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Character Name: Hanna Falk Cross
Series: Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name
Age: 24
From When?: Page 151, “Stuck outside looking in.” This is the last appearance of Hanna in canon, in which Ples Tibenoch points a gun at Hanna, {...} and Toni and all the doors and windows slam shut to his house. It cuts to the outside where all Conrad hears is a gunshot, unable to see inside.
Inmate Justification: Hanna is actually a pretty nice guy, but he has either by accident or just plain bad luck and lack of forethought managed to hurt or ruin the lives of most people he’s come into contact with. His continuous overlooking of shady shit, trying to find a solution that suits everyone without any forward thinking, directly caused the death and following vampirism of Conrad Achenleck, the possession of his partner {…} and getting them all locked in Ples Tibenoch’s house. He tries desperately to fix what he’s screwed up, but he’s not super great at that either, even if he knows his shit. Hanna also has a little bit of a problem with what he considers “need-to-know” information. Withholding knowledge either on purpose or just not informing people of shit they really should know before being dragged along on a spooky adventure has directly caused harm to his friends and he has made little to no effort to change that, even if he regrets the harm it causes. Being friends with Hanna is hazardous to a persons health and their patience.
Arrival: Against his will.
Abilities/Powers: Hanna’s only real ability is his magic, which is in the form of runes. In canon he has quite a few examples of this, Offensive, defensive, seals and recreational. To use his magic, he has to draw symbols, either on his skin or on a flat, solid surface, and they need physical contact in order to be activated. His offensive magic is shown to be multi-use, as a way to cause pain or immediate unconsciousness. The defensive would be the creation of barriers/magical shielding. Hanna can create and negate seals, and finally, he’s got some recreational magic that he uses to pay his doctor’s bills in the form of vaguely drug-like runes.
Hanna’s magic is kind of widely used and undefined, which gives a little play with it, and in canon it is constantly brought up that he’s got something wrong with him that his magic is preserving. He has a large zig-zagging scar on his torso from his hip up to his collarbone, held shut by medical grade staples. It’s mentioned that he smells dead to those who have a good enough sense of smell, his blood is tainted and that he is a “dead hollow-shell of a boy”. When he uses too much of his magic, Hanna experiences harsh negative reactions like vomiting blood, fatigue, varying levels of physical pain, and passing out. The same thing occurs when he comes into contact with ghosts as it seems that being phased through disrupts his magic, causing stutters in whatever it’s doing to keep him alive. His runes may also be disrupted by breaking or disrupting the lines, and only work when he has fully completed drawing them.
As an inmate, I think that it would make sense that the only magic that would work aside from the magic keeping him alive is his defensive, guidance and potentially weaker seal/unsealing magic. Think magical glue trap on the floor that may only last a few minutes, weak wards, or protection spells, since all the other ones can be used in ways to harm people or get them high.
Inmate Information: Hanna had a very chill childhood up until he was a teenager. In his world, knowledge of the paranormal is need to know only, and when you step into it, it’s rarely ever pleasant. He learned magic by trading his lunch money to a drunk, homeless guy for about a year, honestly right on time, because most of his life derailed shortly after. While never truly fleshed out, the details given are Hanna’s parents both died in an incident, and their ghosts attempted to take him with them. Immediately after Hanna stabilizes himself with runes and meets Doc Worth to help with what was left, a zig-zag scar closed with medical grade staples labeled later as ‘an old problem he’s not gotten around to fixing’.
Hanna keeps this information tight, not the kind of guy who wants sympathy or pity for some tragic backstory. He’s incredibly avoidant of the subject and tries to play it off as just a bother, though in doing so tends to either scare or indirectly cause harm to his friends without letting them in on the bigger picture. In every visit to Worth’s clinic the Narrator learns a little bit more about Hanna’s complete lack of self-preservation, as his detective work keeps putting him in situations that are extremely bad for his health, and it’s obvious that Worth is concerned about him but has given up trying to stop him.
It isn’t that he’s suicidal, but there is a kind of desperation of wanting to help with complete disregard for his own safety. If he had continued to work alone, it might have been okay since he usually was only hurting himself, but this behavior continues once Hanna starts making friends, constantly leading them into danger without much thought until something bad happens because of some stupid choice he’s made, or not telling anyone how to deal with what they are up against.
During his first case, Hanna meets Conrad Achenleck, an uppity hipster who is complaining about a vampire refusing to leave his apartment. When they arrive, Hanna strikes a deal with the vampire, promising to unseal her if she leaves. He doesn’t ask any questions why she’s sealed, just charges forward with his first solution, and when she is released, she grabs Conrad and takes him to the roof. Sucking Conrad dry, Hanna, who is freaking out over the fact that he literally just got his client killed, manages to use Adelaide’s blood to turn him into a vampire to fix it, and completely glosses over his mistake once he’s ‘revived’. Technically alive, but not, seems to be enough for Hanna to push past the guilt of what he’d done, and he introduces Conrad to Worth so he can have a readily available supply of blood.
