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Player Information

Name: Kiki
Contact: kikibug13 at plurk
Over 18?: yes
Other Character In Game: None

Character Information

Character Canon: Liu Yao
Character Name: Cheng Qian
Character Canonpoint: Chapter: 53, before he is reunited with the rest of his sect.
Character Age: Visible age: young. Actual: over a century. Sort of. He was dead and then in the process of reconstructing a body for himself most of that time.
Character Appearance in Game: Tall but not too tall young Chinese man, doesn't look much older than 17. Long hair, dark blue uniform. Slim, extremely fit. Handsome, as though carved from jade. Always seems to exude cold, both literally and figuratively - literally enough that being around him in the summer heat is pleasant. Art this far is generally along these lines.

Link to Character History:
Cheng Qian was a middle son of a rather poor family, around nine years old, when a passing cultivator thought he saw someone in him and practically bought him off from his parents. While at first the boy thinks the man is a sham, it turns out that he really is a sect leader for an actual cultivation sect, Fu Yao Sect, with more than a thousand years of history. Its home, and now Cheng Qian's, is Fu Yao Mountain.

In the year Cheng Qian gets to stay there, he is the only one of the four disciples that progresses fast, due to diligent, hard, and stubborn work. Also during that time, the four disciples end up on an adventure where they wind up adopting their little shimei - little martial sister - who is only half human, and half-yao. At birth (or, rather, hatching from an egg), she has two marks on her back - which later turn out to be the base of two wings, large and strong.

Around the time she turns a year old, their master insists they leave for a decennial cultivation fair on an island that hosts a school for cultivators not associated with sects. On the way, the master is killed (by his own senior martial brother, who has turned to demonic cultivation), leaving the seventeen-year-old spoiled senior martial brother the new sect leader. The five children are taken in at the school on the island. After a very public humiliation of the new sect leader, all of them shift from indolent to very determined to become good enough - and none more than Cheng Qian. He protects the others to the best of his abilities, growing stronger for his age.

That proves to not be strong enough. When the move against Fu Yao sect comes, the master of the island they are on protects them, losing his life in the process. They run, crashing between two small islands, Cheng Qian separated from the rest of them. As he tries to rejoin them, he has an enlightenment, and is given a powerful relic. When he finds the rest, their youngest martial brother is possessed by the one attacking them and kills Cheng Qian.

Due to his very recent enlightenment, Cheng Qian doesn't move on as souls do, but instead enters into the relic he was given. For the next 49 years, his awareness is stuck inside the relic, entirely alone. After that time, a cultivator he had helped before finds him, takes away his memories, and helps him cultivate to the level of primordial spirit, after which he sets to cultivate a new body for himself, using the relic as a foundation. Forty-nine years and seven heavenly tribulations after that, the other cultivator deems it is time to return his memories to him.

With those, Cheng Qian only wants one thing - to return to Fu Yao mountain and his sect. Which is what he sets out to do, only dealing with one (1) demonic cultivator on the way.

In a more overall state of the world, the timing of Cheng Qian's life matches with a general decline in cultivation. The previous generation saw the Emperor working to wrest power back from the sects and establishing a bureau to deal with them, with cultivators in charge of it. Overall, as cultivators get more powerful, their value of the life of mortals has gotten less and less, and non-cultivators end up in worse and worse lives (if they survive). The four 'saints' - nearly immortal cultivators of immense power - are getting plucked off one by one. The targeting of Fu Yao Sect is part of this shift in power.

The unrest grows, and the conflicts it leads to get worse and worse. Coming out of his nearly hundred years of... recovery, Cheng Qian is horrified by the change in the state of villages and upset by it.


Link to Character Abilities or Powers:
* Cultivation (strength, speed, etc beyond normal people, physical recovery, transferring spiritual energy to assist healing; he is at the level of having formed primordial spirit, which means he can send his awareness outside of his body and have it act independently)
* Very good swordsmanship of two schools, fuyao and sea tide
* Sword flying, turning body into mist and flying that way, teleportation
* Spells / protection arrays
* Lock away cold to keep it from affecting a large area
* Walk on water
* Coalesce water into a intensely sharp and tough ice sword
* Channel spiritual energy to his senses to enhance them / see what is out of the ordinary
* Suppress his spiritual energy to seem as though he has very little
* Make charms, which have various powers which can activate separately from him

(Conditional) Maerchenhaft Power: N/A

Character Personality (3 Strengths, 2 Weaknesses):
+ Cheng Qian is focused and determined. When he commits himself to a goal, he will not swerve from it. He will spend time reading, training, gathering information, until he has reached it. Then, if he needs to, he will set himself another. He's relentless, and the results he achieves are beyond all imagination.
+ With the people he accepts as his own, he is fiercely loyal and protective. He will snark at them because that is how he is, but he will defend/protect them, will be extremely fair with them, and will give them space to grow. And, sometimes, he will even indulge them. That's rare on account of he doesn't indulge himself, but for the people he loves, he will do it.
+ Even at his sharpest and even angriest, it is not difficult to see that Cheng Qian is kind. With those who haven't wrong him or his people, he is careful and considerate. Even when he's nine and pretending (but failing) to know how to behave, it takes one time for his attendant teenager to stay up hungry until 1 am waiting for him to finish reading for him to get in the practice of immediately interrupting his work when he is called. He also enters the Tao by the way of the heart.

- He pushes himself beyond reasonable limits and dismisses his own discomfort or pain. Even from the very beginning, when he was nine, his master assigned him the precept 'gentle and kind,' as he saw that Cheng Qian was rarely that with himself. He repeatedly pushes himself beyond what is safe, including the first time he tries to carve a charm, when his master has to stop him and lend him some spiritual power because he literally puts his own life in danger. While at this point his reserves are considerable, he still is prone to end up tired when something Happens, so he can't respond/fight to the best of his abilities.
- Another of his flaws, consistent from childhood until the present, is that he is undersocialized and a little naive. Coming from a poor family, he worked hard and his initial schooling was climbing a tree outside a classroom and listening in secretly. Then he was with his master and martial brothers and sister, who are extremely eccentric each in their own way, and later they were all ostracized for getting too much special attention, so isolated with them. Then he spent nearly a century almost entirely alone. While he pays attention, he is not good at dealing with people. He rarely says anything of his own initiative or tries to form bonds with others. Amicably courteous, but also stubborn as a mule. As to naivete, discovering that people hate not those who bully them, but those who escape is a shock, as are most unfairnesses in the world.

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