TYPE ⫻ Aberration (Affixed)

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Execration, Babylon can create curses and cast them out as spells to affect Emily, the environment and other people.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Babylon is an ancient Apparition that has existed in many universes and in many different forms. She was the embodiment of all the evils in the world and that reflects in her abilities. Particularly, her abstraction has shifted so many times that she can hardly remember what her even the first one was (or she just doesn't tell because it's not important). Her current abstraction reflects a phase she spent as a sorceress after abscising someone. She has access to many different "Curses" that she can fire from her hands. Each of these curses in the physical form takes the appearance of Babylon's sigil and depending on the curse glows a different color. They can travel fairly fast through the environment and once they make contact with an object or person the will be cursed (or afflicted) and the sigil will float above it. Depending on what it hits will change the properties of the curse (Curses that hit the environment are an area of effect ability, while curses that hit a person tend to affect that person, and each of the curses gives Emily a different ability).



As for Babylon herself: Babylon isn't particularly strong but has the strength of a grown man. She can also float around and stuff due to the whole Apparition thing, but can't travel that far away from Emily.

LIMITS ⫻ Now, you might be thinking that Babylon is the most overpowered apparition in the world. And you'd be right... if the RP was more about normies. You see, due to the Extra-Normal's resistance to each other's abilities they won't be all that effective against them. They're not completely immune to them, but certain people who are aware of the curses can resist them. Just to get out of the way, the Plague of Flies, The Curse of Lust and Hedonism, The Penance of Greed and the Curse of Horrid Form can be resisted (unless they actually want the curse). If an Extra-Normal being is cursed, it'll usually wear off after a set amount of time. The Curse of Unending Flame can be directly used against the Extra-Normal but it'll wear off in a few moments and the flames will disappear and the fire won't indirectly cause a lot of damage. Babylon can also only utilize one curse at a time if she wants to use another one she has to lift all the curses that are currently being used. The Curses can be cast as far as the eye can see but go fast enough that even the most unfit person can dodge them. Of course, Babylon is an apparition with free will that's only attached to Emily. She doesn't directly control her and Babylon and her, at times, have very different goals. So that sucks given that Emily wants to control. Babylon can only travel about four meters away from Emily.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Each curse has a way to break or a drawback. When the curses are applied to a person or place, Babylon's sigil will float above it - only visible to the Extra-Normal. The Sigil can be physically attacked and damaged by the Extra-Normal and destroying the sigil will break the curse. The Curse of Unending Flame is countered by - you guessed it - water. Throwing water on the cursed will instantly break the curse and the curse is also countered by everything else that would naturally snuff out the fire. Also, Emily isn't immune to stuff like smoke or fire itself if she doesn't have the curse cast on her. Speaking of casting the curse on Emily, the fire has the habit of destroying her clothes so she doesn't like using it. It's very destructive and unwieldy and tends to injure G. Reed herself, so it requires caution. The Curse of Horrid Form isn't practical to use at times as there's no way for Babylon to control the transformation, so just using it for the fuck of it will create a half-human mountain of rage right on top of her, or gunning for her later. Applying the curse of Horrid Form to Reed will cause a painful and lengthy transformation that can leave her vulnerable to damage. And it's painful both ways. The Curse of Lust and Hedonism will wear off if the person doesn't have any sexual contact in a short amount of time (about a few minutes). The Plague of flies can be dangerous for Babylon as killing a bunch of flies somehow can cause her physical damage. Finally, applying the Penance of Greed to Emily makes her incredibly slow and in agile because gold is heavy material and one good electric shock will knock her out. Babylon also isn't that good of an up-close fighter, as she's frail and very weak physically on the standards of Extra-Normal. If you can get close, you can take her out without the use of an abstraction.

