[hider=Princess of Euhijan-WIP] [img]https://media.modelifestylemagazine.com/m/2017/01/Fan-Bingbing-MODE-100MBW-2016-Slide-w.jpg[/img] [b]Name:[/b] Mai Mei [b]Title/Occupation: [/b] Princess of Euhijan [b]Nationality:[/b] Euhijanian [b]Age: [/b] 24 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Sexuality:[/b] Heterosexual [b]Appearance: [/b] Mai is taller than average, standing at five feet and eight inches. She is about 125 pounds, giving her a rather slender figure. Mai has thick, wavy, midnight-black hair that goes down to her waist, and relatively pale skin. Her eyes are a chocolate brown color, framed with a set of eyelashes that she makes longer using cosmetics, of course. She has a heart-shaped face and long, thin fingers. Mai has rosebud lips that are usually painted a deep red color. She has a sort of delicate and dainty look to her, despite the fact that she is quite tall. Mai likes dressing up and takes great pride in her appearance. Her preferred color scheme is red, black, and gold, although she does like to experiment every now and then. Mai absolutely adores traditional fans and parasols. In terms of cosmetics, Mai is an avid fan powders, lip tints, rogues, et cetera. You name it, and Mai has probably tried it. Most people who see Mai describe her as elegant, alluring, and in some cases, doll-like (thanks to the layers of cosmetics she wears, most likely). She moves with a practiced and fluid grace, each step and each movement measured and precise. Her features are usually carefully arranged in an expression of polite interest, and pleasant smiles fall easily across her lips, though those who are more keen will notice that they rarely ever reach her eyes- they remain as sharp as ever, even when she laughs. [b]Interests:[/b] [b]Personality:[/b] Mai has always been a people person. There is something about her that seems to draw others to her-whether it's her carefree laugh, her twinkling eyes, or her bright smiles, no one can say. She can be a sultry, intoxicating temptress, capable of charming the secrets right out of others with a coy glance and a flutter of her long eyelashes, or an innocent, demure young lady who has absolutely nothing to hide but plenty of gossip to share. She thinks with her heart when she needs to, but uses her brain at the same time. Behind brown eyes sparkling with mirth and delicate lips curved up in a half-flirtatious, half-demure smile is a woman made of steel who is keenly aware of her surroundings. Mai processes vast amounts of information all at once, taking in people's actions, words, and emotions at the same time and forming a conclusion based on what she sees and what she knows. She's always been especially good at reading people like an open book. Sharply observant, perceptive, and brutally analytical, Mai is able to detect even the most subtle shifts of emotion, assess entire [i]situations[/i] with one inconspicuous sweep of her wide brown eyes, and kill a man in a dozen different ways while dancing the waltz. Mai is constantly listening, though she’ll rarely tell the world what she's thinking. Enigmatically charismatic and exuding an air of elegant refinement, Mai puts up a playful and coquettish front all while maintaining a certain air of mystery that makes her that much more attractive. Depending on the people around her, Mai is either a charming, polite young lady of considerable wealth and status or a deadly and alluring seductress of equally considerable wealth and status. Mai is not “smart” in the traditional sense of the word-complicated mathematics and the latest developments in technological advancements all go straight over her head, though she is able to hold her own in conversations about a wide variety of “sophisticated” topics. When around others, Mai hides her true nature behind expensive gowns and lip tints, pretending that she is nothing more than another pretty face. She has mastered the right combination of sugary sweetness and sharp wit to detract attention from her real intentions as she shrewdly advances her own agenda. Mai is ferociously loyal to her family. Mai believes that family is everything, and she is fiercely protective of people that she considers part of her family, and of the Euhijanians in general. She is scarily manipulative, and she isn’t afraid of resorting to less savory methods to achieve her goals. Mai is calm and collected in times of crisis, and she rarely allows herself to panic. She is truly afraid of very, very few people, and she holds no qualms against playing others like a violin to get what she wants, all while smiling prettily and sipping tea from a dainty porcelain tea cup. Sly, shrewd, and cunning, Mai is an ice queen dressed in silk and lace. If one is able to see past the many, many layers and intricacies of Mai Mei, one would come face-to-face with an intensely driven yet extremely insecure woman who has been bottling up her emotions for much too long. Mai may be willing to sacrifice everything for her family, but she doesn’t know what it is that she [i]truly[/i] wants. Mai does not know who she actually is, and it makes her wonder-is there anything to her besides the mask that she wears in front of others? (Though, she realizes, what she wants and who she perceives herself as do not truly matter. Still, she cannot help but wonder) [b]History:[/b] [hider=Aesthetic-y Stuff] [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/f195cef7-9f2f-4f71-aac9-78e7a1d689a7_original[/img] [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/95a3bc4e-c9a9-45d4-a1ac-49ece89bd44d_original[/img] [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/24578925-46bc-41ba-8b97-f57dcd201758_original[/img] [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/f1348776-a7e0-4fa9-a409-b4e5d8ebbb41_original[/img] anachronism