Chahua Zhu
Miss Chahua Leead Zhu (a.k.a. The One Woman Machine Of Destruction)
The Nature of being such a massive, multi-ethnic and cosmopolitan nation as Kanda is to have all manner of strange travelers that get trapped for one reason or another.
Unlike many children, Chahua's story begins long before she was born, when The Theocracy of Eldin truly closed up their borders; snuffing out even the most capable of smugglers and fence jumpers. One such man from The Western Kingdom was trapped in Kanda after the Decades Blockade went up and found shelter in Shar Essaro as Marcosia Essaro's newfound Master Of Orchards.
That Man is Chahua's Father, a determined man who had a single plan; destroy the Eldin and open the way to the West once again.
And to do that he would use all of the western medical and magical knowledge he knew... to BIRTH a weapon to ensure his goals were met.
He Named That Weapon Chahua.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Almost perfectly in line with the body shape and height that the Kandia would imagine from the Western Kingdom, Chahua stands nearly half a foot shorter than the average Kandia woman, though is perhaps 20% broader at the shoulder than the average woman seemingly just to break the mold.
With a graceful, curvy frame that belies her internal musculature, the Daughter Of The West possesses muted bronze skin and long hair that she occasionally puts up in fantastic styles but more often leaves in a single braid behind her to swing out of the way.
Perpetually possessing a resting expression of being chronically unimpressed and a touch irritated, Chahua's quiet but stern demeanor puts off an air of confidence and security just standing still in the center of an empty room; a sort of unique, spiritual presence beyond her control that others can't help but feel intimidated by.
With a graceful, curvy frame that belies her internal musculature, the Daughter Of The West possesses muted bronze skin and long hair that she occasionally puts up in fantastic styles but more often leaves in a single braid behind her to swing out of the way.
Perpetually possessing a resting expression of being chronically unimpressed and a touch irritated, Chahua's quiet but stern demeanor puts off an air of confidence and security just standing still in the center of an empty room; a sort of unique, spiritual presence beyond her control that others can't help but feel intimidated by.
Identifying Characteristics
Nearly everything about Chahua is identifiable in the Empire Of Kanda.
First and foremost, her existence as an obvious westerner is one of the few ethnically related factors that actually seem to matter in Kanda. While Kanda has always been a drastically multi-ethnic nation, Westerners are NOT part of the average population and Chahua legitimately ranks one in several hundred thousand by being so clearly a Daughter Of The West. Regardless of what the normal racial bias in Kanda may be or whether or not she's ever been outside of Shar Essaro, she "Looks Asian" and nobody can look past that in Kanda, as Westerners are so very rare in this day and age. Beyond her immediate ethnic identity as a Westerner, Chahua's cloudy, stormy Gray eye mark her to MOST as a blind woman, though she can see just fine. That being said, it's her most independently recognizable feature, immediately clear to anyone who sees her face. Finally, Chahua's straight, flowing, calf length hair is so noticeable as to put most Kandia women to shame and envy. Even Ginger, every now and then, gets jealous of the perfect straightness and near floor length of her best friend's hair. Considering that Chahua refuses to let her hair be cut under any circumstances and sees her hair as a mark of pride, anyone can identify her in a crowd due to her extremely long and obviously foreign hair of raven blue.
First and foremost, her existence as an obvious westerner is one of the few ethnically related factors that actually seem to matter in Kanda. While Kanda has always been a drastically multi-ethnic nation, Westerners are NOT part of the average population and Chahua legitimately ranks one in several hundred thousand by being so clearly a Daughter Of The West. Regardless of what the normal racial bias in Kanda may be or whether or not she's ever been outside of Shar Essaro, she "Looks Asian" and nobody can look past that in Kanda, as Westerners are so very rare in this day and age. Beyond her immediate ethnic identity as a Westerner, Chahua's cloudy, stormy Gray eye mark her to MOST as a blind woman, though she can see just fine. That being said, it's her most independently recognizable feature, immediately clear to anyone who sees her face. Finally, Chahua's straight, flowing, calf length hair is so noticeable as to put most Kandia women to shame and envy. Even Ginger, every now and then, gets jealous of the perfect straightness and near floor length of her best friend's hair. Considering that Chahua refuses to let her hair be cut under any circumstances and sees her hair as a mark of pride, anyone can identify her in a crowd due to her extremely long and obviously foreign hair of raven blue.
Special abilities
Because of the many alterations of her body brought upon by her father from even before she was born, Chahua can only be realistically called "Superhuman;" Possessing incredible strength for her size, near superhuman dexterity and a mind that can quickly and easily process even difficult information.
Her incredibly dense anatomy allows the otherwise small and unassuming young woman to weigh several times that of her peers of the same height and dimensions. This imparts her with superhuman endurance and durability the likes of which others in The Twenty-Five simply cannot contend with. Her internal organs all function considerably better than the norm, things like her liver and kidneys able to process down much stronger toxins than the average human She EVEN Has a Backup Heart; a surgically implanted magical organ that her father embedded into her torso when her mother was pregnant. (Presumably with a really long needle?)