There's also the fact that Emily is attached to, more or less, a demon and the social stigma that'll come from it even from other Extra-Normals.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Photographic-Teleportation, the ability to teleport to different locations using photos as a medium along with other abilities.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Kimberly's abstraction manifests in her desire to capture all moments and how she felt boxed into Farmer Hill. It's a fairly simple abstraction that is considered to be teleportation with a twist. If she has a picture of a location in her hands she can focus and teleport to that location in a flash of light, not unlike the flash of a camera. All she needs to do is focus, envision she's there, and it'll happen - but it takes a few moments to charge. It doesn't matter if it's digital or an actual photograph - but she works better with photographs in her hands. It's also possible for her to teleport through paintings and other such things long as she envisions being there. Photographic-Teleportation allows her to teleport anywhere on earth long as she has a photograph, but the further away she is the more time and stamina it'll take to teleport. If the location is about three meters away she can instantly teleport to it, but teleporting to say, China will take hours. In addition, Kimberly can teleport people with her long as they are close and doing the same thing as her. Kimberly can teleport to any point in the picture, she has found out with some tinkering - before she thought that she can only teleport to the spot the picture was taken. After practicing, Kimberly can rapidly teleport from one spot to another to confuse and overwhelm foes. Kimberly hasn't realized it yet, but she has one of the few abstractions capable of dimensional travel. In order to access it, it's simple; she just needs a photograph taken in another dimension.

Kimberly has access to two sub-abilities.



AURA SENSING ⫻ Kimberly's aura sensing is simple; she can sense the auras of objects and people that she has taken the pictures of for about thirty minutes. However, if the object or person is moved from the place where she first took the picture of it; then she won't be able to sense it any longer.

LIMITS ⫻ I'm going to skip the obvious and get to the meat. Kimberly can travel anywhere in the world but further away from her current position, the longer it'll take. She may be able to instantly teleport to a spot a few feet away from her, or take ten seconds to teleport twenty feet, but it requires a few moments of constant mental focus to teleport further. At this time, she has to stay still and focused or else she'll lose focus and the charge will be "reset." In addition, if the photograph is damaged in any way she'll have a harder time teleporting. Depending on the state of the photo she may teleport partially there or may not teleport at all. The act of teleportation is a very tiring and exhausting process while short-ranged teleportation is alright; teleporting to China will knock her out completely for a while. And don't get me started on teleporting to other dimensions. There isn't a limit to how many people she can teleport, long as they envision themselves being in the location of the photo, too. Kimberly needs a camera or photographic device in order to seal Apparitions and damaging the photo in any way will release the Apparition. Kimberly can only scry on one location at a time.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ The abstraction has a couple weaknesses and drawbacks. The mere act of teleporting is very disorientating, nauseating and causes vertigo - teleporting long distances only exasperates this issue. She may reach the point where she falls over on her face from teleporting too much. There's also another weird effect when Kimberly teleports... she finds herself unable to leave the bounds of the photograph for a few moments. To explain, say if Kimberly teleports to the picture of a beach - she won't be able to escape the beach and go forward for a few minutes. Its like invisible walls trapping her, and whoever she teleports with inside of their bounds. Of course, this is dependant on how far she teleports and how much. If she teleports a few feet then it'll pretty much instantly go away, but if she teleports to the other side of the city she'll be trapped in there for a few minutes. Limiting her mobility and making her easy prey... she will still be able to teleport but the more she teleports the worse this effect will get.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Entomopathy, Sharon Reid's ability to dominate the minds of all insect and have them dance at her fingertips.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Kimberly received this abstraction from a friend of hers, who didn't want anything to do with it after the Glutton was defeated. Given the circumstances of how she got the abstraction, Kimberly could understand. Sharon Reid's isolation and inability to connect to people (and the innate desire to gain control of other people) manifested in the ability to connect to insects and find friendship through them. To utilize this abstraction, Kimberly has to feel the same type of emotion which she finds a bit alien herself. She understands how it feels to be alien, as her eccentrics don't endear her to a lot of people, but she has taken strides. Thus she can't utilize the abstraction to its full effectiveness. For example, Sharon Reid could use the abstraction in a radius of miles and could more or less control all insects within the bounds of Farmer Hill. Kimberly, on the other hand, can only dominate the minds of insects in the range of one whole ass mile. Kimberly can completely control the minds of all insects and command them to do whatever she pleases. Whenever she controls insects they do whatever she asks and overrides all of their base instincts until she releases them from her control. With the usage of this abstraction, Kimberly can control thousands of insects at a time, an absolute swarm of insects. This makes her amazingly powerful and versatile with few being able to attack her in a straight fight.

