CIVILIAN . WEI, JUN SHI

Male

Pansexual

Twenty Three

June 19th


Jun Shi is Chinese and has lived all his life in the wealthiest parts of Hong Kong. His lineage is easily traceable and as far as the Wei family is concerned, their family has historically come from mainland China and is pure blooded.

Because he is supposed to take over if anything happens to his twin, he’s learned all the languages Kun Shui has learned. Jun Shi speaks mainly English, Cantonese and Mandarin, but has also learned French, Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

Little Phoenix

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Civilian

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Renegade!

Kun Shui Wei
Pasha Mikhaylichenko-Molotov
Oskenon:ton

Very High

Ling Yao from Full Metal Alchemist

Jun Shi had always lived in the very lap of luxury. His family owned a very prominent building in Hong Kong, with most of the company operating out of the bottom levels and the top levels sold as luxury apartments. The very top levels had been for the family. Before moving to LA, the Wei family had an old block of Chinatown torn down and replaced with a glass tower, dubbed the 'Crystal Palace'. The lower levels are a high end shopping mall, while the upper levels are expensive apartments. His brother, Kun Shui, lives on the top three floors of the Crystal Palace, while Jun Shi lives on the fourth floor.

Jun Shi is impossible to distinguish from his more successful twin brother if you line them up naked, much to his chagrin. He stands at 5'11", with straight black hair and dark brown eyes that make him look plain as anything on a regular day. However, unlike his brother, he doesn't take so much offense to very casual clothes. While Kun Shui wouldn't be caught dead wearing a hoodie or shorts, Jun Shi wears these things without a problem. He's classy about it, however, and any plain clothes won't do.

The only other distinguishing factor that sets him apart from his brother is his tattoo. As part of the Wei family, he has the family crest tattooed on his shoulder; a small, circular symbol of a lotus flower enveloped by a crane's wings on his shoulder, in black ink. His twin brother's is bigger, and takes up his whole back in full colour. The small tattoo denotes his position within the family and the triad.

Jun Shi would call himself a chronic liar if he had less of a pride complex, and though he doesn’t lie quite enough for him to be formally recognized, enough people would accuse him of being such if they knew better. He’s a talker, to say the least, and his charm definitely lends to his ability. People believe him because, hands down, he’s an excellent liar that so few can see through. If he feels like he’s losing ground, he diverts the attention to something else until he can build his story. He’s beginning to let that get to his head, however, no matter how many times his brother has warned him against it.

Being manipulative comes as second nature to him, and it’s gotten to the point where not thinking about the best ways to make people do what he wants makes him feel uncomfortable. Jun Shi always absolutely needs to have the upper hand, he needs to know all the ways out and he needs to know what he can take advantage of. He’s down for physical fights most of the time, but he also firmly believes in the power of words and would prefer to talk his way through a situation first.

There’s a running joke between his brother and himself that sizing people up is his way of checking them out. His fascination with the inner workings of a human mind – and sometimes body – lends itself perfectly when he’s trying to put them on a string and have them do what he wants. He thinks on the go, but isn’t afraid to stand back and give some observation time before he makes his move. His confidence in his ability has grown with each successful ‘capture’, and he goes for bigger and bigger fish as time goes by. However, when it comes to pulling those strings, he’s never rash. He’s fully aware that it’s a delicate game he’s playing, and he needs to pick his victims and timing accordingly.

The most frightening thing about Jun Shi, and one that even his brother often finds himself worried about, is his extreme cruelty and abusive tendencies. Unlike a lot of people with his capability, he doesn’t hate humanity. Oh no, he finds himself quite entertained by it. It doesn’t always need to be physical for him, and fucking around with peoples’ minds is just as satisfying, if not more so. The partners he’s had in the past always come out a little, if not a lot less stable then when they’d come in. It didn’t start with torturing animals either, as some would have liked to accuse him of. He grew up in the same environment as his much more stable brother did, but took their lessons to an extreme instead of practically.

