Ye Yan

> *Ten to one you'll experience disappointment in life, as long as you are living you will face obstacles here and there. But there is no predicament in life that you can't get out of, and those obstacles will only help you achieve a brighter future.***Ye Yan** to Huang Xiaoyan in "Origins"

## Biographical Information

### Alias

Yan Bro (言哥 *Yán Gē*)
Master (主人 *Zhǔ Rén*)
Gong Player (敲锣的 *Qiāo Luó De*)
Small Fry (杂鱼 *Zá Yú*)
Senpai (前辈 *Qián Bèi*)
Vice Boss's Boyfriend (副组长的情夫 *Fù Zǔ Zhǎng De Qíng Fū*)
Arab (阿拉伯 *Ā Lā Bó*)
Main Family (宗支 *Zōng Zhī*)
Yan Yan (言言 *Yán Yán*)

## Status

### Profession

Student
Nightwatcher
Guardian
Revenue Deputy

### Affiliation

Xiahou High School
Department of Night
Xiahou's Student Council
Northern Nightwatcher main family
Kurokuchi Gang (Temporarily)

## Debut

### Anime Debut

Episode 1

**Ye Yan** is the main protagonist of the *Guardians of Night* series. He is a student from Xiahou High School who lives a double life as a Nightwatcher guardian and protects normal humans from monsters.

## Personality

Ye Yan is often characterised as calm and highly intelligent. These traits are shown during his fights, where he would try to find the opponent's weakness and create strategies that appear to be random and nonsense to others but are shown to be quite effective when they succeed. His high intelligence is shown in his various battles: during his fight with the fused Double Devil, he quickly devised a strategy in order to inflict damage on their weak spot after he was informed by Ximen Guanren over the phone for barely a minute; during his fight with Lan Ling, he cleverly used her Substitution tag against her by summoning Hundun to stomp her right after she substituted herself; during his fight with Deng Yuankui, he used Che Yongtai to physically exhaust him, then swapped in and knocked Che Yongtai out before using Chi Shock while everyone else was confused, allowing Che Yongtai to wake up five seconds later and win the match due to the rules; etc.

Ye Yan is also quite hardworking, as shown when he runs out of money paying for Huang Xiaoyan's medical bills, he would take whatever job he can accept to earn money, such as participating in the wrestling contest hosted by Ximen Ruxin and the Lovers Party hosted by Deng Yuankui, and working at a maid cafe. However, a running gag in the series is how he would eventually use the money he just earned to pay for Huang Xiaoyan's medical bills again.

He has a delinquent side, as he was shown smoking on some occasions and drinking alcohol during the Dong Guan arc despite being underage.

When people call him and Huang Xiaoyan a couple, he usually acts awkwardly and quickly denies it, even though he is shown on multiple occasions to have feelings for her.

As a self-proclaimed performance artist, Ye Yan's performance art usually weirds people out, making others consider him weird, or even perverted.

## Appearance

Ye Yan is a tall young man who appears to have a slender build when clothed, but actually has a lean and muscular physique courtesy of his physical training. He has long creamy blond hair and turquoise eyes, and a mole under his left eye. He bears a striking resemblance to his ancestor Ye Chong.

Ye Yan usually wears the standard Xiahou male student uniform. However, he is also shown wearing costumes on occasions for his "performance art".

During the Dong Guan Arc and Lovers Party Arc, Ye Yan wore a suit. During the School Play Arc, Ye Yan dressed up as the Princes from Snow White and Cinderella, and ultimately as Sha Wujing from *Journey to the West*. During the Ancient Tree of Time Arc, Ye Yan wore a black hooded jacket over a white shirt. Also during this story arc, he was reverted to his baby self and aged to his future elderly self by Yun Zhonghe's drugs. During the Sage Hunter Arc, he disguised himself as a girl and wore a maid costume. Throughout the arc. he changed his appearance twice to appear more feminine and attract costumers.

The Lonely MushroomThe Suicidal GirlThe Little DinosaurLe PoopseurThose FlowersThe Tired DrumstickThe Lonely Coconut TreeThe Swimming SharkmanThe Cold Under the MoonlightYe Yan wearing a suitYe Yan as Sha SengThe Lonely ClownYe Yan as a babyYe Yan as an old manThe Depressed RabbitYe Yan's first disguise as a maidYe Yan's second disguise as a maidYe Yan's third disguise as a maidPear PressureThe Dead PresidentGuru in the CityThe Gaze From the WaterDark Tiger Flame MasterNature and Primal DesireDon't Ask Why My Name is MediziyaThe Cliché of Whitewashing Someone With Blood on Their HandsThe Invisible Man After Whitewashing
## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Being a main family Nightwatcher and having trained since he was young, Ye Yan is physically stronger than an average human as he easily pushed a metal ball 22 meters far during shot put, nearing the world record. He is considered a Nightwatcher prodigy, as he is able to control eight Demon Flags, a feat that was considered near impossible even by the main families and granted him the status of the third strongest Nightwatcher in history. He is the second Nightwatcher to attain the Night Conqueror form in the post-commercialization of light bulbs era.