There are two abilities that Sharon had that Kimberly can't do for the life of her: the manipulation of insect biology. Sharon Reid's manipulation of their biology was near limitless and she can create any type of insect long as it made some type of biological sense. Kimberly, on the other hand, is unable to accomplish this and every time she tries she ends up killing the insect. So bummer. By taking baby steps Kimberly has learned to understand any insect's biology on touch and heal them. Just a baby step as she keeps killing them. As a side effect, insects follow Kimberly around whenever she has this abstraction "on", even if she isn't using her abstraction at the moment. They float around her, the longer she stays in one area, the more will appear. They'll ignore any actions she does so she could punch a hornet's nest and it will not cause them to attack at all.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Kimberly has two forms of aura reading directly connected to her abstraction - mainly if she's using it or not. If she's not using it, Kimberly can see the aura of all insects within a mile and a half radius of herself. She can discern what type of insect they are and what health state they are in at the moment. The second she activates her abstraction the ability changes; she will no longer be able to see an insect aura but instead the auras of everything they can perceive. From the environment, objects, and people. Most insects don't have senses on par with humans so their auras are fuzzy and harder to read.

LIMITS ⫻ Kimberly can control thousands of insects if they are within her range, but the more insects she controls the less fine control she has. She can make say a dozen insects do a bunch of different tasks and be able to multitask. If she controls a few thousand then she can only submit one command and they all follow it as a swarm.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Kimberly is telepathically connected to the insects and this comes with some side effects. Controlling a large number of insects is very straining on her mind and causes some serious headaches and nosebleeds. After using the max of her ability it's going to feel like one hell of a hangover hit her. She's also telepathically connected to the insects and killing them causes a shock to her. Killing just one won't be something she notices, but killing a few hundred will hurt enough to knock off her control for a second and a few thousand will knock her out. Somehow killing a million will kill Kimberly too. Killing the insects with burns and cold weather will cause burns and frostbite to manifest on her body.

Now you might be wondering why I'm putting another character's history in Justin's. But, it's an important part of his character arc. So, Lihua Zhao was born in China before the age of World War II... in a dimension separate from the one that this story takes place in. This universe was much different from hours - magic will do that. The Axis forces were fueled by Extra-Normal powers and made pacts with Apparitions and demons to unleash unholy powers upon the world. The war went much differently with Germany taking over Europe and Japan taking over Asia... then the war began between the two sides as the all-out war began as every empire went against each other. Creating countless Apparitions in the war... and eventually, the war ended when the world was salted and rendered barren. The survivors decided that there were too few of them to keep going and fled to other universes. With the few stubborn enough to stay dying out shortly after.

Lihua Zhao was a survivor, so was her brother Jiao-Long Zhao. She survived the Rape of Nanking, death of her family, and everything else that took place in this hellish world... and she Awakened with the abstraction to do so. So, Lihua took her brother and left. She had many adventures and fun as she met her many alternate universe counterparts but she desired something new. She wanted to build up a great family in one of these amazing universes. However, things changed when she met him... Thornton Walters. He was charismatic, he was driven, and he knew everything to say to get the young Lihua on his side. She formed the initial Inner-Circle organization with him and acted as his transporter... and eventually ended up as his third in command. The Inner-Circle participated in many crimes and done many experiments towards Thornton's ends. They battled so many organizations against the multiverse, including the League. Lihua was suspicious of him, but she knew he had their best interests at heart.

