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Name: Bai Lin
Age: 24
Profession: Hero/Wandering Martial Artist
Pronouns: She/her
Canon: Original Character

First Impressions

• Appearance: 5'5". Athletic, wirey build of someone who works out a lot but doesn't always have quite enough to eat. Vibrantly red hair (though if you look close, her roots are black. She dyes her hair.). Dotted with scars from various battles. The most notable are burns on the palms of her hands and a permanent bruise that never heals shaped like a hand print right in the center of her chest, between her breasts. She favors tough, practical clothes most of the time.
  
• Vibes: Lin is cheerful and optimistic most of the time, but is quick to stand up for herself and others. She hates bullies but is usually willing to give people second chances. A bit gullible.
  
• Interests: New experiences, martial arts, meditation, fast cars, heroism.
  
• Sensitive topics: Excessive cynicism or pessimism, magic, gods, evil.

Powers

• Martial Training: Lin is proficient with most common melee weapons, as well as unarmed combat, to a remarkable degree. She's just real good at kicking ass.
  
• Cloud Body Technique: Lin can make body briefly become nearly weightless, allowing her to make huge wire-fu leaps with ease. She can't carry someone else with her while doing so unless they know a similar technique.
  
• Lightning Strike: Lin can infuse her strikes with qi, granting them a defense piercing, stunning effect that will leave the target off balance and in pain. She can't do this with every attack, but tends to weave such attacks in every couple strikes.
  
• Empty Soul: Years of special meditation techniques have left Lin highly resistant to magic. Most spells have trouble targeting her. Any kind of charm, curse, enchantment, or similar effect will start to unravel if she even spends too long near it unless it's particularly powerful.
  
• Death Touch: A series of strikes that can, in theory, instantly kill any human being. In practice, it requires a certain killer instinct that Lin has trouble bringing to bear. When she does it, it usually leaves the target unconscious rather than dead. It's very difficult.

Backstory
In the mid 21st century, nuclear war brought humanity to its knees. In the mid 22nd century, the nuclear winter finally started to end, and the survivors started crawling out of their hidden strongholds. It is a hard age, where the dream of a peaceful and safe world is dead and the strong prey upon the weak. With the death of civilization came a rise of powerful martial artists and wizards and stranger things. Think like...one part Mad Max to two parts Fist of the North Star.

One place that got off easy was Yuxi Valley, in central China. The geography made assault difficult and protected the inhabitants from the worst of the weather, while an order of martial artists Buddhist monks were instrumental in holding off raiders and invaders as they rebuilt their temple into a fortress. This was Lin's home. A bastard child, she was sent to study at the temple at a young age rather than stay home and remind her parents of past infidelities.

Her life in the temple was good until Zhou Chen, an ambitious senior monk, poisoned the abbot. As the former abbot had been something of a surrogate father figure to Lin, she went into a rage when she accidentally discovered evidence that his death wasn't natural and tried to bring Zhou Chen to justice. Zhou Chen, however, was a clever schemer and was able to turn the situation so it looked like Lin was making baseless accusations, then have her exiled from the valley.

Lin spent a while as a pathetic wanderer of the wastelands until fate drew her together with a group of reliable allies. Suddenly motivated again, Lin gently guided her new friends back towards Yuxi Valley where she was able to finally have a rematch with Zhou Chen and get the truth out.

Her adventures didn't end there, and drew her far beyond Yuxi Valley, climaxing in a battle against a fledgling god in the skies over the city of Neo Hong Kong. Lin and her friends won, and Lin had a moment where she realized she could probably just...go back home.

She decided that she didn't want to. Not yet, at least. For the moment, there were no warlord or monsters threatening the peace, and she wanted to actually see more of the world rather than go back to her former life of endless training and meditation and discipline.

Long version of backstory here.

TL;DR: Exiled warrior monk from 22nd century China wanders the post-apocalyptic wasteland, deposing tyrants and bringing hope to the downtrodden.

Permissions

• Shipping: Shoot your shot. Lin has a lot of love in her heart.
  
• Smut: Lin is cheerfully bisexual and down for whatever. She grew up living a strict ascetic lifestyle, but has recently decided to branch out in her experiences and has been enjoying a modestly hedonistic lifestyle which, sometimes, involves sex.
  
• Violence: Lin is a skilled combatant on the level of wuxia hero, and isn't afraid to resort of violence if she thinks she needs to. If she gets in a fight I'm not going to insist she always wins. I generally try to keep fight scenes relatively short, however they turn out.
  
• Fourth Wall: Please don't
  
• OOC sensitive topics: I don't PERSONALLY have any real triggers, but if you're mentioning something particularly graphic or offensive (rape, child abuse, etc), maybe put a warning into the subject header for the sake of others reading our thread.
  
• Anything else:FURTHER READING: Backstory, Some people she knew, Kinks