When Hanna goes to meet Toni Ipres for the first time, he is attacked by the ghost of Lee Fahlun, causing him to immediately pass out, freaking everyone out around him as they rush him back to Worth’s clinic. Worth informs the group that it isn’t some new thing and when Hanna wakes up, kicks everyone out to get tended to. He emerges, acting like nothing had happened, and urges everyone to just chill and that they need to go back to investigate more. Worth warns the Narrator that Hanna’s behavior is typical of him and that perhaps if he won’t listen to him, he might listen to the Narrator about trying not to get killed for being reckless.
When they return, Hanna has given himself a protection rune against the ghost, but doesn’t give one to anyone else, as if he thinks he’s the only one going to need it. A few short minutes later the Narrator gets possessed by the ghost when Hanna leaves him and Veser alone, resulting in a fight and Hanna using a guidance rune to exercise the ghost from {…}. In the process he’s taken his shirt off and immediately avoids any sort of real answer about his scar and the runes on his body despite being asked directly about them.
After they make it back outside, Hanna is confronted by Casmiro, another vampire, and reminded of his mistake in removing Adelaide’s seal. He’s told that if he doesn’t find her that Cas will kill every single one of his friends present. Hanna, who is trying to downplay what happened despite everyone being witness to it, attempts to make a joke about it and immediately moves on.
Once they come across Ples Tibenoch’s house, Hanna just waltzes right in despite the group's unease, informing Conrad that he has to wait outside because of his vampirism and not being invited in, not having taught him anything about his sudden vampirism since he died despite having the opportunity to. Conrad proceeds to freak out because he has to watch everything from the front door. Both the Narrator and Toni follow Hanna inside and meet Ples Tibenoch who is acting much crazier than when he first appeared. Hanna, who is provoked by Ples’s insensitivity towards the Narrator, loses his temper, punches him and attempts to take him to the hospital. Ples, who had been stalling, finds the whole ordeal hilarious as all the doors and windows suddenly slam shut, the many clocks in his house chiming out 12:21. With no way out, Ples pulls a gun on the group and fires a shot.
Path to Redemption: Hanna’s main need is to learn how to trust other people, and that sharing information about himself or what he knows is just as important as being willing to die for someone. Secondary to that, his lack of self-preservation needs to be addressed, at least enough to make him realize that to be a team player you actually have to involve your team in the plan rather than just fly by the seat of your pants with no regard to your own safety and in turn the team's safety.
By creating bonds with people that are more than just looking at someone and deciding, ‘hey new best friend’, Hanna might be able to move forward enough to accomplish both needs, especially if he is able to put himself in the middle of danger and get push back for it. It’s obvious that Worth has tried to scold Hanna against being reckless, but it never worked. A different approach would be to express care for his well-being bluntly, make him realize that he’s important to someone without just telling him not to do something, and tell him straight that his behavior directly harms other people. Hanna seems to work the way he does because he doesn’t want other people to be dragged into the world of the paranormal like he was, but there is too much of living in the ‘now’ to realize that his actions aren’t preventing it at all. Teaching him that forward thinking and having a plan will prevent further suffering will ease him more into the idea that sharing information is necessary to get the results he actually wants.
This isn’t going to come easy as he is very reluctant to actually get truly close to people and avoids serious conversation, but he does get attached quickly on base levels, so his opportunity for growth can come from all sides.
Hanna’s reaction to being on the barge will be frustration and some reluctance because of the nature of what is going on. His backsliding will start immediately away from the goal with the knowledge that if he does get a permanent pairing, someone will have his whole life story, which he’s not been willing to ever share before. He’s pretty friendly, but being told ‘no’, or given restrictions generally doesn’t go over well, and he will attempt to figure out ways around it that work in his favor. Hanna does well with a good listener since he loves to talk if it isn’t about himself, but someone with a firm but guiding hand would do him even better. Any kind of chaotic instruction or enabling will encourage more reckless behavior as will no instruction at all. He needs someone to be there and promise to stick around to move forward. Anything less than that will probably end in failure.
Being put into dangerous situations, and possibly dying and being scolded for it might actually do him some good. Working with other people and having to be held accountable for his actions after the fact instead of being allowed to gloss over his own mistakes would definitely help push him forward as well.
