Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2013 13:11:43 GMT -8
| Yao Xun Wang You want a kingdom? You have to build it. Bit by bit, brick by brick, with the strength of a thousand men. You make them swear allegiance, and make them grovel to you, bow down, as you sit on the throne that you yourself had made. You sit high as the heavens and wear that crown that you had to fight for. Then you just sit and hope. Rule from above, just as the father of your people. But realize... all kingdoms come to an end. And you will fall too. |
| CODE NAME: Big Brother, Emperor Xun |
| Male | Unknown (est. 40s) | Asexual |
| Han Chinese | The Chairman (Leader of Mafia Organization) | Lawless |
| Physical |
| 169 cm | 67 kg | Black/Dark Brown |
| Brown/Amber | Light | Slender, |
| Personal |
Strategic: He's always ten steps ahead of you. He will always have a plan. And he will always have a fallback plan. And will always have a fallback plan for that fallback plan. And a fallback plan for that fallback plan. He desires 0% error and that's why he plans. Wise: He is thoughtful and has seen a lot over his years. He will always have an answer to everything. Always. He probably has gone through the troubles you have gone through. Of course, if you're going to ask his opinion, expect either debate or lecture. Brotherly/Fatherly: He desires to act the role of 'Big Brother' or 'Respected Father', though he doesn't always get the respect he rightfully deserves, now does he. He can be a bit patronizing and he's very, very used to looking down at people. A little too used to it. Of course, not everyone shares his view of him being the big brother, but he will try to enforce it. His mystique pretty much corroborates that he is the "Big Brother"... after all. Determined: He will always pursue a goal or task with greatest effort. He will put his 9000% in everything. Sometimes, this even delves into obsession. He sets emotion aside all the time and will weigh what is the best decision. He will always try to better himself. More is better. He's strongly focused and there is really no trying to talk him out of what he plans to do. Intelligent: He has a really good learning capability and can most certainly outsmart his way out of most situations. He has learned much over his years and can definitely hold his ground. He can think in logistics and understand situations pretty quickly. If he puts his mind to it, he could learn more subjects like engineering. He is pretty good with mathematics and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. Businessman: He knows how to conduct business and knows how to get every cent he can get. He knows how to con people, but knows how to do business fairly, mind you. Conning people tends to get the best results. Cheerful: Really, he can be quite cheerful and his outward appearance looks like he takes life in stride. But we all know the actuality. Punctual: No wasting time here, time is money! Well, he expects others to be punctual, his oldmanishness tends to get in the way of him actually arriving on time Fabulous: I don't know another word for it, but he always has to give off the best impression and make the biggest show out of everything. He has to make the big entrance and he knows how to carry himself. Melancholic: He likes keeping a smile on his face, whether it be fake or not. However, he can slip into states of melancholy at times, recalling the worst of times and feeling mildly depressed. Good Liar: Because of what he has had to go through, he has become adept at the art of lying. No one an tell that he is lying and he pretty much can remember just what he lied to keep with consistency. Easily Annoyed: Big brother is supposed to be patient, but he most certainly isn't. He's prone to snapping at his associates when they annoy him or don't get work done. Manipulative: The deeds that are linked to him aren't deeds that his own hands actually had done. He doesn't like getting his hands dirty. He has constructed a hierarchy that only the highest of the highest know his true identity. Other than that, he seems like an innocent Chinese immigrant that runs a restaurant with a smile and likes selling things. Greedy: After having so little for so long, it makes sense that he wants so much. he yearned to be at the top, and so at the top he has made himself. He will try to squeeze every penny out of every situation, squeeze every ounce that he can get out of the orange. Even as a child, he's tried to get everything that he can get because what he could get wasn't much. Has to be in Charge: Sometimes he's not a very good leader. Heck, if there are internal conflicts, he'll be pretty lax about it and wait for things to blow over. But everything is happy with him if he is in charge. No exceptions. Anything else, and he is not happy. He will do all he can to usurp the thrown and take his "rightful place". Cautious: It's a cruel world, and when people are out there to strike you in the back, you can't help but feel cautious. You have to