Kai Ling

[Kai Ling]

Kai Ling

Kai	Chinese-European	25
6'2	62kg	Wei
Male	Bisexual	Warrior/Musician

Appearance

Kai Ling is a tall man thanks to his mixed and unusual heritage. His eyes are a deep yet almost golden brown. His hair is thick and bushy, almost feral looking at times. It unfortunately does not help in making him look approachable, nor intelligent for that matter. The unruly locks are a rich muddy brown and he tends to bundle it up into a scrappy looking knot. He has managed to keep his face generally clean shaven, but he has also left his sideburns to grow almost like weeds along the sides of his face.

He prefers to adorn heavy armour with decorative tassels and furs here and there. He wields a large spear but also has a longsword that he likes to keep with him in case his spear fails in its duty or simply has been dropped. He does genuinely try to maintain his appearance, but it isn’t easy and sometimes he just doesn’t have the time.

personality

Gentle Giant
Kai Ling, despite his overwhelming size is actually quite a gentle soul. He prefers spending the majority of his time learning how to play musical instruments or delving into the arts through mediums of painting and paper-folding. He can often be found casting his gaze to the West each evening and admiring the setting sun, whispering a lone prayer to it as it departs the sky. He has been known for being interested in poetry; however he lacks the skill to generate his own. But he’s determined to learn at least.

Stubborn as an oak
Kai Ling is prone to being a stubborn old sod at times, he does not change his mind easily which can play out as a hindrance during battles. If he sets his mind to a task it would take more than a little persuasion to make him abandon his stance on the matter. Despite this he isn’t completely immoveable, you just need to give a truly justified reason and get through to him.

Tolerance in a closed minded time
Kai Ling is an abnormality and has a strangely high level of tolerance considering the time period that he lives within. He is very open to new ideas and concepts and will gladly listen and speak with all regardless of their history, colour, religious views or gender. It is perhaps due to his curiosity and hunger for knowledge that makes him like this.

Rage burning within the core
It would have seemed that Kai Ling was generally level-headed and difficult to unbalance, but deep down he is still a slave to unresolved anger issues which can stir up every so often. Once sent into a rage it can be very difficult to settle him back down again. He has been known to assault others when consumed with anger, but killing is beyond his nature unless it is during a war.

Too soft?
Kai Ling has also been resistant towards the concept of killing others; he even hesitates when killing animals such as rabbits or deer for food. This leaves him vulnerable during fights, especially during a war. He sometimes cannot bring himself to kill even the lowliest of peasants. If a tyrant was before him and he had the chance to strike him down and end the conflict there would be that ever looming question lingering over him; would be able to kill the tyrant or not?

Forever the romantic
It could be claimed that Kai Ling is a flirt, a gentleman and a “Romeo”. Whether these are true is still up for debate, but Kai likes to think that he is. He is gentle towards women and likes to ensure that they are both happy and made unafraid of him. If he can he tries to present himself to them armed with nothing more than a handful of flowers and a basket of homemade dessert-based dumplings. When it comes to the men he tends to be a little more “rough-edged” about his approach. He still tries to be romantic towards men, but usually he avoids doing so unless he is absolutely sure they are interested in him first. He does however prefer more mature partners than those who are younger than himself.

A jealous mind
Kai Ling cannot hide the fact that he can become jealous of others, but for various reasons. Primarily he gets upset when affections are diverted away from him and can become jealous towards other men if they attract away the man or woman he is with. He at times even envies happily married couples. Beyond the realms of relationships he may become jealous of items or weapons, though mostly towards musical instruments or the painting skills of others.

Did curiosity really kill the cat?
Kai Ling is naturally curious and information seeking. Despite not learning to read and write at a young age he has flourished since gaining the opportunity when training for the military. He has continued to desire newer knowledge which has sent him after a variety of sources, and left him as quite a pest to older scholars. He can never seem to quite get enough of the information. He is a devourer of knowledge which can leave him quite frustrated when his sources run dry.

