Bai Hu Wang

❛❛ Spectre

Bai Hu Wang

thirty-five || bisiexual || male || villain

PERSONALITY

POSITIVE
✔ Family oriented // Protective // Outgoing // Professional // Cunning // Intelligent // Street smart // Casual // Assertive // Outgoing // Charismatic

NEGATIVE
✖ Vindictive // Moody // Vengeful // Grudge holding // Stubborn // (Can be) Violent // (Can be) Distant // Possessive // Flirtatious // Sarcastic // Coy

LIKES
✔ Children // Flower Crowns // Drinking // Smoking // Sparring // Cooler weather // Skygazing

DISLIKES
✖ Warm weather // Humidity // Cemeteries // Parks (love-hate) // Failure // Being alone // Excessive brightness

PERSONALITY
All in all, Bai Hu has two primary sides: his common personality, and his "criminal" personality. His common personality is actually rather approachable and nice to interact with, even if he comes off as somewhat of a casanova- though a successful one at that. Cunning, sly, and intelligent, with a heavy side of snark and sarcasm alike; he has his wits about him, and could easily procure a smooth remark or two to either gain respect and character within the eyes of his peers, or to even possibly talk himself out of a potentially troubling scenario. His social skills are more than exceptional to say the least, with his intelligence academically and around the streets equally as so. With the amount that he flirts with many that he meets at bars or other events - mostly women, though he has also been known to supposedly have swooned the occasional man from time to time, as well - one could possibly even consider him somewhat of a playboy, though not the type to openly flaunt as such for sake of keeping face and impressions. However, this doesn’t go to say that he doesn’t have some form of decency and boundaries. If he feels that a person may or may not be uncomfortable while in public, he’ll be keen to take the hint, and will likely only leave one or two more remarks’ worth of teasing before backing off for their sake. Alongside this, he also appears to have a rather dashing front of professionalism when it counts, which is also layered with a side of politeness, so his personality in this regard could easily be respectable and taken into a better and brighter light.

The more dangerous half of his main personality would, by far, be the type that he exhibits when carrying out various missions and jobs related to his own gang- though for sake of keeping his identity safe, he only ever allows himself to show it under his disguise during a job on top of using whatever connections that he has in order to stay off of the radar, or when he’s around trusted associates that he has become acquainted with over the years. While genuinely fun to be around on a normal basis, to cross paths with him under the more shadier circumstances would be extremely dangerous to those that interact him. Contrasting greatly from his approachable nature on the surface, Bai has been known to be extremely rash and volatile in the face of his enemies and others who pose a threat to him- and what’s even scarier is that he would literally toss himself at a target and subdue them with Destiny Bond while his allies killed the target themselves, and is actually something he’s been known to do. Easily labeled as a man with a quick trigger who would more rather use actions over words to settle disputes, one should exercise extreme caution if they were presented with no choice but to fight him, and should very well fear for their lives under normal circumstances if he manages to shadow over them enough to gain the upper hand. Bai Hu, in his gang affiliations and secondary line of work, is vicious and ruthless, and in the event that he is sent on something along the lines of a hit mark to either take a target out or to gain information from them - if not both altogether - one should never put it past him to toy around with his captives. In some degree of amusement and joy alike, he’ll more than likely go out of his way in attempt to break those that are unfortunate to become his marks in both physical and mental regards before officially finishing the job.

