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Player Information
Name: Kels
Timezone: GMT -8 (Pacific Standard)
Personal Journal: vaultedthewall
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM: Riceballtohru
Email Address: exitmouse@gmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: De nadda
How did you hear about us?: I'd heard about the game here and there around the interwebs for a while, but Mukuro's player is also my BFF so she told me about how much fun she was having. (And I had her look over my app to make sure she didn't object to my usage of her character as well!)
Character Information
Name: Chrome Dokuro (Real Name: Nagi)
Canon Origin/Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
School Year: 3rd Year
Gender: Female
Age: 14 (Birthday: December 5th)
Out of school living location: Currently Glasglow, Scotland. (Previously Cardiff.)
Blood status: Pureblood (very likely - her biological father was unknown but her mother was unlikely to 'mix blood')
Personality: Despite all that Chrome has been through she isn't what you'd call 'emo'. She's pretty chill and content when it comes to her situation, never lamenting that her life is bad enough that she should have her own sitcom. This is mainly because she doesn't believe her situation is worth lamenting. She is devoted entirely to her foster brother Mukuro and whatever his cause may be - even knowing what kind of person he really is and much of what he's done, she believes in him, the one who saved her life and in turn gave her something worth living for. If anything, she feels a little sad for other people who don't get a chance to know that kind of higher purpose, thinking they must probably live in the same dreary existence she had before
In contrast to the weakness of her body due to an accident a few years ago, she does have moments of very strong resolve, if only because she wants to 'be worthy' of being able to call Mukuro her brother. And hey, if nothing else, you can't fall off the floor. She does have a rather deadpan honesty when it comes to seeing the bigger picture.
Chrome has a crippling social shyness - she doesn't understand being shown kindness, and it confuses and frightens her most of the time when people show her care and concern without clear desire for something in return. Only Mukuro can get away with these things. She will be content to work with any group that she has to for whatever reason, no matter how they treated her, but she would probably feel more comfortable when treated like dirt honestly. Better the devil you know. This has resulted in her very likely as being seen as "that weird girl with the eyepatch who spends most of her time in the hospital wing and never talks to anyone".
Aside from Mukuro, her only other real friend is her large snowy owl. She calls it "Mukuowl". While Mukuro has expressed finding this a little weird, he seems to allow it so Chrome is content to keep that as its name.
Canon Background: Basically Chrome's life is to be a testament to what you can actually live through.
Born as Nagi to a semi-wealthy family, as a young girl she got hit be a truck while trying to save a stray cat. Aww, how cute, how sweet, she's the perfect girl, everyone must love such a caring young lady, right?
WRONG.
In the flashbacks we see her laying awake in her hospital bed, her parents standing right outside her room debating whether its worth it or not to pay the money to try and save her, if they want to go through the trouble of taking care of her after that, and if her mother wants to deal with the scars from blood and organ transfusion to try to save her daughter's life (she doesn't).
Nagi is awake. Nagi can hear them. Her response to this is "Meh."
Clearly such things are not new or even uncommon. This little snippet of what would be the most traumatic moment of any human's life is the baseline standard for hers.
From what we can tell later on she doesn't seem to hate or resent her mother and stepfather for this, however. On the contrary. She is thankful for their callous behavior because it lead her to what she considers the most important moment of her life.
The night she fell asleep in the hospital, resigned to death, and in her dream met one Mukuro Rokudo. He was trapped in the sensory deprivation tank in the Vindice prison, and was going on a little dream walking stroll, casually observing how very fucked Nagi's situation was. She then surprised him by using previously unknown lucid dreaming abilities and talking back.
In her dream Mukuro offered her a deal. He'd save her life (a good half of her internal organs were completely destroyed, and she was kept alive only by machinery for the time being) and in return, she lets him possess her as he needs and she acts as his vassal in the waking world. Or, in the terms that Nagi heard it - "I'll save your life, and in return I'll also give it meaning."
Nagi accepted the deal, and has never once looked back or regretted it.
