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[*][u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Zhao Jinhai
[*][u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 28
[*][u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Male
[*][u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] Stands at about 5'11". Broad shoulders and lean muscle indicate frequent exertion and exercise. Tends to wear designer suits and expensive watches.
[*][u][b]Psychological Profile:[/b][/u] Brash, headstrong, and cocksure. Zhao Jinhai exudes confidence and energy, while also brimming with an underlying desire for violence. Since childhood, he's known nothing but training and combat, and he knows no other way to live than by applying force to take what he wants. Despite his general brutishness, however, he's almost amiable on a personal level if one can get past that. 

Whereas once he had a problem with authority, his time as a member of organized crime imbued a certain level of respect for hierarchy and brotherhood within him. Jinhai isn't as resentful of his forced service with Branch-092 as one would expect a criminal to be. So long as he's provided with guns, blades, and fights, he's as satisfied as can be.

Really, it's a good thing Sefirot snapped him up first. His profile otherwise indicates that he'd have been a perfect recruit for RedMark, and denying them another skilled soldier can only be a benefit to the branch. 
[*][u][b]Skills:[/b][/u]
	[b]Close Quarters Combat:[/b] Jinhai didn't spend his childhood learning supernatural martial arts for nothing. He's highly skilled up close, both with his fists and with traditional melee weapons, whether they be swords, staves, knives, or otherwise. While his long-range marksmanship isn't the best, Jinhai is adept at weaving a pistol into close combat in tandem with unarmed and armed strikes.
	[b]Taoist Lore:[/b] The other part of a childhood spent among Taoist monks dedicated to combating the supernatural is the abundance of knowledge they accumulated over thousands of years. His background in Chinese occultism provides a differing knowledge base from his Western and Japanese counterparts.
	[b]Underworld Connections:[/b] A decade-long career in the Chinese underworld has left Zhao Jinhai with Triad contacts across several cities in China and Taiwan, as well as Japan. He's entirely capable of leveraging these contacts to Branch-092's benefit, though it would likely take cajoling. Using them too much or too obviously in the service of Sefirot would likely lead to those contacts drying up and vanishing nearly instantly, so as to avoid association with a rat.
[*][u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u]
	[b]Qi manipulation:[/b] Qi is thought to be the vital force fueling any living creature. Millenia ago, Jinhai's spiritual forefathers discovered how to cultivate and manipulate their qi in order to empower their bodies. A skilled qi manipulator is capable of matching many Anomalies in direct combat through their enhanced strength, speed, and durability. 
[*][u][b]Equipment:[/b][/u] Jinhai typically carries at least a pistol chambered in 10mm and a combat knife on his person at all times. When he's on assignment, he favors curved East Asian swords such as dao swords or katanas. He doesn't get too attached to any of his weapons, given that he inevitably tends to break them with his strength, after which he falls back on tried and true hand to hand combat.
[*][u][b]Background:[/b][/u] After the Advent, numerous Taoist martial arts sects in China found themselves exposed in their ages-long duty of combating the supernatural. The Shaolin were mundane hacks, but these sects had been legitimate Chinese occultists dating back thousands of years. Prominent among these monks were the Wudang sect, which a young Zhao Jinhai had found himself being given to as a baby when Wudang monks found his parents dead as a result of an Anomaly incident. As had been their tradition for hundreds of years, the monks took survivors back to their temple, training them in their arts. 

Jinhai was raised in the temple for years, but never quite took to its values. He excelled at martial arts and qigong training, but never quite took to the monks' spiritual lessons. He proved to be a troublemaker for years on end, only tolerated due to his obvious martial ability and the hope that he would grow to be an asset for the Wudang rather than a detriment. That hope proved to be in vain by the time Jinhai turned seventeen, his growing violent streak and lack of care for Taoist teachings finally proving to be too much for the abbot in charge. Days before Zhao Jinhai would have taken his final trials to become a full brother, he was excommunicated and turned out by the Wudang after attempting to sneak out on his own to join an Anomaly hunt. 

The Wudang turned him out in Shanghai and left him to rot. Lost and unbalanced from losing the only home he'd ever known, Jinhai lived in the streets for weeks until fortune found him at last. A brawl with a local street gang attracted the attention of a triad recruiter, and Jinhai had no reason to turn the offer down. He was taken off the streets, given a knife, and told to get rid of problems. And he did so. Gratuitously. 

The next decade saw Zhao Jinhai's rise through the local triad's ranks, becoming known to the bosses as an exceptionally skilled hitman and supernatural specialist. His upbringing proved especially useful in dealing with Anomalies for profit, and Jinhai saw himself in a position of privilege for his skills. Eventually, he found himself in Japan in order to take care of another Triad that had been selling secrets to local yakuza. The assassination went off without a hitch, but a local Anomaly attack forced Jinhai to defend himself. Not that he needed much prompting to kill the supernatural. The Anomaly's corpse hit the dirt, but Sefirot agents arrived at the scene, apprehending Jinhai.

Faced with overwhelming evidence of his hit, Branch-092 gave him two choices: he could either go to prison for a long, long time, probably life, or work for them. It wasn't much of a choice. The Triads had given him a life, but he'd be stupid to say no out of loyalty. Besides, Jinhai had already had his entire world upended once before and forced to start over. What was another one, so long as he could keep making use of the skills he'd been raised to utilize?

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