Or at least that's what she thought. In time, Thornton was more and more ruthless until they came across a white crystal. Which he experimented on and she realized just what he was after. The experiment went wrong and a massive portal devoured the universe they were in... and that was when Lihua drew the line. She teleported away, leaving Thornton to his fate and decided to go her way. She continued traveling the All-Verse but she ended up in Shimmer... and ran into her alternate universe counterpart Qiaolian Liu. Except Qiaolian was old enough to be her mother and wealthy. Lihua convinced this woman to take her in after proving to her that they're the same.

And so Lihua lived a life of vanity and luxury... eventually becoming an Olympic athlete, representing her family. This is where she met her future husband and married him, having her first daughter, Meifeng. However, he died not too long after from cancer and Lihua decided to leave China behind to move to America (In Los Angeles) where she raised Meifeng. Lihua worked her ass off in an office making money while Meifeng was independent.

Meifeng grew up into a strong confident woman who went into college for a master's degree in criminal justice where she met her future sweetheart Daniel Liao. After a few years of romancing each other, they got married, and Meifeng became pregnant with twins. Justin and Kaitlyn Liao, two siblings that would pave the way for the bloodline's future.

After she got of age, Lihua retired to Farmer Hill, Montana in some hope that she'd get her old abstraction back and visit Shade one last time... and it is here where she was killed.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Pyro-Telekinesis, a telekinetic ability that shrouds whatever Justin manipulates in a fiery aura.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Justin underwent a second Awakening during a battle with the Hound and realizing the true nature of his original abstraction (which were two out of control flaming beasts he could summon). After his epiphany about how his abstraction works, he unlocked his true power: Pyro-telekinesis, a very destructive but powerful form of telekinesis. It functions like regular telekinesis: he can lift objects that are up to nine hundred pounds in a twelve-meter radius and move them any way he can think of. He can move it, twist it, and even do some stuff like crush it with telekinetic force and twist it. However, whatever he uses his ability is covered in a wreath of fire until he releases his control of it - in which the fire immediately disappears. This has the nasty habit of destroying objects that he controls but this is quite dangerous of ability and is versatile... just not as versatile as regular telekinesis. Justin also has access to a form of flight by using the telekinesis on himself - this a technique that Justin uses a lot, possibly more than his regular ability. He's capable of near limitless movement options as he can move much like he manipulates objects. Whenever he uses his ability he also glows with an aura of fire. Justin, seemingly, has an aura of protection around himself that shields him from all fires and he can probably take a lava bath. He can extend this aura to whatever he's touching - which is how his clothes don't burst into flames or he can protect other people.

AURA SENSING ⫻ The aura sensing for Justin's own abstraction is a strange one. Now while most other telekinetics or elementals can sense their own elemental in a way, he can sense what's two meters outside of his control. When an object enters his range, the aura fades away and he can use it.

