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Klaus Hargreeves
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Character Information
Character Name: Klaus Hargreeves
Played By: Robert Sheehan
Original Canon: The Umbrella Academy
Personality:
Overall: Klaus is a complex case when it comes to describing how he acts and who he is as a person. First and foremost, because a large part of who he is, is actually a lie and little more than a well-worn mask that he prefers to the reality of the broken mess that he keeps hidden behind it.
On the surface, Klaus is a carefree, worry-free party boy with not a single care at all. This, along with his wild antics and gender-bending/androgynous wardrobe, is a persona that he gives out to the world, free of charge. It's the most magnetic part of him that makes people like--or at least want to like him.
However, hidden underneath the layers of booze, drugs, and that carefully-placed mask are the broken pieces of a man ravaged by his father's abuse.
Sensitive and compassionate, Klaus is not one to hide from his feelings or those of others. He will openly express fear or panic, or cry in front of other people without seeming to think or feel like it's not something he should do or share with people. He is also incredibly tactile and seeks to both give and receive comfort through touch-- a hand on an arm or shoulder or a simple hug.
Klaus is a bit of a fatalistic pessimist, always assuming the worst of people and situations-- because cynicism lessens his chances of being disappointed and if it turns out he's wrong, it's almost like a pleasant surprise. As much as he wants to believe people, particularly ones that press any kind of interest or care in his direction, he tends to disbelieve it or assume it's somehow manipulative in nature by default.
He holds a very low threshold for criticisms due to having so many--pathetic; weak; disappointment; junkie, the list goes on and on--thrown at him through the years and may react disproportionately to negative commentary. He also has a low tolerance for stressful situations, running from them as quickly and effectively as possible, usually in the form of pills or alcohol and preferably before a paralyzing bout of panic sets in.
Though it is hard to get through the number of walls Klaus has effectively built around himself through the last roughly two decades, once someone sticks around long enough to manage it, they will find a caring and loyal, if not ambitious or always dependable, person who will flay himself open for those he cares about when it matters most.
Positive Traits:
- Empathy - Klaus possesses a large capacity for compassion and understanding/sharing other people's feelings. Part of this may be because he deeply longs for people to understand him and where he comes from-- so he gives other people that benefit in hopes that maybe it will circle back to him one day, too.
- Adaptable - Klaus rolls with the punches with the best of them, probably largely due to the way he's lived his life-- flying by the seat of his pants with no plan whatsoever. He's also incredibly resilient and takes both physical and psychological tortures with the unnerving sort of ease of someone too used to the people in his life turning on him this way.
- Witty - Humor is one of the ways Klaus connects with people, and deals with all of the trauma under the surface. He has a tendency to be snarky and sarcastic more than not and will make wildly inappropriate jokes at the worst times.
- Protective - While it takes a lot to find yourself in the inner-circle of people he truly cares about, Klaus is fiercely protective of those within it. His siblings top the list entirely, always, and he'll throw hands with anyone who wants to buck against them (even if it's a fight he'll inevitably lose).
- Magnetic - Klaus has the kind of (surface) personality that just makes people want to be around him. He's "the fun guy" in any group of friends who rarely does or takes anything all the seriously and as a result, it's always easy for him to make friends anywhere he goes. Not that he'll necessarily trust those friends any further than he could pick them up and throw them-- he's inherently suspicious of anyone that seems to take a liking to him.
Negative Traits:
- Selfish - There's an inherent sort of selfishness that comes along with addiction and that is written all across Klaus' actions, from lying and stealing to support his habits to ignoring apparent concern from anyone about his substance abuse. In regards to his very unhealthy coping mechanisms, little is going to move him away from it, and he's going to continue to do what he deems as the best and only way to handle all the trauma in his life.
- Attention-seeking - The truth is, at the core of this particular trait, lives a desperate need to be seen and heard-- which isn't something any of the Hargreeves kids experienced much of with their overly dismissive father. He doesn't care if the attention is positive or negative, he just wants the focus to be on him-- the epitome of 'I don't care what you think, as long as it's about me'. This habit, which comes with a lot of flamboyant and over-the-top commentary and actions, can make him an annoying thorn in people's sides at times.
- Foot-in-mouth - No, really. It's a problem he has and he has it b a d. Get him going and he'll likely make a problem worse by just not stopping his mouth when he should have half a dozen comments ago.
- Impulsive - Not a big thinker, Klaus tends to follow his heart and what feels right-- and what feels right isn't always the best route to go because it often leads him into trouble. Drinking and abusing drugs in excess, jumping into the middle of a fray with little regard for himself are just a couple of examples. Klaus and whatever whim he may have at a given moment, are occasionally unpredictable in the worst possible ways.