### Techniques

**Summoned Beast** (召唤兽 *Zhào Huàn Shòu*): A few Nightwatchers throughout history have searched for and formed contracts with creatures to serve as their summoned beast. Once the contract is formed, the Nightwatcher can summon the creature by shouting their name or the command "**Summon**" (召唤 *Zhào Huàn*). Once summoned, the summoned beast's existence is maintained by expending the summoner's stamina. If the beast were to sustain damage or exert its power, the depletion will be intensified. Once the summoner's stamina is completely depleted, the summoned beast will disappear. If the user wishes to continue maintaining the summoned beast even after they have no more stamina, they must sacrifice their vitality in exchange. In Ye Yan's case, his summoned beast is the Ancient Beast (上古神兽 *Shàng Gǔ Shén Shòu*) Hundun. Uniquely, when Ye Yan is running out of stamina to maintain Hundun, it will begin to shrink in size. Ye Yan's physical condition when he summons Hundun is also proportional to the size of Hundun when it is summoned, as Hundun was only as large as himself when he summoned it after being critically injured. If Ye Yan were to be severely injured after summoning Hundun, he would be unable to maintain Hundun's massive size due to his deteriorated condition, causing it to disappear.

**Spirit Shock** (元气震 *Yuán Qì Zhèn*): After accumulating enough negative emotions from experiencing grievances, a Nightwatcher can release the stored energy into their vicinity, indiscriminately knocking creatures around them unconscious before falling unconscious themselves shortly afterwards, though they will usually wake up before the others due to a temporary boost in resistance. While using this technique and before fainting, the Nightwatcher's eyes will glow. The time a person is rendered unconscious depends on the degree of their strength in comparison to the user's and their stamina: people established to be powerful and strong-willed fall unconscious for considerably less time than the weak-willed, but may faint for longer if they were exhausted beforehand. This technique cannot affect organisms that were unconscious before it was used, on organisms that were alertly focused on the user, or Flag Demons that are inside Demon Flags.
**Darkening** (黑化 *Hēi Huà*): A form achievable by a Nightwatcher who has invoked their **dark persona** (黑暗人格 *Hēi Àn Rén Gé*), born from their negative emotions. By succumbing to their inner darkness and forfeiting their body's control to the dark persona, a Nightwatcher can assume this special state, which is indicated physically with the blackening of their sclerae. A Darkened Nightwatcher exhibits complete apathy to everything around them and focuses only on killing other creatures. While Darkened, aside from a significant boost in strength and speed, a Nightwatcher also gains the ability to see and physically interact with souls,  release concussive shockwaves from themselves, and generate destructive green energy from their hands that can be discharged as explosive beams. However, extreme emotional outbursts from their normal personality, such as embarrassment could force a Nightwatcher out of this form, indicated by their eyes returning to normal one after another. By learning to accept and live with their inner darkness instead of resisting it allows a Nightwatcher to attain the ability to transform into a Night Conqueror.

## Equipment

**Soul Gong** (镇魂锣 *Zhèn Hún Luó*): A main family Nightwatcher exclusive weapon. If struck by the Soul Mallet, it can produce a sound that either renders anyone within close proximity to the gong unconscious or temporarily immobilizes anyone who heard the sound other than Nightwatchers, who have certain levels of immunity to losing consciousness and paralysis. However, if repeatedly struck within a short timeframe, the immunity will start to weaken and eventually the Nightwatcher themselves will be affected by the sound, showing signs such as extreme fatigue and nose bleeding. Even if they are shattered, Soul Gongs can still produce the immobilizing sound if the pieces are taped back together and can be welded back together through unknown methods. The immobilizing effect only works on the receivers' bodies, therefore it can not stop someone from mentally controlling or summoning a weapon.
**Demon Flags** (煌妖幡 *Huáng Yāo Fān*): A Nightwatcher exclusive magic tool. It is used to capture monsters by atomizing their bodies into green fog along with their soul and enslave them as Flag Demons for eternity, courtesy of the numerous magic formulae programmed into them. Flag Demons are capable of making themselves invisible and intangible by turning themselves into green smoke, or solidify themselves to physically attack. Nightwatchers are also able to telepathically communicate with their Flag Demons within a few hundred meters. Nightwatchers can also telekinetically moving Demon Flags within a few dozen meters of themselves, which allows them to hide their flags around the battlefield for sneak attacks with their Flag Demons. Main family Nightwatchers possess purer bloodlines and are thus usually able to control multiple Demon Flags.The Nightwatcher clan falsely claims that a Nightwatcher who can control four or more Demon Flags is able to store at most three Flag Demons in one flag. In reality, the number of Flag Demons a Nightwatcher can have exponentially increases depending on the number of Demon Flags they control. A four-flag Nightwatcher can have eight Flag Demons, five can have sixteen, etc.. As an eight-flag Nightwatcher, Ye Yan can command up to 128 Flag Demons.