This second heart of unknown composition is situated somewhere within the bulk of Chahua's intestines and is functionally a backup heart, though it contains many more secrets than merely pumping blood; made of strange materials from The Distant West that Lee brought with when he came to visit Kanda.
Suffice to say even Chahua is not yet fully aware of the identity of all her abilities, as she's still growing. That being said, she holds many mystical powers and physical abilities that allow her to stand physically over all the others in The Twenty-Five.
Her incredibly dense anatomy allows the otherwise small and unassuming young woman to weigh several times that of her peers of the same height and dimensions. This imparts her with superhuman endurance and durability the likes of which others in The Twenty-Five simply cannot contend with. Her internal organs all function considerably better than the norm, things like her liver and kidneys able to process down much stronger toxins than the average human She EVEN Has a Backup Heart; a surgically implanted magical organ that her father embedded into her torso when her mother was pregnant. (Presumably with a really long needle?)
This second heart of unknown composition is situated somewhere within the bulk of Chahua's intestines and is functionally a backup heart, though it contains many more secrets than merely pumping blood; made of strange materials from The Distant West that Lee brought with when he came to visit Kanda.
Suffice to say even Chahua is not yet fully aware of the identity of all her abilities, as she's still growing. That being said, she holds many mystical powers and physical abilities that allow her to stand physically over all the others in The Twenty-Five.
Apparel & Accessories
Of All of the Twenty-Five Chahua probably has the most culturally diverse array of clothing! While she certainly has her fair share of standard Kandia dress she also has many pairs of western style training trousers, fur gowns, multi-piece outfits in the style of all manner of cultures and several giant hats! While certainly filled with different colors it is apparent to all that know her that Chahua leans most toward rich blues, striking reds and deep emerald hues! Since she shuns most standard feminine conventions in the Kanda Culture she seldom worries about people judging her for wearing pants or carrying a sword around the Shar, though she understands she's not allowed outside of the Shar with her favorite blades.
Specialized Equipment
While Chahua has a festival of specialized gear her pride and joy is a highly ornate 36 Inch double edged straight sword in Western Kingdom style that she can often be seen practicing with. Used in one hand, the blade is damascened and she claims it is magical, though she will not say what sort of enchantments were used upon the weapon when it was crafted. Allegedly it is her great grandfather's blade from long before she was born and her father has gifted it to her, having told her her entire life that when she became a woman grown she would receive the blade. On her 16th birthday, as promised but also as a gift to celebrate her acceptance as a member of The Twenty-Five, Her father bestowed upon her her the Family Blade and gave her his blessing to study under Marek Of War-Saw; to begin bringing him into the family plans!
Chahua also possesses a pair of unique weapons from The Distant West that roughly resemble extremely fine, thin chains of shimmering metal roughly 15 feet long with single foot triple edged blades at the end. Swung through the air with superhuman precision and requiring superhuman senses and abilities to handle properly, Chahua may or may not be the only person in Kanda capable of using these proficiently. The blades at the end are extremely streamlined and Chahua claims they're magically enchanted to kill much more efficiently.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
When Chahua was born she was already no longer strictly human.
Not only does she have storm spirit ancestry from the old country, a feature marked in her cloudy grey eyes, but had already been altered by her father by way of feeding her mother all manner of strange concoctions and potions her father made to strengthen her as she developed as well as stripping out all lesser traits in the womb. He had injected strange solutions into her mother's belly to bolster Chahua's development and had used all manner of spells and rituals over her mother to ensure that Chahua was born not only strong... but beyond human. Naturally Chahua's mother did not survive childbirth.
To save the girl the doctors had to cut her mother open and draw Chahua forth; nearly 13 pounds at birth.
Despite the loss of the one woman from Kanda he'd grown to care for as well as the presence of a daughter in his life, her father Lee chose not to remarry and instead decided to dedicate himself to raising his daughter as the perfect weapon against the Eldin who had trapped him a world away from his home and previous family. By nine months Chahua was already walking and talking, though her father publicly lamented that she was not meeting HIS standards for growth.
By a year old Lee had hired a dozen different tutors to start teaching her as much as they could even at her young age.