Seemingly an effect of either one of these sides, however, lies a sort of dormant and more hidden aspect of his being. When close enough, those who know Bai Hu will know that he cares for his family with a burning passion, and interacts with them with a highly active, joking, and approachable persona that is also extremely carefree and social. He loves each and every single one of his siblings and family members - including and especially his brothers’ children, as he appears to have a small but extremely soft spot for kids - with an extreme loyalty, and would likely go to the ends of the earth to save them or bring their spirits back up if they were threatened in whatever way. His bond with his siblings is extremely solid, though if he absolutely had to say, he would probably admit to actually being the closest to his younger sister, Xiu Lan. Despite their age gap of about eighteen years, he holds her as one of the highest regards of his life, and would be the type to spoil her and spend as much time with her as possible when she has the free time over the weekends when she isn’t too busy with school. No matter what, he will always make time for her and joke around with her, as well as the rest of his siblings and family in general. From his line of work, it’s safe to say that the majority of them are always at a risk- but that risk is motivation enough for him to be there to defend them whenever needed and whenever possible. He will gladly throw himself into a suicide mission if it meant he could save any of them from any potential dangers, and if any of them get hurt - be it as a result of gang activity, or simple occurrences while traveling around - he will most definitely see to it that whoever had done his family wrong gets what was coming to them- though wouldn’t use more drastic and lethal forms of retribution unless they had put him and his family through equally as perilous situations.

In addition to these qualities and sides of his, however, it should be more than noted that, alongside the positive and endearing parts of his personality, there are plenty of negative qualities to easily counter them, as well; some of which being more apparent than others for the most part. Although truthfully analytical and observant - which is often something that surprises many of the people that he first meets on a normal basis - he tends to have a bit of a short fuse and a lack of patience with many things. Although he definitely is approachable for the most part, he is known to have a somewhat vicious streak with certain matters, as well as when he's pushed a bit too far from time to time. He's capable of being as indignant and vindictive as he is flirtatious and stubborn, so it's more than safe to say that it's farthest from the wisest idea to purposely get on his nerves if it isn't in joking or sarcastic banter that, in the long run, truthfully means no harm whatsoever. For sake of keeping his reputation as his company's CEO in check, he does a good job with remaining approachable and casual with both employees and business partners alike, but if there's a flaw in logic, or perhaps even a speck of trouble within thoughts or offered suggestions alike, he'll often have little to no problems with calling someone out due to his intensely confrontational nature.

Alongside this, he can be very aggressive and begrudging if he's pushed too far, and will either handle this anger in explosive displays or a calm, seemingly composed but indignant nature about him. In the case of the former, the expected results that one would expect from an erratic and rash individual would likely occur. As far as the latter is concerned, he'll often bottle his rage up for an inevitable future and pent up release (which does still involve explosive results in the longer run), but during the time in which he's calmer, he'll often be more passive aggressive for the most part while also having specks of spontaneous and offputting confrontational behavior. He'll show little to no signs of his common, casual, and flirtatious demeanor; instead replacing it with a persona befitting of your typical, down-to-work businessman. He'll keep conversations straightforward and to a minimum, and will be less willing to accept flaws or jokes when faced with the person that is causing this attitude of his- if it's a person to begin with. For the most part, his explosive nature surfaces with more drastic and spontaneous events, while on the other hand, the calmer nature would surface as a result of observing and hearing numerous things that stress him out; eventually driving him to become less passive and more aggressive with his actions as time goes on, and to cause him to finally snap in a stern and shocking manner in the eyes of most of his acquaintances as a result of the fact that his approachable and social facade is the most common one.

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT: ~1.96 m
WEIGHT: ~113.85 kg
HAIR/STYLE: Naturally black, but often dyed with white or dark purple spray dye within his villain attire. Not limited to a specific style; often fixed in various styles.
SKIN/SCARS: Somewhat of a slightly darker, cream like color. Has a couple of scars nicked along the right side of his jawline, as well as a couple of scars hooking over the left crook of the neck.
EYES: Naturally baby blue, but wears red colored contacts. Narrowed in shape.
NOTABLES: All in all, he has a total of four, primary tattoos upon his body; each of them representing one portion of the Four Celestial Beasts. The white tiger is on the entirety of his left arm in a sleeve tattoo, and is surrounded by what appears to be pieces of falling wood and lumber. The azure dragon is on his right arm within a similar, sleeve tattoo, and is surrounded by numerous leaves and tree branches. The vermilion bird - shrouded in flames while seemingly taking flight - resides upon the upper, right hand portion of his back, while the black turtle - shrouded by ice - is seen opposing from the vermilion bird on the lower left hand portion of his back, close to his side and waist. His body itself is also well built and toned due to numerous years of martial arts training; primarily in tae kwon do and kung fu. Alongside this, his past activity in parkour also contributes to his build.

