정영숙/Chung Yeong-Suk
⦋ 24 || North Korean || Female ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
APPEARANCE Yeong-Suk stands at a quite unimpressive 5'3'', slightly above average for her home country of North Korea, but much smaller than the average nomad. Her straight, black hair grows to her shoulders, with bangs covering her right eye, which has been replaced with a cybernetic optic designed to see in ki. Her natural, left eye is light brown. Yeong-Suk has an athletic build, fitting for her years of training in the Korean People's Army, which helps migrate how embarrassingly small she is.
As an officer of the KPA, Yeong-Suk wears her dress uniform at almost all times (Major exception being when stealth or anonymity is needed). It is olive green, with a matching hat and tie. Her uniform also consists of a skirt, practicality disregarded by Yeong-Suk's superiors so they could emphasize her femininity in propaganda. She, however, was at least granted permission to wear men's shoes, as no one in their right mind could fight in heels. Completing her outfit is black gloves, same color as her shoes, mostly for security reasons than anything else (not wanting to leave fingerprints willy-nilly).
PERSONALITY TRAITS ■ Patriotic to a fault
■ Deathly Serious
■ Unfeeling
■ Confident in herself and her cause
■ Pragmatic
■ Diligent
■ Doesn't like keeping people close
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION Chung Yeong-Suk was born on March 12th in Kaesong, North Korea, the first child of a family of industrial workers. Immediately disappointment, they tried again for a son, which resulted in her brother, Chung Jeong-Ho. Yeong-Suk's early childhood life was relatively normal; she went to school, played youth soccer, learned about the divinity of the ruling Kim family and how North Korea was Best Korea, and was part of the Youth Pioneer Corps. By all accounts, there was nothing remarkable about this North Korean girl compared to any other child.
However, when graduation came and went and the next generation of conscripts was admitted to the Korean People's Army, the government of North Korea was screening incoming recruits for their natural ki, a recent order from the Supreme Leader to create literal super agents for the rogue state. Perhaps due to ancestry from Yakcha, or perhaps just a simple fluke at birth, Yeong-Suk had a massive reserve of ki. Pulled away, she was given the option to volunteer for "special training" to unlock her ki and to become an enforcer for the Kims. In return, her family would be given, nice, cushy lodging in the nation's capital of Pyongyang, totally not there to hold Yeong-Suk hostage or anything in case something went wrong. Yeong-Suk readily accepted, mostly out of genuine patriotism, but also because she kind of realized she really didn't have a choice in the matter.
Brought to a classified military installation deep in the countryside, Yeong-Suk trained under the watchful eye of the military, honing her physical ability, technique in Taekwondo, and most importantly, learning how to use the ki she was so fortunate to be born with. When her skills in ki started to surpass anything the military was prepared for, they "persuaded" martial artists from the south and China to train her up further. Owing to her feet-based martial art, Yeong-Suk's trainers put a particular focus on trying to teach her to channel ki through her feet rather than her hands, a technique which she soon adopted almost, if not totally, excursively.
The training was brutal, designed to break her mentally just as much to bring out her absolute potential. The once innocent, sweet girl was replaced by what could almost be described as a machine. In fact, one of her eyes was even cybernetically replaced, in order to make her more potent as an assassin. Serving the state was the only thing on her mind; the only thing let into her mind, and willingly embraced. Her handlers rejoiced; they succeeded in creating the first superhuman agent for North Korea.
At age 24, she was let out of the facility she was trained in, the first time since entering in 18. She was handed a mission in Brazil. The cover story was to enter the tournament in Rio, and to bring glory to North Korea by winning it all. Her real mission, however, was to assassinate a target so embedded in the shadows, even she doesn't know their true identity...
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE Yeong-Suk was trained in the half-traditional, half-modern Korean martial art of 태권도 (Taekwondo), a fighting style which emphasizes agility and kicks. While Taekwondo is usually taught as a zoning martial art, using one's reach through legs to keep the opponent at bay, Yeong-Suk's small size makes that not a winning proposition. Instead, Yeong-Suk uses ki techniques to mirror this philosophy, using her feet to generate projectile attacks from a distance. After catching her opponent off guard, she can use her great agility to rush in with wild jump kicks, before forcing the opponent away and starting over. Alternatively, if she thinks the foe is weak enough, Yeong-Suk will skip the zoning altogether and go straight for the rushdown.
Defensively, there is much more emphasize on dodging hits rather than blocking. Even without ki, Yeon-Suk is fastfooted, and can easily bob and weave from far to close and vice versa. When she can't simply dodge an attack, she perfers to use her ki techniques to block rather than her physical body; she actually can not take getting hit all that well.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES ■ 천국의 눈/Cheongug-ui NunThe "Eye of Heaven" was a cybernetic implant given to Yeong-Suk when she was selected by the government to become their ki assassin/agent, and was tech that was allegedly stolen from the Chinese without their knowledge. The Eye of Heaven is passively powered by Yeong-Suk's own ki, and confers the ability to observe ki. Living objects radiate blue energy; the more ki, the more brilliant the blue is. It also allows Yeong-Suk to see clearer at night; the ki of other objects will act as a very weak light source.
