Vũ Thanh

## Overall:

Vũ Thanh was the deuteragonist of the Half-Alive series. Although the majority of the first book Eyes followed her, she was not the protagonist.

## Backstory:

Vũ Thanh was a college girl and a residence of Maize village, coming from a lineage of non-magical people through and through. Unlike other horror protagonist, Thanh could accept the existence of the paranormal once she had seen proofs quite easily and mostly rely on her wit and ability to analyze the situation to stay alive.

She had a peaceful childhood among her parents, her child-hood friends at the village and a neighbor woman. As she grew up, she realized the new industrial park had made the village folks life more comfortable, but also made them grew further apart. That was something she dislike.

### Prior to Half-Alive Series:

She had some unmentioned problem in the city during her freshmen and sophomore year at college, which gave her a bit too much suspicion. Vũ Thanh had a channel where she read horror story.

### During the attack on the Maize Village:

Vũ Thanh wasn't taken by surprise when the paranormals take the offensive against her, abide didn't believe in ghost stories herself prior to that moment. Which her keen eyes, she had seen through a lot of suspicious events and actions at her village, even those that normal people would deemed coincidence or wouldn't have notice.

While being a mortal from head to toes, Vũ Thanh would never consider herself a damsel in distress, not even for a moment. She either strived to save herself or being as helpful for her new friend - Điền Mục as possible.

At the end of book 1, while she was gratitude for his self-less action, Thanh didn't say her thank.

Also, during the sametime, her third eye was opened permanently and even The Old Man couldn't close it without causing any harm to her. It was also worth to notice that, Thanh could see The Old Man even when he didn't want any eyes on him, which surprised the guardian spirit. Just to make it clear, during the first arc of the book, The Old Man was presented during Thanh's attack on the interlevel school and she couldn't catch even a glimpse at him even with her Yin Yang glasses on. This might point toward her third eye being more potent than normal people, thus making it harder to seal them.

## Personalities:

\_ Thanh is kind and caring toward those who she consider friends and family, but approach everyone else with an great suspicion. She could sometimes act in a arrogant and agressive manners toward people she think are scammer as a way to protect herself.

\_ She often held things to herself, so as not to make those who are dear to her worry.

\_ She often express her emotions with her actions rather than words.

\_ Her first reaction when she saw Mục faking a ghost face was "Have I gotten on a ghost bus?" This might be a remnant of her fear of ghosts and demons when she was young.

## Abilities:

\_ Her third eye might be more powerful than other.

\_ She had keen observation and on-point analyzation.

\_ She had an unusually high level of untrusting, sometimes doubting even herself. This was due to her not wanting to be lead into thinking in a particular direction that might benefit her opponent.

## Trivia:

\_ She was decent at cooking, a skill she learnt for her own need.

\_ As of now, she was the first person to play along with Mục's weird jokes and random references.

\_ Her name mean "The sound of rain", a nod to her having a nice voice.

\_ Both hers and Mục's appearance wasn't described much in Book 1.

\_ She is a book wyrm and was a fan of horror books, and was surpised to see that Mục's was not at all like the depiction in the novels.

\_ She is capable of drinking a lot of alcohol before being drunk, but always decide against it. Apparently, she hate the flavor.

\_ While she might appeared mature and realistic, she still kept a lot of stuffed animals even as a college student, and was sometimes teased by her friends. After the incident at the Maize Village, she bought a new stuffed platypus in reminiscent of a new friend, thinking it will fit Mục's nature perfecly. The lad suggested she put a fedora on its, a possible reference to a cartoon character: Perry the Platypus.