Zen Chinmoku (AOCVerse)

**Zen Chinmoku** (沈黙善- *Chinmoku Zen*) is a side character of the Hololive fanfiction, AOC: Hololive.

He is from Japan of the year 2277. He is a janitor for Hololive Production. He is also a student of Gekido Kanoh and a third-year student at Aokami High School.

## Appearance

Zen looks like an average Japanese teenager with black hair and black eyes. He usually wears a regular outfit when he is not working at Hololive HQ or at Aokami High School, he wears Janitor outfit at Hololive HQ and schoolboy uniform at Aokami High School, he always wears a glasses.

## Personality

Zen is an autistic nerd so he hates talking and contacting to others but all because he hates loud noises.

Despite hating loud noises, he always joins big events or parties to learn to get used to and overcome his disorder.

Zen is a polite, nice and calm person. He rarely gets mad, even when someone makes loud noises, he will politely tell that person to stop. He acts very nice to girls, his teacher, Gekido, taught him that.

He usually reads books when he is alone.

## History

There is no information about his past yet.

## Plot

### AOC: Hololive (Main Story)

#### Justice Battle Arc

Zen met Ika Masayoshi, Towa Tokoyami, Kiara Takanashi and Calliope Mori while he was getting cleaning supplies from the janitorial room.

#### Soul and Soul Arc

Zen met Norman Lemington and Ollie Kureiji, Ollie then showed off her adoptive daughter, Julie Lemington to Zen, Zen then taunted her and Ollie got mad, she wanted to fight him but Norman carried her away.

#### Pocket Watch Issue Arc

Zen was mentioned by Genshu Kanoh after Genshu tortured Amelia Watson, Genshu said that Zen would come there and clean the mess that he did to Amelia.

When Zen was cleaning in a random room, the floor above the room collapsed and made a mess in the room that he was cleaning. Zen then complained to Genshu, the one who fell down with the collapsed floor during his battle against Suisei Hoshimachi, that he worked so hard to clean the room and Genshu with the collapsed just caused another messed. Genshu then teased Zen and returned to his battle against Suisei.

## Equipment

**Rapier:** Zen usually brings a rapier with. It has a hard blade.

**Tech Glasses:** A tech glasses that was invented by the tech genius, Genshu Kanoh. The glasses can be used for environmental analysis, enemy analysis, night vision, etc.

## Powers and Abilities

### **Physical Powers**

**Intelligence:** Zen is a nerd who usually reads books when he is alone.

**Enhanced Hearing:** The main reason why Zen hates loud noises is from his enhanced hearing. He can hear with amazing clarity, distance, and even frequencies outside the normal range. User's ears can pick up every single sound, can decipher layer upon layer of differing sounds or conversations, locate the source of noise or pick up a sound from a mile away in a busy city. However, his ears can be harmed easily with very loud noises.

**Peak Human Reflexes:** Thanks to his enhanced hearing, he can react everything around him easily at fast speed.

**Peak Human Speed:** A rapier swordsman is a fast swordsman, Zen is fast at throwing strikes.

**Expert Swordsman:** Zen is the best student of the strongest swordsman in AOCVerse, Gekido Kanoh, because he is the only student of him. Zen is a decent swordsman.

## Trivia

* The "Chinmoku" (沈黙) in his name means "Silence", it reflects his hatred to loud noises and his desire to be at peace.
* The "Zen" (善) in his name means "The Good".
* His epithet in AOC is "The Quiet Child", it reflects his hatred to loud noises and his desire to be at peace.
* He likes to cook and prepare bento boxes.
* His former favorite Hololive member was Aloe Mano, his current favorite Hololive member is Towa Tokoyami.
* Zen joined Hololive Production as a janitor after Aloe's retirement.
* Zen likes skin care, he likes using Aloe Vera's gel for skin care.
* Zen is suffering from Misophonia, a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli that has been characterized using different language and methodologies. Reactions to trigger sounds range from anger and annoyance to activating a fight-or-flight response. The condition is sometimes called selective sound sensitivity syndrome.
* Zen is being planned as the next protagonist for Volume 2.