Daiyu Meiyou

* Daiyu (White Ink)
* Daiyu (Ink Link)

Daiyu Meiyou is a Yuan-Ti Pureblood and a prominent member of the Insidious Insurrection group. She was the first Inkmancer to be played in Luctus.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Daiyu Meiyou is a Yuan-Ti Pureblood notable for her beautiful, snake-like tail, pallid skin, and striking black eyes. Daiyu's most notable feature, thanks to her skills as an Inkmancer, allowed her to manipulate her ink to greatly extend the length of her "hair", which she utilizes as an inkwell. Without access to her brush or without ink on hand, Daiyu's inky hair dissipates, leaving her with her more naturally short, black hair. Daiyu is almost always seen wearing fanciful, Western-Style clothing, although for much of her appearance, she wore her blue and white kimono.

### **Personality**

Daiyu Meiyou is known for her fiery temper, quiet and outright hostile demeanor, as well as many other unsavory traits; however, Daiyu is occasionally shown to display acts of mercy, pity, or even outright adoration towards others whenever it suits her interests. She has often displayed indifference towards suffering, often laughing at the misery of others, although tones down much of her harsh tendencies towards her allies (and particularly Riona von Aston, who she would later marry) following the events of Insidious Insurrection.

## **History**

### **Background**

Daiyu Meiyou was born in the City of Hei'an located within the Country of Dracaenir to a one it's many notable Political and Economic Clans, the Meiyou Clan. Born from the Political Union of the Meiyou and Huanxiang Clans, Daiyu Meiyou lived a life of luxury throughout much of her childhood, where she began to learn the arts and garner a basic understanding of her family's latent tendencies to develop an attunement to Inkmancy. Often a loner by choice, Daiyu spent much of her childhood within her dimly lit room sketching away at various uncanny, and otherwise unsightly doodles to appease her love for the macabre. As a teenager, the Meiyou Clan sailed across the sea to settle within the Duchy of Yuethor when opportunities to sell their art to the Museum of Peculiar and Foreign Artifacts, headed by the Yuethor Commerce Guild. The Meiyou Clan would thus found the Estate of Jilin, which Daiyu would remain within for the rest of her teens. As she entered young adulthood, Daiyu began to exhibit more volatile and dangerous bouts of psychotic behavior, eventually culminating into the creation of her Magnum Opus...the Ink Wash Painting, Rivers of Ink. Soon after Daiyu would find herself hastily escaping her Jilin Manor within the the dead of night in a desperate attempt to discover her "true muse" in life.

### **Insidious Insurrection (I.I.)**

Months after escaping Jilin, Daiyu found herself coming to her senses, eventually attempting to find her back to her home through the assistance of a traveling caravan. Despite attempts to avoid contact with others on the journey, Daiyu would find herself entangled within an underground conspiracy within the Protectorate of Panton despite wanting nothing to do with it. Not too long within the journey, Daiyu would awaken a new aspect of her Inkmancy, invoking the Inkvader, Mattaka, within a feverish and horrifically macabre "dream". For the next few months, Daiyu would be tortured by the constant squabbling of Mattaka, as well as an eventual second Inkvader by the name of Pungawere. Despite their shortcomings, Daiyu and her Inkvaders would reasonably cooperate to survive such perils such as the Enthin Incident and the return of Magnar the Blasphemous into the World of Luctus. Upon her journey, Daiyu would make "friends" of such adventurers as: Tylenol the "Sorcerer", Bag O'Rice, Arcturus Shatter-Shield, Partner, Riona von Aston, Dariusz Roshiak, Karadin, and Liam Neeson. Despite her colorful friends that accompanied her throughout her journey, Daiyu would only ever really gain an affinity with Arcturus and Riona, even having fell in love with Riona during some much needed rest before their ultimate fight against the Thunder Thief, Lotte and his Twin Brother. After the defeat of Lotte, Daiyu pledged allegiance to the Mythical Beast of Shadows, Umbra, alongside her fiancee, Riona. Daiyu was one of the heroes of Insidious Insurrection and Chagrin Carnival to face off against Magnar the Blasphemous during his attempt to ascend to godhood, eventually defeating him for good within the Astral Sea...albeit at the cost of Pungawere.

### **Post-Insidious Insurrection**

Months after the defeat of Magnar the Blasphemous, Daiyu returned with Riona to Swanrunia where they would eventually officially wed themselves and begin a business nearby Umbra's lair. During this time of peace, Daiyu would give birth to her first children, the Twin Girls: Miko and Mei-Qi Meiyou. Daiyu's graceful economic patronage from the leader of the Thieves' Guild, Il Padre, would help ascend her artistic empire across the Eastern Continent, bringing great renown to the Meiyou Clan.

## **Other**

-Daiyu was the first Player Character to play a Homebrew Class in Luctus, as well as the first PC Inkmancer.

## **Gallery**

Daiyu (Early Insidious Insurrection)Daiyu (Late Insidious Insurrection)Daiyu with Short HairDaiyu by wwwaraDaiyu by ChiptunePrince