By two years old Chahua was already being taught acrobatics, practical combat drills, meditation and other forms of far western discipline that would set her apart from her peers. About this time Lee introduced Chahua to Ginger Stasucto and the two became fast friends. Two years her senior but considerably less seriously trained in her own fields, Ginger quickly became the more casual and feminine foil to her non-binary western friend! When she was in town and Chahua was not training Ginger would spend much of her time with the girl, learning Hu-Lao and talking about fancy carvings and sculptures from The Western Kingdom! Other than her one and only friend and that friend's family business so often coming in contact with her father's own business, however, Chahua spent most of her life in deep study and without the presence of many other children. She would wake just before dawn, do chores with her father, train, eat and bathe, (Typically at the same time!) meditate, practice academia, eat, train more, do more chores, practice more academia, eat, train EVEN MORE and Practice EVEN MORE Academia before one last session of physical skills before bed. The very next day she would start the schedule once again. Every day was the same; a constant life of training with one duty in mind! It was her sole purpose in life to DESTROY THE THEOCRACY OF ELDIN! She was not a person.
She Was A Weapon! As she grew, isolated but NOT sheltered from the politics of Kanda and the culture therein, Chahua developed her own very personal form of perspective on life. She lived simply but with complex goals and ends in mind. She stayed humble and endeavored toward self perfection in all things. From Ginger, at her father's orders, Chahua began to learn of the feminine ways of Kanda and how to endear herself to others.
And finally, upon the arrival of Marek Of War-Saw, Chahua's father gave to her the specific order to go to him and either demand marriage or training. Chahua was all too happy to hear that Marek Of War-Saw cared not for a demure woman. He wanted THINKING, ACTING females who would work for him in dangerous scenarios and become far more than mere objects to be traded back and forth in arranged marriages. The deception was relayed to her father, who relished in the idea of The Twenty-Five. He bid her to stay with Marek, to do whatever he required of her... to NEVER forget her purpose in life and to remember that Marek Of War-Saw would, in time... become privvy to such a thing!
Leaving her scheming father behind but never falling out of touch with him, Chahua moved in with the rest of The Twenty-Five, quickly rising the ranks through both academia and combat prowess.
NOW she continues her life of training and learning; patiently awaiting the day when her father calls upon her to invite The Bringer Of Fertility into his grand scheme of international vengeance.
Not only does she have storm spirit ancestry from the old country, a feature marked in her cloudy grey eyes, but had already been altered by her father by way of feeding her mother all manner of strange concoctions and potions her father made to strengthen her as she developed as well as stripping out all lesser traits in the womb. He had injected strange solutions into her mother's belly to bolster Chahua's development and had used all manner of spells and rituals over her mother to ensure that Chahua was born not only strong... but beyond human. Naturally Chahua's mother did not survive childbirth.
To save the girl the doctors had to cut her mother open and draw Chahua forth; nearly 13 pounds at birth.
Despite the loss of the one woman from Kanda he'd grown to care for as well as the presence of a daughter in his life, her father Lee chose not to remarry and instead decided to dedicate himself to raising his daughter as the perfect weapon against the Eldin who had trapped him a world away from his home and previous family. By nine months Chahua was already walking and talking, though her father publicly lamented that she was not meeting HIS standards for growth.
By a year old Lee had hired a dozen different tutors to start teaching her as much as they could even at her young age.
By two years old Chahua was already being taught acrobatics, practical combat drills, meditation and other forms of far western discipline that would set her apart from her peers. About this time Lee introduced Chahua to Ginger Stasucto and the two became fast friends. Two years her senior but considerably less seriously trained in her own fields, Ginger quickly became the more casual and feminine foil to her non-binary western friend! When she was in town and Chahua was not training Ginger would spend much of her time with the girl, learning Hu-Lao and talking about fancy carvings and sculptures from The Western Kingdom! Other than her one and only friend and that friend's family business so often coming in contact with her father's own business, however, Chahua spent most of her life in deep study and without the presence of many other children. She would wake just before dawn, do chores with her father, train, eat and bathe, (Typically at the same time!) meditate, practice academia, eat, train more, do more chores, practice more academia, eat, train EVEN MORE and Practice EVEN MORE Academia before one last session of physical skills before bed. The very next day she would start the schedule once again. Every day was the same; a constant life of training with one duty in mind! It was her sole purpose in life to DESTROY THE THEOCRACY OF ELDIN! She was not a person.
She Was A Weapon! As she grew, isolated but NOT sheltered from the politics of Kanda and the culture therein, Chahua developed her own very personal form of perspective on life. She lived simply but with complex goals and ends in mind. She stayed humble and endeavored toward self perfection in all things. From Ginger, at her father's orders, Chahua began to learn of the feminine ways of Kanda and how to endear herself to others.
And finally, upon the arrival of Marek Of War-Saw, Chahua's father gave to her the specific order to go to him and either demand marriage or training. Chahua was all too happy to hear that Marek Of War-Saw cared not for a demure woman. He wanted THINKING, ACTING females who would work for him in dangerous scenarios and become far more than mere objects to be traded back and forth in arranged marriages. The deception was relayed to her father, who relished in the idea of The Twenty-Five. He bid her to stay with Marek, to do whatever he required of her... to NEVER forget her purpose in life and to remember that Marek Of War-Saw would, in time... become privvy to such a thing!
