Portrayed By: |
Grace Park |
Status: |
Alive |
Age: |
20 |
Calling: |
The Anti-Cool |
Pantheon: |
Celestial Bureaucracy |
Divine Parent: |
Huang Di |
Significant Other(s): |
Zack Archer |
Background
You know, if I were a little less of a good person, I think I could be a pretty jaded, cynical witch. I was born January 15th, 1992 to a pretty traditional Chinese-American family here in New York City. How do the two connect? Well, here's the thing: My biological father is an ancient Chinese god-emperor. My biological mom? Not so much. Apparently she has a little bit of a wild streak in her, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been conceived by her one-night-stand "affair", which was actually her bachelorette party.
Somehow she managed to hide her pregnancy from her fiancee, who works for this local high technology contractor. I think it's pretty cool, he always took me to work and taught me about a lot of the non-classified projects that he worked on over the years. My life to this point has been pretty cool so far, sure, but I'm not particularly popular. Being really smart and otherwise pretty average doesn't really have many upsides socially, even for children of gods.
Now I'm in high school, my last year or so, and my biological dad pops up out of the blue. I guess I always kind of suspected that at least one of my parents wasn't actually my parent, I've always done pretty well in school and, well, I don't have some of the classic Mendelevian traits that my parents display. Thing is I never really gave it much thought. My dad was my dad and he was kinda cool, in a geeky sort of way, plus he knew all sorts of really cool people.
My real dad, Huang Di, is kind of a tool. He's the "Yellow Emperor", which is actually more flattering than it sounds. In Chinese that's actually a really good thing. Unfortunately, he's a priss about rules and rules and stuff, a real rules lawyer if I use the gaming community term. On the other hand, he /IS/ a /GOD/, which is kind of neat I guess. The point remains that he came to Visit one day this fall and, oh, he was a little late. Apparently the gods that are parents of the other folks I'm supposed to be helping to save the world have already Visited their kids.
Yeah, that's right. There's a war for the fate of the world going on, apparently fought between the gods and assorted supposedly mythological creatures and figures, and the gods are using kids as their soldiers. Fantastic, I guess, if your parent happens to be any real use in a fight. Huang Di? Super brilliant and capable of commanding people through sheer force of personality, but he gets into a fight? He's kind of screwed. Fighting isn't his forte and it certainly isn't mine, unless I happen to be playing Street Fighter or D&D, in which case I /ROCK/. My dad though? He can endure some crazy, crazy damage. Not so much for me.
So, yeah. I guess I feel better now that I've vented, but I really need to find these other children of the gods with whom I'm supposed to be fighting the Titans. Oh and I should also go grab some books from the library and figure out what the hell I'm up against here. When in doubt though, I think maybe I can pull a Goku. You know, from Dragon Ball. He's based on Sun Wu Kong, the Handsome Monkey King of Chinese legend. Sun Wu Kong is pretty cool, I met him one time, and he's also a total badass. I think that'll be my tagline, WWSWKD? What Would Sun Wu Kong Do?
Personality
Pei-Pei is kind of a nerd. Well, no, she is a nerd, but she's not terribly proud of that fact. For much of her life, Pei-Pei has wished she was different, unique, somehow capable of attracting the attention of her peers so that they would like her. And now her father, Huang Di, has visited her and given her power. Unfortunately for Pei-Pei, her father is kind of a tool and pretty much every bit the nerd that she is.
In a fit of teenage rebellion, brought about by a mixture of life-changing circumstances and angst, Pei-Pei has decided to act against her father's type. She has taken her divine power and accepted it as a part of her life, but she refuses to be the good little soldier girl like so many of her half-siblings. Pei-Pei will have her fame and her glory and, above all else, she will have her popularity. This, however, will require a superior role model than her father; Pei-Pei's chosen role model for gaining popularity is Sun Wu Kong. A woman scorned and all that, Pei-Pei is out to do everything in her power to not be the stiff, uptight rules hound she has always been before.