LIMITS ⫻ Justin can't directly use his abstraction on other Extra-Normal beings. So he can't do anything like bend someone like a pretzel or stop their heart telekinetically (though you'd also get your heart cooked). He has a wide degree of control but can only control stuff in about a ten-meter radius, which isn't that far. He can lift up to nine hundred pounds but not for long. Think of it like this: you may be able to lift two hundred pounds but be able to do it for a while. Lifting heavier objects takes a lot more energy out of him and its not as precise as his regular telekinesis. He'll strain himself in the process and it's like a muscle the more he uses it the more tired Justin will get. Justin can manipulate up to ten objects at a time, but again, nine hundred pound limit and he finds it easier to manipulate fewer objects. In addition, he can't influence gases or liquids - and has a hard time manipulating less solid materials like clothes, etc, etc. Also, any objects he manipulates aren't, you know, immune to fire.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Now, while Justin's abstraction is more or less a more offensive form of telekinesis with fire. Which is the problem, he has a harder time using his abstraction outside of fights. The fire is destructive and can and will destroy what he uses it on and can spread. Now, let me get to the weaknesses of the abstraction: first and foremost if the fire around an object he's using is extinguished then he won't be able to use it. It can be by water, lack of oxygen, etc... and that means he can't use his abstraction where there's no air. Speaking of air, the abstraction burns up air pretty fast with all the spontaneous fire creation - which isn't a problem outdoors. Indoors and in close spaces is where it becomes a problem. Smoke is also, I imagine, a problem given that his abstraction is setting stuff on fire. Also, the abstraction can also create massive fires that Justin can't easily extinguish. Also, Justin gets headaches, nosebleeds, yadda yadda yadda.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Stone-Effigy, his grandmother's abstraction, the ability to create replicas of her hands, face and... other features she found desirable out any stone surface in the environment.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Lihua Zhao was a very vain woman, but she desired to build something new... while also treating herself as the All-Verse's most beautiful woman. Lihua's abstraction reflects her vanity and to use it, Justin has to be vain, prideful, and haughty himself. Aaaaaaand that's not something Justin can channel because Lihua pretty much treated herself as a queen while Justin has a hard time wrapping his head around it. So, to get to the point, Lihua could create her best features out of stone in the environment. These were her hands, face, and... other body parts, but she mainly uses her hands due to their versatility and the limits on her abstraction. She could create dozens upon dozens of hands her size but two hands that are towering. Strangely enough, these hands can extend and stretch far beyond how they logically should, if Lihua willed it.

This seemed to come with a weird spatial warping or stone generating ability as she can create hands with more stone than she logically should (for example, she created about a few hundred pounds of stone out of what Justin suspected was about a stone tile about an inch thick).

However, this abstraction has not properly attuned itself to Justin and it still operates on "factory settings" as I should say. When Justin uses it, however, what he creates are copies of his grandmother's hands and features - not his own. These hands are controlled by thought, so whatever he commands them to do, he will. Though, he finds it easier for the more dramatic usages if he does hand movements. So Justin can only create about a dozen hands about his size and can't even go beyond that. Besides, Justin can also create an effigy of Lihua face which does everything his face does (and he can even talk through it!) but he rarely uses this due to its... uncomfortable nature. There's also the fact that he can also create a Stone-Effigy out of Lihua's other body parts but they're even more uncomfortable. Not to mention kinda creepy, and useless. Mostly creepy.

Naturally, being made out of stone and all that jazz these hands are way stronger than people - they can probably crush somebody real easily. They're also as durable as the surface they are created on so take that as you will. These hands will persist long as Justin focuses but once he stops the hands will recede into the ground.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Now, Lihua's aura reading isn't that strong... or useful at all. She can sense the auras of her children and grandchild and anyone else who descended from her in a ninety-meter range.

LIMITS ⫻ Justin can't use his ability that effectively on extra-normal beings, which sucks given that his grasp on the abstraction is already trash. He has a harder time holding them down and his strikes are less effective. When Lihua used this ability, it was probably the strongest abstraction in all of Farmer Hill (which probably reflected her perceived "inner-strength") but Justin has a hard time using it and finds that his arms crumble real quick. He'll have to try hard to keep them going but this can be straining on Justin. Due to the fact that they'll crumble, they're less durable than regular stone and will crumble a lot easier. Now, while this may be a weakness; but he'll overcome it in time so it's a limit. Now the main problem he has with the abstraction is probably range... he's limited to creating hands in about two meters radius around him where his grandmother could create these hands as far as the eye can see. Now the big limit is the space on the surface of the stone... so say if he was limited to a tile that was a foot-by-foot, he can only create as many hands as would logically fit on the surface. Strangely enough, he can stretch these hands to be about twelve feet long. Justin also needs pure stone to utilize his abstraction properly and stone that is mixed with other materials makes it difficult for him to create his hands and keep them maintained. Which really sucks.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Lihua Zhao was a woman without weakness!