Leaving her scheming father behind but never falling out of touch with him, Chahua moved in with the rest of The Twenty-Five, quickly rising the ranks through both academia and combat prowess.
NOW she continues her life of training and learning; patiently awaiting the day when her father calls upon her to invite The Bringer Of Fertility into his grand scheme of international vengeance.
Gender Identity
Chahua accepts feminine pronouns but is very much non-binary and often refers to herself as "This One."
She largely cares not for the Gender Binary of Kandia society and was raised from birth to see herself not as a mere child but as a legacy constructed from the ground up by her father.
She largely cares not for the Gender Binary of Kandia society and was raised from birth to see herself not as a mere child but as a legacy constructed from the ground up by her father.
Sexuality
Chahua Has Next To No Experience With Sex And So Has No Well Developed Opinions. She's Aware That She Finds Both Men And Women Attractive But That's About The Extent Of It.
Education
Chahua is the result of every tutor and private educator that money could buy!
Lee was extremely serious to work through private channels to arrange special tutors to teach her early and fast. Almost akin to a Vulcan School, Chahua lived her formative years with numerous sources of information bombarding her from all directions and demanding of her extremely specific answers and allowed extremely short response times. She would often be quizzed during combat lessons to divide her attention and stress thinking before acting during stressful scenarios. She would be regularly surprised awake with mock attackers, forced to alter her life around being able to be attacked at any moment. She would have random academic tests sprung on her during other activities that would otherwise require much of her attention.
It would not be unusual to see her walking tightropes while her tutors demanded of her answers to complex mathematical problems, all the while with her father throwing leather balls at her, which she would have to dodge or parry with her hands. Chahua's entire life has consisted of the hardest of educations, breaking every parenting rule in the Empire of Kanda to ensure that she not see herself as a girl or even a human but as A One Woman Machine Of Destruction; in body and in mind! Chahua's seemingly boundless repertoire of diverse abilities does not stop there, as Chahua has been taught numerous forms of Western Magic to be used against her enemies and to aid her allies alike. Given time and the proper materials she might enchant objects to shoot lasers, (until they explode from the strain) brew strange potions, (most of which taste horrible but objectively work!) and even summon spirits from her homeland that are able to make the journey. (Assuming they care to answer) She is not, however, known for "flinging spells" as many Mysteria do. To top it off, Chahua has recently begun learning under Marek Of War-Saw, who insists upon improved, modern educations and specialty learning for each of The Twenty-Five to emphasize and hone their strongest abilities. Chahua has quickly become Marek's Favorite for language lessons and combat training while maintaining stellar marks across all other categories other than strict formal statecraft and social combat.
Lee was extremely serious to work through private channels to arrange special tutors to teach her early and fast. Almost akin to a Vulcan School, Chahua lived her formative years with numerous sources of information bombarding her from all directions and demanding of her extremely specific answers and allowed extremely short response times. She would often be quizzed during combat lessons to divide her attention and stress thinking before acting during stressful scenarios. She would be regularly surprised awake with mock attackers, forced to alter her life around being able to be attacked at any moment. She would have random academic tests sprung on her during other activities that would otherwise require much of her attention.
It would not be unusual to see her walking tightropes while her tutors demanded of her answers to complex mathematical problems, all the while with her father throwing leather balls at her, which she would have to dodge or parry with her hands. Chahua's entire life has consisted of the hardest of educations, breaking every parenting rule in the Empire of Kanda to ensure that she not see herself as a girl or even a human but as A One Woman Machine Of Destruction; in body and in mind! Chahua's seemingly boundless repertoire of diverse abilities does not stop there, as Chahua has been taught numerous forms of Western Magic to be used against her enemies and to aid her allies alike. Given time and the proper materials she might enchant objects to shoot lasers, (until they explode from the strain) brew strange potions, (most of which taste horrible but objectively work!) and even summon spirits from her homeland that are able to make the journey. (Assuming they care to answer) She is not, however, known for "flinging spells" as many Mysteria do. To top it off, Chahua has recently begun learning under Marek Of War-Saw, who insists upon improved, modern educations and specialty learning for each of The Twenty-Five to emphasize and hone their strongest abilities. Chahua has quickly become Marek's Favorite for language lessons and combat training while maintaining stellar marks across all other categories other than strict formal statecraft and social combat.
Employment
Chahua does not work and has not worked a day in her life for money.
While she completely understands the more feminine professions her father bars her from taking on any proper work except perhaps under the watchful eyes of Marek Of War-Saw or POTENTIALLY the artistic sponsorship of The House Of Stasucto, which has commissioned her as a model a few times for sculpture. Three Out Of Five Of every statue of a woman Ginger has sculpted is of Chahua. No less than Ten such works have been sold to lords from across the Core. That being said, Chahua's payment for such modeling opportunities is not a particularly large sum and her father considers it a particularly good reason to maintain connections with the House Of Stasucto.
