Mingxia

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

 **Key Features** | »“Lingchi” Jade knives (x2)»Nuclear bombs»“Skyboom” planar shield generator»Scanner device (made from original eyepatch)»Cloned right eye (lighter shade to her original)

*"An eye for an eye."*

- Mingxia prior to gouging out the right eye of her boss/mentor, followed by killing him via lingchi
NOTE: May or may not be rewritten

## Tactical Analysis

* **Underworld queen:** Once a bandit warlord/leader of the Triads infamous for their explicit neutrality in the Civil War. Mingxia now fights for the Atomic Kingdom and their goal of vengeance. Her “Lingchi” jade knives allow her to end a man's life with a single slash (though she often makes multiple, non-lethal, slices to prolong her victim's agony), not even tanks are safe as her knife is sharp enough to cut through the hull and slice up the crew. Fighting with a brutal, sadistic, but effective fighting style gained from a lifetime of surviving the streets of a war-torn China.

* **Atomic clock:** Mingxia is also equipped with miniature nukes she can attach to anything (even the Kingdom's clones) to turn them into timed bombs, set to detonate after a set amount of time, taking everything around it with it.

* **Woman in a bubble:** Thanks her spartan/abusive upbringing as a Triad member, and developing her own combat style from fighting within the streets of China. Mingxia is extremely fast and can leap towards her enemy, doding incoming fire, and her skills as a leader lets her empower and control the clones under her command.

* **A shield is just armour:** While Mingxia can easily close in and end most enemies with only a few slashes, her complete lack of armour means normal anti-infantry weapons will easily kill her once her planar shielding goes down, not helped with her sadism and love of melee combat making her completely useless against aircraft.

## Description

Previously known as the "The Jade Serpent", **Mingxia** was once the leader of the Triads, the third, unrecorded, terror of the Chinese Civil War. A strange contradiction of a one-eyed sadist and leader of the Triads who forces Chinese soldiers, whether they be NRA or PLA, to beg for death before hanging their flayed, mutilated, corpses around her domain, a victim of her favorite execution/torture method "lingchi". And a woman who will selflessly throw herself and her army to protect an innocent village in the middle of nowhere from being another victim of the Civil War, she herself leading the front to attack the NRA trench lines or stop a PLA wave to save civilians who were to be forcibly conscripted.

When a tiny infant, orphaned by the Civil War, was founded by one of the Triad lords within Kowloon, nobody expected much of her. Small and weak, most were convinced that she would amount to nothing, but the crime lord took her in to train into a prospective soldier.

Adopted within the dark underworld as a soldier of the Triad, she was singled out as an orphan and a peasant with no future, her name being a spiteful irony. Where being beaten, starved, and treated as dirt and enduring tasks that no child should do was considered normal for her, and the countless orphans that weren't scooped up by the PLA and NRA, and that survival was a brutal fight where kindness was considered a weakness. Her darkest memory is at the age of twelve when she was punished with a knife gouging out her right eye for trying to help a prisoner.

Despite this constant life of pain, humiliation, and the entire Triad believing she would soon collapse in a ditch. Mingxia, to everyone's surprise, not only survived but thrived, becoming cold, sadistic, and cunning to survive the cutthroat life of the underworld, developing her own fighting style based on the use of two knives. And much to the shock, and horror, of her boss she overthrew his rule, thanks to her charisma swaying most of the Triads to support her, and personally dueled him, toying with him until she had enough and killed him slowly, starting by gouging out his right eye (like how he did to her six years ago), before subjecting him to lingchi, slowly slicing and dicing him like livestock untill all thats left was the bones of a torso.

Now as the new ruler of the Triads Minxia would rule her new kingdom with an iron fist. Yet, in memory of the pain she suffered, also made reforms that would lead to the children under the Triads to have a childhood (or as close to one within their situation), and had to execute a few members, with lingchi, who rejected her reforms. And once Kowloon was under her rule she would step into the madness of the Civil War.

Knowing the horrid fate the civilians, especially the children, would be subjected to once either side snatched them. Mingxia made it her mission to protect these people (for a price of course) by first uniting the various gangs and warlords under her banner through a mixture of diplomacy, cunning, and assassination.

And in two months. Mingxia and her triads would carve a third faction within the civil war, one that had opposed the view and brutality of the NRA and PLA. And, like her past, both sides barely acknowledged her, viewing her forces as nothing more than an arrogant upstart that would bow to their might or die by their gun, the Allies and Soviets similarly saw her as nothing more than a brigand way over her head. But yet again she proved them wrong.

Knowing that her side lacked the technology and experience of the NRA or the numbers and industry of the PLA to face them head-on, Mingxia knew her side had to fight dirty, which suited them fine. And there were three things Mingxia had over both sides.

The first was that Mingxia knew the countless tunnels underneath China, and the neighboring countries, that were made by the Triads to smuggle goods beneath the government's noses, which became lucrative and expanded upon when the civil war started. The second was that the Triads had sympathizers and spies within the areas not under the NRA or PLA domain. And finally, thanks to her efforts, the Triads have entered an alliance with the Tongs in the USA, who can provide more advanced/mothballed US equipment, with the shared goal of stopping the Civil War before it eventually reached its breaking point.

