PLAYER NAME: Orange Crates CONTACT: orangeCrates @ Plurk HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Just jut down a mod/player referral or link to your test drive meme activity, please!
CHARACTER: Yun Yifeng CANON: A Sword of Frost CANON POINT: After the fight on the Northern borders ends in victory for Great Liang's forces.
BACKGROUND: Born in the cold northern regions of Great Liang, he was found by a mad doctor and his assistant and whisked away with other orphans to be used as test subjects for poisons. Yun Yifeng, having a natural resistance to poisons was able to survive these tests and henceforth became the primary poison-tester. His resistance didn't mean he couldn't be poisoned just that he's unlikely to be killed by them though after a while he developed immunity to most of the ones he'd been fed...until he was given one that is going to kill him. Instead of letting himself be subjected to further tests he bargained for his freedom by refusing to eat or drink water.
In the end, unable to force Yun Yifeng to not starve himself Gui Ci let him go. Though Yun Yifeng hated the man, he had to rely on people who owed the doctor for his services, which he did not enjoy.
Years later, he had created his own sect, Fengyu Gate which specialized as information brokers. If you can pay the price, Fengyu Gate would guarantee to bring you the information you want, no matter what it is.
It is because of this that he meets Xiao Wang, Ji Yanran who needed his help to find a treasure that had been stolen from the imperial palace. Though as a person who runs in jianghu circles he initially declines to take the job Ji Yanran says he can pay with the blood lingzhi which Gui Ci had identified as the only cure to the poison Yun Yifeng was suffering from. So Yun Yifeng agrees not realizing it was a lie.
They go searching, are trapped in a snowy mountain, and murders happen that Jia Yanran and Yun Yifeng work together to solve. Also, a lot of flirting happens as they get closer and Ji Yanran begins to sweat about his lie. At the end of this, Ji Yanran does confess to his lie and though Yun Yifeng is mad about it he also acknowledges that it was his fault for believing in the lie. Though he also confessed that he was planning to accept the job anyway since Ji Yanran had cleared out the bandit problem at the borders which he thought had led to him being orphaned and causing his life to cross with Gui Ci's. He felt he owed Xiao Wang for that and he supposed now they're even.
The fact that Ji Yanran promised him a lot of riches in compensation also helped.
They went on different paths for a little bit and Yun Yifeng saw Ji Yanran's home and met his mother. Then discovered a plot that would implicate Ji Yanran in treason so he rushed to help...only to find that Ji Yanran had resolved it already.
They travel and try to figure out who is out to drive a wedge between Ji Yanran and his brother the emperor. In the process there are more murders, an evil cult, more murders, discovering that there was a map tattooed on Yun Yifeng's back which led to Ji Yanran nearly being locked in an underground cave/maze type thing, even more murders...there are a lot of murders in this series.
Then they receive a message from one of the tribe leaders that have been skirmishing with Great Liang for a long time: he knows where to find the blood lingzhi.
So they both go off even though Yun Yifeng isn't buying it. Because Ji Yanran is getting desperate, knowing that Yun Yifeng's situation is getting worse quickly. They arrive and there's some weird creepy technique that can turn people into puppets and change their face, and it culminates in another attempt at forcing Ji Yanran to fight with the emperor but they feel they've gotten closer to the truth...though for now they'd hit another dead end. Also the tribe leader wanted Ji Yanran to give up ten cities on the border to him in exchange for the blood lingzhi.
Yun Yifeng is definitely not accepting that and told Ji Yanran upfront if he accepts that deal, then Yun Yifgen will end his own life. Ji Yanran pretends to accept the offer only to use that change to take down that leader and have him sent back to the emperor as a prisoner. Yun Yifeng, who wanted to enjoy what time he has left and not let himself be used to hurt the man he loves any longer says that since the situation is settled they should stop looking for the blood lingzhi and travel together and enjoy the sights.
Ji Yanran reluctantly agrees.
And that's about where his canon point takes us to.
ABILITIES | POWERS: - qinggong which allows him to jump really high, land softly, move quickly and walk on water. - using qi to do long-ish distance attacks or to make healing go faster by regulating the energy in his body. - immunity to most poisons due mostly to his upbringing. He also recovers from most poisons better than the average person due to the fact that he's implied to be descended from a tribe with celestial blood. - basic medicine and poison making, though he may not find a lot of familiar ingredients - Being good at starting and stopping rumours. This is a specialty of Fengyu Sect. - The ability to fail badly enough at cooking to make people sick for days.
PERSONALITY:
Having lived a good chunk of his life basically being used as a test subject for poisons and their cures has left him not minding most things in life. He can even take having been lied to about a cure to his condition in stride. After all, for a person who has little time left, there's really no reason to sweat the small details. He'd rather take things in stride and enjoy the time he has rather than stressing out about things that he has no power to change.
