Fēng Xu

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### Allies

Locaster Helios, Shay Hanamura, Yuna Hanamura, Damion Halloreen, Hideko Inazuma, Hikage Ishuko, Veena Lu, Nabi Haluška, Cherry Amana, Windflower Amana, Shizuka Ikami (neutral) , Ashton Khanh, (neutral) Kahori, Lyria Emerith, Shiah Bereng, Colbalt Majmua, Soul Kawasaki, Crimson O'Connel

### Enemies

Crow Watanabe, Caius Astrada, Akuji Hasegawa, Cassian Packard, Shítǐ, Ashton Khanh (formerly)

**Fēng Xu,** sometimes referred to as **Fēng Hsu,** is one of the many supporting characters in *Challenge of The Shadows*. She is affiliated with Locaster's group and the current owner of the wind gem that once belonged to the wind Founding Demon, Aeris. After going blind from a fever, Fēng was mostly treated as frail by her parents out of fear she would not learn to care for herself. Upon receiving her shard from her parents as a birthday gift in the form of a staff, she learned that her gem could not only assist her in seeing, but had aerokinetic magic that assisted her greatly and taught herself how to maneuver its abilities by secretly practicing when her parents were not around.

Eventually, Fēng was discovered by Locaster and joined Team Strelitzia after he and Soul came to her aid when a tuerana wolf was attempting to attack her, resulting in her being trapped on a tall tree for a few days. She later on reveals that she was one of the intended victims of Crow Watanabe, but due to her needing her shard to assist her in seeing, she was spared because of how he thought it would have been "immoral" to take away her only source of vision.

## History

Fēng was primarily raised in a middle class district in Misterin and lived a fairly simple life with her parents under the rule of Miako Emerith. She was raised in a sheltered family, but was allowed to go outside and play with the other neighboring children near her home, despite her parents being slightly protective of her. However, when she was five, she caught a high fever during a scarlet fever-esque epidemic happening in Misterin and underwent intensive treatment immediately. At some point, Fēng nearly died because of her allergies to some of the treatment that normally worked for other patients.

When she made progress in recovering, she complained about blurry vision, which was abnormal and she went under another round of extensive care: Though, the blurry vision turned into blindness because of the fever's severity because of it reaching her optic nerves, rupturing them and causing blindness. Her parents were distraught to hear that their daughter had lost her vision due to the fever and were advised to teach her how to adjust to her blindness. They begun seeing assistances that would help her adjust to her new lifestyle and she was given a cane that would assist her in seeing better.

At a young age, Fēng was mostly sheltered for a portion of her life because she was seen as fragile due to her blindness and was often kept inside her home due to the fear that she would get hurt or be incapable of taking care of herself. She was pulled out of school and had to learn how to read braille, along with taking extensive courses to help her adjust to her surroundings. Because of those courses, she is able to see through the dirt particles in the ground and managed to adapt to her surroundings quickly by the gusts of wind and through sound.

As a result of her blindness, she was often teased for not being able to see properly and became insecure of herself due to her vision loss. She was mainly bullied not because of her inability to see, but for her inept and withdrawn personality by other children. Along with her personality, Fēng did not have many friends, and those who attempted to befriend her were immediately shooed away because of her bullies driving others away from her. She later on grew to be insecure and quiet, often isolating herself in her room with her pet rabbits and found an enjoyment in isolating herself, thus making her social skills poor and having a hard time resonating with other children. Fēng at some point had one friend, Suki, who did not judge her for being blind, though left her after she was influenced by a group of children to leave her, thus rendering her friendless.

Because of her poor social skills, Fēng was occasionally pressured into socializing with other children her age and had a hard time starting up conversations, often due to being isolated from others for a while and was afraid of being judged by others around her. Additionally, Fēng was excluded from friend groups, along with children not wanting to spend time with her due to Fēng being viewed as "weird." Because of the bullying, she would later on assume a vulnerable demeanor and trusted anyone around her who showed her a fraction of kindness and would profusely apologize if needed, making her an easy target for those around her.

The small remarks and teasing she would face escalated after the children began physically abusing Fēng for her blindness, resulting in her coming home with bruises and scars, using her as a sandbag because of her vulnerability. Additionally, her cane was missing, a vital item that aids her in seeing and quickly adapted to the abuse after it became prolonged. As she was getting abused, she did not have the heart to stand up for herself out of fear for her family, as she was deliberately threatened and bullied for a disability she had no control over.

After two months, her parents later on discovered the abuse and kept her inside, not wanting her to be injured anymore and was now perceived as a frigid and frail person. Though Fēng did not mind being in her own world, she despised how her family saw her as incapable of defending herself. With the mindset of her being frigid, many family members would coddle her excessively whenever she attempted to talked to them and believed nobody in her family would understand her feelings. Because of being coddled, Fēng would often take on adult tasks to not be seen as frail or fragile, teaching herself how to fight to prove herself as capable to her family, but was still sheltered and babied for her disability.

