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Known as The Dragon of Houtu and former leader of Fireteam Emblem. Part of the first generation Archon-1 supersoldiers, and its most talented member. Destined for greatness since youth, Jingyi's mentors convinced her of this to make her believe she is meant to be humanity's hero. Well-intentioned this act may have been to help the young Jingyi cope with a harsh life, Jingyi grew arrogant and convinced of her greatness because of it. But her strength made her the target of a cosmic entity, who possessed her mind and made her go on a rampage, and murdering the Invictor team of superheroes along with her fellow soldiers, until she was defeated and captured by Fireteam Avatar - her rivals, lead by her childhood friend Ayame Sasaki (

zenoh).

Jingyi is imprisoned for her crime with her existence and heroic feats erased from records. She watched with envy and resentment as Ayame became humanity's hero for defeating the very entity that poisoned her mind, getting all the adoration she craved since her youth, believing that honor should have been hers. But what started her resentment for Ayame is that her friend not once replied to her letters, making Jingyi feel like she's been abandoned and forgotten by her only friend. She is moved to the Chinese-dominated Houtu colony where her sentence was meant to be for life. As a prisoner, Jingyi became a test subject for numerous experiments and is used as a deterrent against rival colonies, seeing as she strong enough to combat the other factions' powerhouses like the Elevas' Shizuka Takeda (

keihatsu), and Midgard's Sofia Sinclair (

kratistos). Thinking her friend had abandoned her and the government she fought for seeing her as a mere tool, Jingyi's heart grew dark.

Jingyi eventually breaks free from her imprisonment upon hearing Ayame is active once again, leading her to fight against her former friend who she blames for her current situation. After a hard-fought battle between the two most powerful humans alive, Ayame once again defeats Jingyi, but reveals that her own powers are dwindling. Ayame is suffering the effects of the Archon augmentations inevitable power decline - a fate Jingyi will have to face sooner or later. The two friends reconciled their past, and set out to journey at the edges of the cosmos, with Jingyi helping an ailing Ayame while they still have their powers.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:

Visual: Dragon Hanfu, Dragon Hanfu (close-up), Swimsuit Dress, Office, Semi-Casual, Casual, Biker Suit, Dress. Jingyi is a tall woman (5'10") with an athletic hourglass physique. Her white hair and bright prismatic irises with subtle reptilian slit pupils are a result of typical Resonance-induced mutations, with her case being mild. She has a personal stylist that picks her outfits for her, ensuring to highlight Jingyi's best features for PR and marketing purposes and to help bolster the Chinese-dominated Houtu government's image.

Audio: Similar to Kari Wahlgren as Artoria/The Lion King from Fate Grand Order.

Olfactory: She has preference for fresh, watery fragrances mixed with subtle, woodsy and smoky scents.

Demeanor: She exudes poise through soft and calm movements, but with a seemingly permanent dour expression, hinting at the tremendous discipline she embodies to keep something angry and violent within her contained. She usually walks or stands with her hands behind her back, often at a leisurely pace when moving and a thoughtful yet alert stance when waiting.

PERSONALITY:

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Fearless, intelligent, determined, protective, helpful.

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Commanding, stoic, taciturn, strict, professional.

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Resentful, jealous, insecure, arrogant, violent.

Quirks: Can focus on multiple things at once, enjoys "parallel-play", likes to "penguin-pebble" at her friends, more caring than she lets on, unfazed by threats and shows of force, interrupts her enemies mid-casting/charging, lives a minimalist lifestyle, has a subtle sense of humor and way of encouraging, more mischievous and tricky than she appears, not so above it all, sometimes pretends to meditate but is just sleeping, likes to hide snacks for her to eat when nobody is looking, flicks people on the forehead to shut them up, uses her portals to steal from under people's noses, gets competitive even in board games or simple contests, is well socialized for an Archon.

Likes: Herself, Ayame, Chinese culture (esp. brands, food, cities, history, traditional aesthetics), fighting, cross-training martial arts, teaching, winning, traveling, window shopping, fashion, reading, museums and art galleries, traditional arts, history, wine, tea, meditating, gardens, nighttime scenery, efficiency, collecting weapons and armor, dining out, listening to traditional music, fireworks and light shows, TV dramas, documentaries, card games, board games, trendy things (in secret), doing chores/tasks together with friends, playing with or taunting her opponents, casual sex.

Dislikes: Ayame, Sofia, Shizuka, being forgotten and overshadowed, dismissiveness, half-hearted actions and empty platitudes, performative activism, excessive talking or small talk, interruptions, her attempts at reaching out being rejected, effusive flattery, politics, highly-opinionated people, undisciplined people, cowards, complainers, losing, faulty equipment, unwarranted criticism, her past regrets, dogmatism, snobbery and hero-worship in the martial arts community, fraudulent teachers.