While she completely understands the more feminine professions her father bars her from taking on any proper work except perhaps under the watchful eyes of Marek Of War-Saw or POTENTIALLY the artistic sponsorship of The House Of Stasucto, which has commissioned her as a model a few times for sculpture. Three Out Of Five Of every statue of a woman Ginger has sculpted is of Chahua. No less than Ten such works have been sold to lords from across the Core. That being said, Chahua's payment for such modeling opportunities is not a particularly large sum and her father considers it a particularly good reason to maintain connections with the House Of Stasucto.
Intellectual Characteristics
Having spent most of her life in strict training and learning and being literally designed from the womb by her father's exotic machinations, Chahua is a proper genius by almost any definition of the word. Regardless of what she would have been born to become if she were allowed to come to term naturally, Chahua spends most of her waking hours immersed in study and shares a strong passion for learning with the other top members of The Twenty-Five; taking Marek Of War-Saw's lessons very seriously and understanding that this is the most freedom that they will get in this society.
For Chahua specifically, however, this is merely the next step in her much longer journey; always considering, contemplating and constructing new plans and ideas to bring her father's dreams to fruition, spying on those that fall into her field of interest to gather further information on them. While deeply reserved, the the young woman is also extremely curious of the outside world and cannot help but to integrate any new addition into her world of schemes!
To others this makes her seem very patient, perceptive and passive when, in actuality, she is an extremely aggressive and competitive thinker who is always judging herself based on the performance of others as well as her own past records; making sure that she never falls behind or ends up being less capable than she was yesterday. Her entire life is built around this intellectual constant; self perfection, self cultivation, maximum competition. To Chahua there is no such thing as holding back or giving someone a handicap. THAT would involve sacrificing her own standard of personal excellence and self improvement.
And THAT Sort Of Sacrifice Does NOT A Theocracy Of Eldin Conquer....
To others this makes her seem very patient, perceptive and passive when, in actuality, she is an extremely aggressive and competitive thinker who is always judging herself based on the performance of others as well as her own past records; making sure that she never falls behind or ends up being less capable than she was yesterday. Her entire life is built around this intellectual constant; self perfection, self cultivation, maximum competition. To Chahua there is no such thing as holding back or giving someone a handicap. THAT would involve sacrificing her own standard of personal excellence and self improvement.
And THAT Sort Of Sacrifice Does NOT A Theocracy Of Eldin Conquer....
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Chahua has been all but DESIGNED by her father to find her number one purpose in life to be destroying The Eldin and opening the way to The Western Kingdom for not only her father but for all of Kanda.
Like many women of Kanda she sees herself as an object. Unlike any women of Kanda she sees herself not as society sees them. She sees herself instead more as the US Military sees a gun: a precision tool of calculated engineering, honed to perfection by her father and pointed in the right direction to deadly effect. She will do anything her father tells her to do, even if it will obviously kill her. Her every drive, at the end of the day, is to continue his legacy and deliver him his desires.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Chahua is, by all means, a language expert. She knows more languages than any single member of The Twenty-Five and can reproduce nearly any sound she hears with little to no difficulty. Only listening to a few sentences in someone's voice and she can, with a few moments of practice, learn to mimic it almost perfectly. The young woman may even learn the style in which someone speaks if she has the opportunity to listen to them throughout a long conversation covering several subjects.
Despite this mastery of language, pitch and tone, Chahua is actually quite inept in mainstream political interactions and social combat!
Having been isolated from others for much of her life until recently, Chahua possesses little in the way of social snappiness and her fashion of speaking is often considered somewhat off-putting to high society types otherwise looking for a demure and well spoken young woman with an exotic family name. While Chahua can talk to you coherently in at least seven different languages she cannot do so charmingly and this obviously holds her back in certain aspects of training to be a spy. However, Chahua makes up for her social shortcomings with her incredible knowledge of practical combat and physical arts!
Able to leap several times her own height from a standing position, perform extremely technical acrobatics, fight barehanded or with any number of weapons and use the environment to her advantage, Chahua has never lost a single sparring match against any of the Twenty-Five. She's never even been hit. She never loses in a combat scenario and always succeeds progressively more difficult challenges presented to her. Often times she is able to fight off entire fractions of The Twenty-Five in combat training and is used as a supreme example of "How Fighting Is Done."
She's SO dangerous in combat that her father AND the rest of the Twenty-Five regard her as "The One-Woman Machine Of Destruction."
Having been isolated from others for much of her life until recently, Chahua possesses little in the way of social snappiness and her fashion of speaking is often considered somewhat off-putting to high society types otherwise looking for a demure and well spoken young woman with an exotic family name. While Chahua can talk to you coherently in at least seven different languages she cannot do so charmingly and this obviously holds her back in certain aspects of training to be a spy. However, Chahua makes up for her social shortcomings with her incredible knowledge of practical combat and physical arts!
