Meilin

Meilin "Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." -Taoist proverb

Stats Appearance Dexterity Intelligence Perception Awareness Alertness Enigmas Etiquette Portents Calligraphy Stealth Rituals Occult Nushi Resources Magic Artifact Black Wind Chi'iu Muh Jade Shintai Yin Prana Bone Shintai Demon Shintai Blood Shintai Iron Mountain Feng Shui Flesh Shintai Yin Yang Hun P'o Dharma Willpower Banality Rites Imbuing the Jade Harmonious Shielding of the Guarded Home Trace the Dragon's Blood The Black Silken Pouch Binding Goods Merits Medium Concentration Flaws Driving Goal Soundtrack PERSONAL The Flower of Carnage Ichirin no Hana Hunger WU The Second One COMBAT Brave Sword, Braver Soul Cometh the Hour Nobody

An Inauspicious Life Name: Wong Meilin Ethnicity: Chinese Place of Birth: Hong Kong Apparent Age: Early Twenties Affiliation: Triad Official Job: Housewife Cause of Death: Leukemia A lone scream in the darkness "Where I came from, I could not tell you. Where I was, I had no say in. One thing should have been clear from the very beginning, though: Where I was going." Blood makes the grass grow "It did not seem fair that growing up caused pain, so I shared it. It did not seem fair that I alone should bleed, so I shared that too. The harbor was my playground, the streets my schooling. My graduation? Bodies floating in the water." Love and Carnage "Apart, we may as well have been nothing. Together, we were nine hundred and twenty-seven. Our bodycount? Far higher. Our idea of romance? Whole buildings drenched in red." An end, but not the end "I went to sleep without knowing if I'd ever wake up. I wasn't made for the world I left behind. I was... incompatible. But the world changed." Karmic Debt Race: Kuei-Jin Dharma: Bone Flower Direction: West Chi Balance: Yin Number: 4 Court: Autumn Lotus Wu: Lost Sparrows There and Back Again "It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task." Different path, different purpose "I know now why you brought me back. But I still don't know why I stayed. You gave me a chance to make up for everything I've done, and I'm grateful... ...but you forget, redemption was never really my thing." No sense in making sense "A straight answer? It would be a disservice. Tell you what you want to know, and you will never stop to think for yourself. The tools you need for the job, those I will provide. The purpose behind them is yours." Third Eye Mine "Grand Arhat Xue's teachings were not for you. You have twisted them, perverted them, tainted them with your curse. Zao-Lat's thievery will be repaid thusly: Your unlives, every last one, forfeit." People Shen Saburo "All for one, one for all, that is our device." Ayame "A burden is to be endured for a time, then cast off." Maiko "It says a great deal, and nothing good, that competence of all things comes as a surprise." Blue "They say the third time's the charm. As with all gweilo 'wisdom', this seems doubtful." Itto "When the chains of your rage eventually snap, and they will, I will help you find a new direction - whether you want me to or not." Ren "One almost forgets that she is Japanese. Almost..." Gweilo Cedric "There is no man, however wise, who has not at some point in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man." Ignacio "Life ... is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Groups Wan Kuei "The map showing the route to the goal." "The driver decides what the goal is." "The horn, the front bumper; a tool that removes all in our way." "The engine provides the drive to go somewhere, indifferent towards direction." "'Are we there yet?' asks the child, and so we question if we should have gone at all." Others "Enlightenment cannot be stolen. Your unlives are forfeit." "Westerners seem to have shockingly little respect for their ancestors." "Killing you and giving you good advice aren't mutually exclusive." "Shameful." "They have hsien here too?"