**Jin Erpeng** (金二鹏 *Jīn Èr Péng*): A Flag Demon passed down in the Nightwatcher Northern main family. He has a muscular humanoid body, an avian head with two long plumes, and a pair of large feathery wings. He is usually clad in lamellar armor, although it can be removed.Jin Erpeng possesses extraordinary vision. With his hawk-like eyes, he was able to find scrap of bones within a one-kilometer radius in a meadow. He is also able to fly due to his large wings. Additionally, he possesses enhanced strength, being able to effortlessly defeat multiple muscular men whose strength were augmented with drugs. Like all Flag Demons, he can turn into a gaseous form and telepathically communicate with his master.

**Huan Chaojiao** (唤潮鲛 *Huàn Cháo Jiāo*): A Flag Demon passed down in the Nightwatcher Northern main family. He has a muscular humanoid body with a pair of curved horns pointing forward on both sides of his head and sharp upper cuspids. He is usually clad in armor, although it can be removed.Huan Chaojiao has not displayed any special abilities, though he does possess enhanced strength, being able to effortlessly defeat multiple muscular men whose strength were augmented with drugs. He is able to perform and teach the Sage Sect Teleportation technique due to his past. Like all Flag Demons, he can turn into a gaseous form and telepathically communicate with his master.Before Huan Chaojiao became a Flag Demon, he was once accidentally injured by an Untitled Sage from the Hollow Jade Peak sage sect and was at the brink of death. Remorseful but preoccupied with other tasks, the Untitled Sage drew a painting on a rock and taught him the Sage Sect Teleportation technique so he could receive annual medical treatment at the sect. Five years later, Huang Chaojiao's injury was healed, and he was no longer allowed to enter the sect.

**Lu Dashan** (鲁大山 *Lǔ Dà Shān*): A Flag Demon passed down in the Nightwatcher Northern main family, having been captured some time after 1782. As a Cyclops, he possesses only one eye. In addition, he has a fat but towering humanoid body and large spikes on his back. He usually sports shoulder pads and a helmet, although they can be removed.Lu Dashan is physically strong and durable, demonstrated when he stopped a metal pipe thrown by a strong human augmented with drug with one hand. Like all Flag Demons, he can turn into a gaseous form and telepathically communicate with his master.Before being captured as a Flag Demon, Lu Dashan was a monster that aspired to become a Flag Demon and serve under Ye Chong. When told by one of his subordinates about the Nightwatcher's issue at Meng City regarding Yun Zhonghe, a lingzhi monster, Lu Dashan decided to aid him by beating up the monster and threatening him into leaving. In reality, Ye Chong wished for the monster to elope with his human lover.

**Mo Lizha** (魔礼渣 *Mó Lǐ Zhā*): A Flag Demon passed down in the Nightwatcher Northern main family. He has a muscular humanoid body, two horns on his forehead, and sharp lower cuspids. He is usually clad in lamellar armor, although it can be removed. A sash is wrapped around his arms and flows behind him, which he dubs the **Mo Clan Armillary Sash** (魔家混天绫 *Mó Jiā Hún Tiān Líng*).Mo Lizha possesses the ability to stretch his sash to great lengths and grab anything with it. This technique is not recorded in official Nightwatcher documents, making it a secret from Nightwatchers who did not receive the ancestral Flag Demons. He also possesses enhanced strength, being able to effortlessly defeat multiple muscular men whose strength were augmented with drugs. Like all Flag Demons, he can turn into a gaseous form and telepathically communicate with his master.

**Unnamed**: A Flag Demon that originally served under Bao Huajuan, who referred to him as a "Demon General" (妖将 *Yāo Jiàng*). He has a massive humanoid body with four arms, and horns on his forehead as well as a long snout. He also wears large prayer beads around his neck, and a wheel-like accessory on his back. Before his fight with Lan Ling, he had a third eye on his forehead, which was torn out by the Untitled Sage. After the battle, the empty eye socket was covered with bandages.This Flag Demon possesses incredible strength, being able to kill a wolf monster with a single punch while cracking the ground below him.Being left on the brink of death after suffering a fatal injury during his fight with Lan Ling, Ye Yan "stole" this Flag Demon as an act in order to fool Lan Ling and preserve his life in truth. He was later summoned to fight Yun Zhonghe, but was physically destroyed by his anti-Flag Demon medicinal powder, requiring at least a month to recover.

**Chaos Hunting Arena Demons**: During his time at the Chaos Hunting Arena, Ye Yan managed to subdue at least three Hunt Kings, demons highly experienced in combat who have killed at least a hundred demons at the battleground, and stored them within the temporary Demon Flags he created from their flags that symbolize their status. After his confrontation with Y'Shari, Ye Yan would go on to capture at most six more Hunt Kings along with countless other demons, having gathered nine temporary Demon Flags before his rematch with the demon. These Flag Demons were used to fuel the forbidden techniques that require sacrificing Flag Demons to perform, and were all presumably destroyed after the temporary Demon Flags used to host them were destroyed by Y'Shari.

## Trivia

* According to Night Agent: I'm the Savior:
	+ He likes: Self-emptying performance art, acting and directing, Marina Abramović's artworks.
	+ He dislikes: Celery, philistine artworks.
	+ Verbal taboo: Gong player.

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