Mukuro used his illusionary powers to basically fool the girl's body into believing that it was alive, that she was fine and her organs were functioning as they should be. She took on the name Kuromu Dokuro - an anagram of Mukuro Rokudo commonly translated as "Chrome Dokuro" - and began to wear her hair just like him, to cover the empty socket where her right eye should be with a patch so that it gave the illusion of being more like Mukuro (his right eye being the freaky one). She got a uniform to the same school that Mukuro stole his outfit from as well, and overall became a cute little moe-tan version of Mukuro.
As far as she's concerned, Nagi died that day in the hospital. No, she never told her parents or said goodbye to them. They were Nagi's parents. Chrome had meaning to her life. She had Mukuro to follow.
Of course things couldn't be entirely sunshine and daises after that. She still had to find and fit in with Mukuro's gang or what was left of it. Ken and Chikusa initially rejected her but the joke was on them, she was used to rejection and wasn't bothered by it. Eventually they grudgingly accepted her due to her giving them a link to Mukuro, whom they also were fiercely devoted to. Somewhere along the way they also began to actually care for her, though both of them being very tsundere were quite callous to her face, only showing caring when she was elsewhere and possibly hurt.
She becomes the Mist Guardian for Tsuna's familia by proxy - the position is actually offered to Mukuro, but since he's in prison he needs Chrome to act through, so she wears the Mist Guardian ring and is the one 'on paper' as it were. She fights in Mukuro's place and basically exists as a way for the party to have Mukuro in their team (as he can possess Chrome when needed) without the utter godmode of having Mukuro in their team all the time. Because that would be far too unfair this early into the shounen manga.
Despite being part of the familia, Chrome doesn't live with or near any of Tsuna's other guardians, instead basically squatting in abandoned buildings with Ken and Chikusa as the three are more or less homeless. Chrome doesn't mind, though. Ken and Chikusa, as cruel as they sometimes are to her to hide their affection, are the best friends she has ever had. Just like how she will always follow Mukuro, because the serial killer is the first person to ever show her kindness.
After facing several challenges alongside the Vongola, Chrome is thrown ten years into the future with the rest of the team into the dark dystopian world that it's become. Unlike the others, again, she isn't brought in with the group but sent there on her own. Alone and lost, she finds her way to the abandoned building that served most frequently as their gang's hideout and... just sits and waits, putting her faith in them to find her.
Except Chrome of the future was in hiding, and no one knew where she was, either.
Days later, after suffering malnutrition (again half her organs are not real, yes it apparently CAN go downhill from there) and probably exposure as well, she's found. Not by allies, though, but by enemies. Sorely outmatched, Chrome still tries to fight. Only she's got an ace up her sleeve. Or rather, Mukuro has an ace or five up his sleeve and uses this one to aide Chrome, taking over the animal companion of the killer sent after her and channeling his power through her to save her and make the enemy wish he was dead. She is unfortunately still suffering exhaustion, exposure, and malnutrition. This time, the next person that finds her is thankfully on their side - the boxer and Sun Guardian, Ryohei. He takes her back to the goodguys and Chrome proceeds to spend the next several dozen chapters in a coma from her ordeal.
Since she's still a satellite to Team Protagonist, she doesn't really get many visitors. In fact, the only two that do visit her are two side characters who seem to more pity her than anything else. Other than that, she's shoved into a hospital bed and forgotten about.
Gee, this isn't familiar at all.
The only actual visitor she gets is Hibari, the Cloud Guardian with a grudge against Mukuro bigger than Russia. He comes in when the illusions creating her organs are failing and no one can do anything because there ain't nothing there to fix. Hibari urges her even in her unconscious state to use her power to make her OWN illusions instead of relying on Mukuro's. While it is never stated explicitly, its implied that he did it primarily so he could get a chance to fight Mukuro again, and Chrome is their only link to him. Regardless, it works, and Chrome is able to stabilize herself by permanently turning the Mist Ring into a low-powered 'on' state and keep her organs going.
After she wakes up some of the other girls in the team try to extend kindness and welcome Chrome. She's only able to put up with it for a little bit before she runs off, going through extreme culture shock at this simple normal display of kindness. She just doesn't understand it. It confuses and frightens her.
