Lee Ping

## Background

Lee Ping is the main protagonist of Detentionaire. He is a tenth grader attending A. Nigma High, and unaffiliated with any particular clique. On the first day of tenth grade Lee is framed for pulling the "biggest prank in high school history." The search for the real prank mastermind has led Lee to eventually solve his school's mystery, including ancient pyramids, brainwashing, shady councils, the wildest conspiracy theory of all time, - and his own family's secrets.

Lee was the second son born to the Ping family in 1997. He apparently was born in Korea and moved to Canada with his parents Sue and Alfred as a child, although he himself believed he was born in Canada. Lee was born with the Mark of His Eminence on his left arm as inherited from his father and grandfather, but it was tattooed over with trigram; Alfred presumably did it in order to protect his son from "them", MWF.
Lee and Camillio Martinez first met in third grade when Camillio had first moved into town. Camillio couldn't speak a word of English but knew how to flirt and made the mistake of flirting with a girl Steve had a crush on. Lee was able to calm the latter down, and Lee has been friends with Cam ever since. Lee has been friends with Tina Kwee since 5th Grade and has secretly had a crush on her for just as long. At the age of ten Lee had to switch schools, making him the "new kid" to everyone. Lee is also a violin prodigy, as he was able to put on a recital that same year. He invited Camillio and the three future members of the Outcasts clique to his 10th birthday party; the latter group was invited because they were popular at the time. The famed hypnotist The Amazing Finnwich was hired as entertainment and hypnotized Camillio into thinking he was a chicken, ballerina, and monkey. 9th grade was when he and Cam first met Holger Holgaart. The two defended him from a crowd of his tormentors led by Irwin, and the trio has been inseparable ever since. This event appears to have led to the rift in Lee's and Irwin's friendship and Lee's ejection from the Mathletes, although it should be noted that he was forced to join them in the first place. Lee has been taught how to fight by his father, and the birthmark he's inherited connects him to The Pyramid underneath the school. He has always had above-average intelligence, as he has apparently gotten straight As every year in every class, with the notable exception of the gym.
**Season 1** On the first day of 10th grade, Lee is framed for The Prank while he is in the bathroom, receives one full year of detention, and is grounded for a year as punishment. Since then he has spent every day trying to find out who set him up and why. He has become one of the most popular students in school as a result of The Prank, but he neither wants to nor has the time to enjoy the popularity. Lee has found friends including but not limited to: the Jocks, the Dudes of Darkness, the Skaters, and the techno-savvy bully Biffy Goldstein. Lee has also made enemies, notably the Down with Lee Club and Principal General Barrage, as a Detentionaire, but continues to try and clear his name despite their opposition. Lee discovered the email address of the person who set him up, Radcircles@Anigmahigh.ca, which he learned belonged to ex-Principal Wurst. He deduced that Wurst did not do the prank based on the fact that he hasn't seen him around the school since he disappeared one year earlier. Lee also discovered a series of underground tunnels beneath the school, which appear to be abandoned subway tunnels renovated into a massive underground lab. Lee also discovers that the song used in the prank has the ability to brainwash people and that this song is one of the research projects of the underground labs. Thanks to Chaz's stolen news footage of day one, Lee is led to believe that he has discovered who Radcircles really is when he sees Camillio switch his bag with a bag that sets off the prank. This, combined with how Holger has already found further evidence of Camillio's involvement, leads him to believe that Camillio and Radcircles are one and the same.
**Season 2** Lee soon figured out that his friend Camillio had been brainwashed during the Prank in order to set him up as a red herring. For this reason, Lee began the process of hunting down the person who originally brainwashed Camillio, The Amazing Finnwich. Lee was able to find him eventually, though mostly out of luck rather than through the merits of his investigation, and learned that he had nothing to do with the Prank. Lee's popularity takes some hits in this season due to the actions of Ruby Kwee. First, Ruby takes the credit for the Prank, leading the student body to believe that Lee took the credit for the prank for his own gain. Second, after Ruby admitted she didn't do the prank the student body believes that Lee framed her just to get out of detention. Despite this, Lee also proves himself to his classmates: during the berserk cleaner incident, Lee risked his life to defend his classmates, lead them to safety and finally defeat the Cleaners. Unfortunately, as a direct consequence of his investigation, Lee is expelled from school by Inspector Blompkins. Lee also discovers the true identity of Radcircles: the school's IT technician Lynch Webber, who was acting on the orders of Vice-Principal Victoria. Both of them had been using the school and its students as lab rats to perfect the brainwashing song in a bid for world domination. Lee was able to stop Victoria at the School's dance by proving to Victoria's colleagues in The Council that the song is ineffective for world domination: if the small minority immune to the brainwashing process can snap their peers out of the trance brought on by the song, then the song (while still retaining potential) is utterly useless. With the conspiracy seemingly resolved Lee is finally able to ask out his longtime crush, Tina Kwee.
