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Rei Hazama (Doubt • Somarium)
[Player name] Kyuu
[Age] 16
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euphoriant
[Other characters currently played] n/a!
[Character name] Rei Hazama
[Age] Unspecified. Due to various things mentioned around in canon and the compared appearances of all the main characters, I assume she's around 16-years-old.
[Canon] Doubt
[Point in time taken from canon] Post-canon.
[Background]
Once upon a time, Rei was a star. She was the protagonist of a hit hypnotism show named "Saimin Shoujo", known throughout all of Japan, and praised for her talents. Her parents were always supportive of her, staying behind her in every step along with her fans. Life was like a dream to Rei. It simply couldn't get better.
So, naturally, it got worse.
Like every other hype in the world, the hype that had raised Saimin Shoujo to fame soon disappeared, and along with it went the praise and admiration Rei had gotten so used to having. As soon as the hype died, everyone around her did a complete turnaround in their attitude toward her. Instead of being called talented, Rei was called a liar, and soon even those who were her most loyal fans began to harass her. Her home and school were vandalized with graffiti that displayed enlightening messages such as "go home, you disgusting liar" and so on, and even her notebooks and assigned desk at school were taken and ruined by her so-called friends.
The media being the media would just find ways to twist her words around to her disadvantage, and Rei suddenly found herself having every single word she said ignored and question after question shoved her way. Eventually, she would have to seclude herself to avoid further harassment from the media and those around her, and her parents would continue to protect her without a single complaint from their part. One day, however, much to Rei's confusion and excitement, they told her to get ready as they were going out for the first time in a very long time. Understandably, her excitement promptly died once she realized her parents were planning on committing family suicide, seconds after they had proceeded to drive their car off the nearest bridge.
Her parents were declared dead on impact, and poor, little fortunate Rei was the only survivor.
Still, there is no such thing as a personal life for those who are famous, and still carrying the guilt from surviving and mourning her parents death, Rei had no other choice than to go ahead and film the last episode of Saimin Shoujo. According to what the media would report and what her agency would say to the public, she had simply decided to take a break, even though that was the farthest thing from the truth and her show had been canceled. But that was alright. It was completely fine by her, because she would go in front of the cameras, dressed in her usual outfit and sporting her usual smile, and use the hypnotism everyone had called fake to take revenge for her parents who had been pushed over the edge. Using the hypnotism everyone had mocked her for, she would then destroy the life of everyone who driven her parents to suicide by placing a hypnotic message in this last episode--one that would only affect those who, just like her, had lost somebody they loved.
Fast forward to three years later, when an online game played through mobile phones known as "Rabbit Doubt" has become extremely popular in Japan.
As with all online groups of friends, there comes a moment when they would all want to meet face-to-face, and that is exactly what a small group of five decides to do. Five players of this game (Yuu Aikawa, Haruka Akechi, Eiji Hoshi, Hajime Komaba and, of course, Rei Hazama) decide to get together one day to meet and deepen their online friendship. Although Hajime couldn't show up, as he had texted Haruka to tell everyone he wouldn't be able to make it in time due to university work, the four of them meet up on the street before relocating to a karaoke bar, accompanied by Yuu's childhood friend, Mitsuki Houyama. After a series of events, in which Yuu inadvertently scares Eiji away and saves Rei from being pressured into a date with him, Rei decides to reveal to Yuu that she was once Saimin Shoujo--something her meek and shy persona went to great efforts to hide in fear of being rejected by everyone around her again. Yuu, although initially surprised by the revelation, agrees to keep it a secret from everyone else and forms a sort of "bond" with Rei.
Unfortunately for both of them, Eiji was still standing around the corner and overheard the whole conversation--not that this was a particularly bad development for Rei. In fact, once Eiji spilled everything after being prompted by a jealous Mitsuki to do so, all it really did was boost the group's sympathetic view of her. To them, Rei was now a crippled little girl that had nearly been pushed to suicide due to the media's pressure, and that was not something she minded at all. Not really.
It is sometime after this point that they, too absorbed in their own amusement to notice the impending danger, are all kidnapped and taken to an abandoned hospital.
The first victim is none other than Rei. She's pinned against the wall with a stake impaled into her chest and held up only by her hands, both of which had also been impaled as well. Her wheelchair and stuffed rabbit have been completely destroyed, and her blood had been used to write messages on both the wall and floor. Naturally, upon discovering such a scene, both Mitsuki and Yuu proceed to freak the fuck out before running out of the room where Rei's corpse was hung and inadvertently locking the door behind them. After the whole group is reunited, along with Hajime who had been assaulted at a different location, they revisit Rei's room (wasting one of their five available bar-code, which are used to open locked doors) and realize just what kind of situation they are in. They were playing now playing a real life version of Rabbit Doubt, and would need to find the lying wolf in order to survive. They would need to find which one of their companions was Rei's murderer.
