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Name: Bao, Juan Hua (包娟花)
Age: 24
Birthday: 7th July
Gender: Female
Height: 5’5 ft, 165 cm
Weight: 63kg, 139 lbs
Faction: Wu Ren
Purpose: To forget her recent past, and honour her grandmothers memory
Class: Fu Xiu
Rank: 4
Levels: Fu 2
Skills:
- Identifying the purpose of a talisman.
- This has always come more easily to Juan Hua than creation. Even with her own unreliable creation abilities, once made, she can identify which way her Lighters are likely to function
- Lighters
- These never have any lasting power. As she is still in the beginning stages of her learning, she’s never used complex materials to craft the talisman. At the moment the use can either be heat with a small amount of light produced - what she uses for ‘matches’, Or light with a small amount of heat produced - what she uses as ‘lights’. During the creation, she does not know which of the two will be produced. This is because she has yet to identify what she does do differently each time.
- Matches: Use the talismans she creates as essentially matches twice each, for a purpose such as lighting a candle
- Lights: Use the talismans as a source of light lasting up to thirty seconds
Personality:
[ + Determined + | + Caring + | + Logical + | + Decisive + ]
[ - Proud - | - Stubborn - | - Perfectionist - | - Insecure - ]
Juan Hua is normally a confident lady. She knows what she wants, and goes for it. Once she sets her mind to something, there is little that can be done to stop her.
Decisions made are always her own, she’s very rarely influenced by the chatter of others. These decisions are usually well thought out, pros and cons solidly weighed before anything is set in stone. Her actions are rarely dictated by emotion alone. Once set in stone there’s almost no take backs. She’s not easily able to admit her mistakes, and god forbid asking for help. That is not something she can actively do easily. If openly given, Juan Hua has the sense of mind to accept more often than not, but will only rarely admit it was needed. Similarly, Juan Hua often does not know her own limits, and pushes herself to the point where she has no choice but stopping - be it emotionally of physically.
Logic tends to rule Juan Hua's actions, and she sets up strong personal boundaries and limits with how much assitance/care she will give. However, she does soften with the people closest to her. Once she feels emotionally attatched, she would do anything without needing to be asked. Of course the caring can often be what Juan Hua feels is the best thing in the situation, but it is done with good intentions. The people closest to her are about the only ones who can influence her decision making.
Of late, with her personal tragedy, and rather sudden upheaval and relocation, a thread of uncertainty, of insecurity has worked its way into Juan Hua’s otherwise headstrong psyche. She does still try to stick to her guns, but there is part of her searching for acceptance and wavers much sooner than before.
History:
Juan Hua was born into a family of wealthy merchants living in Xing Town - their business comprised of import of goods. Her childhood was relatively stable, the only instability came from the occasional loss of shipments between Red River and Xing Town - Yao attacks. Overall her family was well off enough that it was no massive problem, just a tightening of the belt. She was lucky enough to receive a rudimentary education in reading, writing and mathematics- skills she took to like a duck to water. She was a voracious learner, and given the opportunity, likely would have performed well in an academic setting. However that was not her lot in life.
Juan Hua grew up in a loving household. As a young child, her favourite person was her grandmother. She adored the lady, not least because of the sweet treats that slipped her way. Her grandmother was the person who encouraged Juan Hua the most in everything. Her brief foray into painting? Grandmother. The ambition to grow beautiful flowers? Grandmother.
Her grandmother was her idol - a formidable old lady, always a kind word on hand. Most fascinatingly to Juan Hua, she was a cultivator. A practitioner of Fu Xiu. The only one Juan Hua knew of in her family. Her grandmother had the most interesting stories of her younger years, and about her creations.
Her grandmother had not created any talismas that were particularly exciting in the time Juan Hua knew her, having had to return to basics (cataracts). However, there were a number of defunct talismans that were now just beautiful carvings around their home. Each one Juan Hua found led to a story from her grandmother. It became a game between them, her grandmother would give her a hint and Juan Hua would piece together the puzzle and find the correct talisman. And then the story was unveiled.
