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wonderful_mods) wrote2012-06-08 11:26 pm
wonderful_mods) wrote2012-06-08 11:26 pm
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Hanekoma Sanae | TWEWY | reserved
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Name: Kira
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Contact Info: Plurk is reliable, or tinwateringcan on AIM/ swordwithasmile [at] gmail.com
Timezone: EST
Characters Played: n/a
Character
Name: Hanekoma Sanae
Source: The World Ends with You (OU)
Type: NPC
Canon Point: Mid- Week 3, as he's searching for Joshua in alternate worlds.
History: Working headcanon regarding his life and death and my writeup of the events of TWEWY (tl;dr warning)
TWEWY wiki
Personality: Hanekoma prefers to pretend he's nothing more than your standard Expository Character: wise, friendly, knowledgeable, and gifted with the supernatural ability to always show up at exactly the right moment. In reality, however, Hanekoma takes a far more active role in the events of The World Ends with You. While appearing to play within the rules of the Game – the central competition is in fact between the Composer and the Conductor, and Hanekoma, as the Producer, should remain neutral - Hanekoma does all he can to influence the outcome so that Joshua will not ultimately destroy Shibuya. He saves Neku from erasure and provides him with the impetus to expand his horizons; and he goes much further, far enough to mark him as a Fallen Angel, by setting up Minamimoto Sho to attack Joshua directly and teaching Sho how to refine Taboo Noise. Hanekoma cares deeply for Shibuya and its inhabitants, and will go to great lengths to protect them. More, he has a great and general affection for all humanity, particularly those people who exhibit unusual imagination or determination. Even outside of Joshua's game, Hanekoma makes efforts to improve Shibuya; his artwork as CAT, which is extremely popular in the area, carries subliminal messages to attract people of exceptional “Imagination,” or spiritual/creative potential, and to increase their imagination and involvement.
Despite his affection for people in general, Hanekoma isn't much of a softy. He maintains the same jovial, generous, no-bullshit attitude with everyone from Beat to Joshua himself. He cares about people, often very much, but he won't let that stop him from doing his job (until the point of all of Shibuya being endangered; that's enough to make him break the rules. Nothing less.) He helps out the Players and makes sure that the Reapers obey the rules, but he won't interfere with people's erasure if it follows those rules. He's free with information, but only the information that he wants to give, and he has no qualms about shutting down lines of conversation he doesn't feel like getting into. He's implacable but maintains a sense of humor about his dodges, as when Neku presses him for personal details and he talks about his favorite food, personal motto, hobbies and vital measurements. He doesn't coddle people, either; the joviality can switch to a very serious lecture if someone's foolishly endangering their lives or another's in his vicinity. Despite his responsible appearance, though, he claims to be a gambler, and his actions support the contention.
While, like any gambler, Hanekoma likes to win (and isn't above ensuring the odds are slanted his way), he has no qualms about taking risks - even extreme ones, like giving forbidden information to Sho in order to impede Joshua. His Secret Reports state that sharing that information has marked him as a Fallen Angel, and that orders have been issued to find and report him. Furthermore, the Higher Planes are said to be intensely focused on the outcome of Joshua's Game with Kitaniji, such that they would not tolerate interference. As Hanekoma is the person who provides all of this information, he is obviously fully aware of the potential consequences of his actions... and yet he is willing to risk Falling and severe consequences from the Higher Planes in order to increase the chances that Shibuya will survive the Game. (It's implied that those consequences are still being decided as of the secret ending: Hanekoma says to Joshua, “This mess is gonna have repercussions upstairs.”)
