Day Nineteen | What’s your character’s preferred means of travel?

Walking. Namimori’s not a particularly big town, and you can get to most places on foot, although it might take a while. Hibari prefers walking to other modes of transport for a number of reasons: first, it’s just natural for him to want to move around, as opposed to sitting in a vehicle and letting it take you to your destination.

Second, he enjoys the solitude that comes with travelling on foot. As you’d expect from Hibari, travelling via public transport wouldn’t exactly be a good idea—what with the ‘crowding herbivores’ and the noise. If he tried to squeeze onto a subway at rush hour, it wouldn’t exactly be a smooth journey.

It is canon that Hibari owns a motorcycle though (somehow, even though he doesn’t even have a driver’s license). He doesn’t ride it very often, though—only when he needs to travel long distances, or in situations when walking wouldn’t be very convenient.

Day Eighteen | Is your character a good cook? What’s their favorite recipe, whether they’re good or not? (Microwave mac-and-cheese applies.)

Hibari’s a fairly decent cook; cooking was a pretty necessary skill to him. Even as a child he always had an independent streak, and it was only natural for him to want to rely on himself—even when it came to something as trivial as food. Of course if he wanted to his caretakers could have whipped up any meal he wanted, but since a young age he’s mostly made his own meals.

That said, he’s not exactly master chef standard. He’s decent, capable of basic dishes that do turn out quite good, but you wouldn’t expect him to whip up an eight-course dinner anytime soon. His recipes are basically made up of simple Japanese fare; rice, simple dishes, at cetera.

He doesn’t have a particular favourite recipe, though one of his most common ones would be fried rice. It’s not that the dish has any particular meaning to him; it’s just that it’s decently fast, easy, and versatile.

Day Seventeen | What’s your character’s desk/workspace look like? Are they neat or messy?

Hibari’s desk at the Reception Room in his school is fairly neat. No loose sheets of paper scattered around. Everything’s organized neatly in their respective stacks, or filed away systematically and properly. Hibari can’t stand disorganization and disorder when it comes to his work (or, just disorder in general, really), and he expects the same standard from his fellow Disciplinary Committee members—or even better. It goes without saying that if they don’t meet Hibari’s expectations, they will be dealt severely with.

Day Sixteen | Are there any blood relatives that your character is particularly close with, besides the immediate ones? Cousins, Uncles, Grandfathers, Aunts, et cetera. Are there any others that your character practically considers a blood relative?

None at all. Hibari’s rather distant with his parents (understatement), so it wouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s not close with his other relatives as well. The Hibari family run a huge company that’s been expanding to different parts of the world, and as a result, most of his relatives live in different countries as well. Which, of course, makes keeping in touch quite difficult. It doesn’t help that Hibari himself isn’t exactly one to mingle around with people either, and that includes family members as well.

Day Fifteen | Is your character an early morning bird or a night owl?

Neither.

Hibari, for want of a better phrase, sleeps like a pig. He sleeps most mornings away (when it’s a non-school day) and when he just wakes up, he’s usually in a daze. He recovers by mid-afternoon, but before that, he wanders around in a completely un-Hibari state. On school days that doesn’t happen though; his body clock’s probably adjusted to it.

As for the nights, he’s not exactly completely active either. He doesn’t go to sleep at a fixed time; rather, once he starts feeling sleepy he just heads to bed, no matter if it’s ten at night or one in the morning. When he starts feeling sleepy he reverts to being dazed, although it’s not as bad as in the mornings.

Day Fourteen | How does your character react to temperature changes such as extreme heat and cold?

Hibari has a low tolerance to heat and an even lower tolerance to cold. Hence, he tries to avoid being caught in situations where he’ll have to withstand extreme temperatures— on particularly hot summer days or particularly cold winter nights he tries to stay at home as far as possible.

If that’s impossible, though, he pretty much just bears with it. He’s a stickler for proper school attire, which is why you’ll never see him deviate from the standard uniform, even when it’s ridiculously hot/cold. Rather, he just keeps at it until he has the chance to escape indoors. Strangely, though, he doesn’t sweat much— though, it’s not something he can help. His body’s just built this way.

Day Thirteen | What does your character’s bed look like when he/she wakes up? Are the covers off on one side of the bed, are they all curled around a pillow, sprawled everywhere? In what position might they sleep?

Hibari’s quite a peaceful sleeper, so his bed usually isn’t very messed up. The covers are just as they were the previous night, and when he sleeps alone, it’s usually facing up.

That’s when he sleeps alone, though. He lives with Dino when the latter’s in Japan, which means they share a bed together, so Hibari’s sleeping position changes to accommodate Dino. He tends to sleep on the side instead, curled up with Dino, of course.

Day Twelve | How is your character with technology? Super savvy, or way behind the times? Letters or email?

Hibari’s not an extreme case, but not exactly in the middle either; he’s more of leaning towards the ‘behind the times’ side.

He gets by fine with using computers, surfing the web, sending emails and so on, and can work a Nintendo DS perfectly fine, but basic functions are all he’s capable of. He’s not exactly up to date. His phone, for example, is some ancient model that only performs basic functions— calling, and sending text messages. No iPhones or Androids for him. His computer is probably some old model too. And if he faces any technical difficulties, he won’t have a clue how to solve the problem.

Still, if he’d have to pick, he’d rather choose emails. They’re more convenient, and they send faster, and Hibari, who always prioritizes functionality before anything else, would obviously go with that rather than snail mail.

Day Eleven | Is there an animal you equate with your character?

There are several— first and foremost, the skylark. It is his namesake, after all, and Dino’s pet name for him, and does resemble him, in a way. The characters for skylark in Japanese are 雲雀, which mean cloud and bird respectively; only fitting since he is the cloud guardian of the Vongola, and his aloof, independent nature fits the role, and his name perfectly.

Then there’s the hedgehog which is, of course, Roll, Hibari’s box animal. Box animals tend to represent their owners in one way or another, and in a way Hibari’s kind of like a hedgehog— prickly on the outside and… well, he’s not exactly the nicest person in the inside, but at least he’s not as bad as he appears to be; the fearsome front he puts up most of the time.

Day Ten | Can you define a turning point in your character’s life? Multiples are acceptable.

The first and most important turning point of Hibari’s life would be the day he first picked up a pair of tonfas, and learnt how to fight. His father probably kept a pair lying around in the house, though he rarely used them. At some point, Hibari found it and taught himself how to use them in a spar, and over time, he trained himself to be the fighter he is today.

That pair of tonfas essentially defined the rest of Hibari’s life, and pretty much became his trademark of sorts. Sparring subsequently became a huge part of Hibari’s life, and would remain that way for a very long time.

The second would be when he started dating Dino, because previously all human contact he’s had (apart from Kusakabe and the other Disciplinary Committee members) was, basically, threatening to bite them to do and/or actually following through with said threats. To put it simply, Dino’s presence meant that he wasn’t alone anymore, and Hibari’s attitude to things has gotten slightly better. Very slightly.