Liu King-sang

"*I'm not a kind-hearted soul. I can take another name to start from scratch. However, I'll always have that instinct. I accept the dark within me because I'm Triad through and through.*"
—Liu King-sang

**Liu King-sang** (刘鯨笙 Liu King-sang) is the main protagonist of the Dead Machines created by PearlTapioca. He is the second male pilot that can pilot an IS not by accident, but by Tabane that reverse engineered it. Liu is affiliated with Righteousness Union, one of the Triads in China.

## Appearance

Liu is a young man of average height with tousled black hair. He has a muscular body from a result of street fights, weight training, and various activities in his daily routine. His IS in standby mode takes the form of a wrist bead.

His tattoos consist of a Dragon with Phoenix wings and Oni with cherry blossoms patterns on his pectorals to triceps, biceps. Liu's back piece is Acala, defender of the Buddhist faith.

## Personality

An honor-bound idealist of the Triad universe, Liu is self-aware and even-tempered. He commonly uses violence above words, so long as it is justified. Liu understands the risks involved in IS and underworld lifestyle as he is driven by a strong moral system and sense of loyalty, not only to Righteousness Union, but to those that are family in his eyes.

Liu has never kill not out of mercy but because of his views. Those that he choose to kill are either in their dying moments and deserves a merciful death or people who had earned his respect to be allowed to die by his hand. To those that he views as trash and inferior he would ruthlessly beat them senseless but deny them an glorious death in battle.

Liu has a much darker side to his personality. The betrayal he suffered from Three Dragons makes Liu much more cruel and violent towards his enemies.

## Infinite Stratos & Abilties

In terms of IS knowledge and skills, Liu is an average pilot since he did not learn the skills at IS Academy, Instead, Liu was taught by Chifuyu. Liu has good combat senses, but his lack of understanding of how an IS functions is a hindrance. His personal IS is Zy-54 Alastor. The exoskeleton is mostly parts of the legs with some parts to the arms. It uses a two-handed, single-edged sword, and a bullpup-style assault rifle.

Liu used to do Chinese martial arts before he adapted to boxing, karate, professional wrestling, and disarming techniques. Liu is familiar with firearms and various melee weapons he can find as he believes anything can be a weapon.

Asides from Cantonese and Mandarin, Liu is fluent in English, and conversational in Japanese. He has high alcohol tolerance.

## History

Liu was born in Guangzhou, China to his parents, who were both Righteousness Union. He grew up in an underworld with numerous Righteousness Union members. His parents tried to do everything, even spoiling him to give him a good life away from their lifestyle. However, it did not always work due to their devotion to Righteousness Union, and it was not common for Liu to be seen with Righteousness Union. At 13, his parents were shot by a rival Triad faction, and died soon thereafter. From there on, Liu was swooped by Righteousness Union. Liu had money, power, and fortune at the cost of living as a Triad, where he was bounded to follow his parents' footstep. Liu got along with his new family, where he became close friends with Three Dragons. To make a name for themselves, they robbed an armored truck that contains two ISs meant to be for upcoming Representative Cadets, and have Tabane reverse engineer one for Liu to be a pilot. Despite the successful robbery, Three Dragons betrayed Liu by shooting him in the gut, left for dead, and she took the ISs. Recovering, Liu sets out to kill Three Dragons that did him wrong.

## Quotes

"Bitch, please. Remember who you're talking to."

"Sometimes, self reflection makes you stronger in the present. But, if you do nothing but look backwards, you can't move forward."

"That's why I chopped them off, you stupid fuck."

"You are who you are, and it's pointless arguing with yourself about it."

## Trivia

* Liu is a minimalist in fashion to take him five minutes to get ready in the morning as his approach is to be clean, but subtle.
* Liu is influenced by Wei Shen from Sleeping Dogs, Kiryu Kazuma from Yakuza, G-Eazy, and Lincoln Clay from Mafia 3.