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OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: None
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Xue Yang/Xue Chengmei
CANON: The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling
CANON POINT: Episode 39
AGE: Late twenties
BACKGROUND: Specifically with regards to the narrative for the Untamed, Xue Yang is introduced working with the Wen Clan directly under Wen Ruohan. He's allegedly in possession of a piece of the Shadow Iron, but he's clearly working towards his own agenda. His next appearance is when he massacres the Yueyang Chang sect, a smaller cultivation sect, and is subsequently captured for his crimes. From there he's taken to the Nie clan to face justice but quickly escapes.
After that, he's not heard from again until some time later when he's found injured on the side of the road by one of the men who apprehended him to begin with, Xiao Xingchen. Now blind, Xiao Xingchen is unaware of Xue Yang's identity and does not ask. Along with a local girl, A-Qing, the three of them live in relative peace for several years. (The one caveat being Xue Yang is still a fundamentally horrible person and has been tricking Xiao Xingchen into murdering civilians, but almost total complete peace.) However, Song Lan arrives and attempts to bring the truth of the situation to light, but before he's able to Xue Yang cuts out his tongue and gets Xiao Xingchen to unknowingly kill his own best friend.
Things unravel from there, Xiao Xingchen taking his own life when he realizes what he's done and what's been done to him. Xue Yang, who did not see this coming, goes mostly out of his mind in grief and tries to bring Xiao Xingchen back from the dead as a reanimated corpse. He fails, because Xiao Xingchen does not want to be brought back. Xue Yang's solution to this is to scrape what's left of Xiao Xingchen's soul into a spirit pouch, then spend the rest of his life trying to find some other way to bring Xiao Xingchen back from the dead.
This culminates in Xue Yang luring Wei Wuxian, the best worst necromancer of his time, to Yi City to do the deed for him. This also backfires, and Xue Yang is killed in the ensuing struggle.
As a child, it's noted Xue Yang lived on the streets, alone. He was involved in an accident that broke his left hand and severed his pinky. This was a formative experience for him, and left him with a vengeful heart and lack of empathy.
PERSONALITY: At their first meeting, Wei Wuxian liked to call Xue Yang '小朋友', which is more or less 'little buddy' and in this case a derogatory term for someone who's an immature brat. It's true when they first meet when Xue Yang is still a teenager, and it remains true years later at the height of Xue Yang's mistakes. Xue Yang, ultimately, is a man with the motivations and emotional maturity of a child. He is incapable of considering other points of view, motivated by selfishness alone for most of his narrative arc. His world is black and white, simple and uncomplicated. He lives entirely in the present, unable to plan ahead or consider the consequences to his actions. All that matters is now, if he's having fun or if he's bored, if he's happy or pissed off. He has no empathy for others, so he's incapable of viewing anything he does as wrong.
The experience of living on the streets damaged him deeply, shaped him in a fundamental way. He was only eight, and no one showed him any pity or mercy, and whatever lessons he didn't learn after being pushed into the street and having a wagon run over his hand, he learned in the months it took his broken fingers to heal while still trying to eke out an existence as an orphan with no family, no prospects, no money. He was nothing and no one to the world, so the world became nothing and no one to him. People aren't really people, they're just toys. They're insects in the landscape of his life, and he thinks no more of killing someone than a boy stomping on an anthill might.
At least, all of this was true before, back when Xue Yang lived his entire life with these facts uncontested. He never once suffered for his recklessness and irreverence until that day, but once truly faced with the consequences of his actions, he changed.
Xue Yang is someone who has spent the last decade of his life trying to undo a lifetime of mistakes. He still views the world in an over-simplified way. If you asked, he'd tell you there is only one mistake he is trying to unravel, unable to quite grasp that the mistake was years in the making, that everything about who and what he is, is what marched them down that dead end street. He's a person always looking at the trees, never once seeing the forest. He's still reckless, still valuing his own existence above all others, but that circle is growing. There are other people he values now, too, who he will fight for, kill for, stay his hand for.
Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing gave him a family when he had no idea what that word meant, when it was so alien a thing to him he did not recognize what he was being given. It took until they long gone, until Xue Yang torched their lives to the ground and was left living in the ashes, for him to even begin to realize there'd been something there, something he wants back and misses. He'd give anything, do anything, be anything to get back to the way things were, but he remains short-sighted. He's so consumed with that first step, he's made no plans for if he succeeds. He gives no thought to how much Xiao Xingchen wants nothing more to do with him, or how livid the other man will be to find out what became of A-Qing in the immediate aftermath of his absence.
Ultimately, these shortcomings and contradictions make up who Xue Yang is as a person. He's still immature and troublesome, but those impulses have grown more tempered with age and experience. He's still cruel and prone to violence, but there are times when he questions himself and hesitates. He's still selfish and emotionally stunted, but he's begun to feel things beyond simple amusement and shallow anger.
He hasn't learned everything he needs to, doesn't begin to resemble a decent person or even a whole person, but he has learned. He's learned things about himself, things about the world. Mostly he's learned that he doesn't want to be alone anymore, that he's never wanted to be alone, and the simple fact of surviving isn't living.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Xue Yang is a talented, promising cultivator with average to above average skill compared to his contemporaries. If he focused and applied himself to study, he could easily have been one of the greatest cultivators of his generation. However, he doesn't do any of that and instead spends his time threatening people, murdering the weak, and plotting revenge.
He knows a limited amount of cultivation (exorcism/necromancy in particular) related magic such as use of talismans and creating wards, is good at reverse-engineering other peoples' spiritual items, and has invented several skills/methodologies in his own right. He's also a talented swordsman, able to wield Jiangzai as both a single blade as well as a double sided sword. He is also fond (and well versed) in the use of poisons.
INVENTORY:
Jiangzai - sword, Xue Yang's personal weapon.
Shuanghua - sword, someone else's weapon. Xue Yang has it for safekeeping.
Short utility blade.
Bag of hard candies. One looks older than the rest.
Small stack of magic talismans, blank.
Enchanted pouch which can hold spiritual weapons and other items.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis
HANDLE: Livvy
CONTACT:
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: None
▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Xue Yang/Xue Chengmei
CANON: The Untamed/Chen Qing Ling
CANON POINT: Episode 39
AGE: Late twenties
BACKGROUND: Specifically with regards to the narrative for the Untamed, Xue Yang is introduced working with the Wen Clan directly under Wen Ruohan. He's allegedly in possession of a piece of the Shadow Iron, but he's clearly working towards his own agenda. His next appearance is when he massacres the Yueyang Chang sect, a smaller cultivation sect, and is subsequently captured for his crimes. From there he's taken to the Nie clan to face justice but quickly escapes.
After that, he's not heard from again until some time later when he's found injured on the side of the road by one of the men who apprehended him to begin with, Xiao Xingchen. Now blind, Xiao Xingchen is unaware of Xue Yang's identity and does not ask. Along with a local girl, A-Qing, the three of them live in relative peace for several years. (The one caveat being Xue Yang is still a fundamentally horrible person and has been tricking Xiao Xingchen into murdering civilians, but almost total complete peace.) However, Song Lan arrives and attempts to bring the truth of the situation to light, but before he's able to Xue Yang cuts out his tongue and gets Xiao Xingchen to unknowingly kill his own best friend.
Things unravel from there, Xiao Xingchen taking his own life when he realizes what he's done and what's been done to him. Xue Yang, who did not see this coming, goes mostly out of his mind in grief and tries to bring Xiao Xingchen back from the dead as a reanimated corpse. He fails, because Xiao Xingchen does not want to be brought back. Xue Yang's solution to this is to scrape what's left of Xiao Xingchen's soul into a spirit pouch, then spend the rest of his life trying to find some other way to bring Xiao Xingchen back from the dead.
This culminates in Xue Yang luring Wei Wuxian, the best worst necromancer of his time, to Yi City to do the deed for him. This also backfires, and Xue Yang is killed in the ensuing struggle.
As a child, it's noted Xue Yang lived on the streets, alone. He was involved in an accident that broke his left hand and severed his pinky. This was a formative experience for him, and left him with a vengeful heart and lack of empathy.
