Post by shenying on Oct 25, 2009 21:51:47 GMT -5
••Who am I to not be known?
XiulanLi(黎 秀兰, Li Xiulan)
[/color][/size]XiulanLi(黎 秀兰, Li Xiulan)
I am a girl and i am about 24 You can contact me by PMI currently live in the Central time zone.[/center]
••''Let Me Tell You Something Here...
Interests:[/font]
1. Combat, and Knightmare Frames in particular
2. Singing
3. Calligraphy
4. Serving her country with honor
5. Cats
Fears:
1. A return to the days of Imperialist Britannia - and therefore her own nation's decline
2. Fears for her mother's health
3. Death
4. Anything with more than four legs
5. Dishonor
Addictions:
1. Chocolate
2. Honing her skill in unarmed combat as well as the use of assorted weapons
3. Reading
4. Humiliating those who belittle her because of her gender
5. Strategy and the study thereof
Characters Position:[/font] Pilot/Officer in the Chinese military
••''My Once Upon a time...[/i][/color][/size]
Family:
Father: Li Gang Ru (deceased)
Mother: Li Mei
Siblings: None
Description:
Tall, slender and as elegant as her name would indicate, Xiulan has dark hair, dark-brown eyes, and is in peak physical form. She generally dresses rather casually as a general rule, partly as a deliberate affront to her highly traditionalist father. Regardless of what she is wearing, one of two weapons is never too far out of reach: The one most frequently seen is the jian given to her - reluctantly - by her father when she turned 18. The other, an heirloom of her mother's family, is rather more intimidating - a Long Guan Dao, an enormous, broad-bladed spear with a sculpted dragon's head at the base of the blade.
Despite her less-than-intimidating frame, Xiulan is an expert in the use of both weapons. On occasions when the wearing of either weapon is not an option, she opts instead for a small but razor-sharp shéng biāo stored on her wrist, though she is still learning how to use this rather trickier weapon.
Personality:[/font]
Xiulan's personality would be enough to drive even the most patient of psychologists up the wall. She is energetic, with a very forceful personality, and not the kind to let herself be pushed around. At the same time she is kind, and polite, considerate of the needs of those around her. She holds herself religiously to an extremely strict code of honor, and yet is cunning, ruthlessly efficient, and completely intolerant of incompetence.
History:
Xiulan was born the daughter of Li Gang Ru, a scholar of military tactics and career military man, the latest in a line of high-ranking Imperial officers going back a hundred years to the Third Pacific War of 2018 and the Second Black Rebellion. He is a keen intellect but a strict traditionalist who holds on fiercely to specific views.
Her mother was the somewhat more progressive Bai Mei, from a lower-ranked noble family whose patriarch married her off in exchange for political backing from his old friend Li Zheng, Gang Ru's father. In spite of this and the strict nature of her husband, Bai Mei was herself quite happy, and remained so even when Xiulan was born.
Li Gang Ru wanted a son more than anything, an heir to continue his line. He was thus disappointed that his firstborn and, as it would later turn out, only child should be a girl. Indeed, when Xiulan was two a grave accident paralyzed her mother from the waist down, and her injuries were so severe that moreover even if her legs should recover, she could never give birth to the son Gang Ru so desperately desired. Thenceforth he paid little heed to his daughter, who was a woman and therefore in his view unfit to continue in the long lineage of military officers in the Li family.
The upbringing of Xiulan was thus left to her mother and an attendant. Gang Ru grew distant, and Xiulan began to hate him for abandoning her and, even more unforgivably, abandoning his wife. She became moody, short-tempered, and violent. At this point she was taken in by Li Jicai, her father's younger brother, who with the help of his sister-in-law sought to channel the energy Xiulan spent in hating her father into something more productive, and began to teach her hand-to-hand combat, beating into her the need for self-control as well as strength. She was six at the time, and she became astonishingly skilled in unarmed combat. At age 8 she began to learn to play the Western game of chess, and she learned quickly, though by the time she turned 14 she had lost interest in the game. From unarmed combat she moved on to swordsmanship and the use of the spear. Then, things changed when one night, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Gang Ru came home announcing that he was marrying another woman - a younger daughter of a lesser-noble - and sought to cast them both out. She confronted him. He grew angry, and when he struck her she gored him with the guan dao that was mounted up on the wall, splitting him open from chin to groin.
She was immediately arrested, and were it not for her mother would have been executed on the spot, such had been her father's influence with the High Eunuchs. However, still more connected was the aging Bai Nuo Fu, Mei's mother and the leader of the family since her husband's death. Unexpectedly, Li Jicai came in on his niece's side, and with his help the Tianzi intervened and Xiulan's act was ruled as having been justified by undue provocation.
She was however stripped of nobility and forced to join the military with the commoners, denied the fast-track into the higher ranks that her station could have afforded her.
