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Character Information
Sep. 28th, 2030 03:07 amQUICK FACTS
Name: Shao Anjun 邵安君
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Species: Langren 狼人/Werewolf
Occupation: Traveling Herbalist
Canon: Original
PB: Hu Ge/Wu Lei
CHARACTER BLURB: Shao Anjun is a werewolf raised by humans in a Chinese wuxia setting. He is a scholar, herbalist, martial artist, war veteran, and all-around CDrama Protagonist
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 160 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Visual: Shao Anjun always appears as the consummate Huaxia gentleman, perfectly in-line with what his society says he should be and almost indistinguishable from others like him. In a crowd of men from the high, cultured reaches of society, he'd be impossible to pick out - which is all by design. He wears perfectly turned-out hanfu robes, neither too ostentatious nor too cheap. He ties his long hair up in a braid and topknot, held in place by a jade guan or headpiece. He is cleanshaven. He usually has his herbalism supplies in a leather satchel on his shoulder, and he wears his sword at his belt concealed under a cloak.
This gentlemanly exterior masterfully hides what is underneath, things you'd never notice unless you knew to look for them. Shao Anjun is covered in scars, most of them well-healed and almost undetectable, but a few, such as one that is clearly a set of puncture wounds just around his right hip, are darker and more visible. Most obviously, there is a bright red curse mark that stretches all the way from his left shoulder to the small of his back - it looks like an elaborate, intricately detailed brand, and although it looks irritated enough to be new, it is also very stretched, such as an injury might look if the body that originally suffered its application was small, but has since grown taller and broader. Not that anyone ever sees it.
Aural: His voice is low, but soft and gentle. He always speaks politely and almost never raises his voice. When he is angry, he tends to get quieter, not louder. Depending on the company is in, he speaks either in the language of the capital, the dialect local to the Shao family's estate, or the Khitan language of the steppe. He is articulate when speaking all three languages, but he comes across as especially witty in the dialect local to the Shao family's region.
Demeanor: His demeanor is refined, civilized, cultured, and scholarly - but crucially, it is not arrogant or snobbish. In fact, for a gentleman, Shao Anjun seems unusually humble and down-to-earth. He can speak fluently of high and important matters to nobles and scholars, using obscure literary allusion and making complicated linguistic jokes - but he seems just as comfortable speaking of mundane, prosaic matters of soil cultivation and harvest prospects with famers or the rising price of fish in the local marketplace with shopkeepers. Even more unusually, he can talk ably with the people of the northern steppe, considered by most in the Huaxia Empire to be no more than barbarians. He seems to move effortlessly through all parts of society, every society he comes across, and he seems to be liked equally by everyone as a kind, quietly charming, non-offensive personality.
What people don't usually know is that his effortless performance in all parts of society is anything but effortless. It is born of many years of careful, systematic study of all of the people he meets everywhere he goes across the Huaxia Empire and beyond. It is a coping mechanism, an attempt to compensate for his shortcomings, which he has endlessly honed since his first days as a captive in strange, foreign Huaxia. He has learned to be charming, to be likeable, agreeable - but in the end, more-or-less forgettable to everyone he meets. It's safer that way for a boy from the steppe who started life as a monster.
Name: Shao Anjun 邵安君
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Species: Langren 狼人/Werewolf
Occupation: Traveling Herbalist
Canon: Original
PB: Hu Ge/Wu Lei
CHARACTER BLURB: Shao Anjun is a werewolf raised by humans in a Chinese wuxia setting. He is a scholar, herbalist, martial artist, war veteran, and all-around CDrama Protagonist
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 160 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Visual: Shao Anjun always appears as the consummate Huaxia gentleman, perfectly in-line with what his society says he should be and almost indistinguishable from others like him. In a crowd of men from the high, cultured reaches of society, he'd be impossible to pick out - which is all by design. He wears perfectly turned-out hanfu robes, neither too ostentatious nor too cheap. He ties his long hair up in a braid and topknot, held in place by a jade guan or headpiece. He is cleanshaven. He usually has his herbalism supplies in a leather satchel on his shoulder, and he wears his sword at his belt concealed under a cloak.
This gentlemanly exterior masterfully hides what is underneath, things you'd never notice unless you knew to look for them. Shao Anjun is covered in scars, most of them well-healed and almost undetectable, but a few, such as one that is clearly a set of puncture wounds just around his right hip, are darker and more visible. Most obviously, there is a bright red curse mark that stretches all the way from his left shoulder to the small of his back - it looks like an elaborate, intricately detailed brand, and although it looks irritated enough to be new, it is also very stretched, such as an injury might look if the body that originally suffered its application was small, but has since grown taller and broader. Not that anyone ever sees it.
Aural: His voice is low, but soft and gentle. He always speaks politely and almost never raises his voice. When he is angry, he tends to get quieter, not louder. Depending on the company is in, he speaks either in the language of the capital, the dialect local to the Shao family's estate, or the Khitan language of the steppe. He is articulate when speaking all three languages, but he comes across as especially witty in the dialect local to the Shao family's region.
Demeanor: His demeanor is refined, civilized, cultured, and scholarly - but crucially, it is not arrogant or snobbish. In fact, for a gentleman, Shao Anjun seems unusually humble and down-to-earth. He can speak fluently of high and important matters to nobles and scholars, using obscure literary allusion and making complicated linguistic jokes - but he seems just as comfortable speaking of mundane, prosaic matters of soil cultivation and harvest prospects with famers or the rising price of fish in the local marketplace with shopkeepers. Even more unusually, he can talk ably with the people of the northern steppe, considered by most in the Huaxia Empire to be no more than barbarians. He seems to move effortlessly through all parts of society, every society he comes across, and he seems to be liked equally by everyone as a kind, quietly charming, non-offensive personality.
What people don't usually know is that his effortless performance in all parts of society is anything but effortless. It is born of many years of careful, systematic study of all of the people he meets everywhere he goes across the Huaxia Empire and beyond. It is a coping mechanism, an attempt to compensate for his shortcomings, which he has endlessly honed since his first days as a captive in strange, foreign Huaxia. He has learned to be charming, to be likeable, agreeable - but in the end, more-or-less forgettable to everyone he meets. It's safer that way for a boy from the steppe who started life as a monster.
