Yan-Chang Baek

Yan-Chang Kim Liú Baek (b. 11 August 2002) is the fictional main protagonist of the series Lotus Academia. She attends the titular Lotus Academia to train and adapt to her newfound magical abilities. She is the only daughter of Hana Kim and Lua Baek, and the bridge between both the Otherworld and the insular Sorterra Realm. 
Able to perform unspeakable supernatural feats, she was raised unaware of her hereditary position in the world waiting for her to return, and the noble champion that can restore order to all of the realms. Her resilience and precision have led her to grasp her responsibilities by the horns and she seeks greater change in the realms.   
== Biography ==
=== Birth and Linage ===
Born in 2002 (557 AI in Sorterra datings),
===2012===
At the tender age of twelve, her father, a marine, was sent off on an undisclosed mission and never returned from sea. Hana fell ill shortly after the incident, and was no longer able to take care of Yan-Chang. She soon committed to a life of skulduggery as a way to provide for her and her unenabled mother, and gotten involved with a religious malevolent city gang named 'Hyun Watchers' that had been observing her behavior and wanted to move in and use her young age as an advantage, in return for a quarter of what they scored. Desperate, she accepted.
After engaging in countless robberies, she received the test of her teachings and was ordered to rob a detective who had many times thwarted their robberies. However, when the night of the robbery came, Yan-Chang snuck into the detective's apartment under her elaborate plan only to find the detective's son. He immediately glanced at her worn clothes and dirtied face and took sympathy. Yan-Chang felt more at home then she had for years, and immediately began trusting Hisoki. He promised a better life for her, but in return he would need all of the information she could gather from the Hyun and their exploits. After ratting out the gang and successfully putting them being bars, Yan-Chang faced no punishment for her schemes with them and she was portrayed as a victim of their child manipulation.
Her mother remained in the dark of the ordeal. She always had a long-lasting twinge of guilt, even after Hisoki's promises became a reality and he was able to get her a part-time job at his workplace.
=== 2021===
Six Years Later, Yan-Chang awaited the arrival of the remaining members of the gang, who apparently seeked to anonymously cut all ties with her. She didn't believe it when the message was first delivered by mail, which looked handwritten and rushed, but bothering Hisoki would make no difference, and she felt that she owed an apology to them at least, after years.
=== Physical Appearance ===
Yan-Chang has small, dark eyes and matching hair the color of midnight. She has porcelain colored skin and wavy black hair that tumbles down her back. She has a revealing bruise on her left arm, which she attempts to hide with her signature leather glove. On the book cover she is portrayed with rosy cheeks and a pale complexion. On several occasions she is described as both petite but somewhat muscular.
==== Uniformed ====
When Yan-Chang is uniformed in her academia uniform, she wears a white blouse with long sleeves. Under the blouse she wears a laced white shirt. It is a school policy to wear your hair down, and so her abundant black hair tumbles down her back. She wears a short skirt that hardly reaches her thighs and dated church shoes with long gray socks. Her doom key can be seen hanging from her neck most of the time.
=== Personality ===
Yan-Chang can come off as aloof and a nonconformist, though she is fiercely devoted and ambitious in what she believes in and works toward. She has a solitary and stoic nature. She is exceedingly serious and often appears to be rather boring and can be repetitive, unbelieving, and untrusting of others. Given what she has endured in her past, she is immensely cautious and self-conscious. She shows fierce hatred and self-loathing.
Although not exactly kind, she shows an affectionate side to younger children and animals alike, as well as those she chooses to be acquainted with. Sometimes stubborn, unforgiving, and unsympathetic, she has a saccharine side to her. Having practically raised herself. Yan-Chang grew to be self-dependent.
=== Relationships ===
== Powers/Abilities ==
=== Physical Abilities ===
* Self-Defense: Having practically raised herself, Yan-Chang has learned to tussle with men and woman alike, some even being twice her size. She is agile which often aids her whenever she needs to flee from a grim fight. She knows the basics of boxing: swinging, slamming, and dodging, and had a more loose and ungrounded type of fighting technique.
* Swordsmanship: Yan-Chang instantly found that using a sword was her favorite past time in the magical world. She was naturally gifted with King Arthur's blade, and was able to fend off a gang of bandits on her own, as well as a dragon. She only grew better at the skill after being trained by the Knights of the Round Table, earning the title as one of the best sword-wielders in centuries.
=== Powers ===
* Wish-fulfillment: After being temporarily granted the ability to fulfill any and every wish possible, excluding her own, Yan-Chang was able to simultaneously manifest materialistic things from anywhere in the world and teleport them directly to the wisher by magical means.
* Flight: The ability to soar to absolutely no limits was an adaptive basic Fairy ability, and allowed her to defy gravity and ascend into the skies.
* Illumination: A basic Fairy ability that allows a strong generation of light to blind an enemy directly and temporarily, duration typically lasting for several minutes, but is circumstantial.
* Illusionment: The ability to create false images in the latter-half's mindscape and confuse them momentarily, to virtually fuse reality and imagination in one's mind.
== Trivia ==
* Yan-Chang's name was originally "Ju", but it was changed before publication.
* She was originally a human with no magical ties whatsoever, but this was changed to benefit the overarching story.
* She has made it clear many times that she is not fond of dresses or skirts.
* The author admitted that Yan-Chang is heavily inspired by Sae Byeok of Squid Game.
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