In combat, the only tangible benefit the cybernetic eye gives is that she can observe the ki of her opponent. This makes it harder to fool her with shapeshifting or creating non-living copies of oneself, since their ki signatures would not match up with the perceived reality.
■ 백사셋의 발/Baegsases-ui Bal"Baeksaseum (A white deer known for it's speed)'s feet" is a technique where Yeong-Suk channels some of her ki into her feet, allowing her to move at speeds beyond her normal physical capability. Under the effects of this technique, she can run at speeds far faster than a human being should be able to go, allowing her to close or create distances rapidly, or perhaps sidestep away from an attack. It doesn't increase her reaction time, nor does it effect her ability to jump except for letting her build up momentum from running to jump further than what a human should be able to go.
■ 낫 킥/Nas KigThe "Sickle kick" is the basic ranged ki attack of Yeong-Suk. Channeling energy to her feet, Yeong-Suk does a roundhouse kick in place, sending a wave of sickle-shaped ki barreling in the direction of her foe.
■ 지진 발생/Jijin BalsaengThe "Earthquake Strike" is perhaps Yeong-Suk's most versatile attack. She pounds the ground with a ki-infused foot, causing a piece of the earth to dislodge itself and fly into the air. From there, she can either use the piece of earth to block an opponent's range attack (which will usually destroy the mound of dirt), or use her ki again to literally kick it towards the opponent.
■ 여왕 바지의 격노/Yeowang Baji-ui GyeognoMuch like in her Jijin Balsaeng, "Queen Baji's Fury" (Queen Baji being the Korean Earth Goddess) begins with a channeled ki strike to the ground. Instead of lifting the earth up, it instead creates a fissure, causing jagged rocks to erupt quickly from where the fissure is. Rocks are reasonably sized, hard to jump over but easy enough for someone who could fly to dodge.
■ 만 킥 공격/Man Kig Gong-gyeogIn the "Ten Thousand Kick Attack", Yeong-Suk uses her ki to rapidly kick at speeds faster than the human eye. Each kick isn't much stronger than what a regular kick would be, but they add up very quickly. Due to the high cost of energy, Yeong-Suk can not use this technique for much longer than a few seconds before tiring out.
■ 천리마 킥/Chollima Kig]The "Flying Horse Kick" is the most powerful of Yeong-Suk's attacks, and is basically a dramatic flying kick. When jumping, Yeong-Suk encases one of her feet in ki, and just lunges at her opponent. There is nothing too special she does beyond the ki, but it hurts like a truck when she makes contact. Can tire Yeong-Suk out easily, so she uses it sparingly.
SUPER MOVES ■ 여왕 바지의 복수/Yeowang Baji-ui Bogsu"Queen Baji's Revenge" is, in simplistic terms, a souped up version of Queen Baji's Fury. Most of the attack is the same, but the rocks are much larger and travel more quickly than in the regular version of the attack. The rocks go far up enough that it could legitimately threaten hovering enemies.
■ 큰 천리마 킥/Keun Chollima KigMuch like her previous super, The "Great Flying Horse Kick" is just a more powerful version of one her basic attacks, this time being the regular flying horse kick. Instead of encasing her foot in ki, Yeong-Suk instead covers her entire body in a glowing box of ki. More of a ram than a kick, Yeong-Suk flings her entire body at her opponent, being easily her most devastating non-lethal attack. While she is encased in ki, she is massively resistant to damage, but not completely invulnerable. WILL tire her out and drain most of her ki after using, leaving an opening if it misses.
■ 백두산권총/Baek Du SanYeong-Suk whips out her
Baek Du San and shoots to kill. Obviously a highly illegal move both in tournaments and with the law in general. Yeong-Suk only resorts to using her pistol when she needs someone to die
now, and will not hesitate to use it immediately if she thinks she is otherwise outclassed. Prefers to not use it due to attracting unwanted attention.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS The major weakness of Yeong-Suk is her frailty. She can not take much punishment at all; a few good hits is all that it will take to knock her out. She can not get into any protracted slugfests, because she will lose at every trade due to said frailty.
Due to constantly training with people much weaker than her, Yeong-Suk also overestimates her own abilities. She also has very little experience fighing anyone with ki or magic, and doesn't know how to fight people of similar strength.
OTHER
As Yeong-Suk is Korean, her name is written in the Asian style of surname/personal name, rather than personal name/surname.
Credit for the image goes to
runeun of dA, not me. I can't art to save my life
I also can't speak Korean so the translations for some of her special moves might be wrong.
