Heibai Wuchang

**Fan Wujiu**

* General Fan
* Second Master
* Guard of Black
* Black Impermanence
* God of Judgement
* God of Misfortune

**Fan Wujiu**

* Kenichi Suzumura
* Robbie Daymond

**Heibai Wuchang**, also known as the **Black and White Impermanence**, are the Chinese Gods of Mercy and Judgement, as well as the psychopomps who lead souls into the Chinese Underworld.

The White Guard is named **Xie Bi'an** while the Black Guard is named **Fan Wujiu**.

## Overview

**Heibai Wuchang** (黑白無常), literally "Black and White Impermanence", are two Deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld. As their names suggest, they are dressed in black and white respectively. They are subordinates of Yanluo Wang, the Supreme Judge of the Underworld in Chinese mythology, alongside the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Hell Guards. They are worshiped as fortune deities and are also worshiped in Cheng Huang Temples in some countries.

In some instances, the Heibai Wuchang are represented as a single being instead of two known as the **Wuchang Gui** (無常鬼), literally "Ghost of Impermanence". Depending on the person it encounters, the Wuchang Gui can appear as either a fortune deity who rewards the person for doing good deeds or a malevolent deity who punishes the person for committing evil.

## Appearance

### Xie Bi'an

Xie Bi'an has pale-white skin and a very slender build. He has slicked back white hair in the style of an undercut with a streak of crimson-red, and his eyes and earrings are the same color, as well. He wears a white tuxedo vest with a red tie with a white long-sleeved shirt underneath and white dress pants. A monocle sits on his left eye and a wrist watch is tied to his left wrist.

He has several Chinese sentences tattooed on his body, such as "Become Rich Upon Encountering Me" and "Become Lucky Upon Encountering Me" on his left and right bicep respectively, as well as "You Have Come Too" on his lower back.

### Fan Wujiu

Fan Wujiu's physical appearance is similar to Xie Bi'an, though his skin is a bit more tanned and his figure is slightly more muscular. He has the same hairstyle as Bi'an, but is black with a white hair streak. His eyes are cold and blue. He wears a black tuxedo vest with a blue tie with a blue long-sleeved shirt underneath and black dress pants. A monocle sits on his right eye and a wrist watch is tied to his right wrist.

Like Bi'an, he also has several lines of Chinese sentences tattooed on his body, such as "Peace to the World" and "Arresting You Right Now" upon his left and right knuckles respectively, "Making a Clear Distinction Between Good and Evil" across his chest, and "Rewarding the Good and Punishing the Evil" running down his left thigh.

## Personality

Heibai Wuchang are two faithful and dutiful governors who always strive to achieve and maintain civil order within the Chinese Underworld. They take their duty as psychopomps very seriously and don't judge anyone whose soul they reap because of their choices and history. Because of this, they can become easily annoyed when they see other psychopomps not reaching their standard of professionalism.

While being remarked by Yanluo Wang as "trouble-makers" who tended to disobey his commands, the truth was that they were among the secret members of the Seraphic Syndicate who tried to prevent the Alliance of Hell from gaining more influence among the Realm of the Dead's citizens.

They are very close and are extremely protective of each other, though it is hinted that their relationship leans more toward romance than ordinary familiarity and brotherhood. According to rumors within Diyu, the death of their creator, Wuchang Gui, was the result of him catching the two in the act while they were young and trying to stop it, leading to the two killing him in order to protect their secret romance.

### Xie Bi'an

At first glance, Xie Bi'an is much friendlier and more charismatic than his brother, which combined with his handsome appearance, is much more beloved by the gods of the Chinese Underworld. Despite this, however, his actual personality is much more controlling and manipulative, and has no problems sacrificing the lives of anyone but himself and Wujiu if it means to protect the safety of the world, as he believes that the end always justified the means.

### Fan Wujiu

Fan Wujiu is noted to be more stern and cold than his brother, with a much smaller tolerance for mistakes. He is extremely protective and possessive of Xie Bi'an, to the point where he directly expressed that he wants nothing more than to lock Bi'an away to keep him for himself entirely. He is also a sticker for the rules, though it is unclear what rules he is following, Yanluo Wang's, the Chinese Pantheon's, or the rules that Bi'an created.

## History

### Ancient Time

Heibai Wuchang, or Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiu, are two minor gods from Chinese mythology who act as psychopomps for Yanluo Wang and lead the souls of the dead down to the Chinese Underworld to be judged and reincarnated. In ancient China, in addition to being known as underworld gods, they are also known as gods of fortune, and of mercy and judgement.

More information about their past is revealed by King Enma, revealing that they were created by the previous psychopomp of Yanluo Wang named Wuchang Gui, who many remembered to be a cold and cynical man. When he died of mysterious circumstances, which many believed to be under the hands of Bi'an and Wujiu after he tried to put an end to their incestuous romance, the two took over his position as the psychopomps of the Chinese Underworld and took on the title of Heibai Wuchang, Black and White Impermanence, after his father's name, which means "Ghost of Impermanence".

### Seraphic Syndicate

When news about the Alliance of Hell began to appear among the chthonic gods as rumors, Bi'an and Wujiu were scouted out by King Enma to join the Seraphic Syndicate as informants as she feared as one of the oldest Lords of the Underworld in the east, Yanluo Wang might be one of the most dangerous the counter-force would have to face. And while they didn't care much about their whole idea of peace within the Realm of the Dead, the two of them agreed to join as they both wished to maintain the order within the Chinese Underworld and in the mortal world.

### Recent Events

In the early years of the Cultural Revolution in China, their status as spies for the Seraphic Syndicate was discovered by Yanluo Wang. Enraged, he sealed the two of them into a pair of demonic swords forged by the legendary fairies, Gan Jiang and Mo Ye. The swords, accurately named Heibai Wuchang, were then gifted to his lover Baigujing and became her main weapon of choice.

## Equipment

**Death Scythes** (死神の鎌デスサイズ, *Desu Saizu*): As generals of the Chinese Underworld's reaper armies, both Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujiu possessed their own Death Scythes, with Bi'an's scythe being made of silver decorated with garnets while Wujiu's is made of darkened steel and is decorated with sapphires. After being sealed within the Heibai Wuchang, the exact location of their scythes remained unknown, though it's implied that Yanluo Wang had destroyed them to forge the Chains of Impermanence.

## Trivia

* Xie Bi'an (谢必安) means "thankful" (谢) “certain" (必) "peace" (安).
	+ His name means "Those who make amends will always be at peace".
* Fan (范) is a species of aquatic insect, Wu (无) means "without" and Jiu (咎) means "blame".
	+ His name means "Those who commit crimes will have no salvation".
* Bi'an is taller than Wujin by several centimeters.
* It's believed that they will be reborn in the Chinese Underworld after several decades.
* The sentences tattooed on their bodies were once the words on their hats and signs they carried.
* Statues of them often depicted them with ferocious snarls and long red tongues sticking out of their mouths to scare away evil spirits.
* While they are traditionally portrayed in a black-and-white color scheme to symbolize Yin and Yang, as well as Day and Night, they switched their color scheme into blue-black and red-white to "better modernize themselves".