Mai Huo Ji

"Y'know Sajiro, I hope you realize that one day you've been pursuing me for nothing. Why aren't you giving up?"

Mai is an OC of Kinatsuu. She is the only child of the wealthy Huo Ji family.

## Appearance

Mai is a tall and slender young fierce girl with a pale complexion. She had Gray to white eyes which makes her pupils hardly visible. Mai has long straight dark brown hair reaching over her waist. Fashion wise, she wears a lot of red and pleasing clothing.

## Personality

Mai is silent whenever she's around people she doesn't know. But she does not look forward to people approaching and striking up a conversation. She acts hostile and cold towards people who aren't friends with her, but is more soft to her friends. Mai is insecure about her eyes and vision being that her vision is poor compared to others and being considered blind by her mother. She can get quite piqued by people asking her the same question, "Are you blind?" Mai can act out in front of them and can frighten them. In some cases she becomes aggressive verbally and physically. But to not ruin her reputation, she quickly recollects herself after an outburst.

When Mai is usually with her friends, she's gentle and kind and it's unlikely that she'll have an aggressive outburst in front of them. Mai can have a sense of humor and can lighten the mood if she wants to. Her friends don't recommend for anyone to underestimate her because she can make your days even worse. But overall, Mai is nice when people get to know her.

## Relationships

#### Sajiro Oreinstein

When it was training week, Mai's team partnered up with Luke's team. Mai didn't say anything at first but when Sajiro came up to her. She got annoyed easily but kept her cool. Later on the journey, he would flirt with her occasionally but Mai hid her feelings for awhile. The two would get into an argument every once in awhile. But eventually they learned to accept each other.

#### Luke Lapierre

Mai also met Luke for the first time in training week. When Sajiro was trying to talk to Mai a lot, she would flirt with Luke so Sajiro wouldn't bother her. But that didn't work well and Luke told Mai about him. The two became good friends sharing some personal stories and experiences.

#### Kaguya Gullibeaux

Like the others, Mai met Kaguya on the first day of training week. They didn't talk to each other at first but they started getting along well when later on in the week. They would also have a lot of fun during the Taiyo festival. Kaguya and Mai we're like sisters as time passed.

#### Ace Eloranta

The two didn't talk much at first. But when Mai displayed her skills at fire runing, Ace was quiet impressed and talked to her about it. He quickly became aware of what she was like and talked to her gently which made Mai think he was a good person. Later on, the two would be great in battle together.

#### Gabbie & Gabriel Nithercott

During training week, Gabbie started talking to Mai and she was not in the mood. But when Gabbie didn't ask if she was blind once, Mai thought she was strange. But later, Gabriel approached her and if she had any problems with the group. Mai gave a solid answer and Gabriel commented on how annoyed she looked with Sajiro. Then the two realized that they were good at reading people. From that day forward, Mai felt good talking to the twins.

#### Harry Ashford

In training periods, Mai didn't say anything except when Emilia encouraged her to talk. Harry didn't talk as much as the others and found her interesting. Later on in their journey, she approaches Harry and admits that she learned to keep her cool whenever she has outbursts by observing him being calm most of the time. Then she would see Harry as a mentor and a good friend.

#### Satori Peregrine

Mai didn't get along with Satori after she ambushed the group. But Satori noticed and apologized for acting brash towards them at first. But Mai reluctantly accepted the apology. But as they went on their journey, whenever Mai had outbursts, Satori would calm her down quickly and help not make a scene. The two would later on become great together and go out to do karaoke sometimes.

#### Gaoyaoko Rouphos

Like Satori, Mai didn't like Gayaoko at first. But it lasted for awhile because Gayaoko would often stir up trouble and Mai wasn't having it. But one day she learned to accept it and was invited to trick a store merchant and stole from them. Mai and Gayaoko would get along very well and they learned many skills from each other.

#### Xyoph Von Mathisen

At first, mai thought Xyoph was cool for being such a good earth runer at a young age. But quickly changed her mind once she realized how stubborn she was when she refused to join them several times. Mai scolded Xyoph for being too froward. When Xyoph finally joined their group, she began teaching Sajiro and Luke earth runing. Xyoph would jokingly scream at them so they can do harder which made Sajiro very wimpy. This made Mai laugh and she would often join Xyoph in getting them to work hard and the two had fun doing so.

## Before Vesteria

When Mai was newly born, her parents wanted to make sure she was a perfectly healthy baby. So they would have doctors come in reguarly to check up on her. Everything was well for the first couple of months. But one day when a doctor tested Mai with her vision, they discovered that she had very poor vision. Her parents obviously worried, had several more doctors look at it and it was confirmed she would be stuck with this vision for the rest of her life. Devastated at the fact that their child wasn't healthy, Mai's mother hid her from society and had her privately educated.

Growing up, Mai wanted to go outside and meet new people and make friends. But her mother kept refusing and this upset Mai. But her father would comfort her and this would make Mai feel better. When Mai was newly a teenager, her parents had a long discussion and they agreed to reveal Mai to the public. When everyone saw her for the first time, they kept talking about how pretty she was, but if she was blind. This made Mai think that her parents hid her away because of her eyes, thinking she was ugly. So she cried on the spot and ran away.

This continued but this would just make Mai more angry and angry. But she didn't do anything about it to not ruin her reputation. While her parents were busy, Mai overheard about fire runing from a couple of servants. Curious, she listened to a documentary about it and wanted to see if she could do it. So Mai carefully followed the steps and blasted a small ball of fire which set a curtain on fire. But she quickly put it out and realized she could fire rune. So Mai spent countless hours practicing moves and developed some techniques herself. One day, she went to the library and read some books about fire runing.

Mai went through all the books and quickly learned a lot. But she swear she heard a voice calling her name. Mai turned around and didn't see anything. But when she looked the other way, she clearly saw an orange spirit. It told Mai to follow it and she did out of curiosity. The spirit led her to a statue of Daemon Zuhime, a master at fire runing. It told Mai she could be just like her if she discovered more about herself. Mai happened to look over at a bunch of papers and found one about Vesteria. Right away she knew what she wanted.

One day, Mai approached her father and told him about Vesteria. He found it interesting but knew her mother would disagree. But he told Mai that her being happy was what mattered more at the moment, which made her happy. When it was time to go to Vesteria, a couple of servants packed some bags and got her to the school earlier. They negotiated with the staff and allowed Mai to be on her own. This made her feel good about herself not having anyone to control her.

## In Vesteria

When it was the first day of school, Mai was cautious with all the people around her. She kept her distance but proceeded to class. Mai's first period was French and she met Emilia. She talked to Mai and did one thing nobody else would, ask if she was blind. This surprised Mai and she talked to her and felt like she was getting a new friend, but it felt strange. They would both find out that they have second period training together which made Mai less nervous of being a loner.

When they got to second period training, Mai met Josh, Emilia's boyfriend. When Mr. Willow said that they needed groups of five, Josh said that he knew who they could go up to with. After a bit, Josh told the two to follow him, and they met Harry and Gabriel.