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Character Name: Wu Xie
Series: Daomu Biji | The Graverobbers' Chronicles | The Lost Tombs
Age: 34
From When?: THERE ARE SO MANY POINTS WHERE HE ALMOST DIES but for purpose of this I'm going to use that moment when a Wang clan member slit his throat and tossed him over the edge of a cliff in Tibet. For canonical timeline that is near the end of Sha Hai (Sand Sea | Tomb of the Sea) though the drama has him poisoned and thrown into a sea of Tibetan Sea Flowers only for the throat cut moment to get brought back into canon during Reunion.

Inmate Justification:
Wu Xie is genuinely a good person at his core even though he is a smart mouth little shit, but at this point of his life he has gone completely off the deep end. He has been kidnapping and forcing people into dangerous situations that kill them, looting some highly valuable tombs of very significant historical value for the money, set himself up as a small crimelord running smuggling and mercenaries to fund his small army in raids against other groups of people, and is currently suffering from an addiction to black-hair snake venom. And while this is all justified as being for a good cause, he needs some place to heal and get reminded of who he really is.

Arrival: He would be here against his will since he was in the middle of something important and he doesn't care that the knife wound probably was fatal he has work to finish.

Abilities/Powers:
He is technically your average squishy human in a world full of near immortals, really weird possibly meteor-mutated creatures, ghosts, supernatural weirdness and a scattering of government-funded experimentations involving said space mutants. Almost all of his abilities are trained ones from his tomb-related skills to actual degrees, though he does have a couple unusual traits. His family is known for raising and training dogs into coherent packs that originally were used during raids against other people and/or monsters found in the tombs. Wu Xie himself knows some basic commands for them, but outside the fact the dogs recognize him as being family and allows him some control, he doesn't do much with them. He was also trained to mimic the thinking and puzzle-solving style of a person called Qi Yu. Who or what that person is and why Wu Xie was bent to follow their skillset and training no one is sure at this point, but it's felt that he has something to do with the Bronze Gate. Anyways a list of skills:
Architecture knowledge - he holds a degree in this with a focus on classical structures and ancient burial sites.

Antique business - after college he spent a few years running an antiques store in Hangzhou before joining in the family business of tomb raiding, and can value antiques usually with a look, and also rather good at dealing with people and telling the truth from lies.

Photography - somewhere in his busy schedule in the past five years, he took an assumed name and took up photography becoming so proficient at it he actually published a couple books under that name and won an award.

Tomb exploring - covering a large list of mini-skills, this is his main occupation where he gained such abilities as surviving in extreme conditions, tolerance to low-light/oxygen/heat and cramped areas, understanding ancient texts and symbols, working out puzzles and traps, decrypting pseudoscience formations and finding hidden areas, fighting and defending against all the weird monsters inside of tombs like zombies, bugs of all sizes, snakes, weird humanoid monsters including armed mercenaries, developing a modified Morse code to use between him and his team (known as the Iron Triangle), studying history and connecting facts to unearth new treasures, revealing conspiracies, and taking up the task of saving what he can since tombs tend to break after he finds them.

Fighting - he is no fighting protege, but Wu Xie has grown into a capable fighter against normal people and shows a distinctive lack of self-care when he loses his temper. He is an excellent marksman and proficient with various firearms, and slingshots. His favorite weapon is a Kukri knife since it has a short, heavy blade with just enough of a curve that's useful in the tight quarters of a tomb. He's no slouch in hand-to-hand and while is not a heavy hitter like his BFF Pangzi, he is still a decent fighter and willing to get as dirty as he needs to in order to win.

Snake pheromones reading - he is able to "see" the memories of black-hair snakes through their pheromones through either direct bites or from their debris. In order to make sure he got the clearest version of the memory as possible, he had directly injected the snake venom into his nose. As a result, he is very susceptible to hallucinations, a little addicted it the venom, and sometimes displays some snake-like traits.

