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OOC;
name: Jay
age: 16
experience: four years roleplaying in proboards and ex-HK for aaalmost half a year here.
e-mail: MSN: jane_lau94@hotmail.com , flightofwinter@hotmail.com , AIM: halcyonae
IC;
nation: Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China)
name: Wang Zhi (王志)
nickname(s): Didi (little brother) by Yao and Zhizhi by certain close friends. Anything else just gets ignored unless obviously directed at him.
age: 20
date of birth: 1st July, 1989
hometown: Hong Kong
occupation: LU student (finance major)
residence: Shares an apartment with his brother and Yong Soo at the Charleston.
family: His father, Jiatai (家太) [58], his mother, Yuan (雨安) [56] and his older brother Yao
first impression: "TALKING TO HIM IS LIKE TALKING TO A BRICK WALL."
TEN TRUE FACTS:
1. Close friends and family members of Zhi will tell you that sometimes, it can be quite hard to tell what he's thinking. To everyone else, however, it's always hard to tell what he's thinking, due to the impassive expression (or lack thereof) he constantly maintains. It's not that he's actually as emotionless as everyone thinks or that he simply lacks the ability to use his facial muscles, but he just prefers to conserve his energy for things other than expressing himself. He has been known to actually smile, though; one regular cause of which involves pandas.
2. ...yeaaaah Zhi has a pretty hardcore obsession with pandas. They're just so irresistably 可爱 that Zhi just can't resist them. His brother is partly to blame for this- a large old panda plushie that Zhi's had for as long as he can remember was a gift from him to his little didi, and it was from there Zhi's love for pandas grew, not to mention that Yao's own contagious obsession with them was pretty influential. The panda's name is Xiang, by the way, and has a 香 embroidered on its forehead. Zhi loves him very much.
3. In addition to pandas, Zhi has a passion for Chinese food-- or to be specific, dim sum. It's normal to see him around enjoying a char siew bao or two (though it can be hard to tell whether he's enjoying it or not) at any time of the day, be it for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a random snack. He frequents a specific stall somewhere in the food court of the International Asian Market for all his dim sum needs and can usually be found there after a long day of school.
4. He's currently attending LU, which he got into without much difficulty, thanks to the mountains of exercise books his parents made him do when he was younger. As a result of excelling in mathematics, parental pressure and no other plans of his own, Zhi is majoring in finance and is working towards a career in it- probably as a banker. He isn't sure if he'll regret the choice in the future or not, but considering how he has the typical strict azn parents, it was easier to just go along with it instead of arguing for days weeks a lengthy period of time.
5. Surprisingly, Zhi doesn't spend all his free time studying. Instead, he spends part of it doing so, and the rest is for a combination of gaming, kung fu, and occasionally karaoke. After exams or whenever dire boredom kicks in, you'll be able to find Zhi in his room and his hardcore-gamer mode, usually button-mashing on some sort of MMORPG. Karaoke is a rarer occurance, and it needs to be with a group of close friends if Zhi is to go. Even then, it takes some convincing for him to sing, as really, he's just there to be the audience, but with enough nagging (which he appears almost immune to), he will deign to sing one or two songs.
6. Kung-fu, on the other hand, is one of the main loves in Zhi's life, aside from dim sum and pandas and Mei. At an early age, the regular Cantonese martial arts movie quickly caught his interest and his father encouraged his fascination, teaching him a few wushu handsets. Back pains forced the old Wang to stop after a while, but Zhi makes it a habit to dutifully practice at Morong Studio whenever he has the time. He practiced regularly on while with Arthur, too. A recent incident at Heritage Park left him with a scar on his left cheek, inflicted by a glass shard and a live cigarette, and this has spurred him to train doubly hard should he ever be in a similar situation again.
7. Contrary to the stereotype of all Asians speaking riek dis, Zhi's English is actually pretty good, courtesy of having come to the States at an early age. However, he has a habit of inserting numerous 华文的 words into his sentences, which 很多时候 makes him 好 hard to understand. He's conscious of this and usually manages to avoid it during conversations with non-Chinese speakers, but sometimes the words manage to get out and force him to repeat his sentence. People he talks to will also find that he's picked up a slight British accent somewhere along the way, which makes for a rather odd combination with his Mandarin. He owes this to the several years he spent in boarding school in England with a certain man and his brows.
8. Looking at Zhi now, he would appear to be a model student and a good son: dedicated to his studies, always scoring high marks and always sort of respectful to his parents and his gege. When he was younger, though, it was a whole different story where he was quite the delinquint child, and the one student who got caught pulling pranks, detention, held back after school or just playing truant would be him. Anyone who annoyed him or who he detested with a passion would get a taste of his inner pyro, which is something that's lasted till today, though to a lesser extent. This phase of his would probably have lasted till present day, had it not been for a family holiday back to China when he was around 13.
9. ...because that was when he met Arthur Kirkland, who had conveniently been visiting China at the same time. His parents had been growing concerned about his delinquient behaviour at the time and were trying to find a solution for it when they chanced upon this 好 西人 who, as it turned out, was a friend of Yao's! However, the situation was actually something... else, as Zhi later found out. In any case, the Wang parents had decided that American schools were far too lenient for him and that sending him overseas for boarding school would be the best thing to do. Zhi ended up going back to London with Arthur, where he attended a school there and stayed with the older teenager for five years. Initially, he resented this and blamed Arthur for it, but soon found out from a number of failed pranks that he was more well-versed in the art of delinquency than Zhi was. With time, he started looking up to Arthur as a role model and later on, a friend, and as he began to reform his ways, Zhi did the same.
10. That didn't stop Zhi from setting firecrackers every so often just to send Arthur into the air with fright, and it was after one particularly successful incident that Arthur cursed him (or so he believes). Soon afterwards, his eyebrows began to thicken considerably and Zhi is convinced that it has to be Arthur's fault though really, it was probably something in the food. Zhi still hasn't learnt his lesson from that, and every now and then sets the suppressed mischievous streak in him free when faced with people he dislikes, when bored, or sometimes just to annoy his brother. During times like these he indulges in things such as pulling pranks or burning things/ blowing them up- firecrackers are his specialty: come Chinese New Year, the exponential increase in random firecracker-related incidents can usually be attributed to him. No one ever gets hurt, though, so he's managed to escape the law for now.
AND A 秘密: Zhi grew up as a kid together with the mini Asian community of Ann Arbor, Michigan- Yong, Kikiu, his gege and Mei. He's had a crush on Mei since those early days of childhood but has never worked up the courage to say anything about it, and as a result has never had a girlfriend nor the slightest experience about love. He's also convinced he's straight, because of course he's never felt anything more for Arthur aside from feelings of affectifriendship, nope, 真的没有 where did you get that idea from.
可爱: kawaii~*~
香: first character in Chinese for Hong Kong; means fragrant
华文的: Chinese
很多时候: often
好: rather
好 西人: lit. kind West person
秘密: secret
真的没有: of course not