Coming with the territory of being rather unnecessarily cruel and manipulative, Jun Shi is incredibly creative. It doesn’t exactly mean he uses his creativity for good, but people who view his sketchbook tend to be torn between awe at the elaborate detail and ingenuity, or horror that somebody could actually think of a couple hundred ways to keep a person alive while playing with their exposed nerves. By most standards, he’s a very good artist with a very firm grasp on human anatomy, especially. His drawings for the sake of drawing, rather than thinking things over, are rather pretty to look at, if not a bit morbid.

With his twin brother as heir, it leaves Jun Shi in the very, according to him, bland position of the proxy. His job is to take over if anything happens to his brother and, despite his seeming indifference for everyone else, Kun Shui is the only family he’s still close to and wishes nothing ill of him. However, this position also leaves him with a very distinct lack of things to do. As a result, he’s taken up quite a few hobbies that easily range from very normal to out of the ordinary and eyebrow rising. One of his newest hobbies utilizes his vast resources and his fondness of manipulation to find people who’ve gone missing. The prices he charges aren’t in terms of money, however, and he finds some great entertainment in giving people odd and often cruel prices to pay, just to see how far they’d go to find someone they love.

Jun Shi and his twin brother, Kun Shui, were an unplanned pregnancy, no matter how much his father tried to deny it. They were born from a tryst between a wealthy business tycoon and a successful banker. Trying to save face and reputation, the two were hastily married, but held no real love towards each other. Nonetheless, when the twins were born, they cherished their sons, and their father immediately announced that his empire would go to one of them when he became old and tired. Their parents may have disliked each other, but if there was one thing they could agree on, it was their children.

Jun Shi proved to be rather intelligent at a young age, and he was often enrolled in various high class activities and extra curriculars. Sometimes he did like them for a while, and others became a hobby that he more or less kept up. Still, the attitude of putting his nose to the grindstone endured throughout his life, engrained into both the twins when they were young boys. Their parents decided the violin and piano would be good, esteemed instruments to have them play. For purposes of self defense and ‘just in case’, they also enrolled them in a couple of martial arts, including wushu and judo. Aside from that, he was basically allowed to partake in any activity he liked; the family certainly had the wealth for it.

He had his own interests, once upon a time. He did take a fond liking to hunting, though there wasn’t much ground for that in Hong Kong. He tended to think that the violin and piano were too ‘western’ for his tastes, and so he began to play the erhu. However, one of the most prominent things that his teachers noted him for was his artistic ability. Jun Shi loved to draw; his notebooks would be filled with doodles and his sketchbook always tucked under his arm. Fantastic creatures were usually his favourite subject, and there was none he drew more than the phoenix. His family soon gave him the nickname of Little Phoenix, because he was constantly drawn to those birds in his work.

The first hitch in the road was the fact that he graduated high school one year later his twin brother. To be fair, he still graduated a year early, but Kun Shui graduated two years early and that was what turned him in disfavor with his parents. Why couldn’t he be as good as his brother, they asked him.

Jun Shi found himself in business school not because he loved it, but because that was what Kun Shui was doing. He wanted to go to art school, perhaps, but his parents quickly shot that one down and told him that a degree in art was a degree in unemployment. Going to business school was to appease his parents and please them, but no matter what he tried to do, his twin always seemed one step ahead. Jun Shi gets perfect on a test? Kun Shui had gotten perfect, and bonus marks for his essays. Jun Shi got onto the badminton team at school? Didn’t matter, because Kun Shui was picked as the year’s captain.

As the years went by and Jun Shi fell more and more behind his twin, he began to grow an unhealthy obsession with beating him in something. Anything. His superior artistic ability was not taken into account, because his parents didn’t think it proved anything in the real world. He dropped his like for hunting as he scrambled to learn the bow and arrow, only to fall right into Kun Shui’s shadow in that field. He stopped playing the erhu, but whatever he was trying to replace it with, his twin was still better. His grades always remained a couple of percentage points lower no matter how hard he tried and his parents constantly reminded him of the fact.