In the dark future her lucid dreaming comes in handy again and she shares prophetic dreams with Tsunayoshi, the hero protagonist of this manga. She continues to fight alongside them, and again functions as a link to Mukuro. Or in this case, an early warning signal that Mukuro is coming. Because this time press A this ain't no cutscene! Mukuro is real. His team busted him out of prison, and he's ready to roll.
One member of his gang in the future tries to warn Chrome of her fate. "He's just using you to free himself from the prison in your time, he doesn't actually care about you. He'll throw you away as soon as you stop being useful." Chrome listens to her warning and replies, as politely as possible, that she is aware of all of this. She doesn't care. She'll still follow him to the ends of the earth, even if he decides to abandon her there.
At the end of the dark future arc, with everything resolved and the heroes saving the day, Chrome is sent home with the others and back to the past.
After that business went back to normal - she went back to hanging with Mukuro's crew away from Team Tsuna, though they kept in contact with the arrival of the Shimon family and the inheritance ceremony that Tsuna was part of. It was Chrome's place, as Mukuro's stand-in. Unfortunately this has lead her to recently being kidnapped by a member of the Shimon family when the turned out to be evil. He's got her under a sort of creepy mind control when you consider his interest in her (which she flat-out dismissed previously) and the fact that she's thirteen and he's actually like an over-a-hundred year old guy (who is either an immortal or a body-jumper or some wacky thing). That shit was creepy in Twilight when the girl was four years older, okay. But hey at least she got a cute new uniform?
Background (AU!Canon; HP): {Dirty} Chrome's childhood was very much the same as it was in canon - she grew up with her mother and a step-father, never knowing who her real father was (it's unimportant). Her step-father was a very important politician, and mother was busy being wealthy and beautiful. Chrome - then Nagi - spent most of her childhood quite lonely, with only books and animals to keep her company. Two years before she would enter Hogwarts, a purely political move on her step-father's part would lead to Nagi's life changing forever.
He sponsored a "poor orphan" in his education - it was better than foster care because it basically involved throwing money into an "educational fund" for one Mukuro Rokudo without actually ever having to deal with said child. It is entirely likely that he ever even met the boy. Nagi did, though. She was only two years younger so it made for good photos to have her there as her step-father's "liaison" (which meant the lawyer stood behind the camera when it came out, and Nagi was seen-but-not-heard, wearing a pretty dress and a pretty smile). Nagi was completely taken with the charming boy, and began writing him regular letters as the time passed while she was waiting to be old enough to attend Hogwarts. It was a connection that actually seemed to care half a damn about her, and for that small bit of attention that came in the letters, she didn't mind the possibility that he was just staying in her good graces because her step-father was paying for his education.
Unfortunately, in the last few weeks of summer before she was to attend Hogwarts for her first year, tragedy struck in the form of a traffic accident. Nagi was barely more than a mess of blood and broken bones on the pavement, but she was still alive. Barely. She was rushed to St. Mungo's emergency ward, but there seemed to be little they could do other than maintain her condition for the time being. They'd done miracles before, but the damage was so extensive it seemed impossible she didn't die on the spot in the first place. She'd need organ transplants from a matching blood doner, and even then it was a big if on whether or not it would save her. The chance of cutting up her own body for the child she didn't care much for in the first place and for even potentially no gain from that at all didn't appeal to her mother, and Nagi's parents were honestly rather accepting of the fact that she wouldn't make it.
For whatever reasons he had, Mukuro Rokudo wasn't so content with this course of action.
The next visit Nagi had was Mukuro telling her that he could save her, if she trusted him entirely.
There was no pause, no hesitation or wavering of her voice when Nagi told Mukuro that she did.
Through experimental spell-craft and potion work they were able to devise a plan. Rather than transplanting, they would fool Chrome's body into healing itself, and thinking that it was already healed while that worked. The key to this, and why she had to trust Mukuro, was that from here on out it would be literally impossible for her to live without him. His special blood - due to the experiments by his family in his childhood - was a key ingredient in the potion that keeps her alive. Advanced spell-craft has tricked her body into believing that nothing is wrong with it, allowing to function as long as she takes it easy rather than keeping her hooked up to a dozen magical machines in a hospital ward though if she over-strains herself she tends to faint. This still allowed her to attend Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry like she should, albeit she began a couple months later than the rest of her year. Already shy around strangers, this clear division between her and the other students didn't help her much in that regard. She'd missed out on the key time when everyone was new, so it was okay to be shy, or new, or a little weird. All she had was Mukuro.