History: The first page opens to Hanna opening the door to the Narrator, a zombie who has lost his memories of his past life and has been wandering for ten years. He arrives at Hanna’s door with a business card that Hanna can’t even remember distributing, and asks if he’s hiring for his paranormal business. With Hanna trying to figure out what his name is, a knock comes at the door and Hanna’s landlady Mrs. Blaney brings Conrad Achenleck into Hanna’s shitty apartment and is a total creep about it. After dismissing her, Conrad informs Hanna that he has a vampire in his apartment and needs it to be removed because it beat the shit out of him. Hanna may or may not be laughing at him when Conrad tells him the vampire is in bat form, but with no care of the cost, Hanna takes the case and they make their way to Conrad’s condo.
Noting the absolute destruction of Conrad’s space, they spot a small purple bat, Hanna informing her that he is there to negotiate. She responds with a few insults, not wanting to cooperate but Hanna still attempts to negotiate with her. She strikes a deal with him, that if he can help her out, she’ll leave. Hanna kicks both Conrad and {...} from the condo as he starts to work on a large rune on the floor, unsealing Adelaide and immediately after, gets violently sick and vomits blood all over the floor. In an attempt to help, {...} tries to fight Adelaide, getting his arm ripped off in the process. Conrad attempts to choke her with his belt, but seeing as vampires don’t breathe, he gets kicked in the balls for his trouble and she carries him out the window to the roof. Hanna, who realizes that she intends on sucking his blood, manages to race up to the rooftop with {...} only to find Conrad barely alive. Another fight ensues, Adelaide asking Hanna why he reeks of death before the Narrator hits her with Hanna’s hammer, causing blood to splatter on Hanna’s face. He realizes that he can still save Conrad and calls for {...} to throw him his hammer, feeding Conrad some of the blood off it as Adelaide runs away. Moments later a revived Conrad socks Hanna in the jaw, feeling like shit, and Hanna informs him that he’s now a vampire, but at least not dead.
Dragging Conrad along, Hanna brings the group to Worth’s clinic, a shitty hole in the wall place down a creepy alley. He introduces them to Worth, who seems surprised at the sudden jump in undead that Hanna’s hanging out with and Conrad and Worth argue as Hanna starts to stitch {...}’s arm back on. Shortly after Conrad loses his temper with Worth, punches him in the face and comes to the conclusion that yes, he actually is dead and blood tastes good. The case is closed as a classified fuck up, and Hanna ensures that a vampire will always inhabit Conrad’s condo rather than removing one.
Later, Hanna and {...} meet up with Conrad at a bar to give him some more blood. While there, Hanna is given a letter from the bartender from a girl named Toni Ipres, promising to pay Hanna for his services in removing a ghost with dinner. Over enthusiastically, he leaves with Conrad’s dinner, forcing him to come along to the theater. When they arrive, Toni immediately assumes that {...} is actually Hanna, then Conrad before finally realizing that naw, it’s just Hanna. She notices that his companions are a vampire and a zombie and reevaluates her opinion, calling him a professional, which he totally accepts despite thinking that she might be making fun of him. Hanna accidentally insults the lead singer of Toni’s band, prompting her to start yelling at him before the lights suddenly cut out and Hanna is attacked by the ghost he’d come to remove. It phases right through him and Hanna, managing to draw a protection rune on his hand, tries to reassure everyone he’s fine before he passes out.
{...} and Conrad take him to Worth’s clinic where Worth informs them that this has totally happened before and it’s Hanna’s normal. When he wakes up, Hanna tells them to leave the room and he emerges acting like he’s totally fine a few minutes later. Toni finds the clinic shortly before this and had surprised Conrad into exploding his dinner all over his face, and Hanna excitedly tells everyone they need to get back to the theater so that he can work his magic. Before they leave, Worth warns the Narrator that Hanna is usually reckless and doesn’t listen to warnings but hopes that he’ll eventually listen to him instead rather than dying. They return to the theater to enter through the back which has been boarded up. Conrad and Toni wait outside, and when they go up, {...} gets a solid punch to Veser’s gut as he runs towards them screaming. He’s kind of fought up about it, but the Narrator apologizes and gives some exposition about who Veser is and how he ended up in the theater. His friend and dad’s best friend Lee Fahlun is the ghost, and attacks Veser before disappearing again. Walking up the stairs they find Lee’s body hanging from a rafter and Hanna urges the Narrator to take Veser out while he goes to check on Toni and Conrad. Moments after Hanna leaves, Lee possesses {...}’s body and starts attacking Veser with a loose pipe in a fit of rage over his death and Veser’s unfortunate choice of words. Hanna reappears, using magic to knock the pipe out of his hands and manages to use a guidance rune to help the Narrator repossess his own body. Internally, he had a conversation with Lee that seemed to calm him down and come to terms with his own death, though something is still keeping him tied to earth. Promising Hanna that he’ll catch him up, he scolds him for running off on his own, asking about his scarred up chest but Hanna easily deflects while he puts his shirt back on.
