Name: Quinn
Gender: Female
Mythbase: Kuan Yin, Legend of Miao Shan
Link to a source on the mythbase: HereAppearance: Black hair, Kimono, Delicate figure
Powers: Socially fluent: She has a way of speaking that makes you like, and ultimately trust her.
Gentle Smile: Can gain friends easily with a smile and a handshake.
Personality: Quinn is a friendly sort, delighting in meeting people at parties and other such social gatherings. She is also a hopeless romantic and a realist. She likes the idea of true love, but understands that there are other things one need in life other than love. She is strong willed and will set out to get what she wants when she wants it. It is also very hard to distract her from that path once she has chosen it.
Her kindness is perhaps her biggest strength as well as her fatal flaw. She is kind to most anyone she meets, but that fact alone makes it very easy for her to be used by the wrong kind of people.
How does the characters personality, appearance and powers and your character relate back to your chosen mythos? Kuan Yin (Miao Shan) was a strong woman, instead of marrying for money she rose up against her father’s wishes and let him know exactly what she wanted in a marriage. This is the basis for Quinn’s realist personality as well as her stubbornness when it comes to getting what she wants.
Kuan yin is based in Chinese and Japanese myth, her appearance is the main focus to get that point across. Dark hair, traditional clothing, it all leads back to the root of her legend.
My character is a girl who obsesses over mythology; Japanese and Chinese mainly. She has read up on most of the myths and legends that the cultures offer, and is intrigued by them. When she finds Quinn, she knows she is special, she does not know why, but there is something about the girl, and how she is dressed that jogs my character’s memory.
History: In her former life, Quinn was a princess, a very headstrong princess that refused her father when he demanded she marry a rich and cruel man. Her father took anger with her and when the princess took to a convent rather than marry her father set in motion many a plan to change her mind. In the end her father had her killed, Quinn giving in to the executioner’s blade, freeing herself from her father’s daily torture.
Guardian: Pata is a sweet individual who likes nothing better than caring for her rather large family. She is a very good mother to the other children in her care and has no problem taking on one more. When she takes in Quinn she spends days talking with her of China and the other Asian countries. They share laughs, tears and information like they had been together forever.
World: The world that she was born into is not unlike the real world today. People go to work every morning, come home at night, kiss hung and put their babies to bed. There is one difference however, no wars. Sure there are you little squabbled now and then, but the countries, since the last big war have set aside their weapons and agreed to battles of wit rather than weapons.
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