Name: Yu-Hua Qin (Jade Blossom)
Nature: Judge? Analyst?
Allegiance: Ministry
Visual: China Chow (The Big Hit). Or just pick an Anime. BESM, long straight black hair, ramrod
straight posture, demure body-movements.
Strength 1;
Dexterity 2; Athletics 1, Firearms 1, Legerdemain
1, Martial Arts 3
Stamina 3;
Perception 2; Awareness 1, Investigation 1,
Intelligence 3; Bureaucracy 1 Intrusion 2, Linguistics
0 (Chinese),
Wits 3; Meditation 1, Rapport 2,
Appearance 4; Intimidation 1,
Manipulation 3; Command 1, Interrogation 2,
Subterfuge 1,
Charisma 3; Etiquette 1, Savvy 1
Willpower: 5
Psi: 7
Aptitude: Telepathy
Basic Techniques: Mindscan
Modes: Empathy 0, Mindshare 1, Psychbending 3
Auxiliary Modes: None.
Backgrounds: Cipher 1 (records not available
outside of China), Citizenship 1 (China, Australia), Contacts 1 (Intimidated
travel functionary allows her and any persons and / or items under her
'jurisdiction' into or out of China at will), Followers 1 (flunky police
bureaucrat), Mentor 1 (Minister Chen),
Resources 2
Weapons: Banji Lightning Taser Baton (Dmg 6B,
RoF 1), Chain (Dmg 6B),
Armor: Armor Vest (1/3, 0), Reinforced
Clothing (uniform) (0/2, 0)
Other Equipment: Wazukana 300E PC, Datapad,
Disks (10), Splitter
Yu-Hua (yoo hwah) was known as Min-De (min deh, sensitive virtue) as a
schoolgirl thanks to her judgemental and prudish nature. She was raised in Australia to a loyalist Chinese
couple who had only left China to escape the 2-child law, as her older brother
had broken his neck and died in a gymnastics accident. Her parents desperately wanted to have
another son to replace the one they had lost, and yet to remain Chinese in
character and raise their daughter in a traditional Chinese cultural
environment. They found a community
just to the northeast of Darwin composed of Chinese immigrants with a quality
Chinese Moslem school in the traditional methods to educate their
children. The school taught English as
part of the curriculum, but otherwise was a little slice of rural China and
brought her parents much relief.
Yu-Hua grew up to be very beautiful, hence her adult name of 'Jade
Blossom,' so beautiful in fact that she modeled as a child and young teenager
for online clothing catalogs and even a few advertisements (for acceptable
products only!). She only grew to a
height of 5 foot exactly and weighs in at a scarce 90 lbs, giving her a
childlike appearance and making her look far younger than her 18 years. She was all-but required to study martial
arts to be left alone in her teenage years, as ethnic Chinese communities of
northern Australia are significantly rougher than city life in mainland China,
especially for stunningly beautiful girls with mouthy moralistic
natures... She tended to avoid most
gymnastics, despite her families quiet encouragement, due primarily to
unpleasant memories of her older brothers death.
She
was tested as part of a local program for Legion recruits and found to be
latent with a specialty towards Telepathy, at which point, the recruiters added
her to a trading pool of candidates maintained by the Aeon Trinity. Although she is only vaguely aware of it,
she was temporarily 'swapped' from the Legions to Orgotek to the Ministry. It never even occurred to her that she could
have said 'no,' being as she has grown accustomed to 'knowing her place.' She never questioned her parents' decision
to move, to have another child in defiance of law and tradition, to enroll her
in a Moslem school or to push her into modeling. She has always played the role of the obedient daughter, not
because she liked it, but because she craved the security of not having to make
these hard decisions on her own. In
Ministry training it was determined by her principal trainer, Minister Chen,
that she was dutiful and obedient and terrified. She dreads any concept of command, turning into a tiny tyrant to
hide the fact that she has no idea what to do and is completely helpless
without a strict chain of command and existing orders and traditions to guide
her every step. She clings to dogma
that she hasn't yet had time or life-experience to understand and argues
passionately for ideas that are not her own.
Consequently, Yu-Hua has been given an assignment outside of China to
broaden her experience and assigned a (non-Psion) functionary to ease her
passage. The 45-year old Zi-Cong Fang
is that Follower and he is a quiet unassuming member of the Hong Kong police
force, being assigned to mostly clerical and research duties. Nevertheless, he is far more worldly than
his 'boss' and it is hoped that she will learn the art of command from him by
making intelligent use of his skills.
She has shown the first steps into the waters of command by her leaving
of China to return to Darwin to see her parents before she began her new
duties. A bureaucrat in Hong Kong (her
port of departure) found some irregularities in her transport papers, stemming
from her parents' departure a decade and a half earlier. The passport functionary seemed fully
prepared to cause her no end of difficulty and to delay her departure by days
while he dealt with the minutiae of his craft.
It was hours later when Mr. Fang arrived to see what was the difficulty
and recognized the problem. He offered
the clerk a small bribe to 'speed up' the process and Yu-Hua lost her temper at
this impropriety. She never actually
swore or in any legally provable way threatened the travel facilitator, but she
came close enough that he 'found' the papers he was looking for in record time
and allowed her and her assistant to leave immediately, no questions
asked. Since that day, she has returned
to China on business or pleasure several times and has found (to her secret
delight) that the same bureaucrat could be approached any time she was entering
or leaving China by way of Hong Kong and prevailed upon to authorize just about
anything. She counts this man, who
otherwise seems competent enough, as a useful contact as she knows that the
Ministry often has need of bringing people or items quietly into or out of the
country.