The three of them go back out to the alley and find Conrad and Toni playing poker with two vampires, Casimiro and Finas. Casimiro threatens Hanna and his friends with painful deaths if he doesn’t help him find Adelaide and disappears off into the night. Hanna downplays the whole interaction with a joke but no one is really laughing.
The next scene finds Hanna and the Narrator at night in his apartment, Hanna waking up to ask his partner about his experience being possessed. He learns that the paper crane that came to him in his head was a guide from Hanna’s magic, taking that form because of some kind of significance it must have held for him in life, even if he can’t remember it. Hanna folds him a crane and tells him that they’ll have to fold a thousand to give the crane new significance in his life, something to hold onto. The next day, Hanna takes {...} to Worth’s clinic to get checked up after his stint with Lee’s ghost, and are met with a super fucked up Worth, recovering from using more than one of Hanna’s ‘special runes’ at once. They meet Lamont, another friend of Hanna’s and get kicked out without much done due to Worth’s horrible mood.
Making another stop on the way to Conrad’s, Hanna takes them to the address that was on a paper in the same room that Lee was murdered. Finding a liquor store rather than anything suspicious, they meet Ples Tibenoch, and while Hanna questions him outside, the Narrator gets the cashier inside to tell him a little bit about Ples, that he normally comes in on Fridays at the exact time the note specified. Outside, Ples dodges all of Hanna’s questions, but he gets his license plate number as he drives away. Without much to go on, they make their way to Conrad’s to talk to Veser and give the vampire his dinner. Hanna asks Veser if he was aware of anyone named Tibenoch which riles him up and he ends up storming out of the condo. Figuring that the only thing that will help Veser feel better is finding his mom’s pelt, Hanna leads them to find Toni and ask her to help them track down a scent. She explains that her talisman is broken, but she can still kind of shift into wolf form to catch the scent off the note and attached gears and offers to do so if Hanna will fix it. He confidently explains that he totally can, so off they go to follow the scent.
At the end of the trail they find Ples Tibenoch’s house which seems to reek of chemicals and oil, and without really formulating a plan, Hanna rushes on to the front door, which happens to be open. Conrad gets stuck outside due to his vampirism and is forced to watch from the front door as they go inside, following a dripping blood trail of blood and oil. Inside they meet Ples Tibenoch, but he seems to be arguing with himself before finally the darker side of him takes over and starts creepily addressing the group. When asked if he knows Lee Falun again, he admits that he does, and while Hanna wants to ask him more, he asks if he can take him to the hospital because he’s bleeding heavily from his side. Ples continues to be crazy all over the place and starts goading Hanna by developing an interest in the Narrator, asking him if he’s a construct. The more Tibenoch argues that he is probably just a thing rather than a person, the angrier Hanna becomes before he finally punches Ples in the face, yelling at him to be more polite and that they are taking him to the hospital. Ples agrees, but informs the group that they need to hurry, as it is almost 12:21. Moments after the clock strikes the next minute and all the doors and windows slam shut, locking Conrad outside and unable to see what is going on inside the house. Ples pulls a pirate-ass looking gun from his waistband and points it at the group and fires a shot.
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Special Notes: Due to the nature of the sudden ending of Canon before main plot line questions were answered, there is a deal of inference and head canon that is required for Hanna’s body horror shit. Facts that are known from WOG and canon are that his injury occurred when he was 16, it involved his parents ghosts and a butcher knife, and Hanna did the repair job himself. He meets Worth after the fact when he's 19, and later we are told by Worth that his weight distribution, which is off and not much of anything, is Hanna’s ‘normal’. Inferences on what his body horror shit is come from quotes in canon, that Hanna is a “Cursed, hollow shell of a boy”, “Smells dead”, and has symptoms similar to organ failure when he either uses too much magic or has his magic disrupted by directly interacting with ghosts.
Let me know if y'all have any questions, but my line of thinking is that Hanna's got his organs inside, dead and rotted but functional via runes that are keeping him alive, and when his ghost parents attempted to take him with, the stabbing really did a number on most of the internals. Hanna does not possess any kind of healing magic, but a mixture of stamina and a seal to keep his organs from deteriorating any further is easily within the realm of his abilities, even if it takes a lot to maintain. You can only stuff so much magic into a guy who is barely 100 pounds. Last note is that he hasn't aged since the incident at 16, which I would just throw under the 'he sealed himself' category as that makes it easily explainable without trying to make up too much shit.