observe, watch your back, and never relax. Yao doesn't want anyone knowing what he really is up to and he will never give anyone the full picture. He prefers not to be a risk taker, but he can act on impulse at times. Hates Losing: He can't stand the thought of losing at the gambit he put out for himself. He can't stand his systems failing, he can't stand the disassembling of his networks. He's a really sore loser, even at games of mahjong. He really just can't stand losing because he is so sure that he was going to win. Abandonment Issues: Once you're in his network, expect to never get out. After being abandoned so many times over the years, he just can't stand the sheer thought of being abandoned. Of course, this has caused him to overreact and go to dire circumstances to make certain that people stay with him... or if they leave, they pretty much sort of disappear. Emphasis on disappear. Possessive: He's not very good at letting go of most things, be it objects or people (see Abandonment Issues). He'll be very picky choosy when it comes to trades or anything of that sort. Gullible: Well then, even with all his carefulness, it's easy for him to slip into cons himself. The con artist is easy to con. Swift: As the coursing river Forceful: Like a great typhoon Strong: As a raging fire Mysterious: As the dark side of the moon. |
| Likes | Dislikes |
Superstitions: He's very superstitious actually. Not religious, though. There's a difference. He likes the occasional ghost story or spirit story, though he'll be a bit wary {"What if it makes the spirits unhappy?"} Good Luck Charms: Red envelopes, cats with the moving arms, he likes those. It makes him feel actually a bi=t safer (funny how that works), and he wouldn't mind having a rabbit foot in his pocket. Being in Charge: Because it feels good. Power is always something good, isn't it? Food: Ahahahaha, just because he runs a Chinese restaurant? Nah, he has just always simply loved food and is quite the critic with his food. Food is his top priority, as it seems. Even if he could be pretty cheap about the selling of his food, his top tier restaurant can only serve the best. Winning: Herbal Medicine: He has quite a bit of distrust in a lot of medicines. He's more likely to use those Asian herbal medicines than Western medicine, though he has a rationality point. These aren't drugs (though he actually doesn't know what the heck is in his herbal medicine), and these are pretty much the only things he trusts on the medicine cabinet. Canned Tea: He actually doesn't mind having a can of tea in the morning. He makes sure someone gets him one to his bed side every morning. Drugs (Especially Opium): Not for consuming, though that was a problem in his past. When you sit on top of pounds upon pounds of drugs and those drugs turn into pounds upon pounds of money, you can't help but thank the substance for doing its job. Making Bucks: He loves finding ways to make money and finding ways to sucker people out of money. Of course, it doesn't look like he's suckering anybody. Cute Things: ...It's a guilty pleasure. Shinatty: I can't explain this one but it looks like Hello Kitty and it is not Hello Kitty and... well fffff. Art: He paints in his spare time though he's not the kind of guy who could do kawaii desu anime art. He likes appreciating art as well and is an art collector Naps/Breaks: He likes taking his old man afternoon naps and taking breaks. He feels justified and feels as if he deserves it. Tai Chi: Heh, he does this every morning actually. Riding Bicycles: They're a nice source of transportation, don't you think? Video Games: An old man can learn new tricks, yes? He loves playing new video games and actually saves up for online games. Asian Dramas: He prefers his Chinese dramas in general. He tends to get pretty emotional when he watches his favorite dramas, but of course, no one knows he watches dramas. Anime: He doesn't seem to mind the cheap, knock-off anime that comes from his country sometimes. And shhh about him being a Sailor Moon fan. His favorite is probably Neon Genesis Evangelion. Getting Down to Business: To defeat the Huns. Making a Man: Out of you. | Being Blamed when Being in Charge: Things go wrong, and he's in charge. He doesn't like taking the blame, even if he is in charge. Bad Food: Or cheap food. He is picky about his food, and he won't eat his own cheap food. Why do you think he's selling it? Losing: He just really, really hates losing. Really badly. He's a sore loser, okay? Opium: The drug he had once been addicted to and is now making money off of. He wouldn't have sunken so low if he didn't come in contact with the substance. Wasting Time/Money: Time is money, and he hates wasting time and money... says the man who likes taking afternoon naps and breaks. Aging: He may look young, but he feels as if his aging isn't graceful. Wasting in General: Every last bite should be eaten, there should be no leftovers, and NO TOSSING OUT LEFTOVERS. Any resource wasted is a resource they could have used. Mongolians: Grrr, stop breaking that Great Wall. Politics: He doesn't want to talk about it. Back Pain: It feels like it's admitting that he's getting old. He does get back pain unfortunately, which is one reason he likes doing tai chi. Huns: WE NEED TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS TO DEFEAT THE HUNS. |
