CW for this post: some blood, brief meantion of teen pregnancy.
I personally really love Hiroko Hagakure. Her personality wasn’t what I expected at all when thinking of what Yasuhiro’s mom would be like. However, after I met her I couldn’t imagine her being any other way. She is my very favorite of the captives. Plus her design helps in that she’s very fun to draw.
This hc of mine actually originated from looking up fan art of her and I saw one of her with the introduction every ultimate gets. I forgot what ultimate that artist gave her but the idea of her as an ultimate stuck with me. Soon this idea snowballed into an entire backstory involving Hiroko, Takaaki, and Taichi. Ideas coming in from fanart and friends. The story goes like this:
It is the start of a new school year at hopes peak. The students are all getting settled into their dorm, amongst the first years are two friends, Taichi Fujisaki and Takaaki Ishimaru. Taichi is the current ultimate programmer, while Takaaki is reserve course.
The two friends are making their way to their dorms when all of a sudden they are stopped in the courtyard. The student who stopped them appears to be in the reserve course, however they boast that they are the ultimate street fighter known as the Crimson Boar. Crimson has decided Taichi was the perfect victim to harass, seeing him as a nerd. Takaaki while standing up for Tai gets knocked out, leaving Taichi seemingly defenseless.
Before Crimson can lay a finger on the programmer, someone calls out. The true ultimate street fighter, Hiroko Hagakure, also known as the Bubblegum Bee. A title she earned due to her floral tattoos and pink hair. Hiroko quickly knocked out the trouble maker and helped Taichi carry Takaaki to his dorm.
Once the three reach the dorm, the fighter lays the boy in his bed. She introduces herself to the only other conscious person in the room. “ The name is Hiroko Hagakure. Second year student here and the actual ultimate street fighter. But you can call me Koko. What’s your names?”
The programmer nervously introduces himself and his unconscious friend. He was wary of Hiroko at first, however as soon as the fighter began taking care of Takaaki he loosened up. Quickly the two became friends.
Takaaki woke up not too long after the two became chummier. Immediately trying to get to work on getting ahead in his classes, which hadn’t even started. Hiroko tried to get him to rest, however he wasn’t having it. The two would bicker. Hiroko teasing and joking around as she tried to get Takaaki to rest. Meanwhile Takaaki would not budge, and would fire at her to try and get her to stop.
The two had this dynamic of Takaaki seeming to not like her, and her teasing him like she’d known him her whole life, for a while. The dynamic began to change the day he learned of her training.
Hiroko was the ultimate streetfighter because she won a fight against the other candidate, the Crimson Boar. The two were almost evenly matched. However due to a 6th sense running in Hiroko’s family, she came out on top. The sense allowed her to dodge blows that nobody else would’ve known were coming. The school wanted to help her hone in on this ability. She would be blindfolded and set up to work with a tennis ball machine.
This day Hiroko slipped up, and was pelted from every angle. She was bleeding from the head and was very concussed. However she insisted she was fine and went to Taichi’s dorm. Knocking on the door, she was answered by Tai who had just been chatting with Takaaki. As soon as the door opened the girl collapsed onto the floor. This caused the two to panic, taking her to the Hospital. She was released, but was made to be monitored and put on bed rest until she was better. Takaaki volunteered to monitor her. This time together brought them closer.
Over the next year the three only grew closer. However halfway through the two boys second year, their friend disappeared. There was no trace left behind, not even her at the time boyfriend was there. They searched high and low but couldn’t find her anywhere. Eventually Taichi gave up, but Takaaki wouldn’t let it go. He had developed feelings for her, however he had buried them away once he met his arranged fiancée. He fell in deep in love with his fiancée, but never forgot his friend. He ran out of places to look for her, but always hoped to find her again.
Many years later his son is now in the same academy he attended, along side Taichi’s son. He hasn’t been taking very good care of himself, his son being the only good thing he had. He was drinking one night and passed out, only to wake up to see Hiroko next to him.
He panicked, accidentally waking her up. He asked her what had happened the night before. To his somewhat relief, she told him she had broke in and saw him passed out with a liquor bottle. So she carried him to his room and planned to monitor him, making sure he didn’t asphyxiate. However she herself accidentally fell asleep halfway through the night. She revealed that she had gone missing because she ran away with her boyfriend, learning she was pregnant. She wasn’t allowed access to her phone while she was with him, so she couldn’t contact them. Her son had kept her last name, and was in Kiyotaka’s class.
When asked about her husband she had revealed she divorced him. He later died after setting her house on fire by leaving a cigar lit as he took a nap there. She was happy for him to be gone, he had been a dead beat the whole time and she had just couldn’t accept that at the time. Yasuhiro inherited her 6th sense which developed into him having clairvoyance. He had encouraged her to go find him.
This is the design I came up with for her in her second year. I like it alot, and I hope you enjoy it too.
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