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Name Jian Kai Rin
Age 24
Gender Male
Species Shijie-Ren
Ethnicity Huoho
Height 5'6
Occupation City guardsman, captain's rank
Residence Xialing barracks
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Physical Description Ren is physically the balance of a fighter and a dancer. He is muscular and lean, but demonstrably strong and balanced. His eyes are a brilliant orange color and he enhances them with red and black eyeliner and face makeup, often choosing to mimic a tiger's stripes at his temple, cheeks, neck, and chest. Despite the fearsome look he chooses, he is quick to smile. Ren keeps his glossy black hair as short as fashionable conventions allow and wears it pulled back in a bun.
When he is off duty, he prefers wearing clothes that are darker shades of red and orange with black accents. He will paint his nails and hooves red and enhance his black antlers with red painted designs as well when dressing fancy. His preferred meditation beads are black and he wears a necklace, a bracelet of beads on each wrist, and a rope of beads over his sash.
On duty, Ren will forego all of his self-decorations. His armor is a family heirloom. The gold washed plates are embossed with tigers, clouds, and sunbursts; its shoulder guards are enameled red and gold and depict tiger's faces, teeth bared. The helmet likewise depicts a stylized tiger's face and is gold washed with a red plume at the top. The helmet has built in cutaways to accommodate his antlers.
Personality Ren is a fancy, fancy peacock of a boy. He likes to dress up, preens, and enjoys being the center of attention. His parents have spoiled and pampered him due to a favorable divination of his fawn-spots, and he knows he's everyone's favorite. He's quick to joke and tries to make a situation smooth. If he's slighted or insulted, his anger is triggered. When angry, he can range anywhere from sarcastic and smarmy to verbally abusive and physically aggressive. He regrets getting angry at people and is highly apologetic afterwards. He DOES work on his anger and flaws when people point them out, and it's difficult for him since he was the golden child.
Magic/Abilities
No known magical ability
Relationships
The Five Friends:
Sunset's Sanctum: Familial armor inherited from his father's father
Perfect Fury: A onehanded short sword with gold pommel and hilt guard, red tassel on the pommel, black leather wrapped hilt, and black sheathe. Inherited from his mother's father.
Summer Storm: A long, flexible spear. Made for him by his father.
Justice and Mercy: A matched set of Deerhorn knives. The hilts are wrapped in black leather. Inherited from his mother.
Tiger's Fang: A short dagger with a forearm sheathe, made to be concealed. A gift from his brother.
Mother: Jian Su Yung
Father: Jian Haoyu
Older brother: Jian Quon Tao
History
Rin was born to an affluent family. His mother is a skilled martial artist and his father is a retired general who commanded the city defenses. They had a son and were intent on raising him to follow in his father's footsteps, but were dismayed by a poor fortune being delivered about Quon Tao...well, it wasn't so much a bad fortune as one that they didn't see glory in. Rather than becoming a brilliant commander, Quon Tao was prophesied to become a master alchemist and gardener.
The cloud of disappointment would shade Quon Tao's life forever onward. His parents tried to love him, but their second son would receive the lion's share of their affection, training, and family gifts.
Kai Rin was born as the seasons changed to summer. He was a strong infant, fussy and opinionated from the beginning. The fortune teller saw in him leadership, military might, and the seat of the Lord General. This was the child his parents had hoped for and dreamed of, and so they spoiled him with trinket, toy soldiers, armor fitted to his child's frame, wooden replica weapons, and training. His days were filled with weapons training, unarmed training, unarmed combat, strategy training, and meditation training. Rin immersed himself in this deeply, enjoying the praise and attention he received for doing well. He never understood why his brother was sad; instead he would share everything he learned with his Tao, smothering his older brother with affection whenever Tao would play soldiers with him.
Rin adored his brother and would always encourage his horticultural work. Rin saw beauty and majesty in his brother's sketches and garden work so much that he often would send home cuttings of plants for his brother to plant in the family garden. Tao helped Rin master meditation and taught him the art of dancing. Rin argued with his parents that the benefit of dance was balance, strength, and agility, so both he and Tao received tutelage in different dance forms thereafter.
Rin followed Huohu-ren society conventions and joined the military. Where Tao struggled through his compulsory service, Rin was the exemplary recruit. He was compassionate on his fellow recruits during training and would tutor them in techniques he had mastered in childhood. His early assignments included traveling the roads of Huohu, protecting travelers, going into the jungle on maneuvers, and maintenance of the military facilities. He did these tasks cheerfully and found himself quickly promoted. He was placed in charge of squads of his fellows, given supply line problems to work through, and was trained in logistics and supply. Eventually, his promotions led to an appointment to captain of the city guard for Xialing. He is in charge of maintaining part of the garrison, training new recruits who join his unit, and coordinating the guard shifts. He is very proud of his position and eagerly works for the good of the city and takes pride in knowing and being known by the city's people.
Recently, Quon Tao has gone missing. Kai Rin doesn't know exactly when his brother disappeared because his parents did not alert him...or seemingly notice when their shy son left...but Rin can't dismiss his concerns that something is wrong. This concern is beginning to distract him and shorten his temper, so his father has counseled him to forget Tao's disappearance. Most of the family thinks that Tao deserted the family, so talking about or investigating the disappearance has been heavily restricted.
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