She was perfectly fine with this.
Through it all, the only thing she asked of her parents was that she would be allowed to go by the name Chrome Dokuro from now on - a change to match Mukuro's name. A relatively simple request, they were happy enough to grant it.
Because it is quite impossible for her to continue living without Mukuro, rather than going home to stay with her family in Cardiff over the summer, she goes wherever Mukuro goes. She has a personal bank account which she gets a regular allowance deposited into, and otherwise has no further contact with her mother and step-father.
She has basically no friends aside from the upperclassman who takes care of her (mostly through her own doing, as she's too shy to make them or respond to any overtures of friendship with anything but awkward confusion), is living only through one big miracle of medical magic, and frequently ends up in the hospital wing anyway because she tried to push herself and just keep up with the other students. Chrome could not be happier with her life. {Diana}
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor Considering what she's been through, Chrome could probably be qualified as fairly courageous (apparently ranked as #1 in a "Five Most Courageous characters" poll in one magazine), although she doesn't think of herself as such. She doesn't care for the limelight that most Gryffindors do, and in every day situations she is quite timid and gives the impression of a wilting flower or scared animal. On the other hand, if she has reason to believe something is necessary, she will face it head-on without fear and not back down.
Slytherin While she isn't particularly ambitious or cunning, Chrome is very resourceful. Even when just told what an outcome needs to be and given few or no tools to do so, she doesn't complain and usually just puts her nose to the grind and works with what she has. She would rather be a follower than a leader, unless someone she has faith in as a leader places her in charge in their absence.
Hufflepuff Loyalty is probably one of Chrome's more defining traits. When she has pledged herself to something, neither hell nor high water can convince her to break it. For example, she probably knows more about Mukuro and his past than most people do, and yet she is still unwavering in her faith and devotion to him. She also enjoys hard work despite her frail form, wanting very much to prove herself as self-sufficient and not needing of constant support and care.
Ravenclaw Chrome is an average to slightly above average student, but she still has a great love of learning just about anything. She wants quite a bit to be useful, so she does seek out knowledge where she can and will do her best even if she's not a natural at it. While 'neglect' may not be the best term to describe her childhood she was often left to her own devices, so it's given a rather unique slant to her creativity and outlook of the world. Though she spends much time in the hospital wing from her weakness, she also makes sure to keep up on her studies and her schoolwork.
Sample Journal Entry: I've been told to write in this, though I'm not sure I understand the point of a journal that everyone reads. Still, if Mukuro is doing it, I will do it too.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Chrome awoke to the familiar ceiling of the hospital wing. She was in her usual bed (there often enough to have a 'usual bed') and with the absence of company took the time of peace and quiet gifted to her to try and remember how she got there.
What was the last class she was in again? It was outside... Herbology. Right. It came flooding back to her, the nature hike that she was so looking forward to, pushing herself too far, taking a bad fall in a bad area - and here she was, back in the hospital wing. Again. They hadn't even gotten that far from the castle. She supposed the Professor was very put out by that, not to mention the TA and the other students.
"It won't happen again." Chrome told herself quietly, rubbing at her good eye with the heel of her palm. "Do better next time."
The sound of the door opening signaled Chrome to the arrival of the nurse, and she struggled to sit up in bed so they would know she was awake.
"E-excuse me..." she called, hesitantly, to gain attention. Even her tiny voice echoed in the otherwise empty room, and it got the attention she was hoping for. "I was-"
"Wondering if you could get your homework assignments for the day if you'll be kept here?" the nurse asked, reciting Chrome's usual request before placing the papers on her bedside table. Chrome ducked her head down to avoid making eye contact - of course, this was all routine by now. "Lunch just passed, though you'll probably be back out before dinner. Remember to rest."
With that the nurse pulled the curtain closed around Chrome's bed, how she normally preferred it. That way she was partitioned off from the others, able to do her homework in peace.
