1st Backstory of Witch Queen Hiromi/Hilary Tachibana
So after having a quick discussion about Kai and Yuri with having such sad childhoods and wanting to protect them as children because their precious and shit is gonna happen to them later on that will affect their lives later. The post reminded me that I really gave Hiromi a dark back story when it came to my headcannon idea of her as the Witch Queen of Witches.
The concept that went into creating back story of this idea for several years now, I obviously went through a bunch of ideas of how to give my favorite character a good backstory considering that she really had none to begin with when she entered in the show. This gives me piles of imaginative ideas and so I did go through many kinds of several ideas while also researching constant kinds of histories dealing with witchcraft and witches. Many of them being gruesome, tragic and misogynistic events that ultimately led to what I feel is a part of history and even in present time we still go through when it came to the incredible violence between religions, race, gender and even economy and politics. It really is amazing how it feels like were entering that time again, repeating history only this time, were telling ourselves it's okay because the new leader of the US does it, so its okay.
It's not okay, its fucked up, and never have I realized that it's probably the time now to talk about this since the goal in the beginning of the headcannon was to give awareness and knowledge on what a real witch was compare to what we think it always is because the concept of a real witch has been slandered with historic archives of evidence that favors only one side and never viewing the perspective of the other.
The first headcannon/backstory that I started with was that Hiromi always knew she was a witch, she was kept in the closet or in this case, the broom closet. She disguises herself as a normal school girl, but when found out the truth about her, she does not only look different on the fact her eyes are inhumanly bright blue, admits to be born in Boston, Massachusetts, is Japanese American and is born to a very strict catholic family but that she's older then 15\16 years old. In fact Hiromi appeared to look like she is in between her early to mid 20's, but she claims she's actually in her mid thirties. Hiromi/Hilary even admitted that her name wasn't real, she had a real birth name, but she changed it since her existence was disowned. Why is this so? Well lets start around the late 1970's, where Hiromi's family seriously thought there was something wrong with her. Her own mother, a devote catholic and American with Japanese background, believes there was something evil inside her daughter when in fact Hiromi was experiencing her new found spiritual abilities that made her unique. When she was ten years old, her mother had three priests perform three different exorcisms on her to rid out the "evil" inside of her. All three priests in private sexually assaulted her and her mother refused to believe her.
After the exorcisms was deemed 'successful, but not permanent' Hiromi started to fill herself with rage which only made her new found abilities louder and more dangerous. She suffered from PTSD of the rape of her priests and would lash out and attach her family members and visitors when she was touched or forced into things. Finally her mother couldn't take it anymore, and by the age of 12, Hiromi was kicked out of her house, her mother disowning her. Hiromi for the past few months in Massachusetts would be shuffled out of group homes and into the streets, and she would starve and steal money and food. She was caught and arrested in a county jail when she was trying to sneak and steal food from a gas station. Before she was moved on to a foster and group home, since she was a minor, a mysterious women pretending to be Hiromi's aunt bailed her out and took her to eat out in a diner. This mysterious woman was a classy, seductive and intelligent person who told Hiromi that she bailed her out because she knows what Hiromi was. And Hiromi who obviously thought this was woman was a Madam collecting new girls for her escorts, didn't believe her until she showed what she could do. Hiromi's strange abilities coincided with this mysterious woman who was named Abigail Winters. She caused her spoon to stir by itself to show Hiromi, and even somehow brainwashed the waiter in having the food they ordered for free by just requesting it. With that, Abigail asked for Hiromi to show her something strange. But Hiromi lately out of anger learned to do something destructive. With just the incentive look of someone, Hiromi caused a man across at the diner's bar to make his nose bleed and and then make him faint and have a seizure. Abigail pretty much explained everything after that.
Witches, women in the suffrage, the idea of a witch being not real, and that their were so many of them in the world, they aren't even aware of it. Right then and there, Abigail decided to have Hiromi change her name as a fresh new start to a second chance at her life being worth something. Hilary opened a phone book and covered her eyes while her finger glided on the names and numbers. Her finger landed on a random name, Hilary and decided to call herself that from now on. Abigail took Hiromi into her small apartment , deciding to make her witchling student and teach her the common ways of witchcraft and to control her abilities. She would be given exercises on how to meditate, control her emotions, and ground herself in order for her to abilities to cause no harm from her unintentional feelings. Abigail would have Hilary use her abilities to take down men usually in power that held hypocrisy of religious, political, racist and sexist agendas. Abigail would get Hiromi to use her abilities to bind them and then have them be killed by strange causes. Abigail also taught Hiromi how to spot other witches, helping Hiromi gather a new student and friend Tiffany Torres, another foster kid who was living on the streets. They both clicked right away and the two became close that Abigail decided to make them sisters when she took it in their favor to adopt both the girls and be their mother. Hilary and Tiffany Winters learned to share and even enhance their abilities with new found ones when they became closer.
