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chifeng_zun) wrote2020-03-23 01:23 am
chifeng_zun) wrote2020-03-23 01:23 am
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Name: Nekky
Age: 30
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Other Characters: Hiccup Haddock III
Character Information
Name: Nie Mingjue, title Chifeng-zun
Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi (novel)
Canon Point: Right before his death from qi deviation
Age: Mid-30s or thereabouts.
History: @ MDZS Wiki
Personality: Nie Mingjue in one single word would be: rigid. He is unfailing and unbending in his strong sense of right and wrong - in a world of grays, he lives in the black and white, and he will not compromise his ideas of justice and righteousness. This results in a man who can be perfectly kind and who can be brutally violent. He is famously inflexible when it comes to morality, and holds those around him to the same high standards that he himself holds to. His inability to soften in the face of perceived injustice helps to contribute toward his inevitable end. He finds himself unable to forgive Jin Guangyao for his crimes, even those committed while acting as a spy for their side, because deceit is deceit, and good men do not deceive others. Good men kill for righteousness, not for political gain. Til the end, they cannot see eye to eye, and this fans the flames of resentment in someone who had once been his right-hand man.
He is serious and responsible to a fault. This may come from the fact that Nie Mingjue had to grow up quickly. His father died when he was a teenager, in front of him with a broken saber no less, leaving him to both lead the Nie Sect on his own and raise his younger half-brother Huaisang. While others were attending lessons and enjoying their youth, Nie Mingjue had to step up and work hard to solidify the Nie Sect's reputation in the cultivation world, tarnished by his father's broken blade and Wen Ruohan, who sabotaged it in the first place. He succeeded in this, and grew his own reputation, as an unshakable, fierce man of justice and honor. He had to be hard on himself, and so he was also hard on Huaisang through the years, often getting into arguments with him over Huaisang's disdain for lessons and saber practice. He wanted his brother to be able to defend himself, though he still could have been considered quite lenient (for Mingjue), letting Huaisang pursue his own interests despite his exasperation. He truly loved his brother, and his brother loved him, despite their often times rocky relationship. Even as Baxia's saber spirit worsened his temper, he didn't want to worry his brother by telling him about it, and many of his actions were taken to protect Huaisang.
Nie Mingjue is also famous for his temper, and his inability to forgive. He hated the Wen Sect with everything in him because of Wen Ruohan's sabotage of the old Nie Sect Leader's blade that caused his death to a beast. This grudge never died, leading him to fight on the front lines with his men during the Sunshot Campaign, the war on the Wens. He brutally killed Wen Ruohan's oldest son, Wen Xu, and had his head displayed as a warning. When the remnants of the Wen clan, old men and women who had nothing to do with the main branch's crimes, were captured in the Siege on the Burial Mounds, he argued for and participated in wiping them out because of their name. He never forgave Jin Guangyao for his betrayals as well, holding over him his fake-out at Langya and his actions as a double-agent for their side. When Sect Leader Jin Guangshan was presented with evidence to Xue Yang's crimes (wiping out an entire clan) and ignored it, Nie Mingjue argued heavily against letting him free. He was enraged when Xue Yang's sentence was commuted to life in prison instead of death, which led to calling Jin Guangyao a son of a prostitute and kicking him down the stairs of Koi Tower. When he gets angry, he gets angry, and often lashes out. Part of this is natural, just a normal facet of his personality, and part of it is the saber spirit that resides within Baxia, affecting his mind the stronger he grows.
It's a strangely honest anger, though. Nie Mingjue is not the type to hide anything, straight-forward to a fault, which ironically can make him difficult to read. He cares about justice, and training his saber work. He cares about his brother and his sect. He finds little pleasure in anything else, not partaking in the usual earthly delights like wine, women, or expensive things. He doesn't care about art or literature. He's hard for Jin Guangyao to read because he doesn't have those hidden layers.
Very few see the softer side of Nie Mingjue, but it's there. He pushes his brother because he wants him to be better. He trusts Lan Xichen unconditionally because he has proven himself to be a righteous and kind man. He stands up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, like when he saw Meng Yao being bullied by his company for his birth, and he both reprimanded his men and recognized the bullied young man's hard work and gave him a better position.
Ultimately Nie Mingjue is not a good man nor a bad man, but a rigid, righteous man with his own ideas of how the world should work.
Abilities & Skills: Nie Mingjue is one of the strongest cultivators of his generation, second to very few. Physically he is impressive and well-trained, standing at 6'3" and being able to wield a large single-edged blade called a saber. He's also the son of a Sect Leader, become Sect Leader himself, so he received a good education growing up in everything he would need to know to lead his clan - magics practiced by cultivators, saber-work, all about various ghosts and ghouls, reading and writing, accounting, some politics, etc. He has also learned meditation, a necessity in his clan. Practitioners' sabers, different from other cultivators' swords, have strong spirits and develop overwhelming resentful energy that start to affect their owners' minds, making them irritable and prone to qi deviation, a form of madness. Because of this, Nie men die pretty early in life, Nie Mingjue even earlier than most.
However, in Aefenglom, he'll just be a really strong swordsman guy with a bad temper.
Inventory/Companions: The bloodied clothes on his back, and Baxia, which will be a normal, if large, single-edged dao (saber).
Choice: Chimera
Reason: Chimeras are considered to be 'bad omens' on Aefenglom, and Nie Mingjue is nothing if not a bad omen to a lot of people in his home world. Generally it's not considered a good thing to see him coming. The hated nature of Chimeras would also provide an interesting point of conflict for him, because he's used to having a sound reputation among the people and would be enraged by the disdain. In a way, it would put him through something like what Jin Guangyao went through, hated for circumstances he couldn't control, and maybe make him empathize more. Also there are a lot of rad chimeras in Chinese mythology.
