underwearfortomorrow | Half-Blood Hill

PLAYER
Name: Jami
Personal Journal:

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Time Zone: EST
Email: wudaistarwind at gmail dot com
Messenger: Jamadadayo
Previous Characters: John and Norman (dropped)
Munhead/Musebox: NA

CHARACTER
Name: Eiji Hino (western order)
Canon: Kamen Rider OOO
Age: 19
Demigod/Hunter/Satyr/Nymph: Post-Rag Thor
Demigod abilities:

- Instinctual badass fighting ability, despite no prior hand-to-hand combat experience
- Berserk trigger. Very difficult to stop but also pretty hard to set off, too.
- SUCKS AT LIGHTNING. He probably gets hit with it every once in a while but he is hells of unable to control it or the weather for now. In fact, the prospect makes him really uneasy.

Personality:

Eiji doesn't look like much when you first meet him. In fact, he looks entirely like a hobo. Which he is. Eiji's a drifter that doesn't really call any one place home. He carries nothing on him but the clothes on his back, some spare change, and his underwear for tomorrow. At first glance he's a cheery and polite guy who likes to help others. While this isn't incorrect, there is much more below the surface.

There's a quote from the show that gives us a lot of insight to Eiji. "I'm not a good person. If someone needed help, and I did nothing, I would regret it the rest of my life. I just don't want to feel that way". When someone is in need, Eiji reaches out his hand, bottom line. Friend? Stranger? It doesn't matter to him. If it's within his power to do something, he will do it. If not? He'll die trying. Eiji is someone who thinks far for others but he thinks very little of himself.

It's sort of ironic, because Eiji puts such strong value in human life, but he has literally no regard for his own. Eiji is someone who would go to almost fatal lengths just so to help someone. While most of that is just who Eiji is, he also shoulders a massive case of survivor's guilt. Though it's not outright stated in the series, it's pretty obvious given that having been the only survivor out of that firefight, only because of his family's money, left such an impact on him that he went from just the general going-out-of-his-way-to-help-others brand to constantly-risking-his-life-and-nearly-getting-killed brand. It's even further nailed home when someone he knew from high school pointed out to him right off the bat that he never used to act like that.

The war also did something else to Eiji. Having to watch a bloody civil war break out over a village full of people he cared about, and having to watch someone he considered a friend die in front of him, all because he gave his fortune to the wrong person, ripped a void in what use to be Eiji's desires. As summed up by another, he just dried up inside. He no longer wanted anything for himself. This, too, led to the dangerous way he threw his life around for most of the series. On top of that, Eiji developed a form of PTSD that would manifest sometimes random, but sometimes paralleling events from the war. Generally these would manifest as the sound of crying from the friend he watched die, to watching the resulting explosion that claimed her life. It happens often in the beginning, but less and less towards the end of the series. (While many of these scenes can be interpreted as just a dramatic way of hinting Eiji's past- he has on a few occasions reacted to these flashbacks.)

It's not surprising that Eiji can be very tight-lipped about details revolving around himself. In fact, getting anything out of him about his past is practically impossible. He's quick to brush questions or concerns before they even pop. The only reason we learned the full extent of his past was because it had to be brought up by a different character entirely. Eiji in general can be extremely cagey about details, if he feels it's for the greater good. He's generally honest at heart, but that doesn't mean that he won't keep secrets, or even lie, if he feels that doing so will be for a good reason. He faked a desperate plea for love advice so he could plant a tracker on another character for instance. After he revealed it, he said bluntly that he really IS self-conscious about his romantic incompetence, but tracking him was more important.

Similarly, Eiji is a whole lot smarter than he looks. He can easily come off as a dumb simpleton; someone who doesn't ask a lot of questions or is enraptured by silly gadgets. While this isn't entirely incorrect- Eiji does enjoy the simple things and he is kind of a doofus, he's also extremely shrewd. He pays attention to small details. He's often able to read subtle changes in Ankh's expressions, and he's damn good at pushing his buttons to manipulate him into doing what he wants. Granted, what he wants is usually Ankh to stop treating collecting the medals as more important than human life, but regardless Eiji's still had to be underhanded to get his point across. Fight fire with fire, if you would.