Name: Kels
Timezone: GMT -8 (Pacific Standard)
Personal Journal: vaultedthewall
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM: Riceballtohru
Email Address: exitmouse@gmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: De nadda
How did you hear about us?: I'd heard about the game here and there around the interwebs for a while, but Mukuro's player is also my BFF so she told me about how much fun she was having. (And I had her look over my app to make sure she didn't object to my usage of her character as well!)
Character Information
Name: Chrome Dokuro (Real Name: Nagi)
Canon Origin/Series: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
School Year: 3rd Year
Gender: Female
Age: 14 (Birthday: December 5th)
Out of school living location: Currently Glasglow, Scotland. (Previously Cardiff.)
Blood status: Pureblood (very likely - her biological father was unknown but her mother was unlikely to 'mix blood')
Personality: Despite all that Chrome has been through she isn't what you'd call 'emo'. She's pretty chill and content when it comes to her situation, never lamenting that her life is bad enough that she should have her own sitcom. This is mainly because she doesn't believe her situation is worth lamenting. She is devoted entirely to her foster brother Mukuro and whatever his cause may be - even knowing what kind of person he really is and much of what he's done, she believes in him, the one who saved her life and in turn gave her something worth living for. If anything, she feels a little sad for other people who don't get a chance to know that kind of higher purpose, thinking they must probably live in the same dreary existence she had before
In contrast to the weakness of her body due to an accident a few years ago, she does have moments of very strong resolve, if only because she wants to 'be worthy' of being able to call Mukuro her brother. And hey, if nothing else, you can't fall off the floor. She does have a rather deadpan honesty when it comes to seeing the bigger picture.
Chrome has a crippling social shyness - she doesn't understand being shown kindness, and it confuses and frightens her most of the time when people show her care and concern without clear desire for something in return. Only Mukuro can get away with these things. She will be content to work with any group that she has to for whatever reason, no matter how they treated her, but she would probably feel more comfortable when treated like dirt honestly. Better the devil you know. This has resulted in her very likely as being seen as "that weird girl with the eyepatch who spends most of her time in the hospital wing and never talks to anyone".
Aside from Mukuro, her only other real friend is her large snowy owl. She calls it "Mukuowl". While Mukuro has expressed finding this a little weird, he seems to allow it so Chrome is content to keep that as its name.
Canon Background: Basically Chrome's life is to be a testament to what you can actually live through.
Born as Nagi to a semi-wealthy family, as a young girl she got hit be a truck while trying to save a stray cat. Aww, how cute, how sweet, she's the perfect girl, everyone must love such a caring young lady, right?
WRONG.
In the flashbacks we see her laying awake in her hospital bed, her parents standing right outside her room debating whether its worth it or not to pay the money to try and save her, if they want to go through the trouble of taking care of her after that, and if her mother wants to deal with the scars from blood and organ transfusion to try to save her daughter's life (she doesn't).
Nagi is awake. Nagi can hear them. Her response to this is "Meh."
Clearly such things are not new or even uncommon. This little snippet of what would be the most traumatic moment of any human's life is the baseline standard for hers.
From what we can tell later on she doesn't seem to hate or resent her mother and stepfather for this, however. On the contrary. She is thankful for their callous behavior because it lead her to what she considers the most important moment of her life.
The night she fell asleep in the hospital, resigned to death, and in her dream met one Mukuro Rokudo. He was trapped in the sensory deprivation tank in the Vindice prison, and was going on a little dream walking stroll, casually observing how very fucked Nagi's situation was. She then surprised him by using previously unknown lucid dreaming abilities and talking back.
In her dream Mukuro offered her a deal. He'd save her life (a good half of her internal organs were completely destroyed, and she was kept alive only by machinery for the time being) and in return, she lets him possess her as he needs and she acts as his vassal in the waking world. Or, in the terms that Nagi heard it - "I'll save your life, and in return I'll also give it meaning."
Nagi accepted the deal, and has never once looked back or regretted it.