Using the knowledge to her advantage Mingxia would wage brutal guerrilla warfare against both sides. Using the tunnels to strike at positions the NRA thought impenetrable or retreating from a PLA attack force after a sudden and brutal raid. Combined with a mix of spies and sympathizers to get the neutral villages to her side, observe the NRA and PLA, and even have some of them join her side. And finally using refurbished WW2 equipment, stolen and sent from the boneyards by the Tongs, which she would mix with the technology stolen/salvaged from both sides, eventually leading to her forces wielding a hodgepodge of technology mixed from both sides, leading her force to be rather unpredictable. But even so, her forces would face equal amounts of losses whenever they were forced to fight against the NRA and/or PLA in head-on combat or were caught and cornered.

Within four months into the war, for a total of six. Mingxia would carve out her own, small, territory within war-torn China, but within the underbelly, she had absolute rule, a side that refused to follow the Allies or Soviets, and both the NRA and PLA were forced to admit she was a growing problem, similarly, the Allies and Soviets started to consider her a threat to their goals.

Eventually, the Jade Comet came, one of the sides discovered nuclear fission, the other would steal it, and soon bombers flew and dropped nuclear bombs that wiped out major cities, military bases, and industrial zones. Soon China would fall into complete anarchy as the leadership of both the NRA and PLA collapsed and the survivors fragmented into feudal warlords.

Mingxia, on her part, would learn about the bombers thanks to her spies, and fearing the worst she ordered her forces to turn the underground into a series of bunkers/living spaces to protect the refugees. And when she heard the last words of her spies notifying her about the incoming bombers she declared full lockdown as everyone under her command ran into the tunnels and hid. Their only knowledge of the outside coming from the muffled explosions of the nuke's impact.

In the dark days afterward, when black rain fell and the sun was hidden behind clouds of ash, the Triads would reemerge and witness the ragged remains of a military unit, their allegiance impossible to determine under the soot and mud, who began shooting at a group of survivors and looting the possessions of the dead. Enraged by the sight, Mingxia would personally face these monsters, their barely recognisable corpses a warning to those who would harm the innocent.

Now seeing herself as the last sane person within the new wasteland. Mingxia would gather the remnants of her forces and would reforge the Triads, one of the larger warlords that rivaled Liang's hegemony.

Eventually, her actions would attract the Atomic Kingdom's attention, who would then attack Mingxia's kingdom assuming she's yet another upstart bandit, Mingxia herself relishes the challenge of fighting against fools who think their gods with their weapons.

What came next was months of grueling trench and urban warfare as Mingxia's Triads used their knowledge of the cities and sewers to ambush Kingdom forces and set up traps and kill zones, while sappers would sneak in and destroy key targets, bringing unacceptable casualties for the Kingdom. And then the Kingdom witnessed her forces charging into an NRA base to rescue an entire village, who was to be new victims of the necroscientists, MIngxia herself leading the charge, and their opinion changed and their strategy changed.

Sending in an agent of the new Atomic Kingdom instead of an army for a civil discussion. The agent told Mingxia that the Viceroy was gathering forces to take revenge upon those who had committed or enabled the atrocities that had occurred. Mingxia, after much discussion, pledged her loyalty, swearing to avenge the fallen and bring swift justice to those responsible. With the token of her induction getting a new eye cloned from her DNA, unfortunately, she has a genetic quirk that causes any cloned flesh, including her eye, to be a lighter shade of the original color.

## Known Activities

- Assassinated Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek by shoving a miniature nuke in his mouth, reducing him and the surrounding area into dust.

- Leapt from rooftop to rooftop of Nagasaki after sabotaging the Imperial expedition to China, tanking even VX-Choppers missiles with little scratches.

- Ran on the top of the trees to attack a column in Burma, dropping down mini-nukes.

- Despite being unprepared for a half-dead Red Chinese soldier drawing his pistol and shooting her, managed to block the bullet aimed at her head with a piece of nearby metal, only receiving a flesh wound to her hand. The soldier's life was then measured in minutes as she cut off his hands and foot followed by slowly slicing off parts of his skin and flesh until she was satisfied.

- Infiltrated the MSS *"Tarquin"*, and in a one-woman operation, killed every crewman, from the lowest crewman to the captain.

- Managed to fight Aira's to a standstill long enough to order a nuke to be dropped on top of the building they were fighting in. Nearly killing Aira, and forcing the now devastated Ecumene forces to retreat, while Mingxia was too wounded to stand up, her shield saved her.

## Behind the Scenes

Mingxia first iteration was primarily based on Kenshiro of the anime *"Fist of the North Star"* as well as female protagonists from Chinese martial arts and historical fantasy movies. Appearance wise she bears a resemblance to Katara from Avatar.

Her newer iteration turns her into a former crimelord who is a sadist who fights with more gang-like tactics. The "dragon lady" who is either the villain or second in command of the villains in Chinese martial arts and historical fantasy movies.