Xing-Yao the third (finished)

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Name: Xing-Yao the third.
Gender: Female
Age: 25, physical but her actual age isn't known to the world at large. But, she's almost three hundred years old, and still not classed as an adult among her kind.
Birthday: September the second.
Sexuality: Bi.
Special Characteristics: A five foot long tail in lieu of legs, that count?

Personality:

Outside of battle, the best word to describe Xing would be tough. As a result of her past she has had to grow into a very self reliant, take no nonsense woman that can look after herself. As a result of this she is very head strong and confident, but equally stubborn and determined. There may seem to be little connection between the prior aspects of her personality and the next ones, but I assure you the connection is there. Xing is half Earth Wyvern and all true Earth Wyvens have personalities associated with there respective element, and while the effects are no where near as powerful with a full Earth Wyvern, as a hybrid Xing has a watered down version of this. Xing isn't stoic in all situations as your average Earth Wyvern would be, however she has a trait related to this, and that trait would be her stubborn attitude. To like Xing's stubbornness to a mountain would be a fair comparison, and an accurate one too, as she it is very difficult to change her mind on something. Of course those stubbornness also has an alternate side to it, that of Xing's confidence.

While it is true I said Xing's amount of stoicism isn't as strong as her fathers race, she does still end up being stoic in certain situations. Outside of combat, there are only two situations when this stoicism comes out. When she has to defeat a threat or complete a mission, such as defeat an enemy, or during highly emotionally stressful situations. I'll start with the first situation, that of completing a mission or other similar events. In this situations, the stoicism starts to warp into apathy, and as such her thinking becomes very mechanical in her thought process. She places the mission/goal/objective as the top priority. In this moments Xing can be more than a little cold hearted, often sacrificing people for the sake of the mission but, she's not totally ruthless; she would never willingly send ten people to die just for the sake of the mission, as it goes against her morals. The other situation I discussed was emotional trauma or stressful situations, and in this moments Xing becomes nothing but pure stoicism and the reason for this is found in her past. She went through a lot of emotional trauma when she was younger, so the only way Xing survived was by becoming rather stoic and apathetic.  

The only aspect of Xing's non-battle personality that I've failed to mention so far is her unique way of treating friends and loved ones. I'm going to start with friends and with friends there two ways Xing treats them. I mentioned about her stoicism last paragraph, but that isn't her entire way of acting, and in fact she is actually a very fun and free person. Basically, Xing does whatever she wants, when she wants and screw the consequences, of course she does have some degree of morals. Anyway, the way Xing treats friends is pretty simple. She is forward and pretty protective of them, but also equally spontaneous, often dragging her friends out to do stuff randomly. The only other way Xing treats her friends is halfway between a friend, and a lover. You see, Xing has a soft spot for the cute submissive types, so she often gets a bit protective and possessive of them, which is connected to how she feels the emotion of love. The way Xing loves someone is quite bizarre, unlike the usual confident and self secure woman, she becomes rather lovey dovey and affectionate, often stopping to check on the target of her affections. Xing's also very honest and passionate with her feelings, so seeing her chase a lover to get an answer from him wouldn't be beyond her.

Inside of battle the only side of Xing that one could ever call "cruel" manifests itself.During combat Xing's brain seems to switch to pure logic, as with how she solves problems, and as such she puts victory as the primary goal during combat. Of course, by victory it doesn't necessarily mean defeating her opponent, it could be anything from buying time, keeping a powerful enemy busy so other people can escape and so on so forth. It's during this "combat mode" that Xing's confidence changes from a warmer more bubbly type, to a colder more mechanical type. Xing aims to defeat her opponent, when that is the primary goal, in this mode and as such she will go to any extent for that, often putting her life in danger. However, to balance this out when it comes to this "combat mind" it's only her own life that Xing risks, as she would never mindlessly throw other people's lives away. I should also mention, when it comes to combat Xing doesn't show mercy to anybody, no what what or who they are, or what they say.

Likes:

• Food. Xing is the type of person who'd eat any and all kind of food. The reasons for this are quite simple, for starters she has a much faster metabolism than a human, and needs to eat greater quantities of food in a single sitting than an average human would. Secondly, Xing is a gourmet and enjoys both cooking and eating food, being a mage is just to pay the bills.
  
• Freedom. To put it simply, Xing's not the type of gal who responds well to being prevented from doing something, it's why she travels as she finds that's a lot less...restrictive than settling down in a single place.
  
• Humans. As strange as this will sound, Xing actually has a soft spot for humans that the rest of her race don't share. To put it in the ladies own words "You humans get so sensitive and worked up about things...it's almost cute in it's sadness."
  

Dislikes:

• The ocean and swimming pools. While Xing can in fact swim pretty well, she dislikes the sea and man made swimming pools due to a few reasons. For starters, she hates the sea due to the salt as it irritates her skin and scales. Secondly, she hates man made swimming pools due to chlorine. To reptilian life forms, such as Xing, swimming in a chlorinated pool is like swimming in acid.
  
• Rabbits.... Do not, and I mean DO NOT, get Xing stared on rabbits.... she hates them and despises them. In her minds they are annoying pesky rodents that ruin vegetables crops and over populate any chance they get.
  
