Hye-jin "Juhong Agma" Jang

**Hye-jin  Jang**  (**장 혜진**) is a member of the Bam Agma's Gwishin Division. An orphan sleeper, she was taken in by the organization for their "Project Red" and subjected a young Hye-Jin to cybernetics, magical and biological alterations, and intense training to turn her into an Awakened Sleeper. Loyal to the Organization and her country, Subjecy 16 lives up to her moniker of "Juhong Agma" or "Scarlet Devil" by ruthlessly removing the threats to Korea and the Bam Agma with her weapon of a body.

## Background

Hye-jin was practically born as an orphan. Her father left as soon as he heard about her, meanwhile her mother died in childbirth. After this, Hye-jin was taken to an orphanage. Normally she would have lived a relatively average life, perhaps being adopted by someone or making her own way once she was an adult. She was a Sleeper and her parents had no connection at all to the magical world. As it happened though, when she was a toddler a member of Bam Agma chose her for "Project Red".

Project Red was a series of experiments commissioned by the South Korean government. The project was meant to increase the military power of the Agma and by extension the entire country. There were many different experiments going on: artificial humans, infusing nonhuman DNA into humans, transplanting magical organs, cybernetics, etc. The name of the project was chosen when the researchers noticed their experiments had a tendency to alter the hair and eye color of subjects, most often to red.

Hye-jin was chosen to be part of experiments that had the goal of taking completely normal sleepers and turning them into unquestioningly loyal super soldiers. Her body was altered and made to develop differently such as making her muscles capable of producing an extreme amount of force. Hye-jin proved to be a massive success. By the time she was a teenager, she could lift a man over her head with one arm, finish a 100-meter sprint at world record breaking pace, and take bullet shots with little to no injury. The mental conditioning also worked very well, even better than expected. She was a fanatic, undyingly loyal to South Korea and eager to tear apart anyone she was pointed at.

She got her nickname at 16 when she was given a test mission to see how well her enhancements and training held up in a real combat situation. There was a group resisting the laws of magic in the country. The Agma had of course already found them months ago but they considered it a perfect opportunity to give Hye-jin a trial run once she was ready. The results met every expectation they had of her, only two survived the carnage and one of them was now down an arm. With the project a confirmed success, the survivors were allowed to spread word of this "Juhong Agma", "Scarlet Devil", as they called her. The government believed the rumors spread would help increase the reputation of their martial power. Hye-jin took a liking to the title and began referring to herself as such when facing enemies.

After that she only had some final touches left to go through and within the year she officially became part of the Bam Agma. Hye-Jin has continued to be a successful agent, although it has been found that she is incompatible with missions that require a large amount of subtlety. Currently she is deployed as a blunt force instrument, being sent at any targets that need to be destroyed completely.

## Personality

Hye-Jin holds a great capacity and enjoyment for violence. After all there's a reason she was nicknamed "devil" by her enemies, instead of something more like fellow physical powerhouse Su-Jeong's nickname of “Mountain” from her allies. Su-Jeong has a sense of honor, evil, and putting in effort for quick kills but Hye-Jin sees nothing wrong with what she does. She wasn't just trained as a warrior, she was raised as a killer who revels in battle and carnage.

Nothing pleases Hye-Jin more than the opportunity to engage in bloodshed in the name of her country. She was raised to see the death of their enemies as a good thing and given the mindset of a warrior who lives for the fight. According to her, different kinds of battles can have their own appeals. Mages often have some interesting tricks up their sleeves, large crowds of weak enemies are fun to make her way through, etc. Her most favored form of combat though is a duel or other small form of engagement against opponents close to her level. Being able to feel the sting of being struck and engaging in a true battle against worthy opponents, that is when she is most alive.

As mentioned, Hye-Jin does not have much of a code of honor. She will do whatever she is ordered to and take down any enemy of the Bam Agma with pleasure. She has little regard for the people she fights, outside of respect for those who can give her a challenge. Despite this lack of honor though she is still a very straightforward fighter. When it is up to Hye-Jin she always goes in “guns blazing” so to speak. Right through the front door and start swinging, that’s her favored way of fighting. Although she’s willing to try when ordered, she dislikes full stealth missions and indeed it has been found that her stealth skills have been too neglected to be useful in such missions. Hence her being used more as a blunt instrument of destruction by her superiors.

