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OOC Information
Player Name: Rachel
Player Age: 21
Player Contact: aziraphale @ plurk
Player/Character HMD: Here.
Other characters in game: Hermione Granger

IC Information
Character Name: Rei Hazama
Character Canon: Doubt
Character Age/Gender: 17 / Female
Canon Point: Post-Canon

Character Canon History:

When Rei was younger she was a star – a highlight of Japanese television, her show ridiculously famous. The show itself – ‘Saimin Shoujo’ was based around hypnotism and Rei was the master behind it all. Everything seemed to be going wonderfully for the young girl; she had fame, the love of her parents, friendships and a future that seemed perfect. Until, of course, it all went wrong – doesn’t it always?

Eventually, speculation arose and Rei was accused of faking her entire act, hypnotism being fake, the entire set up being nothing more than a ploy to try and trick the public. Her friends turned on her, drawing graffiti on her schoolbooks, her desk and her home, the press shaming her in papers and on television, forcing her into reclusiveness. Rei lost the acceptance and praise she was used to, having her parents keeping her away to protect her.

Her parents continued to protect her even as the press hounded her and twisted her words to make her seem like some kind of evil child. One day, it all became too much for her family and, telling their daughter they were going for a drive, her parents tried to commit familial suicide. Her parents were dead as soon as the car drove off the bridge and it was a miracle that Rei survived. She was ‘lucky’.

Filming the last episode of Saimin Shoujo, Rei became a recluse and disappeared from the world of television. She told her 'fans‘ that she had taken a break – but, in reality, she was using one last blast of hypnotism to try and capture people to take her vengeance. Her hypnotism was different this time, however: this time she only hypnotised the people that had lost someone they loved or had been betrayed and it was that that began Rei’s vengeance.

A few years later, Rei met up with a group of friends that had met online playing a game entitled ‘Rabbit Doubt’. They go to sing together and, of course, her secret comes out – that she was the old Saimin Shoujo, the hypnotism girl, and that she had never had any real friends. She was a shy, broken girl that was accepted into the group without any second thoughts, eventually admitting that she had ‘tried to kill herself’ by walking in front of a bus – which was how she ended up in her wheelchair. All lies.

Then, they woke up in an abandoned warehouse and Rei was dead, pinned to a wall with stakes in her wrists and chest. Or was she?

While the game of Rabbit Doubt went on (a group of innocent ‘rabbits’ trying to find the murderous ‘wolf’ in their pack) Rei was working behind the scenes, already having a set of wolves in place to help her take her vengeance, one by one. By doing so Rei was able to hypnotise Mitsuki, a young girl who had lost her father and was desperate to find mutual love with Yuu, into becoming a cold blooded killer. She had tricked Mitsuki into thinking her father was alive, and that Rei was her father. The only setback? Yuu seemed to be able to break Rei’s hypnotism, forcing her to take extreme actions. One by one, the group that had met up to hang out died, leaving only Yuu and Mitsuki alive.

Rei re-entered the warehouse and explained to Yuu what her plan was and what happened, phoning the police as she left. Later, in the hospital, Yuu received a phone call – and it’s Rei once more. She tells him that the police that had gone to investigate the warehouse would find no evidence of her, seeing as she had a wolf in the investigation team that killed all her witnesses. She then tricked Yuu into saying Mitsuki’s trigger words – ‘for the one I love’ – and that lead to the girl murdering Yuu in her hospital room. Rei, in a café a long distance away, continued to drink her tea in peace, content that more of her plans were going well.

Character Personality:

Rei has two distinctly different personalities – her real one and her ‘fake’ one that she uses to lure people into her trap for vengeance.

Rei’s fake persona is based around her disability: her wheelchair. She presents herself as a girl that is very, very shy and finds it incredibly hard to make friends because of the fact that she finds it ‘hard to be in crowds’. Her shyness is a construct that helps her avoid having to be around too many people until she is completely ready to use her hypnotic talents and her distinct ability to lie to her advantage. Not many people are willing to hurt or attack a girl in a chair and she uses that to her advantage; she uses it to get close to people, dig out their ‘lies’ and use it against them.

This shyness creates a problem in her speech, giving her problems with stuttering – which, of course, the readers know is fake but seems incredibly real to anyone that meets her. She is an accomplished actress and uses this to her advantage, putting on a soft spoken voice to encourage people to be soft, kind and sweet with her. This leads to her being a ‘cute’ young girl that makes it easy for people to like her, dressing sweetly and speaking sweetly, her entire persona one that would trap people into friendship with her. By creating this persona she is quick to withdraw, hide herself away from people, and this gives her an excuse to hide herself away and shrink back from people – which gives her time to think, understand and consider the people she’s forced to interact with.

She also presents herself as being an extremely lonely girl without any friends. One of the foremost reasons that her friends ‘befriended’ her was because she expressed how sad and lonely she was – how she found it hard to make friends because of her distasteful past. She made up a false background, making up a story about how she walked in front of a bus because she was ashamed of being alive. That was why, in her false past, she was in a wheelchair – because she chickened out at the last minute and was paralysed instead.

Rei uses this backstory and her innocence to create sympathy for herself, allowing her to have better access to people to manipulate them with more ease. By creating an image of a girl that has very little to her name, a rather broken personality and a shyness that breaks her and leaves her unable to make friends she is able to draw people close to her, draw out their histories and learn about their pasts – then she is able to put her game of ‘Doubt’ into play, letting her have vengeance on the people that lie, betray and hurt others.

In reality, Rei is a completely different person.