Mukuro used his illusionary powers to basically fool the girl's body into believing that it was alive, that she was fine and her organs were functioning as they should be. She took on the name Kuromu Dokuro - an anagram of Mukuro Rokudo commonly translated as "Chrome Dokuro" - and began to wear her hair just like him, to cover the empty socket where her right eye should be with a patch so that it gave the illusion of being more like Mukuro (his right eye being the freaky one). She got a uniform to the same school that Mukuro stole his outfit from as well, and overall became a cute little moe-tan version of Mukuro.
As far as she's concerned, Nagi died that day in the hospital. No, she never told her parents or said goodbye to them. They were Nagi's parents. Chrome had meaning to her life. She had Mukuro to follow.
Of course things couldn't be entirely sunshine and daises after that. She still had to find and fit in with Mukuro's gang or what was left of it. Ken and Chikusa initially rejected her but the joke was on them, she was used to rejection and wasn't bothered by it. Eventually they grudgingly accepted her due to her giving them a link to Mukuro, whom they also were fiercely devoted to. Somewhere along the way they also began to actually care for her, though both of them being very tsundere were quite callous to her face, only showing caring when she was elsewhere and possibly hurt.
She becomes the Mist Guardian for Tsuna's familia by proxy - the position is actually offered to Mukuro, but since he's in prison he needs Chrome to act through, so she wears the Mist Guardian ring and is the one 'on paper' as it were. She fights in Mukuro's place and basically exists as a way for the party to have Mukuro in their team (as he can possess Chrome when needed) without the utter godmode of having Mukuro in their team all the time. Because that would be far too unfair this early into the shounen manga.
Despite being part of the familia, Chrome doesn't live with or near any of Tsuna's other guardians, instead basically squatting in abandoned buildings with Ken and Chikusa as the three are more or less homeless. Chrome doesn't mind, though. Ken and Chikusa, as cruel as they sometimes are to her to hide their affection, are the best friends she has ever had. Just like how she will always follow Mukuro, because the serial killer is the first person to ever show her kindness.
After facing several challenges alongside the Vongola, Chrome is thrown ten years into the future with the rest of the team into the dark dystopian world that it's become. Unlike the others, again, she isn't brought in with the group but sent there on her own. Alone and lost, she finds her way to the abandoned building that served most frequently as their gang's hideout and... just sits and waits, putting her faith in them to find her.
Except Chrome of the future was in hiding, and no one knew where she was, either.
Days later, after suffering malnutrition (again half her organs are not real, yes it apparently CAN go downhill from there) and probably exposure as well, she's found. Not by allies, though, but by enemies. Sorely outmatched, Chrome still tries to fight. Only she's got an ace up her sleeve. Or rather, Mukuro has an ace or five up his sleeve and uses this one to aide Chrome, taking over the animal companion of the killer sent after her and channeling his power through her to save her and make the enemy wish he was dead. She is unfortunately still suffering exhaustion, exposure, and malnutrition. This time, the next person that finds her is thankfully on their side - the boxer and Sun Guardian, Ryohei. He takes her back to the goodguys and Chrome proceeds to spend the next several dozen chapters in a coma from her ordeal.
Since she's still a satellite to Team Protagonist, she doesn't really get many visitors. In fact, the only two that do visit her are two side characters who seem to more pity her than anything else. Other than that, she's shoved into a hospital bed and forgotten about.
Gee, this isn't familiar at all.
The only actual visitor she gets is Hibari, the Cloud Guardian with a grudge against Mukuro bigger than Russia. He comes in when the illusions creating her organs are failing and no one can do anything because there ain't nothing there to fix. Hibari urges her even in her unconscious state to use her power to make her OWN illusions instead of relying on Mukuro's. While it is never stated explicitly, its implied that he did it primarily so he could get a chance to fight Mukuro again, and Chrome is their only link to him. Regardless, it works, and Chrome is able to stabilize herself by permanently turning the Mist Ring into a low-powered 'on' state and keep her organs going.
After she wakes up some of the other girls in the team try to extend kindness and welcome Chrome. She's only able to put up with it for a little bit before she runs off, going through extreme culture shock at this simple normal display of kindness. She just doesn't understand it. It confuses and frightens her.
