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ยซ CHARACTER INFORMATION ยป
Character: Cheng Hua Canon: Heaven Official's Blessing Canon point: Post-canon OU or AU?: OU Age: >800 Species: Ghost
AU clarification: N/A
ยซ RECORD ยป
Disposition:
Hard-working/Determined He's hard working, and spends nearly a thousand years taking levels in badass in order to become formidable and useful. After those thousand years, he wants to do nothing more but give it all to Xie Lian, and settle down and help him chop down trees and make doors for his temple.
He's determined, and will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He can't die, and so he'll keep gathering his strength again and trying and trying. He's protective of his God, but he's also protective of some of the people around him.
Rude/arrogant Not only is Hua Cheng extremely determined, he is also extremely petty. A group of gods once denied Xie Lian a space to train with them, and Hua Cheng literally ruined their entire careers by embarrassing them in combat and then burning down all their temples when they refused to resign as was part of their original bet.
Even though he's crotchety and rude to a lot of the characters, he's mostly rude to the ones that have proven over eight hundred years that they're... kind of mean to Xie Lian, or in one case, an enemy of one of his allies. He has a distrust of human nature and of gods because of his personal experience. He prefers to hang out with gege, but if not with gege, then he's been doing pretty okay as the head of Ghost City.
Mysterious Hua Cheng has a fabricated mystery about him, because he wants everyone else to think he's a completely untouchable badass. He makes himself a reputation for having a bark just as bad as his bite, and for the most part, the gods leave him alone. He doesn't show himself to any of his followers. He hangs around the gambler's den in Ghost City but never gambles. It doesn't help that while he's disguised, he's repeating rumors about himself to Xie Lian.
Romantic He is also extremely romantic, bestowing Xie Lian with gifts and power and anything he could possibly want. He has lived the last eight hundred years of his life for his love alone, so naturally he's kind of a sap. He talks about his beloved, he has an entire cave full of statues of Xie Lian, and oh yeah he gave Xie Lian his ashes (without telling him what they were) and told him that they were in a safe space, because if the person protecting them couldn't anymore, he wouldn't want to go on living anymore.
Self-loathing Dspite all that he's accomplished and all that he has to offer to him, Hua Cheng still believes that it's not enough and that he's not enough. Underneath all this, where it matters, he has an incredibly low self-esteem and in many ways refuses to let Xie Lian know his true feelings for fear that Xie Lian might not want him around anymore. He likens himself to a stepping stone more than once, stating that he'd be more than happy to become one for Xie Lian if only that would mean he was of some use to him. He thinks of himself and his own safety as startlingly unimportant, and only has self-preservation so that he can continue to serve.
His self-loathing comes out sometimes in the form of him berating his sword, which contains his eye and is often expressing his unfiltered emotions. Honestly he's always hated that particular eye, so he often kicks the sword away, calls it trash, throws some petty fits about it.
Under pressure: Hua Cheng operates extremely well under pressure, as he has been bullied all his childhood, died in war before becoming an adult, fought all the ghosts at Tong'lu tournament-style, ripped out his own eye to make a flesh sacrifice, fought the big bad of his canon, and has given his existence over to Xie Lian several times. He is unafraid of death, pain or suffering, so long as he can be of some use to Xie Lian.
Condition upon arrival: I mean, he's dead, but other than that he's perfectly fine.
Abilities:
SPIRITUAL ENERGY Hua Cheng has some of the highest spiritual energy (also translated as mana) in the series, and more than a lot of the gods in the story. He can pass it at will, use it to communicate telepathically, to share memories, to fly, to swap bodies with someone, or to create protective barriers. Without his spiritual energy, he fades away until he has enough of it to regain form. Sometimes if he is low on spiritual energy, he takes the physical form of a child in order to conserve it. Yes, his scimitar becomes miniature as well.
COMBAT He is a trained warrior and fights with a special scimitar.
INTELLIGENCE & LEADERSHIP He debated against the other half of the gods and won handily against all of them. He does a lot of the plotting and planning in the present timeline of the story, and is also generally regarded kindly as a good Ruler by the residents of Ghost City over which he presides.
IMMORTALITY... SORTA The only way to kill a ghost of Hua Cheng's calibre is by dispersing their ashes.
ENDURANCE Even when he was a small child, people commented that he doesn't react to physical pain as strongly as might be expected.
SHAPESHIFTING & CLONING Hua Cheng is able to shapeshift himself to essentially any other human form.
CLONING Hua Cheng essentially sends clones of himself whenever he needs to be somewhere but doesn't really want to be there. The clones are not as powerful as he is, and require him to have power to split himself.
BLOOD RAIN One of his nicknames is "Crimson Rain Sought Flower," and he is known this way because he can sort of summon blood from the skies.
BUTTERFLIES He is known for having these slivers of spiritual energy called wraith butterflies, which he uses as messengers. They're super fast and the wings are sharp as blades, which he uses as a long-range weapon.
LUCK Luck is a skill in TGCF that can be given to someone.
DARUMA DOLLS He can turn people into these little round wooden dolls against their will.
ARTISTRY He is very good at sculpting and painting.
DOMESTIC SKILLS He proves to the villagers that he is good at both cooking and cleaning and general handiwork.
Inventory: CLOTHES -One set of under-robes in white -One round-collar over-robe in maple red -Eyepatch -Boots with jingle jangley silver jewelry -Huge silvery bib necklace -A coral pearl bead tied in his hair -A red string on his finger
ITEMS/WEAPONS -His scimitar with an eye in the hilt -Dice that make it easier to travel long distances
Notes: His scimitar is unable to talk, but is able to express emotions and "shake", as well as jump around. The eye in the hilt is the one he ripped out, so it often displays Hua Cheng's true feelings. Please let me know if this should be considered a separate appable character and he won't be allowed to have it!
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