faceclaim: gong jun as wen kexing

height: 5'11 in elven form

has a very large dragon form that he never takes, due to his missing wings

intentionally chose to be tall, but not too tall, in his bipedal form

 

appearance: never seen without the red liner under his eyes and the thin black line over them to give them a more wild appearance, shuangmei is a tall figure with crazy eyes that are always wild, a beautiful countenance but an unhinged air due to his often wide-eyed expressions. his ears are pointed, an indicator of his elven blood. despite all his years of fighting, he does not have scars from fights. the only scars his body bears are the scars on his back, from the brutal removal of his wings. they are not truly scars, as they have never healed over from the day of the removal. they are painful wounds thousands of years later. 

chapter i: THE KIND PRINCE

shuangmei was born the heir to an empire, when he had another name. he was the crown prince and all he wanted was peace and prosperity for his people, but his father and mother forced him to learn how to fight and his nine uncles crafted him into a weapon that mastered all of the dark, evil magics they knew. and then there was his master, who trained shuangmei in the path of spiritualism—he had known that it would be a death sentence and yet he had learned anyway.

 

spiritualists always die young, shuangmei's master had told him. but shuangmei was stubborn and had insisted he learn to master this power he was born with. for a time he had prayed that he die before he became like his father, the fearsome emperor drenched in blood. shuangmei evaded conflict as much as he could, despite the war raging between their empire and another, and tried to keep his hands clean.

 

unfortunately, that was not what fate had in store for him. in a small port-side town where his father had sent him to be out of the way, with the eldest of his uncles to accompany him, shuangmei made a mistake: he tried to be a good person. he tried to help a man who would have died if not for him, tortured at the hands of his uncle and father. shuangmei helped him escape, risked being executed by his own father if he found out.

 

"come with me, quickly. i mean you no harm."

"who are you?"

"someone who wants to help."

 

chapter iI: THE TORMENTED PRISONER

they grew closer, or at least, shuangmei thought that he and the rescue were becoming closer, he felt feelings that might have been romance for the first time and wondered if perhaps they could bring their people together... but when shuangmei finally delivered that man into the hands of his people, the man he had rescued betrayed him and he became a prisoner.

 

the mercy shuangmei had given the other man was turned against him and he was tortured as payment. his good deed brought him pain unimaginable, beaten and kicked and hurt in whatever ways they could come up with. and then, when he thought it wouldn't end, they cut into him and stole his wings.

 

being tortured changes a person, and they had taken shuangmei's wings. his beautiful, majestic wings.

 

chapter iII: THE TROUBLED PATIENT 

half-dead and mad from pain and grief, shuangmei somehow managed to escape them, stumbling into the cold of the mountains to his wounds. he was delirious and raving about what he'd do to the perpetrators when he was found by the immortal who lived on the mountain, who took him in and tended to his wounds. but there was nothing he could do for his mind, which had once wanted there to be peace but was now broken into fragments of an aching, angry, vengeful man.

 

"what good am i?! what good is a dragon that cannot fly?!"

"shuangmei, calm down!"

"look at what they have done to me! my wings!"

 

chapter iV: THE VENGEFUL VOW

no one needs to know if he found the man who betrayed him and ripped him limb from limb. no one needs to know if he lost himself in bloodshed to tear an empire apart. no one needs to know if his robes became red because of the blood he shed, rather than the choice of color initially.

 

he was chewed up and spat out as a monster, and a monster he'd stay, despite the best attempts of wu qiang, the immortal who had taken him into his home and nursed him back to health. wu qiang clung to shuangmei whenever he returned from causing a bloodbath and begged him to stay with him, to stay in the mountain and stay safe. 

 

but shuangmei could not stop. 

 

every person of that man's bloodline would die. every last one. through the years he hunted them, cutting them down whenever he tracked them down and cornered them. no matter how distant a relative, how diluted the blood.

 

chapter V: THE PRECIOUS CARGO

wu qiang and shuangmei had lived together for thousands of years, shuangmei randomly disappearing every few centuries or so to hunt members of that family lineage, when the immortal confessed that he was in love with him. shuangmei's experience with what he believed love felt like was not a good one, and so for a time, he shied away from wu qiang and the topic of romance. eventually, however, he gave in to the immortal's advances and allowed him to treat him as a lover.

 

five years ago, shuangmei discovered that he was pregnant. wu qiang was ecstatic, shuangmei grew to be even more aggressive and unhinged than his usual state, snapping his teeth at the immortal and lashing out at him for the smallest of things. wu qiang accepted his anger as part of the pregnancy and tried to stay out of his way, but as time wore on shuangmei's shattered psyche deemed his lover would be a threat to both his revenge plan and his life with his child. he believed that the older dragon would take the baby away from shuangmei.