**Season 3** Lee is narrowly able to avoid being shipped off to Alaska by his mother thanks to the intervention of an unknown benefactor, who instructs the new principal, Blompkins, to un-expel Lee. Also thanks to Lee's actions, Blompkins is fired as principal, reinstating Barrage in the process. During The annual fencing match, it is discovered that Lee is deeply connected to a mysterious/mystical pyramid underneath the school. Also, thanks to the Outcasts, Lee discovers a book detailing information about the Tazelwurms and the Pyramid. Unfortunately, it's written in some kind of ancient language, rendering it unreadable by him. As a direct consequence of his investigations, Lee's family is put under threat by the council. Lee later reunites with Finnwich and Lynch and learns that both they and the Council are after the Pyramid. When it's finally time to open the Pyramid, Finnwich offers Lee the chance to open it with him and together they open it using the keys.
**Season 4** Although the Pyramid is finally opened Lee cannot make sense of the strange writing even with Finnwich's cipher. Having finally learned the information he's been seeking for well over a hundred years, Finnwich destroys the Pyramid lest its secrets fall into the hands of the Council. Finnwich is then captured and sent to Coral Grove, so Lee attempts a rescue mission alongside Biffy and Holger. The mission fails, and instead, Lee ends up in the fight of his life against the mysterious Serpent. Although the superior fighter nearly kills Lee he can both save himself and push the fight into his favor using the Serpent's allergy to fish to partially blind him, followed up by his escape with his friends. Lee is also finally able to admit his feelings for his long-time crush Tina Kwee. Sadly a tearful Tina was not able to reciprocate Lee's feelings lest she compromises her newfound friendship with Jenny Jergens (having formed a pact to not date him). Lee, alongside Biffy, also begins to suspect a conspiracy to clone the teaching staff of A Nigma high, which they later learn to be true leading Lee to fear that his mother is also a clone. Lee faces off against the Serpent on and off again, the first time during a lockdown of the school where he's collecting DNA samples of the Ping family and unfortunately gets away scot-free. The Second time occurs when he kidnaps Jenny for the Book and threatens Holger's life. This time however Lee can outwit him with a fish stuffed pizza Holger had ordered. Finally, Lee learns that the Serpent is his older brother, who then kidnapped a hospitalized Alfred Ping, their mutual father. Later that day Lee was in for a second major shock/discovery concerning his family: his mom, Sue Ping, had also been cloned like her fellow teachers. Unable to do anything about it at the time Lee and Biffy made their escape. The next day Lee rescues his friends Holger, Camillio, and Biffy when they are captured by the Council. In a plot twist, the four-team up with the Serpent, who is seeking revenge against the Council for the suffering they have inflicted upon him. Upon learning that Tina and Jenny are already in Coral Grove, the group makes a plan to sneak onto the submarine to get there, but are forced to leave Camillio behind as a distraction. Sadly, despite surviving the numerous perils of Coral Grove, the group is captured at the last minute and sent to Tina's cell when the prison goes into lockdown. At around dinner time, the group can escape when they jump their guard (a disguised Lynch) and hijack a submarine, which Lynch unfortunately remotely pilots back to Coral Grove. However, he was able to secure the group's cooperation by revealing that Lee's real mother was being held captive at the base. The group works with Lynch to save Lee's mother and afterward goes to see Finnwich, who tries to kill Lee and himself to keep the Pyramid from being opened again. Lee is saved by the arrival of His Eminence, the true mastermind behind the conspiracy, and in turn, saved from the prehistoric lizard creature by the arrival of Cassandra McAdams, and finally saved from her by her daughter Kimmie. Having finally run out of people trying to kill them, the characters have a group hug to celebrate the newly formed romantic relationships and the apparent end to the conspiracy. Lee finally sees the end of a long, exciting path, and probably hopes to return to normal life once more.