But of course, how could they suspect that Rei's murderer was no other than herself?
Using that hypnotic message she had placed in the final episode of Saimin Shoujo, Rei had planned all of this, as well as several other games that had taken the lives of other Rabbit Doubt players across the country--this was her revenge. Using those viewers who were affected by her hypnotism, replacing their grief for a thirst for revenge, Rei handpicked sessions of Rabbit Doubt where most (if not all) of the players involved were what she deemed filthy liars, and then had them all killed by the person who was currently hypnotized by her.
This is exactly what had happened to Mitsuki, whose hypnotism had been triggered several times through their game by a combination of cellphone ringtones and a very specific phrase. However, Rei wasn't the kind to want to be involved firsthand in such an unsightly thing, so she simply faked her death using a convincing body double. From there on, she watched how her beautiful game of Rabbit Doubt unfolded from behind the scenes, enjoying as every single one of the filthy liars who had been allowed to live when her parents were dead died before her eyes. She watched as suspicion overtook everyone and they all fell apart on their own, just according to her plans.
But, there was one little thing that diverged from her original plans. One little pest.
That is, the fact that Mitsuki loved Yuu more than she had ever loved her own parents, and this threw quite the wrench in her plans. Not only was Rei's hypnotism over Mitsuki weakened whenever she was near Yuu, but even though she had quickly adjusted her plans to isolate Yuu instead of having Mitsuki murder him (as Mitsuki couldn't even place a barcode on him when prompted to, nevermind murdering him), her hand was forced and she had no other choice than to reveal herself to him along with her role in everything that had just taken place. With a smile on her face, Rei explained everything to Yuu. She told him how she had been embittered by her mother and father's death and now sought revenge, as well as how Mitsuki had lost her will to live after her father committed suicide to escape debt and had come to seek her out on her own. After all was said and done, Rei opened the final door for Yuu and a currently unconscious Mitsuki, and fled the scene after anonymously calling the police.
Of course, even though there was nobody on Earth who would believe that Mitsuki had been hypnotized into committing such heinous acts, Rei couldn't afford to leave witnesses; not when her only means of covering up evidence of her being at the abandoned hospital was by sending one of her wolves on the forensics team to conveniently obfuscate her tracks. Using the very same wolf she had on forensics to get rid of Hajime after he had insisted to revisit the scene of the crime, Rei then called Yuu on a cellphone she had planted in Mitsuki's room at the hospital, and he was just the right amount of stupid to pick it up despite what she had explained to him last time they spoke. She spoke to him lightly, mocking and teasing him with Hajime's death and the fact that she had been the one to actually rescue them by calling the police, before tricking him into saying a very specific phrase.
That is, "for the one I love."
Poor, unfortunately genre blind Yuu hadn't even began to comprehend that said phrase, in conjunction with a cellphone's ringtone would cause Mitsuki to become quite literally an unstoppable killing machine, before his best friend had woken up and grabbed a knife that had been left in the stand next to her bed. Although he was, unsurprisingly, horrified, Rei simply giggled over the phone and said her goodbyes to him. She told him this would be the last time they would ever speak, and hung up, just in time to avoid hearing him be stabbed to death by Mitsuki.
Paying her check, now in a much brighter mood after finishing her work, Rei left the café she was currently in. Even if she should die, the game of Rabbit Doubt will always go on without her.
[Personality]
Shy, timid and polite to strangers. This is the ruse Rei Hazama prefers to show to strangers.
Truth to be told, Rei is (for lack of better words) a manipulative bitch. As a former actress and idol, Rei knows just how to both please a crowd and make herself unremarkable. She is capable of changing personalities in the blink of an eye and knows how to toy with the emotions of others, saying the correct words to worm her way into having them trust her and then promptly stabbing them in the back without having them even know it was her when they are of no further use to her. In a way, this is very much like what the public did to her and her dear mama and papa, and Rei wouldn't have it any other way. An eye for an eye, as they would say.
To Rei, everyone around her is expendable. They are nothing more than filth--and if her parents weren't allowed to lead long and content lives, then why should anyone else? Even her wolves, and even herself, don't deserve to live happily in her eyes, and so Rei works her little games to make sure everyone feels the same kind of suffering that pushed her parents over the edge. Although she is a bit softer with those who share the same suffering she did (the pain of losing someone they loved), giving them the opportunity to find relief for their feelings of loss in revenge just as she did they are only tools to her in the end, and she makes this quite clear when she offhandedly remarks how pitiable it was that one of her previous wolves died and when she ends up causing Mitsuki to kill her best friend anyway, not feeling the slightest bit of pity for her plight.
