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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Five Hargreeves, “Number Five”
Canon: The Umbrella Academy
Canon Point: Season 1 Episode 10

In-Game Tattoo Placement: this one! on his bicep
Current Health/Status: Alive/In good health, although recovering from a bullet wound to the gut.
Age: Body: 13, Mind: 58
Species: Human? I'm guessing he's human but that's still not confirmed

Content Warnings: Murder/Assassinations, child abuse/neglect, suicide, violence.

History: (The wiki is horrible, so here u go!)

On October 1, 1989, 43 children were born to mothers who weren't pregnant the day before. These children possess superpowers. An eccentric billionaire, Reginald Hargreeves, goes around 'adopting' (paying off the moms for the children, really) the children. He manages to get seven of them. He raises them with the help of Grace, their robotic mom, and Pogo, a talking chimpanzee. But Reginald is a cold, harsh father. He raises them telling them that they'll be saving the world eventually, abusing them along the way to 'prepare' them. He doesn't even name them, calling them by numbers (Grace names them eventually). Vanya, Number Seven, was not born with powers, and is neglected and left out by the entire family. The rest of the kids form the Umbrella Academy, and together, they fight bad guys.

Five time jumps to the future and gets stuck in an apocalypse. He finds his dead siblings there, Luther holding a prosthetic eye, supposedly that belongs to whoever destroys Earth. He grows up, alone, and with only a mannequin to keep him company. Meanwhile, Ben dies (We still don't know how he died) in a horrible manner. In the apocalypse, the Handler arrives when Five's an adult. She says she's part of something called the Commission, a place that keeps track of the timeline and makes sure it stays on track. She recruits him as an assassin. He travels through time, killing whoever he has to.

In 2019, the siblings (sans Ben and Five) are all grown up and messed up. When their father dies, they gather to attend his funeral. Tensions are high, especially since Vanya wrote a juicy tell-all that aired all their dirty laundry. Five is about to shoot JFK, but has finished his equation to get home and tries it. He does end up home in 2019... as a little boy. His calculations were off. He doesn't reveal that the world is ending. They have the funeral, which turns into a circus. The next day, Five goes off to get coffee. The Commission found him, sending tons of guys to the donut shop to fight Five. He kills them all, and tears out the tracker in his arm. He goes to Vanya's apartment, telling her everything. She doesn't seem to believe him, so he leaves while she sleeps.

He convinces Klaus to help him investigate the eye. The eye hasn't been manufactured yet. Hazel and Cha-Cha from the Commission are after Five. When Five goes to the department store to retrieve Dolores, his mannequin girlfriend, Hazel and Cha-Cha try to kill him. He just barely gets out alive. Vanya, meanwhile, is having a romantic relationship with Leonard, a woodworker. He seems to believe in her more than anyone. Hazel and Cha-Cha attack the Academy, when Five's casing the eye place. They kidnap Klaus. Diego and Luther go searching for Five, and Diego tells Patch, a detective on the trail of Hazel and Cha-Cha, that his brother's missing. Diego and Luther find Five at the library, drunk as a skunk. They take him to Diego's. Meanwhile, Patch finds a clue that leads her to Hazel and Cha-Cha's hotel, and she tries to save Klaus. He crawls out the vent before she's killed. Five reveals his assassin job to Luther. He tells Luther and Diego about Hazel and Cha-Cha, and the Commission.

Klaus travels to Vietnam with Hazel and Cha-Cha's time-traveling briefcase and is a soldier. He falls in love with Dave before Dave's killed. Klaus travels back and destroys the briefcase. Five finds this out and bluffs to Hazel and Cha-Cha that he has the briefcase in exchange for a talk with the Handler. He makes a deal with her that he'll come work for her if he can save his family. He really is trying to save the day still, and he sends Hazel and Cha-Cha both messages to kill one another. The Handler shoots him, but he makes it back to 2019. He convinces his siblings to work with him, and he has the name of the person who causes the apocalypse after getting it from the Commission. Harold Jenkins. They figure out Harold Jenkins is Leonard, and try to find Vanya. Diego's arrested for Patch's murder. Allison goes to rescue Vanya. Five collapses and has to receive medical treatment for his wound.

