Genji-Liú Guān

* Grenier, Gable, Gemul, Graciela, Gemino, Georg, Greg, Gabriel, Gunnar, Gertrude, Grizzle (adoptive siblings)
* Gerson (adoptive brother-in-law)
* Gisella (adoptive sister-in-law; deceased)
* King Guto (adoptive uncle)
* Grandma Gwyneth (adoptive aunt)
* Glyn (adoptive cousin)
* Gwyneth's children (adoptive cousins)
* Griffin (godbrother)

### Likes

Her daughter, arts, picnics, her family, making mosaic pictures, cookies, dancing, The Blue Moon Festival, archery, bowling, baseball, sledding, brightly-coloured zinc oxide, playing the recorder, PB&J sandwiches, calypso music, neapolitan ice cream, sherbet lolly straws

### Dislikes

Her dad's feelings being hurt, Greg's sarcasm, snakes, sharing her things (as a cub), Grandpa Gruff being mistreated/blamed for Arimaspi's attack

## Biographical information

### Status

Active

**Genji-Liú Guān** is a middle-aged Griffoness from Griffinstone. She's the adoptive mother of Griselda, and one of the Griffons from the First Pack Grandpa Gruff looked after.

## Personality

While Genji is quite soft-spoken when she's in public, she's quite assertive with her family and enjoys exchanging playful sarcasm with them. While she believes more in having fun and loving one another rather than being headstrong and having brute strength like her father, she's still fiercely loyal to him and tries to live up to him. She's also extremely affectionate towards her daughter, Griselda, and does her best to care and provide for her, like Gruff did for her when she was little.

Genji also is shown to have a sense of humour, once telling Griselda that a timberwolf ate her hind leg before revealing she was joking and that she was actually born with one hind leg.

Ever since childhood, Genji has been extremely afraid of snakes, often asking Gruff to check the toilet for any snakes, out of fear that one would come up while she's sitting on it, until Gruff convinced her there weren't. She seems to have mostly gotten over this in the present, though she still appears uncomfortable around snakes, going as far as to claim that "they don't get scared because they're made of fear."

## Appearance

Genji is a Griffoness that has greyish brown fur with markings on her tail, paws, and face, identical to those of Siamese cats. She is missing her right hind leg all the way up to her hip as she was born with congenital amputation. She sports a hot pink bandana around her neck.

## Background

Genji-Liú was found alone just outside the forest and near a broken wagon when she was a tiny cub, and was taken in by Grandpa Gruff, having survived an accident that killed her biological parents (it's implied that rain made road conditions treacherous). When Gruff took her in, Genji gained his other children as adoptive siblings. Due to being very young when Gruff adopted her, she doesn't remember life before the day he found her. However, she is very content with her life and new family.

On her seventh birthday, she and her family went bowling and she only scored one strike. This strike was scored accidentally due to her falling down the alley.

As a cub, she developed somewhat of a hogging phase; she didn't like sharing her toys and crayons; and kept asking Gruff to get her a padlock to lock her saddlebag so that the other cubs wouldn't take her sharpener and trowel.

Since childhood, she's been extremely afraid of snakes and would often ask Gruff to check the toilet for any snakes, out of fear that one would come up while she's sitting on it, until Gruff convinced her there weren't. She seems to have mostly gotten over this in adulthood, though she still appears uncomfortable around snakes.

She discovered her love for art when making a picture out of some leftover multicoloured macaroni she found in the kitchen.

Genji-Liú does not have a spouse. Instead, she raises her daughter, Griselda, alone as a single mother.

## Relationships

### **Griselda**

Griselda is Genji-Liú's adopted daughter. Initially, Griselda was reluctant to get acquainted with Genji. It was later revealed that the main reason why she is so resistant to Genji is the preconception that any adult possibly intenting to adopt her is supposed to be her father's replacement. However, she was able to find some common ground with Genji after she revealed that she also lost her parents at a young age and was subsequently taken in by Grandpa Gruff. Later on, Griselda slowly warmed up to Genji and was eventually adopted by her. Their relationship was a bit awkward at first, with Genji being a single parent and Griselda not knowing when or if to call her 'mom', but both of them soon grew accustomed to being a family. As a cub, Griselda would often have picnics with her mother. As a young adult, Griselda has grown to truly love Genji-Liú as her mother.

### **Grandpa Gruff**

Gruff is Genji's adoptive father. They have a good relationship and she loves him dearly. The two are very close, as Gruff adopted and raised her since she was a baby. Genji loves her father dearly and is thankful for everything Gruff has done for her. Like Gruff's other children, Genji is completely supportive of Gruff's relationship with Grizel and all do what they can to nudge the two together. When a stallion is hitting on Grizel, Genji pushes him away, declaring "Back off, sir. He's our dad's."

### **Greg**

Greg is one of Genji-Liú's adoptive brothers. Genji was warmly welcomed by him and the other cubs when Gruff brought her home, who were excited to get a new friend to play with. She gets along well with him. During adulthood, they tend to annoy each other from time to time, but still have a good relationship all in all.

## Gallery

Mother's Day 2023 Special of Genji-Liú and her daughter, Griselda
## Trivia

* According to Gruff, she's one of the youngest of his children still living in Griffinstone.
	+ It's mentioned that she's younger than Greg, Gabriel, and Graciela.
* Genji's bandana was designed to look similar to Gruff's fez.
* Her favourite genre of music is calypso.
* In Chinese, her name means "valuable as gold" (Genji), "thunder" (Liú), and "responsible and inspirational" (Guān).
	+ In Chinese, "Genji" is a feminine name that translates to 'gold,' while in Japanese, it is a unisex name that could mean 'two beginnings' or even 'original rule'.
	+ The name "Liú" is a common Chinese surname that means "kill" or "destroy." It is also associated with the meaning "will, determination" and can also translate to "willow tree."
* Snake documentaries tend to give Genji nightmares.