Name: Dongmei Kai
Nickname: Mei, Kai, Lotus (by her dads mostly), probably lots of inappropriate things by jerks because of her name
Age: 15 16
Birthday: January 6th, 2001
Sign: Capricorn
xxxxChinese: Metal Dragon
Gemstone: Garnet
Blood Type: AB+
Fav. Food: Chinese food. She has a type, okay? Also peaches. All the peaches. So many peaches.
Hated Food: American. Too greasy.
School: Meadowview High School
Heritage: Dongmei is full Chinese, unlike her older half-sister. They share the same father but different mothers, as Amarantha's mother was not available at the time the Kai family was looking to have their own child.
Scent/Perfume: Moroccan jasmine, chrysanthemum, tea leaf, white musk, and acai berry.
Clothes: Meadowview uniform is her primary outfit during the week, which is usually accessorized by a
jade dragon necklace, two golden hoops in each ear and a panda faced watch. She usually has on galaxy print bike shorts under her uniform to match her
galaxy print sneakers.
Any other time she's usually in her clothes for her martial arts class or can be seen in jeans, shorts or galaxy print leggings with matching sneakers (the same she wears to school), and t-shirts or tank tops. Her favourite tank top has a galaxy print panda on the front and her favourite t-shirt is a
Pandaren Brew Master.
Hobbies: I love Kung Fuuuuuu~ - It's stereotypical, she knows. Very stereotypical. But she can't help it! In an effort to keep ties to her ancestry (and probably because her Grandmother put the idea in her head) Dongmei has been in a Kung Fu (as the American's know it) class ever since she was old enough to start.
Or at least when her father thought she was old enough. So she's really only been at it for five years. But hey, better then nothing, right? One day she hopes to be a master of Qi for now she'll settle on just mastering the basics. She attends every Monday, Wedneday and Friday.
We do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears: (except you kind of do) Dongmei's parents own and work at a bath house called "Pool of Sacred Tears". Though she doesn't really get paid, she works there part time after school when she's not at her Kung Fu lessons, usually picking up dirty towels or watching little kids in the seating areas out front.
When she's not working on homework behind the counter anyway. Most of the time, though, she's offering drinks to those who hang out.
Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom: Off to the side of the bath house is a slowly growing peach tree that Dongmei planted from the pit of her first peach. Every day she can be seen checking up on it, watering it, even talking to it! She's excited for it to grow into a fully fledged peach tree and produce peaches. She's hoping to sell them in shop or even try turning them into preserves.
Virtues: The Needs of the Many -- Dongmei has always been the kind of person to do all she can to help those in need. Despite having homework and Kung Fu lessons, she's always been willing to throw some extra time around the bath house her dads own. Or help her grandparents around their apartment cleaning or shopping. Or even just some kid who needs help getting their cat from a tree.
There's nothing too small that will keep her from helping someone in anyway that she can.
Don't Worry, I Got This -- (Determined) Wanting to be the best she can be, wanting to make something of herself, Dongmei is hard pressed to do less then her best. School is not something she takes lightly and she will never settle for second best. As such she takes double the notes, always asks questions and will even stay after school to make sure she's understood the lesson properly. She stays with it until she's got it down and covered, and this attitude bleeds over into all aspects of her life, making her track record for finishing what she starts pretty damn good.
Flaws:Outweigh the Need of Me -- The only real issue that comes from her willingness to help others is how little she tends to care about herself as an outcome. Though her Kung Fu classes meet three days a week, she does still have home work on top of it. And the work she gives herself to keep the house neat and helping out at the bath house, senshi work eventually, it can get a little much.
And very hard to find some time for herself. Her sleep schedule is a little wonky, some times having to stay up late to finish homework. She doesn't dare talk to her dads about it, fearful that they'll try and restrict her time either at kung fu or helping out at the bath house.
Stressed -- The saying goes "when the going gets tough, the tough get going" and while Dongmei isn't really tough she certainly knows how to leave a dust trail in her wake. That is to say: Dongmei does not deal well with stress.
A more accurate thing to say would be that she refuses to really deal with stress and will literally walk away from a situation that pushed against her stress tolerance. Overcrowded areas, too much responsibility, too much pressure to do something she feels she can't do, not being able to understand the way something is being explained to her... She tends to cry or walk away from whatever the stressor is until she can better deal with it.
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