Do the 07-Ghost characters have a criminal record of any kind?
Just to have a little more fun with this question, I decided to, like most things I write for 07-Ghost, go AU! with this. In this AU!, instead of the canon setting, it’s something like Nanbaka – everyone is an inmate in this gigantic prison. The prison is segregated to a separate island, in the middle of nowhere, with the location so secret that only the highest up’s of the highest up’s know it. The prison is completely inescapable, though that doesn’t stop people from trying of course.
And while imagining this AU!, where fun and sometimes wacky hijinks happen, much like Nanbaka, I decided to give it a little bit more of an edge by actually stopping and thinking about what crimes would have gotten all of these character’s imprisoned. Some crimes are more on the minor side, some more on the major side, but it was interesting to think about.
Ayanami is actually the most feared criminal in the building. A war criminal, his crimes are seemingly endless. He’s been charged with inciting domestic and international terrorism, various war crimes, numerous counts of murder, identity fraud, arson, grand larceny, and treason. There’s various countries fighting to have him and his group of mercenaries extradited to their respective countries to face charges there. However, for the sake of public safety, it was agreed that this inescapable prison would be the best place to put him, down on the absolute lowest levels, where he could never be in a position to expose the world to more danger again.
That group of mercenaries that acted along with Ayanami I mentioned? Of course it’s Hyuuga, Konatsu, Kuroyuri, Haruse, and Katsuragi. All of them share their leader’s various prison sentences for the exact same crimes. Hyuuga holds more murder convictions than the rest, though, while Konatsu has additional charges for money laundering, general fraud, and other white-collar crimes.
Labrador is in prison for various eco-terrorism charges. He shows genuine repentance that anyone was actually harmed due to his actions, as it was never something that he meant to happen. He was just really passionate about helping the earth and the environment that means so much to him. All of his protests and actions were meant to harm only company buildings or factories, to hurt corporations, to bring awareness to the evils these companies were doing to the environment. He led a group of people who shared his same love for the environment and shared his same passion. Unfortunately, some members of his group, those who truly looked up to him and almost worshipped him, either thought he was being a little soft and they needed to do something bigger, more impactful, or simply wanted to gain his praise and attention, and things got out of hand, bringing mass civilian casualties. He lives with that guilt and shame every day, as it was never what he wanted.
There are two prisoners who are actually completely innocent for the most part. It’s not that they’ve never done anything unlawful ever, but it’s simply that the crimes they’re imprisoned for are not their own. These two both took the fall for other people. The first of these people is Hakuren Oak. Born into an extremely prestigious family, he was given the best from a young age. Very intelligent, he graduated early and his father gave him a job managing one of the company’s many businesses. This particular business, like many of the family’s other businesses, was mostly a front to launder mass amounts of money though. His father hadn’t figured on Hakuren figuring this out so quickly, especially since he had placed his son as head of the company to be mostly a figure-head type of position. When Hakuren did, indeed, find out about it, his father also assumed that he could either buy or threaten Hakuren’s silence about the issue. He thought he’d even succeeded, after a very tense atmosphere. All was quiet for about a month, and his father assumed that all was good. Except that within that month, Hakuren was gathering evidence of the money-laundering, which he then anonymously turned over to the police. When the police came down on the company, to avoid prison time himself, Hakuren’s father placed all the blame on his son. After all, it was his son who was head of the company and there’d never been any issues before he was put into that position. Torn between deep betrayal, hatred of his father for many reasons, but loyalty still to his family, not even Hakuren’s really sure why he just quietly allowed himself to take the fall.
The next innocent person within the jail? While this is a bit of a story, one of two best friends and the true strength and bond of their friendship. Teito Klein was a victim of human trafficking as a very, very young child and while he managed to escape by the age of ten, living homeless for a bit before he was caught by the police and taken into foster care. It was at one of his school’s that he became really close to Mikage Celestine. They became best friends, completely inseparable. Mikage knew there were things that Teito kept from him, especially about his past, but he never pushed Teito to tell him. He was one of the few, though, that Teito did tell about his past, though only a little, enough for Mikage to know that Teito was basically a human slave – bought and sold to various people who did unspeakable things to him. Teito, despite trying to live a new life, just couldn’t erase the things that he'd live through. They tormented him, especially since he knew that other people were still going through it. He trained himself, devoted himself, to finding ways to help either people who were still being bought and sold in human trafficking rings or in finding young kids who were being sold to pedophiles. Teito would find ways to help those victims and I’m not going to lie, sometimes that would involve a little (or a lot) of bloodshed. For years, the police weren’t able to solve the string of murders, disappearances, kidnappings and such. They eventually got some clues that, strangely enough, led them to the high school that Teito and Mikage were in together. The presence of the police spooked Teito, but not enough for anyone who wasn’t really close to him to realize. Mikage, who was really close to him, did realize though. There was a confrontation between the two boys and Mikage knew that Teito was the one doing these things, though he knew Teito had very good reasons for doing so and that Teito was only trying to help those who couldn’t help themselves. Unable to bear the thought of his best friend not only being taken away from him, having to live in a prison for the rest of his life, unable to help those who needed Teito’s help, Mikage took the fall for him, giving the police evidence and information in his confession taken from his conversation with Teito that clinched it in the police’s mind that Mikage had to have done it.
Teito was heart-broken and absolutely guilt-ridden over what Mikage had done. He loved Mikage a lot; that was his best friend. He couldn’t take the thought of Mikage rotting away in a prison for him so Teito allowed himself to get caught during a crime and kept kicking up a fuss, inciting prison riots, attacking other prisoners, whatever he had to do to get sent from prison to prison until he landed at the island prison where Mikage was. There was a lot of tears when the two reunited at last, though the guards do their best to keep the two apart as ‘punishment’ for their crimes.
Castor was, for all extents and purposes, an amazing genius and a very law-abiding person. He had a mother who was precious to him, someone he loved and treasured, a successful business making dolls. Then he hit a string of the worst luck one could ever get. His mother died in a car accident and he took it really hard. He was almost consumed by his grief and he was finding it hard to really carry on. It was only his beloved who kept him going…but only a couple weeks after his mother’s death, during a home invasion robbery gone wrong, his beloved was murdered. Castor was the one who came home and first found her in a pool of her own blood, throat sliced and, not going to lie, he might have slipped a little into insanity at that point. Well, maybe not a little. He slipped completely into insanity at that point. Grief, hatred towards those who took those precious to him away from him, all consuming rage…he just couldn’t handle it. His mind shut down, went into denial mode. To him, he had to find ways that he could pretend that his mother and his beloved were still with him. He did this by making dolls…very human dolls. He was caught and charged with kidnapping and murder. While in prison, he has received a lot of psychiatric help and is doing better, returning to the mostly kind and sweet person he naturally is…of course, it helps that part of his therapy is art therapy and they’ve allowed him to make large puppet-like dolls, which he lovingly crafts to resemble his missed loved ones. He talks to them often. A lot of the other prisoners find it more than a little creepy.
Frau was the closest you could get to a modern-day Robin Hood. A con man who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, he was arrested on multiple counts of identity fraud, grand larceny, online fraud, fraud, money laundering, various petty crimes, and two murders that he refuses to admit to. He actually seems to not mind prison life.
Roseamanelle Ouka Barsburg is not a prisoner. Rather, she’s the Warden of the prison who takes her role very seriously. She genuinely cares about the prisoners in the prison, learns all of them by name and keeps up to date on their behaviour. While she realizes that all of them have sinned deeply, that they all must make up for their crimes, she also knows that they’re all still human beings, worthy of being treated with, if not respect, dignity.
