Name:
Xiao Lì
ID Number: 12030101
Rank: C3
Year: Sophomore
Nationality: Taiwan (Chinese)
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Appearance:
Fighting Style: Tai Chi(11 years), derivative versions of Tai Chi. The importance of the start year in study is based around the concept that there is no end to learning and the disciplines active avoidance of a belt system.
Powers: The release and control of inner chi. The current manifestation of this is the ability to move the earth in concise directions. The range on where she can exert these abilities maxes out at ~2 feet from her reach. The rough size of the forces moved can vary, but based on school evaluations, they have determined that the maximum size these projections can reach in their current form stops at about 3.1 cubic meters.
Personality: She is shy and timid... On a more serious note, she is shy and timid to a degree. This is a person who has conflicting personality traits. Inwardly, she's incredibly condescending and belittling of most other people. Her inner-beliefs are very strong which causes her to be very difficult to convince of things. It's very accurate to say she is one who is stuck in their ways.
The interesting conflict here is how well she outwardly projects her inner thoughts. When it comes to confrontation, more specifically in the confrontation of ideas, she is a fucking coward. This is a person who has been sheltered, home-schooled early in her life, and taught a fighting style that focused on defensive combat. Putting her basic socialization problems aside, she still has tons of flaws and weaknesses on the mental aspects of dealing with people... This is especially important in an environment where a significant portion of people want to literally kick your ass.
The easiest breakdown to explain her personality is that she isn't really a morally bad person at heart. Her most negative traits are those you tend to find in young, undersocialized individuals: inconsiderate of others views, somewhat selfish, difficult to work with. Unfortunately, her immaturity mixed with her distain public verbal confrontation leads to her being a little shit that likes to talk about people their backs.
Background: Xiao Lì is a first generation immigrant to the US. Her family are originally from Taiwan. After the birth of their first child, the Xiao family. This was prompted by many factors, the primary being economical pressures being levied against Taiwan in conjunction with the ever-looming threat of military action from the Chinese mainland. This led to their eventual departure for foreign shores.
While technically being born overseas, her life truly started in the US as her parents began their new ones. They didn't have much. What wealth was lost due to pressures from mainland China and governmental bureaucracy. One thing that her parents did have with them though, was the teachings of their family lineage. This meant Xiao Lì became a student of the art from day one. This study she had undergone was more than just Tai Chi forms. It also included the principles of the art. It included the concepts of what one did with their body, how it all functioned, and the underlying forces that fueled this practice in its original construction.
Eventually time passed, and she was old enough to go to school. She was excited. Her life didn't really present many openings for her to communicate with others aside from her parents. Unfortunately, this one wouldn't either. Why? Her parents made the cardinal sin of first generation immigrants. They only taught her their native language. Now, many people may think "But they have programs to help students transition into English," and they would be right. The problem with this is that the United States doesn't give a shit about Asian people. The only foreign language that programs like ESL are equipped to deal with is Spanish. Guess how many Taiwanese people speak Spanish? Not very many.
This time period in her life would become known as the terror. While the teachers were aware, young children don't understand the difference between mentally deficient and unable to speak english. This led to a lot of things such as ostracization and bullying in her first and only years in public schooling. In fact, her inability to communicate led to her being trapped on a bus for hours unable to find her way home. The bus driver was just some guy trying to drive his route. He's an idiot, but it wasn't his fault. It was nobody's fault. That doesn't mean it didn't happen though. And, while it may not seem like much to an adult, this was huge to her. This was a four year old child with a very diminished concept of time, trapped with a person they can't talk to in a place they don't know. That event in partnership with just how shittily she was treated in first few years of public school led to her being pulled out in favor of home-schooling.
She has since learned English. That's not to say it didn't take a lot of pushing from her parents. Due to how late in the game she began her steps towards learning it, she still speaks with a bit of an ancient and speech impediment of sorts.
This is where questions start to rise. How does she get to New Peaks Academy? It's a prestigious school with extremely high tuition fees. Her family lives contently, but they aren't wealthy by any stretch. The short answer is that her parents recieved an offer to give Xiao Lì a full ride scholarship to New Peaks Academy. This definitely something that draws more questions. How does a sheltered child that avoids people and does nothing but study Tai Chi, play videogames, and shitpost on the internet manage to get the attention of New Peaks Academy staff?
When you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibilities of a new reality. One of Tai Chi's core principles revolves around chi's movement through and around the body. Chi is the lifeforce everflowing around everything. This is what sparked the school's interest with her. She discovered that she had the ability to project a physical manifestation of her chi and control it outside of her body. This was the thing that sparked New Peak to actively pursue acquiring her as a student.
This all happened the day she uploaded a video online. It went viral, and that's all there was to it. Despite her initial protests, the idea of becoming something important did provide a nice offer. It was another chance to find peers that would accept her, or at least pretend to.
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