Haruka Stone『Paranormal Investigator』 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bearshercross) wrote2013-09-24 04:13 am
bearshercross) wrote2013-09-24 04:13 am
History
To tell Haruka’s history, I must first tell part of her parents’ history. You see, her mother was Jasumin Tachikawa, the daughter of two Japanese immigrants, and her father is Arthur Stone. But it’s a bit more complicated than that. Jasumin, when young, was assaulted and nearly sacrificed by the Cult of Lilith as a body for their master, a powerful demon who had been slain years before and needed a body if her soul was to ever return. Jasumin was rescued by Resha Black, who then took her under her wing and taught her everything she knew. They joined forced soon after with a more experienced man named Cole Bryant.
When Jasumin (then called Jasmine) went off to college, on top of her studies she held down the job of Paranormal Investigator. That is, a detective for the supernatural. And it was there that she and Cole met Arthur, a rich young man from Portsmouth, England, who wanted to get away from his family so he was on student visa to America. He fell hard and fast for the fiery young woman, and tried to gain her affections. But he was a devout Catholic and thought all her supernatural stuff was nonsensical paganism she needed to be saved from. Naturally, she disliked this, and their relationship was rocky. It was only after a porcelain doll he bought for his sister came to life and began talking to him that he believed her.
After that, Arthur was taught by Resha. He had a natural talent for exorcism, with a high rate of survival and low rate of anyone else present ending up possessed. As Cole commented, “It’s like he was born to exorcise things from people.” And so the three began to work together, using their talents—Jasmine’s intuition and diplomacy, Cole’s spellwork and keen eye, and Arthur’s talents at persuasion and exorcism. All was well.
One New Year’s Eve, though, Jasmine and Cole got drunk and slept with each other. That is, Haruka’s biological father is not Arthur. He and Jasmine weren’t together at the time, and didn’t begin dating until late January, before Jasmine even knew she was pregnant. Later that year, about April, something else happened that changed all their lives together. In a battle with a powerful demon, two volatile spells clashed and caused something to happen: Cole and the demon’s souls became fused, causing a strange sort of split personality. He disappeared and Arthur and Jasmine decided to throw caution to the wind and marry in the aftermath.
September of that year, Jasmine gave birth to triplets. No unheard of—there were many multiple births in her family. Arthur, having already quit the supernatural world, begged Jasmine to leave it behind, but she refused. He could only quietly support her from behind the scenes as he became a lawyer and quickly rose through the ranks, applying what he’d learned from the politics of the supernatural world to his work. As this was going on, Jasmine masqueraded as a housewife, raising the triplets to the best of her ability—Haruka, Miyuki and Arianna. And for awhile, everything was going well and life was basically perfect.
Then, one day, when the triplets were seven, Haruka had to stay home sick. That is the day her life changed. Her mother stayed home with her and dismissed the houseworkers. They spent the day together, mother and daughter. It was that afternoon that the incident happened—a man with red eyes knocked at the door. And when Jasmine saw him, she slammed the door on his fingers before running to grab Haruka. She tried to run through the house, but the man slammed through the wall just behind them in an attempt to cut them off. Knowing she couldn’t escape, Jasmine hid Haruka beneath the stairs and told her one thing: “Never forget what you see here today.”
Then, she tried to run. However, she was grabbed from behind. Haruka was forced to watch as her mother’s throat was slit and then, mysteriously, the blood never hit the ground. Instead, as if by magic, it was drawn through the air and was used to write on the walls: “I sentence thee to judgement. May God be merciful upon thee for thy Sins, for they are numerous and great.”
Then, the man turned and patted Haruka on the head, whispering that the Mother’s sins do not visit her children. Haruka was left there, frozen and traumatized. She was found crying that afternoon by a neighbor who had seen the front door left open. The police were called, Arthur called home from work, and Haruka became distressed with no one believing her about the strange man with red eyes. She was sent through months of therapy with little change. Haruka became withdrawn and even voluntarily mute for awhile. If no one believed her, she wouldn’t talk.
