lifeaftr application
Player Information
Name: coffee
Age: 18x2
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
caffemisto or by PM
Current characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Diego Hargreeves
Series: The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Appearance: he's hot, but then he opens his mouth
Age: 29
Canon Point: end of s1e10
Canon History: No one has written up Diego's history, so I have to. Boo.
Diego, along with 42 other children all around the world, was born on October 1, 1989 to a mother that had not been pregnant when the day began. This was a complete anomaly, which caught the interest of Reginald Hargreeves, an eccentric and assholish man with a lot of money, which he used to procure 7 of these children, including Diego. At the time of his procurement, Diego was simply named "Number Two."
Along with his siblings, Diego was raised primarily by a talking monkey named Pogo and an android caregiver named Grace, who was called Mom by the kids, and it was Grace who gave the children names sometime before the age of 13. The childrens' upbringings were very strict and difficult, often traumatizing, as Reginald had procured them in order to create a team of superheroes that he believed would save the world. Seeing them as tools or elements of an experiment rather than as actual people, Reginald forced them into vigorous physical and mental training, educating them well, honing their abilities where possible.
The children were numbered in the order of how useful they would be to Reginald, and while some of them couldn't have cared less about that, Diego could not have cared more. Sensitive and desperately eager to please, Diego has always been devastated that he came in second, and from the moment he understood that that was what happened, tried his hardest to surpass Luther, who was placed in the Number One role and became the de facto leader. As they grew up, the siblings were constantly pitted against each other in training, which created a particular competitive relationship between some of the children - Diego arguably more than most of the others. His desire to people please and the development and encouragement of an ego through training and being egged on in competition by Reginald drove Diego to try everything possible to become the best leader, strongest fighter, and best performer on the team to surpass Number One.
Of course, that never happened.
As a child, Diego had a bad stutter (which he still struggles with in emotional moments) and was something of a lone wolf, not really shown connecting with or being close to the other children. Despite this, it hit him just as hard as the others when Number Five disappeared while trying to time travel with his abilities, and when Number Six, Ben, was killed on a mission. The loss of Five and Six shattered the team, and Diego left home at 17, rebellious and cocky and completely unable to give up the crime-fighting life.
After leaving home, Diego enrolled in the Police Academy, where he met his future girlfriend Eudora Patch, but was removed from it sometime before graduation due to his inability to comply with the rules, regulations, and paperwork that come with being a police officer. After failing out of the Police Academy, he took up vigilantism, donning a domino mask and fighting crime on the streets, doling out what he saw as justice without the limitations of rules and paperwork. During this time, he and Eudora split up due to serious personality differences despite still caring about each other a great deal. Diego also got a job doing janitorial work at a boxing gym, in exchange for use of the boiler room as a place to live. His life continued like this until the day he saw on the news that Reginald Hargreeves had died.
Along with the rest of his siblings, Diego came back to the Academy for their adopted father's funeral, but not until after he'd abused his knowledge of the police station to get a coroner's report on their father's death and cased the house to ensure that the doors and windows were locked. Luther essentially accused his siblings of their father's murder (despite there being no evidence he'd been murdered), which understandably upset everyone. After getting into a fight with Luther during the spreading of their father's ashes later in the day, and accidentally breaking a statue of their deceased brother Ben, Diego was present when their brother Five, who had disappeared when he was 13 years old while attempting time travel, returned from the future having lived to the age of 58 in a post-apocalyptic nightmare but had accidentally jumped back into his teenage body. After the funeral, Diego found their father's missing monocle (the absence of which at the scene of their father's death was a piece of 'evidence' in Luther's accusations) among Grace's things and took it from her to avoid having suspicion fall on her. After that, he drove with Klaus (and unknown to him, Ben as a ghost) to the water, where he threw away Reginald's monocle.
After the siblings mostly dispersed, Diego attended a crime scene at Griddy's Donuts where, unbeknownst to him, Five had recently had a run in with several assassins sent by his former employers. Diego questioned Agnes, the waitress at the shop, for information, and was confronted by Eudora Patch, his former lover and police detective investigating the scene. She arrested him for interfering with a crime scene, though it was mostly just a slap on the wrist as she let him go after bringing him to the station, and they discussed the case a little. She warned him to stay out of it. When returning home, he realized that Luther was in his boiler room apartment, and threw a knife at him (intending to miss) before confronting him - Luther asked Diego why he hadn't told him that he was having a boxing match the night of their father's death and Diego insisted that he didn't need to prove his innocence to his family before kicking Luther out (and eating a whole raw egg because he's disgusting).