In respect to his quirk, he also maintains a couple of primary, continuously visible features upon his body at all times; the first being a pair of wings upon his back, and the second being a thinner tail. Either of the given traits are to be expected when thinking upon the image of a certain type of demon, or perhaps even a being along the lines of a hellbound fiend, though the former of the two seemingly take the image of the standard, bat-like wings seen upon common interpretations of demonic form; both of which are about half a meter longer than his arm span on both sides altogether.

HISTORY

(Will be in first person to make it easier, but watch out for one Hell of a lengthy read because of that. RIP.)
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Heyo~. So...I'm guessing that you're the guys I'm gonna be working with, then? I heard that you guys wanted a breakdown of-... Well...of me~. My roots, my background... Everything regarding the basics, and everything beyond basic, too. I'll be real, man; it ain't everyday that I come across a business partner that actually gives a damn about learning about my roots and all, but... Hey~. If that's what you wanna hear, then I guess I ain't got the slightest reason in Hell to deny ya that info, right~? After all... I've already heard a bit about you, and all. We're both in the same business, here, so I trust that things are gonna stay confidential for the most part. 'Cause, I mean... If they don't, then I gotta kill you for sake of safety and security and shit like that. Can't let word about me and what my family does spread around like wildfire, and all, yeah? Gotta protect the family and name and any cost, yeah? Surely you understand, there, buddy~. Heh.

...Yeaaaah. Yeah, I jest and all, but... At the same time, I'm only a tiny bit kidding, there. Soooo...just a fair warning, and all~. Woops~.

Anywho~... Morbid joking and subtle threats aside... It's good to formally meet you, I guess~. As you may know by now, the name's Bai. Bai Hu Wang if you wanna get down and formal - and Nick or Nicholas if you wanna use my English name, but I just feel really weird whenever someone calls me that - but Bai's just fine. If you can't exactly or easily tell, I ain't exactly from around these general parts. For the most part, I was born and raised over in China. Guangzhou, to be specific. My parents were from different places of the country, themselves; Mom from Beijing, and Dad from Hangzhou. They both met while taking on their own, business oriented responsibilities when they were younger, and just...continued contact as they grew up and began getting involved with their own, respective companies. From business interactions came bonding, and...well, later down the line, they became a couple and eventually got married a while afterwards~. They had my older brother - Liu Yan - about seven or so years before I was born. Then...my twin and I came along. Shi Bo came along a few minutes before I did, so he's technically the older one between the two of us. Around the time that Shi and I were eleven years old, they had one more kid' our younger sister, Xiu Lan. All four of us were born over in Guangzhou- so...yeah. Born and raised over in China. Parents are both business owners that formed a third daughter company, so naturally, my siblings and I were taught in business. From our childhood, we pretty much went through private tutoring on top of school. Mom and Dad let us do what we wanted as far as hobbies went, so all of us trained in various forms of martial arts. through high school and college, we played our own sports, but in turn, we also learned about the cycle of trade. We attended galas, seminars... The works, really. Everything that would've helped us to get where we are now, my siblings and I took it in order to better ourselves for our jobs as the heirs and heiress to the family company. For the most part, living by and controlling business has pretty much been our lives.

...The surface of it, at least. 'Cause here's where things start getting a bit sketchy, ladies and gentlemen~.

