Character Name: Shun-Yu
Gender: Male
Race: Jiang Shi; Chinese Hopping Vampire

History:
Shun-Yu was born in feudal China not as the monster he is today but as a human by the name of Shan Yao. Brought up by a rice farmer, he lived a simple life until he was called into military service for his country at age 17. After he served under a infantry unit for almost an entire year, he returned home as a war veteran with nothing more then the cloths on his back. Shortly after returning, he inherited his father‘s farm after he pasted away and married his childhood friend, Cao Deming. With his new wife and home, things didn’t seem like they could go wrong. However, hardships were soon bestowed on Shan Yao’s family.
An unprecedented amount of rain fell during the wet season, causing the entire country side to be succumbed to flooding. In a desperate attempt to save his friends and family, he sacrificed his own live to save lives of his family. With his village destroyed, Shan Yao’s friends and family buried his body on the outskirts of town and rebuilt the broken village to begin life anew. Over the years, Shan Yao was soon forgotten along with his entire village.
Feeling it did not have enough time on earth, Shan-Yao’s soul separated from itself, causing the good and mature half to go to the afterlife while the impulsive, childish half returned to his body. Laying in dormant, the dark energies corrupted his decaying body until it barely resembled a human. Eventually, Shan Yao’s corpse gained enough power to dig out of his grave. With little intelligence and virtually no memory of his past, the undead knew only how to survive.
Though it took decades, the corruption process started to reverse itself for the better. He started looking more and more alive, with his hair changing from dull black to pale white until eventually the lively blond it is today. His skin changed from a rotting green to a pale, almost human blue and regain his human intelligence, wisdom and memories. Deciding it was for the best, He left his broken down village, taking only what he was buried with and the only other thing to survive the decades of wear and tear; a simple gardening tool. Knowing he wasn’t Shan Yao anymore, he decided took up the persona of Shun-Yu, a mischievous spirit that only cares for only itself.

As Shun-Yu, he’s led a peaceful yet interesting life. Traveling from country to country mainly by foot, he began to pick up on other customs and has seen many events. Not needing to feed for years at a time because of his age, the young vampire sometimes settled in human cities to take a break from his carefree lifestyle to led a normal, human life. However, problems occurred four hundred years ago.
Unannounced to him at the time, it seemed that if he didn’t properly dispose of his victim’s bodies they too would become the living dead. Shun-Yu cared very little about that at first and even went great lengths to ignore them, that is to say until humans found ways to destroy the lesser undead and Shun-Yu alike. He always had to deal with the eccentric monster hunters, but now they could take him in a fight. Shun-Yu knew something had to be done and fast.
Traveling back to his homeland, Shun-Yu went town to town and systematically to killed off most of his kind. Though it took two hundred years, he managed to destroy almost all of their existence. However, all was not well. His homeland was a vast country and he couldn’t find all of his kin, not to mention he almost lost his life several times during these excavates by Taoist priests with the same goals.
In order to protect himself against these priests, Shun-Yu began to study varies of martial arts. Most were bland and ineffective, though the young vampire had found two in particular he liked. They were Limping Duck and Primordial Chaos One Chi Palm. While he’s a self claimed master of the one chi palm, he had problems learning Limping Duck due to his hyperactivity and inability to hold a stance for more then a minute. To help him learn it, he studied Southern Preying Mantis and White Crane Boxing since it uses various techniques from both. Still trying to find new ways to defend himself and his carefree lifestyle, Shun-Yu has left his native country in search of not only new arts and techniques and the good life.

Personality:
While one couldn’t tell by his constantly sporadic attitude, Shun-Yu is actually a very patient and a down to earth kind of guy. He loves children and sometimes spends years at a time goofing off. Most of the time, children tend to like him back because of his zany antics; a trait that has served him well. The only thing he love as much as children is women. A true pervert at heart, he hits on any women of at least average looks regardless of circumstance or others around him. This has gotten him into minor confrontations many times before, though he has little choice in the matter. Having only the immature half of the soul, he acts on his any and all of his impulses unless it will get him killed. Thankfully, his has no other impulses.
When it comes to having any social class, Shun-Yu is a lost cause. Childish, clumsy and overall unmannered; he acts nothing like a superior form of undead should. While he is an entity of darkness, Shun-Yu is more interested in the finer things in life then he is with killing, maiming or destroying. In fact, he cannot stand most evils for that very reason. Because of his self-centered and carefree lifestyle, Shun-Yu has managed to survive centuries with little hardships and doesn‘t plan on changing his Laissez-faire ways.
While the lazy bum has never worked a day of his afterlife, he’s actually quite dedicated to his martial arts training. Originally picking up martial arts after he had almost died, his training has saved his skin on multiple occasions and has actually started to enjoy minor skirmishes. While he doesn’t normally openly seek out competition, he occasionally forces others into dueling him by making them think they or someone else are in danger. However, if the fight turns sour for him, he flees on the drop of a hat. A coward true and through, he rather flee from a fight he can most likely win then stay and be wrong.