She is very much like a spoiled brat with the mentality of not letting others be happy when her whole life has been ruined--and this is something she acknowledges.
Of course, Rei is very intelligent. She is able to formulate plans on the spot, quickly making adjustments when she realizes that she wouldn't be able to kill Yuu while at the abandoned hospital, as well as being behind the string of teenage disappearances in Japan for the last couple of months, all of them due to her games of Rabbit Doubt. She is not a genius by any means, but she has enough wit and a quick tongue to improvise and figure out new ways to keep her revenge going. This is what makes Rei so frightful to those who have had the opportunity to glance at her real self.
Clearly, however, this isn't something she would want anybody to see. She doesn't want anyone other than herself to know how bitter she is over her whole and how over the edge she, herself, has been driven by watching everyone around her betray her and her parents--so she plays a role. Just like the actress she was pampered into being for years, Rei covers up what a horrible person she truly is by adopting various facades that would make others trust and confide in her, two of which we have been shown in canon.
The first, a simple and kind facade which she uses to dismiss a waitress at the café she was in by the end of the story when asked if she was Saimin Shoujo. She smiles her best smile, giggles as goodhearted as possible and politely tells this waitress that, no, she was simply confusing her for somebody she was not. After all--she wasn't Saimin Shoujo anymore, was she?
Now, the second facade is her favorite, and the one we are shown in the canon the most (as well as the one she will utilize in Somarium). She is soft spoken, withdrawn, and stutters hideously around those she isn't familiar with or when she feels nervous. She becomes flustered easily, becoming unsure of how to react properly when somebody asks her out of a date or when she's called cute, and does nothing to keep herself from being verbally harassed by other, even needing Haruka and Yuu's intrusion in her conversations with Eiji to keep him from pressuring her into a date. Even though she is quick to become flustered and withdrawn in an uncomfortable situation, she is never impolite and more often than not finds herself being dragged into conversations she does not wish to take part of or pressed into doing things she doesn't want to.
Naturally, the best of lies are those composed of half-truths, and as someone who has spent years manipulating others in order to avenge her parents, this is something Rei knows. As such, even with this meek personality she takes on, there are some aspects of Rei that remain thinly veiled. She still goes to lengths to hide the fact that she is Saimin Shoujo, only admitting it to Yuu when she felt the opportunity was right and not meeting his eyes once as she confessed, supposedly too scared to see what his reaction would be. Even when playing her role, she still laments the death of her parents and even shows just the tiniest bit of her bitterness, remarking that the reason for Rabbit Doubt's mascot being a hung rabbit is to set an example. To show the wolf in the game what its future will be, which if very much what happens to those that play her version of Rabbit Doubt.
For Rei's persona, one of her biggest fears is being rejected as a "fake" once again. This is why she acts so withdrawn when she first confesses to Yuu, and why she is so quick to start crying when Eiji throws the truth of what the media had done to her in front of everyone. She is terrified of being alone, and wanted nothing more than for everyone else to be happy, which is why she pretends to be crippled, saying that she had tried to kill herself and then was too afraid to do so at the very last moment. All because her existence was causing others to act so horribly. Because of this, she was so happy to be able to spend time with everyone at the karaoke bar. She was so happy to be accepted by everyone with no strings attached, to have friends who wouldn't turn against her and hurt her feelings over and over again and then force her to spend days cooped up inside her room trying to avoid everyone.
But that's a lie. Rei would never want friends. Rei would never need friends.
All she needs is her revenge, and the abilities to keep it going. Just for her mama and papa.
[Abilities]
As it can be inferred from how dependent her Xanatos Plots are on her abilities, Rei is a ridiculously powerful hypnotist (as proven with what she was able to make Mitsuki and the rest of the Wolves do) with an uncanny ability to track people who she considers liars down. She uses her hypnotism to her advantage to control others into doing her own dirty work, and makes herself "innocent" of having committed any crime like so.
In order to make her hypnotism actually work (and to keep her little wolves from going on murderous rampages when it is not really convenient), Rei uses both sound triggers and very specific keywords which, when used in conjunction and in a certain order, will make anybody under her control slip into becoming completely murderous. First off, in order to "switch on" her hypnotism, Rei utilizes a cellphone's text message ringtone--which I imagine can be replaced with any other kind of sound, like an alarm clock or even a song. The person who is under her control will act as they would normally after this is done (unless she is there to directly give orders), and if nothing is done to set off the second trigger, it will wear off after a certain period of time. The second trigger, however, is a very specific phrase which must be spoken in these exact words:
"For the one I love."
Once both triggers are set off, the person under Rei's hypnotism will move into killing mode, and will effectively begin to start chopping heads off left and right. After they are done and slipped out of their Wolf persona, they will not remember a single thing after they heard the second trigger.