Diego went to visit another crime scene and speak to Detective Patch about the case. It was, again unbeknownst to Diego, another scene where Five had been in a fight with assassins, and he discussed with Eudora the similarities and complexity of the case. After returning to the Academy after talking to Eudora, he was told that Allison had found footage of what appeared to be Grace poisoning their father, and admitted to them that he had taken the monocle and disposed of it. The siblings debated whether or not to shut down Grace in case she had done harm to their father (Diego, Vanya, and Klaus opposed; Luther and Allison in favor, with Ben's unacknowledged agreement) but Allison insisted that they needed Five's vote to follow through. After the quorum, Diego went to visit Grace, with whom he had a special relationship ever since he was a child and she helped him get past his stutter, and asked her about their father, trying to see if she may have been angry at him, but she wasn't able to answer coherently and Diego realized that her programming was degrading. Later that day, Hazel and Cha-Cha, higher-level assassins sent after Five, stormed the Academy and fought Luther, Allison, Diego, and Vanya; they also kidnapped Klaus, which no one noticed. Diego became aware of Luther's transformation into a gorilla-man hybrid. After the fight and his realizations about Grace's programming being confirmed when she showed no awareness of the gunfight in the house and accidentally sewed part of her hand into a cross-stitch, Diego chose to shut her down by opening the circuitry on her wrist and stayed with her until she shut down. This was a particularly painful moment for him.
The next morning, Diego went to Eudora's home, seeking comfort after having to shut down Grace, and told her that the assassins had attacked his home, one of his brothers was missing, and his mother had died. The two disagreed about how the case should be handled and Eudora warned Diego to stay out of it, which he refused to do since they had attacked his home and family. Later, after seeing a message left on the van Five had been hiding out in that indicated Diego's brother had been kidnapped, Eudora decided to go to the indicated hotel to look for him, deciding to 'do things his way' as they'd talked about earlier. She called to leave a message at the boxing gym for him. Diego and Luther noticed went looking for him, only to find him passed out drunk in the public library after the two of them discussed their differences in leaving home and their father. The two of them then carried Five back to Diego's place and found out that Five had been an assassin similar to Hazel and Cha-Cha with the Commission. Once they got back to his place, Diego received Eudora's message, realized Klaus was missing, and followed her to the hotel in a panic only to find that she had been shot by Cha-Cha while rescuing Klaus on her own. After cradling her body for a few moments and collecting some evidence from the room, he left, devastated and swearing revenge.
After confronting Five about his assassin coworkers having killed Eudora, he left to go back to the Academy and collect some knives, only to find Klaus there asking for a ride. After begrudgingly giving him the ride, he realized that something was seriously wrong with Klaus and when Klaus asked him to drop him off at a VFA Bar for veterans, he did so but then refused to leave unless Klaus told him what was wrong. After trying and failing to mediate an argument between some veterans and Klaus, who insisted he was a vet and belonged in the bar, Diego got into a brawl with the vets and confronted Klaus again about his drug use and what the problem was in the bar. After Klaus admitted he'd lost someone he loved, Diego empathized but reminded Klaus that he could see his dead loved one whenever he wanted to due to his power. The two then saw Hazel, and Klaus admitted that he'd been tortured by Hazel and Cha-Cha and almost died, which only added more fuel to Diego's revenge plans. The two brothers attempted to confront the assassins at their hotel room after trailing them there, but were ambushed and ended up stealing an ice cream truck, which they used to trail Hazel and Cha-Cha to a place where Luther and Five were trying to trade a fake version of the briefcase for contact with the Handler (leader of the Commission, Five's previous employer), which succeeded. Five was taken off by the Handler, and Diego, Klaus, and Luther escaped in Hazel and Cha-Cha's car.
The next day, Diego regrouped with his siblings and was told by Luther that the world is going to end soon. Along with the others, he opted not to fight it, and instead decided to continue his hunt for Hazel and Cha-Cha. On his way out of the Academy, Klaus asked him to tie him up to a chair so he could get sober. While they had a bit of a tender moment, Klaus confessed that the person he lost was a man named Dave who he met in the Vietnam war after accidentally time traveling after his kidnapping, and that seeing him again was why he was trying to get clean. After Klaus started getting withdrawals and demanded to be untied, Diego hit him several times to subdue him and tied him to the chair before leaving him there to sober up. When he went downstairs, however, he was startled to see that Grace had been repaired and was functional again - she asked him to take her for a walk in the park, something she'd never done before, and then told him that she needed to share a secret. At this point, the day was rewound by Five, and Diego will not remember this day.