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Other Characters Currently In-Game: Code Name: Abel
Character Name: Hanna Falk Cross
Series: Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name
Age: 24
From When?: Page 151, “Stuck outside looking in.” This is the last appearance of Hanna in canon, in which Ples Tibenoch points a gun at Hanna, {...} and Toni and all the doors and windows slam shut to his house. It cuts to the outside where all Conrad hears is a gunshot, unable to see inside.
Inmate Justification: Hanna is actually a pretty nice guy, but he has either by accident or just plain bad luck and lack of forethought managed to hurt or ruin the lives of most people he’s come into contact with. His continuous overlooking of shady shit, trying to find a solution that suits everyone without any forward thinking, directly caused the death and following vampirism of Conrad Achenleck, the possession of his partner {…} and getting them all locked in Ples Tibenoch’s house. He tries desperately to fix what he’s screwed up, but he’s not super great at that either, even if he knows his shit. Hanna also has a little bit of a problem with what he considers “need-to-know” information. Withholding knowledge either on purpose or just not informing people of shit they really should know before being dragged along on a spooky adventure has directly caused harm to his friends and he has made little to no effort to change that, even if he regrets the harm it causes. Being friends with Hanna is hazardous to a persons health and their patience.
Arrival: Against his will.
Abilities/Powers: Hanna’s only real ability is his magic, which is in the form of runes. In canon he has quite a few examples of this, Offensive, defensive, seals and recreational. To use his magic, he has to draw symbols, either on his skin or on a flat, solid surface, and they need physical contact in order to be activated. His offensive magic is shown to be multi-use, as a way to cause pain or immediate unconsciousness. The defensive would be the creation of barriers/magical shielding. Hanna can create and negate seals, and finally, he’s got some recreational magic that he uses to pay his doctor’s bills in the form of vaguely drug-like runes.
Hanna’s magic is kind of widely used and undefined, which gives a little play with it, and in canon it is constantly brought up that he’s got something wrong with him that his magic is preserving. He has a large zig-zagging scar on his torso from his hip up to his collarbone, held shut by medical grade staples. It’s mentioned that he smells dead to those who have a good enough sense of smell, his blood is tainted and that he is a “dead hollow-shell of a boy”. When he uses too much of his magic, Hanna experiences harsh negative reactions like vomiting blood, fatigue, varying levels of physical pain, and passing out. The same thing occurs when he comes into contact with ghosts as it seems that being phased through disrupts his magic, causing stutters in whatever it’s doing to keep him alive. His runes may also be disrupted by breaking or disrupting the lines, and only work when he has fully completed drawing them.
As an inmate, I think that it would make sense that the only magic that would work aside from the magic keeping him alive is his defensive, guidance and potentially weaker seal/unsealing magic. Think magical glue trap on the floor that may only last a few minutes, weak wards, or protection spells, since all the other ones can be used in ways to harm people or get them high.
Inmate Information: Hanna had a very chill childhood up until he was a teenager. In his world, knowledge of the paranormal is need to know only, and when you step into it, it’s rarely ever pleasant. He learned magic by trading his lunch money to a drunk, homeless guy for about a year, honestly right on time, because most of his life derailed shortly after. While never truly fleshed out, the details given are Hanna’s parents both died in an incident, and their ghosts attempted to take him with them. Immediately after Hanna stabilizes himself with runes and meets Doc Worth to help with what was left, a zig-zag scar closed with medical grade staples labeled later as ‘an old problem he’s not gotten around to fixing’.
Hanna keeps this information tight, not the kind of guy who wants sympathy or pity for some tragic backstory. He’s incredibly avoidant of the subject and tries to play it off as just a bother, though in doing so tends to either scare or indirectly cause harm to his friends without letting them in on the bigger picture. In every visit to Worth’s clinic the Narrator learns a little bit more about Hanna’s complete lack of self-preservation, as his detective work keeps putting him in situations that are extremely bad for his health, and it’s obvious that Worth is concerned about him but has given up trying to stop him.
It isn’t that he’s suicidal, but there is a kind of desperation of wanting to help with complete disregard for his own safety. If he had continued to work alone, it might have been okay since he usually was only hurting himself, but this behavior continues once Hanna starts making friends, constantly leading them into danger without much thought until something bad happens because of some stupid choice he’s made, or not telling anyone how to deal with what they are up against.
During his first case, Hanna meets Conrad Achenleck, an uppity hipster who is complaining about a vampire refusing to leave his apartment. When they arrive, Hanna strikes a deal with the vampire, promising to unseal her if she leaves. He doesn’t ask any questions why she’s sealed, just charges forward with his first solution, and when she is released, she grabs Conrad and takes him to the roof. Sucking Conrad dry, Hanna, who is freaking out over the fact that he literally just got his client killed, manages to use Adelaide’s blood to turn him into a vampire to fix it, and completely glosses over his mistake once he’s ‘revived’. Technically alive, but not, seems to be enough for Hanna to push past the guilt of what he’d done, and he introduces Conrad to Worth so he can have a readily available supply of blood.