Still, Rei is not able to hypnotize every single person she meets. Her abilities aren't magic. Instead, for her to be able to do anything with anyone, they must meet one or more of these requirements:
- Those who are emotionally weak or depressed, especially if it’s to the point of losing their will to live.
- Those that are manipulated and persuaded easily.
- Those who have been struck by the grief of losing someone very dear to them or have been hurt by "love".
However, even if these requirements are met, as proven with Mitsuki, Rei's hypnotism can be canceled out temporarily if the would-be victim is someone who the Wolf loves. But even then, this can be easily adverted by the first trigger being set of and the victim themselves speaking the phrase which turns their attacker murderous.
All in all, Rei is a lying, cheating, manipulative yangire with the abilities to actually act out on the whole "I HATE EVERYONE EVER" thing.
[Other important stuff] Even though she's from the end of the manga, in order to keep her ~swag~ going, Rei's going to pretend to be a crippled again, so! She will be using a wheelchair around Somarium like a good little crippled loli.
[Sample post]
( note! rei is a filthy liar. first person answers will all be equally as filthy lies. yep. 8) )
[First Person]
( If you could go back home, would you? Why or why not? )
I-- I don't know... I'd like to go back home, b-but, ah... I don't think anybody would want me there.
( Do you stand up against authority, go against all odds, and if you could, pierce the heavens with your fighting spirit? If not, would you if you could? )
I, I, um, I... I'm sorry. I don't think that's something I could ever do...!
( You're asked to take someone out for a date. Do you agree? If so, describe what you would do. If not, tell why. )
Oh, that's... I think it would be better if I declined... Nobody would want to be seen out on a date with someone like me, I think. N-Not unless it was a joke...
( Murder. What is your opinion? )
It's... Horrible. Nobody deserves to be killed, if-- if they haven't done anything wrong...
( You discover someone stalking you. Do you call the police or deal with it yourself? )
I-I'll call the police...! S-- Stalkers are dangerous, a-and I... I don't want to go through something so scary again...
( There is a cake in the rain. What do you do? )
I... I'd leave it there? I-It's not my cake...
( Do you prefer adventure or the peaceful life? )
A peaceful life... I don't know what kind of adventure I could go on, n-not like this.
[Third Person]
Now, Rei wasn't one to drink caffeine ( much less coffee) in the middle of the night, preferring the sweetness of soft drinks over the bitterness that usually accompanied the latter at such hours. She wasn't one to get ready in the middle of the night and head into the most crowded parts of town--but this was a special occasion. Despite the media spreading panic at the general public becoming more and more wary of games such as Rabbit Doubt, Rei could still feel a sense of accomplishment lingering in the air. One only she could feel and reward herself for achieving.
But, of course, there were still a few loose strings to take care of. A few issues to sort out before she can finally give herself the proverbial pat in the back.
She sits near one of the windows in a dainty little café somewhere in the middle of the providence's busier streets, glancing outside as she taps her fingers against the wooden table to some rhythm she couldn't place at the moment. Regardless of how many people had died the other day, everyone would still continue to swarm around minding their own business and none other. It was only human nature, after all--and she was fine with that. All of her pieces had been set, and now all she needed to do was do a little pest control and the only evidence of her existence back in that place would be gone. Just like that.
"Hello! Good evening, miss! Are you ready to order?"
For now, however, she still had a role to play before she could relax. An act to keep up before she made that one final phone call and ended it all.
Dragging herself out of her thoughts, Rei finally diverts her eyes from the window to look at the waitress standing next to her, waiting to take her order. She smiles politely, just slipping the right amount of awkwardness into her posture, before speaking up. "I, um... Y-Yes," she replies, slowly, carefully, making herself seem like another slightly off-guard customer. "Just a coffee, if you could..."
Naturally, the waitress only nods at this, saying something along the lines of right away and then walking away from the table. Once she's sufficiently far away, Rei purses her lips and pulls her cellphone out of her skirt's pocket, flipping it open with ease and glancing at the time. It was the right time for visiting hours to still be accessible to him, and just the right amount of early for the other one to be attempting to find what he would never be able to.
Perhaps, this is the right moment.
Sighing softly, suppressing a smirk that was attempting to show itself on her face, she proceeds to scroll down her contacts list and pick a certain number from it. Should all things so according to her plans, it would finally be the time for the lying wolf's final act.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] Because I miss playing Rei and I miss Somarium. Poo. :(
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Um, playercest! I used to get very annoyed at some of my old games when players had CR with themselves, which was... Weird.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Don’t remember, mang.
[Any questions?] Juuust to make sure; things like wheelchairs are something that can be obtainable in Somarium, right?