The older the two got, the more and more obvious it became that Kun Shui was to take over as heir to both the business and the triad. Jun Shi had grown up seeing plenty of the cruelty that went on behind closed doors, and he was aware that if he wished to retaliate, he could. He wouldn’t have much success, though. On top of that, despite their rivalry, Jun Shi did really love his brother and wouldn’t want to hurt him.

So he faded back into the shadows, obscuring himself from family and public life almost entirely. Kun Shui was the one to try and maintain a relationship with him, and he was sort of grateful for that. As far as he was concerned, however, everybody else in his family could’ve gone and died in a hole. When the heir was announced and it’s result to the surprise of absolutely nobody, everybody steeled themselves for a backlash from Jun Shi. None came, and he obscured himself.

The years that filled from there on out were made of hobbies that he picked up and dumped. He picked up the erhu again, but it was a rare occurrence that he played it. His art went from drawing and shifted to painting, only to go back to drawing with simple pencil and paper once again. He took up the habit of drawing everything he came across, if only to pass time. It still felt a little empty though, and he began to dip into even odder hobbies in an attempt to find something that could suit him. Anything from animal taming to private investigation did well enough, but he never ‘admitted’ to his love for drawing because it was, according to his parents, a useless skill.

It was one year when a new ‘hobby’ came along; the Margaux family, a longtime standing rival of theirs, sent their eldest son, Lucien, to Hong Kong in an attempt at diplomacy. The family welcomed him with open arms, but they soon found out that they had been deceived, and Lucien was just bait for a much larger conflict. The Margaux had moved their men into Hong Kong, thinking that once they did so, the Wei family would kill Lucien and ship back a body. Then there would be every reason to start a full fledged gang war, and nobody would question their intentions.

Thankfully, the dragon head was more intelligent than they’d given him credit for. It took a week to send the Margaux men packing back to France, but as for Lucien… He was kept alive. He soon became a princess in a glass tower and a pawn in case they decided to come back. All they needed to do was to procure Lucien, largely unharmed, and the Margaux family would be history if they ever tried to attack again.

In time, Lucien became a sort of companion to Kun Shui, and the idea itself was pretty solid. Kun Shui was constantly buried in work, however, and rarely spoke a word to him, let alone interacted with him. So Lucien’s care fell on Jun Shi for the majority of the time, and to say the least, he found a new hobby.

He had never realized how pent up his frustration with the world was until Lucien fell into his lap. With no other outlet, he unleashed it on Lucien. It was first thought that once he spent it up, he’d go back to being nice and calm. There was apparently no such thing, because as time passed, Jun Shi became more and more cruel to both Lucien and those around him. He soon began seeing human life as trite, and with his brother’s resources, he was free to terrorize practically whomever he pleased. Lucien would often get the brunt end of this, emotionally and abused and told that he was worthless in every way. Being physically pushed around wasn’t so uncommon, either. Kun Shui may have been oblivious to Lucien’s plight, but Jun Shi knew exactly what he was doing.

But his hobby came to an abrupt end when Kun Shui was sent to Los Angeles by their father, and declared he’d be bringing Lucien with him. Once again, he was left with a distinct lack of things to do, and the last year had developed his taste for suffering, morbid as it was. His drawings soon became erratic and scheming, twisted to whoever looked at them. He was stuck in Hong Kong, all alone and the closest family he had a sea away.

It didn’t last for long; he didn’t know how he could stand it if it stretched over a few months. His twin brother called him up one night, telling him that he should be expecting a call. Somebody needed his expertise in finding people. Someone was lost, and they wanted them found. Jun Shi took the earliest plane to Los Angeles, more than ready to unleash himself on the new, unsuspecting masses.