While her parents were away, they found a gemstone that was described to have special properties to aid those with vision loss in seeing, regaining their vision if they put it near their face or eyes. Ecstatic, her parents decided to buy the gem and eventually crafted it into a staff, testing and gave it to Fēng on her twelfth birthday. Fēng's life became gradually easier, preferring her staff over the cane she once used to aid her in seeing and adapted to using her staff quickly. When receiving the staff, the shard allowed her to see through it and acted as her vision.

She was eventually not as sheltered as before due to her adapting to using her staff and was allowed to finally be outside and do day-to-day things to help her parents and assist others, though had fears of approaching her former abusers and bullies that once mistreated her. Shortly after, Fēng discovered that the gem on the staff had aerokinetic abilities and begun to experiment with them after her discovery and became proficient with her magic. However, she hid her staffs ability from her parents and practiced in secret without her parents knowledge as they were happy about Fēng's improvements. She was allowed to bring her staff to school in order to assist her vision and adapted to her surroundings well. She was also able to protect herself from her bullies and managed to temporarily suffocate them when they attempted to lay a hand on her, resulting in them leaving her alone.

Fēng was one of Crow Watanabe's targets during the height of him being a shard thief, but due to her being blind and needing the gem, he had spared her life and did not take her shard from her because of how it would have been immoral of him to do so after seeing her state and left her in the forest, but was chased down by a tuerana wolf, resulting in her hiding in a tree for days while the wolf was attempting to attack her. Fortunately, Soul and Locaster managed to track her and fend the wolf off before helping her down and introducing themselves. Eventually, she was recruited to join Team Strelitzia and met the other members of the group, forming a small bond with him and Soul before being brought over to their hideout, meeting Veena, Hikage, Shay, Yuna, and Nabi.

## Appearance

Fēng is a petite girl that stands at around 5'6 with long, silver hair tied in a bun with white eyes, though they were originally a light blue before she went blind. Around her head is a flower crown with white roses that have thin branches suspending it. Around her arms are bandages she wears because of scars she obtained after touching a poisonous plant.

Fēng dons a light gray shirt that have dark gray cuffs with a light gray skirt and white tights. Additionally, Fēng wears a semi-long white scarf that wraps around both her neck and chest, sporting knee high gray boots with two silver ankle decorations.

## Personality

Initially, Fēng was seen to be a rather shy and reclusive individual, unsure of herself and her abilities as a shard user. She often remained quiet and had a disdain for speaking to others because of how she was sheltered for a portion of her life. She frequently had trouble with talking to others, let alone socializing with others around her and can get overwhelmed when presented with too much attention drawn to her and suffers from panic attacks whenever those moments occur. She remained socially awkward for awhile and could only hold up basic conversations but not exactly talk to anyone sufficiently. Being physically abused by her peers, she often shirks away from physical contact in motions of hitting or kicking, causing her to flinch and cower in fear. Because of her mostly sheltered life, she has a difficult time with loud sounds and fears over little things easily, often overthinking situations and had a hard time expressing her emotions.

After she was recruited to join Team Strelitzia, Fēng experiences a drastic personality change and becomes slightly more social with the other members, but still remains meek when attempting to speak to others on a more deeper and personal level. She enjoys to tease her acquaintances in a playful manner and has a soft spot for white rabbits, admitting the reason why is because of her pet rabbit back at Misterin that her parents now take care of due to her being out of the kingdom. She proved to be curious about other cultures because of being confined to her home and is fascinated whenever discovering something she never learned before. According to Nabi, Fēng is somewhat awkward around older members of Strelitzia, but still shows them respect by calling them "Mr" or "Ms" to symbolize their higher rank until she knew them well enough to call them by their names casually.

Fēng is shown to be adaptable, being able to adapt to environments rather quickly, as when the group had to stay in the dark forest for the night, most of them had problems with adjusting while she was able to adapt to the environment around her. Fēng is not a very socially aware individual, having a hard time picking up social cues and signals from others and can have a hard time understanding obscene humor or basic jokes for that matter. Because of this, Fēng is a sensitive individual and can react to jokes that she finds crude or insensitive. Though she is sometimes teased playfully for her sensitive nature, many understand that she has a difficult time telling jokes due to her upbringing and past, with those around her often saying serious things without her being able to tell if they were satire or serious about it.

Despite her naturally quiet and inept disposition, when in combat, Fēng gains a more hardened, serious persona, often trying to protect her friends from danger, as seen when she blocks an attack from a Lyakonian soldier being directed at Nabi. Her personality further shifts in combat, becoming more sharp-tongued and a little brash as Ashton would describe, attempting to remain civil while also insulting those who insult Team Strelitzia. She is, however, deeply insecure of herself, having a hard time finding anything positive about her because of the consistent bullying from other children and some of her caretakers. She often yearns to prove herself capable to others and often put herself in dangerous situations to do so, blocking Nabi from a black vine that nearly consumed her.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** As the youngest shard user, Fēng is a very powerful magic user and combatant. Despite not having much muscle in her body to do larger scale attacks, Fēng combines her physical strength with her shard in order to make up for it. Instead of using up most of her physical strength, Fēng opts to using partial of her wind powers in order to quickly ambush and knock down her targets with powerful wind blasts. Though she is the second youngest user, she demonstrates to be independent and manages to use her magic in a strategic manner to outsmart the enemies. Additionally, she is seen as the most resourceful of the group due to her natural adapting skills and intelligence, sneaking past Lyakonian soldiers without any problem because of her short stature.

