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xxPOS + TRAITS
xxxxxLet's Keep This Civil, Or Take It Outside, Boys; Harland is big on manners, and he's big on working things out. He doesn't particularly enjoy a dispute which ends poorly, and he will avoid interpersonal conflict if possible, making him a fairly effective team-member. Harland will, even with most "enemies," try to maintain at least basic civility, even if that's just a Would you kindly get the hell out of our lives now and again. Should he find himself in a situation which cannot be talked through or negotiated, Harland maintains polite vocabulary and sentence structure, but he doesn't necessarily continue to act the gentleman. His determination to try to be polite, however, stems from his desire to create a positive environment for anyone around him, and it can be considered an asset that he's more or less pleasant to be around, even when he doesn't necessarily like someone personally.

xxxxxJust the facts, thank you kindly! I've got you covered. ; Harland is a wealth of information and his memory works like a steel trap: once something is in there, it probably won't escape any time soon. If you need information anything memorized, or stored in general, Harland can do that for you, no problem. He becomes kind of a walking encyclopedia, except he doesn't always understand what he knows. It gives rise to an occasional wtf moment as Harland might use vocabulary in a completely inappropriate way, just because he thinks that it can be applied in a certain place... when it really can't be. His wealth of information lets him remember personal details, like birthdays, names, faces... all the things one might commonly forget, Harland files away for future reference. Maybe at some point he'll have to delete them, so to speak, but for now it makes him seem pretty sweet when his knack for details is coupled with his love of manners. He loves to be loved, and he loves to sweet talk, so remembering all the little things counts for Harland.

xxNEUTRAL o TRAIT
xxxxxIt's out there somewhere, I just know it...!; Harland Leander Belle does not give up easily, for better or worse. He seizes onto anything that catches his eye; he is simply not one to let go. It can be a positive thing, if his endeavour may be fruitful, but it can also mean he sinks a lot of hours into an activity, relationship or goal that would never have panned out from the start. His persistence can keep him going even in the roughest situations, but it can also give him tunnel-vision and a sense that he can't admit defeat no matter what, even if he'd be better off cutting his losses.

xxNEG - TRAITS
xxxxxSo, let me see if I've got this down straight...; Followed by Harland either counting on his fingers or staring upwards in perplexity and chewing on his lip. In a gun fight he'd probably be the one slow to draw: when he's focused, or when he's relaxing, Harland's brain is just a little further away from the starting point than anyone else's might be. It can be kind of infuriating, because when you need Harland to think fast, he just might not be able; it applies mostly when he has to change from one subject to another really quickly, or when attempting to correct Harland's misinformation. Basically, if you're trying to tell him that something he knows is wrong, he will take an abnormally long time to register it. Although his memory is like a steel trap, he also gathers a lot of information, and his tricks for remembering it can be a little weird sometimes. Apart from how he processes what he remembers, this trait bleeds over into daily necessities like being on time; even though he does try, because it's impolite to keep someone waiting, sometimes he just doesn't move fast enough to get somewhere on time. Basically, you can teach this dog new tricks, but it doesn't mean he'll know when to use them, or how. Memorization is his strong suit, not processing. It can be infuriating for others, and frustrating for Harland himself, because he can't maintain his positive environment if everyone is livid that he's taking his sweet time; Harland will quickly become ill-tempered and cranky if he's stuck in an environment devoid of manners, structure and harmony and this trait is one very easy way to get there.
xxxxxI'll save y'all; His hero complex is by no means a good thing. Harland Belle acts as though he's right out of some kind of novel, when it comes down to a crunch, and he can significantly fail to see the 'bigger picture' when he's misled by someone he thinks needs to be "saved." You know those scenes in movies where the hero lets a misguided "villain" get away because they think that the villain meant well or that they can really change this time? That's Harland. No matter how many facts he can gather, they're when he lets himself misinterpret those "facts" and caves to his inner desire to be a hero. If he thinks he can save someone, he will probably never do the "right thing," making him dangerous on a team if he can't be trusted to be loyal. He'll hold himself to these standards, and always aim to be a hero, too; he can refuse to bail out of dangerous situations, causing more harm than good, when this trait is coupled with his neutral trait. He wants to be a hero so that he can be looked up to and loved, but his fixation on it clouds his judgement and can leave him in some terrible situations: if he finds someone who needs to be 'fixed,' in his eyes, he might taken them on as a project. Not acceptable for a science fair, Harland! He will never understand the notion of a 'lost cause,' nor will he get the concept of 'leave me alone, stalker,' because in his mind he's not doing anything wrong. He's just trying to save them. And to him, for whatever reason, they needed to be 'saved.'

Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter?
xxxxxWhen Harland was a little boy, he really loved swimming. He loved it so much that when they said that there was absolutely no way that anyone was brave enough to swim out to the depths of the lake, and he said that he would. Forget everyone else! Harland was an impetuous seven year old and nothing was stopping him.
xxxxxHe was a pretty strong swimmer, actually, and nothing did stop him. The problem was that after he swam, the weather got quite bad, and because he was a little boy, he didn't really take care of himself. As a result, he got very sick, very fast; his parents didn't realize until too late how very sick he was. By the time they brought him to the hospital, he was dying from dehydration and pneumonia coupled together. On the brink of death, the doctors were essentially advising them that their son would not make it through.
xxxxxThat was about when Harland Leander Belle started to see and hear things he shouldn't. He should have been afraid, or cautious, or something-- but he wasn't. At first, they thought it was delirium brought on by the edges of death. When it didn't fade, his parents started to worry. Harland did not worry. Instead, he was pretty excited, and the typically not-bookish Harland took to the library with passion once he was well enough (he did, in fact, recover; just in time, with a few health side effects). From that moment on, Harland was determined to find out just what it was he swore lived under his bed, or where the voices were coming from, and why he was seeing these things. After being sent away to and subsequently nearly graduating from a boarding school for troubled teens, Harland dropped off the map and started his own Paranormal Private Investigation initiative.
xxxxxIt didn't exactly take off; Harland mostly solved petty problems, with small clues now and again leading to the world he could now see (even if he wished he didn't). He barely paid the bills, and was more or less struggling just to stay sane in a world that didn't seem to show him the same courtesies he showed it.
xxxxxEnter Deus Ex; a way out for Harland, who was becoming a little too jaded with the Paranormal Investigation Scene. Time to put his skills to good use.