PERSONALITY: At their first meeting, Wei Wuxian liked to call Xue Yang '小朋友', which is more or less 'little buddy' and in this case a derogatory term for someone who's an immature brat. It's true when they first meet when Xue Yang is still a teenager, and it remains true years later at the height of Xue Yang's mistakes. Xue Yang, ultimately, is a man with the motivations and emotional maturity of a child. He is incapable of considering other points of view, motivated by selfishness alone for most of his narrative arc. His world is black and white, simple and uncomplicated. He lives entirely in the present, unable to plan ahead or consider the consequences to his actions. All that matters is now, if he's having fun or if he's bored, if he's happy or pissed off. He has no empathy for others, so he's incapable of viewing anything he does as wrong.
The experience of living on the streets damaged him deeply, shaped him in a fundamental way. He was only eight, and no one showed him any pity or mercy, and whatever lessons he didn't learn after being pushed into the street and having a wagon run over his hand, he learned in the months it took his broken fingers to heal while still trying to eke out an existence as an orphan with no family, no prospects, no money. He was nothing and no one to the world, so the world became nothing and no one to him. People aren't really people, they're just toys. They're insects in the landscape of his life, and he thinks no more of killing someone than a boy stomping on an anthill might.
At least, all of this was true before, back when Xue Yang lived his entire life with these facts uncontested. He never once suffered for his recklessness and irreverence until that day, but once truly faced with the consequences of his actions, he changed.
Xue Yang is someone who has spent the last decade of his life trying to undo a lifetime of mistakes. He still views the world in an over-simplified way. If you asked, he'd tell you there is only one mistake he is trying to unravel, unable to quite grasp that the mistake was years in the making, that everything about who and what he is, is what marched them down that dead end street. He's a person always looking at the trees, never once seeing the forest. He's still reckless, still valuing his own existence above all others, but that circle is growing. There are other people he values now, too, who he will fight for, kill for, stay his hand for.
Xiao Xingchen and A-Qing gave him a family when he had no idea what that word meant, when it was so alien a thing to him he did not recognize what he was being given. It took until they long gone, until Xue Yang torched their lives to the ground and was left living in the ashes, for him to even begin to realize there'd been something there, something he wants back and misses. He'd give anything, do anything, be anything to get back to the way things were, but he remains short-sighted. He's so consumed with that first step, he's made no plans for if he succeeds. He gives no thought to how much Xiao Xingchen wants nothing more to do with him, or how livid the other man will be to find out what became of A-Qing in the immediate aftermath of his absence.
Ultimately, these shortcomings and contradictions make up who Xue Yang is as a person. He's still immature and troublesome, but those impulses have grown more tempered with age and experience. He's still cruel and prone to violence, but there are times when he questions himself and hesitates. He's still selfish and emotionally stunted, but he's begun to feel things beyond simple amusement and shallow anger.
He hasn't learned everything he needs to, doesn't begin to resemble a decent person or even a whole person, but he has learned. He's learned things about himself, things about the world. Mostly he's learned that he doesn't want to be alone anymore, that he's never wanted to be alone, and the simple fact of surviving isn't living.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Xue Yang is a talented, promising cultivator with average to above average skill compared to his contemporaries. If he focused and applied himself to study, he could easily have been one of the greatest cultivators of his generation. However, he doesn't do any of that and instead spends his time threatening people, murdering the weak, and plotting revenge.
He knows a limited amount of cultivation (exorcism/necromancy in particular) related magic such as use of talismans and creating wards, is good at reverse-engineering other peoples' spiritual items, and has invented several skills/methodologies in his own right. He's also a talented swordsman, able to wield Jiangzai as both a single blade as well as a double sided sword. He is also fond (and well versed) in the use of poisons.
INVENTORY:
Jiangzai - sword, Xue Yang's personal weapon.
Shuanghua - sword, someone else's weapon. Xue Yang has it for safekeeping.
Short utility blade.
Bag of hard candies. One looks older than the rest.
Small stack of magic talismans, blank.
Enchanted pouch which can hold spiritual weapons and other items.
MOONBLESSING: Sanguis