When Hanna goes to meet Toni Ipres for the first time, he is attacked by the ghost of Lee Fahlun, causing him to immediately pass out, freaking everyone out around him as they rush him back to Worth’s clinic. Worth informs the group that it isn’t some new thing and when Hanna wakes up, kicks everyone out to get tended to. He emerges, acting like nothing had happened, and urges everyone to just chill and that they need to go back to investigate more. Worth warns the Narrator that Hanna’s behavior is typical of him and that perhaps if he won’t listen to him, he might listen to the Narrator about trying not to get killed for being reckless.
When they return, Hanna has given himself a protection rune against the ghost, but doesn’t give one to anyone else, as if he thinks he’s the only one going to need it. A few short minutes later the Narrator gets possessed by the ghost when Hanna leaves him and Veser alone, resulting in a fight and Hanna using a guidance rune to exercise the ghost from {…}. In the process he’s taken his shirt off and immediately avoids any sort of real answer about his scar and the runes on his body despite being asked directly about them.
After they make it back outside, Hanna is confronted by Casmiro, another vampire, and reminded of his mistake in removing Adelaide’s seal. He’s told that if he doesn’t find her that Cas will kill every single one of his friends present. Hanna, who is trying to downplay what happened despite everyone being witness to it, attempts to make a joke about it and immediately moves on.
Once they come across Ples Tibenoch’s house, Hanna just waltzes right in despite the group's unease, informing Conrad that he has to wait outside because of his vampirism and not being invited in, not having taught him anything about his sudden vampirism since he died despite having the opportunity to. Conrad proceeds to freak out because he has to watch everything from the front door. Both the Narrator and Toni follow Hanna inside and meet Ples Tibenoch who is acting much crazier than when he first appeared. Hanna, who is provoked by Ples’s insensitivity towards the Narrator, loses his temper, punches him and attempts to take him to the hospital. Ples, who had been stalling, finds the whole ordeal hilarious as all the doors and windows suddenly slam shut, the many clocks in his house chiming out 12:21. With no way out, Ples pulls a gun on the group and fires a shot.
Path to Redemption: Hanna’s main need is to learn how to trust other people, and that sharing information about himself or what he knows is just as important as being willing to die for someone. Secondary to that, his lack of self-preservation needs to be addressed, at least enough to make him realize that to be a team player you actually have to involve your team in the plan rather than just fly by the seat of your pants with no regard to your own safety and in turn the team's safety.
By creating bonds with people that are more than just looking at someone and deciding, ‘hey new best friend’, Hanna might be able to move forward enough to accomplish both needs, especially if he is able to put himself in the middle of danger and get push back for it. It’s obvious that Worth has tried to scold Hanna against being reckless, but it never worked. A different approach would be to express care for his well-being bluntly, make him realize that he’s important to someone without just telling him not to do something, and tell him straight that his behavior directly harms other people. Hanna seems to work the way he does because he doesn’t want other people to be dragged into the world of the paranormal like he was, but there is too much of living in the ‘now’ to realize that his actions aren’t preventing it at all. Teaching him that forward thinking and having a plan will prevent further suffering will ease him more into the idea that sharing information is necessary to get the results he actually wants.
This isn’t going to come easy as he is very reluctant to actually get truly close to people and avoids serious conversation, but he does get attached quickly on base levels, so his opportunity for growth can come from all sides.
Hanna’s reaction to being on the barge will be frustration and some reluctance because of the nature of what is going on. His backsliding will start immediately away from the goal with the knowledge that if he does get a permanent pairing, someone will have his whole life story, which he’s not been willing to ever share before. He’s pretty friendly, but being told ‘no’, or given restrictions generally doesn’t go over well, and he will attempt to figure out ways around it that work in his favor. Hanna does well with a good listener since he loves to talk if it isn’t about himself, but someone with a firm but guiding hand would do him even better. Any kind of chaotic instruction or enabling will encourage more reckless behavior as will no instruction at all. He needs someone to be there and promise to stick around to move forward. Anything less than that will probably end in failure.
Being put into dangerous situations, and possibly dying and being scolded for it might actually do him some good. Working with other people and having to be held accountable for his actions after the fact instead of being allowed to gloss over his own mistakes would definitely help push him forward as well.