Eiji is a compassionate, well meaning guy, despite those methods. He cares a lot about the people around him, and he fights so hard to keep everyone safe even without anyone ever having to ask him. In the end he just wants to help people, for no other reason than that. Even when we see him losing his temper, it's usually because someone is disregarding human life.

It wasn't until the end of the series that he finally understood that it was okay to want to help, but it was also okay to need help, too. And that was probably the biggest lesson he learned. That after nearly destroying himself, there were still people there ready to hold their hand out to him, just as he did to them. In the end he's a good person who's haunted by his past and the weight of the mistakes he made in his naivety.

Eiji in Half-Blood Hill won't have his post-canon development just yet. He's got to work from the ground up on his issues. Hopefully, he'll be able to move past his self-destructive tendencies with the right kind of persistent help. Not only that, but the betryal of his family is still a fresh wound, and he's going to be a lot more skittish at the concept of family, period. This Norse thing is going to be unsettling to him for a while.

AU History:

Eiji Hino was born to the prestigious Hino family of Japan. His parents were wealthy and influential politicians and Eiji grew up in a comfortable and luxurious lifestyle. He went to all the best schools and got to experience interesting and exotic things most kids his age didn't. An upbringing like that would make you think that Eiji grew up some spoiled, entitled brat.

You would be very wrong.

Eiji was an activist. From an early age, Eiji had a strong passion for helping others. It started off with small things, like helping classmates by taking them homework when they were sick, and helping with the community. Then it grew to much larger heights after he began traveling the world with his grandfather during summer breaks. Not long after highschool ended, Eiji decided he wanted to devote his life to helping overseas. He started getting involved in starting schools in places that desperately needed them, and raising money for places that were suffering.

He spent a lot of time in Africa, particularly. It was there that he got caught up in a civil war. It started innocently enough. Eiji had come to reside in a small village, working to set up a school. He gave an enormous amount of money away to this village in order for them to get back on their feet.

Unfortunately, that money went straight into the wrong hands and kicked off a bloody civil war with the village landing smack in the middle of the crossfire. Eiji bunkered down with the other villagers for weeks while the fighting escalated and they slowly started running out of food and supplies.

And then things took a turn for the worse, and Eiji watched the first friend he made there die right in front of him, after an explosion causes a house to collapsed on top of her.

Eiji was one of the very few survivors of that incident. The only reason he survived was because his family had pulled enough strings to get him the proper care for his recovery when he was pulled out of the wreckage half-dead.

When he got back to Japan, his family used his story to gain popularity in the eyes of the public.

After having something like that happen, a lot of people would let that turn them rotten inside. Eiji just dried up.

One day, Eiji left Japan. He left behind everything he owned, gave no note of his whereabouts, and never looked back.

He went back out into the world and and tried to throw himself back to his earlier ambitions, but he couldn't. He wondered aimlessly and penniless for several months until Juno appeared to him in the night.

He wasn't sure what to make of the claim that he was a reincarnation Norse god, but when he was told the situation was dire and that people needed his help, that's really all he needed. He got to the states the next chance he could.

Counselor: PROBABLY NOT NO

SAMPLES

Iris Message:

[The face on the other side of the rainbow is a curious and unfamiliar one. Eiji Hino looks every bit like he just walked out of a desert from the 60's. He's clad in colorful clothing and dust and sand. When he speaks, it's clear but accented English.]

Is this how it works...? Ah! Wow! I didn't really believe them when they said I could speak through a rainbow but it looks like it was true!

Ah, sorry. My name is Eiji, and I believe the one who led me here was a goddess named Juno? She told me that I was the reincarnated form of ...Thor. [The look on his face says it's clear he's pretty unsure about that. He's not going to forget his manners, though. He bows his head just a bit and smiles.]

Thank you for letting me stay in your camp. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

[And then he pauses, looking thoughtful, before he experimentally waves his hand through the rainbow, ending the message.]

Third Person Log: DERP