Fenghuang (Fairy)

A **Fenghuang** (Chinese: 凤凰) are a species of fairies native to Asia, particularly China. They are the descendants of the original Asian rulers of all avian species Feng and Huang.

## Overview

The Fenghuang fairies originated from China, being the offspring and descendants of the original Feng and Huang with their numerous fairies lovers.

Despite the legends surrounding their species, the Fenghuang don't possess an indefinite lifespan, only an extremely long lifespan that most species would mistaken for immortal, with the youngest reported death being over 2.8-millions years old. However, like many fairies species, by growing and developing their magic core, their lifespan could estimately be ranked in the billions.

The fenghuang, unlike many species who often choose to marry another one of their kind to ensure their race's existence, often choose to marry other races, mainly to humans or other fairies. Due to the Fenghuang fairies' unique ability to always giving birth to another one of their kind, they don't have much worry about continuing their kind like most species do.

Unlike their ancestors, both avian and fairies, the Fenghuang mate for life and will only die once their partner does too. Unlike what many people romanticized as dying because they were too saddened to live in a world without their beloved, this have more to do with the fact during the mating ritual, the magic core of the Fenghuang fairy will unconsciously create a life-long bond between them and their mate's heart, linking them to each other for eternity. Additionally, this magic link will also prevent both the Fenghuang and their mate having affairs, both physical and emotional, as well as lengthening the mate's age to the point both of their lifespans are as long as each other.

While most Fenghuang fairies live on top of the Kunlun Mountain in northern China, many have been known for emigrating to "western horizon" and "causing misconceptions between Phoenixes and Fenghuangs since the 1550s".

## Appearance

Similar to most species of fairies, most Fenghuang fairies possess a human form, in which they are beautiful men and women of clear Asian lineage with delicate gold designs traced throughout their skin. Fenghuang fairies in their human form have a tattoo of their true form somewhere on their body, with the most common places being on their back, thighs, or shoulders.

When mid-transformed, they shall have more avian attributes throughout their body: talon-like nails, fiery eyes, and parts of their head turning into moving flames. Attached to their back is a pair of large wings which they use to fly, and long, well-groomed tails growing from their lower back.

In their true form, they resembles a creature with an upper human torso, which has pointed ears and crimson-fire eyes, and the lower body being a chimera of different creatures: the body of a mandarin duck, the legs of a cranes, the scales of a serpent, and the tails of a peacock. Instead of arms, they have a pair of giant wings that could easily life their entire off the ground and create powerful gusts of wind with every flap. They have a clawed, opposable digit on the joint of each wing, and the wing at the joint has a "palm" which can curl to some small degree, allowing them to grab objects.

Unlike most depiction of a Fenghuang fairy having colorful wings, this is only partially true for younger Fenghuang. In their youth, their wings have the colors of green, black, and white scattered across gold-and-crimson feathers. However, as they begin to grow up, when they are around 258,000 - 424,000 years old, their wings will lose their colors and shifted into a hazel-brown color, with hints of gold and black throughout them.

## Trivia

* The fenghuang fairies are responsible for westerners' misconceptions of the original Fenghuang being the Chinese equivalent of the Greek Phoenix.
* Due to a fenghuang fairy's tail feathers having to ability to create a temporarily non-cheating bonds between two persons, they are widely sought after items within the magical community, with a single feather could easily worth 100 - 10,000-billions of dollars.
	+ Their most loyal customer is Hera.