Bi Ling

* Bio

**Bi Ling** is the Dorm Prefect of Apokálupsis and one of the foremost leading graduate of the Thaumaturgy, Medical techniques, and Accounting departments of the Imperial Jade Academy for Thaumaturgy, the Medical Sciences, and the Humanities.

During Deuce's childhood, he was sent to Bi Ling's manor multiple times by his mother and learned how to fight using martial arts from Bi Ling. In addition, Bi Ling taught him some basic modern magic techniques as well as some spiritual invocation techiques.

## Appearance

Bi Ling is a pale-skinned young teenager girl of taller than average height. Her short, neatly-combed hair is dark green jade, with short side swept bangs. Her eyes are a dark green jade, and directly underneath her right eye is a dark jade green marking shaped like a broken green jade fragment. She is often shown with a stern but fundamently kind expression.

### Previous Dorm Uniform

Her dorm uniform was similar to the rest of the Heartslabyul students. While in uniform, she was often shown wearing subtle eyeshadow the same color as her broken jade fragment-shaped marking. The uniform's top consisted of an outer jacket, a patterned vest, and a white, scoop-neck undershirt. The jacket was mainly white with a yellow trim and red underlining. Her right sleeve was black, while her left has a black and white checkerboard pattern.

### Current Dorm Uniform

As the Housewarden, her uniform differs greatly in both general asthetics and style of the clothing, consisting of a

## Personality

Hailing from an aristocratic background, Bi Ling speaks eloquent and often in riddles so complex that even advanced scholars are unable to make heads or tails of her words but for those who spend enough time around her, they are able to decipher or at least partly decipher the meaning behind her words. Determined to aid people in way worse situations than her, Bi Ling is a stern person and an even stricter teacher, ruthlessly scolding Deuce for forgetting how to do simple problems and even scolding Azul for forcing people to tell him their true feelings. Greatly blunt and unapologetic, she sees things with a clinical gaze and can sometimes come off as cruel and unfeeling to those around her who have little knowledge of her true demeanor. Deuce describes Bi Ling as "a motherly-like mentor. Stern and clinic at times but warm and understanding at other times," whereas other people (in-universe) considered her more akin to a pest.

To her fellow classmates who also hail from Yángguāng Jiàn; she is quite an extremely well-intentioned senpai but has a diabolic sense of humor that is conceringly than morbid than funny. Well-versed in all forms of chemistry and healing techniques, she is the very person who came up with formulas in an attempt to reverse-engineer a cure for victims of overblotting. Being the private doctor of Idia Shroud and his family has made her intensely wary of those who would threaten their well-being, with her being incredibly wary of Azul Ashengrotto upon the two of them meeting for the first time.

## Background

Bi Ling is an only child of an aristocratic background and was raised by her widowed, grieving mother, as well as her remaining set of grandparents and great-grandparents. A serious child who cared little for the outside world and faithfully tended to her family members, without regard for her own health, safety, or basically anything to do with herself. On her great-grandparents' wedding anniversity, she created a set of dark jade green rings which caused them to cry in joy; she would continue to carve jewelry and other things for them, to the point where they suggested selling her art pieces. Enrolling herself into Yángguāng Jiàn's famed Imperial Jade Academy for Thaumaturgy, the Medical Sciences, and the Humanities in order to advance her art to a new level, eventually deciding to pursue Thaumaturgy and the Medical Sciences, as well as picking up Accounting as a minor in order to fully cultivate herself. After graduation, she enrolled in Night Raven College in order to gain new experience and to make her late relatives proud with her accomplishments.

## Thaumaturgy

Thaumaturgy also known as *Arcane Magic*, is magic that originates from a bygone era of human civilization and is considered highly voilate as a result of it's origins, it is considered the old way of magic casting and requires a strong willpower in order to exert sufficent control over it. Being the closest related type of magic to actual divine magic and energy, Thaumaturgy is a distinct form of magic from modern magic and possesses no similarities with modern magic. In terms of similarities, it is also a close cousin of fae magic, which is also descended from magic that originates from a bygone era known as the **Age of Gods** when divine beings of all kinds walked the earth and paved the world in their image. Having mastered a form of Thaumaturgy that allows her to manipulate spiritual energy at a higher level than most practioneers, she utilized this ability during the aftermentioned Age of Calamity to protect innocent people and infuse temples with the divine words of "life" and "growth".