The next day, Diego regrouped with his siblings and is told by Luther that the world is going to end soon. This time, Five appeared and convinced them to help him, by presenting them with a solid clue on how to start working on it. Despite his fixation on avenging Eudora, Diego agreed to help, and went with Allison and Five to gather information on Harold Jenkins, the person they had to kill to avert the apocalypse. After a stop at the police station where Diego met with Eudora's detective partner, Beeman, he received Harold Jenkins' police file and was told that he was the prime suspect in Eudora's murder, as his fingerprints were all over the scene. After bringing the file back to the car, Allison identified the picture in it as Vanya's new boyfriend, who she had never trusted, and after they failed to get hold of Vanya, the three broke into Harold's house (Diego jumped through the glass on an unlocked front door while Allison snuck in a window and Five teleported inside - he's a great leader) and discovered defaced Umbrella Academy memorabilia. They realized that this was personal, and after Five passed out from a piece of shrapnel he'd caught in a fight at the start of the day, Allison and Diego regrouped at the Academy and decided to go together to the home of a relative listed in Harold's file. As they left the Academy, however, Diego was arrested for the murder of Detective Patch and taken to jail. Allison proceeded to go to Harold's other location on her own.
In prison, Diego was visited by Beeman, who didn't believe that Diego had killed Eudora, and passed him a key through the bars after a short conversation. After escaping, Diego went back to the Academy to tell Five and Klaus that Allison was in trouble. Luther was not at the house, and they found him shortly thereafter at a bar trying to 'get his buzz on' in misery over his father having sent him to the moon for four years for no reason. Diego took the opportunity to try to confront Luther about how he'd been abused (again) and eventually convinced Luther to come with them by telling him Allison was in danger. The four brothers drove together out to Harold's grandmother's cottage, where they found Allison with her throat slit in a confrontation with Vanya (though they didn't know it was Vanya at the time). They drove her back to the Academy in a panic, where Diego passed out at the sight of a needle while donating blood to save her life.
While trying to find out what had happened to Vanya after the confrontation with Allison, the brothers found Harold killed in his home, and Five matched a prosthetic eye that had been his clue to the identity of the person who triggered the apocalypse. Believing the situation to be sorted, Diego joined the others to try to find Vanya at the Academy to work out what happened, and when she proved not to be there, he prepared to go and leave and continue his revenge for Detective Patch. When Hazel came to the Academy to volunteer to help stop the apocalypse, Diego fought him until he was knocked out by Five for biting during the fight, and Five convinced Hazel to give him the murder weapons to exonerate Diego for Patch's murder. When Diego came to, Five confronted him about what he'd liked about Patch, and after Diego told him that she saw the good in everything, Five questioned whether she would've wanted to be avenged. Diego was stubborn about it, and left angry and still intending to get revenge, but the conversation stuck in his head. Shortly afterward, Allison woke up, told Luther that Vanya had powers, and when Vanya finally returned to the Academy seeking help and forgiveness from her siblings, Luther instead choked her unconscious and locked her in a soundproofed bunker in the basement. After finding this out, Diego (along with Klaus and Allison) tried to convince Luther to let her out, but without success. Vanya, in a fit of rage and despair, found a way to use her powers, broke out of the bunker, and killed Pogo, then proceeded to destroy the entire house. Diego was knocked unconscious as the house came down and was rescued by Ben, though he believed it was Klaus who saved his life. Unfortunately, Grace was destroyed in the collapse of the house, and Diego had to suffer through the loss of her again.
After regrouping at the bowling alley with all his siblings, Diego and the others discussed what to do about Vanya and the apocalypse, realized that she would be playing at a concert that night, and were then attacked by more assassins sent by the Commission. After a rough fight, they escaped and headed to the theatre to confront Vanya, where Luther opted to lead the group in an attack using Allison as a distraction. They were unsuccessful, and the crowd dispersed as Vanya loosed a wave of energy to throw her siblings aside. Again, they were attacked by Commission assassins and Diego watched as Klaus manifested Ben, who killed all of the assassins, only for Cha-Cha to arrive at the theatre to try to ensure that the apocalypse happened. Diego engaged in a brutal fight with Cha-Cha, but in the end was unable to deliver the final blow because Five had been correct, and he knew Patch would not have wanted to be avenged in that way. Rejoining his siblings, he tried to rush Vanya again only to be held by her power and drained of life until Allison shot a gun next to her sister's head to deafen her and stop her powers. Which worked. Except that a final blast of power struck the moon, triggering the apocalypse. Before they could be killed, Diego and the rest of his siblings attempted to use Five's powers to travel through time to when they were teenagers in another effort to stop the apocalypse.
It is from the moment this jump happened that Diego would arrive.