In time Abigail decided to form a coven of young lost witches and Hiromi and Tiffany would be the gatherers. Bringing in tons of young witches from battered homes, foster care, the streets and even out of state, into a new manor home they bought and moved to South Carolina, making everyone think it was a private school of gifted girls when it really was a Coven of witches. Hiromi and Tiffany being the oldest and the most experience in using the craft, became immediate teachers aid to Abigail. With that, they were the helping the coven come together to do justice in the name of the persecuted that Abigail secretly had a list of names for the coven to kill off of, names of people in South Carolina that Abigail wanted to get rid of. In just those few years, Hilary felt that whatever her mother was having her do, she started to doubt that they were doing justice when they really were committing murder with their magick. From binding, to cursing afar, the coven could attack anyone and cause strange incidents to happen by just being far away from the incident that took place. Tiffany didn't think her mother was doing any wrong, but Hilary noticed she had become more bloodthirsty and desperate to impress their mother. Hilary felt unease of what was happening to the coven when she started to question what they were really doing and her mother becoming more desperate and impatient with her when it came to killing off the list of names she had secretly kept.
Hilary in the coven find out Tiffany behind her back took a few witchlings to murder a right wing congressman and his family when information of a runaway witch was found killed in the woods by the congressman's son who bullied and attacked the young girl with religious threats and chased her in the woods and ended up setting her on fire and the father himself covers up the story by paying the chief and sheriff as a suicide and slandering her name as slut. Hilary tries to stop Tiffany and the witchlings saving the congressman's family, but Abigail manages to grasp the father and son and Hilary fails to save them. Tiffany captures Hilary and takes her to the coven to face her betrayal and punishment to the coven and Abigail. Abigail secluded her in solitary confinement for three days, while some of the witchlings who like Hilary questioned her choices and started to wonder if Hilary was right for trying to save and prevent the attack on the Congressman. Because of this, when Abigail releases Hilary from her locked prison, half of the coven requested an intervention on what as a coven they were doing was considered the good of their kind, or they were making blood baths. Abigail tries to convince the Coven and Hilary that they are taking down the people who have threatened and attacked their kind and caused history of misunderstandings that had lead to damaging long periods of time. Hilary tries to convince the coven and Abigail that killing off the families of the ancestors who harmed their kind and the people who continue to cause mental and physical harm won't stop the violence and erase the targets on their backs for just being different. Hilary and half of the coven side with her admitting that they do feel wrong harming people they don't personally know or feel are responsible for their ancestors actions.
Tiffany attacks Hilary and the coven split in two fighting each other. A witch dies and soon the night causes a blood bath. Tiffany tries to kill Hilary, only to see Abigail saves her life by stabbing Tiffany. Tiffany dies as Abigail tells Hilary that its okay, they can start over again, because Hilary is her first and only daughter. Abigail locks the remaining witchlings away and tries to set the place on fire. Hilary tries to stop her, but Abigail with her binding magick stops Hilary from moving. Abigail kills off the last of the witchlings after she puts them to sleep while Hilary was tied and locked away and out of sight. Abigail tries to set the house on fire and Hilary breaks her binding spell trying to stop Abigail. She finds the remaining witchlings bodies and kills Abigail out of anger.
Hilary leaves the Coven manor and disappears from South Carolina, a week later, the murder of the coven house appeared on the news, and Hilary took a one way trip on a cruise to Northern Europe where she ended up heading to Sweden. By this time, Hilary was 18 years, it was the mid nineties and Hilary tried to erase everything of who she was and what happened by trying to find answers of what happened. Investigators never came to the concluded idea there was a survivor of the coven but the news slandered the murdered as a satanic cult because they found chalk pentagrams on the floors and deity altars with statues believed to represent the devil. The coven manor became a haunted and overly misrepresented of a cult with young girls. Rumors ruined what investigators observed of the case by the media and just became one of the most disturbing instances that happened in South Carolina.
Hilary in Sweden travels across other parts of the Netherlands by sailing to other parts of the north when she gets swept away in a storm and is saved by a Viking Storm witch that took her in an tries to help Hilary with lost situation. The Viking witch and her Norwegian Viking tribe lived in solitary, reliving and practicing their pagan practices and traditional spiritual values. A sayer of the tribe speaks to Hilary about how she must take a journey to meet every powerful spiritualist across the world to learn their perspectives and values in order to find an understanding and progressive compromise of her experience so far. The Viking storm witch teaches Hilary storm magick, fencing, archery, wood and metal carving while searching to find a small part of the answer to her troubles after experiencing a Norse Goddess speaking to her about her mother and the role of a witch really is, at least in the Netherlands.