She was eventually given her mother’s cross necklace, once the trail went cold. They’d looked it over, and it held nothing. Whatever it could have held had been compromised as the chain had broken when Jasmine was grabbed, so her blood washed anything else away. It was after receiving this item that Haruka remembered something from that day: a phone call from a woman named Resha. Looking through her mother’s phone book, Haruka found the address. One day after school, she ditched her caretaker and ran off to find this place.
It led to an occult shop and therein she met a mysterious woman with piercing, blue eyes and black hair in a long braid. Resha Black, she introduced herself as, and she told the girl she had been waiting. She explained the world that Jasmine had lived in, the world Haruka had inherited. She was a prodigy, Resha noted, in that Haruka had massive potential for spells and exorcism. She also had amazing intuition—her mother’s trademark. And for the first time in months, Haruka spoke: “I want to avenge my mother.”
The following years, Haruka would spend her afternoons and weekends with Resha. At first, her father didn’t question it. Her grades were going back up and she was becoming less withdrawn, after all. He figured she’d made a friend who had been grieving much like her, and was thankful. Until one afternoon, Haruka accidentally set her bedroom curtains on fire with a spell. Her father was furious. But mostly, he was afraid—terrified that Haruka would end up like Jasmine. And so he lied and used his Catholic background to try and keep Haruka from that life.
Haruka was Jasmine’s daughter, all right. She stubbornly refused and continued to find ways to see Resha no matter what her father did. Eventually, at the age of fifteen, she ran away from home and lived with Resha over her occult shop. Soon after that, an anonymous benefactor began to send them money to help pay the bills. Haruka would never find out that this was her father, who truly cared and wanted her safe without admitting to the past he and her mother shared.
Haruka finally began serving as a paranormal investigator at seventeen—ten years to the day that her mother died. She began to illegally carry a gun that she had enchanted to shoot magic bullets, and began to work after school let out. And when she graduated, she didn’t consider college—she began to work full time. All the while, she kept her ears open for the man who killed her mother—the man who had been dubbed the Blood Saint by the media.
Things were smooth sailing for a few years. Then, one day, when she was 22, there was a news report of the Blood Saint resurfacing, having killed a family of four in their home. Haruka was elated. It was the first lead she’d had in a long time! So she snuck into the crime scene after the police left and investigated, looking for trails of magic. When she uncovered them, she had the first clue she’d had, the first trail she’d had, in many years.
The chase was on.
Things went from there. Once she caught his scent, she doesn't let go, and investigates further. A brief run-in at his next intended victim's sees him losing his wallet and Haruka collecting it, which breaks the identity of the man wide open: Cole Bryant. This meant she could research him, and what she found? She didn't like. She found a connection to her mother and father, and accidentally uncovered through Resha her father's secret past.
After confronting Arthur on his involvement, she learned about her own heritage and began to question what she was really after. This all came to a head when Cole Bryant came after her, chasing her down to a warehouse where Haruka tried to reason with him. However, too far gone, he began to draw blood from a cut on her arm, intending to bleed her dry with his powers. With no other course of action, Haruka shot him six times in the chest, killing him.
Traumatized by the events, Haruka shakily returned home and, without a word, Arthur held her and allowed her to cry. After this, she vowed to quit and live a normal life. Which goes about as well as anyone could expect.
You see, the laws of her universe dictate that, if seven crimes against Man's Law and God's Law happen at the same moment in time, the spirits of the seven deadly sins may walk the earth in the bodies of the Seven Sinners. But due to Haruka's slaying of Cole Bryant as well as the thirst for revenge that previously drove her, she effectively became a factor that confused the Spirit of Wrath. As such, it came to her and manifested in her mind. However, unlike the others, it could not kills its host, instead living trapped within her.