It is at this point that, as she gazed up at the Supreme Ruler of the Chinese Dynasty, her eyes hidden by unruly, untended hair, she swore to herself that she would rise higher than any man of her bloodline had done in a hundred years, and would one day become an Imperial bodyguard.
She rapidly distinguished herself as an exceptionally loyal soldier, rising through the ranks at a record pace. She forged for herself an unimpeachable reputation, though the reason she was there was known, and she was thus looked down upon by her primarily male superiors. Thus drove her still harder, and she trained still more in the use of the weapons she had handled since she was a little girl, excelling most particularly in the use of the Guan Dao. Having mastered the heavy weapon, she continued to practice in its use, but now focused on learning the jian.
She continued to see her mother and uncle, though she was estranged from the rest of the Li family, however as Jicai was the only one left of that bloodline and he had never married, should they deny her the Li family would fade from existence. Thus Li Xiulan she remained. Her mother's health, which had grown ill in those last few years of neglect, and still more for some time after Gang Ru's death, began to improve, and Xiulan, now 19, to get away from the constant violence of her military life, took up singing and calligraphy, and while she had never had a lesson in her life, she applied herself as she did with everything else and, aided by her mother became quite the accomplished singer - though outside her home she never sings except when she is completely alone.
She also has a dog, a ferocious male wolfhound she found God only knows where and keeps as a pet, calling him Xun.
Shortly thereafter she began to pilot Gun-Ru Knightmare Frames, though she found them slow, ungainly, and pitifully lacking in combat capabilities, to say nothing of the fact she hated the name. However at the time the Gun-Ru was the only thing she could get into the cockpit of, and she got used to it, making the best possible use of the Gun-Ru's large guns and what mobility and armor it did have, only wishing she could get into something with better capability. Having now been a Knightmare pilot for over four years, she has considerable skill as well, and continues to frequently practice with both the jian and guan dao. Having achieved proficiency with both weapons, she is currently focusing her attentions on learning the use of the far more easily-concealed rope-dart, though in this she has a great deal more trouble than she did.
Xiulan has never pursued a romantic relationship of any kind, though she has a number of excellent friends both inside and outside of the military. Moreover she is intelligent and attractive, and thus has been pursued by a number of her male peers, but has brushed them off. She is perfectly happy as she is, and is at any rate driven to her goal far beyond merely excelling as a soldier, which is the focus of her dedication to this, a line of work she was forced into, and has embraced since as her place and the place in which she can best serve her Country and her Ruler.
Goal or Dream:
Xiulan's goal is to surpass the reputation even of her father in the Chinese Imperial military - thereby proving him and his like wrong. As such, her eventual goal is to ascend to the exalted post of bodyguard to the Tianzi, as her ancestor has done a century earlier.••'' Hey! I am not done yet...[/color][/size]
Faction:Chinese Dynasty
••'' Something is not quite done here...[/color]
About you:
[/color]Login Name: ShenYing
Location: United States of America
Brief example of Role Play:[/font]
"Commander, are you sure about this? This thing is no Gun-Ru – Its capabilities are way beyond even the Britannian Gloucester." The Chinese military scientist said, his tone worried. “Near as our scientists can tell, it’s probably on par with the Britannian Lancelot Frame. NOBOBY can handle it." Xingke shot him the sort of look that scorches. "Right then, sir." The shorter scientist answered.
Not long afterwards, Xingke was in the cockpit. Over the communication came the same man's voice. "You do have authorization for this sortie, right?" Xingke ignored him and thought about what he knew of the machine - a high-performance experimental Frame. It had never been used because of its excessively high capabilities, which were such that no pilot to date had been able to operate it.
"Okay, you're ready to go, Commander. Air Glide Wing Unit attachment was successful."
Xingke launched the Shen Hu after briefly scanning his armaments: A "Tian-e Ba Wang" baryon particle cannon, two forearm-mounted slash harkens and a short sword. He was slammed against his seat back by the sheer acceleration of the machine, which was indeed several orders of magnitude beyond anything he'd ever experienced.
He noted with some interest that the Guren and several of the enemy's other Knightmare Frames - those blue ones and that black model - were fitted with nearly the same flight system as his Shen Hu, then cast that insignificant detail aside.
"What about the enemy unit?"
-"The enemy is engaged in combat with our forces from the Fourth Defense Unit at the bridge over Shangzong Gorge. We're being badly beaten back."
-"I know. And what’s the status of our preparations?"
-"They’re nearly complete, sir. The main force is on its way towards the enemy ship, and we're ready to flood using the canal."
-"Excellent. If all goes well we will defeat them here!" The target was in range. He took careful aim at the four silver machines on the ground in front of the ship, and the targeting computer reported lock-on. He charged in and attacked, annihilating all four of them in mere moments.The true battle had begun, and it was one he fully intended to win.*Role Playing Experience in Years:About five years, in several different RPGs - most of which are now defunct.
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