Fu Sheng

[Fu Sheng]

墨家 Fu Sheng 墨家

Basic Information

Full Name: Fu Sheng 
Nicknames: -
Age: 21 years old
Birthday: 163AD
Gender: Male
Kingdom: Vagrant
Hometown: Luo Yang
Orientation: Heterosexual
Player: fusheng, 23, Portugal

Essential Information

Appearance: Standing 1m64 over 50kg, Sheng bears a feeble figure, which hints he's not a very skilled fighter, although there's more to it than meets the eye.

Sheng has no problem demonstrating his noble origins in his manner of speaking and even in the way he dresses, even though he is far from vain, keeping a very humble presence most of the time.

Sheng's wardrobe is comprised of a series of simple robes, some more exquisite than others and all in the most varied colours and shapes. The most notorious of these is an ornamented black robe with red and gold trimming, which he wears only on rare occasions, a family heirloom he treasures for its sentimental value. He also has a ceremonial yellow crown to go along with it, with yellow stripes hanging from each end, a clear symbol of his noble birth.

He has long black hair, that he tends to let loose, tying it up at times in a long thin pony tail.He also has a thin moustache and a neat trimmed beard that ends up in a short pointy goatee, conferring a certain intellectual look upon him.

Personality: Sheng's tranquillity is the the most noticeable trait about him. Everything about him, from his expressions to the tone of his voice, inspires great calm to others. He always manages to keep a cool head under any circumstance, which more than often leads to the peaceful resolution of any conflict he comes across. However, this quietness sometimes makes Sheng passive to all that surrounds him. His constant struggle for self-discipline contrasts with others' impulsiveness and makes him look careless sometimes. He holds no great passions nor does he give in to blind anger and happiness is always faced with great moderation.

Sheng is a withdrawn person, preferring to keep his own thoughts to himself. Obtaining his trust is a very hard thing to accomplish as he does not give it away lightly, he is constantly suspicious of those around him, making him seem like a cold person, sort of distant to everyone else, however those who manage to earn it, have themselves a loyal friend and a trusted confidant for life.

Sheng holds great wisdom, as a result of his education during his youth. He goes into meditation frequently and has a constant need of reflection, which sometimes makes him lose track of his own surroundings. He has a great understanding in philosophy and writing. He knows his way around words unlike many others, which makes him a gifted speaker.

Sheng is methodical about everything he does and because of this he usually takes a lot of time when working on a text, mostly due to the fact that he spends more time scratching his work to start over a clean slate, re-writing as many times necessary until he is absolutely pleased with the result.

Unlike most people born of noble origin, Sheng is a very modest individual, preferring to live a life of simplicity, detached from material possessions and ambitions for greater wealth and power. Most find this particularly odd about Sheng.

Family: 

• Fu Xuan (Father, Secretary of the Luo Yang prefecture, Deceased)
• Li Zhuan Xie, Lady Li Xie of Ye (Mother, Deceased)

History: 

Childhood and early life
Sheng was born in the cradle of nobility, son to a renown imperial clerk and to a lady of a wealthy and influential familly. Sheng had access to an education only a handful throughout the Han could dram of. He became a spoiled infant, whose whims and wishes were commands. As he was very frail, he got sick frequently and didn't really had any friends aside from a few servants that constantly pampered him. His whole childhood was spent in Luo Yang within his family's estate.
The capital had become a harsher place then. Famine was widespread and the rising corruption began to stir the discontented populace, so Sheng's father sent him to the relative safety away from the growing hostile climate of the larger cities of the Han, so that he could continue his studies away from harm. It was a harsh period for him, as he was just a young boy away from home and it took a long time to get used to this new environment. There he came across one of his greatest friends up to date, a boy from a local monastery. It didn't take long until they befriended each other, since they had so much in common and yet complete opposite ways of thinking. Sheng's eyes were opened to new perspectives and slowly he started growing accustomed to his new surroundings away from home. Eventually he abandoned his studies and joined the monastery at the invitation of his friend. Adjusting to the reality of the monastery was hard and took its time, as the path of enlightenment, implicated a routine of hard labour and discipline, along with the abandonment of all earthly desires and ambitions. This was unthinkable to him and he rejected this way of life at first, however with time, he started giving slowly in and as years went by he began to embrace the life of a monk. A few years later, the death of his mother brought a young adult Sheng home. He came back a different person and those that had met him as a child could not recognize the man that stood before them. With his mother's passing, Sheng's father grew distant and reconciliation between them became impossible. Eventually Sheng abandoned his home and went on to pursue his studies elsewhere.

Graduation
Unsettled with his new situation back at home, Sheng sets out to the neighbouring city of Ye, the very hometown of his mother, in order to complete his studies. He was a changed man then, with a distinct goal in mind from the one that had lead him away from home the first time. His friend back from his days away from the capital had caused a great impact on his life. He was more confident and also more detached from a life of luxury. He adopted a more modest attitude and had learned that there were more than one perspective to the same matter, that there were more things to life than being locked away in a manor surrounded by servants, that "one's value was worth as much as what one was willing to make of himself", as his friend once said. Yet he still had a hard time putting his old habits behind, the whims he had grown so accustomed to, that others tried  so hard to feed him all the time. His identity struggled between past and present, Neither was he the spoiled child, brought up in the midst of the aristocratic capital, nor was he the lonesome boy, whose only friend turned out to be a simple monk. He was something in-between. As much as he tried to seem like a humble man, he was still taken for an arrogant brat, another one of those noble good-for- nothings, by those "illiterate grunts" of the common folk. With no ties to his family and with no single friend, he was alone, now more than ever. He didn't identify himself with the futile, ignorant aristocracy from around those parts, nor was he capable of mingling with the common people. Stuck in some form of exile, his sole companions were his own thoughts and the books he came across. He decided to take on a suggestion his friend had given to him upon a time. 'The teachings of Mozi', a series of works that he mentioned quite often. Alluring as the Mohist philosophy was, Sheng never really felt inclined to study it, dismissing it as impractical nonsense. But then, he had all the time in the world, so taking a look at it no longer seemed so much as big a loss of time. He began to look into it in-between study sessions and soon he was caught up in a reading frenzy of the Mohist philosophy. Night after night, hours after hours, delving deep into the Mohist insight, of impartial treatment, of a just society based on equality, of a life free from fatalism and ostentation. A new vision of the world began to take shape in his mind, taken from the lessons he attained from the Mozi and from his own education. He began to understand the complexity of mankind, its behaviours, its thoughts and was finally able to see past people's faults and virtues into their very human essence. A few years upon his arrival to the city, he had graduated and was ready to depart, a self made man.

Present
Sheng's graduation and eventual arrival on Chang An marked the beginning of his professional life. He began taking errands from local officials and soon found himself within the circles of influential people within the city. He is well know and respected by the aristocrats, but he also has the respect of the populace, to whom he came to be known as a very earthly person, honest and easy to be fond of.

Other Information

Weapon #1: Steel Sabre of the Fu Family

A family heirloom he came to inherit upon his father's death. There's a built-in golden figure of a dragon at the base of the blade. It's moderately sharp, light-weight and has an elegant silhouette.  

Secondary Weapon: Wooden Staff. A common training weapon. A memory of his apprenticeship back in the monastery, with it Sheng achieved a certain aptitude on martial training, although he is still far from being a skilled fighter.

Horse: -

Pets: -

Optional Information

Musou Attack: Storming Words
Sheng unleashes a powerful shout that stuns all nearby enemies. He then swings his sword forward, sending those in front of him flying away, followed by a downwards blow to his right that has the same effect.

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