Username: The Paradox
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Character's Name: Sǐwáng Yín
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Gender: Male
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Age: 1,784 years. Appears to be in his early thirties.
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Race/Species: Human Immortal
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Personality: Calm, calculating, and serious to a fault. Regardless of what goes wrong, he always seems to keep control of himself and his emotions, though he is not emotionless. Just very well guarded. He is unfailingly polite, though outspoken, has a rather dark sense of humor, and is slow to anger.
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Appearance: For a Chinese man, he is rather tall, standing at five feet, ten inches. His head is adorned with a mane of white, almost ethereal looking hair, and he garbs himself in a mix of clothing from his native China, and Japan. He wears only whites, silvers, and similar light colors, disdaining dark colors. A Tachi rests at his left hip, and he carries a Kiseru with him most of the time. A long scar adorns his chest, from his left shoulder to his right hip. It seems to have been made with a slashing weapon of some kind, perhaps a sword, but it would be hard to say without asking him. A small crescent moon clip rests in his snowy hair, and a breeze seems to surround him at all times.
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Background Story: Sǐwáng Yín was born in the Three Kingdoms period of China's history to a wandering disguised noble and a peasant girl. A strategist for several lesser lords, he had boundless talent in terms of strategic acumen, but his name and known lineage, that is to say, little to none, made him unable to advance in any major sense. Though he was an educated man, having studied the martial arts and other arts in a monastery from his early youth, his lineage seemed to haunt him.
Yín was skilled in arts of internal alchemy as much as he was in strategy. In 244 AD, at the age of 19, he began delving into the elixir of life, in order to attain immortality. He wished to be known for his great deeds, and it was during this time that he met with, and impressed the renowned strategist of Wei, Sima Yi. For many years, Yin studied under Sima Yi, and learned the deeper arts of war, strategy, and deception. In return, he taught Sima Yi the powers of Alchemy and the sorceries he knew.
After Sima Yi's death in 251, Yin left mainland China in order to wander and find the ingredients he needed for the Elixir. After around ten or so years, and many adventures too numerous to detail here, he managed to attain the recipe, and create the elixir. He became immortal at the age of thirty four. He has since wandered the earth, learning, plotting, and earning his fortune. His ultimate goal is rulership of the world as the New Emperor, though he understands this may take many more hundreds of years, and he is patient. In the past five centuries or so, he has created his Silver Wind organization.
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Job/Occupation: Currently the title holder and sole owner of a far-reaching shadow corporation/mercenary force he created many centuries ago, called the 'Silver Wind', Yin makes it his business to be in other people's business. Information brokering, mercenary hiring, theft, gunrunning, and the like are his business. Oddly, Yin finds outright murder distasteful, and he has disdain for those who would unnecessarily harm women and children, at least civilians. There is nothing to protect warrior women and children. Silver Wind has connections both with the Illuminati, and much stronger, and wiser (these days) Strike Force Zero.
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How does your character know about the Crisis?- As an information broker, and an immortal onmyodo expert, Yin learned first through high divination, then the grapevine of events, via his connections and spies, much that has been happening. While he isn't a hundred percent informed and up to date on everything, he knows well enough to know what a danger this situation is.
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Siding: Yin might be called a villain for the most part, but he wishes to rule the world as Supreme Emperor, not see it turned into a mindless slave nation, or completely destroyed and returned to the Wu Chi. While he finds working with the altruistic distasteful, he sides with the so called 'heroes' to end the threat..and perhaps take the armor or its wearer for himself, if the circumstances allow. Yin is in this for himself.
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Powers/Abilities: As an Earthly Immortal, Yin has many unusual powers. He has the default abilities that all Immortals have. He can walk on clouds, leap great distances and land without harm, and has greatly enhanced physical strength, endurance, and agility. Yin's unique powers are over one of the elements, his personal element being Air/Wind. He is able to use the Wind to fly, push, pull, or lift objects or people, cut with a kamaitachi wind that acts as a sickle capable of cutting through many dense materials, and to create gusts and walls of wind. He can control the weather, summoning great windstorms and rainstorms, summon wind elementals, and strangle or steal the breath from living things.
Most immortals have enhanced capabilities, but one always stands out above the others. Yin is incredibly fast and agile, having great speed, speed that is nearly unmatched by any on a similar level. He is capable of turning his entire body into molecules of air, and moving along any air at bursts of instantaneous speed, similar to teleportation, but more of an instant movement. In essence, if it can be done with air or wind, he is able to do it. While he can create fire and cause combustion by agitating air molecules, he is loath to do it, as he technically does not hold dominion over elemental fire. He can however, use vibrations in the air to create and manipulate sound.
Yin is also an expert in Elemental Sorcery; He is capable of manipulating the Five Elements and is considered an Onmyoji. Yin is skilled in the summoning and controlling of Shikigami, as well as offensive elemental talismans, sealing arts, healing and medicine, feng shui, and high divination. It was this divination that alerted him to the Crisis in the beginning.
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Weaknesses: Immortals have no specific weaknesses per se, and they cannot be truly killed, save by specifically prepared weapons and items designed via strange processes and alchemy by those who know the immortal state. If anything, Yin's only real weakness is that he can be injured the same as any human, and he can grow tired. Inevitably, while his endurance is superhuman, it is not limitless, and even an immortal comes to a point where he cannot fight further. Yin does not need to eat or breathe, but if placed in an airless chamber, he will not be able to use his air powers, save what he could produce with his own exhalations, which would amount to little. If Yin takes what would be a fatal injury to a normal person, he instead falls unconscious, and must recover over a period of hours or days depending on the severity of the injury.
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Gear: Yin has a Tachi, or Daito, named Musei Keiri [Silent Executioner]. The weapon has several unique properties, one of them being the ability to 'cut the wind'. The weapon's edge is so sharp, it can actually divide the air as it swings, parting the very atmosphere around it. This allows it to be swung totally silent; even as the blade whooshes through the air, it makes no sound at all, not even as it cleaves flesh. The only time it makes a sound is when it strikes nonliving material, such as cut wood, or metal. When this occurs, it rings out in pure notes, like wind chimes or deep bell tones.
Typical of an Immortal's weapon, it also only acknowledges Yin, and will return to his hand if he summons it, even if it is in the hand of another; if it is held or confined, it will disperse into air and return to him thus. It also has the power to blend into his body, and he can swing or extend it from any part of himself, and hide it within himself, making it easily concealed in a sort of 'air dimension' that his form is one with. If Yin allows someone to wield it, it will let them hold it, until he recalls it once more.
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Other: Nothing at this time.
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