Qilin Blood - during his first tomb exploration, Wu Xie had swallowed an ancient piece of medicine called a Qilin Blood Clot. This piece of medicine saved him from dying from a corpse-eater's poison that would have turned him into a blood zombie. After that, he has found that his blood is deadly to bugs and resistant to other dangers found inside tombs. It also slowed his aging down by about ten years.


Inmate Information:
Wu Xie was named by grandfather in his hope that this grandson would live of life of 'No Evil' aka away from the grave robbing roots of his family. In a way he did, at least at first. His parents were upper crust society, his father a solid member of his community and his mother from an affluent family, and Wu Xie grew being spoiled and pampered as a young master. The only black mark to his name during his childhood was that his parents were always far too busy to handle him and he often ended up in the care of his third uncle Wu Sangxing aka Sanshu, who was a sly, cunning man that said he worked for the government helping them with clearing out old tombs but also was infamous in his own right as a grave robber. Little Wu Xie didn't know this, but instead worshiped his Sanshu because he was full of strange, scary tales, really cool games, and encouraged Wu Xie's curiosity.

Curiosity is what drives Wu Xie a lot. He always was taking things apart, seeing how they worked and putting them together. He was always exploring the houses he was at, from his grandparent's huge old fashioned complex to his family's high rise building. He was always asking questions beyond questions, and was encouraged - first by Snashu and later by his grandfather - to put together pieces of a puzzle to find his own truth. He wants to know, and that often meant he was at odds with his peers who did things that they were told to do. He had been encouraged to look at puzzles as a game, and as he grew older he was also taught a few codes and how to write a beautiful hand that was both old-fashioned and extremely hard to read ( called kuángcǎo script, it's an older form of cursive ). He also grew to have a craving for adventure and join his Sanshu on one of his adventures.

He grew up, went to college where he was encouraged to take a boring old major like Business or Science and as a compromise and because he is good at piecing together small items to make a whole, he ended up in Architecture. He studied in a prestigious college, got his degree and then accompanied a school friend to Germany, where he spent another year picking photography and becoming a crack shot in competitions. He came home to take over his grandfather's old shop and also received his grandfather's old explorer notebook and that was where the story should have ended - a curious young man with a wealthy background running an oddity shop and shooing away matchmakers.

But then fate happened.

Which means that Wu Xie got caught up in the old family business of tomb raiding thanks in no small part to getting his hands on a part of an old raiders' map to a weird tomb. He met some interesting people including two who will later become his closest, trusted friends. They found some clues to another tomb, and then Wu Xie's uncle disappeared. He searched some more because his uncle just poofed, found some very strange similarities with all the tombs, and dug up an age old history tied to them and also tied to the Lao Jiumen or the Old Nine Gates which are nine tomb raiding families from the Changsha area, they held power back before the Republic was formed and were part of a group that was guarding against outsiders during all the fighting. They also were aligned with an older family called the Zhang who had made false tombs and many traps to keep people away from pieces of a meteorite and especially an artifact called the Bronze Gate. They were suppose to help with keeping it secret but, well, they didn't. And there were now several groups trying to dig it up and exploit it, and the those left standing in their way was the remains of the Jiumen, and Wu Xie's two closest friends - Zhang Qiling aka Xiaoge and Wang Yunban aka Pangzi.

Wu Xie is a gentle person. He will help everyone he can, even those that had tried to kill five minutes ago, he will turn around and try to save them. He has no qualms about lying and stealing, but he also will turn around and give his gains to someone that needs them more. He isn't pure, or at least he can't say he is, but he can be kind and he is extremely forgiving of even the worst people. But his kindness is not unlimited. And the people trying to destroy his friends, his family and those that deliberately attacked and destroyed everything that Zhang Qiling stood for? That was his bottom line.

