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Eyes: Dark Pink
Personality: Yin
Po, Yin or Ying to her friends and business associates, is a solemn seeming
young woman, very rarely making eye contact or speaking louder than absolutely
necessary. Her general attitude is polite and aloof for the most part, which
hides much of her actual personality. Frighteningly intelligent, Ying is
quick to ascertain people’s motives and desires, and she is perfectly willing
to take advantage of the foolish or the naive if the opportunity presents
itself, thus living up to her title in the Nest. A healthy and warranted dose
of paranoia makes her sometimes second guess peoples motives and suspect
plots that may not exist. Like the snake spirits of ancient China she is duplicitous and
cunning, giving those who want things from her exactly what they desire in
inappropriate or deceitful manners. She has little interest in men, except in
a strictly clinical fashion, so those used to depending on their charm and
looks to get places with women will find themselves at a loss to manipulate
Yin Po; women can find her somewhat more tractable, but ANY rude behavior
will quickly make her uncooperative and even threatening. History: Yin
Po was born into the Hei Bing Kun Mung (Black Ice Club), a group of
weresnakes and mystically inclined humans who were for all practical purposes
a Tong (a.k.a. Triad gang) based out of Hong Kong. Religion, politics,
martial arts, and crime were not choices for those born under its aegis but
facts of life. Like many such institutions their roots could be traced into
the distant past, myth and legend blending with fact and tale telling, until
what was historical and what was legendary were a mixture of truths and lies
so convoluted only the most dedicated researcher could unearth the nature of
the Hei Bing. As a female weresnake born into the Hei Bing, Ying was trained
as enforcer and diplomat, one of the many faces of the Hei Bing. She was
encouraged to practice a variety of skills, and her native intelligence lent
itself well to her studies. She quickly became enamored of the beautiful
things shipped to and from the warehouses they possessed, not merely the
ancient artifacts but jewels, artwork, and people. Her stint under the hands
of the Mo She (the torturer and interrogator of the clan, the punisher) - a
requirement for all young weresnakes so that they understood what torture and
pain truly were - opened new vistas for her, and she quickly apprenticed
herself to the old snake, becoming a torturer and trafficker in living
jewels. Her appreciation for beauty combined with her new tasks until the
tools and equipment were inadequate for what she desired to create. She began to study jewelry and metalworking, crafting artistic
and cruel devices of gold and silver with which to decorate and torment the
slaves and enemies of the Hei Bing. It was not long before her reputation as
an artisan garnered her a foothold in the (slightly) more legitimate aspects
of society, allowing her to open up small shops for various purposes: jewelry
shops, BDSM clubs, photography studios and the like. The Hei Bing prospered, up until she was personally forced to
go into hiding by the persistent efforts of Interpol and the Hong Kong
government to break up a particularly lucrative trade in Crane Maidens, the
Chinese equivalent of Europe's wereswans. She traveled to various places, including Japan, Taiwan, and
Jamaica, before settling in New Orleans for a long stint of anonymity. Her
hedonistic - and illegal – exploits lie largely in her past, but with the
money and tools and jewelry she has available to her she plans on opening a
small jewelry store in a live-in office in the city. Strengths:
Ying is not terrifically fast or tremendously strong beyond normal shifter
strength or speed for an alpha, but she does know a variety of martial arts
techniques involving grappling and pressure point techniques (Châ’in-na). She
is venomous, possessing a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze and kill even
in small doses though it will not bother the undead or their three-times
marked servants, and most shifters will purge the venom before it can be
fatal. The toxin can be countered by standard cobra anti-venom; she cannot
spit her venom. Like other shifters her senses are extremely acute, but her
sense of taste is even more so than usual for lycanthropes; she can taste
what a person has eaten recently in their sweat. She is by and large
independently wealthy, but her wealth belongs to the Hei Bing Kun Mung;
through them she has extensive underworld contacts and ties to illegal
activities. Unlike many lycanthropes she is not particularly concerned about
being outed, as China is more tolerant of their supernatural brethren than
most other countries. Weaknesses:
Being an albino - in all her forms - Yin is exceedingly sensitive to sunlight
and while she heals rapidly a sunburn still hurts a great deal. Likewise she
is sensitive to bright lights and is easily distracted and blinded by
flashbulbs, reflections off of windows or cars, and even an exceedingly
bright LED light shining in her eyes will cause her to recoil. As a member of
a Triad or Tong she qualifies as a threat to national security and thus is at
constant risk from legal trouble; being wanted by Interpol makes her very
cautious about her legal standing and a touch paranoid about threats by
preternaturals. Unfortunately as Mo She of her Tong her superiors are allowed
to call upon her for favors, money, and duties at any time and she cannot refuse
them (such as for the use of her business as a money laundering setup and
outlet for stolen jewelry and illegal gemstone smuggling). As with any
lycanthrope silver is deadly and painful. Finally, Ying's fangs, while
retractable, are present in all of her forms, although it would require a
close examination of her mouth to reveal them as they fold into the roof of
her mouth from just to the side and behind of each of he upper canines. Quirks:
Ying is very into BD/SM culture, and she has an elaborate torture chamber and
playroom set up in the back of her home. She is fascinated by wereswans and
has a hard time not making advances towards them. Other:
Currently Yin Po She is employed at Inked as a piercer, and doesell some
jelery items out of the tattoo parlor. She is trying to open a middle-sized
jewelry store, and has a large amount of jewelry of many sorts (heavily
insured), and silver melee weaponry of varied sorts, much of which is in
various safes in her rented home. She still needs a business license, though
she does have an importers permit. She also own a large number of torture and
bondage devices, some of which are silver, and all of which she is intimately
familiar with using - on both sides of the locks. As a jeweler she has access
to lots of silver, and can quickly discover who has been buying the stuff and
through gossip and contacts is able to find out about any recent requests for
the make and purchase of silver bullets. She herself can make the bullet
itself or make silver shot, but she cannot put them in the shells. Yin will require I.D. and signatures for anyone purchasing the
materials specifically to make silver bullets or weapons with or who request
or purchase anything more dangerous than a knife from her. |
