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full name

Ben Hargreeves

alias

Number Six / The Horror

age

???

d o b

oct 01

zodiac

libra

pronouns

he/him

born

seoul, south korea

raised

north america

the horror

— OG Ben, aka the dead one

— canon point is generally post-season 1 or post-season 2, but I can fluctuate through any times for memes & psls! For games, he'll likely be right at the end of season 2, after his soul finally moved on ~into the light (so I can shove him into some new hell)

— wide open to canonmates from any timeline / universe / etc.

— available for memes, psls, & potentially games

— seeking: anything, really! other characters with powers, gifted shenanigans, ghost shenanigans, AUs galore, anything horror... Hargreeves siblings (from any verse / canon point / etc); I'm very interested in expanding on the small amount of screentime / potential this Ben got, and growing him further. I'd also definitely be down to write him during/after season 4, finagle something fun there!

warnings

eldritch horror / body horror / tentacles

toxic family dynamics / parental abuse / superpowered children used as weapons

violence / gore / child death

appearance

Ben died when he was seventeen years old; however, he continued to age up due to being "tethered" to his brother Klaus, who possesses abilities of spirit summoning. With all the time-hopping he's been subjected to alongside Klaus, and his status as a ghost, it's difficult to pinpoint any true age to Ben. Generally speaking, he could be considered late twenties to early thirties by now. Dresses in dark colours, typically black pants, shirt, and a leather jacket with a hoodie built into it.

height

5'9''

build

slim, toned

eyes

dark brown

hair

black

abilities

eldritch horrors

Ben's stomach hosts a portal to other dimensions, from which eldritch tentacled entities live and can be unleashed. As a child, this ability was generally used to do the messiest work, anything that required terrorising and frightening criminals, as well as more extreme amounts of violence and often bloodshed. While controlling the entities to do his bidding would have been the ideal, Ben never quite learned how, due to being afraid of and disturbed by his ability, never nurturing it beyond simply unleashing the horrors when directed to by his father (or coaxed by his siblings), and dying when he was still extremely young, before he could truly learn how to handle his power. As a ghost who trailed his brother Klaus for over a decade, Ben never had the need to use these abilities, and so they continued to remain out of his control. As of recent events, he's let the horrors out a couple of times as an adult, and they continue to be a whirling mass of wild tentacles that just lash out at whatever's close by. Perhaps learning to control them could still be feasible, though inevitably much more difficult now.

possession

As a ghost, Ben has the ability to possess living humans. It's only temporarily and takes effort for him to remain inside of someone's body, but could potentially be strengthened with time and practice.

background

One of forty-three children inexplicably born all across the world to women with no previous signs of pregnancy on October 1, 1989, Ben was adopted from Seoul, South Korea by the enigmatic Sir Reginald Hargreeves, along with six other children. Together, the seven of them formed the Umbrella Academy, where they underwent training, seemingly with the purpose to act as superheroes, protecting the world. Ben (aka The Horror) was a sensitive, introverted, and bookish child, who shirked from the grotesque and violent entities living inside of him, though followed along with his adoptive father's command to unleash the horrors whenever he was told to. He was considered the easiest of his siblings to manipulate, and Reginald had no qualms against doing so.

At age seventeen, Ben was killed while on a mission, the catalyst that led to the Umbrella Academy crumbling apart. Unbeknownst to all of his siblings except for his spirit-manifesting brother Klaus (aka The Séance), Ben stuck around as a ghost, not yet ready to pass over. From there, he followed Klaus around for years, able to communicate with his brother whenever the other was sober, and acting as a sort of moral compass for Klaus, who had a penchant towards self-destruction. Eventually after many years, the siblings all made contact again (the literal world ending being the only thing that could bring this broken family together), and Ben continued to keep watch over them from afar, growing increasingly frustrated by his inability to truly be a presence and to only be able to experience everything through Klaus. After much time-hopping fuckery and threats of the world ending yet again, Ben was able to stop the latter from happening by essentially sacrificing himself in the process of possessing and reaching through to one of his siblings who would be the cause of the world's destruction. The process led Ben to finally pass on to the "afterlife".

player

J

pb

Justin H. Min

contact

pm

timezone

CT

code

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PREFERENCES

STYLE: I default to brackets, but I'm just as fine with prose! I'll generally follow whatever the other person has going on. 👍

SPEED: My tagging speed varies depending on how my work schedule goes, what day of the week it is, etc. Generally, I do run a bit on the slower side through the week (it can take me a few days to get to replies), and have more availability on weekends (I can be around to boomerang).

TIMEZONE: CT, but that probably means literally nothing because my hours are all over the place.

CONTACT: You can just hit me up with a PM here!

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Assuming there's a scenario where his ghost self can be touched (or he's in a game that renders him alive again)...! Anything is fine, though his reactions would differ depending on how well he knew the person. Ben is severely touch-starved, but he also can get cagey about people being too close, considering the horrors within him.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: All good, though Ben does come with the ability to unleash violent tentacled eldritch monsters from his stomach, and they don't play nice. However, they can be injured and will retreat back inside of him if damaged enough, where they will take some time to heal.

ROMANCE: I'm down for exploring this! Ben is extremely inexperienced with such things and..... is either dead or will be made alive again after being dead for over a decade, so it'd be Complicated (which I'm so here for).

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: All good. People with certain abilities may be able to sense the presence of the eldritch / Other / some kind of monstrous entities inside of him, or his connection to such. I'm wide open to however that might go, but feel free to hit me up for brainstorming, etc.!

MAGIC / POWERS: All good, though let's please discuss anything too damaging or how it might affect him.

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING — Absolutely; I'll backtag into infinity, but I'm also totally cool handwaving important details and letting older stuff go as preferred.

THREADHOPPING — If all parties are cool with it!

FOURTHWALLING — Fine with it; Ben's canon is so whacky that he'd probably just be like "this might as well happen"

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