Yun Yifeng is also protective. While he won't sacrifice others for no reason, he's willing to go very far to protect the people he cares about up to and including doing harm to himself. For example, when it was discovered that Ji Yanran was walking into a trap, he had thrown coal over the map that had been tattoored on his shoulder because he wanted to go save his love but also knew that if the treasure the emperor was seeking was lost while he was gone with the only map on his shoulders things would get ugly (and that was likely to happen given how badly someone wants to drive a wedge between Ji Yanran and the emperor). Even going as far as ruining his own repuyation to save him. He didn't feel any regret for any of that. The few times he's genuinely angry in canon is because someone had hurt the people he cares about.
He's also lonely. Having grown up without a family, he created his sect simply to have a family...and though he doesn't like acknowledging it, he had grown up lonely and because of that he's a bit weak to people who genuinely care about him.
He's the sort person to tease and speak nonsense...both towards people he cares about and strangers. It's never malicious in nature but he can't seem to help himself. Incidentally, the more he likes someone or the more they remind him of people he likes the more likely he is to tease them.
Even though he acts very blasé about everything and jokes a lot, when he cares about people he cares about them deeply. He seems to become fond of people easily. Despite everything he's gone through, he doesn't try to keep people at arm's length and, besides Ji Yanran, has lots of meaningful friendships with others as well.
At his current point he's not as desperate to find a cure. He had always had a strange relationship with death. Prior to meeting Ji Yanran he was desperate to find a cure but also didn't want to constantly soak in a painful medicinal bath to prolong his life by only a couple of days (his head disciple had had to chase after him). He wanted to live but he also wanted to be free. For a little while in mid canon though, he seemed less desperate for find the magical cure but also was more consistent with his medicinal baths. He wanted to spend more time with Ji Yanran and, as someone who has yearned for freedom so long in his life, it seems he didn't want to have that time to be controlled by his sickness. At the end of the whole situation in the north, seeing how Ji Yanran was put in a bad position because of his illness, he just wants to spend the time he has left in a more positive way.
INVENTORY: - Some medicinal salve good for external injuries. He claims slapping it on makes it more effective but in all likely hood he was just being an ass - a sword - a type of guqin called a Leiming Qin (basically, Thunder Clap Qin). Apparently it is louder than the typical guqin
NOTES: He's dying for poison. There seem to be more than a few doctor types in game so someone can probably help? He also knows the ingredients for medicine that will help. If not, well. There are people who can bring people back to life, surely.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot-heavy if that's possible! Otherwise either is fine!
Yun Yifeng | A Sword of Frost
CONTACT: orangeCrates @ Plurk
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Just jut down a mod/player referral or link to your test drive meme activity, please!
CHARACTER: Yun Yifeng
CANON: A Sword of Frost
CANON POINT: After the fight on the Northern borders ends in victory for Great Liang's forces.
BACKGROUND: Born in the cold northern regions of Great Liang, he was found by a mad doctor and his assistant and whisked away with other orphans to be used as test subjects for poisons. Yun Yifeng, having a natural resistance to poisons was able to survive these tests and henceforth became the primary poison-tester. His resistance didn't mean he couldn't be poisoned just that he's unlikely to be killed by them though after a while he developed immunity to most of the ones he'd been fed...until he was given one that is going to kill him. Instead of letting himself be subjected to further tests he bargained for his freedom by refusing to eat or drink water.
In the end, unable to force Yun Yifeng to not starve himself Gui Ci let him go. Though Yun Yifeng hated the man, he had to rely on people who owed the doctor for his services, which he did not enjoy.
Years later, he had created his own sect, Fengyu Gate which specialized as information brokers. If you can pay the price, Fengyu Gate would guarantee to bring you the information you want, no matter what it is.
It is because of this that he meets Xiao Wang, Ji Yanran who needed his help to find a treasure that had been stolen from the imperial palace. Though as a person who runs in jianghu circles he initially declines to take the job Ji Yanran says he can pay with the blood lingzhi which Gui Ci had identified as the only cure to the poison Yun Yifeng was suffering from. So Yun Yifeng agrees not realizing it was a lie.
They go searching, are trapped in a snowy mountain, and murders happen that Jia Yanran and Yun Yifeng work together to solve. Also, a lot of flirting happens as they get closer and Ji Yanran begins to sweat about his lie. At the end of this, Ji Yanran does confess to his lie and though Yun Yifeng is mad about it he also acknowledges that it was his fault for believing in the lie. Though he also confessed that he was planning to accept the job anyway since Ji Yanran had cleared out the bandit problem at the borders which he thought had led to him being orphaned and causing his life to cross with Gui Ci's. He felt he owed Xiao Wang for that and he supposed now they're even.
The fact that Ji Yanran promised him a lot of riches in compensation also helped.
They went on different paths for a little bit and Yun Yifeng saw Ji Yanran's home and met his mother. Then discovered a plot that would implicate Ji Yanran in treason so he rushed to help...only to find that Ji Yanran had resolved it already.