The sad part for Pei-Pei is that she is very much a nerd. She tries her best to twist her own Fate, but when she seems most likely to attain popularity, she sabotages herself. Perhaps it's just a phase she'll grow out of, perhaps it is Fate trying to keep her in the place it has demarcated for her life. No matter the reason, Pei-Pei struggles constantly to gain the popularity she has always been denied. At times this quest may keep her from seeing the popularity she has amongst her peers, her friends, and her family, but in the end, she always ends up falling back upon her friends.
Aside from her quest for popularity, Pei-Pei is very much the stereotypical American teenage nerd-girl. She plays video games and keeps an extensive stuffed animal collection - that collection just happens to be full of creatures from fantasy, sci-fi, and comics - plus she can quote Monty Python. Perhaps her greatest asset though has been a natural acumen for academia. Certainly she has never seen it as much of an asset, it keeps her from being popular after all, but it has proved its mettle more than once in her life. If she would focus less on how she isn't popular with the "popular" kids, she might actually possess the confidence in her abilities that her friends often possess.
Often shy at first, Pei-Pei can be outspoken when she gets fired up over a cause. She has, in fact, been known to troll Internet message boards and flame people. In Real Life, Pei-Pei has a tendency to clam up if she thinks she's about to say or do something that might jeopardize what little popularity she has scraped together. Oftentimes her friends will have to goad her into opening her mouth, but when she does open her mouth, Pei-Pei possesses all of the force of personality that is attributed to her father, Huang Di, if not all of the wisdom and insight. If she ever attained proper self-confidence and a cause to impassion her, Pei-Pei could be a truly powerful, truly popular leader. If only.
Relationships
Name |
Relationship |
Notes |
Gayle Ha |
BFF <3 |
Gayle and Pei-Pei have been friends for forever… Little did they suspect either of them - much less both - was the child of a Shen. |
Matthew Morgan |
The Jock |
Handsome, out-going, horny. One of Gayle's best friends, again little did either suspect that the other was a Scion. |
Tavio Reyes |
Jock 3: Latin Heat |
Handsome, out-going, and somehow very present in the moment. Relatively recent transfer student, but in Pei-Pei's social group thanks to Fate. |
Zack Archer |
Jock 2: The BF |
Handsome, out-going, and pleasant. In Pei-Pei's circle of friends for a long while, little did either suspect that the other was a Scion. |
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Relationship |
Notes |
Aillen Mathers |
Irish Yamato Man |
Friendly spear-wielding Tuatha Scion. |
Dion Nevins |
Ambiguously Gay |
Met on the school's roof while Gayle was showing off super powers. |
Jackson Hopper |
Steampunk Genius |
Met Hopper in high school. He's at least as smart as she is, but favors steampunk aesthetics. Probably not a good idea to get him and Gayle in proximity to one another again. |
Jocelyn Mantreh |
Fellow Nerdgirl |
Friendly high school nerdgirl, into the occult and various nerdgirly things. |
Josh Syx |
Hulk Hogan |
Met Josh at a PPV wrestling event at New Atlantis' version of Madison Square Garden. Hunky and surprisingly down to earth. |
Naomi Shiba |
Ambiguously Awkward |
Met her at the Middle Grounds, she seems nice, but kind of socially awkward. |
Dee Floros |
Hip Hipster |
Briefly met Dee at the New York Public Library, they were introduced by Erasma. |
Dhatri Karmali |
Weird Med Student |
Met Dhatri at the New York Public Library. He's kind of weird, but cute. |
Erasma Menous |
Nerd & Proud |
Met Erasma at the New York Public Library. She's a nerd and proud, she says it out loud. |
Gao Yang |
Mad Cameraman |
Met Gao near Times Square. Sun Wu Kong (<3) punched sense into him. |
James Wade |
American Hunk |
Met James in high school. Really learned more about him while fighting harpies at a high school dance. |
Micheal Walker |
British Hunk |
Met Micheal in front of Columbia's library. He's dreamy. |
Mizuko Shimizu |
March Harelet? |
Met Mizuko while fighting harpies at a high school dance. She's Gao's friend… Of some sort. Pretty neat. |
Preston Masterson |
BFF's BF |
Pretty boy. Pretty, pretty boy. Kind of old to be hanging around high school girls though. |
Stephen Wainwright |
BFF's Eye Candy |
Handsome, funny, and charming. Kind of a lech, but that's better than being a lich, right? |
Events Thus Far
Links to logs with event summary. Woosh!
