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WARNING! 
THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS, MILD GRAPHIC AND SEXUAL CONTENT AND CHILD ABUSE. Read at your discretion (If you wish to avoid skip History of Hikawa area)

History

Parents

-          Born in Japan, parents are from Sweden

-          Can speak English, Swedish and Japanese

-          Decent in school, was above average in some subjects, average in others

-          Was bullied a bit for looking like a foreigner

-          Favorite kid food was meatballs made by his mother, who made a secret special sauce with them

-          Parents lied about their jobs, claiming to be English teachers and computer technicians

-          Was often left alone due to his parents odd hours, would reheat a lot of leftovers or snack s his mom had made

-          Knew a couple of people from Hikawa as they would come over on occasion, but did not know they were a gang

-          Had found out about his parents death at school, was told it was a car accident

Hikawa

-          Was taken during the end of the funeral, a few weeks short of his tenth birthday

-          First killed someone at around ten and half years old: Had been starved for a few days before hand, then was given an order to kill someone that had been severely wounded, if he did he would have a meal every day for two weeks. He refused, his owner shot the person and punished Eric, then showed him someone else giving the order to kill them and be rewarded food every day for only a week this time, Eric killed them. Vomited immediately afterward and did not sleep for a couple of nights after, nor could keep any food down from his reward for long.

-          Lost his virginity before he was eleven years old, had been sexually assaulted by both men and women who worked for Hikawa

-          Became the best dog in the underworld by 12 years old

-          Was forced to drink alcohol on a few occasions so they could see what a child would act like drunk. After he vomited once on someone, they stopped

-          Never had any of the drugs but watched as others took them and has a fear of needles and pills because of it

-          Would wear a collar inside Hikawa’s house of operations and during meetings with other gangs, always meant to sit on the floor beside his owner, head down

-          Escaped only once. It was a test by Hikawa to see if he would run, he did. After meeting someone else and asking for help , Hikawa intervened immediately, killing the people that Eric had asked for help in front of him, Eric gave up trying to run away after that

-          Was giving field work by the age of 12, first with some supervision but after a while by himself, knowing that Eric had nothing to go to and would not ask for help or run away

-          Severe punishments would include being placed inside a crate, being whipped by bamboo, cigarette burns on sensitive areas of skin, electrocuted with tasers

-          During deals of partnerships with other gangs, Eric would be traded off for up to 2 days as a means of good faith to the other gang, the other leader doing whatever they pleased to Eric as long as he wasn’t hurt enough to miss more work

 

Homra

-          Took 6 months for Eric to eat 3 meals a day on a regular basis, but still needed to be reminded for a long time after that

-          Eric was not well received at first by the other people of Homra after learning how he had joined, Dewa and Yata the most suspicious of him.

-          Was allowed to join missions after 3 months, but immediate retraction of this after Eric killed people during a mission when they were not going to do so

o   Was given computer information duty so that he would still feel a part of the gang, was taught by Chitose and Shouhei mainly, with some help with Dewa

o   Was allowed back onto missions but mostly placed as a guard for Totsuka and Anna and watched closely for any indication that he would fall back into Hikawa’s trainings

-          Stayed with Kusanagi for the beginning of his time, then couch hopped between him, the bar, (Though later on) Shouhei’s and Chitose’s

o   Was unable to stay at any place with a family setting. After trying to have him stay at Kamamoto’s place, Eric ran away and was unable to feel comfortable there

-          Fujishima moved out of his parents place in order for him to have an apartment with Eric so he could have a place to stay, Eric’s half was paid by Homra, as the gang has collected a lot of money from the gangs they have destroyed

-          Eric tried at the beginning to have everyone hate him, but it failed miserably

-          Was visited by a doctor that Kusanagi had Awashima send over from Scepter 4, so that no questions would be asked, as well as no papers would be recorded. He also helped get documents for Eric so that he had identification in case of anything

-          Eric knew a lot about other gangs and how some worked or where they were located, it took time, but Eric slowly began to help Kusanagi with this information to help out Homra

-          Eric took a long time getting used to his aura, Totsuka constantly having to be with him at the beginning due to the fact he would get scared and would burn himself and other things. His power is about average, and his control over it is above average. He never loses himself to the power like Shouhei has and keeps calm so he can manipulate the flames better than some of the other members

-          Was tutored alongside Anna by Kusanagi and Totsuka, though for a long time had to be taught by himself with them in order to catch up to Anna. His reading and writing were very grade school, his writing being the worst. Especially for English because it was rarely practiced.