Well, that's what she liked to boast but her abstraction has a wide range of drawbacks. For starters, if the stone hands were destroyed somehow that part of Justin's hands would be rendered slack for awhile. Now, whenever Justin uses his abstraction he begins to feel the weight of the stone bearing down on him. This means he'll be slowed down while he's using the Stone-Effigy and will have a harder time doing all those fancy maneuvers. Now, whenever Justin uses his abstraction cracks will form on his skin which will bleed and could get infected if he's not careful. Also, there are some aspects of this abstraction that makes him really uncomfortable.

Meifeng's life began in Hong Kong China... and she was Meifeng Zhao, the daughter of the esteemed Lihua Zhao. Lihua Zhao was an Olympic champion and Meifeng was unaware of her mother's secret heritage and was fine with that. Her father wasn't in the picture due to a bit of tension between her father and her mother, eventually ending in a divorce. Most of the time Meifeng was left in the care of her uncle, Jiao-Long Liu, in America. Her uncle was a very wealthy man due to being a genius and owned a technology firm, and thus she lived a relatively comfortable early life. That was until her mother, Lihua, came to America with her, leaving behind their previous life for a new one. All because Lihua wanted a better life for Meifeng and it was getting a little hostile in China for women. Although Lihua and Jiao-Long had a deep-seated and long-lasting rivalry with each other and usually ended up bickering, Jiao-Long gave help whenever needed but Lihua only accepted it in the most desperate of situations.

Meifeng grew up in LA, and she had a particular childhood. Lihua resigned to the life of an office worker because after all that Olympic stuff, she decided that she needed something a bit slower paced. She worked her back off to keep a roof over Meifeng's head, and barely had any free time due to her workaholic lessons. What free time she did have was raising Meifeng the right way, to be better than the American girls. She taught Meifeng self-reliance and passed down her ideals about inner strength and whatnot. To teach Meifeng how to handle herself, and how to be a woman of pride and power above all else. And also taught her stuff about cooking, physical fitness, and learning all on her own. Lihua was strict, punishing, and couldn't stand for such.

All this did was place a lot of stress and pressure on the young Meifeng and eventually, plant the seeds of rebellion. Most of the time Lihua was gone until the evening, which meant Meifeng was more or less responsible for getting home, studying, cooking for herself. The girl desired to get to know other people, but she didn't exactly speak English that well and it was a source for ridicule for many many years and she just had a hard time connecting to people. That loneliness shaped and defined Meifeng as she took this time to live and learn on her own.

That was until Meifeng made her first true friend... Jennifer Caspin. Jennifer was a girl that just lived in the same area and went to the same school as Meifeng that she just vibes with. Mostly because they're both "exiles" for one reason or another, and they both wanted some company, so why not with each other? Jennifer helped Meifeng learn English and eventually, in high school, their friend pool grew a bit. Probably because Meifeng started taking up track and basketball in high school. It started with Olivia Clarke, a rather strange girl that was in the same track group as Meifeng. They added Cindy Keagan to their group, a girl with a kind heart that was the daughter of a Vietnam veteran and was the more down to earth of the four.

And with the help of the three, Meifeng discovered herself. A girl with a love for action, adventure, kindness, and wanted to leave the shackles of her mother. They were a rebellious lot that always caused trouble by pulling pranks, going to parties, and also getting high as fuck off the weed. Lihua tried to discipline the girl, but she figured that she would, in time, learn and grow from the mistakes. And it took a while because Meifeng was dumb as hell. The four grew to be very close friends... and then they started getting close. It was there where Meifeng and Jennifer discovered their sexuality; bisexuality. It started as them playing around by kissing but they eventually confessed their feelings for each other. It was definitely something that she kept from her mother (and the rest of the school), but she eventually accidentally found out when she stumbled in on them kissing. It was something that Lihua wanted to unsee.

However, it had a different effect on Olivia Clarke, which Meifeng was oblivious of at the time. See, Meifeng saw the other track girl, Olivia, as a sort of rival to her as she saw herself as being the best on the track team. That was because Meifeng was the best on the track team. Except it was all playful, and Meifeng treated it all in good fun. However, she didn't quite realize that, all the teasing, and upstaging Olivia didn't exactly get treated the way she thought it would. And Olivia developed a deep-seated disdain for Meifeng that was a mixture of being fed up with Meifeng being an ass and jealousy... of her relationship with Jennifer. You see, Olivia also had a crush on Jen, but she didn't know how to feel about it.

