Hui Ming
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:59 am
Hui Ming
Details
Full Name: Hui Ming
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Height: 5 / 152.5 CM
Weight: 110 lb/ 54.5KG
Birthdate: Ash, 5th of Cinderfall
Birthplace: Kalzasi
Profession: Alchemist
Housing:
Partners: None
Titles: None
Factions: None
Fluencies: Common
Conversational: None
Ineptitudes: None
Appearance
Hui ming was gifted with an ethereal beauty cast from pale flawless skin, effortlessly maintained dark hair and deep dark eyes. The man has a slight build, due to an incredibly high metabolism that keeps his frame thin with little to no effort. His studious nature keeps his skin from tanning and his hands from developing the hard callouses of hard work. Generally he wears simple clothes, kept immaculately clean. He has zero desire in decorations or tattoos, and would scoff at the idea of a pointless and extraneous addition to a body he already despises.
Personality
Hui Ming is a quiet soul, intense and intent on his goals once decided. He favors efficiency and detests waste and messes, often giving the man a somewhat controlling nature about the things he has around him. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, his mind works to create and innovate where it can so that he can suit himself to the world around him. He is typically, comfortable with himself, preferring his own company except in one facet: His body. He detests his body, the sweaty, meaty, gooey flesh that stinks and fills his mouth with sour flavours. Naturally this means that he detests the fleshy existence of others and would find doing anything sexual with them very unpleasant. He does not hate people exactly, it is neither his nor theirs that they exist in the world in the fashion that they do, to Hui Ming the mind has the potential of being a perfect crystalline lattice of pure thought and mathematics and he ever strives to be worthy of such a goal. To him, much of the world is deterministic, with even emotions having a logical basis that one need only delve deep enough to understand. To that end, he views emotions as complex, but not irrational. But this charitable view of the mind and emotions is offset by the clinical and detached way he feels towards people; so many of the people around him disappoint him by not living up to the gift and opportunity that was granted to them. So often people destroy themselves, destroy others, destroy their past, destroy their future. Collectively and individually. One might think that this would cause him to unempathetic to the plight of others to the point of psychopathy but he would never hurt another person. He would do what he could to help those in direct need, but his definition of need would certainly make him seem fairly callous, or outright confrontational. Indeed, Hui Ming's internal moral compass is very strong, just... skewed towards rules and efficiency. It is breaking those rules and interfering with his own living quarters and workspace that stresses him out and agitates him. Nothing would frustrate him more then people getting into his personal space and touching him with their gross sausage appendages.
OCEAN Profile
scale of 1 - 10
openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious) : 3
conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless) : 1
extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved) : 9
agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. challenging/callous) : 7
neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident) : 3
Sexuality: Asexual, no gender preference
Disorders: body dysmorphia, borderline OCD
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History
Hui Ming was born to a small family of well educated researchers patroned by the Zatrian House. His father, Xian Ming, began his career as a doctor and alchemist who made several minor discoveries before being scooped into a secret project funded by an individual who had ties to the Kalzasi family. The nature of which was only known by a few people. This individual, a minor noble of little standing brought great amounts of funding and a networks of people from Briathos and Zatrian. Xian was happy with the arrangement, he did not desire wealth or standing, just interesting challenges and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. It was thanks to this mysterious individual that he met his wife, Huong, who became a consultant on his project. There was immediate and intense dislike for each other. Huong, a brilliant, driven and ambitious botanist and Xian, the arrogant, condescending research doctor. The two fought constantly. Huong thought the man was an idiot and told him often enough and Xian responded with a shrew. But their work, which at the time was find or perhaps breeding plants or fungi to complete the project, enthralled them both. Over time they gained respect for each other's skills, and respect created affection and affection created love. Love created life. They often still fought, but they argued far more amicably then their initial meeting. It seemed that they had learned to separate their intellectual differences from their personal ones. They only ever had one child, that child being Hui. They tried for more, but Huong never seemed able to concieve a second time.
It was perhaps for the best that the two did not have more children; they were by no means good parents. They were not abusive nor neglectful. But they were highly intelligent, highly motivated people who lived in a world above most mortals. They had the same expectations of the small child that Hui was that they had for, say, a junior assistant or apprentice. The problem with such expectations is that junior assistants to a vetted secret project with a budget of unknown size and the backing of three houses were adults and those sorts of expectations for a child were by no means fair. Hui, having no siblings and spending his time around highly educated adults grew up aping those adults. He never truly connected to his peers and grew up unable to talk like they did nor act like a proper child. His successes and failures were compared to what a trained adult would have done and while not a terrible student, he never quite measured up to anything. Resentment and internalization of these feelings do strange things to an impressionable mind.
When he was finally of age he chose to be an apprentice to his uncle Kahn Juhn, who was far more of a father to him then Xian ever was. Where Xian was aloof and condescending, Kahn was kind and patient. His aunt and his cousins became a second family, celebrating his adolescent victories and commiserating with him during his failures. Hui Ming still stood out even among this second family of sorts, but few of his cousins minded the strange young man and his strange way of speaking. Working with Kahn and his cousin, the young Hui learned alchemy and seemed to inherent a bit of his mother's skill with gardening.
It was when Hui was ready to become a journeyman alchemist that his family's patron approached him for a new project. He was introduced to an Awakened named Dauntless. Hui saw something in Dauntless that he saw in no human or any other creature that lived on the earth. He saw a creation of perfect body, if not mind. Someone who needed no sleep, no food, who made no waste nor had no biological need procreate. Something resonated in Hui, and he was filled with envy over this awakened. He wanted to leave behind his disgusting body and become a being of pure thought animating a truly elegant shell. Amusingly, Dauntless saw the exact same thing that Hui Ming sought but in reverse. He remembered his body, he remembered the pleasures of the flesh, eating, breathing in fresh lungfuls of air after running for the sheer joy of it. He remembered what he lacked and despaired that he would be anything but a slave to the descendants of his friends and family.
Thus started a friendship that would last until this day, all because the Zatrians, with consultations with the Briathos, sought an alchemist to help restore a broken awakened.
