Mino Tanarin

"*Oh my, I see you're bleeding from your back. Would you be interested in buying a healing potion?*"
—Mino Tanarin
Mino is a cheerful alchemist marten, who knows to to talk his way into and out of situations.

## Appearance

A marten with a characteristic patch of white fur which stretches onto his front paws. The rest of his fur is brown. Usually wears brown trousers and a white shirt. When going around selling his potions, he puts on a dark brown trench coat, which has a lot of pockets for storing potion vials.

## Personality

Mino loves to experiment and help people. When presented with new materials, he will try to immediately determine their properties and interactions with other elements. He feels great joy when finding a new potion recipe and becomes eager to test it out on someone, even if that person may not be exactly willing to do so. His usual method for achieving this is going around and trying to make new friends, to whom he tries to sell his new concoctions. When treated poorly, or dealing with a nasty individual, he likes to use tricks to get out of the situation and make some money at the same time. His favourite method is stabbing someone and then emptying their wallets by offering to sell them an expensive healing potion (Yes, just taking the money would be easier, but seeing bad guys begging for their lives is funnier and selling a potion is legal, while stealing is not). He is not exactly physically strong, but can move quickly. Becomes impatient when unable to sell his goods, but tries to remain polite at all times. Hates doing repetitive tasks.

## Abilities

### Innate Abilities

* **Smooth talker:** Mino knows how to use words to sell his goods and get out of dangerous situations.

## Skills

* **Alchemy:** Mino is a skilled alchemist specialising in producing cheap healing potions, narcotics and stimulants
* **Swordfighting:** Mino carries a short sword by his left side and can coat the blade with a powerful narcotic. He fights by moving around quickly and targeting weak points, starting at the wrists and moving on to the main body.

## History

### Backstory

Mino was born at the edge of Shang Mu to parents with a high education. From a very young age, he liked to watch his alchemist father doing research. This led to him deciding to get educated in alchemy too. While getting his education, he realised that he’d greatly enjoy using his knowledge for helping people. Along with his normal studies, he spent some of his free time on extra research on healing potions, stimulants and narcotics. His father supplied Mino with raw materials, which he could use to experiment with new recipes. When Mino finished his alchemy school, he decided he’d like to travel around and meet new people, find new potion ingredients and learn new potion recipes. Shortly after, he got connections to an aged marten, who offered Mino to teach him swordfighting in exchange for a supply of painkillers. Mino spent the next few years training with his swordfighting mentor and doing work under his father in order to earn some money. By the time he reached the age of 23, he learned fighting well enough to defend himself and earned enough money to buy a small cart and a supply of materials for potion making. After that he departed from his family and began to travel around, living on his accumulated money and earnings from his own potions.

### Present day

3th January 2018: Mino went to the crystal Cafe and met Asaki and Lumi. Pretended to be choking to pull a prank on Asaki, as petty revenge for a cold greeting.