Hiro (Completed and with some notes)

Hiro was created within the Velvet Room like any other attendant. He was designed to be a guide and information center for guests and a soother for spirits that wandered about the world. He was placed under a female attendant named Olivia with another named Akumu Yume. Olivia was 1,000 of years older than both of them, but she was the best when it came to the spirit and medicine she art. When Hiro and Akumu were younger, things went pretty well. Both were taught by a gentle hand and they grew up seeing each other as brothers; however, things began to change when the two attendants began to go their separate ways, Akumu towards medicine and Hiro more towards the spiritual. As Akumu drifted away down his path, Hiro was stuck with Olivia, who went from sweet and kind to super demanding and cruel.

To prepare him for dealing with the spirits she put the attendant through an extreme training where he was locked in a special room where he had to survive for three days against the onslaught of malicious spirits there. The spirits attacked mercilessly and with nowhere to run, Hiro had no choice but to face them. He dealt with mental and physical abuse from the spirits as he learned dark secrets and was exposed to visions he did not wish to be exposed to. The experience fractured his mind, but he did survive and in turn was able to learn the cruelties of the living. With this stepped pass, Olivia let him out, but had him on a short leash. She sent him on missions to clear this spirit or that spirit out of an area with time limits. Every time he was late or failed to complete a task he was punished with pain or being locked up with a tormenting spirits.

When it came to guests, Olivia always hid in the background and would drive away any that seemed to be becoming friends with her student and when questioned, she would simply say the guest was not fit for Hiro. While this disappointed him, he dealt with this line of treatment for many years until by chance, he met a guest that not even Olivia could drive away. Her name was Magnolia.

Magnolia was an upbeat young woman with the strong will to make her own path in life. Out of all the attendants she could’ve met, she focused her mind on meeting the one attendant that three of her friends had been chased away from, Hiro. She met Hiro through Akumu, who brought her to the attendant after she personally requested a switch to him. A bit shocked, but not questioning Fate, Akumu honored the request and left the girl in Hiro’s hand.

Being used to having guest that did not stay, Hiro remained closed off to the girl for a long while hoping that attitude alone would drive her away before Olivia could; however, the girl was persistent and would not be driven away. Impressed and intrigue, Hiro slowly began to let the girl into his heart. He was terrified of the results, but when even Olivia could not drive the girl off, Hiro had hope for a better future.

Magnolia was the one to introduce Hiro to the outside world and show him the happier side of life. She introduced him to the shrines where peaceful spirits lived and even introduced him things like movies and such. She opened the world to him and showed him that the world did have a brighter side. He and she became close, but Olivia was there to ruin it.

Letting the girl get as close as possible to her student, she waited until her student was the happiest to send spirits of malice to the girl. These spirits drove the upbeat girl out of her mind and in the end, she killed herself. Naturally, the blow devastated her student and being the good teacher she was, she tried to bring him back over to her side with comfort; however, Hiro was no fool and he had been trained too well. He did not believe for a second that his dear guest had the potential to kill herself within and so when Olivia was not watching, he used his skills to follow the trails left behind by Magnolia’s spirit to find out exactly what happened. When he found the truth, he was able to put his friend’s soul to rest and returned home with the icy fires of revenge eating his heart.

Hiro let Olivia believe she had won, as he went back to being submissive to her every whim. He let this play out for one year before finally striking out at her. Hiro was helping the older attendant brush out her extremely long hair. Half way through the process he took a handful of it and with skill and accuracy, he used her own hair to choke the attendant to the death. With the deed done, he got rid of the body burning it and using old rituals to keep the spirit from coming back. When he was done, he felt quite proud of himself and didn’t even mind being banished from the Velvet Room thanks to his crime.

He was content, his purpose at that time reached; however, as time ticked on and the joy of that day began to fade into despair, Hiro began wandering about the world that reminded him so much of Magnolia. He tried to get along with the outside world, but the more he tried the more he began to loath the living. He didn’t understand why they had so much joy and he did not. He wanted to know what it was he was missing and so he started to hunt for the answer, but he could not find it. His obsession with the truth and the spirits that constantly lingered about him finally broke the fractured mind turning Hiro into a being that was a danger not only to himself, but the world. As a result the world locked him away behind padded walls and within the embrace of straightjackets where he remained a prisoner of his own mind for 10 years. During those 10 years, Hiro was said to have gone completely out of control and later killed himself to escape from it all. 100 years down the road, Hiro reappeared in a hidden form with black hair and dark colored eyes and calls himself the leader of the House of Peace.

His new look and the House of Peace his true intention of seeing the world brought down to its knees and destroyed. And so the final bell has rung and the reaper has appeared.