## Codex Statistics

**Tier:** **9-C**

**Name:** Lee Ping

**Origin:** Detentionaire

**Sex:** Male

**Age:** 14, 15 as of "The Tag Along"

**Classification:** Human, Student at A. Nigma High, Detentionaire

**Status:** **Alive**

**Alignment:** **Chaotic Good** (Lee's whole deal is trying to figure out who framed him and why, to do so he breaks rules to prove he didn't break any rules as he puts it. Lee is also a good person seen as when he refused to leave Barrage behind)

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** **Peak Human level** (Lee could easily behead a robot and he is shown to be athletic along with being able to harm those who can harm him), **Higher** when empowered (Lee can be empowered by the Antiquis Triangulum)

**Durability:** **Peak Human level** (Lee can tank attacks from Li Ping who could tank on a group of Tazelwurm, a single tazelwurm is seen as a treath to the 15th grades inculding one who could punch a hole through a metal locker)

**Striking Strength:** **Peak Human Class**

**Lifting Strength:** **Average Human**

**Travel Speed:** **Superhuman** (Lee can outrun cleaners which can run on walls)

**Combat Speed:** **Superhuman** likely **Higher**

**Reaction Speed:** **Superhuman** likely **Higher** (Lee is comparbale to Biffy Goldstein who could react to the beam of a crystallizing ray guns and he could react to what is seemingly a laser)

**Stamina:** **High** (Lee could spend a whole day running and such despite being so sick he saw hallucinations)

**Range:** **Standard Melee**, **Tens of Metrs** with crystallizing ray gun

**Intelligence:** **Gifted** (Lee is highly intelligent, last year he had straight A's (minus a C in gym), he can rapidly do a physic calculation to catch a ball and he could rapidly find mistakes in the Mathletes's equation despite them working on it for about about six years. The Mathletes include Irwin Dexter who is part of the gifted class)

## Powers and Abilities

* By Himself
* With Optional Equipment

**Human Achievements** (Lee is a talented drawer), **Vehicular Mastery** (Lee is a skilled skateboarder), **Social Influencing** (Lee could taunt steve in order to stop him from ratting him out and tricked jocks into pumping balls for him), **Disguise Mastery** (Lee can disguise himself which can fool people), **Weapon Usage** (Sword Usage; Lee is a skilled fencer), **Stealth Mastery**, **Empowerment** (Lee can be empowered by the Antiquis Triangulum), **Fate Protection** (Lee was prophecized to open the Antiquis Triangulum), **Resistance** to **Mind Manipulation** (Lee is immune to the prank song which hypnotises people and he's also shown to by immune to Finnwich's hypnose)

**Mind Manipulation** (With the Prank Song which hypnotises people), **Sealing** (With a crystallizing ray gun which can seal people in crystal), Possible **Curse Removal** (with a Red Tazelwurm's whisker which is said to remove curses), **Acid Manipulation** (With a homemade acid), **Forcefield Creation** (With His Eminence's cane, which can trap one in a frocefield)

## Standard Equipment

**Keys:** The Keys are golden, octagonal shaped key which opens most of the doors in the underground laboratories of A Nigma High and some doors of the Green Apple Splat factory. They are also necessary to open the Antiquis Triangulum

**Skateboard:** Lee's skateboar, usually used for a quicker getaway

### Optional Equipment

**Prank Song:** The Prank Song (also called Lee Ping's Prankster #1) is a strange and mesmerizing song that was played during the prank that puts people under hypnose.

**crystallizing ray gun:** Guns used by the cleaners, it traps the target in crystal.

**Red Tazelwurm's Whisker:** The whisker of a Red Tanzrlwurm, they are said to be able to break curses.

**Fencing Equipment:** Bradley Von Chillstein's fencing equipment, Lee used them during the yearly fencing tournament.

**Homemade Acid:** Acid made using Green Apple Splat mixed with fizzy rocks and shaving cream.

**His Eminence's cane:** His Eminence's cane which can trap one in forcefield immobilizing them.

## Other

**Standard Tactics:** Lee very rarely fights, prefering to either run away or hide from his opponents. on the occasions he did fight he used whatever he could find around him. if he's equiped with his optional equipment he'll use the crystallizing ray gun to seal his opponent in crystal or his fencing skills.

**Weaknesses:** Lee is a paranoid teenager due to being framed even accusing his best friend of being the one to frame him.

## Battle Records

* Victories
* Losses
* Inconclusive

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