Naturally, this complicated the hell out of Haruka's attempts to start a normal life.
For weeks, she was plagued with dreams in which the Sins visited her and tried to convince her to rest--Sloth's ability being the power to manifest herself and the other Sins into the dreams of others. The hope was to allow Wrath to take over, but their plans were thwarted both by Haruka herself and a mysterious other person already dwelling in her own unconscious.
When Jasumin (then called Jasmine) went off to college, on top of her studies she held down the job of Paranormal Investigator. That is, a detective for the supernatural. And it was there that she and Cole met Arthur, a rich young man from Portsmouth, England, who wanted to get away from his family so he was on student visa to America. He fell hard and fast for the fiery young woman, and tried to gain her affections. But he was a devout Catholic and thought all her supernatural stuff was nonsensical paganism she needed to be saved from. Naturally, she disliked this, and their relationship was rocky. It was only after a porcelain doll he bought for his sister came to life and began talking to him that he believed her.
After that, Arthur was taught by Resha. He had a natural talent for exorcism, with a high rate of survival and low rate of anyone else present ending up possessed. As Cole commented, “It’s like he was born to exorcise things from people.” And so the three began to work together, using their talents—Jasmine’s intuition and diplomacy, Cole’s spellwork and keen eye, and Arthur’s talents at persuasion and exorcism. All was well.
One New Year’s Eve, though, Jasmine and Cole got drunk and slept with each other. That is, Haruka’s biological father is not Arthur. He and Jasmine weren’t together at the time, and didn’t begin dating until late January, before Jasmine even knew she was pregnant. Later that year, about April, something else happened that changed all their lives together. In a battle with a powerful demon, two volatile spells clashed and caused something to happen: Cole and the demon’s souls became fused, causing a strange sort of split personality. He disappeared and Arthur and Jasmine decided to throw caution to the wind and marry in the aftermath.
September of that year, Jasmine gave birth to triplets. No unheard of—there were many multiple births in her family. Arthur, having already quit the supernatural world, begged Jasmine to leave it behind, but she refused. He could only quietly support her from behind the scenes as he became a lawyer and quickly rose through the ranks, applying what he’d learned from the politics of the supernatural world to his work. As this was going on, Jasmine masqueraded as a housewife, raising the triplets to the best of her ability—Haruka, Miyuki and Arianna. And for awhile, everything was going well and life was basically perfect.
Then, one day, when the triplets were seven, Haruka had to stay home sick. That is the day her life changed. Her mother stayed home with her and dismissed the houseworkers. They spent the day together, mother and daughter. It was that afternoon that the incident happened—a man with red eyes knocked at the door. And when Jasmine saw him, she slammed the door on his fingers before running to grab Haruka. She tried to run through the house, but the man slammed through the wall just behind them in an attempt to cut them off. Knowing she couldn’t escape, Jasmine hid Haruka beneath the stairs and told her one thing: “Never forget what you see here today.”
Then, she tried to run. However, she was grabbed from behind. Haruka was forced to watch as her mother’s throat was slit and then, mysteriously, the blood never hit the ground. Instead, as if by magic, it was drawn through the air and was used to write on the walls: “I sentence thee to judgement. May God be merciful upon thee for thy Sins, for they are numerous and great.”
Then, the man turned and patted Haruka on the head, whispering that the Mother’s sins do not visit her children. Haruka was left there, frozen and traumatized. She was found crying that afternoon by a neighbor who had seen the front door left open. The police were called, Arthur called home from work, and Haruka became distressed with no one believing her about the strange man with red eyes. She was sent through months of therapy with little change. Haruka became withdrawn and even voluntarily mute for awhile. If no one believed her, she wouldn’t talk.
She was eventually given her mother’s cross necklace, once the trail went cold. They’d looked it over, and it held nothing. Whatever it could have held had been compromised as the chain had broken when Jasmine was grabbed, so her blood washed anything else away. It was after receiving this item that Haruka remembered something from that day: a phone call from a woman named Resha. Looking through her mother’s phone book, Haruka found the address. One day after school, she ditched her caretaker and ran off to find this place.
