Post by Lotus on Jun 6, 2017 21:38:36 GMT
Code name: Lotus
Real name: He Ying (He is her last name as per Chinese custom, so please call her Ying)
PB: Li Bingbing
Other aliases: The White Haired Witch of Sichuan Province
Age: Was born during the Ming Dynasty (sometime during the late 1500s or early 1600s) and left China at the time of the Communist Revolution
Hair: White
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5" 5"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Relatives: None living that she knows of
Powers: Ying is an immortal mystic with the mystic arsenal gifted her by the Chinese pantheon of the Eight Immortals. The items are as follows and were found at and adapted a bit from NationsOnline's article on the Eight Immortals.
He Xian Gu
The Immortal Woman
Lotus (her empowering symbol that she must always wear)
It grants immortality
Cao Gou Jiu
The Royal Uncle Cao
Castanets (believed to have given him free access to the palace of the emperor) which can open many doors
Jade tablet, which can purify the air
Li Tie Guai
The Iron-Crutch Li
Crutch and gourd
items used in spell weaving to ward off evil
if held, the gourd can also allow for astral projection
Lan Cai
The Immortal Hermaphrodite
A basket of flowers and a peach that allow her communicate with the Eight Immortals
Lü Dongbin
The Chief leader
Magical sword for fighting evil and slaying dragons. Sword can also open portals for teleportation and allow her to fly
Han Xiang Zihe
The Philosopher Han Xiang
Flute
This god had the power to soothe wild creatures, so I am adapting that as the power of the flute
Zhang Guo Lao
The Elder Zhang Guo
Drum made of a bamboo tube with two rod drumsticks
Can cure illness if played near an injured person
Zhongli Quan
Fan
The fan, when used with a specific chant can bring about resurrection
With the exception of the sword, Ying carries these items in miniature in a bag she places at her waist.
Additional weapons: Ying has honed the ability to use her hair as whip in much the same way as the Inhuman's Medusa, but her hair is likely not as long. She also uses a fire whip whenever necessary. She is also very good at archery and especially good as a mounted archer. Like her hair, her horse is pure white.
Personality: Ying is not always the most wonderful of companions. If Shakespeare had written The Taming of the Shrew set in China, she would have been the inspiration for the female lead. She can be bossy and she usually does not listen to anyone until she is in some very bad or complex situation.
How she fits into the board: She is known to the MacLeod and the MacFeorais clans because she has worked as a mercenary and assassin in the past as well as a demon hunter. In the current era she is a friend of Sydney MacLeod and knows Hayley MacFeorais through business ties.
What she is doing in the 21st Century: Ying is part owner of a restaurant run by another immortal named Lu Yan. She runs a local art gallery, The Sands of Time, that features the works of other immortals including Hayley MacFeorais. She hunts demons, vampires and any otherwordly things she can get her hands on at the moment.
Bio: He Ying was born into a poor family in Sichuan province in China some time in the 1500s. To make money, her father used to make weapons for local mercenaries and assassins. She grew up hearing the stories these people (mostly men) told about the world outside her village. When she reached the age of 13 she left her family to embark on a life of adventure. She could not abide by the local custom of arranged marriage and did not want to be seen as a man's property. Ying followed one group of mercenaries out on a mission and proved her worth by killing several members of a competitor's band of mercs. Her group's leader found her valuable because no one suspected the little girl with the sweet smile would gut them like a fish.
By the time she turned 18, Ying's hair turned snow white. The fact it turned at an early age caused locals to call her a witch and shun her. Instead of crying in a corner, she went to study with the mystics of her region and gained her nickname of the White Haired Witch of Sichuan Province as she roamed the countryside with her own band of mercenaries. She worked for many of the female generals of the Ming dynasty including Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan province.
Time passed for all but Ying it seemed, and she stayed a fixture in Chinese society for centuries until the advent of Communist rule. She did travel the world and worked as a demon hunter with a band of immortals that has, to her surprise, continued in existence until today. While still doing work as a demon hunter, Ying has turned her attention to furthering the cultural and artistic sides of her Chinese heritage.
