Wei Dongmei

## Signature

“
And then Qingxuan did like whoosh, and then they are bleeeeeh!
”
**Wei Dongmei**

> **“Cultivating My Inner Core“**

**Wei Dongmei** *(魏冬梅, Wèi Dōngméi)* is a second-year at Gesshoku High School and the leader of the internet unit PARAD0XAL/1DENTITY. She goes by the internet name **FLAME-SAN**.

## Background

> I like Wei-san as a friend, but she is so crazy about those novels! I don’t even understand what she found in them..
>
> Hajime Sakurano about Wei Dongmei

Since childhood Dongmei wanted to become someone special. She tried lots of different hobbies, but none of them fitted her well. After years of searching, Dongmei found a xianxia book about cultivators called Grandmaster of the Demonic Cultivation. She really liked the book and started to search for more and more of those. Dongmei became a popular blogger who was famous for cosplaying characters, comfortable atmosphere on her channel and book reviews. Once on her online stream Dongmei saw a user named XianLan, who also was a cosplayer. Dongmei liked their cosplays and wrote them in direct messages. XianLan answered and agreed to be her friend. After a year of knowing each other. Dongmei requested XianLan to form a group of bloggers and film their videos together.

## Appearance

Dongmei has bright red hair with bangs swaying on the right side on her face, a longer hair strand falling from there and curling and two twin-drill pigtails, honey-colored eyes and pale skin.

Her casual outfit contains of a white hoodie with the word “CORE” written on it, a blue skirt, white leg warmers and black shoes. Her stage outfit contains of a white crop-top with a pink stripe on top, a black cropped vest with long sleeves, pink spiked bracelets, high black boots with pink soles, a black skirt with a pink plait backing and a pink bottom skirt. Dongmei also wears a pink belt on the side on her skirt and a band-aid on her nose. In the back of her outfit are two orange plaited stripes of cloth. On her right leg is a knee-length sock with pink and white stripes, and on her left leg is a black stocking ending with a black strap.

## Personality

Dongmei has a mischievous and energetic personality that she isn’t trying to hide from anyone. Her favourite activities are pulling pranks on her band mates and friends and violating rules. Because of that, some people don’t like her and become annoyed quickly. Though, she easily gets friends in unknown places and has good relationships with almost the whole Gesshoku High School. Most of those connections are for getting goods for herself — some people give Dongmei their copybooks so she can copy the homework, others share food and stationery.

## Etymology

**Wei** (魏) means “ghost”.

**Dongmei** (冬梅): **Dong** (冬) means “winter” and **Mei** (梅) means “plum”.

## Trivia

* Dongmei is the only Chinese character in the project.
* Dongmei was the one to come with the group’s name, when Michiko rejected her previous variant, GusиLan.
* Dongmei is friends with Tatsuya Miyazaki from LIAR’S CRIES and Ena Tsukimono from Zetsubou Circus
* Dongmei is a huge fan of Kasane Teto. She inspired Dongmei to make her hairstyle.
* Her favourite characters from the novels she read are Shi Qingxuan and Nie Huaisang.
* She once tried to cosplay He Xuan, but abandoned the idea because “he is too depressed”.
* Dongmei thinks that her sharing the same surname hanzi with Wei Wuxian, the protagonist of the first novel she ever read, is a “sign from above”.
* She often protects scared Ena from dogs.