Personality:
Compassionate: Diego is a sensitive person, and always has been. Growing up, this sensitivity was considered a weakness, not an asset, so Diego has built up very firm walls around his sensitivity to protect himself, and he mostly only expresses his compassion through tough love. But the truth is, Diego is very compassionate. He cares deeply even about his siblings who have hurt him so many times in the past - he tries to get Luther to see how he's been abused even as Luther fights him, he gives rides to Klaus and demands to know why he was crying when he could sense something was wrong with him despite being burned by Klaus' junkie ways in the past, he argues that they should free Vanya from the soundproofed bunker even though he was still angry at her for her tell-all book, he offers to donate blood to save Allison even though he's terrified of needles - and every night he goes out and puts himself at personal risk to protect vulnerable people from crime and violence. Diego is forceful, brusque, and very direct about everything but his feelings, but he genuinely cares about the people around him and is quite sensitive to their well-being. Deep down, he's a very soft Mama's boy who had to force himself to be as hard as possible.
Just: Diego has a very strong sense of justice, and his own extremely firm moral code. Part of why he failed to become a police officer as that he valued justice over law, and couldn't tolerate doing paperwork, chain of possession, and other police procedures at the risk of allowing the perpetrator to go free. He is a vigilante who firmly believes in punishing the bad guy and protecting the innocent, and he sees the world in those very black-and-white terms. One of Diego's most set-in-stone core beliefs is that those who hurt other people should be made to pay for their behaviour, and he doesn't hesitate to follow through on that himself.
Protective/Loyal: The one part of Diego's life where he doesn't always serve justice 100% is when his loyalty is brought into play. There are a few people in the world that Diego will go to bat for no matter what - his siblings, his mother, and Eudora Patch. These people receive his unwavering protection and help no matter what, even if that help comes at the cost of other people he would normally defend. For example, when his brother Klaus was threatened by a group of veterans wanting to kick him out of the veteran bar, Diego entered the fight immediately and without hesitation after failing to mediate between them. Usually, he wouldn't be caught dead beating up war vets, but in this case, Klaus came first. There are several other situations where he makes this kind of decision, prioritizing 'his people' over anyone else. In a survival situation like in LifeAftr, the circle of 'his people' would expand to include people he develops CR with, like it expanded from mom to his siblings and then to Patch.
Reactive: As stoic as Diego tries to be, he is extremely reactive. Some people are capable of keeping a straight face no matter what life throws at them, but Diego is not that person. Diego responds obviously and quickly to worry, affection, criticism, and challenges, he tends to take things personally and literally. Perpetually on guard, he's paranoid and hypersensitive to offense, criticism, and danger, and tends to strike first and ask questions later.
Impulsive: Speaking of striking first and asking questions later, Diego is quite impulsive. He often acts before thinking, whether it's saying something vicious before weighing the consequences of the emotional damage he deals to someone he cares about, or to throw himself through a door instead of stopping to see if it's unlocked first. Diego spends most of his life going with his gut, moving on instinct, on what feels right. Sometimes this can be really helpful, allowing him to help others as quickly as possible. Most of the time, it gets him injured or in a lot of trouble.
Temperamental: Diego has a very short fuse, and is quick to burst into anger, often skipping straight from neutral to shouting and physical violence. It's easy to get under his skin, and he has a tendency to translate most of his uncomfortable feelings into anger, which is a much less vulnerable emotion than hurt, love, or fear. He draws strength from his anger, and uses it to bolster himself up when he's suffering from his low self-esteem or struggling with the other aftereffects of his awful upbringing. It's become an easy coping mechanism and escape for when Diego is hurting and his under-developed emotional intelligence can't work out any other way to express it.
Stubborn: You simply cannot tell Diego anything. Once he's made up his mind about something, nothing changes it, he continues on his own set path and refuses to see any other way of doing things. Even when a suggestion is made that makes sense to him, he still stubbornly refuses to follow it, and does things his own way. Very occasionally, suggestions will make it through his thick skull, but that often takes quite some time and some rumination on his part before he's willing to take advice to heart.
Abilities: Diego has the ability to control the trajectory of objects he throws, usually knives. This manipulation of the thrown object can be relatively simple, or pretty complex and works even when he can't see the object. This control means he pretty much never misses. Diego is also highly trained in general combat skills (hand-to-hand, use of various weapons, stealth [not that he uses it much], survival, etc.), is a professional boxer, and is well-educated.
Inventory: black long-sleeved sweater (torn and repaired multiple times), black jeans, black boots, black leather gloves, several black leather bands around his left wrist, a homemade black bondage-looking harness bandolier to hold throwing knives, approximately 20 throwing knives in the bandolier and hidden in various places on his person, black domino mask (in a pocket)
Sample
Diego on the LifeAftr TDM.
BONUS: PSL thread with Klaus set in canon, pre-series.
