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PLAYER

Name: BG
Over 18?: Yes
Contact: fireduck | DM character journal
Current Characters: Xue Yang [The Untamed]
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CHARACTER

Name: Wen Kexing
Journal: flirtatiousdancer
Age: Appears about 30 except for white hair

Canon: Word of Honor (Faraway Wanderers)
Canon Point: End of series/epilogue

Character Reference/History: Wiki page however as it doesn't currently have a history section, here are bullet points of his influence in the show:

• Childhood; family was cast out of the Healer's Valley, father was wounded. They were helped by Four Seasons Manor's leader (Zhou Zishu's master) however as soon as they were left behind to heal, Kexing's parents were killed by the Ghost Valley leader and followers. Kexing was then raised by the Ghost Valley leader and changed his name from Zhen Yan.


• Kexing was forced to drink the Waters of Lethe, which makes people forget their greatest obsession, which in Kexing's case, was his need to get vengeance for his parents' exile and murder. Those responsible are the Ghost Valley Leader, and the Five Lakes Alliance Sect. Despite drinking the potion, he didn't completely forget his need for revenge, so would frequently fall into comas growing up and gets bad headaches when he thinks of his past and fights the potion's effects.


• He eventually became strong and vicious enough to defeat and kill the Ghost Valley Leader and take over the Valley. Leading the ghosts out into the martial arts world, he gave them the task of retrieving his stolen Glazed Armor piece, which was one of five pieces to the vaunted secret armory the Five Lakes Alliance protects.


• Soon after leaving the Ghost Valley with his ghost 'maid' Gu Xiang (treated more like a daughter who looks after his every need as best she can and follows his orders), Kexing met Zhou Zishu, who was disguised at the time as a beggar. Through watching Zishu move, Kexing figured out he was disguised, then that he was from the Four Seasons Manor.


• Plotting behind the scenes, Kexing hid who he really was from everyone, especially Zishu as long as he could, as ghosts and humans aren't supposed to have the same destiny, though he acknowledged the other man as his soulmate and that he would marry no one else.


• One after another, sects belonging to the Five Lakes Alliance fall and he watches, poking here and there and getting to know Zishu and Chengling, a boy from the first sect involved in his vengeance on the martial arts world but managed to ingratiate himself with Zishu and Kexing. He takes extra pleasure in flirting with Zishu and making sure the other is well dressed, fed, has plenty of good alcohol to drink - but they still argue, and as they grow closer, Zishu's words hit harder and separate them for a little while. Only for them to wind up right back together without apologies or explanations.


• At some point, Kexing finds out Zishu is dying and there is no cure, but resolves to find or make a cure himself. They run into Ye Baiyi, an old friend of Zishu's master who has one cure (Zishu had impaled seven nails into his own body as a means to escape his assassin sect and as penance, this method gives the victim about three years to live with ever diminishing senses) however the cure's effect is not what Zishu is willing to suffer (complete loss of his martial arts, making him unable to protect others) and so is turned down. Ye Baiyi leaves to find a better solution.


• Kexing eventually returns to Zishu's home where they live with Chengling for a while. Yi Baiyi sends a message saying he'd found a cure for Zishu, and that two people were on their way to administer it - Wu Xi and Beiyuan.


• Ye Baiyi found out Kexing is the leader of Ghost Valley and told him if he ever saw him again, Ye Baiyi would kill him.


• Shen Shen, one of the leaders in the Five Lakes Alliance, comes to the Manor and learns who Kexing is. Explanations are given, but Kexing was unable to handle all his beliefs being overturned and fell into a coma.


• Zishu is administered the start of the cure, but before it can be completed, the Manor is attacked and burned, Zishu captured and taken away. Chengling managed to get Kexing to safety, until Kexing woke up and went after Zishu to rescue him.


• Kexing saved Zishu's rescuers and brought Zishu away to safety, meeting back up with Chengling and Xiang.


• Discovering who he should really take his revenge out on, Kexing changes his manner of attack.


• He allows himself to apparently fall victim to schemes to reveal him being the Leader of the Ghost Valley, and even seems to let himself be killed by Chengling in a fit of rage so falls to his 'death'. This is the start of his deception.


• When the new leader of the Five Lakes Alliance is being decided, Kexing reappears and claims (at first) that he isn't who they've been accusing him. He reveals he was Zhan Yan and there for his revenge. He goes directly for Zhou Jin, one specific leader of the Five Lakes Alliance who had profited from the turmoil and had helped organize it with his foster-son Scorpion. Defeating Zhou Jin, he gives the broken body to Scorpion as part of their deal, and leaves.


• Seeks shelter with Wu Xi and Baiyuan where they find out Zishu had removed all the nails prematurely so he could get revenge for Kexing's death, therefore negating the cure Wu Xi had prepared for him and shortening his life further.


• Kexing falls into a coma again due to being unable to accept he's about to lose his soulmate, and Zishu leaves to stop Scorpion and Prince Jin's forces from getting into the World's Armory.


• However Kexing woke up and intercepted at the location of the Armory and grabbed the key from Zishu's hair where he'd put it for safe keeping, and made use of the avalanche (which buried Scorpion and subsequent armies) to drag Zishu inside.


• Inside the Armory, they find text that will end up curing Zishu (though Kexing has the key already inside him, courtesy of Ye Baiyi. Using it, however, would kill Kexing. He goes through with the ceremony, and his hair turns white. However when Zishu woke, healed, and saw what Kexing had done, he found another solution.


• Between this point and the epilogue, Kexing and Zishu have figured out how to share their energies and heal each other, leading to immortality - with the expense of needing to live where it is really cold, and only eat snow.

Personality: N/A

Powers/Abilities: Copied from wiki:

• 'Excellent Martial Skills - It impresses even Ye Baiyi.


• Excellent Qinggong (轻功) - Wen Kexing doesn't even leave any footprints and any traces behind while traveling. He was even able to keep up with Zhou Zishu without fail, always keeping a small distance. This is even when the latter's qinggong had reached the stage where he could travel without leaving any traces. Normally, one would stay silent during the travelling, so as not to lose their vital energy, but Wen Kexing didn't seem to mind it.


• Medical Skills - He has some form of medical skills. He methodically sucked out all the poisoned blood in Zhou Zishu's arm and treated his wounds skillfully. He removed the other man's meridian blocking and took out a small medicine bottle. He swallowed one pill and put one more in his palm, holding it near Zhou Zishu's mouth.


• Storytelling - [is fond of telling stories and poems that he has either read, or makes up himself]


• Exceptional Hearing - Like Zhou Zishu, it is clear that he has exceptional hearing too.'


• Immortality/Mastery of the Six Arts - due to canon point, he and Zhou Zishu have mastered a specific technique and adjusted it so they share energy until they're essentially immortal


• Exceptional musical ability- can weave spells into his playing the xiao

Inventory:
-Robes he's wearing, including hair ornaments
-Fan (steel ribs and sharp paper, aka war fan)
-Xiao (type of flute, this one is made of jade)
-Money pouch with a handful of silver pieces in various sizes that's used for money

SAMPLES

Writing Sample #1: Bakerstreet thread
Writing Sample #2: TDM