So...I'm a businessman. Same with my siblings, parents... Even my aunts and uncles, and a few of my others cousins, too. our surface identities are the faces of our company; the same company known by the name of the very same Mystic Corporation as a tribute to its starters' children, and the same ...Also the same company that maintains hold and productions over technological goods for the most part. Phones, tablets... Even computers and whatnot. You need it? We got it. That's who we are to everyone else, but there's plenty more to us than meets the eye, 'cause see, here... My parents were and still are one other thing aside from business people and both former and present day trainers. Back in the day,they joined the same group that my siblings - aside from my sister, since she just wanted to live a normal life - and I ended up joining later down the line, too. ...A gang, if you will. The Sun Yee On, specifically, so yeah- we may or may not be Triad members? Don't get me wrong; we're still generally good people for the most part. ...Unless you push our buttons in the wrong way, but...yeah. All in all, it was more or less because that was the kinda stuff that Mom and Dad took charge of. Their businesses were connected through Triad connections, and that's how they met. So...we pretty much followed in their footsteps for the most part. Since they were young, they were trained in the same stuff that they trained us in: business. Business on the outside, and eventually, they took up the jobs of their own gang members while using their companies as their surface identities to lay low, so...we got a lot of stuff aside from just technology in the long run. Drug cartels, hitmen and hitwomen... Again. We're good people as far as normal intentions and morals go. But when you get beyond all that, though?

...Yeaaaah. Yeah, not so much~.
That's just the way things are, though~.

Yup. Yup, yup... So, there's that. Where I was born, what I do... What my parents did and still do, and the basic gist of everything. In a nutshell, that's really the main basis of my life.

...So let's get even further into detail, eh~?

Going back to the base of things... Again, I was born as Bai Hu Nicholas Wang back in the day on January seventh over in Guangzhou, China. From around the time I could walk and talk, I was trained in martial arts alongside my siblings as far as activities went, and as per my own interests, I also trained in parkour when I was a bit older. Back in the day, I was...a lot more different than I am now, to say the very least~. You see me now? See my confidence? My tendency to flirt and shit like that? Yeaaaah... Yeah, that wasn't how I was back then~. If anything, I was the exact opposite since I kinda freaked out and blushed at literally anything awkward or anything like that if it ever happened to me~. ...Yeah, I see that look you're giving me~. Hard to imagine me doing that, eh~? Like...under any circumstances? Yeah, I get that- buuut as much as I hate to admit it, it was a thing back in the days of yonder~. Point is that I grew up to be the way that I am now, so...I guess it was improvement~.

But yeah. As I said earlier on, my childhood was filled with tutoring, and galas... Martial arts training, and a Hell of a lot of other stuff. Admittedly, I was a lot more reluctant to do everything at first by sole virtue of how tedious it all was, but after constant encouragement from my parents, I kinda slipped into the swing of things fairly quickly. Met a lot of people along the way, too; some that were only there for the moment, and others that I still have contact with to this day. Some of them were kids around the same age as I was at the time; others were the parents of other kids that ran their own companies. Either way, I was introduced to a Hell of a lot of people from a pretty early age for sake of getting used to interactions and how to speak and whatnot, so... All of the early training proved to be pretty useful and beneficial in regards to getting me to where I am now. Helped me get into the swing of things, and...alongside that? It also introduced me to a fair amount of people that I actually like conversing with to this day. Some people who aren't just business partners and all. In the case of one specific person, I was skeptical at first, but...hey. Getting past the skepticism's part of growing up, am I right? And getting past the skepticism is what gave me my best friend today.

...Yeah.
Yeah. ...My best friend.

...Ahem. Yeah~. All of those interactions helped me come into contact with my closest friend to this day around the time I was eleven, and that would've made her...eight at the time? Yeah. That should be right. Anywho...her name is-...

...Or...was, rather.

...Either way. Jasmine. Jasmine Adler, or...Si Yeon Chi, if you wanted to call her by her Korean name, but...for the most part, she just went by Jasmine, Jaz, or...whatever nickname like that. We went back really far, and all. She was...originally one of my childhood business acquaintances, and she grew up to be one of Mystic's main business partners for a somewhat reasonable amount of time. I met her back in the day when we still lived over in China, and all. It was the usual routine and whatnot. My parents made it a habit to give us a heads up in regards to whenever we'd have to meet up with another kid or two while they met up with said kid or kids' parents all the while. Just so happened that, at the time, we were introduced to Jaz- although when we were younger, she was a lot different compared to how she was later on. ...A lot less toxic. Less...responsive in general. I remember time and time again when I'd just... Y'know. Look at her. Think about how weird she was. Honestly, my siblings and I tried to strike conversations with her a lot; cracking our normal jokes and banter like how kids normally did. But...in the beginning, we didn't exactly get anything aside from relatively blank stares and tilted heads from her. To some degree, it creeped me out, so...I just figured I had to ride it out until all those meetings and whatnot were finished between our parents.

