Sun Chen

## Charlie Kouen

**Charlie Kouen** (231 - 259) is an alternate version of Sun Chen. The cousin of Julia Kouen, he is known for his involvement in Zhuge Dan's rebellion and is responsible for Sun Xiu's ascension as Emperor of Wu. Known for his arrogance and his ego, he plays a huge role in the Sun succession wars as well as causing the death of Zhu Yi, who had failed to defeat Sima Zhao.

Despite being a main character in *Dynasty Warriors Bloodlines*, he is mostly an antagonist due to his actions and behavior during and after Marie's reign as the Emperor of Wu.

## Description

* "A Regent during the Late Wu era and the cousin to Julia Kouen. He had Zhu Yi executed after the latter failed to kill Sima Zhao, during Zhuge Dan's rebellion, which led to his retreat. During his time as the Regent, he made numerous atrocities upon the Wu people, which was the reason why he was killed by Zhang Bu and Ding Feng. What he breaths is Corruption, Arrogance and the urge to rule with an Iron Fist."

## Appearance

Sun Chen is a young man with black hair and eyes, and smooth skin.

His overall appearance has him take a regal yet corruption look with the hoodie.

Chen's informal outfit takes notes from his ROTK appearance, notably his ROTK13 appearance, which represents both the war and regal side to his overall demeanor

## Personality

Charlie is a ruthless and unforgiving regent that is exceptionally skilled with the sword. Arrogant, prideful, and too much of an asshole, Charlie would stop at nothing to show his enemies and demand the people to show him respect. This was shown when he personally had Zhu Yi executed after

He is exceptionally ruthless that even Luban herself is sometimes scared of what he does.

Aside from all the arrogance, corrupt and unforgiving persona, he does have a softer side in terms of being Jun's cousin though Deng admits that he shows this rarely due to his views on humanity.

What annoys him is

### Warriors Orochi

In his Warriors Orochi 5 appearance, he has conversations with Jia Chong, Yu Jin, Dong Bai, Masamune Date, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Masanori Fukushima and Hisahide Matsunaga

### Dong Bai

In the first conversation. To his surprise, however, Bai is actually impressed of his ruthlessness, reminding him of her grandfather.

## Story

### Dynasty Warriors Bloodlines

Chen makes a lot of appearances in the story mode.

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#### The Aftermath

While he doesn't really play, he, however,

#### The Lawbreaker

In his own story campaign, which takes place in between 257 to 259, Sun Chen has been appointed as Prime Minister of the Emperor of Wu, but he has since began a reign of terror.

He then decides to help Sun Xiu become Emperor of Wu, which he succeeded.

In 258 AD, Chen was forced to accompany Lu Kang to a village that was wiped out by a mysterious woman with a blood red spear. Realizing that Julia may play a role in the massacre, Charlie sets out to find her.

When he arrived at Shouchun, he is disturbed to find out that Shouchun has been turned into a bloody paradise of carnage.

The campaign's ending has him being held by Xander, who grew fearful of his rise to power. Chen stated that he did all of that because he was teaching the people a lesson of respect.

With a evil smile, Chen warns Xander of their current path. As he was dragged away, Chen lets out a sinister laugh. Xiu can't help but wonder if Chen is telling the truth.

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## Move-Set

Sun Chen uses the Falchion variation of the Podao Sword but his charge attacks are completely different. Some of them involve him summoning a blood clone, in similarity to the General Sword.

### Bloodlines

* Triangle: Summons two blood clones to do a side swipe
* Square, Triangle: Does a two-handed upward slash, sending him up in the air. If upgraded enough, this has him summon a blood clone from the air.
* Square. Square. Triangle: Twirls his sword around, ending with a stab.
* Square. Square, Square. Triangle: Turns around to swing his weapon, with two hands, at the crowd, sending the enemy flying, like a Baseball Bat swing.
* Square, Square, Square, Square: Triangle: Does a pointing slash upwards, in a similar fashion to Cao Cao's C5 in the older games. If upgraded enough, he summons a blood clone, who attacks the target in the air in a set of three slashes and a kick (Three downward slashes and a kick) to send the target back down
* Square, Square, Square, Square, Square, Triangle: Summons two blood clones to charge straight ahead, attacking in a straight line.
* Flow Attack - Square, Square, Square, Square, Square, Square: The first four hits consist of diagonal overhead slashes. The fifth strike is an underhanded rising diagonal slash which leads the user to strike downward on the final swing
* Trigger Stun - R1 + Square: Does a backing swipe. Follow Up is the same as Xiahou Dun and Gao Shun but the ending has him summon a blood red ball to send out.
* Trigger Launch - R1 + Triangle: Brings his sword upward, like a. Follow Up is the same as Xiahou Dun and Gao Shun, only for him to deliver a brutal blood hurricane.
* Trigger Knockdown - R1 + X: Slams his sword down on to the ground. Follow Up is the same as Xiahou Dun and Gao Shun, but at the end, he summons a set of blood clones to unleash a hail of dark red arrows
* Special Technique - R1 + Circle: Creates a large shockwave after. Follow Up is his Stun
* Musou Animation - Does a set of one-handed up and down slashes, akin to one of Sigma's hyper attacks, until he goes into his attack.
* Musou Attack - The Feeling of True Despair: Proceeds to grab the target by the throat, smiling evilly, before he throws the person in the air for his blood clones to brutalize the target, ending with him plunging his blade down to let out a dark red
* Aerial Musou - The Fires of Hades - Covers his sword in dark blood infused fire to let out a cyclone, killing everybody as soon as he delivers a slash

