Qin Dancer (Timeless)

The Qin Dancer is a zombie encountered in Terracotta Mausoleum as a minion of the Belldozer during the bossfight. She is a fast-moving enemy, that dances erratically around at a high speed to avoid attacks and hit players before quickly retreating
==Appearance and origins==
Always a female, she wears a large, cream-colored dress, with very wide sleeves, strange bands of linen hanging from them and a quite complex haircut ; her waist is very thin, and partially broken, which is seen by her strange and peculiar way of "dancing"
She is based on an ancient chinese court dancer, more specifically those from the very late Warring States period represented onjade figurines. Her abilities are inspired by the complex movements of ancient chinese dances, were the dancers did wide movements with their large sleeves and often bended their waist while dancing
==Attack Patterns==
She normally runs almost on the tip of her feets, with a flightly and fast step, but can sometimes turn around herself while walking, with her broken waist forcing her to bend. When she reaches players, he can directly attack, or do a few dances moves with her arms raised around before suddenly striking at them, and suddenly hopping away with another dance move. When a player prepares an attack, she can suddenly escape using approximatively the same dance moves, and can sometimes roam between players by exclusively using these.
==Strategies==
She certainly his one of the most annoying minions ; her high speed allows her to reach players effortlessly, and her complex dodgework will let her escape multiple attacks before you are able to actually hit this zombie, altough her low health makes the Qin Dancer only able to survive one or two attacks. The way she slides around quickly to get near players before attempting to slash makes her more impredictable than other enemies, and because of this, certain weapons are more suited to fight against him.
Jis and Ges, despite being particularly slow, are actually pretty efficient, since their large reach and wide attack range allows them to sometimes still hit Qin Dancers if they try to dodge, and even if they slide backwards. Zhuos are able to do the same job, and do enough damage to still be useful, while the mighty San Ge Ji will absolutely destroy her with often a single swing.
If you are a fan of spears, you may be tempted to use a Mao, but this is a terrible idea, since she can easily dodge your spear's tip and reach you, while even if you still manage to hit her, it won't be enough to put her down due to how specialized this weapon is. A Swordstaff has more chances to hit her if you swing it, but you will nonetheless be in trouble if she gets past the weapon's head.
Due to the relative inefficiency of polearms, players will have to rely a lot on quick close-range weapons to take Qin Dancers down, exposing themselves to the sharp claws of these undeads. Thankfully, you have access to exactly the right swords to the job ; the Qin Jian is quite long, versatile and can achieve wide cuts in order to maximize your chances of vanquishing her, while the Jin Gou is shorter and requires more precision to counter the zombie's unpredictable moves but will vanquish it in a matter of seconds.
The Shuang Hu Dun makes this task basically childish, since you can block the her claws easily with it and retaliate safely.
Long-ranged weapons can be hard to used, because Qin Dancers are easily able to initiate a dodging move before the shot even reaches them ; however, the Chu Ko Nu's firing rate gives you more chances to hit her, and the poison effect makes hit even more efficient
Else, setting her on fire is a pretty good option ; in this case, she will start "dancing" around erratically, initiating dodges for no reasons and basically turning around while burning down, slowly but surely getting consumed by the flames and being less threatening, altough even in this state she can still harm players.
==Trivia==
*She was initially supposed to be a generic, thin and fast female zombies but had a new behavior added in order to make her more original
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