Of everyone in the game, Joshua is clearly the person he's closest to. As the Producer, Hanekoma interacts with everyone in the game (creating the Red Skull pins for Kitaniji, lecturing Uzuki, selling coffee and snacks and information to Players) but only Joshua knows his real identity and role. In his one Secret Report where he doesn't hide his identity as the Fallen Angel who helped create Taboo Noise in Shibuya – in the “Another Day” side story, tucked away in a parallel world where no one could find it – he talks about the guilt he feels when he hears Joshua's cheerful voice, knowing he's set Josh up for an assassination attempt from Sho. Not only do they maintain an effective working relationship; Hanekoma considers Joshua a friend.
This doesn't stop him from risking everything to try and kill Joshua when he threatens to destroy the UG. Hanekoma is cold.
He's a tinkerer as well as an artist. As CAT, he's a designer, musician, animator and visual artist, while in his role as the Producer, he programs apps that combine technology and magic to allow people to do things like use their phones to take photos of the past or track the magical signature of someone's imagination. He also creates extremely powerful “Psych” pins for the use of those Players and Reapers who can earn or afford them. His coffee shop ownership seems to be a side hobby, since no other customers are ever in the shop, but that might also be a side-effect of Hanekoma's tendency to price his coffee exorbitantly. (More than $5 for a cup of black house blend?!) He seems to have a personal affection for coffee, too, or at least (he claims) beans. Natto included. Don't expect discounts or freebies – Hanekoma can and will be a ruthless skinflint at the same time as he offers vital information.
Abilities: Producer of Shibuya. Unlike Joshua, his powers aren't tied to his district; he's able to achieve higher Frequencies than anyone but a fellow Angel can reach, which lets him travel between worlds at will. He can also alter the Frequency and form of others, transforming (for example) Noise into a pin, or bringing Joshua with him to a higher Frequency so that both of them can return to their home Shibuya.
He creates pins holding a variety of psychs, including sets that interact or synergize in unusual and complex ways (the pins bearing CAT art are among the most powerful and expensive in the game.) Hanekoma's pins can even affect individuals on the RG, as with the Red Skull pins that placed the mind of anyone wearing them under Kitaniji's direct control. The Player Pins he creates allow Players to reach out into the minds of individuals on the RG, reading their thoughts and implanting subliminal suggestions, and also protect Players' minds from being read or affected in order to preserve their still-fragile minds from the demands of true openness. He can also program cell phones, obtaining or creating apps with openly supernatural abilities; for instance, he alters Joshua and Neku's phones to be able to photograph the past.
He can refine Noise into Taboo forms, as well as altering its existing form in other ways; he can preserve and restore Erased Players, saving not only the Player but also their partner from destruction. He also has multiple possible forms, including a form with and one without visible large white angel wings, and Panthera Cantus, his powerful and fast-moving Noise form. (It's possible that he can store and use powers like his transformation into Panthera Cantus in feathers, just as Players and Reapers use abilities contained in pins; he whips out a red and blue feather before assuming the Noise form, and it consists of a red-tinted and blue-tinted form, each of which exactly replicates the Noise form of a different Reaper officer. Joshua has a white feather, similarly shaped, which grants him a variety of bonuses and an extra star toward his sync attacks.)
He's capable of detecting anomalies in the overall state of the District, such as distress from individuals unusually gifted with Imagination; in an unfamiliar District, his senses likely wouldn't be as acute until he learned the “normal” state of the new District. He's able to predict possible outcomes and judge probabilities with supernatural precision; he doesn't see the future, but he can identify and act on possibilities.
He's able not only to influence other minds with subliminal suggestions but also to implant subliminal messages into his artwork, driving its acceptance throughout Shibuya, calling to individuals who have greater Imagination, and working to refine and improve the souls of those who view it. He can create sigils that allow interaction between the UG and the RG (for instance, Reaper Creeper games and the symbols that mark shops.) He's an expert with many different forms of art, from furniture making to music, but his dominant aesthetic is a dense and brightly colored graffiti style.
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Additional Note: Because Hanekoma is an NPC, he gets to keep his canon powers. By joining as an NPC you understand that they will be put to use toward the overarching plot, and any major uses must be run by the mods in advance.