The Viking storm witch sets course for Hilary to head to Eastern Europe, in Slovenia where she must meet a young fire Romani witch to teach her their pagan ways. Hilary travels to Slovenia and meets a Slavic Romani tribe that teaches her fire magick and the origins of fire magick in the Eastern European culture. The young fire Romani witch teaches Hilary to stand on burning camp fires and absorb the fire and drag the flames out from inside of her. She can never be lit on fire and die being burn to death unless she lets it. They teach her how to survive in the woods and adapt to her environments in case she is being hunted down. They teach her how to ride and escape on horses, the freedom to dance, what to eat in the woods, and to hunt and skin animals. Soon the Romani tribe was integrated by town folks and were being chased and attacked out of country, so Hilary was told to head to Poland to meet a male forest witch named Claude, and she escaped on horseback to Poland.
Hilary runs into wolves chasing her on horseback and being chased by European Alt-right group members on the European border. One of the wolves saves her and guides her into the wolves, finding out the wolf was the forest witch Claude in disguised by glamour earth magick and let Hilary into a solitary cabin in the woods. Claude teachers Hiromi about the spiritual entities of the forest and earth and how to contact deities through animal and earth magick. Hilary learns who and what her familiar and animal totem is, and learns she is being guided and watch by the Goddess Hecate, the goddess of witches, in the form of a barn owl that has been following her. Hilary is taught to live in the woods by Claude and is able to see and contact the spirits of the forest. Hilary gets an understanding on how to ground herself much more then how Abigail taught her, but also learns through Claude that there is something grand about to happen to her and is told to speak to the God of the forest himself, the Celtic Horned God Cernunnos. Hilary meets Cernunnos in a mediative state and comes to her about her rebirth about to happen. Hilary has been chosen to be a leader of her kind, but she can't take this role unless she is reborn. Cernunnos leaves with Hilary without any answers to her questions, but is told by Claude she must head to Germany to meet an elderly kitchen witch in Frankfurt.
Hilary heads to Frankfurt, Germany when she becomes a student to an elderly sweet Kitchen witch who owns a bakery. She teaches Hilary kitchen magick and the uses of her tools including the history and background of the cauldron. She teaches Hilary to speak to the Celtic goddess Ceridwen, goddess of rebirth, transformation, and inspiration. All characteristics of the cauldron and why cooking and brewing is such an important role to pagan witchcraft. Hilary feels complete and happy in her role learning about her background and abilities, realizing she is starting to enjoy her current situation she is. Hilary enjoys part time working in the bakery, and part time as a student being taught divination, herb magick, cooking magick, and how to work with spiritual fairies who play around in the bakery. Hilary is taught a new kind of patience and feels at home in Frankfurt realizing Germany is a very liberal place, as many of the customers know about her new boss being a kitchen witch and come by for her healing meals and sweets all the time. A few months living in Frankfurt, Hilary was trusted confidently enough to gather wild herbs on her own and gather supplies at the Organic market.
Hilary comes home being rampaged by burglars in the bakery and is kidnapped and taken prisoner with the kitchen witch in the back of a van and driven to Luxembourg. Hilary and the kitchen witch are taken to a solitary farm and is imprisoned in a outside cell under a execution stage of a noose next to other prisoners in iron cells filled with children and adults who have been also kidnapped. Hilary learns that they've been kidnapped because they are suspected to be witches. The kitchen witch gets dragged away and as Hilary watches these religious witch hunters impale the kitchen witch and burn her alive. Hilary sees this and sees that young children are witnessing this, and she tries to shield and protect them.
Hilary and a few other women her age are taken out of the cells and strapped into iron chairs being interrogated. Hilary was tortured for several hours a day and then stripped naked and thrown into a seal underground room over night and almost froze to death. Hilary was taken out the next morning and chained to a table to be interrogated again. She was desperate to attack these people, until she learned it was a family of witch hunters that owned the torture camp. She was unchained and forced to stand in line with other girls while the youngest son of the witch hunter's family practices shooting a pistol on the line of girls. He straight shoots and kills the line of girls and when he got to Hilary, she started to sing a religious song her mother sang to her when she was little and when she went to church with her family. This gets the boy to refuse to shoot Hilary and suddenly like her, requesting his older brothers to make her his playmate. Hilary is becomes the boys new toy and playmate and has to sleep in the main house of the farm, where parts of the day she is forced to sing, tell stories, and draw and play with the youngest son. The witch hunter family who is greatly against this, doesn't want to angry their star child, and is forced to put up with what Hilary does to make their youngest son, since he somehow convinces them he can transform her into a Christian and when she dies, her soul will go to heaven instead of hell.
