Wei Tang Liu

The shadowy ruler of the Hong Kong underworld. 
== Quick Facts==
* Married with a child (born 2017)
* Lifemate: Mrs Wei
* Text ID: blocked
* Special skills: omniscient and can get into anything and anywhere
** Appears to shapeshift and is possibly a changeling (a belief occasionally held by Chau)
* Quirks: Has an inability to communicate well with younger cousins, enjoys sleeping
* Typically dresses in a long, dark trench coat, combat boots, biosteel vest, and a silk shirt
* Occasionally seems to have at least two shadows, regardless of light source. 
* Faceclaim: Zhang Ziyi (image screencapped from here). 
==Identities==
* Mrs CEO: a young woman being driven through Kowloon who, once upon a time, frequented the coffeeshop wherein Min worked. 'She' was planning on approaching her boss about some discrepancies; Min put a foam lion on her order, giving her the courage to talk to her boss and they ended up married eight months later. ("Lion")
* BuenaKai: Liu poses as a low-key BuenaKai follower handing out pamphlets around a university campus during "Judgement Day"
* Long: an identity Liu presents to the FBI as the leader of a Tang clan Triad ring ("No. 191")
==People==
* Grandmother: an elderly Chinese woman who owns a restaurant Liu uses as a sanctum 
* Hannibal Chau: minion turned figurehead turned second-in-command
* Dàiyù: minion turned second-in-command
* Ayewa: she-her-hers with mild obsessive compulsive disorder; cognitive scientist specializing in programming models and Shaolin novice, brought on board the team designing the organic fighter project >do i have a name for this?<
==Biography==
Liu's parents were sorta middle-rank of the clan, but Liu's dad had his sights set higher (he married in). Liu started shadowing whomever hired Hannibal around age 14 (the first and last time Hannibal tried insulting Liu by describing him as a fairy) and would eventually be promoted to a division Vanguard (Liu would report to a division Dragon who would then report to the regional Dragon and then the clan Dragon). Liu was quietly amassing resources and contacts and definitely outgrowing the position; the word was the clan Dragon was pleased with Liu's decisions and how he was managing things, perhaps even to the tune of a promotion to regional Vanguard.
And then the Kaiju war started. Most of the Dragons fled the coastal areas and Liu filled all their roles with his people. The clan Dragon asked what he was doing, Liu said the way things were being run weren't up to his standards, the clan Dragon said fine, the coast is yours.
Liu didn't start shapeshifting or using his omniscience for anyone's gain but his own until after he took over Hong Kong which is when he implements the persona we see nowadays. Almost overnight, every single person who may oppose Liu's move had either changed their mind, had a dramatic loss of assets, or was dead. Liu made a shield of lieutenants who can each function as a Dragon such that he as few people as possible know his face, and separated his earlier identity from his new one and from his shadow-self (that's the one everyone's afraid of). 
==Properties==
=== Offices===
* A base in each Taiwan, Thailand, Shanghai, Vancouver, and on the mainland
* A dummy company in Japan somewhere that's collecting dust (if he ever felt like challenging the yakuza)
* Prooobably a tiny one in Australia, maybe Manilia 
* Hong Kong is the nexus of his goings-on. 
===Residences===
* the Tang clan compound (which is also on the mainland but at least 300km further inland)
* A flat in Hong Kong
* A different flat in Hong Kong where Min eventually ends up living
* A flat somewhere in China/Hong Kong where Liu lives with Ms Wei
The safest of these for someone close to Liu to visit would either be Taiwan (no PPDC in an AU where the PPDC isn't good people) or Hong Kong (home turf and his various personas have relationships all over the place that can be used to throw off danger and make it seem less likely that's he's the kingpin). 
==Operations==
* Kaiju Recovery
* Typical mob stuff: 
Liu's organization does sell drugs and there are no areas of underground business they won't touch (Prostitution's treated like any other business so the workers are very well taken care of. They are human traffickers mostly to track down who's buying and who's smuggling and then the people in charge occasionally disappear. The people trafficked never make it to the destination and are returned home, or they're recovered within six months, treated, and brought back). 
No qualms about bribing public officials. 
If Liu finds out someone under his command's collecting protection money just to line pockets and not to actually look after the neighbourhood, that someone will soon regret it. 
It's like, there's a demand, Liu moves in, monopolizes the area, and tries to improve things. The drugs they sell are almost never the 'dangerous new street drug', more maintaining the status quo. 
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