Name: coffee
Age: 18x2
Contact:
Current characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Diego Hargreeves
Series: The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Appearance: he's hot, but then he opens his mouth
Age: 29
Canon Point: end of s1e10
Canon History: No one has written up Diego's history, so I have to. Boo.
Diego, along with 42 other children all around the world, was born on October 1, 1989 to a mother that had not been pregnant when the day began. This was a complete anomaly, which caught the interest of Reginald Hargreeves, an eccentric and assholish man with a lot of money, which he used to procure 7 of these children, including Diego. At the time of his procurement, Diego was simply named "Number Two."
Along with his siblings, Diego was raised primarily by a talking monkey named Pogo and an android caregiver named Grace, who was called Mom by the kids, and it was Grace who gave the children names sometime before the age of 13. The childrens' upbringings were very strict and difficult, often traumatizing, as Reginald had procured them in order to create a team of superheroes that he believed would save the world. Seeing them as tools or elements of an experiment rather than as actual people, Reginald forced them into vigorous physical and mental training, educating them well, honing their abilities where possible.
The children were numbered in the order of how useful they would be to Reginald, and while some of them couldn't have cared less about that, Diego could not have cared more. Sensitive and desperately eager to please, Diego has always been devastated that he came in second, and from the moment he understood that that was what happened, tried his hardest to surpass Luther, who was placed in the Number One role and became the de facto leader. As they grew up, the siblings were constantly pitted against each other in training, which created a particular competitive relationship between some of the children - Diego arguably more than most of the others. His desire to people please and the development and encouragement of an ego through training and being egged on in competition by Reginald drove Diego to try everything possible to become the best leader, strongest fighter, and best performer on the team to surpass Number One.
Of course, that never happened.
As a child, Diego had a bad stutter (which he still struggles with in emotional moments) and was something of a lone wolf, not really shown connecting with or being close to the other children. Despite this, it hit him just as hard as the others when Number Five disappeared while trying to time travel with his abilities, and when Number Six, Ben, was killed on a mission. The loss of Five and Six shattered the team, and Diego left home at 17, rebellious and cocky and completely unable to give up the crime-fighting life.
After leaving home, Diego enrolled in the Police Academy, where he met his future girlfriend Eudora Patch, but was removed from it sometime before graduation due to his inability to comply with the rules, regulations, and paperwork that come with being a police officer. After failing out of the Police Academy, he took up vigilantism, donning a domino mask and fighting crime on the streets, doling out what he saw as justice without the limitations of rules and paperwork. During this time, he and Eudora split up due to serious personality differences despite still caring about each other a great deal. Diego also got a job doing janitorial work at a boxing gym, in exchange for use of the boiler room as a place to live. His life continued like this until the day he saw on the news that Reginald Hargreeves had died.
Along with the rest of his siblings, Diego came back to the Academy for their adopted father's funeral, but not until after he'd abused his knowledge of the police station to get a coroner's report on their father's death and cased the house to ensure that the doors and windows were locked. Luther essentially accused his siblings of their father's murder (despite there being no evidence he'd been murdered), which understandably upset everyone. After getting into a fight with Luther during the spreading of their father's ashes later in the day, and accidentally breaking a statue of their deceased brother Ben, Diego was present when their brother Five, who had disappeared when he was 13 years old while attempting time travel, returned from the future having lived to the age of 58 in a post-apocalyptic nightmare but had accidentally jumped back into his teenage body. After the funeral, Diego found their father's missing monocle (the absence of which at the scene of their father's death was a piece of 'evidence' in Luther's accusations) among Grace's things and took it from her to avoid having suspicion fall on her. After that, he drove with Klaus (and unknown to him, Ben as a ghost) to the water, where he threw away Reginald's monocle.
After the siblings mostly dispersed, Diego attended a crime scene at Griddy's Donuts where, unbeknownst to him, Five had recently had a run in with several assassins sent by his former employers. Diego questioned Agnes, the waitress at the shop, for information, and was confronted by Eudora Patch, his former lover and police detective investigating the scene. She arrested him for interfering with a crime scene, though it was mostly just a slap on the wrist as she let him go after bringing him to the station, and they discussed the case a little. She warned him to stay out of it. When returning home, he realized that Luther was in his boiler room apartment, and threw a knife at him (intending to miss) before confronting him - Luther asked Diego why he hadn't told him that he was having a boxing match the night of their father's death and Diego insisted that he didn't need to prove his innocence to his family before kicking Luther out (and eating a whole raw egg because he's disgusting).
