![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
upcycle application
Name: Rose
Age: 32
Contact info:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
LadyotRings
Character: Xiao Xingchen
Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Canon Point: About two years into the Yi City backstory, before Xue Yang reveals himself and everything takes a bad turn
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: probably 21, based on our best canon timeline mathematics
Canon Abilities/Powers:
Xingchen is a cultivator, basically a fantasy Chinese exorcist. So he has a Golden Core he’s trained up which supplies him with spiritual energy to do cool, fancy martial arts stuff like swordfighting and sick flips, but he’s also able to release, suppress, or banish spirits and ghosts and other such things that go bump in the night. He was also trained as a young boy up to his teens by an immortal cultivator, so the source material was top notch. He had a good base to go off until he decided to leave. He can also utilize talismans for certain tasks, from making fire to binding or sealing a monster. Or, well, he used to. Being blind now makes this drastically more difficult, but if he focuses hard enough to draw up a talisman, he probably could still manage something akin to a toddler’s drawing. That counts, right?
His sword, Shuanghua, is a fancy sword. Not only is it famous – if swords could be listed as eligible bachelors, then Shuanghua would be high up on the list – but it has a nifty ability of seeking out corpse energy. This is very helpful for Xingchen in his current state as it ensures he can still go night hunting (monster hunting and ghostbusting, basically) even without sight. However, Shuanghua can’t tell the difference between a dead corpse (your standard zombie friend) or a living corpse (someone who’s been subjected to corpse poisoning, but can still breathe and appear to be “living”) which means it can be tricked.
Because he’s lost his eyes, some of Xingchen’s other senses have naturally enhanced, as is to be expected. So hearing, smell, and touch have all stepped up their game. In canon, he can smell someone bleeding on the side of the road. He’s also never seen using a cane, so his spatial awareness is pretty good. It’s reasonable to say that once he’s familiar with a location, he can walk around it with no problems, unless someone puts an obstacle in his footpath.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Quick background run. Xue Yang, a murderer Xingchen had previously apprehended, took his revenge on Xingchen by massacring the temple Song Lan, Xingchen’s best friend, was raised in and trained. Xue Yang also blinded Song Lan in the process, so Xingchen ended up donating his own eyes to Song Lan. This isn’t what Xingchen regrets; he’d do it again, if he had any eyes left. But after Song Lan received his friend’s eyes, he told Xingchen that they should never meet again and this still hurts Xingchen. He obeyed Song Lan’s wishes, though, and left to wander the world, blind, thinking that his selflessness broke off the friendship, as well as his connection to Xue Yang. Of course, in reality, Song Lan had just been understandably shocked and upset in the midst of his grief and lashed out without thinking.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
Probably about an 8. Xingchen still goes on with his life despite losing his best friend and still offers his help when he can, but he doesn’t bring up Song Lan or why he’s blind in conversation, and if the subject comes around to any of that, he grows visibly melancholic and doesn’t share.
What is their greatest virtue?:
His generosity with his abilities and his time. Xingchen has always been driven by doing good and giving of himself; he even left his immortal master’s mountain despite being told he could never return if he did so, all because he believed in helping those who couldn’t help themselves. Why should he keep his abilities to himself when he can make the world better?
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
We’re going straight for that 9-10 range. Doing what’s right and good is what he’s all about! Before everything with Xue Yang made them break up, he and Song Lan had dreams of starting their own cultivation sect, where they could pass on their knowledge for future generations to help the world, as well as include people who may not be accepted into the other sects because of their talent level or class. They wanted to give others a chance.
Items:
- His sword, Shuanghua
- His clothes (including the blindfold, for courtesy)
- 1 piece of candy
Samples: Here and Here
Special notes Xingchen is still blind and very eyeless. Can’t get spooped if you can’t see the spoops, right? Haha…right…?
Age: 32
Contact info:
Character: Xiao Xingchen
Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Canon Point: About two years into the Yi City backstory, before Xue Yang reveals himself and everything takes a bad turn
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: probably 21, based on our best canon timeline mathematics
Canon Abilities/Powers:
Xingchen is a cultivator, basically a fantasy Chinese exorcist. So he has a Golden Core he’s trained up which supplies him with spiritual energy to do cool, fancy martial arts stuff like swordfighting and sick flips, but he’s also able to release, suppress, or banish spirits and ghosts and other such things that go bump in the night. He was also trained as a young boy up to his teens by an immortal cultivator, so the source material was top notch. He had a good base to go off until he decided to leave. He can also utilize talismans for certain tasks, from making fire to binding or sealing a monster. Or, well, he used to. Being blind now makes this drastically more difficult, but if he focuses hard enough to draw up a talisman, he probably could still manage something akin to a toddler’s drawing. That counts, right?
His sword, Shuanghua, is a fancy sword. Not only is it famous – if swords could be listed as eligible bachelors, then Shuanghua would be high up on the list – but it has a nifty ability of seeking out corpse energy. This is very helpful for Xingchen in his current state as it ensures he can still go night hunting (monster hunting and ghostbusting, basically) even without sight. However, Shuanghua can’t tell the difference between a dead corpse (your standard zombie friend) or a living corpse (someone who’s been subjected to corpse poisoning, but can still breathe and appear to be “living”) which means it can be tricked.
Because he’s lost his eyes, some of Xingchen’s other senses have naturally enhanced, as is to be expected. So hearing, smell, and touch have all stepped up their game. In canon, he can smell someone bleeding on the side of the road. He’s also never seen using a cane, so his spatial awareness is pretty good. It’s reasonable to say that once he’s familiar with a location, he can walk around it with no problems, unless someone puts an obstacle in his footpath.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Quick background run. Xue Yang, a murderer Xingchen had previously apprehended, took his revenge on Xingchen by massacring the temple Song Lan, Xingchen’s best friend, was raised in and trained. Xue Yang also blinded Song Lan in the process, so Xingchen ended up donating his own eyes to Song Lan. This isn’t what Xingchen regrets; he’d do it again, if he had any eyes left. But after Song Lan received his friend’s eyes, he told Xingchen that they should never meet again and this still hurts Xingchen. He obeyed Song Lan’s wishes, though, and left to wander the world, blind, thinking that his selflessness broke off the friendship, as well as his connection to Xue Yang. Of course, in reality, Song Lan had just been understandably shocked and upset in the midst of his grief and lashed out without thinking.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
Probably about an 8. Xingchen still goes on with his life despite losing his best friend and still offers his help when he can, but he doesn’t bring up Song Lan or why he’s blind in conversation, and if the subject comes around to any of that, he grows visibly melancholic and doesn’t share.
What is their greatest virtue?:
His generosity with his abilities and his time. Xingchen has always been driven by doing good and giving of himself; he even left his immortal master’s mountain despite being told he could never return if he did so, all because he believed in helping those who couldn’t help themselves. Why should he keep his abilities to himself when he can make the world better?
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
We’re going straight for that 9-10 range. Doing what’s right and good is what he’s all about! Before everything with Xue Yang made them break up, he and Song Lan had dreams of starting their own cultivation sect, where they could pass on their knowledge for future generations to help the world, as well as include people who may not be accepted into the other sects because of their talent level or class. They wanted to give others a chance.
Items:
- His sword, Shuanghua
- His clothes (including the blindfold, for courtesy)
- 1 piece of candy
Samples: Here and Here
Special notes Xingchen is still blind and very eyeless. Can’t get spooped if you can’t see the spoops, right? Haha…right…?