| Dreams | Fears |
Family: He's done with how horrible his real family had ended up. He dreams to be able to maintain the family that he had built for himself, to be able to maintain it and to always look out for them. His methods are humane and they are just. When people ask him a favor, they are indebted to him and will await for that one day when he asks them a service. All he asks is for their friendship, to be called "Big Brother", and with even more respect "Emperor Xun". All he wishes for is clear cut allegiance, and that allegiance is something he earns for himself. He also wishes that his own blood, his blood sister, would live a happy life, even if it is away from the Mafia organization. Ideally, he would want to hand over the mafia to her, and she be their queen, as he knows that his past with opium will eventually get to him, but she doesn't seem too responsive to that. Get Away from Opium: His past activities had made him an opium addict. He is addicted no more... or so he claims. Even if he physically doesn't regularly take his own drug, he's addicted to the selling and smuggling of the drug. His methods of smuggling have become truly flawless, by smuggling it in tea bags, fortune cookies, and other ways. He's the biggest supplier in London, and no one has been able to trace the opium lines to him. He knows how to scrapegoat people and knows how to cover his tracks. Of course, he has built a good enough reputation with the general public in order to be an unlikely suspect, but he would much rather wish to stop being so tangled in the opium web he had wove himself. To Die a Good Man: He feels as if he has to die a good man, with not a single drop of blood on his fingertips. He looks out for all his brothers and sisters, that whole network he had built for himself, even if they are corruptedly tied to him. He is almost like a godfather to all of them, with a desire to keep everyone safe and well. Does the boy want to win a seat in government? Big Brother could arrange that. Want the part in the musical? He could arrange that. Need funds for investment? He can wire them for you. He wants to die a good man, and so despite the illegal ways that a mafia must function, he only ever means good. | Plans Failing: He is so sure that his systems will never fail and his networks are unbreakable that he would absolutely fear them failing. He never wants to be caught, and he never wants to lose so much. After building his (illegal) empire, he can't help but fear it all breaking away like the Romans. Getting Addicted: He had once been addicted to opium and he does not want to repeat that again. He doesn't want to fall again, for fear how it would affect him again and how much it probably damaged his younger sister. It was a pit that took years to climb out of, there is no way he would want to get addicted to it again. Losing Family: He would absolutely, positively hate to lose his one and only true-blood family member, his sister. Of course, he has somewhat "adopted" others, and he would hate to lose them, but it would be his one and only true sister that would absolutely kill him. Lose his sister, it's over. Die with Regrets: He believes that a soul is doomed to roam the Earth alone if they were to die with regrets. Unfortunately he regrets much of his life. |
| Background |
Ah, the MI6 don't have much information on him. Well, not truthful information. They have no information on the Lawless figure simply known as "Big Brother". But they believe that they know enough about Yao Xun Wang, the civilian man that owns The Jade Dragon. In public, he is Mr. Wang, a friendly Chinese immigrant who came here to escape a corrupted government and live the British dream, and it was natural that Chinese people open Chinese restaurants. He just happened to be successful enough to own one of the most successful restaurants out there and happen to be one of the most successful fresh-off-the-boats out there. In actuality, he emmigrated from China not solely to escape the corrupted government... well he did, kinda, but reasons shouldn't matter, should they? No one knows the full story, even if they think they know. Yao tends to only give a sliver of truth to those who grovel for it. It is probably his sister that knows it best, though she usually keeps mum about it. He emmigrated to escape himself. Once upon a time, little Yao was born in the city of Kweilin, China. Things were happy, and things were serene. Of course, the government was awful, but it was as happy as he could see it. Looking into the Li River and watching the fishermen fish with their birds, running through the market place in search of adventure, wearing those