Christian Liu

Christian Liu is a character in Arcana. He is the secondary character and ties most parts of the story together.

### Childhood

In childhood, Christian lived in Topside, and went to school with his best friends Pearl Hernandez and Aedan Lee. He was quite the rebel during his time there, disrespecting teachers, passing notes and setting up the occasional practical joke. When he wasn't in school, he would always be outside, patrolling the streets on his skateboard, running errands for others to earn some extra cash.

### Story

Christian earns a job working for PlatinumTeck, at the help desk. Aedan became his employee, after a few weeks, which he was happy about. Things were fine for the first few months, until the company went bankrupt. PlatinumTeck proceeds to fire all of their workers, and Christian can't find a new job. He eventually loses his house, drawing him to the Undercity. From there he becomes a thief, and a good one too. He feels that he never should have gotten the job at the office, and the the life of a rogue was always right for him.

Pearl catches Christian robbing a house on one of her Undercity patrols, and he persuades her to let her go. From then on, Pearl made a visit to his hideout whenever she was assigned an Undercity patrol.

He then tries to rob The Rogues of the Undercity, consisting of Darcy Miller, Chris Taylor and Trent Taylor at the time, and after a long fight and chase, Darcy offers him to join the team, due to his range of skills. Christian agrees, and the three venture off together.

Christian then tells the group about his past childhood, mentioning Pearl. Darcy responds to this, and requests that he take her to him. Christian obliges, and arranges the two to meet. Pearl then abandons her enforcer career and joins The Rogues of the Undercity.

On the mission to rescue Val Hernandez, Christian saves the group by rigging a car for them to get away.

When Darcy blows up the Aldcrest bridge the Topside-Undercity war breaks out, Christian is distraught by the loss of Aedan, his employee and friend. He draws all focus to ending the war, and after months of study, finds out about the Quantum Interface and it's location: Under the Aldcrest Bridge. He urges Darcy to carry out a raid to retrieve it, and Darcy disagrees, but knows it is the only way to end the war and protect Pearl at the same time.

During the raid, when Val, Asha Brown and other Topside operatives obtain the Quantum interface, Darcy threatens Val his life. Christian does everything in his power to stop him, but nothing seems to persuade Darcy from killing Val. A shootout occurs, and Chris is wounded. Topside leaves the Vault with the Quantum Interface Pearl, in anguish leaves Darcy and moves back to Topside. Darcy commits suicide a few days after.

Christian and Chris, unhappy with the outcome, attempt to steal the Quantum interface back from Topside. They attempt a heist, and encounter Asha on the way. She blames Christian for Val's Death, and fights them. After some persuasion from Chris, Asha sees reason and decides to side with them to steal the Quantum Interface once again. They obtain the Quantum Interface, and preview it to the continent, making them want to form together and overthrow the Topside government.

In their new world, Christian is invited by Chris for a drink at the Lockbank café with Asha and Pearl.