Dragoneye started life as Longwei Chin, the son of Chinese immigrants who came to America with their son to start a new life. They chose Emerald City because they had distant family who’d moved there years previously and they told the Chins the Chinese community there was well-established, well-respected, and mostly left to the residents to run. They were right. The Chins loved the city and lived there for years. Longwei took an Americanized name, Larry, and started working as a handyman as a teenager. He turned that into a full-time job when he left school and made a nice living serving the people of the Eastern District for the past decade. When his parents moved to Phoenix for his father’s health, Larry got an apartment and continued to lead a comfortable, but unremarkable life.
 
Then he went to bed on the night of his 28th birthday and everything changed. In his dreams he found himself floating before an immense dragon that explained he’d been chosen to become the dragon’s representative on Earth. The former representative had been his father’s uncle, Uncle Zhi, a notorious gangster who led one of the larger and more successful criminal organizations in Emerald City—the relative who’d told Larry’s family to move to Emerald City years before. Uncle Zhi had died that night and the dragon found the nearest “worthy” blood relative to take his place. The dragon explained it didn’t care what Larry did with the power, it was his to do with as he wished. Then he touched Larry’s forehead and opened his Dragoneye. Knowledge and power flooded into him. He understood more about magic and the mystical world in an instant than he’d learned about anything else in his entire life. He knew the power he had, what others before him had done with it, and what he could do with it.
 
When he woke, his alarm was going off and he was lying in his bed dressed in a traditional ivory and gold silk suit with a golden dragon embroidered on it. The first thing he did was enter the astral plane to check on his Uncle Zhi. He had passed away late the night before and his men were on the lookout for the new Dragoneye, whom they feared would appear back in China. With that bit of news, Larry knew he had some thinking to do, so he canceled his business for the day and sat in contemplation. By the next morning he’d decided to use his powers not as his Uncle Zhi had, but to act as the protector of his people. Dragoneye made his debut in the city, quickly establishing himself as the guardian of the Eastern district.
 
Larry no longer works as a handyman, instead supported by the people of the Eastern District. He eats for free, is given clothing and housing, and wants for nothing. He repays his community by keeping them safe and using his magic to help them however he can. The sight of Dragoneye walking and floating around the neighborhood is a comfort to its people.