It led to an occult shop and therein she met a mysterious woman with piercing, blue eyes and black hair in a long braid. Resha Black, she introduced herself as, and she told the girl she had been waiting. She explained the world that Jasmine had lived in, the world Haruka had inherited. She was a prodigy, Resha noted, in that Haruka had massive potential for spells and exorcism. She also had amazing intuition—her mother’s trademark. And for the first time in months, Haruka spoke: “I want to avenge my mother.”
The following years, Haruka would spend her afternoons and weekends with Resha. At first, her father didn’t question it. Her grades were going back up and she was becoming less withdrawn, after all. He figured she’d made a friend who had been grieving much like her, and was thankful. Until one afternoon, Haruka accidentally set her bedroom curtains on fire with a spell. Her father was furious. But mostly, he was afraid—terrified that Haruka would end up like Jasmine. And so he lied and used his Catholic background to try and keep Haruka from that life.
Haruka was Jasmine’s daughter, all right. She stubbornly refused and continued to find ways to see Resha no matter what her father did. Eventually, at the age of fifteen, she ran away from home and lived with Resha over her occult shop. Soon after that, an anonymous benefactor began to send them money to help pay the bills. Haruka would never find out that this was her father, who truly cared and wanted her safe without admitting to the past he and her mother shared.
Haruka finally began serving as a paranormal investigator at seventeen—ten years to the day that her mother died. She began to illegally carry a gun that she had enchanted to shoot magic bullets, and began to work after school let out. And when she graduated, she didn’t consider college—she began to work full time. All the while, she kept her ears open for the man who killed her mother—the man who had been dubbed the Blood Saint by the media.
Things were smooth sailing for a few years. Then, one day, when she was 22, there was a news report of the Blood Saint resurfacing, having killed a family of four in their home. Haruka was elated. It was the first lead she’d had in a long time! So she snuck into the crime scene after the police left and investigated, looking for trails of magic. When she uncovered them, she had the first clue she’d had, the first trail she’d had, in many years.
The chase was on.
Things went from there. Once she caught his scent, she doesn't let go, and investigates further. A brief run-in at his next intended victim's sees him losing his wallet and Haruka collecting it, which breaks the identity of the man wide open: Cole Bryant. This meant she could research him, and what she found? She didn't like. She found a connection to her mother and father, and accidentally uncovered through Resha her father's secret past.
After confronting Arthur on his involvement, she learned about her own heritage and began to question what she was really after. This all came to a head when Cole Bryant came after her, chasing her down to a warehouse where Haruka tried to reason with him. However, too far gone, he began to draw blood from a cut on her arm, intending to bleed her dry with his powers. With no other course of action, Haruka shot him six times in the chest, killing him.
Traumatized by the events, Haruka shakily returned home and, without a word, Arthur held her and allowed her to cry. After this, she vowed to quit and live a normal life. Which goes about as well as anyone could expect.
You see, the laws of her universe dictate that, if seven crimes against Man's Law and God's Law happen at the same moment in time, the spirits of the seven deadly sins may walk the earth in the bodies of the Seven Sinners. But due to Haruka's slaying of Cole Bryant as well as the thirst for revenge that previously drove her, she effectively became a factor that confused the Spirit of Wrath. As such, it came to her and manifested in her mind. However, unlike the others, it could not kills its host, instead living trapped within her.
Naturally, this complicated the hell out of Haruka's attempts to start a normal life.
For weeks, she was plagued with dreams in which the Sins visited her and tried to convince her to rest--Sloth's ability being the power to manifest herself and the other Sins into the dreams of others. The hope was to allow Wrath to take over, but their plans were thwarted both by Haruka herself and a mysterious other person already dwelling in her own unconscious.