Fu Yunling

Name: Fu Yunling.
Tier: D Tier (Novice).
Gender: Female.
Sexuality: Heterosexual.
Age + Birthdate: Seventeen (17), November 26th.
Nationality: Zou.
Race: Human.
Specialization: Strength [Naginata].


Personality: Yunling is a sheltered girl who spent most of her life in a veritable birdcage with nothing but her family’s servants and the empty expanse of their house. She has spent more time in the kitchen with the cooks than she has with her own family, and she tends to view the ‘lesser people’ as more important than those of her own class. But she still holds herself to her family’s standards for perfection, for she believes that her worth is based on her ability to keep her family happy. Thee, thine, milord, milady, and various other polite formal terms are almost expected of traditional stage plays and the extreme elderly; Yunling takes it to a whole new level. She has, for a reason that is completely beyond anyone who works or associates with her, completely refused to modernize her way of speaking. Instead she keeps herself to an almost insane level of politeness, which in turn tends to put people off of talking to her. This polite and somehow flowery way of speaking also translated over into her writing, making Yunling’s written reports sound more like the Tale of Genji with boring patrol banter added in than an actual day's work. It doesn't help that she refuses to write anything in modern kanji or hiragana, preferring instead to write only in the flowing calligraphy of sosho.

Once upon a time there a place called Zou where man fought man on the battlefields and left their wives and daughters to defend their homes. Yunling is a paragon of the Zou ideal, and one of the things she loved the most in her birdcage life was the art of combat. To her there is nothing quite like a game of shogi to determine the military strengths of her opponents, how even the state of her opponent’s clothes can tell her how well prepared they are. She knows tactics and strategy like the back of her hand, used to spend her evenings rereading such literature as the Art of War and biographies of generals long gone to learn more, and it is a rare day when Yunling cannot come up with a plan of attack. Granted, this manic love of battle tactics faded in time with her new business, but her mindset hasn't faded. She applies this love of warfare to her teashop, planning out a menu as if the goal was to woo a foreign dignitary into an alliance.

Yunling always believes the best of people because she has never been betrayed. She recognizes that liars and thieves exist, but is rather an oddball in believing that the misdeeds of others are because of the failings of those around them. Her kindness has become a bad habit, gullibility and naiveté combining to make her into a kind of idiot stories are made of. She likes meeting new people, has a tendency of taking strangers home for tea parties and believing the most blatant of lies. Yunling is spoiled sweet and just because she lives in a gilded birdcage doesn’t mean she can’t do her best to help others with their problems. The most common of things tend to fascinate her, sheltered to the point where even the simplest things seem like magic to her. She gets stubborn about trying to do things for herself without anyone helping her, but is rather hypocritical about wanting to help everyone she meets.

Likes:
- Literature. If it is in a language she can read, the chances Yunling will go out of her way to read it are high.
- Tea parties. Do not say anything bad about tea parties, they are the backbone of society and the most polite way to make new and interesting friends. She will very politely insist you desist and leave if you insult her party.

Dislikes:
- Rudeness. Just because you have a mouth does not mean you need to use it to be a detriment to society. Likewise, just because you have eyes does not mean you need to use them to ogle people. Really, your mother raised you better.
- Bullies. Strength does not give one the right to belittle the weaker. It is the role of those with power to protect all those without. Whether that power be in terms of military might, intellectual superiority, or financial capability is irrelevant. Yunling despises bullies of all forms.

Phobias:
- The Birdcage. As someone who was raised in a metaphorical gilded cage there is nothing more terrifying than being forced to go to a different one. She’s terrified of the loneliness, of being held up to a standard that nothing living can match. Her greatest fear is to be left alone to be nothing but a pretty bauble on a shelf to be shown off and sold to the highest bidder. At the core of her phobia, she lives in terror that she will die alone in the darkness.

Aspirations:
- Freedom. A bit of a tall order, but there is nothing more elusive than the idea that one day she could be her own person with no one’s rules but her own.
- Family. Yunling’s never really had one. She wants one with a kind of desperation that borders mania, trying to build a family based on love and the mutual desperation of the broken people that have nothing else. There is nothing in the world she would not do to see to the safety and happiness of a family that is all hers.
- Sightseeing. To put it bluntly, she wants to see the world. Not quite like a vacation but more along the lines of educational discovery. Yunling’s greatest goal, the one she tells people who ask her of her dream, is to travel the world and write a detailed record of her experiences with the motley assortment of people who make up each nation. She still supports Zou’s imperialist need to conquer the world, because she is nothing if not a devout citizen, but she wants to record what each culture is like before they meld into the Empire.

Face-Claim: Kayo from Ken ga Kimi.
Weight: 115 lbs.
Hair Color: Black.
Eye Color: Gold.
Height: 5’.
Rukh Alignment: White.
Special Traits: No one is exactly sure how this works, but no matter what happens Yunling will always smell like faintly of jasmine and bergamot. Theories have been given from bathing with flowers to perfume, but no one has ever been ever to figure out the secret she has sworn to take to her grave. (It’s really not that mysterious, she makes and drinks her own tea and somehow always ends up with the oils in her hair and on her clothes to the point where no amount of washing will get it out. Frankly she’s a bit miffed no one has realized this.)
Appearance: Yunling possesses golden eyes and pale skin. Her inky black hair is worn in a hime style, wherein the front bangs and sidelocks are cut to her cheek and the rest of her hair is left to grow. Yunling has never cut the rest of her hair, save for split ends, and tends to react violently to threats to cut her hair. So far, she has managed to keep her hair growing neatly all the way down to the small of her back and then a little bit longer. The only ornamentations or stylizing she has is when she ties up her hair, either in a single ponytail to the side or sectioned off in the back, with a pretty reddish pink cord that she’s had for nearly forever. She’s a beauty in the classical Zou-ian sense of the word, all milky skin and soft edges. Yunling is known as the pride of the Fu family, a picturesque beauty without the use of excessive amounts of rice powder and rouge. Her black hair is long and longer still, all soft and silky strands that men would die to run their fingers through. And she has just enough curves in all the right places, holds it all with the dignity and grace a princess can be trained to have.

Not that anyone can see much of her skin or curves the vast majority of the time. Yunling is always found in a prim and proper kimono in either pink or blue with a green obi and a delicate floral print. At least when she trains or works in her tea shop she puts on a much less formal set of hanfu and ties up the sleeves. With both varieties of garments she always wears white thigh high stockings and black cloth shoes.

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