stiff-collared outfits during festival days... all was good. The one-child policy, of course, made certain that he wouldn't have a younger sibling. For a while, he most certainly wasn't an older brother. But he watched as his mother's stomach grew bigger and he knew... shoot, we're screwed. His family wasn't too poor, but they weren't too rich either. They had been using the money to put him into a nicer school, but with committing an infraction with the one-child policy, you end up paying more and... well, his parents had to find a way to support their whole family. They almost considered aborting the child, but once finding out the child would be female, it would have been illegal because of suspicions of "gender-based abortion". Things would just grow harder an harder for their little family once his younger sister was born. Yao was already going to be a college student, but with his parents' financial troubles, he couldn't go on to pursue his parents' dreams of making him a doctor, specifically a pharmacist. He would just have to figure out ways to support them. He got into some pretty shady business with the triad groups to find money, soon finding a new substance that alleviated him of his troubles... opium. He would grow addicted to the substance and beg for more and he would commit deeds that would make the ancestors angry. He had lost his virginity unlawfully, stole, learned the work of a con artist... everything he didn't imagine himself to be. He wasn't the pharmacist that he thought he would be. He kept it all under the noses of his parents, scared to dishonour them. But you know, once you've lost your own honour, it feels horrible. After not being able to pay off more for the child tax, his parents considered abandoning his sister or making her "mysteriously disappear", but Yao just wouldn't allow that, even in his drunken haze. He protected her with all his might and she was the reason why he tried to come up with new ways to make money. When worse came to worse, Yao committed his first, and hopefully, last bloodstained sin. He ended his parents before they could decide to end his younger sister's life. She was still at a young age and she was spared watching that atrocity. Yao realized his role of trying to be a proper figure to raise his younger sister. But first, he would have to untangle himself from the triad business... and untangle himself from the opium. He found illegal ways to get the two of them to the UK. As they boarded the plane, he never wanted to look back... he really didn't want to think about all the bad he had done. The UK would be the place where they would start anew, and the opium wouldn't be streaming. However, it didn't work that way. Of course, he tried his way through college, he was still addicted to the opium. It was all on his mind, and he just couldn't help it. His sister would have to grow up a bit alone and a bit depressed that she had lost her parents early in life. Yao, being a bit insensitive to that and really not sensing it, didn't address their parents' deaths and tried to keep away from the topic. She was left to her own for a lot of the time as he was trying to deal with hiding his addiction, restraining himself from venturing into the Aylesbury Estate for opium (which was both difficult and costly), and trying to pay rent. He wouldn't realize just what she was going through. After getting a business degree (with the grades he had, it didn't seem like anything was wrong), he attempted to find work in the business world, but the discrimination of race and just how much energy he was putting into it to quit the opium kept him out of the business world. It was rather disappointing really. He would end up growing frustrated enough, his emotions played off quite a bit from the opium, that one night, he had accidentally slapped his sister, his sister trying to address that he should quit the opium and get back on his feet. Ironic... that is just what he wants to do. So, what do you do if you're Chinese and don't have a job and you're smack dab in the middle of London? You start a Chinese restaurant and hope people can take the MSG. He started The Jade Dragon, a Chinese restaurant that was lavish. He took money from his parents' life insurance in order to start up the restaurant, adorning it with the most stereotypically Chinese and elegant decorations. He would use the cooking expertise he gathered over the years and devise a menu (and add sketchy MSG to make sure they keep coming back... oh the joys of MSG and saturated fats) and hire employees. He was selective about who he hired, choosing people that would end up... like his family, in a way. It was as if he were "adopting" them. From the lowest in the slums of the Aylesbury Estate to the highest in the Barbican Estate, he was very selective. The Jade Dragon would easily gather popularity, not seeming like one of those cheap Chinese stands scattered throughout London. Because of his business with The Jade Dragon, he only continued growing apart from