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[b][color=ffff99]Name[/color]:[/b] Lì (力), no surname

[b][color=ffff99]Setting(s)[/color]:[/b] Most Fantasy settings

[b][color=ffff99]Gender[/color]:[/b] ♂

[b][color=ffff99]Age[/color]:[/b] 16

[b][color=ffff99]Ability[/color]:[/b] Elemental manipulation, including earth, (both stone and fine particles) metal, water, (both pure/drinkable water and most liquids) air, fire, electricity, and non-descript "heavenly" energy. He has eight extradimensional storages for these elements, corresponding with the eight trigrams of Bagua (Heaven, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain and Earth) and can consume stored elements in order to enhance his physical qualities with other meanings of Bagua, depending on the consumed element, gaining general physical enhancements from Heaven, the ability to reflect most attacks from Lake, the ability to adhere to surfaces and people from Fire, a speed boost from Thunder, the ability to phase through objects from Wind, the ability to absorb energy attacks from Water, the ability to negate kinetic force from Mountain, and the ability to become stretchy and malleable from Earth.

[i]He also has the ability to keep the potted plant hat on top of his head in any situation.[/i]

[b][color=ffff99]Weaknesses/Limitations[/color]:[/b] Despite the long list of applications, Lì's ability is a jack of all trades, master of none. His elemental manipulation can't hold a candle to a more focused element manipulator, and he is completely incapable of generating the elements himself; only able to pull them from his environment or induce their creation using other elements. His extradimensional storage space is fairly limited, roughly similar to his body mass for each trigram, and the consumption of elements for other effects is very heavy, only allowing him to use them for seconds at a time, divisible over only a few uses.

[b][color=ffff99]Combat Equipment[/color]:[/b] His ability is (allegedly) influenced by symbolism, and to that end he's been given a specialized outfit and very specific accessories. How does it help him? Magic, supposedly. Does it help him at all? He's not sure, actually. Depending on balance needs, it can go either way.

[i]He thought the hat that doubled as a plant pot was tacky at first, but it's grown on him.[/i]

[b][color=ffff99]Personality[/color]:[/b] Was trained to be disciplined, and accordingly shows little emotion and a lot of drive. Every so often his true self shows, which [I]isn't[/I] so disciplined, and reveals just how out of his depth he can be at times. He's not entirely fluent in English, and the language barrier can be a problem sometimes.

If the setting is appropriately non-serious, I'll google translate his dialogue a bit and then back to English, cleaning up annoyingly unreadable parts and going with any resulting misunderstanding for comedic effect.

[b][color=ffff99]History[/color]:[/b] An orphan for as long as he could remember, Lì grew up in a monastery in China. The monks there cared for him as if he was their own, though the financial burden of raising a child eventually exacted a toll on an already shaky financial situation. While the monks were discussing ways of cutting up the land the monastery sat on and selling it, Lì took it upon himself to prevent any unnecessary sacrifices, going behind their backs and eventually managing to "sell" himself to a rich foreigner interested in his abilities. In practice, he was trading the right to discretely adopt him for financial compensation, but he wasn't ignorant of the potential dangers in doing so, accepting the risks. The man who came to be his foster father was, frankly, a weirdo, but luckily not a pedophile. He was obsessed with religion and martial arts movies, globetrotting to immerse himself in different cultures and embracing seemingly all of them with no attention to their conflicts of principles. He ran a questionable dojo that mainly imitated works of fiction, teaching a flashy fighting style with little actual substance. Lì went along with it, and came to genuinely appreciate the physical workout and aspects of mental discipline, if not the actual martial art. As Lì's training advanced and his abilities grew, his wildly irresponsible father has come to trust Lì's ability to take care of himself, sending him out on missions investigating religious artifacts, challenging other Superhumans to friendly competitions, or training under an external teacher that he had previously trained under. (And moved on from prematurely)