NOTES:

Fireteam Emblem was her former team, consisted of four soldiers with a later addition, totaling to five at their peak. The original four were given codenames after the Four Symbols of Chinese astrology, with Jingyi being the Azure Dragon. Jingyi feels regret in having to kill them when she was briefly driven mad, but also takes solace that they died honorably as warriors. She doesn't blame herself for it, but still feels the pain of regret in having done so. The topic of being possessed by a greater mind than her remains a sore topic, feeling it to be a traumatic experience that she promises never to allow herself to be in again, leading to her issues with control where she either surrenders too much of it like letting her government decide her life, or takes too much of it when deciding on her students' progress.

Her brother (named after the Black Tortoise) had fathered a child named Chunhua (

callais) before his death. This leads to Jingyi's complicated feelings towards Chunhua, who reminds her too much of her father. Chunhua is taken from birth by the Houtu's High Council to serve as a superhuman military asset, but given Chunhua's age and inexperience, she was put under Jingyi's tutelage. Chunhua in turn watches over Jingyi's activity to ensure her aunt isn't trying to escape. Jingyi is emotionally distant towards Chunhua, and tutors the girl in martial arts to better control her Resonance abilities by building mental discipline. The training can even be considered cruel with how unforgiving it was. But Jingyi loves her niece in her own way, and is simply unable to express it outside of quietly rooting for Chunhua to succeed through the harsh training. Chunhua also loves Jingyi but doesn't see her aunt's side, and thinks Jingyi hates her. Chunhua blames her aunt for killing her father whenever her resentment reaches a certain point. They eventually mend their relationship, with Chunhua happily teaching her aunt some modern internet lingo.

Jingyi is akin to a child spoiled by their parents. She was used as an exemplar to the other Archon candidates to emulate, and was lavishly rewarded with material things and praise. This lead a lot of Archons to resent Jingyi, and for Jingyi herself to grow arrogant. She developed a habit of buying expensive things to reward herself and overcompensate for her lack of meaningful relationships. Showing off to her friend Ayame was also another reason, since they both got along in their shared interest in fashion. Jingyi doesn't realize how this alienation from others hurt her until much later in life. This, combined with being imprisoned, eventually got Jingyi to try a minimalist lifestyle. This doesn't always work as she's still easily seduced by material things and impulsively buys, no matter how much she denies it.

Jingyi's possession remains a sore subject to her, showing signs of mental and emotional trauma from the experience. The eldritch entity was attracted to her negative emotions, amplifying them while also robbing her of control. Her violent urges, buried resentment for her teachers and arrogance towards her fellow soldiers were maximized until Jingyi massacred them. She viewed her teachers like her parental figures, and her fellow soldiers like her siblings. So the revelation that she murdered them all and the fact the entity only used what darkness that was already in her has Jingyi feeling remorse and fear to this day. She just keeps it well hidden; thinking that how can she become the hero that she always wanted to be when she was more of a monster. She swears to never again let her mind be tampered with and ever feel that vulnerable.

Jingyi denies that imprisonment and erasure of her history and records had a negative effect on her mind, but it hurts her to think about it. Even if she didn't become the greatest and most renowned hero of humanity, she still had made an impact and had done many feats worth remembering. Even with her ego, there are people within the Archon Program who thought Jingyi is ultimately a good person who didn't deserve imprisonment. Her body was experimented on against her will while she was in the dream state and she was constantly dehumanized by guards whenever she was awake in between stasis. For some time, she was denied audience from anyone she knew, and was even declared dead to anyone who asked. When she was given a little freedom later on, Jingyi's remaining friends have moved on. She acts tough and say she doesn't need to reconnect with them, even if she had considered reaching out more than a few times, only to decide it's better they don't know.

Jingyi has a one-sided infatuation towards Ayame, her only friend growing up. She was always eager to show off to Ayame, but her arrogant attitude also made it difficult for their bond to grow. When reunited as adults, Ayame had found love with Sofia, causing Jingyi to feel jealous and feel replaced by someone she doesn't even see as worthy of Ayame. Jingyi's jealousy and feelings of hurt caused her to also resent Ayame for taking the glory that had always been promised to her as a child, although she can never truly hate Ayame and still wish they can be friends again. Jingyi felt like Ayame had abandoned her once she became a prisoner, writing letters to her friend everyday and getting no reply. Ayame also never visited her once. She learns that Ayame had her own issues to deal with at the time, they both reconciled their friendship.

Jingyi is dismissive of Shizuka Takeda, Ayame's clone, seeing the Elevas Captain as an inferior copy of her friend. Both women's arrogance have made it impossible for them to find common ground or get along, despite being far more similar to each other than they care to admit. She feels uncomfortable seeing the face of the woman she loves in Shizuka, and knowing Ayame's legacy is being tainted by the Elevas' dishonorable actions in the war. She feels threatened by Shizuka's potential to reach her level of power as well, having clashed with Shizuka and felt she could have lost a swordfight against the Captain. Despite Shizuka's self-unaware attempts in trying to build rapport at first, Jingyi brushed it off. Jingyi later realizes she is partly to blame for Shizuka's descent into villainy, which probably would not have happened had she just been kinder to the other woman.