**Enhanced Speed & Reflexes:** Fēng possesses superhuman-like speed, slipping away from Misaya's ghost arms and quickly dashing off in order to receive assistance. With her speed also comes her reflexes, as she was able to evade the Lyakonian soldier's gunshots with only minor injuries and effortlessly dodges both Cassian and Akuji's attacks, only coming back with minor injuries afterwards. Despite not being the fastest, she was able to outpace Ashton in a race when they were residing in the Northern Forests during their break in hunting for the Fallen Gates.

**Enhanced Strength:** Despite her being one of the more shorter members, Fēng has exemplified to possess demon-like strength, being able to knock down many Lyakonian soldiers in a mere second and nearly go head on with Cassian during their escape from Lyakon and outsmarting him in order to run away from him. She is capable of also lifting u a broken down tree that had fallen during their escape from Lyakon. When she was young, Fēng possessed enough arm strength to catch a heavy rabbit that weighed around 24 kg (54 lbs) and carrying Nabi on her back after she took a leg injury.

**Enhanced Stamina & Endurance:** Fēng has shown to possess inhuman-like stamina & endurance. She was able to chase after Crow when he started to run away and did not express any exhaustion, remaining in optimal physical and emotional shape. Her stamina is high enough to a point where she was able to hop across many tree branches in high trees without getting exhausted. Even while overusing her magic, Fēng manages to stay up while fending off Crow.

**Tactical Intellect:** Studying the demon gems and Demonian, Fēng is an exceptionally clever and resourceful individual and is able to speak fluent Misteric Demonian, despite it being the most difficult form of Demonian to learn. She has proven to have a good memory and exceptional cognitive processing by recognizing the pattern and general flooring of a forest. She was also able to evade shard thieves attempts at killing her. Fēng has proven on several occasions to make nearly inescapable attacks, trapping Crow in an air ball and nearly removing the oxygen from his lungs.

## Magic Abilities

**Aerokinesis:** Possessing the wind gem, Fēng possesses powerful aerokinesis. She is able to control large masses of air and knows about the vile technique to collect all the air in an environment or room to suffocate someone. Fēng's aerokinesis is noted to be strong enough to make the sky move, if she uses enough force and power. Fēng opts to using her acrobatics and her magic in order to distract enemies, as seen when blasting large amounts of wind from her staff and palms to distract Lyakonian soldiers.

**Temporary Flight**: Fēng is able to fly a certain distance if she gathers large masses of air around her, allowing her to fly. As flight is seen as a complex skill, she is capable of using her powers in order to fly, though she can only use her flight to certain extents.

**Temperature Manipulation:** Though she is not seen using this ability frequently, Fēng can manipulate the temperature of the air she manipulates, ranging from extreme heat to extreme coldness.

## Weaknesses

**Overuse:** Like all magic users, Fēng is prone to overuse her magic in dire situations. As she is one of the second youngest shard users, her overuse symptoms are more severe, as her gem indicates her health like Nabi's, and if she is separated or uses her magic for a prolonged time, she will become dizzy and fall sick.

**Air Depletion:** Without a proper air source, Fēng's greatest weakness is being in a setting where air is limited or nonexistent, meaning she is unable to use her aerokinetic abilities.

## Relationships

### Locaster Helios

Fēng first encountered Locaster after trying to find her way out of an extensive forest. Unlike others, who seemed distrusting of him at a first glance, Fēng was fascinated by him because of his soft aura and gentle nature towards her. She trusted him without hesitation after he explained his intentions with reuniting the Demon Gems and wanted her to join Team Strelitzia to aid in his journey. As they begun to travel more, Locaster perceived Fēng positively, often talking to her about spells or teaching her about the history of Azuren from story books he used to read. Because of Locaster being older than her, she respectfully called him "Mr Helios," before getting to know him on a deeper level to call him by his name casually.

When in Elveria to investigate murders of shard users, Locaster was eager to teach her about Elveria's many cultures while she attentively listened, further driving her curiosity to learn more. During their trip, they come across different aspects of Elverian culture while Locaster explains them to her. Additionally, Locaster views Fēng as his younger sister and often protects her from major attacks.

### Nabi Haluška

Nabi is one of the many shard users in Team Strelitzia and is the youngest of the group. When first meeting, Nabi was initially curious of Fēng because of her quiet and shy demeanor, often bugging her with questions.