I also figured that it would be better to just try and talk to her a bit more instead of just awkwardly and idly staring back and forth throughout the times she was there, so...out of all of my siblings, I guess I was the one who made the most effort to try and get her to talk despite how socially inept and awkward I was at the time. Albeit, a lot of the time, it just ended up in me getting moderately weirded out and vaguely unnerved because of her lack of emotions, but...I saw that everything was actually starting to pay off past a certain point. My siblings may have been off doing their own things at the time, but the more I talked to her, the more I got responses from her. Like...actual responses. Ones aside from those normal, unreadable stares and stuff like that. ...She actually talked to me, even if it was at tiny amounts at first. She talked, and talked, and talked... And eventually, she did more than just talk and stare. As time went on during that first year, I heard her laugh for the first time. Saw her smile for the first time... And before I knew it? ...I guess you could say that I was attached~.

I was attached as much as she seemed to be attached to me at the time- and although I admittedly didn't mind it too much, it always threw me off like Hell, man. 'Cause, like... Legit. You'd have this generally emotionless, tiny little girl just... Staring at you. Staring at you with that unwavering and unreadable look on her face, and then would just...get closer all of the sudden. Get closer. Lean up in your face and all that without knowing the slightest bit about what she was doing, or without knowing the definition of what personal space was. ...Heh~. Yeah, it really, really threw me off. Made me get flustered and spaz off the damn walls every single time she came to visit, but...it wasn't necessarily a bad thing~. Hell... It was one of the things that weirded me out, but at the same time, it was also one of the things that intrigued me in regards to her. With that intrigue came interest, and with that interest came more of a desire to see and interact with her, I guess. ...And that's exactly what I got through the years, so... Huzzah~. Huzzah, huzzah~.

Within those first few years, we just continued to get closer and closer to one another- and pretty quickly, much to my surprise at the time. Although she was still a lot more emotionless and unresponsive than I was wholeheartedly comfortably with, I just...found myself wanting to be around her more and more. So, again; that's what I did. I hung around her more. We played together when we were younger, and I guess I helped her out with being a kid at the time~. There was apparently a lot of stuff that she hadn't done- which, in retrospect, shouldn't have been too surprising given how much of a robot she pretty much was. A lot of the time, she'd see me and my siblings doing things and want to try them out for herself, or we'd even be out in public and she'd see other kids before telling me she wanted to do whatever it was they were doing. Being a bratty little kid, I always thought it was a tiny hassle at first, but...I couldn't really say no to her~. Not to that smile, not to that laugh... So every single time, I gave in~.

...I remember this one time in specific, too. If I remember correctly, it was her first time going to a park. She wanted to go, so my parents and her parents agreed to just have their little meetings by the benches and tables nearby so they could watch us while we and my siblings went off to play. As usual, my siblings did what they wanted to while watching over my little sister, which left Jaz and I to explore the place on our own. Her attention drifted to the swings from the get go, and from there on, you could pretty easily guess what happened~. ...It was weird, seeing her so happy and enlightened for once- and at the sight of a simple pair of playground swings. Nevertheless, it was something I couldn't bring myself to deny her, so...I let her pull me around. For a little while, we just talked as I pushed her on the swings. ...She smiled and laughed a lot, and I-...

...
...Well, I guess there's no use in hiding it, but I trust that this is gonna stay confidential between us~.
That right there... Her smiling and laughing. It was one of the things that made me like her- and not in your generally platonic way.

