The Ghost General Wen Ning (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
verynormalturnipseller) wrote2024-01-21 04:45 pm
verynormalturnipseller) wrote2024-01-21 04:45 pm
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User Name/Nick:Siobhan
User DW:
Warden Justification: Wen Ning is profoundly gentle, almost incapable of holding a grudge or any but the most righteous anger. He’s also extremely used to being surrounded by morally gray weirdos, unwinnable choices between only bad outcomes, and assorted atrocities. He’s very good at being understanding. Yes, he’s sure you had to do it, but what about doing something different now? He’s too dead to be impatient and too mild mannered to object to any but the most egregious abuse chucked at him, but like so many spineless nerds, he is capable of doing the serious anger snap when it’s honestly called for. He’s so straightforward he’s hard to manipulate, and a lot smarter than he looks. And it’s hard to really sell a sob story to a zombie.
Item: What form will your character's Warden Item take? A bound book of bamboo slats
Abilities/Powers: Wen Ning is effectively dead, which means things that are a big problem for living bodies, like bleeding or having parts removed, are a pretty minor inconvenience. It also means that anything that’s supposed to work on dead stuff, like necromancy or charms against ghosts, absolutely work on him. He’s specifically a dead cultivator and has the usual abilities that come with that skillset (very big jumping, cool martial arts, super senses and reflexes) and is unreasonably strong even by those standards. He’s also trained as a doctor, albeit a magical doctor who makes elaborate herbal concoctions with silly names.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: Wen Ning lacks for confidence but not motivation. He’ll start out with very little clue, but he understands redemption just fine in theory. He’s the sort of warden to offer practical help first, because he likes fussing over people, and is good at practical solutions, but he has the skillset to meet most people where they are. Both a decent scholar and an accomplished fighter (however reluctantly), he’s able to prove himself if he needs to, but has no actual pride to get in his way. Whatever works to reach someone. He’s in no hurry. He was the ghost general. He once ripped a guy's heart out because he got a little too possessed. People do things sometimes. They can still do other stuff later.
Wen Ning is probably not right for someone who does need a smooth talker or a debater to talk them through deep layers of deception (or just lying to themselves). He lacks the capacity for intrigue, and conversationally he couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag half the time. He’s easily bullied, especially if it’s only himself on the line, and a clever inmate could run circles around him. He’d be best for someone who needs a lack of judgment and a good listener more than a sparring partner, and he can refrain from judging a whole lot.
Deal: All but one of Wen Ning’s surviving relatives were all executed at once as part of an elaborate plot. He’d like them all quietly disappeared to a distant, safe place where they can peacefully farm and not be bothered for the rest of their natural lives.
History: Link
Sample Network Entry:
[Wen Ning is very shy of the network. It's the worst thing--having someone pay attention to you on purpose--magnified an unknown number of times, and into the future. But it seems to be custom to make introductions like this, and he doesn't want to be rude. He's arranged his hood and hair carefully to obscure what he can of his obviously not-quite-alive nature, but it doesn't work very well.]
My name is Wen Qionglin.
[He can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times he's been called any such thing, but such are the results of dying barely out of childhood and spending the ensuing time surrounded almost entirely by older family members. It'll be hard to remember to answer to it, honestly. But he's determined. Nobody here has to know Wen Ning the miserable disappointment or the deadly abomination known as the Ghost General.
Poor baby.]
I'm, um, h-here to be a warden.
[Ugh, he almost never stutters anymore, why now, stupid nerves.]
I'm most of the way trained as a doctor, and I'm good at gardening and cooking. So I can be useful a lot of ways.
[Sigh. It's the responsible thing to do.]
And if there are any cultivators here skilled in ghost hunting--
[A type of person you can meet on any street in the world he knows. He just assumes there'll be somebody.]
There are a few bindings I should show you that'll restrain me if anything goes wrong.
Sample RP: Here
User DW:
Warden Justification: Wen Ning is profoundly gentle, almost incapable of holding a grudge or any but the most righteous anger. He’s also extremely used to being surrounded by morally gray weirdos, unwinnable choices between only bad outcomes, and assorted atrocities. He’s very good at being understanding. Yes, he’s sure you had to do it, but what about doing something different now? He’s too dead to be impatient and too mild mannered to object to any but the most egregious abuse chucked at him, but like so many spineless nerds, he is capable of doing the serious anger snap when it’s honestly called for. He’s so straightforward he’s hard to manipulate, and a lot smarter than he looks. And it’s hard to really sell a sob story to a zombie.
Item: What form will your character's Warden Item take? A bound book of bamboo slats
Abilities/Powers: Wen Ning is effectively dead, which means things that are a big problem for living bodies, like bleeding or having parts removed, are a pretty minor inconvenience. It also means that anything that’s supposed to work on dead stuff, like necromancy or charms against ghosts, absolutely work on him. He’s specifically a dead cultivator and has the usual abilities that come with that skillset (very big jumping, cool martial arts, super senses and reflexes) and is unreasonably strong even by those standards. He’s also trained as a doctor, albeit a magical doctor who makes elaborate herbal concoctions with silly names.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: Wen Ning lacks for confidence but not motivation. He’ll start out with very little clue, but he understands redemption just fine in theory. He’s the sort of warden to offer practical help first, because he likes fussing over people, and is good at practical solutions, but he has the skillset to meet most people where they are. Both a decent scholar and an accomplished fighter (however reluctantly), he’s able to prove himself if he needs to, but has no actual pride to get in his way. Whatever works to reach someone. He’s in no hurry. He was the ghost general. He once ripped a guy's heart out because he got a little too possessed. People do things sometimes. They can still do other stuff later.
Wen Ning is probably not right for someone who does need a smooth talker or a debater to talk them through deep layers of deception (or just lying to themselves). He lacks the capacity for intrigue, and conversationally he couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag half the time. He’s easily bullied, especially if it’s only himself on the line, and a clever inmate could run circles around him. He’d be best for someone who needs a lack of judgment and a good listener more than a sparring partner, and he can refrain from judging a whole lot.
Deal: All but one of Wen Ning’s surviving relatives were all executed at once as part of an elaborate plot. He’d like them all quietly disappeared to a distant, safe place where they can peacefully farm and not be bothered for the rest of their natural lives.
History: Link
Sample Network Entry:
[Wen Ning is very shy of the network. It's the worst thing--having someone pay attention to you on purpose--magnified an unknown number of times, and into the future. But it seems to be custom to make introductions like this, and he doesn't want to be rude. He's arranged his hood and hair carefully to obscure what he can of his obviously not-quite-alive nature, but it doesn't work very well.]
My name is Wen Qionglin.
[He can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times he's been called any such thing, but such are the results of dying barely out of childhood and spending the ensuing time surrounded almost entirely by older family members. It'll be hard to remember to answer to it, honestly. But he's determined. Nobody here has to know Wen Ning the miserable disappointment or the deadly abomination known as the Ghost General.
Poor baby.]
I'm, um, h-here to be a warden.
[Ugh, he almost never stutters anymore, why now, stupid nerves.]
I'm most of the way trained as a doctor, and I'm good at gardening and cooking. So I can be useful a lot of ways.
[Sigh. It's the responsible thing to do.]
And if there are any cultivators here skilled in ghost hunting--
[A type of person you can meet on any street in the world he knows. He just assumes there'll be somebody.]
There are a few bindings I should show you that'll restrain me if anything goes wrong.
Sample RP: Here