Physical Description:
Shun-Yu isn’t a physically imposing person; standing only at 5’6” and weighting a mere 95 pounds, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in presence. Having a massive 285cm reach while relaxing, one can just tell he isn’t human just by looking at him. His head in particular looks different then a typical human’s. Baring a shark toothed grin most of the time, he gives off a disturbing vibe. His ears are lengthened and pointed as an adaptation to hear better while his eye sockets are darkened due to decomposing. Being amber in color, his eyes themselves seem normal while he’s calm. When enraged, his pupils disappear and the whites in his eyes seemingly disperse into a sea of blood. While his hair stretches far past the ground, his eyebrows are thinned into nonexistence and has no other body or facial hair.

Apperance
Apperance 2

Weapons:
Bead Prayer Bracelet: Worn on his left hand, Shun-Yu is never seen without his bracelet. Being made solely out of clay and red paint, it is miraculous that it is still in perfect condition. This is because it was originally his wife’s. Shun-Yu received them when his wife buried his body so that he would always remember her. Because of it’s origin and its affinity towards the undead, Shun-Yu can channel energies from the ethereal plane into the bead memento, over doubling his reserve power. When receiving a powerful blast of positive or negative energy, Shun-Yu can redirect about 75% of it to his reserves, letting the young vampire take neutral damage towards holy affinity attacks and restore energy from evil energies as long as he is wearing his bracelet.
Grimfall: A badass weapon with a badass name, it originally was nothing but a finely cared for gardening implement that served as one of two keepsakes from his homeland and past. While he had to replace all of the original components original due to the elements, it is still rather sentimental to Shun-Yu. As a weapon itself, it surpasses all but the best. The shaft is almost five feet in length and is solid Chinese Yew. While it can still be used to dig, Shun-Yu slightly reshaped the blade as well as sharpen it. This made it more like a partisan, though it still has the broader blade of the shovel. This allows him to slash and chop with it while making it unwieldy to those not used to the extra weight. At the end of the shaft, there are some decoration so it wouldn’t look plain, but serves no other function. Much like the bracelet, the young vampire has an affinity towards his weapon. As such, he can send the weapon to the ethereal plane and back on will and even repair it in a matter of seconds using some of his reserve energy.

Strengths:
Undead Physique: Shun-Yu has the physical structure closer to that of the dead then a living being. However, unlike most undead he has some human elements in his physiology such as a weak pulse and some working organs. While can withstand blows that would normally kill any human, a strike to a vital organ will still kill him. Like most undead, he doesn’t need to eat, breath or sleep since he gets his nourishment from spiritual energy. Being an animated corpse, he is highly resilient if not immune to paralysis, disease, poison, electricity, cold, and negative energy.
Due to the adverse effects of Rigor Mortis and the corruption from the negative energies within himself, his basic physiology was greatly mutated. All of his appendages were altered so that they have the ability to stretch several feet. Having a max reach of 850cm, he can chip away at enemy defenses long before most can reach him. His hands in particular were corrupted to better suit his bloodthirsty habits. When relaxed, his hands appear normal save long black nails. When agitated, Shun-Yu can enlarge his hands and turn each finger into nothing more then a large, exposable claws.
Even his face was altered by the dark forces inside of him. His eyes glow a monstrous hue to strike fear into those whom oppose him, while his teeth turned jagged to rip through the flesh of others. His tongue became deformed, becoming black and thin in appearance. Like his arms, it is able to stretch to inhuman proportions and is able to lift and carry simple objects. One of the favorable effects of the dark energies within himself is it corrupted his body is that he is far stronger then regular human. While he is a relatively small character, he is easily twice as strong as others his size. One aspect of his physiology that was altered greatly was his legs. Able to jump meters into the air, his kicking potential is phenomenal. Despite this, he usually uses his arms in fights since he doesn’t have claws on his feet.
Spirit Manipulation: One of the adverse effects of becoming undead was the lose of his sight. However, he gained the ability to see into the ethereal plane of existence as well as an acute sense of hearing. These adaptations allow Shun-Yu to track humans for sustenance. Over the years, he gained the ability to alter and control the spiritual energies around him, not just absorb them for nourishment.

