Zhou Ming Lin

Zhou Ming Lin also known by her birth name Michelle Bennett is a Human Magician from the organization Golden Dawn and a member of the Sephiroth Nightfall under Rio. She is the descendent of the general Zhou Yu from the Three Kingdoms era of AxA universe, she is also one of Rio’s wives.

## Appearance

Zhou Ming Lin is an exceptionally beautiful young bespectacled Eurasian woman of Chinese and British descent with long black hair that extends all the way down to her knees, and green eyes, she has a slim and voluptuous figure, she wears a sleeveless cheongsam, a pair of evening gloves and thigh-high stockings with white dress shoes.

## Personality

Ming Lin is an extremely intelligent and serious woman.

## History

Born as Michelle Bennett, Ming Lin is the daughter of a British father Henry Bennett who is a Golden Dawn Magician and sinologist who studied Taoism in China and became a Taoist priest based on Mount Longhu and a Chinese mother Zhou Che a musician and music teacher who is a direct descendant of Zhou Yu.

## Powers & Abilities

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant**: Ming Lin is extremely proficient in Wudang Kung Fu and is particularly a master of Xing Yi Quan. She could fight and defeat monsters and supernatural beings with martial arts alone. Zhou can also combine Variant Detonation, magic, Touki, and Senjutsu to further increase the power of her physical attacks.

**Immense Speed**: Ming Lin has incredible speed. She mainly relied on her speed to overcome her enemies in physical combat.

**Enhanced Strength**: Ming Lin is physically strong enough to take down larger enemies, as well as fight monsters using her natural strength.

**Master Magician**: As a member of the Golden Dawn, Ming Lin is a brilliant master magician of remarkable talent and skills, having learned and mastered modern western magic from her paternal grandparents and father whom were members of the Golden Dawn even prior to her formal membership. She is also well-versed in Taoist Magic which she learned in the Taoist monasteries on Mount Longhu and Mount Tai.

* Elemental Magic
* Enhancement Magic
* Summoning Magic: Ming Lin can use summoning magic to summon a Bai Ze named Zhide.

**Senjutsu Master**: Ming Lin is highly skilled in Taoist Qigong style of Senjutsu.

**Genius Intellect**

* Master Tactician:
* Master Scholar: Ming Lin is a genius master scholar who is extremely well-versed in literature, history, philosophy, musicology, cultural studies, religion, occultism and Western esotericism.
* Literary Master: Ming Lin is an extremely talented master scholar of British literature and Chinese literature. She is also well-versed in Italian literature, Latin literature and French literature.

**Master Musician**: Due to strict music training by her mother and natural great talent, Ming Lin is an extremely skilled and talented master musician with the piano, violin and dizi. Her music skills have exceeded her mother.

* Classical Music: As a pianist and violinist, Ming Lin specialized in classical music, her repertoire include Joseph Haydn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Wang Jianzhong, Ding Shande, Ma Sichong, Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, George Enescu, Sergei Rachmaninoff

Master Chef: Ming Lin is an excellent chef in cooking Chinese food and Western food. Her culinary skills and knowledge are diverse, strongly influenced by Suiyuan cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Jiangxi cuisine, Italian cuisine, Greek cuisine and British cuisine. With her husband and Tao Xiang's help, she could successfully recreate all the dishes from the Recipes from the Garden of Contentment.

Master Calligrapher: Ming Lin is a brilliant master of Chinese calligraphy, her talent and skill rivalling Aisha and Tao Xiang. Her calligraphy is largely based on Tang Dynasty calligraphy, having studied the regular script of Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan and the cursive script of Sun Guoting, Zhang Xu and Huai Su. Her semi-cursive script is based on Yan Zhenqing's Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew, Yang Ningshi and the Song Dynasty masters, Cai Xiang, Mi Fu and Su Shi.

## Equipment

**Variant Detonation**

* Detonation Butterfly: A technique Ming Lin created allow her to use the Variant Detonation to create numerous luminous butterflies which can explode on contact with a target.

**Xiangzi Flute:** A magic dizi flute Alma crafted out of jade.

## Trivia

* Zhou Ming Lin's favourite food are
	+ Beef steak
	+ Grass carp congee
	+ Pasta particularly pasta salad and Spaghetti alla puttanesca
	+ Avocado salad
	+ Strained yogurt
	+ Fuliji roast chicken
	+ Roasted sweet potato
	+ sweet and sour carp
* Zhou Ming Lin’s favourite drinks are
	+ Wheatgrass juice
	+ Green tea particularly Biluochun and matcha
	+ Huangjiu
	+ Wine

* Ming Lin’s birth name was Michelle Bennet, at some she adopted the Chinese name Zhou Ming Lin using her mother’s Chinese surname due to cultural appreciation and deeper connection to her Chinese heritage through her mother.
* As a literary scholar, Ming Lin is deeply fond of English Romantic poetry and Tang poetry. She is also a great fan of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, George Meredith, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lu Xun, Hu Shih, Lin Yutang and Qian Zhongshu.
* Ming Lin's hobbies are reading, writing, playing the piano, dizi and violin, culinary research, Qigong meditation, practising Wudang Kung Fu, swimming, hiking and Chinese calligraphy.
* She also has a hobby of collecting dizi flutes.
* Influenced by her maternal grandfather Zhou Yu, Ming Lin is also an avid player of chess, Go and xiangqi which she played since childhood. She also took an interest in shogi when she was in Japan. She frequently played chess and shogi with her husband Rio. She also frequently played Go and xiangqi with her close friend Zhang Leihuo
* As a musician, Ming Lin's favourite instruments are the dizi and piano.