ftw [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/1a711e89-9cfb-4180-8688-0f3967cc0028_original[/img] [/hider] [/hider] [hider=Duchess of (place name),Euhijan-WIP] [hider=YIKES this is really big][img]http://wardrobelooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Awesome-Asian-Hairstyles-2014-2015-For-Women-4.jpeg[/img][/hider] [b]Name:[/b] Mei-ying Wang [b]Title/Occupation:[/b] Duchess of [b]Nationality:[/b] Euhijanian [b]Age: [/b] 30 [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Sexuality:[/b] Asexual [b]Appearance: [/b] Mei-ying has a relatively pale complexion, compared with other Euhijanians, and she is tall and lean; all long lines and sharp edges and angular features. Her prominent cheekbones give her a harsh, severe look that is perfectly complemented by the cold, disdainful expression that is lodged onto her face, most of the time. Her brown eyes are unfeeling and indifferent; made of stone. Her hair is sleek and shiny and as black as ink, and falls just past her shoulders. She usually keeps it tied up. Mei-ying's lips are perpetually pressed together in a tight, harsh line, and her smiles are sly and shrewd and threatening. In terms of clothing, Mei-ying has no patience for the silks and frills that other noblewomen favor. She wears dark, severe colors, although there will never be a single strand of hair out of place. She never wears cosmetics, nor bright colors, although she [i]will[/i] occasionally carry a fan (bladed, of course). Mei-ying always seems to be tense and rigid; she holds her back ramrod straight, and she walks with a vaguely terrifying brusqueness, her steps sharp and clear. Guarded and wary and intensely private (though outwardly very charismatic, if she wants to be), everything about Mei-ying is controlled. However, if one looks closely enough, there is a deep-seated, simmering [i]anger[/i] behind her stoic facade, and may the heavens help anyone who provokes Mei-ying enough for her to let go of her rigid control. [b]Interests:[/b] Mei-ying has always loved dry, ironic and/or dark humor, and as such she likes sarcastic and satiric literature. Although she has never picked up a sword in her life, Mei-ying is quite skilled with daggers and knives and other blades, and a pretty decent shot with a gun. She is also knowledgeable when it comes to martial arts and other similar styles of fighting, and when she [i]does[/i] fight (Mei-ying normally prefers to leave that to other people. Fighting is so....[i]messy[/i]), Mei-ying is ruthlessly efficient and constantly [i]thinking[/i]. Above all, though, Mei-ying's main "interest" is making the other nations pay for what they've done to her, to her home, to her family. And in order to do [i]that[/i], Mei-ying has to seize the throne. (Which she will. Just you [i]wait[/i].) [b]Personality:[/b] Those who knew Mei-ying in her youth would have said that she was sweetly shy and impossibly gentle. Those who knew Mei-ying in her youth would have been horrified by what she has turned into. Mei-ying is, above all, selfish. Everything she's doing, everything she's [i]been[/i] doing ever since the war, has been for herself. She has no love for the current rulers of Euhijan, and even less love for the rulers and nobles of the other kingdoms. Vicious and brutal and cold, Mei-ying is also extremely petty with a prickly sense of pride. She takes the smallest slights as grave insults, and although she may not immediately act upon them, she [i]never[/i] forgets. Observant and analytical, there is very little that gets past Mei-ying's sharp eyes, and she is constantly thinking, constantly planning. Mei-ying is cunning and calculating and, surprisingly, very charismatic when she wants to be-she is very knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects, and always willing to engage in polite, civil conversation, so long as nobody pisses her off. She thinks social niceties and pleasantaries are more than useless, though she is willing to observe these norms and conventions for the sake of advancing her own agenda. Mei-ying is extremely ambitious, as her past history makes immediately obvious, and although she is very charismatic when she wants to be, her words are always vaguely terrifying in what they imply. Logical, practical, and pragmatic, Mei-ying would make a spectacular tactician if she had any regard at all for the feelings and well-being of others. Mei-ying is infuriatingly calm no matter what the circumstance is, and she is shamelessly ruthless and coolly arrogant. In her mind, ninety percent of the people she knows are incompetent fools, and she isn't afraid to tell them that, either directly or in a sly, roundabout way that comes off as a compliment. Keen and perceptive, Mei-ying is quite good at figuring out how to make someone either a) angry or b) upset, and she holds no qualms about exploiting such emotions in order to get what she wants. Mei-ying hates getting her hands dirty, though she's perfectly willing to do so if it will help her achieve her goals; she's not afraid to go into somebody's bedchamber and poison them herself, no, but poisonings have the potential to turn...messy. Mei-ying would rather send somebody else to do the dirty work for her. Mei-ying is not easily angered, though she is mechanically merciless when exacting revenge. Finally, above all, Mei-ying is bitter and vengeful. There is a fury in her that slumbers restlessly, for now, but sooner or later Mei-ying is going to have her vengeance. And there is no question in her mind that she will succeed. [b]History:[/b] [hider=Extra Aesthetic Stuff b/c i can] (this one is VERY anachronistic but plz bear with me) [img]https://urstylecdn.blob.core.windows.net/styles/3c5c40bb-a141-4b3b-9f95-2f2cfe8b96ee_original[/img][/hider] [/hider]