[Age] 16
[Personal Journal]
euphoriant[Other characters currently played] n/a!
[Character name] Rei Hazama
[Age] Unspecified. Due to various things mentioned around in canon and the compared appearances of all the main characters, I assume she's around 16-years-old.
[Canon] Doubt
[Point in time taken from canon] Post-canon.
[Background]
Once upon a time, Rei was a star. She was the protagonist of a hit hypnotism show named "Saimin Shoujo", known throughout all of Japan, and praised for her talents. Her parents were always supportive of her, staying behind her in every step along with her fans. Life was like a dream to Rei. It simply couldn't get better.
So, naturally, it got worse.
Like every other hype in the world, the hype that had raised Saimin Shoujo to fame soon disappeared, and along with it went the praise and admiration Rei had gotten so used to having. As soon as the hype died, everyone around her did a complete turnaround in their attitude toward her. Instead of being called talented, Rei was called a liar, and soon even those who were her most loyal fans began to harass her. Her home and school were vandalized with graffiti that displayed enlightening messages such as "go home, you disgusting liar" and so on, and even her notebooks and assigned desk at school were taken and ruined by her so-called friends.
The media being the media would just find ways to twist her words around to her disadvantage, and Rei suddenly found herself having every single word she said ignored and question after question shoved her way. Eventually, she would have to seclude herself to avoid further harassment from the media and those around her, and her parents would continue to protect her without a single complaint from their part. One day, however, much to Rei's confusion and excitement, they told her to get ready as they were going out for the first time in a very long time. Understandably, her excitement promptly died once she realized her parents were planning on committing family suicide, seconds after they had proceeded to drive their car off the nearest bridge.
Her parents were declared dead on impact, and poor, little fortunate Rei was the only survivor.
Still, there is no such thing as a personal life for those who are famous, and still carrying the guilt from surviving and mourning her parents death, Rei had no other choice than to go ahead and film the last episode of Saimin Shoujo. According to what the media would report and what her agency would say to the public, she had simply decided to take a break, even though that was the farthest thing from the truth and her show had been canceled. But that was alright. It was completely fine by her, because she would go in front of the cameras, dressed in her usual outfit and sporting her usual smile, and use the hypnotism everyone had called fake to take revenge for her parents who had been pushed over the edge. Using the hypnotism everyone had mocked her for, she would then destroy the life of everyone who driven her parents to suicide by placing a hypnotic message in this last episode--one that would only affect those who, just like her, had lost somebody they loved.
Fast forward to three years later, when an online game played through mobile phones known as "Rabbit Doubt" has become extremely popular in Japan.
As with all online groups of friends, there comes a moment when they would all want to meet face-to-face, and that is exactly what a small group of five decides to do. Five players of this game (Yuu Aikawa, Haruka Akechi, Eiji Hoshi, Hajime Komaba and, of course, Rei Hazama) decide to get together one day to meet and deepen their online friendship. Although Hajime couldn't show up, as he had texted Haruka to tell everyone he wouldn't be able to make it in time due to university work, the four of them meet up on the street before relocating to a karaoke bar, accompanied by Yuu's childhood friend, Mitsuki Houyama. After a series of events, in which Yuu inadvertently scares Eiji away and saves Rei from being pressured into a date with him, Rei decides to reveal to Yuu that she was once Saimin Shoujo--something her meek and shy persona went to great efforts to hide in fear of being rejected by everyone around her again. Yuu, although initially surprised by the revelation, agrees to keep it a secret from everyone else and forms a sort of "bond" with Rei.
Unfortunately for both of them, Eiji was still standing around the corner and overheard the whole conversation--not that this was a particularly bad development for Rei. In fact, once Eiji spilled everything after being prompted by a jealous Mitsuki to do so, all it really did was boost the group's sympathetic view of her. To them, Rei was now a crippled little girl that had nearly been pushed to suicide due to the media's pressure, and that was not something she minded at all. Not really.
It is sometime after this point that they, too absorbed in their own amusement to notice the impending danger, are all kidnapped and taken to an abandoned hospital.
The first victim is none other than Rei. She's pinned against the wall with a stake impaled into her chest and held up only by her hands, both of which had also been impaled as well. Her wheelchair and stuffed rabbit have been completely destroyed, and her blood had been used to write messages on both the wall and floor. Naturally, upon discovering such a scene, both Mitsuki and Yuu proceed to freak the fuck out before running out of the room where Rei's corpse was hung and inadvertently locking the door behind them. After the whole group is reunited, along with Hajime who had been assaulted at a different location, they revisit Rei's room (wasting one of their five available bar-code, which are used to open locked doors) and realize just what kind of situation they are in. They were playing now playing a real life version of Rabbit Doubt, and would need to find the lying wolf in order to survive. They would need to find which one of their companions was Rei's murderer.