In the dark future her lucid dreaming comes in handy again and she shares prophetic dreams with Tsunayoshi, the hero protagonist of this manga. She continues to fight alongside them, and again functions as a link to Mukuro. Or in this case, an early warning signal that Mukuro is coming. Because this time press A this ain't no cutscene! Mukuro is real. His team busted him out of prison, and he's ready to roll.
One member of his gang in the future tries to warn Chrome of her fate. "He's just using you to free himself from the prison in your time, he doesn't actually care about you. He'll throw you away as soon as you stop being useful." Chrome listens to her warning and replies, as politely as possible, that she is aware of all of this. She doesn't care. She'll still follow him to the ends of the earth, even if he decides to abandon her there.
At the end of the dark future arc, with everything resolved and the heroes saving the day, Chrome is sent home with the others and back to the past.
After that business went back to normal - she went back to hanging with Mukuro's crew away from Team Tsuna, though they kept in contact with the arrival of the Shimon family and the inheritance ceremony that Tsuna was part of. It was Chrome's place, as Mukuro's stand-in. Unfortunately this has lead her to recently being kidnapped by a member of the Shimon family when the turned out to be evil. He's got her under a sort of creepy mind control when you consider his interest in her (which she flat-out dismissed previously) and the fact that she's thirteen and he's actually like an over-a-hundred year old guy (who is either an immortal or a body-jumper or some wacky thing). That shit was creepy in Twilight when the girl was four years older, okay. But hey at least she got a cute new uniform?
Background (AU!Canon; HP): {Dirty} Chrome's childhood was very much the same as it was in canon - she grew up with her mother and a step-father, never knowing who her real father was (it's unimportant). Her step-father was a very important politician, and mother was busy being wealthy and beautiful. Chrome - then Nagi - spent most of her childhood quite lonely, with only books and animals to keep her company. Two years before she would enter Hogwarts, a purely political move on her step-father's part would lead to Nagi's life changing forever.
He sponsored a "poor orphan" in his education - it was better than foster care because it basically involved throwing money into an "educational fund" for one Mukuro Rokudo without actually ever having to deal with said child. It is entirely likely that he ever even met the boy. Nagi did, though. She was only two years younger so it made for good photos to have her there as her step-father's "liaison" (which meant the lawyer stood behind the camera when it came out, and Nagi was seen-but-not-heard, wearing a pretty dress and a pretty smile). Nagi was completely taken with the charming boy, and began writing him regular letters as the time passed while she was waiting to be old enough to attend Hogwarts. It was a connection that actually seemed to care half a damn about her, and for that small bit of attention that came in the letters, she didn't mind the possibility that he was just staying in her good graces because her step-father was paying for his education.
Unfortunately, in the last few weeks of summer before she was to attend Hogwarts for her first year, tragedy struck in the form of a traffic accident. Nagi was barely more than a mess of blood and broken bones on the pavement, but she was still alive. Barely. She was rushed to St. Mungo's emergency ward, but there seemed to be little they could do other than maintain her condition for the time being. They'd done miracles before, but the damage was so extensive it seemed impossible she didn't die on the spot in the first place. She'd need organ transplants from a matching blood doner, and even then it was a big if on whether or not it would save her. The chance of cutting up her own body for the child she didn't care much for in the first place and for even potentially no gain from that at all didn't appeal to her mother, and Nagi's parents were honestly rather accepting of the fact that she wouldn't make it.
For whatever reasons he had, Mukuro Rokudo wasn't so content with this course of action.
The next visit Nagi had was Mukuro telling her that he could save her, if she trusted him entirely.
There was no pause, no hesitation or wavering of her voice when Nagi told Mukuro that she did.
Through experimental spell-craft and potion work they were able to devise a plan. Rather than transplanting, they would fool Chrome's body into healing itself, and thinking that it was already healed while that worked. The key to this, and why she had to trust Mukuro, was that from here on out it would be literally impossible for her to live without him. His special blood - due to the experiments by his family in his childhood - was a key ingredient in the potion that keeps her alive. Advanced spell-craft has tricked her body into believing that nothing is wrong with it, allowing to function as long as she takes it easy rather than keeping her hooked up to a dozen magical machines in a hospital ward though if she over-strains herself she tends to faint. This still allowed her to attend Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry like she should, albeit she began a couple months later than the rest of her year. Already shy around strangers, this clear division between her and the other students didn't help her much in that regard. She'd missed out on the key time when everyone was new, so it was okay to be shy, or new, or a little weird. All she had was Mukuro.