Allison makes it to the cabin they're staying at and warns Vanya. They get into an argument. Vanya's remembered that she does have powers; her father just suppressed them out of fear of her. Allison realizes he made her an accomplice; he forced her to rumor (She can say 'I heard a rumor...' and get people to do things) Vanya into thinking she was ordinary. Vanya's angry, and when Allison tries to rumor her, Vanya slits her throat, not thinking. Leonard pulls away a devastated Vanya, taking her back to his home. The boys show up and save Allison in time, but she can't speak and is weak. Vanya kills Leonard when she realizes Allison was right. The siblings find Leonard/Harold dead, and assume the apocalypse is over. Five brings Dolores back to the department store, giving a heartfelt goodbye. Vanya returns to the Academy. Luther knocks her out and locks her up, to his other siblings' outrage. Vanya gets angry and breaks out, killing Pogo and destroying the Academy. Five hurries back, realizing Vanya has always been the bomb, Leonard was just the fuse.

With Pogo and Grace dead, the siblings (sans Vanya) hurry to a bowling place to think. The Handler sends Five a message and he goes to talk to her. Meanwhile, she sends soldiers from the Commission to kill his siblings. They run to the theater, where Vanya's taking part in a concert as 1st chair violinist. Her violin holds her power. Five realizes the Handler was just trying to distract him and meets them at the theater. The siblings fight the Commission baddies, then try to take Vanya down, to Allison's horror. Vanya holds them up with her powers, slowly killing them, and then Allison shoots a gun off by her ear. Vanya's power has to do with sound, so this knocks her out and stops her, though her power discharges into the moon, blowing it up and sending chunks flying down to Earth. Realizing they failed, Five says he'll take them all back to the beginning with his powers. They disappear, and that's season 1.


Personality:

At first glance, Five is nothing but a grumpy, brutal, ruthless assassin. But there's more beneath the surface, strengths that work in his favor. His number one strength is that he's loyal to his family. They're just better together, and Five does love his family despite his complaints, as shown when he sees their lifeless bodies in the apocalypse, his expression when he sees Allison bleeding out, and his insistence on keeping them alive and stopping the apocalypse. He's also incredibly smart, maybe almost to the point of genius, as shown by his complicated calculations to time travel to 2019. He understands a lot about time, physics, languages, and more that his family isn't aware of. This is a huge asset to him.

While he is all this, he is also curmudgeonly. A grumpy, antisocial old man who is maybe a little off with how closely he regards a mannequin. His time in the apocalypse changed him, for good and bad. He's less impulsive, thinks more on what to do, is smarter and better at fighting. But he also had to deal with that lonely, lonely landscape for decades. It's unclear if he thinks Dolores (his mannequin girlfriend) is really alive or not, but I think of her more of a coping tool that Five doesn't have the heart to admit isn't real. He did what he had to to survive, a pattern that he maintains when he joins the Commission. He admits to Luther that there was no code; he killed whoever they asked him to to maintain the timeline and get home to them.

At first, it's clear Five thinks his assassin life was justified, that he did what he had to, but that changes in the shootout with the Handler.

- You belong here with us.
- I don't belong anywhere, thanks to you! You made me a killer!

It's clear that his siblings have changed his opinion. The ends don't always justify the means, especially when it comes to your moral code. So his moral code is changing and evolving right now. He'll still kill, and for other people, for sure. But he'll kill only with purpose now. He doesn't want to be a puppet. He can also be quite a sarcastic fellow. He uses dark humor and grits out barbed threats to those around him. For example, when he tells Kenny's mom he'd rather chew off his own foot then go play with Kenny at his party.

When it comes to fears, he really is afraid of being alone, like during the apocalypse. It scarred him, being alone for that long. He wants his family, and yet he insists at keeping them at arm's length, unwilling to look inside and examine himself. With no apocalypse in Deerington, the goal will be for him to get out of Deerington, no matter what. No matter what siblings show up, he'll just change his plans to accommodate them.

Now, with relationships, we should be aware of a few important ones. Of course, the siblings are super important to Five. They're all he has, though he admits to feeling he's superior to them. They're all useless idiots, but they're his useless idiots. When he feels like claiming them, that is. He was especially close to Vanya and Ben growing up, it seems, which may be why he turned to Vanya first. Reginald is important. Five looked up to him, while simultaneously resenting him. Reginald always believed Five's appetite was bigger than his metaphorical stomach, when it comes to time jumping. And Five really wanted to try it. In fact, he jumps to the apocalypse accidentally right after a fight about that with Reggie. Like with the others, Reginald berated and lectured him, instead of providing love and attention.