The man who dwells too much
Kai is often drawn to thoughts of his past, this does leave him depressed at times but also spiteful towards those who have hurt or taunted him during the time he was growing up. Being part European has been difficult for him and in a way it does upset him. Even worse yet he wishes he could know what it’s like to have a mother. He cannot remember his birth mother, he was too young to have remembered her face or her features and he had been rejected by what should have been his adoptive mother. It does distress him.

“I’ve got your back!”
Kai Ling is a team player to say the very least. Although he is capable of working alone in battle and also on smaller mundane tasks he does seek out the company of others. He prefers that knowledge that someone will be at his back and he will always return the favour. He can be fierce in both defence and with offense, either being the big blade at the front of a unit or being that shield of flesh. When it comes to music he enjoys playing as a group, a lone zither can be a very spirit-lowering thing, but can be uplifting and strong when played with other instruments.

history

Kai Ling's history actually begins with his father and mother.

His father had been a noble within a wealthy family lineage, but was a restless and adventurous individual. He had been married to a young Chinese woman, an arranged marriage to be exact. However, she just wasn’t interesting enough for him. He soon set his sights to lands beyond China, to new blood. He ended up travelling out of China and roamed the world beyond. He reached India at first, but that still was not far enough! Adventure acted like a drug and made the man possessed with the need to go further and further. He eventually found himself in the Western lands. He was in Europe. He had been startled at first by what he had encountered there and it slowed his hunger as he sated himself with exploring the new surroundings.

The man survived within the lands for about 2 years, he managed to pick up some of the local language and developed an understanding the region. He soon fell in love with one of the local females. They never married, but they did produce a child together. However, before life could begin within the new lands Kai Ling’s father was forced to flee as racial tensions exploded. He had no choice and was forced to leave with his baby son. The two then set off back to the safety of China.

Kai Ling was introduced to his father’s wife, but she rejected him instantly. Even as a baby the European features shone through, and there was also the matter that he was not her child. Kai was instead raised by maids that had been hired by the family. Unfortunately the family itself saw Kai only as a black mark upon their line and a threat to their reputation and wealth. Kai and his father were practically written out of the family and cast out of the grounds.

They were forced to live on very little, Kai’s worked as hard as he could in the rice paddies for a few coins and some rice. Kai received the majority of the food that came into the home which allowed him grow healthily, whereas his father began to waste away from a lack of nutrients. Eventually he succumbed to illness and died not long after Kai’s 7th birthday. Kai was thrust into the world alone, but he held his own and worked hard for survival. He forged his own path to begin with, but then he was recruited into the forces. He was pretty much spoiled on the meals he received during his training, and being larger than the other boys it meant that very few could actually beat him in close combat. He simply lifted them up and held them up in the air; it was a joyfully effective way of ending a fight right from the start.
Kai Ling was soon enough a true solider, but he pursued the dream of becoming something more. He clawed his way up the ranks, training hard and studying as much as he could. However there were always cultural blocks that stood in his way and impeded his progress. He was an officer at the very least, a warrior that was ready to lead any unit into battle.

After years of training to become a monster he was left with a deep seeded feeling of being unfulfilled. Life was lacking something and he was left with that same irritated craving that had once plagued his father. Although, unlike his father, the hunger was not for travel but instead it was for music and for art. He first realised where his interests lay after passing by a street band and finding himself utterly drawn in towards them. The music touched him in ways he had never experienced and he swiftly took up lessons. From there his interests blossomed into other arts and caused him to see the world in a new light. His personality as a whole was drastically altered and in ways it made him into a gentle giant. But now Kai Ling is left facing two worlds that are not mixing within him quite as well as he had hoped and he faces turmoil at nearly every turn.

Kai Long was soon faced with further complications as he turned 19 and he was suddenly overwhelmed with desires for those of the same gender. It came as quite a shock as he grew bold enough to sleep with another man for the first time when he turned 20. He became ashamed of his urges not long after that, but he knew deep down that he could not simply avoid them entirely. He found those of the male gender far more appealing than women, but he understood that he would need to marry a young suitable lady some day and eventually have children. As a result he promised himself that he would never fall in love with another man but merely seek their company when the time suited him.

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