives at their heels). He dons a pair of black trousers held up by two brown belts. He completes the outfit with an iconic black fedora hat to close the shady visage.

Normally, Hazama's eyes are often shut alongside an ever-present smile, belying a demonic nature. When allowing Terumi to take over his form, he removes his hat and tie, his hair spikes upward to match Terumi's original appearance, and he opens his eyes, which are gold with snake-like slits for pupils.

In *Centralfiction*, he later reveals he has a cracked hole on his left side of his chest (as a result from the wound from Trinity in *Chronophantasma*), which is shown to be completely hollow which also hints at his nature as a mere vessel made of Bleu Grimoire. Despite this, his body still has humanely functions such as eating and breathing.

Even though both Terumi and Hazama end up separated after *Chronophantasma*, Hazama himself is still able to invoke the former's appearance during anything that involves Terumi’s powers.

## Personality

Hazama tends to maintain a calm and quiet demeanor around most people, pretending to be harmless as a member of the Intelligence Department and claiming he prefers to avoid conflict due to not being very proficient at combat, often using humble and affable dialogue while seeming rather weak-willed; being rather submissive to his superiors at best. This however, is simply a guise to his true nature as a selfish and manipulative snake if he is seen through; destroying other people’s lives and twisting their beliefs for his own gain. He has no qualms with killing those who get in his way and shows absolutely no remorse for his actions, caring little about things unrelated to his duties as he may have discretely offed many under his supervision.

As a vessel made to house the likes of Yūki Terumi, Hazama's nature coincided with Terumi's goals and desire to oppose the Amaterasu Unit; all under the assumption that Hazama was merely an alias and humble-personality-front for Terumi's more villainous and savage nature as though Hazama and Terumi's wills were one. Though it was mainly due to Terumi's own will enforcing Hazama's to follow along without much of a say. Hazama himself though, takes every opportunity to upset others by mocking them, deliberately provoking them, or even bringing up and prodding at a sensitive topic, all for his own enjoyment. Even when he is on the losing side of a conflict, he would take the time to insult and taunt his foes. There were times Hazama's way of speaking mainly in the English scripts seemed as joker-esque as Terumi's, yet in many occasions Terumi's way of speech and nature would emerge from or be emulated by Hazama without his hair spiking up to match the original possessor's appearance.

During the climax of *Chronophantasma*, Hazama and Terumi become fully separated, and the former's cruelty towards others seems to be an inherent trait regardless of the fusion with Terumi. During the events of *Centralfiction*, Hazama eventually starts to manifest his own will separate from Terumi's without his influence controlling his desires, and while he has seemingly become more humble as a result – he still tends to try and secretly manipulate others and has no true qualms on dirtying his own hands while also becoming more subtle in his disposition as someone who largely minds his own business; even faking his own amnesia during the events transpiring within the Embryo. This is all largely compared to how blunt, barbaric and openly-sadistic Terumi normally is; which leads to even him not fully confiding in Hazama's wild card status for specific duties.

While both Terumi and Hazama seek a sense of true freedom from what they originally were, with the former seeking a world ravaged by despair and sorrow out of vengeance, Hazama's case has him wishing to feel the mental pain that comes from going against his conscience; something he lacks as a sociopath as he relishes in brutal torture in a lustful manner much like Terumi did (especially whenever he is provoked). He continues to commit worse and worse atrocities just to get his sadistic kicks and really push the limits of his own sociopathy. Every action he takes can be seen as a contributing factor to his myriad of social and physical experiments in pursuit of further knowledge, such as when he tortures Rachel during the third act of *Centralfiction* by killing her over a hundred times, just to test the limits of her immortality (he was even going to cut her body to pieces with his jagged chains and throw said pieces in different parts of the Boundary). His need to feel such things very likely stems from the near-fatal wound inflicted to him at the end of *Chronophantasma* by Platinum/Trinity, which due to his identity as a mere vessel without a heart, heightened his sensation of feeling alive and results in a desire to understand pain all without knowing why he feels pain only from such a wound when nothing else made him feel that way before.

Hazama is shown to have an innate love for boiled eggs, swallowing them whole after shelling them. It is symbolic of his parallels with snakes, who perform a similar action in their predatory mindset, and fits into his overall theme of snakes and serpents. This is a trait he shares with his predecessor, Kazuma Kval. Even after separating from Terumi and gaining his own will, Hazama somehow due to the events of *Continuum Shift*, seems to have a personal dislike towards Makoto Nanaya for being a hitch in his/Terumi's plans, despite the fact that it should be Terumi that would despise her like so.

One other trait he shares with Kazuma is their way of speaking, which is also reflected in their Japanese dialogue; while Hazama mainly speaks with "watakushi" as his signature self-referring-pronoun, he may sometimes use "boku" instead the same way as Kazuma. On top of a low standard held for himself as a vessel merely made of Bleu Grimoire, he also has a personal dislike towards Trinity Glassfille for the wound she inflicted upon him that for once, made him feel something for real, but also due to realizing that his own resemblance to Kazuma Kval is what prevented her from fully killing him in the first place, making him notice her supposed "hypocrisy" in failing to finish the deed.

Hazama is also shown to greatly dislike cats and several other cat-like entities in particular, which is due to having harsh allergies towards them often played for comic relief. For his own health, he tries to avoid them or spite them as often as possible.