Learning about the suffering and torture his friend had gone through in trying to protect the world from the Gate ( or the Gate from the world this is not very clear though it's probably both ), learning at how much he was abused, learning that this was all under the influence of a tenth family called the Wang, Wu Xie went a lot crazy. He started working on thinning them out, worked on clearing out the families that had embraced the Wang's influence. He lied and murdered and cheated and shot up on snake venom and all in order to make sure that his friend Zhang Qiling would never get hurt again. The plan is nearing it's conclusion with all his pawns in place in order to wipe out the Wang family and their empire. Even with the attempted murder ( or actual death given that he's here ) the plan no longer is in his control. He feels guilty about needing to go this far, and he is also devastated about how a majority of the people in this group are mostly people who never had a real chance. Those in charge basically brought in young children and indoctrinated them to their way of life and never were given a chance. But. He is also very very angry. This group has been focusing on his people, his friends, his family, his Xiaoge and Pangzi for years. Even longer than he has been alive, this group has been manipulating the world just because they wanted something that would destroy people. He's angry that they have gone this far. He's angry that they dared to stretch out their hands to make Zhang Qiling suffer - one of the most gentlest person he knew who was taken from his parents and turned into a tool through their interference. He is so angry.

And the Wangs will pay because of that anger.


Path to Redemption:
Wu Xie is an entitled little shit even before everything. He grew up as the sole heir to his family's fortunes, and he grew up being coddled and spoiled despite all the other stuff like getting groomed to mimic some guy and sometimes getting stranded in a disaster movie without an adult present. He's used to making puppy eyes at someone and getting his way and now here, being told that he has to work on getting better is not going to go over too well. Because he is in control, he knows exactly what he is doing and he doesn't need an adult. So probably the first thing he needs to change is actively accepting that he isn't always in charge and needing to take on all the burdens himself. He also needs to actively not repress his own injuries and make time to just be normal, and not pull the spoiled princess act. He needs to start being honest about himself, which is the hardest thing because he is a lying liar who lies to the point where even when he tells the truth people just don't know.

As for being on the Barge it will first be the most interesting puzzle because he has an Architecture degree and he will so use it to make drawings and study the paths around the place and even talk to the ship like it's the most wonderful thing he's seen in the last century of his life. But after a while he will grow a bit annoyed because he can't just sit here while his friends are out there probably worried about him and his everything. So he may end up just having some minor depressive spirals followed by maniac moments of 'gotta keep busy'! This plus having withdrawal symptoms and he might just not be the best passenger for a time.

In that vein, he will probably look at the wardens as being glorified babysitters which is something he has had for a lot of his life and he is not going to like it one bit unless they are the kind who let him do his thing and just show up to shove a meal at him or like. He will not accept having an active person trying to dictate him towards healthier coping skills, and he will try to out-stubborn or unleash his puppy eyes at anyone that says otherwise to him. The best warden would probably be someone that can casually make him do things without forcing an issue. His one BFF Pangzi often does this by and by, so someone with the same style of directing through mother-henning, side-eying and just picking him up to move him would work with Wu Xie's everything.

As for motivation, well a lot of Wu Xie's strengths come from his friend group and those that he considers his, and also the urge to just help people. So he would gain a lot to make friends that are grounded better or at least are not on a self-destructive down swing path of taking everyone out with him.

History: Here's his wiki focusing on the dramas in which there is a few large gaps in his history since those parts haven't been dramatized. I will be using the books/donghua to fill out those events found here.

Sample Network Entry: network tdm

Sample RP: TDM 1 and TDM 2

Special Notes:
The canon for the drama/books are a mess so while I am working mainly with a drama version, there is going to be a lot of book information thrown in. It's in no small part that the dramas themselves have been made by a wide variety of studios with script writers who picked and choose canon information so it's a huge melded mess. So I will do my best to stick to one version but it's a mess and also a sprawling canon of 15 some books/extras, 9 dramas, scores of movies, and at least one donghua and a few mobile games.