Xinan/profile

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## Xinan

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## Personality

* Quiet but conversational, polite and tries to avoid kerfuffles and drama the best he can.
* Says he wants to lead a quiet life and does keep his head down most of the time but -
* Has nigh insatiable curiosity sometimes which have lead to bad situations all-round.
* Pretty focused when it comes to the things he enjoys and crosses right into stubbornness
* Places a lot of weight on family; calls his parents every night and makes sure to help out his relatives where he can.
* Places a lot of weight on community; it's not just up to the authorities to keep the peace in a community, everyone has to do their part.
* Because of the above, trusts friends and family - the community - pretty easily. Gullible in this regard.
* Likes to take things slowly, step by step, and so can take a while to respond to events; doesn't fall into panic as easily because of this. But Is Slow.

## Background

Absence makes the heart fonder, and having finished his degree, Xinan was all too ready to get on a plane and go back home. He'd been rushed off to America in a rather unceremonious fashion, and was lucky in that his mother had relatives there and they were willing to take him in. Fortunate that he had paid enough attention to his studies to make it into a foreign college, that things had gone down before applications finalised or closed. So what if he liked taking photos of his own model kits outside? It was hardly his fault that people chose reachable locations to do shady things in - at least pick somewhere where he's not going to get it in the background of his photos! By doing things that irresponsibly, he'd have to hand in that photographic evidence to the police you know?

Didn't change the fact that afterwards, there were people asking around for him. Well, someone that just looked like him, Xinan had tried to argue, but his parents had just shaken their heads and told him to get ready to leave. From there, it'd been half a year with relatives in Guilin before being bumped over to America. Just lie low for a while, his parents had said, take this opportunity to learn what you can, make us proud, and you can help us run the teahouse when you're back.

Xinan carried these words in his heart over the ocean. He promised that he'd do well, but food that should've been familiar were changed by their ingredients, his textbooks got about five times more incomprehensible and - well, some things just...didn't click. So he started helping out in the kitchen more, learning how to cook so he could make things from home. Martial arts didn't seem so bad anymore, and he joined the grannies in the park doing taichi. He joined a tea appreciation society at college. He put a bit more time online with his friends back home. Like this, he makes it through, day by day, month by month, until he found himself booking a one-way ticket at the end of four years. At last -- homeward bound! All he has to do is play it safe, and then he'll get to see his hometown again, yay!

Then. he gets this message. It's in the inbox of this account he made on a cosplay site a while back; want to change your life? Want something new? Truthfully, no - it sounded like a scam and he's had enough of new things for now...but he figured that if he just...maybe circled the place first. Had a gander. Even if it turned out to be nothing, it'd be one last jaunt before he left - one last look around this city that had served as a 'home' for the last four years.

## Trivia

* Did, in fact, introduce himself as Chardonnay for the first week or so of college; he asked if 'Char' was an acceptable name and his kind cousin said 'Chardonnay' was a better name. He Dropped It Very Quickly when he found out.
* Doesn't know how to feel when some people ask him show them his moves after he answers 'yes' to 'can do you kungfu'.
* Some of the things in his pockets at the time; tissues, a steamed bun, loose change and his DIY photography umbrella in case someone wanted soft lighting or it rained. alSO the cool ear/headphones i forgot to draw him with sldkfjlkjf;la
* Re:food, he favours food from his own province and canton dimsim but some unfortunate friends have egged him on to make the spiciest sichuan dish he can. Nobody could feel their tongues for the rest of the day.
* Has social media but it's mostly Chinese; his handle is usually [变形茶叶], 'transforming tealeaves' aka a bad pun,
	+ Photos are usually uploaded to weibo; his following are mostly mutuals and paranormal enthusiasts who somehow seem convinced that he takes good photos of the supernatural...? He's not entirely clear on that, but it's usually one of those photosets that have more background than robot in them.
	+ Man, he's really glad WeChat's a thing that even his parents know how to use....
* Good w/ English, Mandarin and his regional dialect. Has a rough understanding of Japanese from mecha anime and so will also sound like a mecha anime if he tries to say anything.

## Quotes

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