Seowoo "Suwon Geomi" Hyun

**Seowoo Hyun (서우현 )**, also known as the Spider of Suwon, is a member of the Bam Agma and the leader of Dokkaebi Squad. Known for her deadly Hands, she has earned her alias as a highly efficient assassin and executor, peerlessly taking out targets of the Bam Agma throughout her career. The self-proclaimed "paragon" has recently gained the rank of a Squad captain, and operates with her comrades with lethal efficiency.

## Background

Seowoo was born to a relatively new lineage of magi from South Korea, but due to a mutation of her Mana Lobe causing both her hands to become deadly to the touch, the Bam Agma convinced her original family to surrender her to the organization so they could raise and train her so that her abilities could not be used for the good of her country. Her parents agreed, whether due to monetary reasons or being forced to be the organization, it did not matter, Seowoo would say years later. She was assigned to a mentor, and would become her foster mother, which Seowoo took her surname from.

She undertook the strict upbringing of a Bam Agma agent. Stalking, stealing, killing, spellcasting, these were all drilled into her as a child, which resulted in a highly trained teenage assassin for the mafia. Her Hands her secret weapon, hidden and suppressed with enchanted gloves, which almost always catches her targets off-guard. Because of the nature of her Hands causing destruction to the human body just with a touch, she was raised by her foster mother that while humans are born evil, and she was born with an ability made for evil, it was up to her to fight humanity's inherent evil and to turn herself into virtuous. And by serving her country as an agent of the Bam Agma and eliminating any magical threats, she is doing her duty and overcoming her evils.

She prided herself in always ‘executing’ the targets she was given, and has earned the alias of "Spider of Suwon" for her deadly efficiency. She has recently been promoted to a Haechi and became the leader of a combat team, which she renamed to the "Dokkaebi Squad". She has learned from her former mentor well and has picked up the leadership skills from her. The agents in her squad are Su-jeong Seo, Do-eun Yi and Mi-rae Jin.

## Personality

She appears friendly to strangers, although she can be blunt when talking to magi that she considers evil. When it comes to her designated targets that she knows stand little chance against her, she can be ruthless, attacking them without any regard for the chaos she would ensue.

She’s rather sociable, owing to her desire to meet and learn from many people around the world. Seowoo is talkative, to the point where she even has banter for the people she is trying to kill. At least her targets get to have a conversation before they die. She’s also rather snarky, especially to those she is close too. She has a teasing side that her team is well acquainted to. Despite her irreverent side, she is known to be an effective leader, being well versed in tactical and coordinated assaults and planning.

Seowoo considers herself a paragon of justice of sorts, her ideology is based on exacting justice by eliminating those who fail to overcome the evils inside them and disregarding the consequences and doing such an act. To her, these failures' lives are forfeit, for they make the ‘already crowded with evil’ world even more dirty.  She treats her targets as ‘criminals’ and only seems to choose contracts that involve targets guilty of a crime. Despite being the cold-hearted killer she was raised to be, Seowoo still has a moral code, and wouldn't bring harm to anyone she deems innocent.

Her foster mother was well-read when it came to philosophy, which Seowoo picked up as she grew up. Seowoo herself lives by Xunzi’s, a Confucian Philosopher, Theory of Fundamental Evil, in which humanity was born evil and  goodness is only acquired through training. She believes that human nature at birth consists of instinctual drives which, left to themselves, are selfish, anarchic, and antisocial. Society as a whole, however, exerts a civilizing influence upon the individual, gradually training and molding them until they become a disciplined and morally conscious human being. She seems to use this to justify her own being. She was born with a fundamentally evil mutation of magic circuits in her hands, and she herself overcomes the evil by learning goodness through her mother’s education and seeing how society itself works.

She is fluent in both Korean and English, and also has mastered the nuances of North Korean since she has encountered plenty of them in her career. She earned her alias, the ‘Spider of Suwon’, thanks to her deadly reputation in the Bam Agma, and from the fact that she came from the city of Suwon, which she turned into her training grounds as a kid.

## Abilities

### Magic

As an agent of the Bam Agma, Seowoo has not focused on a specific type of magic, nor has she chosen a specialization. Instead, she has learned a variety of magic from different schools in order to be used as tools in her trade. Bounded Fields, Reinforcement, Alteration, and other utility spells fill up her arsenal.

### Martial Arts

A highly skilled tracker, infiltrator, and martial artist, Seowoo is trained in multiple martial arts to Bam Agma training, but she specializes in a form of Hapkido made for assassination, combining swift and deadly strikes with grapples, joint-locks, and throws with spells such as Reinforcement augmenting her raw physical output. She’s also skilled with firearms, which she utilizes as a secondary weapon to her Mystic Touch. Despite this, she’s still very competent in handling guns, but only resorts to them as a skirmishing tool, or to attack if she cannot get into melee range.

### Hands of The Quickening

Or referred to by the Bam Agma as *Taedong-ui Son* (태동의 손), is the result of the mutation of her Mana Lobe, turning Seowoo’s hands into magical catalysts that automatically creates a magical effect.

Upon activation, Seowoo’s hands are covered with a white white haze, and by touching a living being’s body,  she is able to increase the biological functions of organisms. The more prolonged her touch, the more prominent the effects are. She needs to specifically touch an area to accurately affect a specific part of the body, although prolonged touch overcomes this problems since the effects will spread throughout the body if a target is unfortunate enough to be trapped by Seowoo.

Seowoo can use this ability to increase the heart rate (causing it to explode), force irregular stomach digestion, cause mood swings by overwhelming the brain, or even increase one's physical attributes for a couple of minutes, at the cost of the body breaking down shortly after. It has many uses, but Seowoo mostly uses methods that guarantee a swift death.

Thanks to training and body conditioning in using her Hands for nearly all her life, Seowoo doesn’t suffer much when overusing it, aside from a creeping pain that starts from her hands and climbs all the way up to her shoulders and neck. She remedies this with White Flower Oil, an aromatic analgesic that she always carries a bottle of.