Abilities:
Soul Drain: By touching the victim, he can drain a portion of their soul and absorb it to feed himself or increase his reserve energy. If he holds on for to long, the victim‘s soul will be completely devoured and will perish. If someone were to die by this mean, they will be risen as a mindless undead under his control. Though he cannot drain through thicker materials like steel, he can easily take spiritual energy through materials like cloth. For unexplained reason, the process of stealing souls is longer or even impossible on certain individuals.
Levitation: Shun-Yu can defy the laws of gravity by using the ethereal energies within and around him to lift his body in any direction he chooses. Moving only slightly faster then the average human walking speed, Shun-Yu can only use this ability to dodge predicted or easily dodge-able attacks. In addition to moving himself, he can move up to two objects within his field of vision. The objects cannot leave his field of vision or he will lose control over it and the objects cannot weight more then a grand total of thirty pounds. He also can not effect living beings as their innate spiritual energy prevents him from doing so, nor can he levitate himself while doing so as it is to strenuous on his undead body. Shun-Yu can move the affected objects as fast as he could if he were holding them.
Miasma: By releasing a portion of the negative aligned spiritual energy from within himself, Shun-Yu spreads it throughout the air around him as it acts as an insipid poison to all living things. While the “toxins” causes no permanent damage, they do inhibit breathing and strenuous activity in living creatures. Since the attack attacks the soul rather then the body, creatures with an abundant amount of willpower are effected less or are even immune to it’s effects. Because this uses the equivalent to his live force, he cannot use this ability for an extended period of time.
Dark Pulse: Be releasing some of his spiritual energy in an explosive blast, Shun-Yu creates a wave of energy to damage his opponents. When used on the ground, it rises out of the earth and straight until it reaches it’s final destination. When used in the air, the wave of energy is launched in a crescent shape towards his opponent. Though it is called Dark Pulse, it is neutral in affinity unless Shun-Yu decides to alter it‘s properties.
Pulse Wave: Shun-Yu pulls in ambient spiritual energy from the air and within himself to a single point on a surface. The point will be encircled by a glowing red ring for an instant followed swiftly by a blast of spirit energy. The crimson red blast acts like a sudden spike of energy shooting perpendicular from the surface. The blast has a concussive force meant to propel the opponent up from the ground, down from the ceiling and so on. The amount of spirit energy used and pulled from the air alters the power of this technique.
Hallow Shell: By surrounding himself in a small layer of ethereal energy, Shun-Yu creates a small barrier around him. Since it follows his every movement, it does not inhibit his mobility and he draws in any amount of the barrier that isn‘t used up to protect himself, recycling it for later use. To be at max proficiency, the barrier can only be paper thin, giving him equal protection only that of leather armor.
Conversion: All spiritual energy is broken up into two main forms, positive and negative energy, with positive representing holy and negative evil. By separating the opposing forces from each other, Shun-Yu can align any spirit based ability at the cost of half efficiency. To prevent harming himself with positive energy, he stores any excess in his memento of his wife for later use.
Afterimage: Following after an attack, Shun-Yu can envelop himself in a spiritual aura and can create a second self by manifesting a portion of his spiritual energy in a chosen location a few moments later. The afterimage mimics exactly Shun-Yu's previous attack down to the exact amount of force behind it. Being physical manifestations of spirit, the clones are unable to maintain their form and dissipate no more then a second afterwards. Multiple images can be made, at of course the cost of exponentially more energy.
Aether Winds: Shun-Yu can send a gust of spiritual energy towards an opponent that is mainly used to deflect projectiles. He usually whisked his hand while performing this technique to help him focus, though this is not needed to perform this attack. Like a lot of his attacks, the strength of the gust is proportionate to how much energy he puts into it. Because of this, it’s not practical to move an opponent with it as it take up to much energy. Shun-Yu developed this attack because he was sick of being lit on fire from afar.
Jiju Jiju Quan Da!: Also known as the “Chirp Chirp PANCH!”. By focusing a rather large portion of ethereal energy into his hand, Shun-Yu can deliver a powerful blow to an unexpecting opponent. While the attack is no more powerful then a regular punch in terms of raw force, the blow causes a chemical imbalance in his opponents brain regardless of where they were struck due to the combination of positive and negative energies within the attack. Some of the psychological effects include dizziness, blurred vision and minor hallucinations. The effects only last between fifteen to thirty seconds and have no permanent damage. Because of the nature of the attack, missing with it causes Shun-Yu to lose the charged up energy as well as losing his focus.
Primordial Chaos: Shun-Yu’s penultimate move, or that’s what he’s call it when he perfects the attack. Currently an underdevelopment move, it involves using all of his reserve energy in one concussive burst. Using both positive and negative energy, theoretically it should create a burst of pure chaos energy that devastates everything in its wake. Unfortunately, positive and negative energy negate each other or fuse back into spiritual energy, causing most of the energy to escape, living little spiritual energy in it’s wake. While it does produce some chaos energy, it isn’t enough to cause any significant damage. Shun-Yu based this unfinished move off of the psychological effects of the “Jiju Jiju Quan Da!” which uses opposing energies and the principle that a hurricane is formed using both hot and cold air.