History: The first page opens to Hanna opening the door to the Narrator, a zombie who has lost his memories of his past life and has been wandering for ten years. He arrives at Hanna’s door with a business card that Hanna can’t even remember distributing, and asks if he’s hiring for his paranormal business. With Hanna trying to figure out what his name is, a knock comes at the door and Hanna’s landlady Mrs. Blaney brings Conrad Achenleck into Hanna’s shitty apartment and is a total creep about it. After dismissing her, Conrad informs Hanna that he has a vampire in his apartment and needs it to be removed because it beat the shit out of him. Hanna may or may not be laughing at him when Conrad tells him the vampire is in bat form, but with no care of the cost, Hanna takes the case and they make their way to Conrad’s condo.
Noting the absolute destruction of Conrad’s space, they spot a small purple bat, Hanna informing her that he is there to negotiate. She responds with a few insults, not wanting to cooperate but Hanna still attempts to negotiate with her. She strikes a deal with him, that if he can help her out, she’ll leave. Hanna kicks both Conrad and {...} from the condo as he starts to work on a large rune on the floor, unsealing Adelaide and immediately after, gets violently sick and vomits blood all over the floor. In an attempt to help, {...} tries to fight Adelaide, getting his arm ripped off in the process. Conrad attempts to choke her with his belt, but seeing as vampires don’t breathe, he gets kicked in the balls for his trouble and she carries him out the window to the roof. Hanna, who realizes that she intends on sucking his blood, manages to race up to the rooftop with {...} only to find Conrad barely alive. Another fight ensues, Adelaide asking Hanna why he reeks of death before the Narrator hits her with Hanna’s hammer, causing blood to splatter on Hanna’s face. He realizes that he can still save Conrad and calls for {...} to throw him his hammer, feeding Conrad some of the blood off it as Adelaide runs away. Moments later a revived Conrad socks Hanna in the jaw, feeling like shit, and Hanna informs him that he’s now a vampire, but at least not dead.
Dragging Conrad along, Hanna brings the group to Worth’s clinic, a shitty hole in the wall place down a creepy alley. He introduces them to Worth, who seems surprised at the sudden jump in undead that Hanna’s hanging out with and Conrad and Worth argue as Hanna starts to stitch {...}’s arm back on. Shortly after Conrad loses his temper with Worth, punches him in the face and comes to the conclusion that yes, he actually is dead and blood tastes good. The case is closed as a classified fuck up, and Hanna ensures that a vampire will always inhabit Conrad’s condo rather than removing one.
Later, Hanna and {...} meet up with Conrad at a bar to give him some more blood. While there, Hanna is given a letter from the bartender from a girl named Toni Ipres, promising to pay Hanna for his services in removing a ghost with dinner. Over enthusiastically, he leaves with Conrad’s dinner, forcing him to come along to the theater. When they arrive, Toni immediately assumes that {...} is actually Hanna, then Conrad before finally realizing that naw, it’s just Hanna. She notices that his companions are a vampire and a zombie and reevaluates her opinion, calling him a professional, which he totally accepts despite thinking that she might be making fun of him. Hanna accidentally insults the lead singer of Toni’s band, prompting her to start yelling at him before the lights suddenly cut out and Hanna is attacked by the ghost he’d come to remove. It phases right through him and Hanna, managing to draw a protection rune on his hand, tries to reassure everyone he’s fine before he passes out.
{...} and Conrad take him to Worth’s clinic where Worth informs them that this has totally happened before and it’s Hanna’s normal. When he wakes up, Hanna tells them to leave the room and he emerges acting like he’s totally fine a few minutes later. Toni finds the clinic shortly before this and had surprised Conrad into exploding his dinner all over his face, and Hanna excitedly tells everyone they need to get back to the theater so that he can work his magic. Before they leave, Worth warns the Narrator that Hanna is usually reckless and doesn’t listen to warnings but hopes that he’ll eventually listen to him instead rather than dying. They return to the theater to enter through the back which has been boarded up. Conrad and Toni wait outside, and when they go up, {...} gets a solid punch to Veser’s gut as he runs towards them screaming. He’s kind of fought up about it, but the Narrator apologizes and gives some exposition about who Veser is and how he ended up in the theater. His friend and dad’s best friend Lee Fahlun is the ghost, and attacks Veser before disappearing again. Walking up the stairs they find Lee’s body hanging from a rafter and Hanna urges the Narrator to take Veser out while he goes to check on Toni and Conrad. Moments after Hanna leaves, Lee possesses {...}’s body and starts attacking Veser with a loose pipe in a fit of rage over his death and Veser’s unfortunate choice of words. Hanna reappears, using magic to knock the pipe out of his hands and manages to use a guidance rune to help the Narrator repossess his own body. Internally, he had a conversation with Lee that seemed to calm him down and come to terms with his own death, though something is still keeping him tied to earth. Promising Hanna that he’ll catch him up, he scolds him for running off on his own, asking about his scarred up chest but Hanna easily deflects while he puts his shirt back on.
