Hikari Lnu

A bigender bookworm with short black hair and glasses for terrible vision. Comes off as cold and a know-it-all with a sharp temper. Speaks fluent Communia and Japanese, as well as Korean.

### Weapon/Weapon Focus

Dual cutlass blades, a musket, and a pocket knife

### Special Ability

Body control, can raise himself and others from the dead

### Height

5'10"

**Hikari uses three sets of pronouns, but for the sake of avoiding confusion, I will only use "he" for this profile.**

## Personality

Hikari is a wall of sarcasm and disillusionment. He speaks as proper as he possibly can, filling up sentences

with long words and a distinct lack of contractions. The more smart he can sound, the better for his confidence. He is easy to anger and quick to distrust you if he feels you'll be a nuisance or betray him later. Hikari cannot resist the urge to respond to anything negative with nonverbal expressions.

He rarely smiles, though he seems content when behind a book or with her lover, Nakia. Hikari over-plans for almost everything, and overanalyzes tiny details that usually end up not meaning anything. Battle is the greatest place to demonstrate his tactical skills, and he plans all events out in his head before they happen; that includes all possible ways they can go right and wrong. Hikari hates seeing things arranged unevenly, or things that are not evenly balanced.

He refuses to fight with only one weapon in one hand. Though most would assume from his coldness or outright hostility that he doesn't take things personally, but this would be wrong.

Hikari is constantly wracked with anger and guilt, and tries his best to compensate by doing what he thinks is right. He worries if he's misguided, but finds comfort in trying to push those worries as far down as possible. Hikari has a hair-trigger temper when it comes to hearing someone threaten someone he values, or himself. This can send him into rage, where he might physically attack an aggressor. Despite all this, he can still be described as compassionate and empathetic, though these qualities are not on display as blatantly as his others. Hikari is far from the rudest or worst member of Group #113, as he randomly does favors for the others and has a sense of humor; though it is usually dark, sarcastic, or deadpan. He shows frequent affection to his partner, even in the company of others.

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While he prides himself on knowing the most, he is insecure and her coldness and language is a front to hide that. Hikari fears the idea of people believing he isn't smart, and studies books constantly. He frequently has visual hallucinations of dark figures and shadows, and sometimes his vision is blacked-out all together from stress. Hikari treats these like simple nuisances, and finds them more annoying than anything else.

## Everyday Life

Hikari spends his time practicing witchcraft, gathering crystals/rocks, and growing herbs inside his apartment. He takes this very seriously, and even goes as far to argue with everyone that the "energy" they claim to use is just another word for magic, and that they're only trying to sound less farcical.

Him and Nakia both frequently go out on dates, or are seen sitting together in the rec room. Hikari gives a few choice people in the group a harder time than others; Noah, Aure, and Mikia. Mikia he seems to loathe the most. He's attacked him and has even threatened to murder him once or twice. His reasons for this are unclear for most of the story. Hikari wears thick glasses, but takes them off mid-battle.

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Hikari is a rebel spy, and is in charge of gathering war information.

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Hikari has so many complicated feelings for Mikia, and they've all piled up into explosive anger he can't fully justify. Childhood is part of it, since Hikari and Mikia had a fleeting relationship Hikari ended from fear. Another is due to the fact that Hikari misses the simplicity of childhood and Mikia, and wants the old Mikia back; the Mikia he knew before he became a captain. Hikari can automatically see the darker side of Mikia that had formed in his absence when Hikari joins Group #113. He grows to dehumanize Mikia, and believes that by hating Mikia, he can somehow stop him from being such a monster by guilting him. (It's no surprise he hates the fact that Mikia, the one he put so much trust in, is now a captain and stands for everything Hikari loathes.)

The biggest reason of all is that Mikia reminds Hikari of how Hikari used to think and behave before he became a rebel, and it's misdirected self-loathing.

He loves, hates, is nostalgic for, and cries over Mikia. It's too much to handle, and Hikari ends up wanting Mikia dead so he doesn't have to deal with all these feelings.

## Life

Lord almighty. Hikari is the product of a human incubator, and was raised to be a child soldier in an SP group. He grew up secluded from other children, and with limited amounts of recreational stimulation most kids are used to (games, playing pretend, playing with non-educational toys, etc.).

He was given the name Atticus, with a last name to be determined at a later year; LNU. Hikari attached herself to the only adult in the group he could trust; her caretaker, Marlisa. Marlisa took on the role of watching over Hikari soon after he was born. She saw the idea of raising a child to be a young soldier as evil, and began to care for Hikari the most out of pity. His formative years were unstable and violent. He was physically and mentally abused by mentors and various others in the group.

Hikari assisted in taking a life for the first time at age 7. Rage had slowly built up in Hikari, and he grew to hate everyone except Marlisa in the group. At age 11, Hikari's group was raided by rebels. Hikari watched them slaughter his group, and was spared due to his age. The rebels left him behind, knowing that eventually someone would find her. All alone, Hikari looks over the bloodbath in silence. When a member shows signs of life, shuddering on the ground and clutching their wounds, Hikari slits their throat.

Hikari is found later by an SP rescue team, and is brought to JHQ for a psychological analysis. Hikari was determined as mentally unfit, and would take a "mental health leave". He went to live with a AO couple who live off-group who work through independent home employment, and attended school.

Though Hikari loved to read, learning through school was such a strain, and his grades were never as high as he wanted them to be. His caretakers didn't physically assault him, but they did consistently reprimand and punish him for his impulsive behavior. Hikari struggled with life without murder, and frequently got in school fights his first two years in a regular city. He's the target of bullying and neglect, and teachers write off his behavior as acting out rather than from trauma.

Through his caretaker, he meets a different off-group AO couple, a friend of his caretaker's. They have two adopted children, Mikia Otani and Kumiko Otani . Him and the couple's children bond and were usually at found at school together. Hikari's relationship with Mikia grew more intense, and they ended up dating when Hikari was 17. Hikari slowly grew afraid of being in a relationship with a human, and when he was told he'd be returning to group life, he broke up with Mikia and expected to never see or speak to him again.

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Hikari gets a name change as soon as he returns to his group, since he's grown to loathe his birth name to an incredible degree. He lived in a training group where he met Nakia. Him and Nakia become close friends, and a year later, begin dating. Within 15 months of Hikari leaving, Mikia follows Hikari's trail to the group.

Hikari and Nakia are both on the route to captain training, and they're working harder than they ever had before. Hikari is blood thirsty and almost sadistic with his work, and Nakia is dissociative and cannot recall events with large gaps in his memory. Hikari gets in a heated debate with the captain of his group a year later, and this sparks a change in himself and Nakia.

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They both begin to question their complacency, and this leads them to do trauma-mining and figure out they were both brainwashed. Hikari comes up with the idea to fake their deaths so they can leave the group and live normal lives

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They spend two years outside of Paradiso after disappearing from their group. Hikari and Nakia both work regular jobs, and try hard to bear with their new roles as people contributing to society. They both act out as first, but settle over time. Nakia starts to grow displeased with their leave from the group, as they both left behind people they loved that were still brainwashed. Hikari ignored this complaint for a while, but eventually caved in. They both got involved in rebel work, and reinfultrated Paradiso. With the system finessed, they transfer to AOG #113 of SW - HKD