Sample: @ the TDM
Name: Nekky
Age: 30
Contact:
Other Characters: Hiccup Haddock III
Character Information
Name: Nie Mingjue, title Chifeng-zun
Canon: Mo Dao Zu Shi (novel)
Canon Point: Right before his death from qi deviation
Age: Mid-30s or thereabouts.
History: @ MDZS Wiki
Personality: Nie Mingjue in one single word would be: rigid. He is unfailing and unbending in his strong sense of right and wrong - in a world of grays, he lives in the black and white, and he will not compromise his ideas of justice and righteousness. This results in a man who can be perfectly kind and who can be brutally violent. He is famously inflexible when it comes to morality, and holds those around him to the same high standards that he himself holds to. His inability to soften in the face of perceived injustice helps to contribute toward his inevitable end. He finds himself unable to forgive Jin Guangyao for his crimes, even those committed while acting as a spy for their side, because deceit is deceit, and good men do not deceive others. Good men kill for righteousness, not for political gain. Til the end, they cannot see eye to eye, and this fans the flames of resentment in someone who had once been his right-hand man.
He is serious and responsible to a fault. This may come from the fact that Nie Mingjue had to grow up quickly. His father died when he was a teenager, in front of him with a broken saber no less, leaving him to both lead the Nie Sect on his own and raise his younger half-brother Huaisang. While others were attending lessons and enjoying their youth, Nie Mingjue had to step up and work hard to solidify the Nie Sect's reputation in the cultivation world, tarnished by his father's broken blade and Wen Ruohan, who sabotaged it in the first place. He succeeded in this, and grew his own reputation, as an unshakable, fierce man of justice and honor. He had to be hard on himself, and so he was also hard on Huaisang through the years, often getting into arguments with him over Huaisang's disdain for lessons and saber practice. He wanted his brother to be able to defend himself, though he still could have been considered quite lenient (for Mingjue), letting Huaisang pursue his own interests despite his exasperation. He truly loved his brother, and his brother loved him, despite their often times rocky relationship. Even as Baxia's saber spirit worsened his temper, he didn't want to worry his brother by telling him about it, and many of his actions were taken to protect Huaisang.
Nie Mingjue is also famous for his temper, and his inability to forgive. He hated the Wen Sect with everything in him because of Wen Ruohan's sabotage of the old Nie Sect Leader's blade that caused his death to a beast. This grudge never died, leading him to fight on the front lines with his men during the Sunshot Campaign, the war on the Wens. He brutally killed Wen Ruohan's oldest son, Wen Xu, and had his head displayed as a warning. When the remnants of the Wen clan, old men and women who had nothing to do with the main branch's crimes, were captured in the Siege on the Burial Mounds, he argued for and participated in wiping them out because of their name. He never forgave Jin Guangyao for his betrayals as well, holding over him his fake-out at Langya and his actions as a double-agent for their side. When Sect Leader Jin Guangshan was presented with evidence to Xue Yang's crimes (wiping out an entire clan) and ignored it, Nie Mingjue argued heavily against letting him free. He was enraged when Xue Yang's sentence was commuted to life in prison instead of death, which led to calling Jin Guangyao a son of a prostitute and kicking him down the stairs of Koi Tower. When he gets angry, he gets angry, and often lashes out. Part of this is natural, just a normal facet of his personality, and part of it is the saber spirit that resides within Baxia, affecting his mind the stronger he grows.
It's a strangely honest anger, though. Nie Mingjue is not the type to hide anything, straight-forward to a fault, which ironically can make him difficult to read. He cares about justice, and training his saber work. He cares about his brother and his sect. He finds little pleasure in anything else, not partaking in the usual earthly delights like wine, women, or expensive things. He doesn't care about art or literature. He's hard for Jin Guangyao to read because he doesn't have those hidden layers.
Very few see the softer side of Nie Mingjue, but it's there. He pushes his brother because he wants him to be better. He trusts Lan Xichen unconditionally because he has proven himself to be a righteous and kind man. He stands up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, like when he saw Meng Yao being bullied by his company for his birth, and he both reprimanded his men and recognized the bullied young man's hard work and gave him a better position.
Ultimately Nie Mingjue is not a good man nor a bad man, but a rigid, righteous man with his own ideas of how the world should work.
Abilities & Skills: Nie Mingjue is one of the strongest cultivators of his generation, second to very few. Physically he is impressive and well-trained, standing at 6'3" and being able to wield a large single-edged blade called a saber. He's also the son of a Sect Leader, become Sect Leader himself, so he received a good education growing up in everything he would need to know to lead his clan - magics practiced by cultivators, saber-work, all about various ghosts and ghouls, reading and writing, accounting, some politics, etc. He has also learned meditation, a necessity in his clan. Practitioners' sabers, different from other cultivators' swords, have strong spirits and develop overwhelming resentful energy that start to affect their owners' minds, making them irritable and prone to qi deviation, a form of madness. Because of this, Nie men die pretty early in life, Nie Mingjue even earlier than most.
However, in Aefenglom, he'll just be a really strong swordsman guy with a bad temper.
Inventory/Companions: The bloodied clothes on his back, and Baxia, which will be a normal, if large, single-edged dao (saber).
Choice: Chimera
Reason: Chimeras are considered to be 'bad omens' on Aefenglom, and Nie Mingjue is nothing if not a bad omen to a lot of people in his home world. Generally it's not considered a good thing to see him coming. The hated nature of Chimeras would also provide an interesting point of conflict for him, because he's used to having a sound reputation among the people and would be enraged by the disdain. In a way, it would put him through something like what Jin Guangyao went through, hated for circumstances he couldn't control, and maybe make him empathize more. Also there are a lot of rad chimeras in Chinese mythology.
Sample: @ the TDM