Name: Mei Cheng
Alias: Fenghuang
Faction: Ghoul
Age: 32
Personality: Cynical, jaded and world-weary, Mei delights in small doses of daily poison and barbs towards young people and ghouls, expressing delight in using words to get a rise out of people. She seldom does it with utmost vile intentions, as indeed beneath her acidic words there is hard earned wisdom. Mei has always been a person with insight and thought, and unlike many ghouls, with enough self-control to not succumb to the base appetites of her kind. Past her thorny exterior lies however a heartbroken woman, who once tried to make rights out of wrongs and set herself free of the destructive spiral that was Ghouls versus the CCG, and instead tried to easen the faults of the world little by little. One too many disappointments, however, have soured her mood, and while she still is to a degree, selfless and compassionate, she is however no fool and does not put faith in people easily. Mei considers combat the last option, and as such, she is equally fierce and throughout when it comes to it, preferring to employ all kinds of tactics, no matter how un-ghoul-like they might seem to win the upper hand.
If there is a way to make Mei go absolutely
nuclear, it is mentioning her actual age.
Appearance: Mei looks like a comely, yet modestly endowed youthful woman of average stature, dark hair and hazel eyes. Looking no older than 20 something, she has a lithe but firm body, a hallmark of a frugal lifestyle. While most of the time she dresses in comfortable scrubs and white coat, she is known to be fairly fashion conscious and wears form-fitting chinese clothes when socializing.
As Fenghuang, she wears a richly decorated beaked mask made in brass and that somehow bears a resemblance to a plague doctor's mask. She also wears the same kind of elegant dresses, complementing the two wings of her Ukaku Kagune, which resembles a couple of iridiscent, wings that fan out considerably, with sharp feather-like crystaline tips, very much like the bird of legend. These feather-daggers can be shot or be plucked for impromptu weapons.
History: Mei was born in Henan province, China to a couple of semi-wandering chinese ghouls. Far off from rather big people gatherings, the couple had a frugal and strictly survival attitude to life, content with scavenging a corpse here and there, and emphasizing living a life of self-control and stoicism. The proximity of Mount Song, home to the fabled Shaolin Monastery not only influenced Mei's philosophy. Before long, her own parents also taught her martial arts, a must for a wandering ghoul to fend off hostilities. But Mei felt it was not enough, and she was afflicted deeply with wanderlust. The routine her parents followed did not suit her youthful vigor, and in an alarming lack of wisdom, she let herself be recruited in the Chi She Lian.
Having quite the punch and the training, as well as serving as delightful eye-candy for the more senior members, Mei however had an epiphany among the sea of violence and bloodlust that the organization entailed. Eyeing at her peers, whose self control was sometimes practically nil, she started little by little to feel disgusted by her actions and that of her peers. She narrowly dodged a bullet, as she left the organization before it could be wiped out by a combined effort by the Chinese Government and the CCG. Aimlessly, she sought a way to redeem her self and find a new calling.
She found it in the most unlikely circumstances. Mei realized that her insight was not ordinary, and her mind was not either, and she tried to have a shot at academics. The hurdles for a barely literate ghoul were great, but with her discipline and capabilities, she knocked them one by one. She chose to branch out in medicine as a calling, both to heal instead of harming, and to understand the relations of ghouls and humans from a biological point of view even better. After graduating top of her class in a rather modest Chinese university (to avoid being discovered as a ghoul by the authorities), she quickly joined the organization of Doctors without Borders, in order to test her skills at making the world better (all while visiting countries where the government was weaker and thus no pressure over ghouls could be exerted, plus lots of dead bodies to scavenge for food). She kept this tenure for years, and Fenghuang, the fierce Ukaku ghoul seemed to disappear into the realm of unknowns, with sporadic sightings on third world countries and war zones, with no clear connection. What is more, her appearances seemed to indicate she was, for the lack of a better term, "protecting" human charges and ghoul alike. A year ago or so, while Mei was pondering how she was aging all alone, she met her soulmate during a certain Hurricane disaster relief.
A fellow smartass japanese ghoul named Takao, who usually worked as a sailor but saw the chances for a quick snack among the piles of dead bodies, was the one who smote Mei's heart. Both of them quickly grew attached to eachother, Mei's level headedness with Takao's rogue antics and easygoing attitude, and both decided they would start a new life together in his home, Tokyo. Things did not go as planned, however, as by the time Mei had reached the city, Takao had been killed by the CCG. Heartbroken and without a plan, she now drags her feet around Ward 8, trying to puzzle out what to do with her life after such a sudden loss.
Skills: - Gifted Physician: Mei has an outstanding intellect as a ghoul, and she has put it to good use learning the human body and its ailments, as well as the ghoul body. Her hands can give life anew...or they can it with a single, well place cut or swipe. Ghouls need not to abide by the Hyppocratic Oath.
- Kagune Control: Mei has a good grasp at using her Ukaku kagune, and is able to produce shards of projectiles which can be used as improptu knives instead of being thrown, with the aided bonus of eliminating the taxing stamina drain that projectile shots cause. Her surgery-tested pulse also guarantees accuracy when cutting and throwing.
- Wing-Chun: She does not even need a Kagune to kick asses and take names. Her sharp knowledge of the chinese martial arts couple with her ghoul speed and strength makes an effective combo.
- Salvager: Due to her past and her knowledge of anatomy, Mei is good at handling corpses and finding edible parts in them.
- Polygloth: She speaks Mandarin and English in addition to Japanese
- Pole Dancing: Don't even ask about this one.
Equipment: A cellphone, wallet, sometimes a doctor's bag if she feels inclined to heal someone. Her mask if need be.
