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Fandom: Hawaii Five-O
Title: Friends, No Matter What It Costs
Characters: Navy SEAL Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, HPD Detective Daniel ‘Danno’ Williams, Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly, HPD Officer Kono Kalakaua
Preview: Two men, a chain of over ten cases connecting them through ten long years. Some as partners, some others putting them face to face with one another. But all of them with the same objective. The common good for those they love most. Be it friends or family.
Warnings: Real Life Setting with 100% Fictional Characters. Canon Divergence. Police/Crime. Violence. Blood. Possible OoC
Note: This will be my first fic based on a TV series that uses real settings and, of course, real life people as its ensemble cast. For those who do not know Hawaii Five-O, prior to the first chapter, I’ll add a list of its main characters and the most recurrent ones as well.
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Introducing the Characters
First off, Hawaii Five-O does not exist within or outside Hawaii Police Department
Second, the series I’ll base this fic upon is a remake of a 1968 series, obviously, running by the same name.
Finally, here goes the character list, thanks to the always handy, almost always useful Wikipedia.
- Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett, USNR. A decorated former Navy SEAL, Steve McGarrett is head of the Five-0 Task Force and son of retired HPD Sergeant John McGarrett. John's murder and storyline forms the premise of Steve's return to Hawaii and the formation of the Task Force.
- Detective Sergeant Danny Williams. He is a divorced single father who transferred from Newark PD in New Jersey to be with his daughter and is the de facto second-in-command of Five-0.
- Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly. A veteran HPD detective, he was John McGarrett's former rookie and provides technical expertise and local know-how. During the season 7 finale, Chin is offered the lead position of the Five-0 Task Force established in San Francisco, which he later accepts.
- Officer Kono Kalakaua. A former surfer, she was personally recruited by Steve McGarrett while still in her final days at the HPD Academy. She is the cousin of Lieutenant Kelly, and later becomes the wife of Adam Noshimuri. In the conclusion of the season 7 finale, Kono is seen aboard a flight to Carson City, Nevada, where it is later revealed she has since joined a task force aimed at combating sex trafficking.
- Mary Ann McGarrett. Steve's younger sister who lives in Los Angeles and occasionally visits Hawaii. At the beginning of the series she and Steve are largely estranged from each other, but as time goes on gradually begin to make amends. Mary works various odd jobs including flight attendant and caregiver before adopting a baby girl whom she names Joan (later nicknamed 'Joanie') after their father.
- Dr. Max Bergman. The eccentric and well-respected County of Honolulu medical examiner.
- Special Agent Lori Weston.[7] A senior DHS agent assigned to Five-0 to provide oversight.
- Lieutenant Catherine Rollins, USNR. A former Navy Intelligence officer and McGarrett's girlfriend.
- Captain Lou Grover, (seasons 4–10; guest season 4). A transfer from Chicago PD who has two children with his wife Renée.
- Special Consultant Jerry Ortega. A conspiracy theorist who assisted Five-0 during several investigations and was eventually hired as a "consultant".
- Officer Tani Rey,[8] whom McGarrett recruits from her job as a hotel pool lifeguard after being kicked out of the police academy, despite being a first-rate candidate. She initially declines to join but later becomes a team member.
- Kamekona Tupuola,[9] a rehabilitated ex-convict, turned entrepreneur and owner of the Waiola Shave Ice, Kamekona's Shrimp Truck, and Kamekona's Helicopter Tours. He is a CI for the Five-0 Task Force and their friend.
- Sergeant Duke Lukela,[9] HPD officer who often acts as a liaison to Five-0. He was one of the few HPD cops who was not antagonistic towards Danny or the other Five-0 members from the beginning, as he was colleagues with Steve's father and also personally knew Chin and Kono's family.
- Adam Noshimuri, a member of the Five-0 Task Force; formerly the Head of Five-0 Task Force Special Division of Organized Crime; Kono's ex-husband, and a confidential informant to Five-0.
It must be noted that I’ve eliminated or arbitrarily omitted some information from Wikipedia’s original list, either because it is irrelevant to the story or, in the case of the omitted characters, because I won’t make use of them, even minimal. Some others, like Noshimuri and Kamekona, will indeed appear in their canonical roles as informants to Five-0.
Regarding precisely how the name of the series must be written and pronounced, in the former case, it is Five-0 (zero); in the later, it is Hawaii Five-O. This happens because, in American standard English, generally informal, the number zero is replaced phonetically by the sound ‘O’. For instance, our dear British MI6 agent, in American English, would sound O-O-Seven instead of Zero-Zero-Seven. Another ‘colour note’ would be that Alex O'Loughlin, the actor that plays Steve McGarrett, being himself Australian, speaks a roughly Americanised version of his more British-like mother tongue. Besides the fact that, having to play the role of a SEAL soldier, he also speaks Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Middle East and Slavic tongues (not languages) and the original, native Hawaiian dialect.
And with this ends this little (or maybe not so much so) introduction to the characters and part of their story.