All of their affection towards each other built up something inside of Olivia that she couldn't possibly take anymore. Eventually, at a party, Olivia confronted Meifeng about their relationship and Meifeng played it off, the same dismissing way that Olivia didn't like. Before Meifeng teased her about her track times and... Olivia just couldn't take it anymore and attacked Meifeng. A fight broke out between the two that ultimately resulted in Olivia pulling out a knife and trying to stab Meifeng. Meifeng tried to protect herself but she ended up getting stabbed through the forearm and, at this point, the fight was broken up but the knife was pulled out and Meifeng started bleeding heavily and passed out. She thought she died... but Meifeng woke up in the hospital a little while later and realized that her mother had donated blood to save her life.

This was when they had a very heartfelt discussion about what happened and... Meifeng changed. She hardened and started taking her mother's lessons and teachings seriously. It was around this time that Meifeng became withdrawn from her social circles... and she didn't want to bring up Olivia - who was sent to jail for attempted murder for a long, long, time. Meifeng moved on like she didn't exist. Who was her rival? Nobody. What happened to that fourth friend? Meifeng didn't know. It was during this time where Meifeng realized she never wanted to be weak again, but in her attempts, she drifted away from her friends and even her lover Jennifer.

What didn't help was the fact that the trio pretty much split apart after they graduated from high school. Cindy decided to follow in her father's footsteps and joined the army at literally the first opportunity she could. And Jennifer went to a fancy college in Philadelphia and Meifeng... stayed in LA. The three kept in touch but they all went different directions with their lives, and Meifeng eventually ended up going to college at the University of California. It was her first time staying away from home but Meifeng always had an interest in the criminal investigative world... if they'll take her after the incident.

This was where Meifeng met her future sweetheart, Daniel Liao. The two just ended up crossing paths but started talking and Danny asked her out on a date and one thing leads to another and they started a relationship. And a few years of dating later... the two got married and Meifeng was officially a Liao. And they got married just in time because Meifeng got pregnant with his children right before they got married. Nine months later they cut her two children out of her, and she held them in her arms as she gave them a name: Justin and Kaitlyn Liao. The first few months (well, years) of marriage and parenthood was tough on the young couple, especially because Meifeng definitely did not like the slow-paced lifestyle of a mother. Nor did she want to give up on her dreams of getting into the criminal justice department.

Meifeng pretty much gave up on physical fitness as most of her time was spent doing online classes or taking care of the twins. Soon she finally got her masters and smiled... even though she couldn't do anything with it by taking care of the twins. Her husband got his masters in business and started his small company that kept the big bills coming and coming and they managed to live comfortably. Also, pay off their student loan debt. Because that sucked. The second that Meifeng could, she got a job in the LAPD as a forensics investigator. It sucked because Meifeng wanted to join the FBI or CIA or even the military, but she had to stay home with the children. How it worked was that Danny worked in the mornings, Meifeng worked in the evenings, sometimes the overnight shift.

Fortunately, Lihua was always around to help rear her children with her teachings. Katie was receptive to it, but Justin was hard-headed and rebellious... and Lihua always said that he was the spitting image of his mother. Eventually, Lihua withdrawn from their lives altogether to go live in some shit hole in Montana named Farmer Hill. It went on this way until her children were all grown up and being sent to the college (Justin, in particular, was sent to attend school in Farmer Hill with her mother) and it almost brought a tear to her eye. At this point, Meifeng still wanted to join the FBI but almost twenty years later, yeah, she wasn't in the best shape of her life anymore. She had so much free time to dedicate towards her physical fitness and tried to hold onto her prime but she was slowly coming to terms with the fact that her body isn't what it used to be. However, the trio reunited in time, with Cindy returning to LA decades before raising her son, Cameron, and Jennifer returned to LA with her son too, simply because she grown infatuated with Los Angles and wanted to come back.