And so Juan Hua's fascination was born.
Juan Hua's early teens arrived, and her grandmother passed away. With her gone, Juan Hua's interest in cultivation dissipated. There was no voice there to urge the girl on.
Instead, her parents began to put pressure on the girl to conform to society - something she had escaped while her grandmother was alive. One year she went with her parents to Jing City during a trade re-negotiation. The trip gave Juan Hua an appreciation for clothing, especially beautiful patterned clothing, and a taste of life in the cities, which persisted on their return to Xing Town.
After her older sisters both married, the pressure came on hard and fast. Juan Hua did not want to get married, a fact which frustrated her parents to no end. With marriage, Juan Hua feared that she would loose agency. And so she fought against it.
The rebellion did not last long. At 20 Juan Hua ended up married, and unexpectedly happy about it. Her husband was a person she found herself able to confide in. He was a confident man, willing and able to uplift his wife. He became the voice her grandmother once was. The voice of encouragement.
And she was happy.
Happiness was not long lasting. Her husband of two years, as a determined new businessman decided to travel with the shipment, leaving Juan Hua in Xing Town, to see if he could broker a better deal. It was misfortune that smiled on the venture. A Yao attack led to the loss of her new life, and husband.
Unsurprisingly she was shocked and distressed. After a few months of moping, Juan Hua decided she was going to make a change. She took it upon herself to sink into her childhood interest, and employed a practitioner of Fu Xiu to teach her the basics.
The interest acted as a fruitful distraction. Challenge and accomplishment allowed her tragedy to fall into the wayside. She found herself adept at identifying the use of basic talismans. She could identify better talismans with faded enchantment.
It was at this point that a scout from Wu Ren, in Xing Town, noticed her potential, and after the assessment process, Juan Hua was offered the opportunity to join. It was a decision that took less thought than Juan Hua would have expected of herself. In pique of ‘what does it matter’, Juan Hua found herself packing up and relocating from Xing Town to the depths of the bamboo rich, western forest.
On arrival, Juan Hua felt like an outsider...because well. She was. It was inevitable.
The lifestyle was an adjustment. Having had some form of household help her entire life, the more self sufficient lifestyle was difficult. And of course, the families. The thing she had lost, both by death and decision. While the people were kind enough, without the ability to leave to see her own family, loneliness ran deep.
Juan Hua also felt like she was making the first forays into cultivation late on in life, or at least later than she’d have liked. Her early easy progress in Fu faltered, and came to a standstill.
Almost a year in, and Juan Hua still struggles to cultivate. To say she finds it frustrating? Understatement. Juan Hua is rather jealous of others who seem able to progress. Jealous of her lack of own mobilisation, lack of personal growth. A year in and she has never managed to make a talisman able to last more than two uses, no matter the hours spent on creation.
While unable to physically to leave the faction grounds, nothing stops Juan Hua’s interest in the world on the outside. On hearing about the tragedy at the summit Juan Hua’s first thought was about the loss of protection for the people as smaller factions dissolved. While the prophecy was heard, it almost went in one ear and out the other, for how much attention Juan Hua paid it, far too focused on the immediate ramifications, and mulling over her own inadequacies.
Miscellaneous:
- Loves patterned cloth
- Very jealous of those who cultivate and do it well. But tries not to be so openly
- Her bell is attached to her hair accessory or belt depending on the day
- Can juggle 2-3 items. Better with two than three
- Has two sisters, both older
- Loves to play detective
RP preferences:
◆ Style: I can do lit or script, idm either though I do lean towards lit! I love to HC! Im a big fan of different character relationships, both platonic and romantic, friends, enemies everything inbetween
◆ Platform: Chatting via discord. I’m happy RPing either on discord or google docs! (I’m also easy with any method so up to you if you have other preferences)
◆ Content: Im good with anything!
Timezone: GMT
