Fire Lance

Fire Lance is one of the 5 members of the modern era Superhero Society. Currently, he acts as the guardian of Red Haven in the absence of a true successor to Avenger.

## Kai Zhao

### Affiliation

Zhao International, Superhero Society of America

## Appearance

### Physical Description

Kai a physically fit man with strong muscle definition. He has a light, caramel skin tone and many scars littered around his body. His hair is bluish-black and falls to the bottom of his neck and his eye around medium brown.

### Civilian Clothing

During his off hours, Kai wears an azure blue tang suit shirt with a golden dragon on the back and has it buttoned up. He pairs this with a pair of open-toed sandals and black sweatpants. Additionally, he wears his hair down during this time.

### Work Suit

During his business hours, Kai typically wears a 2 piece suit consisting of a black jacket and matching trousers paired with black business shoes, a red dress shirt, and a black tie. He also puts his hair up into a neat bun.

### Hero Costume

When masquerading as Fire Lance, Kai dons a red tang suit with a golden dragon on the back worn buttoned up paired with black Kung Fu pants and black split-toed boots. He wraps his hands and wrists in this red, cloth-like tape, dons a red face mask, and puts his hair up in a bun. He carries around a custom-made Huolongjing (Fire Lance), too.

## Personality

Kai is a well-known businessman famous around the world. He ensures that the public sees him as respectful, diplomatic, and reasonable; however, underneath the public face, there is only Fire Lance! Kai's mora;s have been twisted and warped by the need for revenge and he now has violent tendencies against perceived threats.

## Skills and Abilities

### Kung Fu Mastery

Kai Zhao is a master of the Kung Fu martial art. He's most proficient in dragon style.

### Spear Combat Mastery

Kai Zhao trained for 7 years to master the art of the spear. Now, he wields the weapon better than anyone else on Earth!

### Acrobatic Proficiency

Kai Zhao is extremely flexible to the point where it's almost disturbing how flexible he is and he's quite agile, too. This allows him to easily dodge and weave around his foes and their attacks.

### Gadget Proficiency

Kai Zhao is highly adept at working with mircotechnology. This is a result of him choosing to specially wield a Huolongjing. He has developed this skill so that he can make batter, more advanced, versions of the Huolongjing weapon.

### Bilingualism

Since Kai Zhao was born and raised in China, he obviously speaks fluenty Mandarin Chinese and mastered the English language upon his relocation to the USA when he was 13.

## Equipment

### Modern Huolongjing

Also known as the "Fire Lance" in the west. The Huolongjing is a spear-based weapon capable of acting as a spear, flamethrower, and shotgun all at the same time. By manipulating the weapon's shaft in certain ways, Kai Zhao can manipulate the expression of fire and the shotgun effect. The Shotgun effect is a fan group given title that describes the instances in which Kai Zhao sets the spearhead to explode out like shotgun rounds. He can also manipulate it si that the spearhead is fired in a way that keeps the whole thing intact.

### Grappling Spearheads

Kai Zhao has a couple of different specialized spearheads, including the grapple. Fire Lance uses this specific spearhead when he needs to travel quickly through Red Haven.

### **Xenonite** Spearheads

Fire Lance always a special spearheads made out of **Xenonite** just in case his teammate, Superhero, turns on the Superhero Society or gets mind controlled.

### Changesite/Titanium Composite Metal Spearheads

Just in case a Su-en decided to attack the SSA. These spearheads are specifically made with a composite metal combining the Changesite mineral and titanium. Changesite is typically very brittle and not every Su-en is allergic to the mineral. This makes it a mostly unreliabel, but still worthy of having, spearhead.

### GodKiller Spearheads

These spearheads are actually made out of a **Tantalun**/Titanium alloy. He keeps these spearheads on hand just in case the team just so happens to face of against a Helanisian.