Able to leap several times her own height from a standing position, perform extremely technical acrobatics, fight barehanded or with any number of weapons and use the environment to her advantage, Chahua has never lost a single sparring match against any of the Twenty-Five. She's never even been hit. She never loses in a combat scenario and always succeeds progressively more difficult challenges presented to her. Often times she is able to fight off entire fractions of The Twenty-Five in combat training and is used as a supreme example of "How Fighting Is Done."
She's SO dangerous in combat that her father AND the rest of the Twenty-Five regard her as "The One-Woman Machine Of Destruction."
Likes & Dislikes
Chahua Likes:
Stern Oaken Poles For Combat Practice
The Feel Of Soft Grass Under Her Bare Feet
Putting Her Hair Up In Fanciful Displays
Training
Studying
Learning
Lee Zhu: Her Father
Ginger Stasucto: The First Of The Twenty-Five
Classical Poetry
Magic Secretly Drinking, Dancing, Singing And Going A Bit Out Of Control... Chahua Dislikes:
Typical, Predictable Interactions
Boring Ladies' Tales
Being Doted Upon
"Simple People Ideals:" To live simply and have a basic civilian life and those such sentiments.
Stern Oaken Poles For Combat Practice
The Feel Of Soft Grass Under Her Bare Feet
Putting Her Hair Up In Fanciful Displays
Training
Studying
Learning
Lee Zhu: Her Father
Ginger Stasucto: The First Of The Twenty-Five
Classical Poetry
Magic Secretly Drinking, Dancing, Singing And Going A Bit Out Of Control... Chahua Dislikes:
Typical, Predictable Interactions
Boring Ladies' Tales
Being Doted Upon
"Simple People Ideals:" To live simply and have a basic civilian life and those such sentiments.
Vices & Personality flaws
While Chahua regularly shows the world that she is nothing short of a serious, single minded practitioner of the martial arts and the academic process who dedicates her every waking moment to self perfection she hides a secret lust for all manner of vices deep within her ironclad exterior.
While she was growing up learning to fight, outsmart and innovate she knew very well that her peers played in the grass, had secret picnics, told stories and talked about boys. While she doesn't have any particular interest in the typical feminine activities of the Kandia Culture she DOES secretly desire to cut loose and discover what it's like to not care about things for a while. She wants to get drunk, dance, listen to lively jigs and compete in sporting tournaments that adults partake in whilst getting shitfaced in local establishments in the cities! Dare she say it... she thirsts for a good bar fight and to simply let go of all of the training and discipline that's been beaten into her since she was born... IF ONLY for a night or two a year! (Asking FAR too much, she's aware!) While she has certainly never indulged these sort of wild fantasies, Chahua still secretly desires to.
Because of this she can get a touch distractible during large, exciting public affairs, though it is seldom noticed even by the higher ranking members of The Twenty-Five.
While she was growing up learning to fight, outsmart and innovate she knew very well that her peers played in the grass, had secret picnics, told stories and talked about boys. While she doesn't have any particular interest in the typical feminine activities of the Kandia Culture she DOES secretly desire to cut loose and discover what it's like to not care about things for a while. She wants to get drunk, dance, listen to lively jigs and compete in sporting tournaments that adults partake in whilst getting shitfaced in local establishments in the cities! Dare she say it... she thirsts for a good bar fight and to simply let go of all of the training and discipline that's been beaten into her since she was born... IF ONLY for a night or two a year! (Asking FAR too much, she's aware!) While she has certainly never indulged these sort of wild fantasies, Chahua still secretly desires to.
Because of this she can get a touch distractible during large, exciting public affairs, though it is seldom noticed even by the higher ranking members of The Twenty-Five.
Personality Quirks
While perfectly capable of it, Chahua seldom likes to eat food with her hands, strongly preferring utensils of almost any sort as opposed to shoving food in her mouth with her greasy digits. Hands, in her mind, are implements of death and HER hands are often exposed to no shortage of dirt, blood, sweat and other such goop that one wouldn't want in their mouth. While she will certainly cook and washes her hands profusely when she prepares food, very seldom does anyone see Chahua actually eating without using a fork or spoon. If given no other option she will gladly find two pieces of wood and carve them into chopsticks in short order before eating.
For the sake of convenience, she always carries two pairs of chopsticks with her; One pair of metal and the other of bamboo, which her and her father grow on their property.
For the sake of convenience, she always carries two pairs of chopsticks with her; One pair of metal and the other of bamboo, which her and her father grow on their property.
Hygiene
While the Kandia are notoriously well bathed and groomed, Gume Zhu and thus Chahua, take the practice of ritual bathing to an entirely new level. Constructed in Western Kingdom style, Gume Zhu possesses an intricate bathhouse complex built around a system of hot springs on her father's property.
