(90% done wip)
Full Name: Hei Jiang
Gender: Female
Age/Date of Birth: March 14th 1913 (28~)
Nationality/Ethnicity: Chinese, People's Republic of China
Rank: N/A - liaison of the Chinese United Front, member of the PLA's internal security division technical rank of Captain.
Appearance
"Hmm, shall I show you the way? The Tao tells me this will become a Mockery in the distant future."
Description: A woman of Chinese ancestry with a model like figure, fair skin and all the rest, her only "flaw" and one some have considered exotic would be her red eyes, the occasional wide eyed, psychotic or sadistic grin aside. Her style of dress is overly fanciful with some practicality observed for the battlefield, camouflage not being one of them. Unknown to most, her eyes are so called "Pure Eyes", a trait passed on by her mother. she has a curious dragon tattoo on her right arm that seems to be something.. more, and one could swear it's position is rarely ever in the same place for long, but that would be crazy talk, right?
Height: 5'8 Weight: 155lb
Background
Biography: Jiang's history is somewhat shrouded in mystery, officially records have her place of residence and birth as generalized as being in central Shaanxi and being part of the People's Republic of China's Central Cultural Committee and the so called Internal Security Division. A praticioner of magic, she came to her people's defense in it's hour of need, aiding in the struggle against the Japanese for the prior give years. She was chosen as the Chinese representative to the conflict and is the daughter of a simple middle class family in the mountains of China.
Normally very hush-hush on it Jiang's life is only known to a few. The way in which she carries herself with a noble dignity hints at a greater or at least a more brought up life than that of a mountain peasant. Other than that he story more or less matches up with the Official Chinese Recommendation with a few key differences.
Jiang is originally from the Manchurian territories, where she was born and raised, her mother, Hatori Kiyako, was a Taoist Priestess with bright red eyes and her father, Hei Liu, was an eccentric Calvary Officer that served in the Army of the old Imperial Dynasty. Life was fairly simple and built off of savings of her father and the occasional odd job her mother would get for performing Taoist rites. Unlike many in the modern Era whom magic seems to be hidden from, Jiang was thrown head first into it, mostly as by nature of her birth the Shinto sects would be out for her and her mother's head. For while Kiyako would never give a straight answer on just how far down the line or what percentage it was, she and her daughter both carried the Pure Eyes, that showed Demonic decent, or to be more spot on, the Oni.
For both of them the ability to see otherworldly things and the constant threat of Demon hunters, left the option of not learning magic, to well not being an option. One cannot easily hide such things. But China was in a chaotic state that had lasted the last 100 years and was for much of it's history deeply entrenched in the occult. Joining with mage groups that had much in common with the principles of the Western Mage's Association, the family mostly lived on the down low. Subsidizing its resources with her and her mothers work in the arcane the family life was by and large peaceful and not lacking, minus the occasional hunter attack, which often ended in blood, Jiang herself developed a nasty little power that her mother lacked when it came to dealing with these threats.
Though Jiang, either be it from her Oni blood or her own personality was never the, quiet sort. Being shunned by most of the other locals, as she got older she was rather aware of her beauty and took sadistic glee in punishing her peers if they dared to cross her. This would in turn end in rebuke from her parents, though this would not hold for long, with the actions of the Kwantung Army and the Demon Hunters would drive them ever westward. That was until the Marco Polo bridge incident, during the fierce fighting that would follow and lead to the 2nd Japanese-Sino War, Jiang's father would reenlist and die with the Shanxi forces.
Her mother would be wounded over the course of the conflict, losing her vision, continuing her march westwards with her mother in tow, Jiang made a deal of sorts with the Communist forces of Mao, her mother would be granted passage to Bhutan with aid of Communist forces, in exchange, Jiang would aid the Communist forces in the War against Japan and internal threats while trying to gain a way to get her mother and maybe herself to the West, or at least a less hostile and peaceful nation, far removed from Japan. To this end it also was a job that greatly pleased her, given the pointless nature of her Father's Death and the near constant conflict against the Japanese, it was good to be able to kill both sides without restraint, though she wasn't much of a believer in the Communist cause.