The three of them go back out to the alley and find Conrad and Toni playing poker with two vampires, Casimiro and Finas. Casimiro threatens Hanna and his friends with painful deaths if he doesn’t help him find Adelaide and disappears off into the night. Hanna downplays the whole interaction with a joke but no one is really laughing.
The next scene finds Hanna and the Narrator at night in his apartment, Hanna waking up to ask his partner about his experience being possessed. He learns that the paper crane that came to him in his head was a guide from Hanna’s magic, taking that form because of some kind of significance it must have held for him in life, even if he can’t remember it. Hanna folds him a crane and tells him that they’ll have to fold a thousand to give the crane new significance in his life, something to hold onto. The next day, Hanna takes {...} to Worth’s clinic to get checked up after his stint with Lee’s ghost, and are met with a super fucked up Worth, recovering from using more than one of Hanna’s ‘special runes’ at once. They meet Lamont, another friend of Hanna’s and get kicked out without much done due to Worth’s horrible mood.
Making another stop on the way to Conrad’s, Hanna takes them to the address that was on a paper in the same room that Lee was murdered. Finding a liquor store rather than anything suspicious, they meet Ples Tibenoch, and while Hanna questions him outside, the Narrator gets the cashier inside to tell him a little bit about Ples, that he normally comes in on Fridays at the exact time the note specified. Outside, Ples dodges all of Hanna’s questions, but he gets his license plate number as he drives away. Without much to go on, they make their way to Conrad’s to talk to Veser and give the vampire his dinner. Hanna asks Veser if he was aware of anyone named Tibenoch which riles him up and he ends up storming out of the condo. Figuring that the only thing that will help Veser feel better is finding his mom’s pelt, Hanna leads them to find Toni and ask her to help them track down a scent. She explains that her talisman is broken, but she can still kind of shift into wolf form to catch the scent off the note and attached gears and offers to do so if Hanna will fix it. He confidently explains that he totally can, so off they go to follow the scent.
At the end of the trail they find Ples Tibenoch’s house which seems to reek of chemicals and oil, and without really formulating a plan, Hanna rushes on to the front door, which happens to be open. Conrad gets stuck outside due to his vampirism and is forced to watch from the front door as they go inside, following a dripping blood trail of blood and oil. Inside they meet Ples Tibenoch, but he seems to be arguing with himself before finally the darker side of him takes over and starts creepily addressing the group. When asked if he knows Lee Falun again, he admits that he does, and while Hanna wants to ask him more, he asks if he can take him to the hospital because he’s bleeding heavily from his side. Ples continues to be crazy all over the place and starts goading Hanna by developing an interest in the Narrator, asking him if he’s a construct. The more Tibenoch argues that he is probably just a thing rather than a person, the angrier Hanna becomes before he finally punches Ples in the face, yelling at him to be more polite and that they are taking him to the hospital. Ples agrees, but informs the group that they need to hurry, as it is almost 12:21. Moments after the clock strikes the next minute and all the doors and windows slam shut, locking Conrad outside and unable to see what is going on inside the house. Ples pulls a pirate-ass looking gun from his waistband and points it at the group and fires a shot.
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Special Notes: Due to the nature of the sudden ending of Canon before main plot line questions were answered, there is a deal of inference and head canon that is required for Hanna’s body horror shit. Facts that are known from WOG and canon are that his injury occurred when he was 16, it involved his parents ghosts and a butcher knife, and Hanna did the repair job himself. He meets Worth after the fact when he's 19, and later we are told by Worth that his weight distribution, which is off and not much of anything, is Hanna’s ‘normal’. Inferences on what his body horror shit is come from quotes in canon, that Hanna is a “Cursed, hollow shell of a boy”, “Smells dead”, and has symptoms similar to organ failure when he either uses too much magic or has his magic disrupted by directly interacting with ghosts.
Let me know if y'all have any questions, but my line of thinking is that Hanna's got his organs inside, dead and rotted but functional via runes that are keeping him alive, and when his ghost parents attempted to take him with, the stabbing really did a number on most of the internals. Hanna does not possess any kind of healing magic, but a mixture of stamina and a seal to keep his organs from deteriorating any further is easily within the realm of his abilities, even if it takes a lot to maintain. You can only stuff so much magic into a guy who is barely 100 pounds. Last note is that he hasn't aged since the incident at 16, which I would just throw under the 'he sealed himself' category as that makes it easily explainable without trying to make up too much shit.