-          Totsuka normally dragged Eric into his hobbies because he never liked to do a lot of things and it was a way for Eric to stay busy when the others weren’t around

-          Doing Totsuka’s hobbies allowed Eric to experience things for the first time and became an avid fan of learning and becoming interested in the world more

-          Eric began taking an interest in TV and movies. It helped put some noise in the background if he was having an episode and slowly he began to enjoy movies. His favorite are animated ones and frequently goes to the theatre with Anna and a few other Homra members to see the newest animated movie

-          He dislikes and is uninterested in gory and horror movies, as they are unrealistic and he does not believe in the supernatural such as ghosts. Real life is more terrifying

-          Kusanagi taught Eric how to run the bar, being a waiter and all around aide of the bar, to teach him some experience in case he needed to get a job. Also paid him an allowance so that he  would be able to support himself

-          Eric’s first birthday with Homra was an exquisite event, where they created a three layer cake or different flavours to find out which one Eric liked best for his next birthday, many gifts of small and large things, and Totsuka showing Eric a smaller cake. This cake would represent one year of his birthday that had not been celebrated previously. And he will receive a second cake every year until all of his birthdays are caught up.

-          Things he learned from Homra: Swimming, cooking, biking, manners, using technology, schooling,

After Mikoto’s Death

-          Became a selective mute, feeling heavy with the loss of Totsuka and Mikoto and Homra slowly separating it was hard for Eric to speak more so then usual

-          Spent most of his time with Fujishima and Anna with some time with Kamamoto and his family. These were times when Anna was also visiting and during New Years. It was also when he was more settled down and not on edge over family like settings

-          Eric spent his 2^nd birthday out of Hikawa with only Fujishima. However on a later day, Chitose, Shouhei, Kamamoto and Anna threw him a small party to help him still have a good birthday. Chitose purchased the second cake for his missed birthdays, as Totsuka had once done

-          Helped maintain the bar along with Dewa and Yata

-          Only began to properly speak again after Anna became King and Homra began to come back together

 

Behaviours and Habits

-          Is not afraid of dying, but wishes to protect anyone he cares about from dying

-          Is a softie (if not awkward) with children. He doesn’t want any of them to suffer and go through what he has gone through.

-          Nervous habits: Fidgeting with either his sleeves or the bottom of his hoodie, pulling his hair. In extreme cases, biting his hands or arms, digging his fingernails into the palms of his hand to draw blood,  or yanking his hair out hard and drawing blood, will become as small as possible

-          Has a hard time remembering things that happened before he joined Hikawa. Happy memories would only make his situation seem worse, and in order to cope he forgot a lot about his parents and his childhood. Because of this being near families or parents gets him on edge and can cause flashbacks which cause Eric pain, as he never had time to truly mourn his parent’s death

-          Also has a hard time remembering certain aspects of Hikawa but for different reasons. In order to cope with a lot of what he was seeing and doing, Eric would shut himself down in an auto-mode and would not come out of it for up to a few hours after the deed has been done

-          This causes issues as memories would come back of what he has forgotten and relives moments of him killing a lot of people

-          For a long time, Eric has trouble sleeping in a regular bed and either used the floors or couches

-          Eric has a very difficult time adjusting to Homra, and if pushed too far would snap and either revert to a shutdown phase or leave the premises. If he was followed too soon he would become violent but would come back eventually

-          Needs to sleep with the door open and with a night light, or else there’s a stronger chance of him believing he is back in his room in Hikawa

-          He has a defense mechanism similar to his auto mode when it comes to killing, and it’s his shut down mode that still follows orders, but blocks out what might be happening to his body, allowing him to accept the beatings or assault he would be receiving. This activates a few times in his time with Homra, but the members learn how to deal with it and to not have it activate

-          Eric doesn’t have a good self-preservation or self-care, he ignores injures even if they might be serious, as he is used to feeling pain and learned to push through it regardless of how grave the injuries are

-          Eric’s favorite food is curry, anything that is very flavourful, as he was use to eating bland scarps or nothing at all

 

Hobbies

-          Through everything, Eric has taken up both cooking and photography as a hobby and jobs. Both of these were started because of Totsuka

-          For cooking, he was taught with the help of Totsuka, Kusanagi and Kamamoto to help him get used to food, similar how they got Anna to eat. This way if he was hungry, he would be able to make something for himself. It didn’t help as much as they thought it would, but it helped enough

-          Anna and Eric would often have mini cooking times together, especially if it was to bake sweets for the whole of Homra

-          For photography, at first he was giving a camera as a present and took pictures of animals that Fujishima frequently collected, so that neither of them would ever forget the ones they had saved. After Totsuka passing and Anna becoming the new King, Eric began to photography pieces of landscape and occasionally people

-          Kusanagi used some connections of his to create a small photo exhibit for Eric’s best, seeing quality in them