his sister. He just couldn't send her to the kitchen. She simply didn't stay in the kitchen. He would use The Jade Dragon for other things... He battled his addiction and found... he made more money dealing it, smuggling it... and he decided it was easy. He developed the desire to help all his fellow Asian immigrants and taken into smuggling the opium in the drug network. Once it's out of his possession, it's none of his business. Sometimes, he would even smuggle in Chinese immigrants... if they did him an obligation. And he never forgets his obligations. They would be tied to him... like eternal family. He became so bent by the word family, it was painful for his sister to watch him set up that network, to set himself up like that and to do such illegal things. She knew the whole truth, no one else did. And she would just become more and more determined to leave her brother and at least save herself. It only sent him lower and lower than before as she continued with her rebellion. They had once been so close, but as he tightened up his grip on her, she only fought more. He would soon become the sort of "ring leader" of the Chinese restaurants and Asian triads in London, but that's an underground thing. The Chinese restaurants in London (or at least most of them), are connected to each other in a network of trust, checks, and balances. Underground smuggling and money flowed through this network. Yao promised protection and prosperity, and he would look out for everyone else. He would grow to be the richest of them all. And his sister would only keep pushing him away. He has recently obtained control over the Asian triad and uses them as his arm in situations... but really, he isn't the most visible of ringleaders. Most people don't know him as a ringleader of anything. He is simply a friendly Chinese man. Those other Chinese restaurant owners didn't know it was him at the top of the hierarchy, only three specific people who are Yao's representatives. He only fears the loss of this "family"... "It was all for you, 小妹." |
| Role-Play Sample |
It happened to be one of those busy nights at the Jade Dragon. On nights like these, the kitchen was converted from mama's happy kitchen to hell's food factory. Yao was usually "friendly" by nature, but tonight was a full moon. He was effectively transformed into a slave driver, barking out orders like there was no tomorrow. He would yell out in Cantonese, even if quite a few of the kitchen staff probably don't speak Cantonese (actually, Yao wasn't sure what some of them spoke, for all he knew, they could be speaking in Pig Latin). People usually made reservations three months in advance to feast at The Jade Dragon, but it seemed the receptionist sneaks in people who bribe her enough (and given this crowd, these people had a lot they could bribe with). Not that Yao complained about the extra customers. He turned a blind eye on the malpractice and simply kept the food coming. Oh that delicious, sodium and msg-ladden food, expanding your taste buds, filling them with addictive and somewhat unhealthy oil... cheaply made but expertly flavored. People of importance tried to get seats close to one of the flat screens, which was effectively tuned to the live news coverage of the Maximantics soiree. These people were important, they just happened to not receive invitations for the coveted event. They came here for the food, people, and to confirm their rumors. Was Mr. Bondevik going to hand over Maximantics to Lukas, or was he going to surprise the world and give it to Sindri, or even their much healthier, pretty, and somewhat influential cousin Johanna? Was Lukas going to propose to someone at the soiree? Which important people were fighting and intoxicated/ Was Arthur William Kirkland, head of the Labour Party, going to get intoxicated and stay single? That Kirkland was a card when drunk, as it seems. He was searching for his worthless younger sister, who was supposed to be busing tables tonight. Of course, he wasn't going to yell at her if she was actually working, but goodness, if that girl was slacking off or out doing whatever the heck she wants to do instead of helping with the dinner rush, he wasn't going to be friendly and scold her in Cantonese. Nope, the workers got the nice treatment. He was going to use full-out rough and painful Mandarin because he can. And if she was going to be difficult, he was going to threaten the wok or the bamboo stick or slipper— hopefully she won't go any farther than that. He'd rather have the yelling match, not have to go get the slipper. "Meimei, where are you? You better be busing tables! Have you seen her, Lee?" he asked a passing waiter. The waiter shrugged. Delightful. |
| OOC Information |
| Asu |
| Skype (thebritishworldtraveller), Tumblr (empiresofthefuture.tumblr.com) |
| i can’t wait till i’m 30 so i’ll finally look like a high school student according to movies |
| Dinner? $40 The movie? $20. The night with me?: Priceless. |
| made by CAPTAIN of BACK TO NEVERLAND |