Character Sheet
Appearance: 2 |
Charisma: 2 |
Dexterity: 3 |
Epic Appearance: 0 |
Epic Charisma: 0 |
Epic Dexterity: 0 |
Intelligence: 5 |
Manipulation: 3 |
Perception: 3 |
Epic Intelligence: 3 |
Epic Manipulation: 2 |
Epic Perception: 0 |
Stamina: 4 |
Strength: 2 |
Wits: 4 |
Epic Stamina: 2 |
Epic Strength: 0 |
Epic Wits: 2 |
Academics: 5 |
Athletics: 5 |
Awareness: 3 |
Brawl: 3 |
Command: 3 |
Craft (Automotive): 3 |
Craft (Baking): 2 |
Craft (Clothing): 5 |
Craft (Earth): 3 |
Craft (Electronics): 5 |
Craft (Metallurgy): 5 |
Craft (Nanotechnology): 5 |
Craft (Robotics): 3 |
Craft (Water): 3 |
Empathy: 2 |
Fortitude: 5 |
Integrity: 3 |
Investigation: 3 |
Marksmanship: 2 |
Medicine: 5 |
Melee: 2 |
Occult: 5 |
Politics: 2 |
Science (Biology): 5 |
Science (Chemistry): 5 |
Science (Computers): 5 |
Science (Geology): 5 |
Science (Nanotechnology): 5 |
Science (Physics): 5 |
Science (Robotics): 5 |
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Stealth: 1 |
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Earth |
Safely Interred |
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Guardian |
Vigil Brand |
Warning Line |
Aegis |
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Mystery |
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2 |
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Taiyi |
Five Cycle Augmentation |
Yin-Yang Destruction |
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Water |
Water Breathing |
Potability |
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NES Laser Pistols |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: 0 Accuracy, +5L Damage, 5 Speed, 50 Range, INFINITY Clip |
1-Dot Relic |
Science: 15/15, Craft: 23/15 |
History: Pei-Pei's first Concept to Execution project. She felt like she wasn't really of any use in a fight, so instead of opting to increase her melee or hand-to-hand fightyness, she opted to make herself laser guns. PEW! PEW! PEW! |
Boomday Cake |
Purviews: None. |
Note: Big ass bomb that looks like a giant cake. |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science: 24/16, Craft: 12/10 |
History: Zack came to ask Pei-Pei for help in sticking it to the Atlanteans. After a lot of talking and him giving her their first kiss, she agreed. To do so, she decided that the best solution is to make sure that the Atlanteans know that CAKE IS A LIE! |
War Segway |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: 0 Accuracy, +7B Damage, 5 Speed, -1 Defense, Piercing |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science: 8/5, Craft: 17/10 |
History: Pei-Pei had a crazy thought after spending all night online. She decided to make herself a Segway - enhanced with Atlantean automotive tech - capable of traveling at highway speeds. Also, since she is pretty lacking as far as melee weapons go, she figured she could make the Segway sturdy enough to double as a deadly mallet. |
Freeze Ray |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: 0 Accuracy, 0 Damage, 5 Speed, 25 Range, INFINITY Clip |
1-Dot Relic |
Mimics Serpent's Gaze, Effective Legend of 3 |
Science: 36/35, Craft (Water): 15/15, Craft (Electronics): 15/15 |
History: Pei-Pei has been on a mini-inventor kick off-screen, largely tinkering with weird ideas and objects. Quite abruptly, she realized that her biggest problem in using her Laser Pistols in combat is that most enemies don't stand still long enough for her to get a good shot. Since having that mini-epiphany, Pei-Pei has begun the task of developing a classic Mad Science device: The Freeze Ray. All the better to freeze her enemies in place! |
Shield Tonfa |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: +1 Accuracy, +1B Damage, 4 Speed, +3 Defense |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science: 10/10, Craft: 9/7 |
History: A part of Pei-Pei's Christmas mini-inventor kick and the first test of her abilities with miniature-scale technology and miniaturization of parts. The Shield Tonfa, for lack of a better name, is an aluminum tonfa that includes a single mechanical subsystem. With the press of a button, the tonfa's body fans out into a small, but hardy shield. Press the button again and the shield retracts into the tonfa's body once more. |
