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# Character Information

## Background

Growing up as a corporate kid was an interesting experience for her, Qiao didn’t actually know what her father did. Only that he was gone for long periods of time and usually brought her an interesting present when he came home. Her mother did something in management surrounded by text files even when home. The final adult in her young life was her nanny, a gregarious woman who had what seemed like an endless supply of quirky stories. It was at this youthful time where something changed the course her life was taking.

At six she was being groomed to follow in her mother's footsteps as another member of the Wuxing management team. Then her father returned from one of his near constant trips, this time he brought with him a soft stuffed toy, made from real fabric. It was soft and cuddly, and she loved it, too hard. The toy ripped and drove her into a mood that she had no name for. She was mourning the toy and angry at herself for damaging it, while she had many other toys and even gifts from her father, she couldn’t seem to let that one go. Her nanny sat her down and told her another story, the moral of which was that most things could be fixed if someone was willing to put that effort in.

This started an obsessive many months journey learning how to sew in general and more important to her how to make and fix plush toys. In the end she took the toy apart and repaired it before putting it back together. That wasn’t the end though she began making them as a hobby. Since it didn’t affect her study performance or studies her parents didn’t say anything about it and made sure she had the materials she needed.

She was twelve when she experienced her awakening. She isn’t exactly sure what happened, only that it did. This again changed the course of her life no longer in a direct path for management. Qiao wasn’t entirely sure she was happy with this change, but she continued to diligently study her lessons, even if they were different now. Her teachers were quite strict, but she found herself enjoying many of the lessons anyway particularly the practices of alchemy and enchanting. She thought that was due to her long history of making things, a thought that sparked an idea in her mind. This was when she made both her first focus and her first enchanted plush. It was a difficult process.

She managed to actually graduate at eighteen, one of only four in her class that managed to do so. She felt constricted after graduation knowing that she would quickly be put to work in some facet of the company, and she realized as much as she appreciated her parents and Wuxing corp. She wasn’t ready to settle down in an office at some branch for the rest of her life, so she entered a petition for pilgrimage which would allow her to go out into the world on her own without actually severing ties with the corp. It was approved since any real-world experience that she brought back to the corp would only make her more valuable to it.

She chose Seattle for no other reason than there was a travel brochure set out while she was filling out the paperwork and so it was put on the form. She was given a contact in Seattle, Yin Heng. Her initial nights there were filled with very little spiritual or professional improvement. Though she did make several armor lynchpins tied to stuffed turtles with a clip on them that she had made.

This came in handy one night while clubbing, watching the dancers on stage she sat with a couple of other people one of whom flirted outrageously and inappropriately with everyone at the table and the performers when they were nearby. Unfortunately, a group of armed thugs attacked the venue, tossing her new friends armor lynchpins and giving them instructions as she activated her own. After several intense minutes of fighting the remaining thugs are driven away which is when she finds out that her flirty new fiend is a fixer. This is how she came to the shadows.

It took a few years of pulling odd jobs and little runs for her fixer before she was offered to join the farmers market, which she accepted.

## Narrative Significant Qualities

* Inspired
* Gremlins
* Records on file Wuxing
* Corporate sin Wuxing

## Affiliations

### Contacts

 Janelle Gerard
 Tabitha Lavetha
 Velara Vindani
 Yin Heng

# In Character Information

## Matrix Search Table

 3
 6+

## Shadow Community Table

 3
 6+

## Assensing Table

 2
 3
 4
 5+

## SINs

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  Qiao Ming, Wuxing

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R4 Ren Chan, Ucas

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  R4 Drivers License
  R4 Mage License
  R4 Firearm License

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  R4 Restricted armor license

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