 

and so their daughter was a fresh hatchling when he lashed out at and killed her father, halfway through eating his corpse before the fog lifted and he realized that he had just killed and ate his child's father.

 

but shuangmei had been broken beyond compare and so he merely gathered guiying up and decided it was time that he move on to another place, far from the mountain where he might have been happy in another lifetime. one where he hadn't been tortured and betrayed. 

 

his search for vengeance isn't over yet, but he grows closer by the day. and he's tracked someone here, to the city of dreams. someone who has some of that cursed blood running in their veins—and he will find it, and spill it.

trivia:

• this character is adapted from the main character of a book i'm writing, but if the character went down a dark path rather than being put back together.

• prefers to wear red, will wear other colors but will usually have red on as well if he's going to be out in public. 

• he has not been in contact with anyone from his family since he was taken prisoner. his father and uncles have all died and the empire is in ruins, as he'd heard when he was still staying with wu qiang. he does not care.

• where monarch is a cannibal out of necessity, shuangmei has eaten people for entertainment alone.

• shuangmei is a sadist. the pain of others entertains him. 

• he is cunning, and knows how to get out of tough situations. he can manipulate the narrative in his favor, pin blame on others, and charm those he needs to. 

• he does not speak of what species he is; the ears leave people to often assume that shuangmei is a full-blooded elf, and he does not correct them. after all, what good is a dragon who has lost their wings? shuangmei is not so impressive indeed.

• tba

 

SHUANGMEI once said...

• "perhaps i should give you to ying. she chews through her toys so quickly..." to celes.

• tba

cONNECTIONS:

➘ open connection: a person who is descended from / somehow related to the man who destroyed the person shuangmei used to be and sentenced him to a life of pain and bloodshed, a miserable existence without his wings. shuangmei is hellbent on destroying this character, in the name fo his vengeance. but maybe this character hates their family, maybe they never knew their family. maybe they're, in a plot twist, just as bound on avenging all of the family shuangmei has killed over the years. 

➘ open connection: a character who knew wu qiang maybe a friend, maybe a student, maybe family. a person who was close enough to know of shuangmei and to know that that must have been who killed wu qiang when his body was found. let's have angst.  

➘ open connection: this would be a young character. shuangmei meets this youth, a child as he calls them, and one thing leads to another and one morning, guiying in his arms and the kid tagging along behind him, shuangmei comes to the realization that he has somehow acquired a student and he, dare he say it, would be sad if something happened to this child. 
i see this as a connection / plot with the potential for the comical scenario of shuangmei trying to figure out how to be a teacher and navigate raising two brats at the same time, getting his revenge and making sure his student doesn't blow himself up with magic while shuangmei isn't paying attention.

➘ name: here

WU QIANG: did he love him? did he not? shuangmei will never tell a soul what his true feelings were. does he regret killing him? shuangmei would not answer that either. but there is no one who can take guiying away from him, now that this man is dead. 

CORE CONCEPT: spiritualism centers around spiritual balance. a spiritualist must maintain balance in order to use their power. the better the balance, the more powerful their magic. a spiritualist like shuangmei, who is capable of maintaining a perfect balance, is entirely unstoppable until their spiritual balance is thrown off-center.

ILLNESS: spiritualism is like an illness and affects the health of the practitioner. shuangmei has bouts of coughing up blood, physical weakness, nausea, and intense migraines. he also suffers from extreme susceptibility to the cold as a result of his spiritualism.

LIFE EXPECTANCY: spiritualists always die young, or they're supposed to. their power is an illness, and it also burns through them quickly from the sheer power they're harnessing. shuangmei should have long since been dead, but he's still living, and that's his little secret. 

weapons: 

➘ primarily uses a white fan, made of a mysterious white metal and a fabric woven from the same metal. this fan never leaves his side and is a powerful weapon that was created in his homeland.

➘ spiritualism 

➘ magic

NATURAL POWERS: 

➘ magic affinity

➘ spiritualism

➘ dragon powers: flight, breathing fire, fire immunity / mastery 

➘ elf powers: dark magic, corruption

learned powers: 

➘ healing

➘ magical flight (since his wings are gone)

MAGICS: what he uses his magic affinity for. 

➘ spiritualism, dark magic, black magic, blood magic, sympathetic magic, curses, elemental magic, mind control / mind breaking magics.

➘ if it's evil, he can do it. 

➘ spiritualism is his primary magic. 

strengths:

➘ a lot of experience in battle and killing. 

➘ immensely powerful magic.

➘ just. strong. 

➘ tba?

weaknesses: 

➘ the effects spiritualism has on his body. 

➘ a poor immune system because of aforementioned effects of spiritualism 

➘ guiying

➘ the wounds on his back, where his wings were removed. 

➘ susceptible to the cold. 

➘ tba? 

minty says: this was A Ride but now it is a done ride