Chahua, growing up on such a complex as it was being built, is extremely fond of hot baths and regular bathing rituals. She has all manner of pressed oils and lathers for her hair and body and often perfumes herself after bathing with mild plant powders from local foliage that leave her smelling pleasant and natural much of the day.
Social
Family Ties
Despite living most of her life as a recluse in isolation with her father, Chahua is keenly aware that her father was a very important man before he was trapped in Kanda.
If Chahua was to return to Lee's Family in The Western Kingdom and found a way to prove her relations, the family would be honor-bound to take her in and do whatever they could to help her attain her goals and bring her father back to The Western Kingdom! In Strict Hypothesis she would even be able to appeal to the Dragon Emperor under her father's own name and the family would sponsor a journey back to the Western Border of Eldin in hopes that she might be able to break the Several Decade Blockade.
Perhaps more importantly to her existence in Kanda, Chahua stays in sparse contact with her mother's family. While she writes back and forth to them every few months her grandparents and aunts have been fighting for her entire life to be able to see her more often and consider her isolation and western obsession the fault of Lee and a dread bane on her development as a Kandia woman. Despite her lack of seeing them throughout much of her life, only meeting her grandparents a few times in her formative years, Chahua would be quickly accepted with open arms and no questions if she appeared on their doorstep some fifty miles to the north. She would be welcomed into the family villa and demanded to eat, bathe and make herself comfortable.
Because of her position as a Daughter Of The West the entire family has come to accept that she fights and lifts and runs and does "manly things" and they have even come to accept that she may wear Trousers wherever and whenever she likes. They simply want to see their firstborn grandchild more and wish to get to know her! The Family Enthiria especially, knowing that she has divine ancestry, have LONG wished to deify her in the family shrine as a gift to the family name. By All Means, The House Of Zhu Should Have Become Their Dearest Ally, Not Their Most Familiar Stranger.
Because of her position as a Daughter Of The West the entire family has come to accept that she fights and lifts and runs and does "manly things" and they have even come to accept that she may wear Trousers wherever and whenever she likes. They simply want to see their firstborn grandchild more and wish to get to know her! The Family Enthiria especially, knowing that she has divine ancestry, have LONG wished to deify her in the family shrine as a gift to the family name. By All Means, The House Of Zhu Should Have Become Their Dearest Ally, Not Their Most Familiar Stranger.
Religious Views
Chahua is the closest thing to an Atheist that you might find in the Core Of Kanda.
While she obviously believes in the spirits and deities of the world and has, indeed, interacted with them before and is even descended from one, she does not put importance on the wills and desires of deities or spirits! Her existence, she reasons, has little or even nothing to do with the gods. She is a creation by her father; enhanced not through the will of the gods but through chemical and surgical alteration! Her power comes from years of training, experimentation, learning and a collection of Western Techniques passed down through thousands of years and perfected by her Father's Ingenuity. The CLOSEST thing she has to a god is her father and he has long established that she far outstrips him.
That, after all, is her purpose. No god has ever smiled upon her for her determination and work ethic.
No deity has ever come before her and asked for her power.
She never prays so no god has ever answered any such prayers.
And, Of Course... She Was Made To Fight And Kill A God... A God That Gains Power From Killing Other Gods As far as she is concerned, this is The Age Of Man, not of the gods.
While she obviously believes in the spirits and deities of the world and has, indeed, interacted with them before and is even descended from one, she does not put importance on the wills and desires of deities or spirits! Her existence, she reasons, has little or even nothing to do with the gods. She is a creation by her father; enhanced not through the will of the gods but through chemical and surgical alteration! Her power comes from years of training, experimentation, learning and a collection of Western Techniques passed down through thousands of years and perfected by her Father's Ingenuity. The CLOSEST thing she has to a god is her father and he has long established that she far outstrips him.
That, after all, is her purpose. No god has ever smiled upon her for her determination and work ethic.
No deity has ever come before her and asked for her power.
She never prays so no god has ever answered any such prayers.
And, Of Course... She Was Made To Fight And Kill A God... A God That Gains Power From Killing Other Gods As far as she is concerned, this is The Age Of Man, not of the gods.
Social Aptitude
The perfect word for Chahua's social demeanor would be "Rigid."
In viewing herself more as an object with a purpose than a woman with a life, Chahua never bothered to get terribly invested in proper courtesies and social combat. To her it was always far more important that she sculpt her body and mind into something that might one day destroy the Eldin rather than impress young men at court. She often doesn't speech, answers in simple, one line sentences and is like to turn down anyone trying to talk to her out of hand. Most consider her rude but, in actuality, she's just very serious. Having little in the way of social experience, Chahua handles social problems like a machine might: straight to the point, confident, absolute and lacking nuance. Solutions are straightforward to her and she does not go out of her way to talk to people other than Ginger.