Hilary feels stuck in the situation as she is constantly trying to live when she is still forced to sleep in the iron cells and is forced to witness helplessly one night when then boy decides to choose to burn a witch that is younger then him and burn her to the stake. Hilary helpless cannot stop it, and her seeing the death of the young girl forces her abilities to explode out of control. The fire from the burning stake literally sets flame to the whole farmland. Hilary escapes her cell and tears open all the other cells and help escape other innocent people, when she kills the witch hunters to protecting the witches and non witches from being killed. Hilary then faces the young witch hunter and he tries to understand why she did what she did. Hilary tries to see if there is hope to help this child by seeing that he can progress and have a chance of a compassionate and open minded life in the future, but he tells Hilary that he needs to kill all/the witches in the world, because he taught himself to believe that is the only way to to save this world. Hilary asks why he bothered to keep her alive and the boy tells her, that he thinks she is beautiful and hoped to make her his wife so they can play games all the time, but she would never be freed, she would be his always. Hilary realizes there is no hope to save this boy as his family has already brainwashed him. Hilary makes the hard decision to kill the boy to prevent deaths he may caused in the future.
Hilary runs into the woods as the whole farmland is on fire and the many survivors running and escaping into the woods while Luxembourg authorities and fire department heads to put out the fire. Hilary in tears and in hopelessness begs the universe to kill her, and then a barn owl leads her to a hidden lake where the goddess Hecate appears in front of Hilary and takes her into lake to be cleansed and re birthed. Hecate kisses Hiromi's forehead and crowns her as the queen of witches, having suffered so much, is reborn by the goddess and is given all natural abilities of spiritual power and hidden wisdom to the answers of the alternate universal lives of past, present, and future. From the kiss, a crescent moon mark appears on Hiromi's forehead and her eyes change from brown to inhuman blue and all her wounds from the torture was suddenly healed by the waters of the lake. Hilary somehow from this kiss cannot age anymore, and is able to stay young because Hecate physically blessed her.
Hilary survives the incident of the torture camp, and with abilities she is unaware of, she is able to disguise herself and shield herself from suspecting eyes in Luxembourg and left the country. On her own, she tries to spiritually contact the kitchen witch's spirit to ask what she should do now, but instead is visited by Fae of the bakery telling her she has to leave and head to the Middle East to meet the ice/water witch in Pakistan. One of the Muslim witches in the Middle East. Hilary makes a faery door for the Fae of the bakery to depart in and she manages to put the bakery up for sale and leave to the Pakistan. Hilary goes to Pakistan only to come into trouble first hand of culture misunderstanding and runs into the Pakistani witch and they escape in a rural empty area where the Pakistani witch lives underground. She easily learns about who Hilary is by telling Hilary her crescent moon on the her forehead is the Bhindu Visargo, a power symbol and crown that only can be given by the divine. Hilary tells the Muslim witch what Hecate told her and learns from that the ice witch already knows by looking in her eyes. The Muslim witch continues to teach Hilary how to the magick of water works and the power and characteristics it holds. Hilary struggles to understand what she is suppose to do as the newly found witch queen of her kind, but the Muslim witch tells her that no one can tell her by her. The element water helps her look deeper inside to find answers as it functions on emotions and wisdom in one. She teaches Hilary how to survive in the heat and desert learning to find water as well as educated about Muslim spirituality and culture. Hilary learns the goal of Quran and about how certain witches in the world can be religious without being pagan and that their choice of being a witch really is a self journey, much like every other religion. Hilary learns the kind of misogyny and sexism in the Middle East and how being Muslim has nothing to do with it. Hilary learns to summon water from the heat and air and is able to speak to spirit of the desert that helps her understand her internal issues about Abigail and what happened to her in Luxembourg.
Hilary throughout this time succeeds in her training with the Pakistani Witch tells her to head to China where a Chinese elemental witch teaches her about the elements of the winds, then heads to South Korea where she goes to a shaman that teachers her about spirit summoning and contact, teaching Hilary the power of objects having entities and souls themselves. Then she is told to head to Japan where in Mt. Fuji a Glamour Witch lives in disguise and hiding from the public and learns how to disguise herself and be aware of the glamour abilities with illusion. Hilary is able to hide from the public and from preying eyes of people suspecting her as a witch. The glamour witch helps Hilary tap into her witch queen self and helps tackle her true form as a true witch queen. Hilary is given the choice now to go on her own and start her life and choose to continue her journey now about coming out as the witch queen or live in solitary peace while still trying to take on responsibilities as the new witch queen.