Over the next few years, Jiang would join the PLA's Guerrilla and internal security operations with her own power, though typically avoiding conventional warfare. As the conflict dragged on the Japanese would make the fatal mistake of attacking the Americans and the European powers, dragging the Chinese Alliance into the allied cause. On December 9, 1941 the Chinese leadership would jointly declare war upon Italy and Germany, cementing it's place with the Allied forces. During the course of the conflict, the goals of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union became more and more clear and the battle for the Grail would be of the utmost importance to China. On the one hand the Nationalist did not wish to see the off chance on the Germans using it to help the Chinese and the Communist did not want the Western powers to have the legs to return to Asia.
The main problem however was the small issue of a massive War against the Japanese across nearly all of China, with dark beings running about and the low key mage battles, the PLA was quick to offer the services of Jiang to the Allied Cause, though there is some talk that she may have positioned herself to this position by defeating other mages, a skillset she had honed over the years, ironically thanks to the Japanese.
With her own knowledge of summoning and some materials donated to the allied cause, she sets about summoning her Servant with her own objective in mind.
Occupation: Mage, PRC Secret Police/Minor Government Official
Personality
Likes: Dumplings, aesthetics, the supernatural, sadistic (likes to cause pain or harm), Family, philosophy, stability.
Dislikes: Sour food, overly honorable sorts, mage hunters, most people, having to fight in close, Shintoism, the machoistic.
Talents/Mage Abilities:
Taoist Mage: The principle of the Tao is based upon the cycle of life and death, of the flow, the way, and Chi. Of inaction and action, of answers and nothing. Accepting of Paradox and denying the Truth. Making use of one's own magical affinity and spirit circuits to power it's spells with chanting and paper seals. Crafted with blood or magically infused paper, Taoist magic typically has long staying power if not lacking in mobility.
Taoist magic as a result is heavily vested in incantations to cancel spells from a foe, binding foes or demons in one place. Forming the foundation of much of the magic that would reach Japan, it is very vested in the views of Yin and Yang.
Short of being able to bind an opponent or to disrupt a spell with a counter chat, Jiang is capable of using wing elemental spells, to make blades of wind, miniature windstorms or other such phenomenon to be expected of an experienced mage. In addition she does have a limited ability to heal herself and others from some wounds, the "Yin" to her Yang as it were.
Taoist Necromancer: This was the one ability she had that her mother and many Taoist lacked, the ability to awaken and make the dead fight for herself. By placing a seal upon a corpse it is possible to force it to fight or move for ones self, typically effective on humans, a rather large paper seal is placed upon the head of a dead body causing it to reanimate as part of the undead. Though capability of them is exceptionally limited, the bodies can technically function for as long as the seal can draw power, till it's removed, or destroyed.
The revived target typically has no means to speak and motor functions may be limited as rigor mortis sets in. Unlike with a western necromancer, this isn't so much an attempt to find immortality or some greater rebirth in the dead, but to simply have a puppet.
In the case of Jiang and her...well Jiangshi.. Jiang has been shown controlling up to 3 and at most 6 Zombies, while they maintain weapons use in some cases, Jiang would often use them for ambushes or suicidal attack on unsuspecting forces , or in the case of weaker mage to use them as a means of quick mana drain, or a shield to bring out emotions from a former ally. Either way however, her magic does not baring the dead back alive, so much as slaving them for a few order to be release once more, to slumber. Those brought back are little more than fodder with little if any memory and no ability to speak with others. Though they are oddly behave around the mistress alone.
Oni Blood: Her Trump card of her pure eyes and ancestry to an Oni, she is the one of the few that carries on a wee bit too much of the blood of a distant ancestor, or maybe a not so distant one. Either way she had enough to the blood though her mother to be fairly tall and strong, with blazing red mystic eyes that let her see the "truth". While useful in a manner from the start the key value is in when she is pressed in. Turning into a Berserker like fighter she can feed off of her internal rage and blood around her, abusing the flow of magic to become one hell of a melee righter that can remind others of the feared the Oni. Her hand to hand combat is rather messy and fits well with the Eastern concept of Breathing.
Additional note is the "tattoo" on her arm is something of a magical seal made of blood that can be used to ward off curses, provide material for counter curses or to make her Taoist talismans.
Weapon(s): Magical Abilities, a sidearm like the TT-33 if required? Primarily used to fighting other mages or ambushing forces with Guerilla tactics, next to no knowledge of mass combat as seen in the Eastern Front.
Preferred Servant Summon: Not really.