- Unreliable - Along with the tendency toward impulsiveness, Klaus is not the most reliable or stable-constant person. His emotions drive him more than logic or reason, which can cause his opinions, determinations and loyalties to switch up on occasion. Flaky as hell, he can drop out of contact on a dime and no one will know when they might hear from him again. Klaus lives a life in a constant state of chaos and probably wouldn't know how to live any other way, despite longing for stability and peace.
Abilities & Skills:
Mediumship/summoning: Klaus has a connection to the dead/the afterlife and as such has the ability to see/speak to ghosts. When the conditions are right (i.e. he's actually sober), he can even call them from the afterlife almost like a really difficult long-distance video conference call (that he never wants to make).
Channeling/manifesting: Klaus has an additional subset of his mediumship abilities that includes manifesting a temporarily solid form to allow ghosts to interact with the physical world and channeling them, allowing them to use his body for a limited time.
Telekinesis: He also has an, as of yet undiscovered, ability to manipulate objects (and himself) with his mind-- mostly a levitation/hovering limit, which could potentially increase with time on the size and scope of things he could move.
Note: He isn't aware of the manifest/channeling abilities, or the telekinesis at the start of the GPSL.
Self-defense: Though most of the skill he may have had when he was younger has diminished through years of drug abuse and lack of use, Reginald put all of the kids through various self-defense lessons.
General Adaptability: Living the life he's lived, Klaus can roll with just about anything that comes his way and for the most part, will probably even seem pretty unphased by it all.
Knitting: A skill he picked up during one of his many rotational stints in rehab; it's a thing he can keep his hands busy with when he can't shut his mind down.
Drink mixing: Look, it may not seem like a very useful skill to have, but it's one under his belt. You don't become the kind of alcoholic that he is and not learn what mixes well together to the point of skill.
Childhood: Thanks for the memories even though they weren't so great
The earliest-early days of his Academy grooming were spent mostly just trying to be noticed by his father, which is arguably part of why his personality became louder and brighter later on. The lack of interaction with his father-- aside through lessons, training, and experiments-- did Klaus no favors.
Reginald's lack of regard for his children as anything like actual people with emotions and desires was detrimental to Klaus' self-esteem, self-worth, and eventually that even extends into his sense of self-preservation. He learned that he was only a disappointment, so he chose to live the life of one in every way he could. If that's all anyone would see, no matter what he did, why bother trying to fight it?
You dream of demons while you sleep that make you stutter when you speak.
He was 12 when his antics in his robomom's closet led to a fall down the stairs and a broken jaw. This also meant pain management and high-powered pain pills. And to Klaus' glorious surprise, the dead couldn't seem to break through the barrier between the lands of the living and the dead and bother him when he was doped up on pain pills. This began a very specific sort of spiral into substance abuse.
Klaus was never the most thrilled with the idea of being a superhero. It's what his Dad wanted, and he tried to be that image of whatever it is Reginald saw in him, but he was too terrified of his powers to be useful with them. He might have gone
Into his teen years and his twenties, he experimented more with a wider variety of drugs, alcohol, and other activities. It was much easier to self-medicate after he ditched the Academy and his father entirely the moment he turned 18. Klaus spends most of his days some level of inebriated and intoxicated in effort to keep the ghosts at bay, with a lot of nights landing himself in an overnight sit-out in the drunk tank or an ER triage room. He's had a few, mostly court-appointed, rounds in rehab but it never does him much good because he's back on whatever he can get his hands on the second he's released.
We only see each other at weddings and funerals
Klaus hasn't seen or heard from his siblings in several years before the news about his Dad's death breaks. The last time any of his family were really on his general radar at all was probably when Vanya's book was published. He may have seen Diego at random if they happened to cross paths during his brother's vigilante work in the shadows, but otherwise... zilch, until now.
He's isn't actually all that upset about the loss-- at least on the surface, and for all that he will show outwardly to anyone at all. Anything else that may exist below that surface is hidden and tucked secretly away. So secret, in fact, Klaus may not realize he feels it at all yet, himself.
Present Occupation: What are bills, what is a job, why do you expect him to have either of these things? Klaus is a drifter who floats between the true lines of adulthood and lives on the good graces of the people he constantly surrounds himself with.
Present Residence: Whoever's couch he's invading at a given moment for as long as they'll have him; alternatively: A shady motel room; the floor or a booth in a bar; stretched across chairs in the ER waiting room; a box in an alley; a dumpster. He can make a home out of anywhere for a night.
Anything else we should know? Klaus is a walking content warning:
drugs, dark themes, lots of anxiety/depression descriptions, bad coping skills and hard topics are going to exist in his narration so please beware. Everything will be appropriately marked! Also, negative CR is a thing that may happen in the course of things as well.
Also? Uh, ya boy is claustrophobic AF, thanks, Dad~
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