Either way, Hilary can't escape being the queen of witches, and is forced to find a way to live her life now. Hecate comes to Hilary again and leads her to missing piece of her crown, an ancient jeweled silver beyblade that was made by Hecate. This object is the symbol of Hecate for witches and a weapon that can only be used in beyblade battles of supernatural power. No human can touch this blade but can take part in a supernatural battle as long as they accept that if they lose, they must die. Hilary takes the blade as a brooch necklace and hides it while looking afar at a middle school.
Curious she glamours herself as a fourteen year old school girl attending the school and walks around trying to find a kind of meaning to what she should do now in her situation. Wondering if simple innocent minds may have a simple answer to this lost issue. She gets mistaken to be a new student and ends up attending school and being in the same class as Tyson Kinomiya, the beyblade world champion and decides to have a second life as a student enjoying the normal lifestyle of childhoods that she basically didn't have. She makes her own identity and personality and make sure no one would suspect a thing about real self. When Hilary and her classmate Kenny gets kidnapped because of Tyson, she learns her secret is still safe and decides to stay with the group of boys to see if anything else suspects her or anything of anti-witch behavior.
In time Hilary became close friends with the Bladebreakers and fell in love with them, feeling she had a real family for the first time and felt she was living a normal peaceful life that had nothing to do with witches and paganism, but just simple lifestyle, worrying about other people's issues and solving the problems of the Bladebreakers. Still in disguise, she figures helping these boys would help her find what kind of Queen she needs to be to her kind. But she became more and more scared of telling the truth, and worried more about their safety instead of hers, and the cause maybe because of her.
The day that Tyson was battling Ozuma in the park when she tries to get the class to make Tyson do clean up duty at school, the bit beasts attack and make contact with Hilary causing her to faint. Dragoon makes contact with Hilary and on her own, she goes into a meditation state finding out Dragoon is Tyson's ancestor that possessed Tyson's beyblade and came from his family's samurai sword. He tells her that his soul was forced to be Tyson's guardian. Dragoon knowing that Hilary is a witch, requests her to help him find a way to make contact with him, or at least help him and ground him.
Hilary says she'll think about it when over time the spirits of the other Bit beasts that belong to the Bladebreakers were once real people. Dranzer was a Russian witch Queen who was burnt to the stake by her own people after they tried to persecute her for being a witch even though she saved a kingdom from poverty, her religious enemies took her down and executed her. She turns out to be Kai Hiwatari's past life, and Abigail Winters great ancestor.
Draciel is a Spanish Conquistador and Max's ancestor who was killed by the magick of Native American witch who used an homemade spinning top to control the Conquistador's body to attack his own people when they invaded the new world and tried to pillage the natives. The native witch kills him after he kills his own people and is fed to a large pile of snapping turtles.
Drigger is Rei's ancestor that was the founder of the White Tiger clan and hills and had history with Tyson's samurai ancestor Dragoon as enemy soldiers from different territories. Rei's ancestor assassinated Dragoon. Dragoon's wife at the time gave birth to his son and gave her son to Dragoon's brother and family to be raised in the Kinomiya family dojo while she heads to China and assassinates Rei's ancestor and delivers his head to his wife and newly born son.
The two newly widows decide that Drigger's wife has the permission from Dragoon's wife to kill her to end this violence between both of them and make sure their sons start peace between each other. Dragoon's wife is killed and her body is delivered by boat back to Japan to be cremated with her husband and Drigger's wife who was a priestess kills herself and uses the power of her soul to turn her husband into a giant white tiger that guided his clan with his son to hidden hills and became White tiger Hills. With this newly found information, Hilary decides to stay and help protect the boys while also still searching for what kind of Queen she wishes to be.
When Hilary meets Max's mom Judy Tate for the first time, she learns that Judy Tate and Abigail Winters were half sisters. Abigail Winters ran away from her home when Judy was at a young age after her witch mother left her father and he remarried her stepmother and had Judy. Her stepmother feared Abigail and didn't understand her so when she was a teenager, she ran away from home, changed her name from Abigail Tate to her mothers maiden name Winters, and learned her mother ran off and remarried and her last name changing to Ivanov. She found out she had a son, but has no idea where he is, or her mother as it is said she died of an illness in Serbia. Hilary keeps this secret for awhile until she is forced to shed her glamour magick and the boys finds out she's a witch and hears her backstory.