Martial Arts:
Limping Duck: Shun-Yu’s primary fighting style and the most difficult to master. Stealing techniques from Mantis and Crane, the stance also features a variety of stances and strikes not found in most Wushu styles. Attacks with the hands use various palm strikes and finger jabs, often in conjunction with odd contortions of the elbow, allowing him to strike in unusual angles. Kicks are performed almost exclusively with the relaxed, lifted leg. These kicks typically entail low sweeps and assaults on the shins and knees, occasionally with a few high snap kicks thrown in to trick his opponent. While looking like one is just flailing around, the main focus of this stance is actually balanced, well aimed strikes. While he is proficient in this style, this is his only martial art he knows he feels that he truly hasn’t mastered. Shun-Yu began learning this style when he suffered a crippling defeat.
Southern Praying Mantis: Having learned under the Iron Ox branch, he was taught an aggressive style that emphasizes on close range fighting and very little on defense compared to the other schools of Praying Mantis. Learned only to better his understanding of the Limping Duck, he rarely practices this stance.
Fujian White Crane: Also know as White Crane Boxing, Shun-Yu is a practitioner of the Ancestral Crane Fist branch. While it is a more defensive stance, it uses quite a bit of leaping attacks which Shun-Yu loves. Much like Southern Praying Mantis, Shun-Yu only learned this style to better understand Limping Duck.
Wun Yuen Yut Hei Jeung: Translated as Primordial Chaos One Chi Palm, it is a fast pace yet defensive stance that relies solely on reflexes. Unlike most martial arts, it primarily uses Fajing, or explosive power, as it’s main offensive. The style allows the practitioner to deliver short, fast pace blows with the power of a full swing. Much like a sprinter, it uses fast twitch muscles rather then a marathon runner which uses slow oxidative muscles. This causes the practitioner to tire rather quickly. To increase the efficiency of this style, Shun-Yu tends to back up his attacks with spiritual energy for more oomph. He learned this style since he needed a faster style and a way out of grapples. It also didn’t help that he thought the name was funny. Much like Crane and Mantis, he uses elements from this style in his Limping Duck stance.
Unorthodox Kickboxing: While he originally learned it solely to compete in a competition, he uses this style for numerous reasons. Being the most recent fighting style he‘s learned it is also the one he uses against not as skilled fighters as well as against others to prevent them from learning his primary fighting style. He also found out that this stance complements his supernatural powers quite well. Unlike most kick boxers, he learned this style mainly by copying his good friend Raizou and thus incorporates a few grappling moves not found in any kickboxing school. Much like other fighting stances, he incorporates certain strikes and grapples into his limping duck style.
Eighteen Arms of Wushu: Being proficient in five martial arts, he also learned how to use all eighteen main melee weapons used in Chinese Wushu. These weapons are saber, spear, straight sword, staff, halberd, axe, battle axe, hook sword, fork, steel whip, mace, hammer, talon, trident, lance, short cudgel, stick and meteor hammer. During his service in war, he also learned how to properly use a bow, though he generally refuse to. When using his primary weapon, he make full use of his halberd expertise, though he incorporates some techniques from other weapons occasionally to throw off his opponents.

Weaknesses:
Hopping Vampire: Like every other vampire, Shun-Yu has a large array of pointless weaknesses. These weaknesses include, but are not limited to; sticky rice, chicken blood, eight sided mirrors, geomantic compasses, thunder, bells, gongs, silver swords and coin swords. While he won’t be destroyed by any of them due to his age, they still act like as a powerful repellent. In addition, if a yellow paper strips with words or symbols of power written in red ink or blood is placed on his head, he will become inanimate until the talisman is removed.
One of the key characteristics of the Jiang Shi is that they hop around as their main form of mobility. This is due to their stiff bodies and a bamboo pole on their back they use for support. Unlike his mindless counterparts, Shun-Yu doesn’t have a pole on his back anymore and is as flexible if not more so then a regular human, though he still hops to travel around. While the young vampire can go a while without walking, he generally feels more comfortable hopping then walking. This makes him look even more ridiculous than he already did, though doesn‘t inhibit his fighting unless the fight is for a prolonged period of time.
Undead: While Shun-Yu isn’t entirely evil, his body remains animated due to the negative energies within himself. As such, coming into contact with positive energies cancel out the negative energies within him, causing him to receive damage instead of being healed. In fact, Shun-Yu takes almost four times as much damage as a human would when not wearing his wife‘s memento.
Blind: While Shun-Yu has an incredible sense of hearing and can sense the ethereal energies around him, he cannot see light nor color. He cannot see simple inanimate objects and tends to trip over them, making others think he‘s a klutz. While he can sense people and other living beings almost flawlessly, he cannot see them so long as they hold their breath. This is because by holding one’s breath, they conceal their chi, making them effectively invisible not only to him but most Chinese mythological creatures.