Sharp Tonfa |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: +1 Accuracy, +1B (+2L) Damage, 4 Speed, +1 Defense |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science: 10/10, Craft: 9/7 |
History: A part of Pei-Pei's Christmas mini-inventor kick and a second test of her abilities with miniature-scale technology and miniaturization of parts. The Sharp Tonfa, for lack of a better name, is an aluminum tonfa that includes a single mechanical subsystem. With the press of a button, the tonfa's outward facing surface snaps up into a line of sharpened spines that can be used both as a jitte against bladed attacks and as an effective slashing weapon or tool. Press the button again and the spines fold back down flat against the tonfa's body. |
Helicopter Pack |
Purviews: None. |
Notes: Self-Contained Helicopter in a Backpack. |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science: 28/20, Craft: 21/15 |
History: Pei-Pei was thinking, she doesn't fly and she doesn't jump good, so this is clearly a deficiency in her capabilities that must be addressed. As a result, she went looking at making some kind of hang glider until she realized that the best hang glider ever belongs to Batman and she is totally not making herself some kind of Batsuit. Instead she realized that her style is sleek and industrial, at which point she began concocting this brand of helicopter nonsense… She may also have been playing too much Ratchet & Clank, but YOU WILL NEVER KNOW! |
Emergency Chainsaw |
Purviews: None. |
Notes: It's like a Swiss Army knife, but with chainsaws. |
?-Dot Relic(?) |
Science (Physics): 25/20, Craft (Metallurgy): 30/30 |
History: Pei-Pei was watching Army of Darkness and got to thinking that she should have a chainsaw in case of rampaging armies of darkness. She also thought that, while she was at it, she should probably have a gadget that could help with surgery and which might also provide her some range. One thing led to another and, while re-reading the Sluggy Freelance archives, she came up with the idea of the Emergency Chainsaw - a reconfigurable multi-tool that can fit into her Helicopter Pack's storage space. It incorporates a medical chainsaw - in case she has to perform some open chest surgery or amputate a limb or what have you - plus a three-speed regular chainsaw with a "small" chainsaw blade, a "large" chainsaw blade, and a collapsible pole so that she can use a chainsaw from several feet away. |
The Scouter |
Purviews: None. |
Notes: Mimics Instant Assessment & The Unlidded Eye. |
2-Dot Relic |
Craft (Electronics): 34/30 |
History: Pei-Pei was hanging out with Sebastian, Jocelyn, and Miruan one night at a party. They were talking about various things, but the topic of scooters came up at some point and Pei-Pei misunderstood in a legendary way. She promptly declared the idea of SCOUTERS to be totally awesome and started work on it the next day. Come May, she'll have a few prototypes ready for use by her Scion friends in assessing enemy forces! And for looking like a pimp, like Garrus. |
Advantageous Circumstances |
Body Armor |
Concept to Execution |
Damage Conversion |
Don't Read The Manual |
Fast Learner |
Monkey in the Middle |
Multitasking |
Not the Face |
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Star Pupil |
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Binary |
Chinese (Cantonese) |
Chinese (Hakka) |
Chinese (Mandarin) |
Chinese (Min) |
Chinese (Wu) |
English |
French |
Japanese |
Klingon |
Sanskrit |
Spanish |
Chipmunk in Glass |
Purviews: None. |
Notes: None. |
?-Dot Relic |
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History: One of the thousands of supernatural chipmunks that attacked the Times Square area. Unfortunately for this little bastard, it got caught in a flow of liquid glass after one of the many propane explosions in the area and the glass hardened around it. Right now it's a paper weight that Pei-Pei plans on autopsying for its secrets. |
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10 Shinobi Shuriken |
Purviews: None. |
Item Stats: Accuracy +2, Damage +3L, Range 20, Speed 4, P Double Raw Damage Pool Against Titanspawn. |
?-Dot Relic |
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History: Aillen collected these after battling Bardelys in Rockefeller Center to protect Santa Claus from the diabolical Celestial Explorer King. Shortly thereafter, he gave Pei-Pei 10 of them for her to experiment on and examine to suss out what they're made of and what they could be used to make. |