Although somewhat obsessed with strength and battle she doesn't look down on weakness. Not everyone was given the same modifications as her body or received her training and she can hardly fault someone for that. At most she might consider a weak opponent not worth her time due to them being unable to fulfill her desire for battle for very long.  She does however look down on cowardice. Not someone performing a tactical retreat or bystanders fleeing the area. Someone who purposely enters the battlefield and, without orders or tactical purpose, runs away out of fear. She will especially look down on them if they are abandoning someone or their loyalty in the process.

An aspect of Hye-Jin that often shocks those who know of her fearsome reputation is that she actually acts pretty normal when not actively in combat. She enjoys good food, can talk about plenty of subjects other than battle, appreciates music, etc. When Hye-Jin isn't actively in combat there are only a few signs of her battle/blood lust. The easiest one is that she'll answer honestly and bluntly to anyone who asks her. Otherwise she may show the occasional glimpse of her warrior side but mostly she just acts like a normal person. As normal as a human weapon made by the government could be expected to be anyway.

Hye-Jin has been raised with undying loyalty to South Korea and its protectors. Similarly, she has been conditioned to look down on their enemies. Even if she were ordered to kill herself she would do so without question. Her loyalty to her comrades is also notable. She enjoys talking with and helping other members of the Bam Agma, considering many of them to be like extended family. Sometimes she'll train or spar with someone which initially worried those who know what she's like in battle. However, it seems that when the battle has no risk of death or maiming on either side she acts like her level-headed "peaceful" self so no one has died by sparring with her.

## Abilities

### Martial Arts

Although Hye-Jin usually relies on brute force, this is more of a self-handicap than anything, a way to make battle more interesting. Naturally part of being the perfect weapon for her nation is knowing multiple ways to kill a man with only your bare hands. She has been trained extensively in how to fight since she could walk and found herself to especially have an affinity for close combat. Her fighting style is mostly kickboxing with a focus on powerful strikes, though she is still capable of engaging in grappling or throws. Her fighting style takes techniques from martial arts like muay thai, sanda, and lethwei.

Due to her worldly and violent mind, she cannot master the more mental and mystical sides of martial arts despite having perfect technique. Things like suppressing her presence and killing intent are beyond her. Although when she's excited or annoyed she can sometimes do the opposite of presence concealment and make her killing intent so palpable that even an untrained sleeper could feel it.

### Modified body

As part of their experiments in turning sleepers to super soldiers, Hye-Jin has had her body extensively altered. Her skin develops with different building blocks from most people. It still has the appearance of normal skin but acts like armor able to stop bullets, swords, hammers, and even small explosions with little damage. Her bones are denser and reinforced, making them much more resilient to breaking. Her muscles are similarly enhanced and are also capable of exerting a massive amount of power, easily overcoming even a reinforcement using mage and making her fast enough to deflect bullets if she had to. Her sense of pain has been lowered though not removed. The rest of her senses have been enhanced and modified to assist in hunting down targets: perfect senses, thermal vision, locking onto scents, etc. To make up for her nature as a sleeper, a magic resistance artifact has been implanted into her torso. Hye-Jin was the first and so far the most extensive success of Project Red, having brute power that only a handful of other humans can match

### Suppressors

A pair of gloves that she had made for her use. Unlike most artifacts these are not meant to enhance her in any way, in fact they do the exact opposite. Impacts that go through these gloves are reduced to a tenth of their original power. This allows Hye-Jin to have the feeling of going all out against average opponents without ending every fight in a single blow. However, even while wearing these gloves a single punch is still enough to inflict extensive internal damage on opponents of Sleeper level durability, destroying any organ hit by the blunt force. The suppression of these gloves can be reduced to keep her competitive with opponents who are stronger than normal but still not on her level.