• Salt. Related to the same reason as why she hates the ocean, Xing despises salt. Not only does it irritate her external skin and scales, it can also cause internal swelling and irritation of her stomach lining if she was to consume it, so for that reason she hates it.
  

Motivations:

• A novel matter. The reason why Xing is travelling the world by herself, is that she wants to write and publish her own "Xing's book of culinary exploits" and for that purpose, she is travelling far and world. Also, she's kind of a glutton and the idea of tasting all the food the world has to offer would appeal to her, regardless if she wanted to write her book or not.
  

Fears:

• Drowning. Despite being able to swim, the fear of drowning in an ocean or pool is very present in Xing's mind and while it no longer prevents her from getting in non-salt and non-chlorinated  bodies of water, she is still far too...afraid for the ocean, or swimming pools. When it comes to pools and oceans, she reacts to them with pure fear.
  
• Confinement. The very notion of being confined or restricted is something that terrifies Xing very much. The reason for this fear is that a lot of her younger life was spent locked away in a cage, treated as a circus amusement, until of course she was freed. However, unlike the ocean, Xing reacts to confinement with fear masquerading as anger.
  
• Flying. Xing is part earth wyvern, and as a result she feels connected to the earth beneath her feet, so when you take her into the sky she feels..weak and shaky, disconnected from a normal comforting feeling she has known for a lot of her life. However, during recent years she has learned to adapt, and while it's no longer feels as horrifying a thing as it use to be, Xing's still slightly defensive without a patch of earth beneath her tail.
  

General Appearance


Height: Her upper torso and human body is about three feet in length, while the snake tail is a good five feet on top of that.  
Weight: 330 pounds.
Hair: Dark green hair, the same colour as her scales. It reaches to half way down her back.
Eyes: Golden
Skin Tone: Pink
Appearance: Starting from an overall view of Xing's body, there's a lot of green in her design, ranging from her scales all the way to her hair, it's only actually broken up by her skin and eyes. As I mentioned the scales previously, a good point of progression would be talking about the more inhuman aspects of her body. As any observer would notice from the moment they see Xing, it is obvious she is anything but human. For starters, there are two groups of three spikes growing from Xina's head in a sort of crown like structure, which is more than a simple series of horns. See, Xing is half human and half earth wyvern, but she is no simple Earth Wyvern. Xing's father was a member of a royal family, and all royal family members grow the same crown like set of horns, hence why Xing has them. On the subject of Xing's non-human traits, she also has a long five foot tail growing from her, instead of the pair of legs that a normal human would have.

Continuing on with the subjects of Xing's inhuman traits and her dimensions, there's very little of her body that comes off as outwardly human. In fact, the only traits associated to a humanoid creature is her head, torso and arms. To finally clear up the matter of her height, Alexia's upper body, the human torso, is about three feet from her head to where the tail connects to her, which makes her a good...eight feet tall. Like pretty much every inhuman trait in her body, Xing's inhuman height comes from the hybrid blood that flows through her veins. While the scales on Xing's body may look like they are clothing, allow me to assure you this is not the case. They may protect her dignity, but those scales are still attached to her nerves and she can feel through them. So, when you see Xing in the same form as you see above in the image, she is technically naked, which has lead to many amusing situations in the past.

Anyway, you may have noticed this but Xing's arms are a mixture of claws and humanoid arms, ending in four fingers and thumbs. The scales covering Xing's arms expose her shoulders, revealing some of the pink toned skin hidden beneath the majority of her scales. Talking about scales, let's talk about an important aspect of Xing's appearance, that of the gem encrusted necklace embedded in her neck. Despite how inorganic this gem looks, it is in fact nothing more than a scale, just with different colouring and a reflective surface to it. The purpose this gem serves? Well, it serves little in the way of an actual purpose, but like with the crown it's a symbol of authority. Different families of Earth Wyverns have different coloured "gems" and the Earth Wyverns as a whole, including the hybrids, keep track of these colours as a way to determine who's important and who isn't.  There is little else to discuss regarding Xing, except she has eyes the same colour as her crystal.

Xing has a very strange style of clothing, at least compared to the rest of Fiore. It should be obvious from her name that Xing is not from the country, in fact nobody except her knows where she was born, and as such her clothing is very different. There's two different wardrobe's of clothing she wears. One for more social relaxed situations, such as hanging around her house or going out for dinner, and another for more practical work based situations. Xing's relaxation wardrobe consists of pretty much nothing except Chinese Hanfus, of course she has in a range of colours ranging from one end of the colour spectrum all the way to the other. Xing's practical outfit is a lot more useful, as it consists of denim "sleeves "to go over her tail, short sleeve T-shirts and of course, denim jackets. These series of clothing are designed to be able to take a beating and not be too much of a hassle to repair or replace, hence why Xing wears them for when work or combat calls.
Guild/Council

Guild: Nox Animus.
Tattoo: On her stomach, coloured purple.
Rank: D

I put this character in the WIP section, I felt that would be all required. But I shall add a WIP for the sake of clarity.

Ok, scratch my prior message, this gal is finished.