After the swings, we came across a tiny little fiasco - so in other words, she jumped off the swings and basically took me down into the sandbox - we got ourselves up and situated before she looked over and spotted this little flower bed. Again; it was a really simple and weird thing that I thought was really stupid to be intrigued by at the time, but...overall, we went there afterwards. The two of us sat down in the grass while she picked her flowers and began to weave little rings and crowns from them. She placed a couple on my head and hands, so...I figured I may as well return the gesture. The two of us spent time just making little flower accessories for each other for a little while after getting there; talking idly and together while doing so. ...Then at some point, she asked me to marry her when we were older. Caught me off guard and turned me into a flustered spaz, but...despite that, I accepted for reasons that may or may not be obvious. ...I realize now that the chances of that promise actually being fulfilled are actually pretty low, but... Honestly? A good part of me still wants that to happen.

...But seriously, though. Romantic endeavors aside, I'm thankful for the fact that I was able to meet her.
...More thankful than I've ever really admitted before.
More thankful than I could really express through words, so...it's really a shame that things ended up the way they did.

More on that later, though.

Thinking back on it, she and I kinda ended up like how my parents did to some extent. Sure, we didn't meet through gangs or shit like that, but...we met through business. All because of the fact that our parents wanted to meet up for joint business ventures and meetings, but... In the long run, I'm - again - really thankful for that. From that day on, I guess the two of us just got more and more closer to one another. It got to a point where we started seeing each other and hanging out during times that weren't dedicated to our parents meeting up to discuss business and crap like that. Sometimes, my siblings wanted to see Jaz whenever she came to visit, and sometimes, we were the ones flying over to Korea to see her instead. ...But honestly...? Now that I think about it?

...Heh. I guess it was just more of me wanting to see her, and vice versa.

That's how it was throughout the first few years, and as time went on, that's exactly what started to happen. With more time passing, we visited one another a lot more. When I was in my earlier teens, I started learning a bit more about the Sun Yee On in addition to business and school, but it wouldn't be until I was in my later teens that I started to get all into that. Until then, I focused on my academics and business tactics; both of which I ended up being able to practice alongside Jaz since we pretty much attended the same schools for the most part when we weren't separated by our little age gap. Admittedly, we still stuck pretty close together when we could , and again- we continued to do that even after school and in between meetings and galas and all that fun stuff. For the most part, we were and still pretty much are more or less inseparable. It was that way throughout our formal meetings and business meetings and ventures, as well as our specks of private tutoring... Even when we started high school. But if I remember correctly, that was around the time that-...

...
...Ah. Yeah. Yeah, it was around that time.

Uh-huh... It was around our high school-ish years that she started seeing other guys and whatnot. And I mean...that was her choice~. Her life is her life. I got my thoughts and my wants, but I-... I just... I mean, I really had or have any right to interfere with that, right? Yeah. So, honestly... I just watched her each time it happened. Oddly enough, none of them really lasted too long - something I was both surprised and pissed about since she always did deserve to have more than just a short, effortless relationship - but even then, it...only ever seemed like a matter of time before she got into the next one. And then the next... And the next, then the next, and-... Well, you get the message. All in all, she seemed like she was more interested in other guys by the time we got to high school, so...I really just encouraged her. Did my best to support her. After all, if she wanted to give it a swing with other guys, then...to some extent, I was fine with that. Whatever makes her happy, right? 'Cause...if she was happy, then I was happy. All I wanted was for her to be happy- even if that ain't really a possible thing anymore. ...Honestly, though... If I gotta be honest, I'm pissed at myself, though. 'Cause...I'll be real, here. I say all that, but I was the one holding myself back. And it's 'cause of that that I never got the chance to tell her to at least see her reaction. I know what the response would've been as it is, but hearing it from her lips would've at least given me that final sense of closure, and-...

...
...Raaaaambling. A'ight~. I'm rambling, now.
Rambling rambling, rambling... Aaaand now I'm back on track~.