I can't leave out Dolores. While there really... isn't a relationship, Five really imagines one. In his head, Dolores 'nags' him about his drinking and bad habits. They have fun (maybe a little too much fun), and he has elaborate details, like her favorite wine, or her favorite fashion pieces. It's interesting to me that his profile of her is so different and at opposition with his personality. So Five seems to like partners in life to challenge him. It's also good to note that Dolores kept him (mostly) sane, so she was a good coping tool (Five put her back in the department store and said goodbye, so we won't see her in Deerington.) Finally, the Handler, who shaped his adult life, who taught him to be brutal, without mercy. She taught him to be a killer, not just to survive. You can see that harshness in his personality, and I think the Handler played a small part in that. I should note that they do respect each other, though, both commenting on how smart the other is.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:

Powers

Spatial jumps: Five can jump from area to area using his powers. They're not always reliable, and sometimes he can't do it, especially if he's tired. Also, gonna quote the wiki here: “In addition to teleporting himself, he is able to teleport objects without physical contact, which is shown in a flashback in We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals, where he replaces a robber's gun with a stapler.”
Time jumps: Five can jump from time period to time period using his powers. He can go by seconds to decades at a time. They're not always reliable, especially if he's tired.

Warping

Laregly, I'd like to keep his powers the same, but have him tired when convenient. [Edit: Also warping them so that his teleporting can only get him within town and may go haywire during events. Also his time travel can only be used up to two hours.]

Abilities

Hand-to-hand: He's pretty good at hand-to-hand combat.
Skilled gunmanship: He's skilled at handling a variety of guns.
Skilled assassin: He's skilled at killing quickly and efficiently.

Weaknesses

Bull-headed: He's very stubborn about a lot of things, including stopping the apocalypse and saving his siblings.
Mean: He's unreasonably mean to his siblings, leaving out Vanya when they were kids, leaving out Klaus as adults.
Too wrapped up in own thoughts: He occasionally gets way too into his own thoughts that he underestimates people, like the Handler and Vanya.
PTSD: This can also be messed with, I'm fine with it. Five may have PTSD from his time in the apocalypse

Inventory:

Vanya's autobiography: A book written by his sister, covered in his calculations for time travel.
Gun: Handgun

Writing Samples:

Sample One

Five sits up in bed, grimacing at the old, stiff pain of his bullet wound. His shirt is already off, so he peels off the bandage to inspect the wound. Not bad, but it's getting inflamed. He stands to go to the medical kit he's collected, taking out some medicine and spreading it on the wound.

It's strange, to be alone with Klaus here. Of course the universe would leave him the most useless sibling. Klaus tries, but honestly, he fails. Whatever Five's going to do, he'll include Klaus, but he's not planning on him helping much.

His mouth is set in a grim line as he affixes a new bandage to his skin. What is he going to do? It's a little more complicated than just jumping out of here. It could be an entirely different plane for all he knows. He's been working on calculations, trying to factor for another plane of existence, but it's... complicated.

And then there's the whole thing about the apocalypse back home, and who knows where the others landed. Maybe they're here somewhere. Maybe they'll show up later. He'll have to keep an eye and ear out. For now, this is the long game. He'll have to get acquainted with more people and learn more information. Joy of joys.

Still, he knows he can do this. If Klaus is here, there's a chance the rest will come. So he'll wait and calculate. He has time.


Sample Two

Five feels that kind of dread that lifts goosebumps on the back of your neck. He knows as soon as the person's said it. Klaus is in trouble. BIG trouble. Without waiting to politely tell the other person what he's doing, he spatial jumps back to his house, and grabs a backpack. He quickly grabs things as he walks through the house, weapons and tools, food and medical supplies.

He doesn't feel fear; he feels rage. A deep-seated rage that has a little to do with Klaus being family and a little to do with his ego. How dare they? Right under Five's nose! How did they manage this? Well, however they did it, Klaus is gone and Five has to get him back. If he's being honest, it has to do a lot with family. No matter how useless and stupid Klaus can be, he's his brother. The brother that makes him smile despite himself. The brother who does seem to try.

Five grabs up a knife, imagining sticking it in someone's gut. He still can't help but get a little murderous in his rages. There is no talking in this instance. Just another job that ends in blood.

He sticks it in his belt, and opens the refrigerator, chugging orange juice from the carton with a scowl. There, that should help him keep up his energy when jumping. He wipes his chin, grabs the backpack, and teleports out of there.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Parks
Player Age: 28
Player Contact: everlark

Other Characters In Game: N/A
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Number Five: Parks
Permissions for Character: permissions
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Sure!
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Psychological
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Really icky body horror.
Additional Information: I appreciate u, mods, for reading this whole thing ♥