Rather than being shy, sweet and cute, she is instead a vindictive, hyper intelligent young woman that is driven by revenge and a desire to keep the memory of her suicidal mother and father fresh. Her entire life is driven by her need to honour their memory and give them attention, casting a dark eye on the people that lied and cheated and hurt others – just like the people that hurt her parents so much that they were driven to suicide.

Her intelligence is one of the foremost factors of her real persona, giving her the ability to create and enact plans that lead to mass murder without being detected. The foremost reason for this is the fact that she is thoughtful enough to make sure she has ‘wolves’ in the police and investigation departments, looking out for her interests and making sure no shred of her own DNA is found in any of her murder scenes. She is also intelligent enough to know just how to manipulate people’s thoughts so that the people she wants to die first do – which is what lead her to giving the entire group in the series barcodes apart from Yuu. This way, she would generate distrust in him and, hopefully, break the link he had with Mitsuki so her wolf wouldn’t be damaged.

To say Rei was callous would be an understatement; she doesn’t care about anyone at all, other than herself and the memory of her dead mother and father. To her, people are expendable, a means to an end, nothing more than little toys in her grand schemes. Left somewhat broken after the death of her family she became cold hearted and somewhat vindictive, wanting nothing more than to take her revenge on the people that had caused her so much pain and suffering – the liars that called her a fake, the people that dismissed her powers and the ‘friends’ that destroyed the happiness of her school life. In her mind, these people are pawns, most of whom need to die and be punished for their sins, and so they’re nothing more than meat ready to be killed.

No one, in Rei’s eyes, deserves happiness due to what happened to her parents. People caused her parents’ lives to be destroyed and ended and so, in turn, she feels that the rest of the world deserves the same fate, the same short lives. She takes the people that had been hurt, just as she was, and uses their pain and torment to break the people they love, to punish the people that she thinks are nothing more than liars and traitors. That is the foremost reason for death at Rei’s hands: if you’re a liar, a cheat or hurt someone you love then you deserve to die, and Rei takes a form of sick pleasure out of using the people that have been hurt to take that revenge. It’s allowing her to punish the people that ‘killed’ her parents over and over.

While Rei may have once been a happy, carefree young actress that felt blessed by the talent she was given, the things that happened to her when she was younger has twisted her into becoming sociopathic, wanting nothing more than the death of people that she feels are somehow mentally or spiritually connected to the people that hurt her and her family. Her life ambition is to punish those people and she is the mastermind behind a string of missing teenagers across Japan – all of whom have been little toys in her twisted, murderous games of Rabbit Doubt.

Character Abilities:

Rei has the power of hypnotism which, based on her history, appears to be quite strong. It was powerful enough for her to be able to hypnotise people for a long-standing television career and was believable until someone dared to criticise her. Her talents lie, mostly, in mind control rather than, perhaps, telepathy or other kind of hypnotic or psychic powers and it was this that she used on her television show.

 

The real strength of her hypnotism lies in the control of people that she can relate to - that is people that have lost someone they love or have been betrayed or lied to. There doesn't seem to be any real limits to this control and the people that are under her hypnotism have no idea that they're being controlled and ordered to do things. The only obstacle to it is something that is completely out of her control: when some kind of other overwhelming emotion contests her hypnotism sometimes it falters (such as overwhelming, pure love, in the case of Mitsuki). This hypnotism was so powerful that she was able to take control of hundreds of people across Japan using her television show, simply because they were suffering emotionally.

The nature of her means of controlling people is unknown, but it appears to stem from eyecontact and her 'reaching out' with her emotional 'feelers' to find people and then use their emotions against them to control and manipulate them, bending them to her will.
 

Character Inventory: Her wheelchair, two cell phones, a large, stuffed rabbit.
Samples: Interaction samples.

‘For the one I love’.

 

It was perfect; all of it was perfect. This game of Doubt had gone exactly to plan and it thrilled Rei far more than she could ever express; the punishment of the liars, the power that Mitsuki had to hurt those that had betrayed her, the vengeance they’d both taken – it was the thing that drove her, that continued to drive her, and thrilled her to her core.

 

She pondered to herself whether or not she should continue to use her ‘wheelchair’ act: people might begin to link her to things, even though she had covered all her tracks, her wolves destroying the evidence and killing the people that dared live through her game. Still, she was still famous, well known, and if people began to talk about how Saimin Shoujo was in a wheelchair and hanging out with people again… It wouldn’t end well for her. For anyone.

 

But for now, sitting in her favourite little café, sipping tea and fiddling idly with her cell phone, Rei felt at peace. She felt content, the way she always did after a game went well for her – the memory of her mother and father awakening a slightly softer side to her, if only for a moment. It was as though she could feel them beside her, feel how proud of her they were – how proud that she was punishing the liars, carrying out their vengeance on all the people that dared say anything to hurt the people that they loved. It was the ultimate bliss for her and she couldn’t remember feeling this content – at least, not after her parents’ deaths.

 

Rei wondered if she should start a new game; another set of liars coddled together with her precious little wolves, playing a game and trying to work out who was punishing them for their dirtiness. She could slip into another ‘gang’ online easily enough, make a new name, perhaps, and begin again – she could even take Mitsuki with her. She could do this for as long as she wanted, until the police picked up on the links between Rabbit Doubt and the people dying – the people she saw as being punished, finally, for their hideous lies.

 

The police were morons, however, and Rei was smart. She could keep her games going for years, digging up all the people that hurt her precious wolves and giving them the punishment they were due. All she had to do was wait, plan and perfect each ‘game’ until all the liars were dead. And why?

 

Because the liar must die.