Diego went to visit another crime scene and speak to Detective Patch about the case. It was, again unbeknownst to Diego, another scene where Five had been in a fight with assassins, and he discussed with Eudora the similarities and complexity of the case. After returning to the Academy after talking to Eudora, he was told that Allison had found footage of what appeared to be Grace poisoning their father, and admitted to them that he had taken the monocle and disposed of it. The siblings debated whether or not to shut down Grace in case she had done harm to their father (Diego, Vanya, and Klaus opposed; Luther and Allison in favor, with Ben's unacknowledged agreement) but Allison insisted that they needed Five's vote to follow through. After the quorum, Diego went to visit Grace, with whom he had a special relationship ever since he was a child and she helped him get past his stutter, and asked her about their father, trying to see if she may have been angry at him, but she wasn't able to answer coherently and Diego realized that her programming was degrading. Later that day, Hazel and Cha-Cha, higher-level assassins sent after Five, stormed the Academy and fought Luther, Allison, Diego, and Vanya; they also kidnapped Klaus, which no one noticed. Diego became aware of Luther's transformation into a gorilla-man hybrid. After the fight and his realizations about Grace's programming being confirmed when she showed no awareness of the gunfight in the house and accidentally sewed part of her hand into a cross-stitch, Diego chose to shut her down by opening the circuitry on her wrist and stayed with her until she shut down. This was a particularly painful moment for him.
The next morning, Diego went to Eudora's home, seeking comfort after having to shut down Grace, and told her that the assassins had attacked his home, one of his brothers was missing, and his mother had died. The two disagreed about how the case should be handled and Eudora warned Diego to stay out of it, which he refused to do since they had attacked his home and family. Later, after seeing a message left on the van Five had been hiding out in that indicated Diego's brother had been kidnapped, Eudora decided to go to the indicated hotel to look for him, deciding to 'do things his way' as they'd talked about earlier. She called to leave a message at the boxing gym for him. Diego and Luther noticed went looking for him, only to find him passed out drunk in the public library after the two of them discussed their differences in leaving home and their father. The two of them then carried Five back to Diego's place and found out that Five had been an assassin similar to Hazel and Cha-Cha with the Commission. Once they got back to his place, Diego received Eudora's message, realized Klaus was missing, and followed her to the hotel in a panic only to find that she had been shot by Cha-Cha while rescuing Klaus on her own. After cradling her body for a few moments and collecting some evidence from the room, he left, devastated and swearing revenge.
After confronting Five about his assassin coworkers having killed Eudora, he left to go back to the Academy and collect some knives, only to find Klaus there asking for a ride. After begrudgingly giving him the ride, he realized that something was seriously wrong with Klaus and when Klaus asked him to drop him off at a VFA Bar for veterans, he did so but then refused to leave unless Klaus told him what was wrong. After trying and failing to mediate an argument between some veterans and Klaus, who insisted he was a vet and belonged in the bar, Diego got into a brawl with the vets and confronted Klaus again about his drug use and what the problem was in the bar. After Klaus admitted he'd lost someone he loved, Diego empathized but reminded Klaus that he could see his dead loved one whenever he wanted to due to his power. The two then saw Hazel, and Klaus admitted that he'd been tortured by Hazel and Cha-Cha and almost died, which only added more fuel to Diego's revenge plans. The two brothers attempted to confront the assassins at their hotel room after trailing them there, but were ambushed and ended up stealing an ice cream truck, which they used to trail Hazel and Cha-Cha to a place where Luther and Five were trying to trade a fake version of the briefcase for contact with the Handler (leader of the Commission, Five's previous employer), which succeeded. Five was taken off by the Handler, and Diego, Klaus, and Luther escaped in Hazel and Cha-Cha's car.
The next day, Diego regrouped with his siblings and was told by Luther that the world is going to end soon. Along with the others, he opted not to fight it, and instead decided to continue his hunt for Hazel and Cha-Cha. On his way out of the Academy, Klaus asked him to tie him up to a chair so he could get sober. While they had a bit of a tender moment, Klaus confessed that the person he lost was a man named Dave who he met in the Vietnam war after accidentally time traveling after his kidnapping, and that seeing him again was why he was trying to get clean. After Klaus started getting withdrawals and demanded to be untied, Diego hit him several times to subdue him and tied him to the chair before leaving him there to sober up. When he went downstairs, however, he was startled to see that Grace had been repaired and was functional again - she asked him to take her for a walk in the park, something she'd never done before, and then told him that she needed to share a secret. At this point, the day was rewound by Five, and Diego will not remember this day.
