heine
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This is a roleplaying journal based on the character from the manga DOGS by Miwa Shirow and maintained for the purposes of personal enjoyment and edification only. No profit made. No harm or offense intended.
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Lesson from the history books: human beings, given opportunity and the barest bones of an excuse, will do terrible things to one another. Heine has the misfortune of being living proof. Sometimes he thinks it's the living that's the bigger misfortune.
The victim of extreme medical and genetic experimentation in his youth, Heine is one of the "dogs" of the Cerberus Project: implanted with a collar and altered spinal cord, he and the other children with whom he was grouped were attacked, brutalized, terrorized, forced to fight tooth and nail against genetically engineered monsters or worse still, pitted against each other, triggered to insane murderous rages, praised for tearing each other literally limb from limb.
The only way to make this nightmare worse? They healed. Again and again. From limbs ruined and torn, wrecked bodies broken, bleeding, they healed. Until, spines torn out, skulls crushed, there was nothing left to heal anymore.
And through all of this, Heine survived. Even when he didn't want to: when his hands ripped through the body of the only "family" he could remember having, when Angelica Einstellsehn—architect of the hell in which he lived—cradled him to her breast and urged him to fight, kill, maim, he survived. And then finally, when he had his chance, he ran.
He was taken in by an (apparently) blind priest who fostered and cared for him—a man who knew things, including when it was best to say nothing at all. If Heine owes the worst parts of his life to Angelica Einstellsehn and the Cerberus Project, it's not unfair to say that he's owed the best ones to the Priest—the man who took in the ruined teen, scrabbling up terrified and half-mad from the lower strata, who gave him a home, taught him something besides ceaseless rage and death.
Heine may no longer be a literal part of the Underground but he is still haunted by it, searching…sometimes he's not even sure what for, often acting on guidance from the Priest, and endlessly chasing specters of those who are in some way like him: tied to the world below. That was how he came to save the winged girl, Nill, from forced child prostitution; it drives his seemingly ceaseless antagonism with his fellow "dog," Giovanni; it explains the jobs he's worked with his only real friend, Badou; it even informs his reactions to the young woman, Naoto, whom he meets while she searches for a way into the Underground.
Though he is incredibly strong-willed (that, likely, is the only reason he was able to escape from the Underground to begin with) Heine lived for the better part of a decade in a nightmare world where "sense" was an impossibility: he learned that sometimes it's something you have to do without. But he's always trusted the Priest, because he had no reason not to. Until he learned that his mentor, having lied to him for years, is actually the "lost" first dog of the Cerberus Project.
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