<div class="floatright">(https://i.gyazo.com/322df887d3b82a7ea81b5beabb50b19e.jpg)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">NSFW</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.gyazo.com/5b8ee65f10fd2cd541f9da0cbef85ae5.jpg)</div></div></div><br/>Name: Han "Hana" Jin<br/>Race: Human<br/>Class: Bard/Samurai (Warrior Poet)<br/><span class="bbc_u">Character Sheet</span>(https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2120930)<br/><br/>Hana is relatively new to the Kirin Blades.  Originally known as Han Jin, an itinerant performer and teller of tales quite prone to daydreaming and hero-worship, Han encountered his future mentor just over a year ago, while a palace intrigue spilled over into the noodle shop where Han was storytelling.<br/><br/>Assassins suddenly overran the young bard's stage, while the infamous Kirin Blade known only as "The Laughing Bandit", dueled back and forth around the bewildered and awestruck young man.  Wanting to help, Han hastily improvised a heckling narrative that praised the Laughing Bandit while excoriating the attackers in front of a delighted crowd.  When all was said and done, the would-be killers lay slain upon the stage, the audience was praising Han, and the Laughing Bandit was impressed by the quick-witted bard, enough to linger and congratulate him rather than make a customary fast getaway.<br/><br/>Begging to accompany the Laughing Bandit, Han proclaimed he would follow the heroic Blade as sidekick, servant, and apprentice.  Warned that he might not like the path and where it took him, Han was steadfast in declaring his desire to be a great hero and serve the realm, just as the Laughing Bandit did.  His earnestness won him a grudging acceptance, and the two departed the noodle shop in great optimism.  Weeks passed as the young performer stoicly and steadfastly undertook all the tasks and duties of training under the Kirin Blade.<br/><br/>It was only when Han noticed his form growing softer, his rump becoming pert and rounded, while his nipples grew large and a full bosom developed upon his chest, that he confronted his mentor in shock and confusion, discovering that the regimen and training he had been undergoing was uniquely specific to the line of Kirin Blades that the Laughing Bandit belonged to, passed on from Elder Sister to Younger Sister, Mother to Daughter, and now...  from the Laughing Bandit to her newest apprentice, Giggles the Heckler...<br/><br/>Not entirely pleased, but grudgingly accepting that it had been his own stubborn insistence and refusal to deviate from 'the path of the hero/heroine', Han adopted the moniker of Hana and continued his/her training while maintaining cover with the Laughing Bandit, traveling from mission to mission in various alternate identities.<br/><br/>When the Usurper struck, the Laughing Bandit and Giggles had been on assignment far to the south of the Empire, in the guise of a pair of wetnurses serving the Royal Nursery at the Summer Palace.  The Mistress and Apprentice managed to save three young children born to Loyalist supporters before violence and sacking overran the palace grounds, and the two fled Northeast, hoping to make contact with other loyal Blades.  As the noose of treacherous mutineers closed around them, The Laughing Bandit instructed her apprentice Giggles to assume her identity of Hana the wetnurse, and take the babes making their way Northerly towards Valwood, while the Laughing Bandit would create a diversion.  The last that Hana saw of her mentor, was clouded by smoke and fire punctuated with the clashing of blades and maniacal laughing in the distance...<br/>