### **Spiritual Invocation**

Her Thaumaturgy being of the spiritual type, means that she is closely linked to the world around her and is able of manipulating the spiritual world in some form and capacity. As a warrior, spiritual blades are usually the form that spiritual invocation takes for her.

## Signature Spell

Bi Ling's signature spell is called "Spiritual Dream". It allows her to place others in an epthermal, dream-like state by manipulating their mental facilities easily. The stronger the opponent, the more effective this spell becomes. As it is a speciality, having come about as a byproduct of her Thaumaturgy training, it is one of her stronger spells in her arsenel.

## Quotes

* (To Azul Ashengrotto) "*Just because I'm a genius doesn't mean that I know everything there is to know about medical sciences. Even geniuses have their limit you know..*"
* (To Idia Shroud) "*Har har very funny Idia-san.*"

## Trivia

* Her given name of "Bi" bears the meaning of "green jade". In the culture of Yángguāng Jiàn, it's a stone that is believed to allow a practioneer of Thaumaturgy to more accurately channel this vein of magic. Her surname *Ling* has three meanings depending on the kanji used to spell the name, these three meanings are "spirit," "ice," and finally "bell". Her last name most likely bears the meaning of "bell" as green jade bells in the culture of Yángguāng Jiàn are good luck charms carried around by all practioneers of Thaumaturgy to ward off evil spirits.
* Crewel and Crowley have appointed her as the defacto nurse, with her often being found in the clinic.
* According to Carter, she is popular on Magicam and is the third most popular person on the social media platform as a result of her extremely comphrehensive study guides and generous nature.
* According to Carter, Deuce moderates Bi Ling's social media account when she is unable to do so, as a way of "repaying" Bi Ling back for all of the time she spends tutoring him.
* RSA, NRC, and even Noble Bell Academy students watch her tutoring sessions, causing them to score highly as a result of her help.
* She challenged the previous Dorm Prefect of Apokálupsis close to the middle of her first semester of her first year for the positions of Dorm Prefect and Housewarden, becoming the new Dorm Prefect and Housewarden as a result.
* She began training Deuce to succeed her as head of the clinic.
* She is stated to have often worked in close capacity with some soldiers of "S.T.Y.X.", a private blot-research organization, these soldiers spoke quite highly of her medical prowess as she had helped many of their own relatives to succesfully recover.
* Bi Ling lives in her family's previous estate and after acquiring Deuce as a student, often invites Deuce and his mother over to her estate.
* During the first year of her first year, she was accidently sorted into Heartslabyul Dorm but was resorted into Apokálupsis following the relevation of her accidental sorting.
* It is later revealed that Bi Ling placed the founding family members of the Spade family and some of their more distantly related ancestors underneath her protection, making them in some capacity and form her own relatives.
	+ In order to hide her true age, Bi Ling is listed as the biological aunt of Deuce Spade in the Spade family registry, making her in some shape and form, the "younger sister" of Deuce's mother.
* She was at one point during her long-lived life, a contracted mercenary for the Paramount Heirs assigned to assassination of the benevolent tree goddess Rukkhadevata and her steadfast mortal companion Aranyani, a warrior with blood ties to the infamous Emperor Cyno of Zhǎng Yù, who emigratted from the Land of Scaulding Sands to serve Rukkhadevata after the goddess saved her life. Out of desperation and realizing that their goals were wrong, she spared both of their lives and using her own divine energy infused temples in the Land of Scaulding Sands with the power of "life" and "growth" which still to this day have protected them. The people of the Scaulding Sands believed that it was Rukkadevata's power that were infused in the temples erected in the deserts of the Land of Scaulding Sands and not Bi Ling's power.
* The campus of Night Raven College has collapsed structures or in some cases, structures over older buildings that used to be there. These structures were according to Idia Shroud, temples of worship for the Great Seven and were during the age of calamity infused with the divine powers of "life" and "growth" by Bi Ling and Rukkhadevata. After the age of calamity passed, the need for the temples grew lesser and lesser until their internal structures passed. The only dorm that still has a fuctioning temple from this age is Apokálupsis.
* The goddess Rukkhadevata's actual divine name is Apokálupsis not Rukkhadevata but due to certain circumstances, she took on Rukkhadevata as a name in order to safeguard her identity.