Liu Lanzhi

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**Liu Lanzhi** (Chinese: 刘兰芝 *Liú Lánzhī*) is a playable Omni and Water character in *Twisted Wonderland*.

She is a first-year student of the Ignihyde Dorm and one of the few half god-half fae scholars of the Dorm. She is the only daughter and surviving child of the Guuji of the exalted and famed Divine Mikoshiba Shrine of the Mikoshiba continent and the celebrated deceased fae General Han Ruiying. She is one of Idia Shroud's retainers, having come into his service way before the death of Ortho and presumably at the time of Idia's birth.

## Appearance

Liu is a tall young woman with fair skin and long, flowing raven-black hair of the darkest shade of black, or so it appears. Her hair is actually an indescriable shade of light gray, that is almost quail-gray in terms of it's color. She has flourescent, glass-like pink eyes, naturally pale red lips, and a graceful ease to her beauty that is breathtaking to look at. She appears to almost always have a expressionless look on her face and is considered to be the epitome of "absolute and utter composure" exerting utterly no effort in maintaining an emotionless expression on her face.

### Dorm Uniform

Being the Vice Housewarden, Liu's uniform greatly differs from the rest of the Ignihyde students, as she appears to stick to the traditional styles of her parents' homeland, donning a qipao with ruffly and puffy sleeves, the sleeves in question not even attached to the top of the qipao. The qipao has a princess, lolita-like appearance to it due to bearing many ruffles and shades of colors that are considered very lolita-like.

## Personality

Serious and reserved almost to a fault, Liu is a dedicated retainer and is considered his most important one, trusted with his most secretive projects due to her unwavering loyalty in him. She devotes herself to becoming a spiritual invocation summoning master for his sake in order to repay him for standing up for her when they were all young children, having the second most powerful combat skills after Idia. Having been Idia and Ortho's caretaker ever since they were little, Liu is the stern and ruthless one among them and is cited to be the three's voice of reason, with both boys relying on her for almost everything growing up.

While she is generally and usually noted to be a calm and even-tempered figure, she becomes cautious and incredibly hostile when it comes to the safety of either Idia or Ortho, as seen in her Ceremonial Robe story where she very nearly strikes down Silver with several Spiritual Inovocation techniques as a result of Silver aiming his baton at Idia. Being as emotionally attached as she is to the brothers, makes Liu an incredibly dangerous person since she regards those not of Ignihyde Dorm to be untrustworthy and dangerous to the safety of her two wards.

Despite all this, Liu acts differently under certain circumstances. She speaks more philosophical with Azul Ashengrotto after the Octavinelle Housewarden gives her some advice in exchange for some manual labor, offering him her own valuable first-hand experience on the dangers of contracts and the evil that they bring to other people. Moreover, she can be kind and charitable underneath circumstances where the safety of the Shroud brothers is not put into question, promptly providing Silver of Diasomnia Dorm with a special variety of smelling salts that activate neurological paths in the brain to keep him awake. Due to having formerly been a shrine maiden (miko), she is quite familiar with ritual purifications and routinely preforms them on members of the Dorm, in order to prevent them from building up overblot as a form of precaution.

Liu speaks in the old Mengying dialect of her parents' homeland and tends to use a variety of outdated terms and references due to her actual age of 29,000+. Idia notes that she sounds quite old-fashioned when she speaks, which confuses a lot of students.

## Background

Liu was considered a "promising prodigy" when she was younger, as a result of her half-divine parentage (a fact that she was scornful of). According to Ruggie, she comes from the bloodline of the current Guuji of the exalted and famed Divine Mikoshiba Shrine of the Mikoshiba continent and the celebrated deceased fae General Han Ruiying. From a young age, her mother expressed no interest in her upbringing and she was raised by the shrine maidens of the Divine Mikoshiba Shrine before eventually leaving the shrine to travel around the entire world. At some point, she made a home on the Island of Woe and was the only outsider who remained on the Island until the founding of "S.T.Y.X.", a private blot-research organization. Having agreed to serve the original family head of the Shroud noble family as one of their retainers, she was recorded in the historical records of "S.T.Y.X." as the "immortal retainer" since she was half-god and thus her aging process differed from that of humans.

She became the caretaker of Idia and Ortho soon after their respective births, being an encouraging but stern figure in their lives, with Idia calling Liu the most "important person" of his and Ortho's lives due to the way that she brought them up with humility and kindness, as well as understanding and comprehension of their duties as members of the noble Shroud family. Being a retainer of the Shroud family, she was also expected to follow her two wards into the ranks of "S.T.Y.X.", a private blot-research organization.

Knowing that her wards disliked the idea of being part of "S.T.Y.X.", Liu began telling them about her adventures when she was still traveling around the world and even began recreating many cultural treats and foods for the Shroud brothers to try in order to give them a view of the world outside of the Island of Woe.

As a student at Night Raven College, Liu is shown to be conflicted about receiving the Vice Housewarden position, but was later convinced to keep it after much presuading by many of her fellow doormates who believed that she was the best choice for Vice Housewarden.

In the events of Book 6, Liu returns to the Island of Woe alongside Idia and Ortho to serve as the second acting vice-captain of S.T.Y.X. while Idia and Ortho's parents are away.

## Relationships

### Azul Ashengrotto

Azul and Liu are both members of the Board Game Club. They have similar tastes in board games, though Liu specializes almost exclusively in strategy games due to her sense of cautiousness and solemness considering her past experiences in the warzone. They are shown to be rather close, as Azul refers to her solely by her first name, something which even other fae hesitate to do considering her notorious reputation during wartime of murdering her opponents if they dared to use her first name. Liu cites Azul as slightly reminding her of the "innocent-eyed youth" that once followed her around, back when she was still a General serving in the city-state Huan's military forces. After his overblot and subsequent capture by S.T.Y.X. (the organization that Liu reluctantly works for), the two are shown to be on slightly tense terms but their relationship grows better after the end of chapter 6. In the present, Azul considers Liu to be like a doting aunt and even refers to her as such.

## Trivia

* Liu's original last name was actually not Lanzhi but due to wanting to honor her mother, she took on her mother's maiden surname as a way of getting attention from her. Her mother ignored her and refused to acknowledge her own daughter.
* According to Ruggie, Liu is a natural conversationalist and he often drags her alongside him when he goes to the cafeteria as a "buffer" of some sorts.