...Aha. Yeah. Totally back on track. Uh... Let's see... Oh. Yeah, so...high school life, and...all that fun stuff. Yeah. I mean, I obviously had about three years' worth of high school under my belt before Jazzy got there- what with the age gap again, and all. Needless to say, though, the day I knew she was gonna be there, I made it a point to get over there and greet her while also being her guide, since...y'know. She ended up moving to China altogether at the time for sake of education, so I helped her out as best as I could. I showed her the sights and whatnot around the school and gave translations when it was needed at the time, but it was unsurprising how she got the hang of things fairly quickly. ...It was weird, but also amusing and still unsurprising, honestly. As far as communities in the school went, we ended up on two completely different sides of the spectrum. She was in the student council, then over on the other side, you had my twin and I who were in sports throughout the entirety of our years at the school. Football was my main sport, and I switched that out for wrestling when the season was over. I was on the wrestling team with my brother during the next season, but he always went into volleyball instead of football like I did, so...yeah. Either way, though... Different sides of the spectrum~. Different sides, yet...like we always did, we still continued to hang out together whenever we had time. And honestly? It was a Hell of a lot of fun watching her to submerge into the schooling lifestyle despite the fact that high school was her first legitimate schooling experience, as far as I know.

...It was hilarious to find out just how toxic she was actually capable of being~.

Quick little side note before we go on that tiny bit more, though~. You remember when I mentioned my own, personal activity within our gang earlier? Y'know...when I said that it wasn't until my later teens that I started getting a bit more involved in the gang trade and general activities and whatnot. Yeaaah... Yeah, it was actually around my senior year that I started getting more and more involved. At first, we eased in with the occasional exchange- and I'll leave it vague at "exchange" because it honestly could've involved exchanges between a variety of goods, now. It hadn't taken us too long before we got enough of a hang of everything to be more or less confident and completely unwavering during our trades, so everything went along pretty smoothly. Balance between schooling, gang work, and spending time with Jaz was surprisingly easy, so I just kept things up while doing my own thing here and there, and heyo- things worked out pretty nicely by the time I graduated. I still visited Jaz pretty often at the old high school even after graduation, of course, but even then, I moved on to college- and that place kept me pretty damn busy a lot of the time in between work, studies, gang life.. All that stuff. But again- I somehow managed, so that was nice.

As time went on, I stayed loyal to the Triad, and did a number of jobs alongside my siblings every so often, too. It went from drug exchanges to technological skills, and even to hitman activities among other things. Through that time, we all pretty much found our specialties and whatnot. Liu Yan stuck the most with drug cartels, so he's pretty much the main drug lord from our family. Shi Bo took a shine to technology, so he became a hacker, as well as our informant and primary guide whenever we need to do various kinds of business. As for me...? I became the main hitman in the family. All of us are capable of taking down targets and all, but when it gets to the bottom line, I'm normally the main one that it falls down to. Because of that, my life started getting a bit more hectic around the time that I was, say... Nineteen or twenty? Yeah. Somewhere around that time, I took my first hit, and although the idea of killing still doesn't exactly sit well with me, it became my main occupation within the Sun Yee On- and even then, I don't take up hits against completely innocent people, so there's that. been in the assassination game for a bit over a decade, now, so... There's that~. And, I mean... Later down the line, there was something that happened. And my training helped out with that. ...But before we get to that, we gotta get to something else, first.

We gotta talk about a couple of little asshats that I know~.

Honestly...? On one hand, I can't completely blame them since they're Jaz's parents, and without them, I never would've actually met her to begin with. But...at the same time, they hurt her. A lot. She may not have realized it at the time, but they were the reasons why she was never actually able to be a kid. Why she was unresponsive, and so emotionless, and it all just-... It all just pissed me off so much, and I just-...

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...Yeah. Yeah, I hate them. I hate them so much, but...the only things keeping me in line are the facts that they;re both valued business partners, alongside how they're still Jazzy's parents, too, so... I can't do anything to them. I want to, but I can't, so that's why I get so damn pissed off.

'Cause see, here. Around the time she was sixteen - which made me nineteen and a bit into my assassination lifestyle at the time - I was, again, busy with my own life. Gang life, college, extracurriculars... That and everything beyond all that good jazz. I was swamped as all Hell; rarely a speck of free time for myself for a good while, but despite that, I still made sure to be able to clear my time up for sake of spending time with Jazzy.

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