Xander's Pharaoh: The Present III

*Haru has a really good singing voice.

*Haru was the stripper in Oxnard, though he went a little more Egyptian with it and so wore a little more than your average stripper.  Probably.  Xander really didn’t want to think about it, so he was dishwasher-slash-occasional bartender.  The Pharaoh’s not that bothered by nakedness.  Xander has nightmares about it.

*This is actually one of Haru’s mistakes.  He’s good at it.  He enjoys it.  For the first time, people aren’t looking at him like he’s some sort of two-headed freak.  (They do have nightmares about having two heads, actually.)  He’s in control, choosing his songs and outfits and he doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to.  He doesn’t think about the consequences, though.  That if he’s caught, his Aunt might lose custody (and probably much more than that).  That he might lose his friends, everything he’s ever known.  He’s angry that it might be considered wrong, because he’s not being taken advantage of, and he guesses that that’s the first thing that people might think.  He doesn’t think about the practical, legal consequences.  It doesn’t just involves him, it involves everyone he cares about.  He comes to this realization, and he’s horrified at first, but he calmly owns up to it.  Asks, but doesn’t demand, doesn’t beg.  “I’m done with stripping.  Well, I might put on a private show, if I ever get a date again, and I might enter dancing contests or something, but this is a chapter in my life that is closing.”

*They’re both afraid of clowns, though.

*(If your character was responsible for the death of xir best friend, how would xe feel?) Not kidding, that’s actually a question.
Xander couldn't do it.  Haru had to take over and save them.  Xander was thinking about it, but Haru was the one who actually moved the stake into Jesse's body.  He feels awful about it and projects some of it onto the other vampires.  Haru no more likes vampires than Xander, but is more willing to take them as fairly untrusted allies.  He likes to say he's fine, but the nightmares don't help his case.  Xander talked about Jesse at first, but Willow's reaction every time he does convince him it's a bad idea, and Haru's not much better.  He doesn't like hurting either of them, so he actually started a journal.  Whenever he's tempted to talk about jesse, he writes it down instead.  Occasionally he talks to his aunt, when she's there.