<strong>name:</strong>Hu Biyu<br/><strong>age:</strong>19<br/><strong>gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>kingdom:</strong>Xiao<br/><strong>societal rank or occupation:</strong>Rice farmer<br/><strong>weaponry:</strong>bow and arrow, jian, hair picks<br/><strong>abilities:</strong>Biyu uses chi. She can use it to increase her running speed and jumping height. Biyu is not a martial artist by trade so she has not mastered the ability to use chi, although in recent years she has learned to use it to hasten the healing process.<br/><strong>special attacks:</strong>Biyu can manipulate chi into a narrow, sharpened bit of energy that she can fire just like an arrow. This particular ability is known to pierce through armor because it is not an actual solid object (like a regular arrow).<br/><br/>For close combat, Biyu can use a chi-based pommel thrust to forcefully knock an opponent back, or even knock them out if it is placed right.<br/><br/><strong>fighting style:</strong>Hu gar, supposedly Hu family fighting style. She is well practiced.<br/><strong>mirror, mirror on the wall:</strong>Biyu (http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/59/btiz.jpg) is of average height and build for a Chinese woman. She bears no distinguishable markings save for a small scar on the back of her neck.<br/><strong>in my heart of hearts:</strong>Biyu is a hard worker. Personally she believes anything worth doing is worth putting your heart and effort completely into it. She is introspective and has a tendency to allow her mind to drift when working or doing most any task. The people of Biyu's small village would describe her as an aloof young woman who was very reserved and would go to great lengths to avoid showing others her emotions. It has been such a practiced effort for her that she can now maintain a neutral expression through many types of situations. To strangers it would appear as though she lacked emotion, but that would be far from the case. Biyu simply sees emotional displays such as anger, sadness, and other wanton expressions as a doorway to ones own weakness.<br/><br/>The most remarkable thing about Biyu was that she was mildly educated. That is to say, she could read and even write a little which was more than the typical rice farmer. It is not an ability she shows blatantly because it is certainly unusual for lower class females to be able to do.<br/><br/><strong>my dark past:</strong>Biyu's earliest memory is of seeing her mother staring earnestly down at her as she lay on her back in the family's rice paddy. She doesn't know why she was laying there, but is the earliest point of her life that she can recall. The Hu family resides in the village of Hongyuan, which lies roughly one hundred miles from the Eastern borders of the Song Kingdom. The village provides a large portion of the rice for that region and therefore never had to experience life without food. Like any girl growing up on a farm, life revolved much around hard work, whether it be planting rice or collecting it, cooking meals, etc. She did not receive much in the line of formal education. Nevertheless, Biyu knows how to read and write.<br/><br/>During leisure times, she sat with the elders of her family and taught them what she knew, though being literate wasn't a primary focus for a farmer. Her family largely believed in the five virtues and each individual strove in his or her own way to achieve a satisfactory level of enlightenment. For all intents and purposes it was a relatively pleasurable existence and Biyu's hard work certainly helped her family out as they did not have any other children save for her. They were an aging couple who were respected in their community and whose family line spoke of ancient nobility back when the country was split into nine different fiefdoms.<br/><br/>Biyu was about fourteen when the war between the clans began to finally leak southward. The King had been murdered they said and his family slain with him, including the male heir. A little community like Hongyuan could barely be of notice or interest to the feuding clans of the area, but regardless, like all small peoples, they were impacted in the ugliest of ways. The lords of the land wanted soldiers for their feuding armies and at first the experienced men were taken. But as time passed, more young men were needed, and then soon boys over the age of nine were taken too. Before the little rice village knew it, there was nothing but very young boys and women to do all of the work. After all, those soldiers still needed to eat, and the baronies still demanded their penance. Biyu and the other women also had to fight back deserting soldiers who thought that a village of women were easy targets. No, the women of Hongyuan were strong backed and their families had their own versions of wushu that even the women were taught when time allowed for it.<br/><br/>It has been three years since the men were taken and still the village clings to survival because of the strong will and determination to persevere in these dark times. But there seemed to be no relief in sight. No one understood why the clans were fighting, not that it was their place or lot to understand. But when would things change and how long would they expect to hold on to the way things were now?<br/><strong>plot line:</strong>Yes.<br/><strong>theme song!:</strong>Rooster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FAosDi4XA) by Alice in Chains