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Name: Anming Lin 林安明 (Lin An Ming)

Nicknames: none technically, save for the occasional person that gets her family name mixed up with her given name and calls her ‘Lin’

Age: 25

Birthday: April 14 (1995, year of the wood pig)

Sign: Aries

Gemstone: Diamond

Blood Type: A+

Fav. Food: Coffee cake, homemade pastries

Hated Food: Pork

School: DCU, majoring in Baking and Pastry Arts. Formerly Meadowview High

Hobbies:

Baking pastries-- Originally something Anming picked up on a whim, but also inspired by her father being a former pastry chef at a small cafe; originally, it started as a simple hobby, a way to pass the time, to now, where it is her current course of study at university. She has a small collection of recipe books, which has grown over the years, but Anming also tends to print out recipes she finds online as well as clip recipes in magazines as well, which she keeps in a big disorganized binder. When she was still in high school, Anming used to bake small gifts to give out to friends, but that has largely tapered off over the years- still, if it’ll make someone’s day brighter, she’s happy to cook something up.

piano -- As a child. Anming took interest in playing piano, both from watching her father play in his downtime, as well as watching famous pianists live on television. However, while she was enrolled in lessons, stage fright got the best of her, and Anming never performed in any recitals herself, and outright abandoned playing for a long time. Recently, however, she’s picked back up playing- not out of any desire to take it to a professional level, but simply because the music calms her nerves and allows her to relax.

collecting glass figurines -- Anming enjoys collecting little glass figurines, such as the kind sold at mall kiosks or at amusement parks, the more colorful and ornate, the better. They're kept in a display case in her bedroom, along with other assorted objects she has collected. Although she collects all sorts of figurines, Anming is especially fond of the ones of butterflies, finding them to be rather pretty and graceful, if not fragile, as well as hummingbirds, appreciating the care and detail put into each one.


Virtues:

Polite -- Anming was brought up to be mindful of her manners, and to be respectful to her elders, lessons she does her best to uphold when interacting with others, not just in saying her ‘pleases’ and ‘thank yous’, but in the way she presents herself and goes about her day to day life. She believes in the concept of treating others the way she herself would want to be treated, and tends to go out of her way to avoid acting in a way or saying anything that could be construed as being impolite, or rude.

Modest -- Anming tends to be fairly humble, not one to accept praise or compliments for her actions or words, and downplaying them when pressed. She doesn't think of herself as having done anything worth the compliments, as much as just doing ‘the right thing’, that ‘anyone could have done’, and will generally direct the conversation away from herself. Nonetheless, she'll thank people either way

Helpful -- Anming feels a strong sense of duty to assist others and help them in any way she can. It may simply be born out of a desire to make herself useful, but she dislikes seeing others struggle alone. Whether it’s a subject in her element, such as baking, or related instead to her multilingual-ness, like help with translating things for the international students studying abroad at DCU, Anming always does her best to assist to the highest extent possible.



Flaws:

Self-conscious -- With no real certainty as to what path she wants to pursue in life, Anming feels largely like she’s just drifting through her day to day life, and worries a lot as to how others think of her, though she rarely voices these concerns out loud. She tends to be rather insecure as a result, dealing heavily with imposter syndrome; this has led to her becoming somewhat overbearing and insistent on helping others at times, even if they don’t really need help, out of a desire to try to leave a good impression and make herself of use. She gets flustered easily, due to her insecurities, and it can take awhile for her to ‘take a deep breath’ and return to ‘normal’.

Pacifist -- Anming doesn’t like conflict, both in her everyday civilian life, as well as her powered life. She doesn’t want to fight, not wanting to hurt anyone, and certainly, doesn’t want to end up with someone else getting hurt because of her own actions. She rarely powers up if she can help it, unless it’s an unavoidable situation she’s been drawn into, and would really prefer if there wasn’t a war at all. Violence, in her opinion, is not the answer.

disorganized/easily distracted -- In spite of her coming off as an organized person who has things under control, Anming is actually quite the opposite. She has a habit of misplacing things, only to find them somewhere unexpected, especially when it comes to her recipe books and small things like her cellphone. Although Anming tries her hardest to remain dedicated to the task at hand, it doesn’t take that much to throw her off course. Something like following a link a colleague sent her can easily turn into hours of getting lost in looking at recipe blogs, or watching cooking videos on youtube. While she tries to remain focused on her work, the occasional slip up happens, and combined with her tendency to misplace things, has led to mishaps before.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Hair: Dark brown, hip length. Usually tied up into a simple updo these days, or a simple braid

Eyes: Dark brown

Face: Thin, roundish

Skin Tone: pale

Body Type: petite (4'11), and is not really all that curvy or busty, either.

Clothes: Anming tends to favor wearing skirts or dresses, sometimes capris in warmer weather, in shades of blues and greys. She tends to not accessorize much beyond wearing decorative hair ties at times.

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