Sofia has earned Jingyi's ire and is openly dismissive of her, not seeing Sofia as an equal simply because of her background lacking any military training. Worst of all, Ayame had chosen Sofia as her successor and partner, making Jingyi feel like she's been replaced and is jealous of the bond between Ayame and Sofia. She looks down on Sofia's anti-authority, and sees Sofia as a mere brawler than a warrior. Though a part of her is jealous that Sofia has freedom while she feels shackled in a purposeless mission, and is reduced to a mere prisoner. She cannot accept that Sofia has also grown to potentially reach her level despite all of her misgivings towards the woman, begrudgingly respecting Sofia's hand-to-hand combat prowess and heroic feats when they clashed.

ABILITIES:

Superhuman Physiology: At her peak, she has attained a god-like level of power that her physical stats are immeasurable, dependent on the amount of Resonance energy she is channeling through her body at the moment. However, with her imprisonment and the restraints currently put on her by her superiors, she is significantly weaker than she was at her prime. Just strong enough to be on par with the other champions and not be a danger to everyone else. She can only be matched blow-for-blow by similarly powerful foes or by multiple opponents, and her world has access to material and weapons that can make her vulnerable to others of a lower power level. She is strong, but not invincible (and I'm always willing to tone it down and talk it out first. Role-wise she is comparable to the likes of Gojo Satoru from JJK or her namesake Sun Wukong from Journey to the West, for reference.)

Resonance Mastery: She has a plethora of abilities thanks to the reality-warping nature of Resonance powers; from telekinesis, telepathy, flight, barrier creation, energy projectiles of different forms, duplicate creation, temporary shape and size shifting, portal creation, pocket-dimension creation, hypnosis, astral projection, etc. Thanks to her restraints, she limits the use of it to her most practiced abilities, and that using Resonance for a desired effect that she hasn't done before or require a lot of mental concentration also requires more energy, plus a higher physical toll that can exhaust her regeneration.

Chinese Martial Arts Mastery: She has mastered multiple wushu styles, with her main preference being the combination of Bajiquan and Piguaquan, along with Xinyiquan and Baguazhang. Taijiquan and the more aggressive Shuai Jiao also show themselves in her combat techniques, to even a modern wushu like Sanshou. She is teaching her niece Wing Chun, which she hardly uses, but it shows that Jingyi is knowledgeable enough in the art to teach it. Combined with her Resonance and with her restraints off, she can make even the mythical Dim Mak work and touch pressure points for different effects, from healing to killing. Using telekinesis to add to her hand-to-hand combat skills have made her a frustrating opponent to fight according to the other champions, like Sofia, who rely more on brute force.

Assorted Weaponry: Jingyi is primarily a sword master, once wielding her custom made jian. But after her imprisonment, Jingyi starts to prefer the use of a staff, which she can alter into a spear made out of the supposedly unbreakable metal bars of her prison cell that she pried off. She can manipulate the staff with her Resonance to change size, turn into a three-section staff, a whip, or a long-handled flail. She uses her sword mostly as a companion weapon by having it float around her and attack on its own to cover her blind spots. She only wields her sword in hand when fighting seriously.

Extensive Training & Experience: Trained from childhood in warfare and advanced academics, Jingyi was already in active duty in battlefields all over Terran space at the age of 12. Being imprisoned has stunted her skill's continued improvement however. Archon training involved astral projection to a different dimension fighting monsters and lost souls of legendary warriors, further enhancing her already impressive skillset. Time flew differently in this world, allowing her to become exponentially stronger over a long time of consecutive battles while only a short time lasted in the physical world. Out of the champions of major Terran factions, Jingyi is the most experienced, but she can still be thrown off by unorthodox fighting tactics.

Weaknesses: After her imprisonment, Jingyi is implanted a small disk-like device inside her skull, which causes her pain when she uses her powers indiscriminately. This device can be triggered via a remote control used by her government masters. Being more akin to a typical "mage" build in a RPG game, Jingyi focuses more on using spells than physical combat. So while she is still a skilled fighter, it's one of her lesser skills. Resonance Disruption Pulses generated from various anti-magic devices can temporarily cause her powers to malfunction or fail. Severing Threads are sentient magical fabric with inscriptions, which can constrict around her and interrupt Jingyi's connection to ambient energies where she draws power from/commands. Magical attacks can help bypass her invulnerability, although she still has regenerative healing and general toughness to overcome. Both the Pulse and Threads are accessible and usable by even non-powered humans and can be effective counters to help make her vulnerable. Ultimately, Jingyi's weakness is the same as Ayame's - their powers start to decline in duration. Archons were not expected to live long, and their gradual power loss is an unintended side-effect of their augmentations that works out for the benefit of their masters who wouldn't want them to use those powers to turn on the government. Jingyi suffers this gradual power loss at a later time than Ayame, as her imprisonment and lack of using her Resonance helped slow down the inevitable. Jingyi eventually loses all of her powers, prompting her to re-learn them again.

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