The next day, Diego regrouped with his siblings and is told by Luther that the world is going to end soon. This time, Five appeared and convinced them to help him, by presenting them with a solid clue on how to start working on it. Despite his fixation on avenging Eudora, Diego agreed to help, and went with Allison and Five to gather information on Harold Jenkins, the person they had to kill to avert the apocalypse. After a stop at the police station where Diego met with Eudora's detective partner, Beeman, he received Harold Jenkins' police file and was told that he was the prime suspect in Eudora's murder, as his fingerprints were all over the scene. After bringing the file back to the car, Allison identified the picture in it as Vanya's new boyfriend, who she had never trusted, and after they failed to get hold of Vanya, the three broke into Harold's house (Diego jumped through the glass on an unlocked front door while Allison snuck in a window and Five teleported inside - he's a great leader) and discovered defaced Umbrella Academy memorabilia. They realized that this was personal, and after Five passed out from a piece of shrapnel he'd caught in a fight at the start of the day, Allison and Diego regrouped at the Academy and decided to go together to the home of a relative listed in Harold's file. As they left the Academy, however, Diego was arrested for the murder of Detective Patch and taken to jail. Allison proceeded to go to Harold's other location on her own.
In prison, Diego was visited by Beeman, who didn't believe that Diego had killed Eudora, and passed him a key through the bars after a short conversation. After escaping, Diego went back to the Academy to tell Five and Klaus that Allison was in trouble. Luther was not at the house, and they found him shortly thereafter at a bar trying to 'get his buzz on' in misery over his father having sent him to the moon for four years for no reason. Diego took the opportunity to try to confront Luther about how he'd been abused (again) and eventually convinced Luther to come with them by telling him Allison was in danger. The four brothers drove together out to Harold's grandmother's cottage, where they found Allison with her throat slit in a confrontation with Vanya (though they didn't know it was Vanya at the time). They drove her back to the Academy in a panic, where Diego passed out at the sight of a needle while donating blood to save her life.
While trying to find out what had happened to Vanya after the confrontation with Allison, the brothers found Harold killed in his home, and Five matched a prosthetic eye that had been his clue to the identity of the person who triggered the apocalypse. Believing the situation to be sorted, Diego joined the others to try to find Vanya at the Academy to work out what happened, and when she proved not to be there, he prepared to go and leave and continue his revenge for Detective Patch. When Hazel came to the Academy to volunteer to help stop the apocalypse, Diego fought him until he was knocked out by Five for biting during the fight, and Five convinced Hazel to give him the murder weapons to exonerate Diego for Patch's murder. When Diego came to, Five confronted him about what he'd liked about Patch, and after Diego told him that she saw the good in everything, Five questioned whether she would've wanted to be avenged. Diego was stubborn about it, and left angry and still intending to get revenge, but the conversation stuck in his head. Shortly afterward, Allison woke up, told Luther that Vanya had powers, and when Vanya finally returned to the Academy seeking help and forgiveness from her siblings, Luther instead choked her unconscious and locked her in a soundproofed bunker in the basement. After finding this out, Diego (along with Klaus and Allison) tried to convince Luther to let her out, but without success. Vanya, in a fit of rage and despair, found a way to use her powers, broke out of the bunker, and killed Pogo, then proceeded to destroy the entire house. Diego was knocked unconscious as the house came down and was rescued by Ben, though he believed it was Klaus who saved his life. Unfortunately, Grace was destroyed in the collapse of the house, and Diego had to suffer through the loss of her again.
After regrouping at the bowling alley with all his siblings, Diego and the others discussed what to do about Vanya and the apocalypse, realized that she would be playing at a concert that night, and were then attacked by more assassins sent by the Commission. After a rough fight, they escaped and headed to the theatre to confront Vanya, where Luther opted to lead the group in an attack using Allison as a distraction. They were unsuccessful, and the crowd dispersed as Vanya loosed a wave of energy to throw her siblings aside. Again, they were attacked by Commission assassins and Diego watched as Klaus manifested Ben, who killed all of the assassins, only for Cha-Cha to arrive at the theatre to try to ensure that the apocalypse happened. Diego engaged in a brutal fight with Cha-Cha, but in the end was unable to deliver the final blow because Five had been correct, and he knew Patch would not have wanted to be avenged in that way. Rejoining his siblings, he tried to rush Vanya again only to be held by her power and drained of life until Allison shot a gun next to her sister's head to deafen her and stop her powers. Which worked. Except that a final blast of power struck the moon, triggering the apocalypse. Before they could be killed, Diego and the rest of his siblings attempted to use Five's powers to travel through time to when they were teenagers in another effort to stop the apocalypse.
It is from the moment this jump happened that Diego would arrive.