But of course, how could they suspect that Rei's murderer was no other than herself?
Using that hypnotic message she had placed in the final episode of Saimin Shoujo, Rei had planned all of this, as well as several other games that had taken the lives of other Rabbit Doubt players across the country--this was her revenge. Using those viewers who were affected by her hypnotism, replacing their grief for a thirst for revenge, Rei handpicked sessions of Rabbit Doubt where most (if not all) of the players involved were what she deemed filthy liars, and then had them all killed by the person who was currently hypnotized by her.
This is exactly what had happened to Mitsuki, whose hypnotism had been triggered several times through their game by a combination of cellphone ringtones and a very specific phrase. However, Rei wasn't the kind to want to be involved firsthand in such an unsightly thing, so she simply faked her death using a convincing body double. From there on, she watched how her beautiful game of Rabbit Doubt unfolded from behind the scenes, enjoying as every single one of the filthy liars who had been allowed to live when her parents were dead died before her eyes. She watched as suspicion overtook everyone and they all fell apart on their own, just according to her plans.
But, there was one little thing that diverged from her original plans. One little pest.
That is, the fact that Mitsuki loved Yuu more than she had ever loved her own parents, and this threw quite the wrench in her plans. Not only was Rei's hypnotism over Mitsuki weakened whenever she was near Yuu, but even though she had quickly adjusted her plans to isolate Yuu instead of having Mitsuki murder him (as Mitsuki couldn't even place a barcode on him when prompted to, nevermind murdering him), her hand was forced and she had no other choice than to reveal herself to him along with her role in everything that had just taken place. With a smile on her face, Rei explained everything to Yuu. She told him how she had been embittered by her mother and father's death and now sought revenge, as well as how Mitsuki had lost her will to live after her father committed suicide to escape debt and had come to seek her out on her own. After all was said and done, Rei opened the final door for Yuu and a currently unconscious Mitsuki, and fled the scene after anonymously calling the police.
Of course, even though there was nobody on Earth who would believe that Mitsuki had been hypnotized into committing such heinous acts, Rei couldn't afford to leave witnesses; not when her only means of covering up evidence of her being at the abandoned hospital was by sending one of her wolves on the forensics team to conveniently obfuscate her tracks. Using the very same wolf she had on forensics to get rid of Hajime after he had insisted to revisit the scene of the crime, Rei then called Yuu on a cellphone she had planted in Mitsuki's room at the hospital, and he was just the right amount of stupid to pick it up despite what she had explained to him last time they spoke. She spoke to him lightly, mocking and teasing him with Hajime's death and the fact that she had been the one to actually rescue them by calling the police, before tricking him into saying a very specific phrase.
That is, "for the one I love."
Poor, unfortunately genre blind Yuu hadn't even began to comprehend that said phrase, in conjunction with a cellphone's ringtone would cause Mitsuki to become quite literally an unstoppable killing machine, before his best friend had woken up and grabbed a knife that had been left in the stand next to her bed. Although he was, unsurprisingly, horrified, Rei simply giggled over the phone and said her goodbyes to him. She told him this would be the last time they would ever speak, and hung up, just in time to avoid hearing him be stabbed to death by Mitsuki.
Paying her check, now in a much brighter mood after finishing her work, Rei left the café she was currently in. Even if she should die, the game of Rabbit Doubt will always go on without her.
[Personality]
Shy, timid and polite to strangers. This is the ruse Rei Hazama prefers to show to strangers.
Truth to be told, Rei is (for lack of better words) a manipulative bitch. As a former actress and idol, Rei knows just how to both please a crowd and make herself unremarkable. She is capable of changing personalities in the blink of an eye and knows how to toy with the emotions of others, saying the correct words to worm her way into having them trust her and then promptly stabbing them in the back without having them even know it was her when they are of no further use to her. In a way, this is very much like what the public did to her and her dear mama and papa, and Rei wouldn't have it any other way. An eye for an eye, as they would say.
To Rei, everyone around her is expendable. They are nothing more than filth--and if her parents weren't allowed to lead long and content lives, then why should anyone else? Even her wolves, and even herself, don't deserve to live happily in her eyes, and so Rei works her little games to make sure everyone feels the same kind of suffering that pushed her parents over the edge. Although she is a bit softer with those who share the same suffering she did (the pain of losing someone they loved), giving them the opportunity to find relief for their feelings of loss in revenge just as she did they are only tools to her in the end, and she makes this quite clear when she offhandedly remarks how pitiable it was that one of her previous wolves died and when she ends up causing Mitsuki to kill her best friend anyway, not feeling the slightest bit of pity for her plight.