In viewing herself more as an object with a purpose than a woman with a life, Chahua never bothered to get terribly invested in proper courtesies and social combat. To her it was always far more important that she sculpt her body and mind into something that might one day destroy the Eldin rather than impress young men at court. She often doesn't speech, answers in simple, one line sentences and is like to turn down anyone trying to talk to her out of hand. Most consider her rude but, in actuality, she's just very serious. Having little in the way of social experience, Chahua handles social problems like a machine might: straight to the point, confident, absolute and lacking nuance. Solutions are straightforward to her and she does not go out of her way to talk to people other than Ginger.
Mannerisms
When in a room with others, Chahua often stands stone still, hands tucked behind her back and legs apart at shoulder distance.
When addressed Chahua generally replies curtly and seems notably disinterested in most topics, maintaining a sense of emotional distance from all interlocutors. While certainly not intending to be rude, she often comes off as this; using nothing in the way of gestures and seldom making any references to attach herself to a subject. Indeed, Chahua often seems completely uninterested in social interaction and her behavior is single minded and heavily regimented. Her life, many can see, is on a strict schedule that only she can seem to decipher.
When not directly addressed, Chahua often remains completely silent, merely staring at whoever is talking with what many regard to be a disapproving stare; though in actuality that's just what her face looks like.
Hobbies & Pets
Chahua's hobby is to train!
When she is not tending to family business at the bathhouse complex, studying under Marek Of War-Saw, learning whatever she has been bid to or otherwise following the vast and scheduled system of orders set before her she prefers to train in combat skills, workout physically and otherwise work toward self perfection! In no small part it is realistic to say that Chahua has no hobbies, all of her waking hours dedicated to the purpose given to her by her father. Like many of The Twenty-Five, Chahua has a pet; specifically a standard Kandia Kandaria Hound; perhaps 100 pounds large, somewhat overweight, remarkably lazy and getting a bit old. His Name Is "Striker."
Despite his obvious laziness and casual demeanor, Striker is an extremely capable and responsive dog who will go from nearly comatose to full combat readiness in half a second if he hears the proper command. He's incredibly in tune with Chahua's desires and feelings and will detect her demeanor long before anyone else interacting with her. He will usually respond to this with the appropriate actions of growling, barking, drooling or climbing on people, depending on what he thinks Chahua would want, were she not so cold and distanced from her feelings.
For this reason, many of the Twenty-Five affectionately refer to him as Chahua's "Feeling Heart Dog."
When she is not tending to family business at the bathhouse complex, studying under Marek Of War-Saw, learning whatever she has been bid to or otherwise following the vast and scheduled system of orders set before her she prefers to train in combat skills, workout physically and otherwise work toward self perfection! In no small part it is realistic to say that Chahua has no hobbies, all of her waking hours dedicated to the purpose given to her by her father. Like many of The Twenty-Five, Chahua has a pet; specifically a standard Kandia Kandaria Hound; perhaps 100 pounds large, somewhat overweight, remarkably lazy and getting a bit old. His Name Is "Striker."
Despite his obvious laziness and casual demeanor, Striker is an extremely capable and responsive dog who will go from nearly comatose to full combat readiness in half a second if he hears the proper command. He's incredibly in tune with Chahua's desires and feelings and will detect her demeanor long before anyone else interacting with her. He will usually respond to this with the appropriate actions of growling, barking, drooling or climbing on people, depending on what he thinks Chahua would want, were she not so cold and distanced from her feelings.
For this reason, many of the Twenty-Five affectionately refer to him as Chahua's "Feeling Heart Dog."
Relationships
Alignment
Contemplative Reactive
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Daughter Of The West
Date of Birth
20th Of Harvesting, 1616
Year of Birth
1616 BCV
16 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
A Literal Human Experiment Created Via The Fusion Of Western Kingdom, Kandia And Other Esoteric Magic And Medicine
Birthplace
Shar Essaro
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Shar Essaro
Gender
Female
Eyes
Slanted. Cloudy, Swirling Gray With No Differentiation Between Pupil And Iris. Despite This Visual Irregularity She Has Excellent Vision. (Trait Handed Down From Her Great Grandmother)
Hair
Calf Length, Near Perfectly Straight, Deepest Blue. In A Single Braid When Walking Around, Braided Bun When Active, Exotic And Fantastic Hair Designs When At Formal Functions.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Muted Bronze, Uniform, Completely Unblemished
Height
4' 8" (142.42 cm)
Weight
231 lbs (106.14 kg)
Quotes & Catchphrases
"This One Refuses."
Aligned Organization
Hu-Lao
Kandia
Eldin
Ditwina
Getania
"Ducky Daroba" (Learned From The House Of Stasucto) Still Learning:
Modern Polish
Modern English
"Spirit Isles Daroba"
"The Gap Jungle Daroba"
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