The woes began when her mother, Lihua Zhao, was mysteriously murdered in Farmer Hill while Justin was away. This was the catalyst to a large number of Meifeng's woes, and her relationship with her husband crumbling. When Meifeng was there for her funeral, she realized that it was the beginning of the end. Every time she pressed the local authorities for information, or to do their job, she was given an excuse or the runaround. It was unfortunate given how many murders happened there that were swept under the rug. The frustration that she felt and the ensuing depression ended up putting a strain on her relationship with Danny. Especially since Meifeng started gambling an awful lot with their money.

The fights started with Danny and eventually, Meifeng realized that she needed some space from him. And that was when she went from Danny to Jennifer Haggar (née Caspin). It started after a "girls night out" with Jennifer ended with them getting drunk and having sex with each other. And while Meifeng felt dirty for cheating on her husband, she kept going back to Jennifer who was having similar problems with her husband. Thus this is how three vices became Meifeng's everything: sex, gambling, and alcohol. This went on for almost a year before it happened.

Jennifer was brutally raped and murdered by her husband, Douglas Haggar, and he was promptly arrested and convicted for it. It seemed like all joys in Meifeng's life were being taken away and the sheer grief of all of this forced Meifeng to Awaken. She didn't realize it until way later... that was because she was looking into Jennifer's death herself. After all, some things didn't add up. It seemed like Douglas was in two places at once which was impossible. This was when she had her first encounter with the supernatural after doing some digging of similar cases. Meifeng saw a recollection of a woman being attacked by a strange being that eventually took the form of a man. It was fucking weird but she kept digging. Eventually, Meifeng went from case to case to case until she saw a Recollection of Jenn being attacked... and her attacker. It took the appearance of a large, muscular man, that was inhuman. Meifeng tried to fight him off, but the man was too strong and pinned her against the wall...

That was when Meifeng discovered her abstraction... and clumsily used it to fight off the Apparition and destroyed it. At that time, Meifeng didn't know what that thing was or the fact that it would come back in time. All she knew was that the very strange string of rapes and murders came to an end and she could rest easy. However, she knows there was some funky shit going on in LA, and in some vain attempt to understand it, Meifeng looked into the Occult and the world of magic. It wasn't very helpful given that the magic in those books was a world's different from the magic that she wielded at her fingertips... and around this time the string of murders and rapes began yet again that seemed similar to that monster.

So, in the dead of the night, Meifeng set out again to find this creature but it wasn't long until it came to her. When she was on her nightly patrols, it took the form of her husband and attacked her. She was vulnerable and was caught off guard and was injured, and would have been killed if it wasn't for him... Justin Haggar. The son of Jennifer was cracking the creature down with a friend of his and had a magic of his own. Together, the three of them battled the monster but Meifeng felt the familiar feeling of passing out from blood loss.

She woke up in a hospital the next morning with her actual husband at her side, Cindy Keagn and Justin Haggar... who explained everything to her. Well, what she already knew, but he had been tracking the thing and defeated it while she was under and sealed it inside of a watch that he had... the watch that he asked her to watch. He then asked Danny to leave as explained the world of magic to her and Cindy. However, this was where Cindy made an admission that she was recruited by a secret government task force known as Task Force Sword & Shield that was under the Department of Homeland Security... tasked to combat the new magical world and the threats that were arising with it. And she wanted Meifeng with them.

She was hesitant, but after meeting the "Director" of the DENS she decided to join, and her partner was her best friend Cindy Keagan. The two went all over the states, investigating Extra-Normal crimes and defeating other organizations until they were both granted a supervisory position. Given that the DENS was desperate in those and Meifeng was one of the few Extra-Normals in the organization. That didn't last long as others joined her and Meifeng lead them with an iron fist as she took it as her mission to remove any magical threats from the world.

Though, she was still struggling with the death of her mother and best friend and getting her other two problems under control.