## Outfits

* Default
* Informal
* Butcherf
* Librarian

## Weapons

### Bloodlines

1. Rebel Cutlass
2. Steel Viper
3. Bloody Butcher
4. Crimson Horror
5. Purging Corruption
6. End of Days
7. True Carnage (Remix exclusive)

### Warriors Orochi

1. Iron Podao
2. Rebel Cutlass
3. Darkness Qilin
4. Bloody Butcher
5. Bloody Butcher X
6. Slayer of Lawlessness (DLC)

## Tropes

* A Day in the Limelight: He becomes the main characters of his own story.
* Adaptational Badass: In the games and the official history, he is portrayed as a bad boss, who proved himself to be an incompetent leader unworthy to lead his own men, evidenced by Sima Zhao. Here? He not only is capable of leading his men through harsh intakes, but is well informed in the art of military leadership, to the point that he's considered as a major improvement over the notorious Sun Hao.
* Adaptational Dumbass: On the other hand, he is quite a bad decision maker
* Adaptational Villainy: While he's already a bad person historically, this game ups his jerk factor a little bit just to show how bleak and nihilistic the succession wars truly was.
* Bad Boss: He often berates his men for a simple screw up. In spite of this, however, he does know where the line is drawn.
* Bishounen: Like Quan before him, Charlie has no facial hair, to his own dismay.
* Blood Knight: Unlike the other late Wu members, Charlie is...somewhat content with his actions
* Blood Magic: Because of his knowledge, he knows how to use Blood Magic
* Even Evil Has Standards: He may be an asshole with little regard for everybody, and his horrible attitude, but even he was utterly horrified over what Julia was doing, and what Luban was attempting to do with
* Expy: To Sigma and Lord Loss. In the case of the former, he not only shares the same English voice actor, but his
* Familicide: He was the one that ordered the execution of Sun Xian because he joined another insurrection group. Julia was ***NOT*** pleased when she found this out.
* Fatal Flaw: Pride and Greed. If being an asshole is considered as a bad thing, then that's his own mistake as his Lack of Empathy led to his own death, as Xander ordered Ding Feng and Zhang Bu to have him killed.
* Father to His Men: Despite his reputation and his rather harsh practices, his men all seem to understand what he's doing and they try their best to live up to his standards. It wasn't until he executed Zhu Yi for failing to defeat Sima Zhao during Zhuge Dan's Rebellion that would make people grow really fearful of him.
* The Friend Nobody Likes: Even by the game's standards, the majority of the cast outright dislikes him because of his ego and his pride. The bright side is that he's a bit popular compared to Julia.
* Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Marie and Julia have both stated that he has a soft spot for those that actually understand what he's doing as well as him taking good care of his family. That being said, however, that only pops up when he's either NOT in a shitty mood or not working, as what Xander tend to call him out on. The fact he was not a Hate Sink unlike Julia proves this trope.
* Karma Houdini Warranty: Considering he was such an asshole, he skillfully evaded all punishment, until Xander found out what he was really doing behind the scenes, which led to him getting punished by death due to his behavior.
* Promoted to Playable - From being a Generic to making his Playable Debut in Bloodlines
* The Reason You Suck Speech - Was given one by Sima Zhao during Zhuge Dan's rebellion over his cold and ruthless demeanor.
* Red and Black And Evil All Over: Up to Eleven with this incarnation. He's not only more colder and ruthless, but his . He even has his own dark red and black Battle Aura that appears in most of his attacks.
* The Rival: To Zhu Yi, even to the point he personally executed the guy because he was offended over
* Slasher Smile: He lets out one to Xander as a warning for him
* Smug Snake: Don't take his smile as a way to show he's kind. In fact, it's just him pretending to be happy because you interfered in his affairs.
* Suck Sessor: From Sun Quan to this schmuck, though there was a bit of a sliding scale of people in-between who kept dying young or getting killed young. Historical observers noted he was just as bad at his job as Liu Shan, but without the latter's morals and positive personality, or his excuse. Ironically, by all accounts, he would have been better compared to *his* successor Sun Hao. And even Chen himself was slightly better than Hao in that regard.
* Unwilling Instigator of Doom: His overall behavior
* Villain Protagonist: Even though he's a major character, his actions and behavior can make you wonder if he's
* Well-Intentional Extremist - To a severe degree. He claims that what he does is the right thing, no matter what was transpiring behind the scenes during the Sun succession wars.
* Would Hit a Child - Not exactly, but he once got in trouble for slapping a young kid for stepping on his shoes, no less! Marie was outraged when she found out about what he did.

## Trivia

* Charlie shares some similarities to Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat, Jaune Arc from RWBY, Felix from Red vs. Blue and Rig from Dead or Alive. However, it's often considered that he is similar to Shang Tsung and Felix. Even his official render is similar to Shang Tsung's render from Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
* It's been implied that Sun Chen discovered the use of Blood magic.
* Charlie can be considered as the human version of Lord Loss from Darren Shan's Demonata series due to how the both of them at in similarity to each other
* The Bloody Butcher is considered as his official weapon.
* Unlike both Julia and Marie, Chen doesn't really have