Asaka Lian
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say you would say you could;
Lian was the only child of a famed and sought after courtesan in Great Forks, born when she had a mishap with her maiden tea. Her son's father was the heir to the fortune of a wealthy family, and perhaps she would have married him, for wealth and security, except that his family went bankrupt and lost all their money. After that, she not only refused to see him, but refused to allow him to see his son, and Lian grew up without a father, with only his cold mother who cared nothing for him.
He learned all the tricks of the trade, of course, how to be accomplished and graceful and beautiful, how to hold conversation and listen, how to wind men around his little finger. He could not have not learned, being the son of Asaka Sayuri, unless he had grown up ugly-which he hadn't, and as he grew into his teenage years, he became an apprentice courtesan. Not allowed to have clients of his own, of course (too young), but he could help entertain at parties, perhaps sing or dance or occasionally perform a tea ceremony, or hold a conversation, or just sit there and look pretty. Until at last, when he turned fifteen, he was allowed to take a client of his own, a test to see whether he was to be allowed to move past apprenticeship.
In the middle of the tea ceremony he was performing, suddenly, for a moment, he could see everything, a thousand different possibilities spreading out before him. And as he looked up, he saw a different man then the one he had been with, yet the same, starry gold eyes smiling at him.
The man paid the proprietor of the house an exorbitant sum, an unheard of sum for a boy who had just got out of apprenticeship, and took Lian with him. As it turned out, the man was one of the Chosen of the Maidens, a Chosen of Journeys who had happened to be in the area and had received word of a Chosen of Serenity who was soon to Exalt, taking the boy away to Yu-Shan for training.
precious ladies love you love me;
Lian is somewhat short-he is maybe a little over five and a half feet tall-pale, and slender, slightly built, seeming rather wispy and fragile, as well as rather feminine-looking, which he uses to his advantage in his dealings with others. He wears his dark hair somewhat long, with the ornamental-yet-minimalist hair ornaments wound through the strands. He takes careful care of his appearance-he knows just how beautiful he is-and tends to dress in a manner befitting the innocent manner he likes to affect.
break me neatly numb me sweetly;
Everyone knows Lian as sweet and gentle, a soft-spoken boy, a kind young man, and idealistic, trying to help people's dreams come true. He is, in fact, all of these, as well as very protective of the people he cares about: he is also extremely manipulative, cold and calculating, rather aloof, has a rather large vindictive streak as well as dark and violent tendencies, is antisocial and introverted, despite his skill at dealing with people. A lot of his personality seems contrary: kind, gentle, yet dangerous and cruel, fairly, ah, off-balance, and deep down inside, he has never been happy.
While he likes humanity as a general whole, he doesn't like people in particular, and while his idealism springs from a genuine kind nature and desire to help people make their dreams to come true, he can have some rather questionable means of doing so. He knows that he is beautiful, and uses it to his advantage: he plays up the sweet, innocent, helpless uke act to the hilt in a great many of his resplendent destinies, and while he turns off the helpless part of that in his dealings with his fellow Sidereals, sweet and innocent definitely. He is a master of being a tease, and has never delivered on anything he has promised.
a melody for me to sway;
Name: Asaka Lian
Caste: Serenity
Faction: Independent
Concept: vaguely-almost-psychotic granter of wishes
Motivation: to know the touch of Serenity before I die
Intimacies:
Anima banner:
Image Song:
Str: 1
Dex: 4
Sta: 2
Cha: 2
Man: 5
App: 5
Per: 3
Int: 3
Wits: 3
Caste Skills: Dodge 4, Socialize 3, Performance 4 (Dancing +1), Linguistics 3, Craft: Wood 2 (+1 Flower Arranging), Craft: Water 1
Favored Skills: Martial Arts 3, Investigation 3, Lore 3, Integrity 4
Other Skills: Awareness 2, Presence 2, Bureaucracy 2, Stealth 1, Occult 2, Medicine 2, Melee 1
Charms:
Dodge:
- 3rd Dodge Excellency
- Absence
- Duck Fate
- Avoidance Kata
Performance
- 2nd Performance Excellency
- Perfection in Life
- Defense of Shining Joy
Investigation
- Auspicious Prospects for Serenity
- Auspicious Prospects for Endings
Integrity:
- 3rd Integrity Excellency
Martial Arts (Dreaming Pearl Courtesan):
- Demure Carp Feint
- Lethal Paper Fan Attack
Backgrounds:
- Sifu 3
- Salary 2
- Backing 1: Convention of Wood
- Artifact 2 (starmetal hairchimes)
- Artifact 2 (paired starmetal knives)
- Celestial Manse 1
- Savant 2
Astrology:
Corpse 1
Sword 1
Sorcerer 1
Lovers 1
Musician 2
Ewer 1
Compassion: 3
Conviction: 3
Temperance: 2
Valor: 2
Willpower: 6
Essence: 3
Paradox:
Limit: 0/8
Per:
Peri:
Merits:
Flaws:
Rival 3 (a god of reasonable power and influence in the Cerulean Lute: in exchange for his countersignature on several of his petitions, Lian dangled the possibility of certain, ah, favors in front of him. However, the god has become to grow rather impatient with Lian's graceful ducking of paying his promises.)
Nightmares
Enemy 2 (a renegade Abyssal who Lian had used in one of his questionable schemes, yet was kind to. Well, the Abyssal isn't ticked off, mostly because Lian was nice to him: he's, ah, fixated on Lian now, in a rather creepy sort of devotion. Stalker GET.)
Greater Curse 2
fall under the spell you cast;
- Standard: Vanessa Carlton, Sway, Persona 2: Innocent Sin OST, Kurosu's Theme
- Aggressive:
- Introspective:
- Fighting:
- Relationships
-with his mother: Silent Hill 4 OST, Room of Angel
as you let me down;
say you would, say you could/say you'd come and stop the rain/say you'd try and hold me tight/and you just give me away