She is very much like a spoiled brat with the mentality of not letting others be happy when her whole life has been ruined--and this is something she acknowledges.
Of course, Rei is very intelligent. She is able to formulate plans on the spot, quickly making adjustments when she realizes that she wouldn't be able to kill Yuu while at the abandoned hospital, as well as being behind the string of teenage disappearances in Japan for the last couple of months, all of them due to her games of Rabbit Doubt. She is not a genius by any means, but she has enough wit and a quick tongue to improvise and figure out new ways to keep her revenge going. This is what makes Rei so frightful to those who have had the opportunity to glance at her real self.
Clearly, however, this isn't something she would want anybody to see. She doesn't want anyone other than herself to know how bitter she is over her whole and how over the edge she, herself, has been driven by watching everyone around her betray her and her parents--so she plays a role. Just like the actress she was pampered into being for years, Rei covers up what a horrible person she truly is by adopting various facades that would make others trust and confide in her, two of which we have been shown in canon.
The first, a simple and kind facade which she uses to dismiss a waitress at the café she was in by the end of the story when asked if she was Saimin Shoujo. She smiles her best smile, giggles as goodhearted as possible and politely tells this waitress that, no, she was simply confusing her for somebody she was not. After all--she wasn't Saimin Shoujo anymore, was she?
Now, the second facade is her favorite, and the one we are shown in the canon the most (as well as the one she will utilize in Somarium). She is soft spoken, withdrawn, and stutters hideously around those she isn't familiar with or when she feels nervous. She becomes flustered easily, becoming unsure of how to react properly when somebody asks her out of a date or when she's called cute, and does nothing to keep herself from being verbally harassed by other, even needing Haruka and Yuu's intrusion in her conversations with Eiji to keep him from pressuring her into a date. Even though she is quick to become flustered and withdrawn in an uncomfortable situation, she is never impolite and more often than not finds herself being dragged into conversations she does not wish to take part of or pressed into doing things she doesn't want to.
Naturally, the best of lies are those composed of half-truths, and as someone who has spent years manipulating others in order to avenge her parents, this is something Rei knows. As such, even with this meek personality she takes on, there are some aspects of Rei that remain thinly veiled. She still goes to lengths to hide the fact that she is Saimin Shoujo, only admitting it to Yuu when she felt the opportunity was right and not meeting his eyes once as she confessed, supposedly too scared to see what his reaction would be. Even when playing her role, she still laments the death of her parents and even shows just the tiniest bit of her bitterness, remarking that the reason for Rabbit Doubt's mascot being a hung rabbit is to set an example. To show the wolf in the game what its future will be, which if very much what happens to those that play her version of Rabbit Doubt.
For Rei's persona, one of her biggest fears is being rejected as a "fake" once again. This is why she acts so withdrawn when she first confesses to Yuu, and why she is so quick to start crying when Eiji throws the truth of what the media had done to her in front of everyone. She is terrified of being alone, and wanted nothing more than for everyone else to be happy, which is why she pretends to be crippled, saying that she had tried to kill herself and then was too afraid to do so at the very last moment. All because her existence was causing others to act so horribly. Because of this, she was so happy to be able to spend time with everyone at the karaoke bar. She was so happy to be accepted by everyone with no strings attached, to have friends who wouldn't turn against her and hurt her feelings over and over again and then force her to spend days cooped up inside her room trying to avoid everyone.
But that's a lie. Rei would never want friends. Rei would never need friends.
All she needs is her revenge, and the abilities to keep it going. Just for her mama and papa.
[Abilities]
As it can be inferred from how dependent her Xanatos Plots are on her abilities, Rei is a ridiculously powerful hypnotist (as proven with what she was able to make Mitsuki and the rest of the Wolves do) with an uncanny ability to track people who she considers liars down. She uses her hypnotism to her advantage to control others into doing her own dirty work, and makes herself "innocent" of having committed any crime like so.
In order to make her hypnotism actually work (and to keep her little wolves from going on murderous rampages when it is not really convenient), Rei uses both sound triggers and very specific keywords which, when used in conjunction and in a certain order, will make anybody under her control slip into becoming completely murderous. First off, in order to "switch on" her hypnotism, Rei utilizes a cellphone's text message ringtone--which I imagine can be replaced with any other kind of sound, like an alarm clock or even a song. The person who is under her control will act as they would normally after this is done (unless she is there to directly give orders), and if nothing is done to set off the second trigger, it will wear off after a certain period of time. The second trigger, however, is a very specific phrase which must be spoken in these exact words:
"For the one I love."
Once both triggers are set off, the person under Rei's hypnotism will move into killing mode, and will effectively begin to start chopping heads off left and right. After they are done and slipped out of their Wolf persona, they will not remember a single thing after they heard the second trigger.