--More to come--
--Karen
Real name: He Ying (He is her last name as per Chinese custom, so please call her Ying)
PB: Li Bingbing
Other aliases: The White Haired Witch of Sichuan Province
Age: Was born during the Ming Dynasty (sometime during the late 1500s or early 1600s) and left China at the time of the Communist Revolution
Hair: White
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5" 5"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Relatives: None living that she knows of
Powers: Ying is an immortal mystic with the mystic arsenal gifted her by the Chinese pantheon of the Eight Immortals. The items are as follows and were found at and adapted a bit from NationsOnline's article on the Eight Immortals.
He Xian Gu
The Immortal Woman
Lotus (her empowering symbol that she must always wear)
It grants immortality
Cao Gou Jiu
The Royal Uncle Cao
Castanets (believed to have given him free access to the palace of the emperor) which can open many doors
Jade tablet, which can purify the air
Li Tie Guai
The Iron-Crutch Li
Crutch and gourd
items used in spell weaving to ward off evil
if held, the gourd can also allow for astral projection
Lan Cai
The Immortal Hermaphrodite
A basket of flowers and a peach that allow her communicate with the Eight Immortals
Lü Dongbin
The Chief leader
Magical sword for fighting evil and slaying dragons. Sword can also open portals for teleportation and allow her to fly
Han Xiang Zihe
The Philosopher Han Xiang
Flute
This god had the power to soothe wild creatures, so I am adapting that as the power of the flute
Zhang Guo Lao
The Elder Zhang Guo
Drum made of a bamboo tube with two rod drumsticks
Can cure illness if played near an injured person
Zhongli Quan
Fan
The fan, when used with a specific chant can bring about resurrection
With the exception of the sword, Ying carries these items in miniature in a bag she places at her waist.
Additional weapons: Ying has honed the ability to use her hair as whip in much the same way as the Inhuman's Medusa, but her hair is likely not as long. She also uses a fire whip whenever necessary. She is also very good at archery and especially good as a mounted archer. Like her hair, her horse is pure white.
Personality: Ying is not always the most wonderful of companions. If Shakespeare had written The Taming of the Shrew set in China, she would have been the inspiration for the female lead. She can be bossy and she usually does not listen to anyone until she is in some very bad or complex situation.
How she fits into the board: She is known to the MacLeod and the MacFeorais clans because she has worked as a mercenary and assassin in the past as well as a demon hunter. In the current era she is a friend of Sydney MacLeod and knows Hayley MacFeorais through business ties.
What she is doing in the 21st Century: Ying is part owner of a restaurant run by another immortal named Lu Yan. She runs a local art gallery, The Sands of Time, that features the works of other immortals including Hayley MacFeorais. She hunts demons, vampires and any otherwordly things she can get her hands on at the moment.
Bio: He Ying was born into a poor family in Sichuan province in China some time in the 1500s. To make money, her father used to make weapons for local mercenaries and assassins. She grew up hearing the stories these people (mostly men) told about the world outside her village. When she reached the age of 13 she left her family to embark on a life of adventure. She could not abide by the local custom of arranged marriage and did not want to be seen as a man's property. Ying followed one group of mercenaries out on a mission and proved her worth by killing several members of a competitor's band of mercs. Her group's leader found her valuable because no one suspected the little girl with the sweet smile would gut them like a fish.
By the time she turned 18, Ying's hair turned snow white. The fact it turned at an early age caused locals to call her a witch and shun her. Instead of crying in a corner, she went to study with the mystics of her region and gained her nickname of the White Haired Witch of Sichuan Province as she roamed the countryside with her own band of mercenaries. She worked for many of the female generals of the Ming dynasty including Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan province.
Time passed for all but Ying it seemed, and she stayed a fixture in Chinese society for centuries until the advent of Communist rule. She did travel the world and worked as a demon hunter with a band of immortals that has, to her surprise, continued in existence until today. While still doing work as a demon hunter, Ying has turned her attention to furthering the cultural and artistic sides of her Chinese heritage.
--More to come--
--Karen