She was perfectly fine with this.
Through it all, the only thing she asked of her parents was that she would be allowed to go by the name Chrome Dokuro from now on - a change to match Mukuro's name. A relatively simple request, they were happy enough to grant it.
Because it is quite impossible for her to continue living without Mukuro, rather than going home to stay with her family in Cardiff over the summer, she goes wherever Mukuro goes. She has a personal bank account which she gets a regular allowance deposited into, and otherwise has no further contact with her mother and step-father.
She has basically no friends aside from the upperclassman who takes care of her (mostly through her own doing, as she's too shy to make them or respond to any overtures of friendship with anything but awkward confusion), is living only through one big miracle of medical magic, and frequently ends up in the hospital wing anyway because she tried to push herself and just keep up with the other students. Chrome could not be happier with her life. {Diana}
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor Considering what she's been through, Chrome could probably be qualified as fairly courageous (apparently ranked as #1 in a "Five Most Courageous characters" poll in one magazine), although she doesn't think of herself as such. She doesn't care for the limelight that most Gryffindors do, and in every day situations she is quite timid and gives the impression of a wilting flower or scared animal. On the other hand, if she has reason to believe something is necessary, she will face it head-on without fear and not back down.
Slytherin While she isn't particularly ambitious or cunning, Chrome is very resourceful. Even when just told what an outcome needs to be and given few or no tools to do so, she doesn't complain and usually just puts her nose to the grind and works with what she has. She would rather be a follower than a leader, unless someone she has faith in as a leader places her in charge in their absence.
Hufflepuff Loyalty is probably one of Chrome's more defining traits. When she has pledged herself to something, neither hell nor high water can convince her to break it. For example, she probably knows more about Mukuro and his past than most people do, and yet she is still unwavering in her faith and devotion to him. She also enjoys hard work despite her frail form, wanting very much to prove herself as self-sufficient and not needing of constant support and care.
Ravenclaw Chrome is an average to slightly above average student, but she still has a great love of learning just about anything. She wants quite a bit to be useful, so she does seek out knowledge where she can and will do her best even if she's not a natural at it. While 'neglect' may not be the best term to describe her childhood she was often left to her own devices, so it's given a rather unique slant to her creativity and outlook of the world. Though she spends much time in the hospital wing from her weakness, she also makes sure to keep up on her studies and her schoolwork.
Sample Journal Entry: I've been told to write in this, though I'm not sure I understand the point of a journal that everyone reads. Still, if Mukuro is doing it, I will do it too.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Chrome awoke to the familiar ceiling of the hospital wing. She was in her usual bed (there often enough to have a 'usual bed') and with the absence of company took the time of peace and quiet gifted to her to try and remember how she got there.
What was the last class she was in again? It was outside... Herbology. Right. It came flooding back to her, the nature hike that she was so looking forward to, pushing herself too far, taking a bad fall in a bad area - and here she was, back in the hospital wing. Again. They hadn't even gotten that far from the castle. She supposed the Professor was very put out by that, not to mention the TA and the other students.
"It won't happen again." Chrome told herself quietly, rubbing at her good eye with the heel of her palm. "Do better next time."
The sound of the door opening signaled Chrome to the arrival of the nurse, and she struggled to sit up in bed so they would know she was awake.
"E-excuse me..." she called, hesitantly, to gain attention. Even her tiny voice echoed in the otherwise empty room, and it got the attention she was hoping for. "I was-"
"Wondering if you could get your homework assignments for the day if you'll be kept here?" the nurse asked, reciting Chrome's usual request before placing the papers on her bedside table. Chrome ducked her head down to avoid making eye contact - of course, this was all routine by now. "Lunch just passed, though you'll probably be back out before dinner. Remember to rest."
With that the nurse pulled the curtain closed around Chrome's bed, how she normally preferred it. That way she was partitioned off from the others, able to do her homework in peace.