Still, Rei is not able to hypnotize every single person she meets. Her abilities aren't magic. Instead, for her to be able to do anything with anyone, they must meet one or more of these requirements:
- Those who are emotionally weak or depressed, especially if it’s to the point of losing their will to live.
- Those that are manipulated and persuaded easily.
- Those who have been struck by the grief of losing someone very dear to them or have been hurt by "love".
However, even if these requirements are met, as proven with Mitsuki, Rei's hypnotism can be canceled out temporarily if the would-be victim is someone who the Wolf loves. But even then, this can be easily adverted by the first trigger being set of and the victim themselves speaking the phrase which turns their attacker murderous.
All in all, Rei is a lying, cheating, manipulative yangire with the abilities to actually act out on the whole "I HATE EVERYONE EVER" thing.
[Other important stuff] Even though she's from the end of the manga, in order to keep her ~swag~ going, Rei's going to pretend to be a crippled again, so! She will be using a wheelchair around Somarium like a good little crippled loli.
[Sample post]
( note! rei is a filthy liar. first person answers will all be equally as filthy lies. yep. 8) )
[First Person]
( If you could go back home, would you? Why or why not? )
I-- I don't know... I'd like to go back home, b-but, ah... I don't think anybody would want me there.
( Do you stand up against authority, go against all odds, and if you could, pierce the heavens with your fighting spirit? If not, would you if you could? )
I, I, um, I... I'm sorry. I don't think that's something I could ever do...!
( You're asked to take someone out for a date. Do you agree? If so, describe what you would do. If not, tell why. )
Oh, that's... I think it would be better if I declined... Nobody would want to be seen out on a date with someone like me, I think. N-Not unless it was a joke...
( Murder. What is your opinion? )
It's... Horrible. Nobody deserves to be killed, if-- if they haven't done anything wrong...
( You discover someone stalking you. Do you call the police or deal with it yourself? )
I-I'll call the police...! S-- Stalkers are dangerous, a-and I... I don't want to go through something so scary again...
( There is a cake in the rain. What do you do? )
I... I'd leave it there? I-It's not my cake...
( Do you prefer adventure or the peaceful life? )
A peaceful life... I don't know what kind of adventure I could go on, n-not like this.
[Third Person]
Now, Rei wasn't one to drink caffeine ( much less coffee) in the middle of the night, preferring the sweetness of soft drinks over the bitterness that usually accompanied the latter at such hours. She wasn't one to get ready in the middle of the night and head into the most crowded parts of town--but this was a special occasion. Despite the media spreading panic at the general public becoming more and more wary of games such as Rabbit Doubt, Rei could still feel a sense of accomplishment lingering in the air. One only she could feel and reward herself for achieving.
But, of course, there were still a few loose strings to take care of. A few issues to sort out before she can finally give herself the proverbial pat in the back.
She sits near one of the windows in a dainty little café somewhere in the middle of the providence's busier streets, glancing outside as she taps her fingers against the wooden table to some rhythm she couldn't place at the moment. Regardless of how many people had died the other day, everyone would still continue to swarm around minding their own business and none other. It was only human nature, after all--and she was fine with that. All of her pieces had been set, and now all she needed to do was do a little pest control and the only evidence of her existence back in that place would be gone. Just like that.
"Hello! Good evening, miss! Are you ready to order?"
For now, however, she still had a role to play before she could relax. An act to keep up before she made that one final phone call and ended it all.
Dragging herself out of her thoughts, Rei finally diverts her eyes from the window to look at the waitress standing next to her, waiting to take her order. She smiles politely, just slipping the right amount of awkwardness into her posture, before speaking up. "I, um... Y-Yes," she replies, slowly, carefully, making herself seem like another slightly off-guard customer. "Just a coffee, if you could..."
Naturally, the waitress only nods at this, saying something along the lines of right away and then walking away from the table. Once she's sufficiently far away, Rei purses her lips and pulls her cellphone out of her skirt's pocket, flipping it open with ease and glancing at the time. It was the right time for visiting hours to still be accessible to him, and just the right amount of early for the other one to be attempting to find what he would never be able to.
Perhaps, this is the right moment.
Sighing softly, suppressing a smirk that was attempting to show itself on her face, she proceeds to scroll down her contacts list and pick a certain number from it. Should all things so according to her plans, it would finally be the time for the lying wolf's final act.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] Because I miss playing Rei and I miss Somarium. Poo. :(
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Um, playercest! I used to get very annoyed at some of my old games when players had CR with themselves, which was... Weird.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] Don’t remember, mang.
[Any questions?] Juuust to make sure; things like wheelchairs are something that can be obtainable in Somarium, right?