They travel and try to figure out who is out to drive a wedge between Ji Yanran and his brother the emperor. In the process there are more murders, an evil cult, more murders, discovering that there was a map tattooed on Yun Yifeng's back which led to Ji Yanran nearly being locked in an underground cave/maze type thing, even more murders...there are a lot of murders in this series.
Then they receive a message from one of the tribe leaders that have been skirmishing with Great Liang for a long time: he knows where to find the blood lingzhi.
So they both go off even though Yun Yifeng isn't buying it. Because Ji Yanran is getting desperate, knowing that Yun Yifeng's situation is getting worse quickly. They arrive and there's some weird creepy technique that can turn people into puppets and change their face, and it culminates in another attempt at forcing Ji Yanran to fight with the emperor but they feel they've gotten closer to the truth...though for now they'd hit another dead end. Also the tribe leader wanted Ji Yanran to give up ten cities on the border to him in exchange for the blood lingzhi.
Yun Yifeng is definitely not accepting that and told Ji Yanran upfront if he accepts that deal, then Yun Yifgen will end his own life. Ji Yanran pretends to accept the offer only to use that change to take down that leader and have him sent back to the emperor as a prisoner. Yun Yifeng, who wanted to enjoy what time he has left and not let himself be used to hurt the man he loves any longer says that since the situation is settled they should stop looking for the blood lingzhi and travel together and enjoy the sights.
Ji Yanran reluctantly agrees.
And that's about where his canon point takes us to.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
- qinggong which allows him to jump really high, land softly, move quickly and walk on water.
- using qi to do long-ish distance attacks or to make healing go faster by regulating the energy in his body.
- immunity to most poisons due mostly to his upbringing. He also recovers from most poisons better than the average person due to the fact that he's implied to be descended from a tribe with celestial blood.
- basic medicine and poison making, though he may not find a lot of familiar ingredients
- Being good at starting and stopping rumours. This is a specialty of Fengyu Sect.
- The ability to fail badly enough at cooking to make people sick for days.
PERSONALITY:
Having lived a good chunk of his life basically being used as a test subject for poisons and their cures has left him not minding most things in life. He can even take having been lied to about a cure to his condition in stride. After all, for a person who has little time left, there's really no reason to sweat the small details. He'd rather take things in stride and enjoy the time he has rather than stressing out about things that he has no power to change.
Yun Yifeng is also protective. While he won't sacrifice others for no reason, he's willing to go very far to protect the people he cares about up to and including doing harm to himself. For example, when it was discovered that Ji Yanran was walking into a trap, he had thrown coal over the map that had been tattoored on his shoulder because he wanted to go save his love but also knew that if the treasure the emperor was seeking was lost while he was gone with the only map on his shoulders things would get ugly (and that was likely to happen given how badly someone wants to drive a wedge between Ji Yanran and the emperor). Even going as far as ruining his own repuyation to save him. He didn't feel any regret for any of that. The few times he's genuinely angry in canon is because someone had hurt the people he cares about.
He's also lonely. Having grown up without a family, he created his sect simply to have a family...and though he doesn't like acknowledging it, he had grown up lonely and because of that he's a bit weak to people who genuinely care about him.
He's the sort person to tease and speak nonsense...both towards people he cares about and strangers. It's never malicious in nature but he can't seem to help himself. Incidentally, the more he likes someone or the more they remind him of people he likes the more likely he is to tease them.
Even though he acts very blasé about everything and jokes a lot, when he cares about people he cares about them deeply. He seems to become fond of people easily. Despite everything he's gone through, he doesn't try to keep people at arm's length and, besides Ji Yanran, has lots of meaningful friendships with others as well.
At his current point he's not as desperate to find a cure. He had always had a strange relationship with death. Prior to meeting Ji Yanran he was desperate to find a cure but also didn't want to constantly soak in a painful medicinal bath to prolong his life by only a couple of days (his head disciple had had to chase after him). He wanted to live but he also wanted to be free. For a little while in mid canon though, he seemed less desperate for find the magical cure but also was more consistent with his medicinal baths. He wanted to spend more time with Ji Yanran and, as someone who has yearned for freedom so long in his life, it seems he didn't want to have that time to be controlled by his sickness. At the end of the whole situation in the north, seeing how Ji Yanran was put in a bad position because of his illness, he just wants to spend the time he has left in a more positive way.
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INVENTORY:
- Some medicinal salve good for external injuries. He claims slapping it on makes it more effective but in all likely hood he was just being an ass
- a sword
- a type of guqin called a Leiming Qin (basically, Thunder Clap Qin). Apparently it is louder than the typical guqin
NOTES: He's dying for poison. There seem to be more than a few doctor types in game so someone can probably help? He also knows the ingredients for medicine that will help. If not, well. There are people who can bring people back to life, surely.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot-heavy if that's possible! Otherwise either is fine!