Hatz

About Hatz

Hatz is a stoic swordsman from a family of sword-makers, climbing as a scout with a strict personal code and a rivalry with Khun that starts on sight. Honourable to a fault and hopeless with technology, he becomes one of Bam's most reliable teammates. His quiet sense of justice balances the team's schemers and show-offs.

Appearance

Hatz is a lean young swordsman with black hair tied back, sharp eyes and the still bearing of a duellist, dressed in the practical clothes of a scout with a long sword at his hip. He stands like his family's craft (balanced, economical, nothing wasted) and his expression defaults to a seriousness that makes him look older than he is. In a team of schemers, monsters and princesses, Hatz is visually the most conventional person present: a boy with a sword and a code. That conventionality is his charm and his camouflage; nobody watches the honourable one.

Personality

Hatz is honour made into a person: disciplined, blunt, fair and completely hopeless with technology and small talk alike. He judges people by their conduct and holds himself to the strictest standard in the room, which makes him both the team's conscience and its easiest member to tease. His rivalry with Khun is genuine, he finds manipulation dishonourable, and so is the respect underneath it, because Khun's schemes keep saving the team Hatz's honour would die defending. He grows the way swords are made: slowly, under pressure, without changing what he is.

Background & Story

Hatz comes from a family of swordsmiths in the Tower, raised in their strict code: a sword is a trust, and its wielder's honour is its edge. He climbs as a scout, and his code collides with Khun Aguero Agnis almost on sight, Hatz despises schemers on principle, and Khun is scheming the way other people breathe. Forced onto the same side by the second floor's tests, the two build a rivalry that slowly becomes the team's strangest friendship. Hatz's quiet sense of justice (he will not abandon a teammate, cheat a test or break a word) makes him one of Bam's most reliable people.

Powers & Abilities

• Swordsmanship: Raised by swordsmiths, Hatz is a master swordsman whose clean, powerful technique anchors his team in close combat.
• Scout's Speed: As a scout, Hatz specialises in speed and positioning, reading the field, striking first and covering his team's movements.

Key Relationships

• Khun Aguero Agnis: His rival from first sight, the schemer Hatz's honour cannot abide, and the teammate he would trust with his life, in that order of admission.
• Shibisu: His team leader and fellow scout, whose loyalty-first style of leadership matches Hatz's code better than either expected.
• Twenty-Fifth Bam: A teammate Hatz respects without reservation, Bam's honesty is the quality Hatz's whole code exists to honour.

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