Personality:
Compassionate: Diego is a sensitive person, and always has been. Growing up, this sensitivity was considered a weakness, not an asset, so Diego has built up very firm walls around his sensitivity to protect himself, and he mostly only expresses his compassion through tough love. But the truth is, Diego is very compassionate. He cares deeply even about his siblings who have hurt him so many times in the past - he tries to get Luther to see how he's been abused even as Luther fights him, he gives rides to Klaus and demands to know why he was crying when he could sense something was wrong with him despite being burned by Klaus' junkie ways in the past, he argues that they should free Vanya from the soundproofed bunker even though he was still angry at her for her tell-all book, he offers to donate blood to save Allison even though he's terrified of needles - and every night he goes out and puts himself at personal risk to protect vulnerable people from crime and violence. Diego is forceful, brusque, and very direct about everything but his feelings, but he genuinely cares about the people around him and is quite sensitive to their well-being. Deep down, he's a very soft Mama's boy who had to force himself to be as hard as possible.
Just: Diego has a very strong sense of justice, and his own extremely firm moral code. Part of why he failed to become a police officer as that he valued justice over law, and couldn't tolerate doing paperwork, chain of possession, and other police procedures at the risk of allowing the perpetrator to go free. He is a vigilante who firmly believes in punishing the bad guy and protecting the innocent, and he sees the world in those very black-and-white terms. One of Diego's most set-in-stone core beliefs is that those who hurt other people should be made to pay for their behaviour, and he doesn't hesitate to follow through on that himself.
Protective/Loyal: The one part of Diego's life where he doesn't always serve justice 100% is when his loyalty is brought into play. There are a few people in the world that Diego will go to bat for no matter what - his siblings, his mother, and Eudora Patch. These people receive his unwavering protection and help no matter what, even if that help comes at the cost of other people he would normally defend. For example, when his brother Klaus was threatened by a group of veterans wanting to kick him out of the veteran bar, Diego entered the fight immediately and without hesitation after failing to mediate between them. Usually, he wouldn't be caught dead beating up war vets, but in this case, Klaus came first. There are several other situations where he makes this kind of decision, prioritizing 'his people' over anyone else. In a survival situation like in LifeAftr, the circle of 'his people' would expand to include people he develops CR with, like it expanded from mom to his siblings and then to Patch.
Reactive: As stoic as Diego tries to be, he is extremely reactive. Some people are capable of keeping a straight face no matter what life throws at them, but Diego is not that person. Diego responds obviously and quickly to worry, affection, criticism, and challenges, he tends to take things personally and literally. Perpetually on guard, he's paranoid and hypersensitive to offense, criticism, and danger, and tends to strike first and ask questions later.
Impulsive: Speaking of striking first and asking questions later, Diego is quite impulsive. He often acts before thinking, whether it's saying something vicious before weighing the consequences of the emotional damage he deals to someone he cares about, or to throw himself through a door instead of stopping to see if it's unlocked first. Diego spends most of his life going with his gut, moving on instinct, on what feels right. Sometimes this can be really helpful, allowing him to help others as quickly as possible. Most of the time, it gets him injured or in a lot of trouble.
Temperamental: Diego has a very short fuse, and is quick to burst into anger, often skipping straight from neutral to shouting and physical violence. It's easy to get under his skin, and he has a tendency to translate most of his uncomfortable feelings into anger, which is a much less vulnerable emotion than hurt, love, or fear. He draws strength from his anger, and uses it to bolster himself up when he's suffering from his low self-esteem or struggling with the other aftereffects of his awful upbringing. It's become an easy coping mechanism and escape for when Diego is hurting and his under-developed emotional intelligence can't work out any other way to express it.
Stubborn: You simply cannot tell Diego anything. Once he's made up his mind about something, nothing changes it, he continues on his own set path and refuses to see any other way of doing things. Even when a suggestion is made that makes sense to him, he still stubbornly refuses to follow it, and does things his own way. Very occasionally, suggestions will make it through his thick skull, but that often takes quite some time and some rumination on his part before he's willing to take advice to heart.
Abilities: Diego has the ability to control the trajectory of objects he throws, usually knives. This manipulation of the thrown object can be relatively simple, or pretty complex and works even when he can't see the object. This control means he pretty much never misses. Diego is also highly trained in general combat skills (hand-to-hand, use of various weapons, stealth [not that he uses it much], survival, etc.), is a professional boxer, and is well-educated.
Inventory: black long-sleeved sweater (torn and repaired multiple times), black jeans, black boots, black leather gloves, several black leather bands around his left wrist, a homemade black bondage-looking harness bandolier to hold throwing knives, approximately 20 throwing knives in the bandolier and hidden in various places on his person, black domino mask (in a pocket)
Sample
Diego on the LifeAftr TDM.
BONUS: PSL thread with Klaus set in canon, pre-series.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