Legend: 4 |
Legend Points: 16 |
Willpower: 7/7 |
Wounds: -0 -0 -0 |
Base Soak: 6B/4L |
Health: -0 -1 -1 -2 -2 -4 I D |
Available XP: 3 |
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Total XP: 316 |
DDV: 5 |
FoS: 650 |
PDV: 5B/4M |
Adamant Earrings |
Purviews: None. |
Note: +(Legend) to all Stamina rolls. |
3-Dot Relic |
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History: A pair of diamond earrings given to Pei-Pei during her Visitation. When she wears them, she feels nearly invincible. |
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Bracelet of Iron Will |
Purviews: None. |
Note: +3 Defense |
3-Dot Relic |
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History: A bracelet given to Pei-Pei by Huang Di that reinforces her already extensive defenses. It is made of a strange metal that could be silver or steel or titanium, but doesn't seem to quite be any of the above. Sometimes Pei-Pei could swear that it hums when she's summoning its strength to defend herself. |
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DS of the Damned |
Purviews: None. |
Note: - |
-Dot Relic |
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History: A DS that Pei-Pei got from Gayle, who in turn got it from strange old guy. It is covered in mysterious runes, including a broken Seal of Solomon. It summons a bug-like digimon-like Titanspawn that appears to be intended to help Pei-Pei in some capacity. Plus it allows communication amongst other people with a DS of the Damned of their own, which is good because other than this trait and its summoning a digimon, it is useless as a DS and kind of creepy in that it keeps popping up threatening messages. Somehow it seems to be a harbinger of dangerous future news that Pei-Pei and crew are forced to prevent. |
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Model South Facing Compass |
Purviews: None. |
Note: Mimics the effects of Unerring Orientation. |
1-Dot Relic |
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History: A Matchbox Car-sized model of the famous South Facing Compass of Chinese history and legend, legendarily created by Huang Di. Although small, it is no less a magnificent clockwork creation capable of aiding Pei-Pei in determining exactly where she is in relation to any point she knows. As gifts from her father goes, Pei-Pei thinks this one is actually really cool, if not downright useful. |
Shishi Bracelet |
Purviews: Earth, Guardian |
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2-Dot Relic |
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History: A bracelet given to Pei-Pei by Huang Di as a part of her Visitation. Pei-Pei rarely takes it off, as she feels peculiarly attuned to the lions on its surface. The bracelet is made of gold save for the lions depicted upon its surface. Traditional Chinese Stone Lions or Shishi embedded in opposite sides of its surface. |
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Spectacles of Huang Di |
Purviews: Mystery |
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1-Dot Relic |
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History: A pair of very old school looking spectacles given to Pei-Pei by her father. They're pretty cool looking, kind of like the spectacles from Transformers, but their true purpose is to help Pei-Pei see details that she would not ordinarily see and to aid her mind in connecting how these ordinarily unseen details are relevant or related. |
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Wu Kong's Pin |
Purviews: None. |
Note: Mimics the effects of Eye of the Storm. |
1-Dot Relic |
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History: A pin given to Pei-Pei shortly after her Visitation. The jade pin is a present from Sun Wu Kong, who finds it tremendously entertaining that a daughter of Huang Di would like to be like him, to Pei-Pei whom he just happened to run into while on his way to a high school rave of some renown. Whatever the reason Sun Wu Kong really had for giving it to her, Pei-Pei treats it as a prized possession and a reminder of who she wishes to become. |
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Duty: 2 |
Harmony: 2 |
Loyalty: 3 |
Order: 2 |