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| Name: |
Yao Shaiming |
| Genos: |
Dragon |
| Stirpe: |
Niburu |
As far as Dragons go, both Yao Ming Ue and her brother
Shaiming are almost children. The pair are barely
over five hundred years old, having only just reached
maturity and emigrating to America not long after
that. The pair are considered a bit of an oddity in
Eldritch society. As far as anyone understands it,
the two are twins both hatched from the same egg and
exceedingly similar in appearance, one female, one
male, and each belonging to a different Stirpe. Their
parents lived in the central provinces of China, and
Ming Ue and her brother Shaiming were both raised
there, she showing all the characteristics of her
mother’s Stirpe and her brother following the
path of their father.
Both young Dragons were raised into traditional Chinese
beliefs, and introduced to Lung ideology at a young
age. Because of this, both Ming Ue and her brother
are far more accepting of humans and other Eldritch
than most others of their kind.
Belonging to opposing Stirpes, relations between
the two siblings were never going to be easy, but
somehow, the two of them forged an unbreakable bond.
They became inseparable, remaining together even when
their parents abandoned the world and went into prolonged
dragonsleep in the late 1800’s.
After that, the two of them roamed the East together,
Shaiming teaching his sister of the playful strength
of the day, and Ming Ue teaching her brother the long-forgotten
mysteries of the night. Both became intensely spiritual
creatures, dedicated to the pursuit of peace and enlightenment,
not just for themselves, but for those around them,
the other Gentes of Eldritch, and eventually the whole
of humankind. In their minds, that was the only way
that catastrophe could be averted.
Finally, the two of them ended up in Beijing in the
early 1990’s. While they were wandering the
city, dazzled by it’s bright lights, the music
of life that washed through the streets, and the vast
degrees of change that the procession of time had
wrought upon the world, they met a creature that took
an intense disliking to them. It is unknown exactly
what this creature was, or the exact nature of the
curse that was lain upon the siblings, but immediately
afterwards the pair travelled to the coast and left
China immediately. Travelling out of the East for
the first time in their lives, the two sailed eastwards
and through the Panama Canal on a cargo ship and ended
up in New London, Louisiana.
Since then, they have worked hard to establish themselves
in city, helping to bring peace where they can, making
few friends, few enemies and for the most part keeping
to themselves and remaining one of the more enigmatic
features of the city. The pair spend most of their
time running a twenty-four hour establishment known
as Duality, which serves as a health bar during the
day, managed by Shaiming, and as something part jazz
club, part chill-out room by night, tended to by Ming
Ue. Perhaps it is because of this strange alternating
lifestyle that the two of them are notoriously never
seen together.
Shaiming (pronounced SHY-ming) is very similar
in appearance to his sister. He is a little less curvaceous
and a little more muscular, he stands perhaps an inch
to two inches taller than her and has a slightly stronger
jaw-line, and firmer looking facial features, but
the similarities between the two of them are unmistakable.
Shaiming is well built, and, like his sister, has
two distinct ways of dressing. When outside Duality
he dresses in short-sleeved white shirts, black trousers,
and, when the climate demands it, a worn black leather
jacket. Inside the establishment, he too dresses in
a far more traditional Chinese fashion, wearing white,
Mandarin-collared silk or satin shirts embroidered
with gold design, and loose, white, ivory or gold
silk trousers.
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