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Prince Zhou Mei Xianshi of Liang


"The past is history, the future is a mysterious; that is why we call today the present"-Old Turtle Master Dude


Nickname:
The Pirate Prince
King of Blades (Zhou made it up himself, he's rather proud of it)
Hai Wang
Xian
Zhou
Xian Xian (child name used only by his father)

Birth Date:
July 3rd, 1997

Age:
18

Sexuality:
Straight

In Depth Appearance:
Zhou is one of those people you can immediately spot as not being of royalty or nobility in terms of mannerisms in the traditional sense. His slick hair is tainted with the salty scent of the sea as its often combed over in one rough, seemingly unmanaged way or another (sometimes with the use of copious amounts of hair spray and gel). A wicked, adventurous smile adorns his face with several small cuts and bruises are hidden by make up cover some more of both his face and body. Zhou's tall build has a good amount of muscles built up on it after years of fist fights and manual labor. When he walks, there is a notable swagger and sway to the nearly six foot man, Zhou's legs from all his time on the ship yet when he would other wise appear to become unbalanced, his balance never breaks. From time to time, Zhou might have a bit of beard or a chin stubble, keeping it for a few days before returning to his clean shaved looks.

Despite preferring more common clothes and sometimes pirate "armor", he does give in to wear more formal clothing. He's divided between modern suits with trenchcoats and traditional Chinese robes. 

Personality:
• Rough • Loyal • Reckless • 

Zhou is untrained in the ways of a noble. Sure, he knows his manners and not what to do around guests but he doesn't know the fine intricacies of being of royal blood. Being gentle or exercising restraint is not his strong suit and is prone to using aggressive language or physical blows against those he deems that its necessary against. Zhou has a rather warped philosphy and see being too passive as a sign of weakness as it constantly giving in. He's blunt, uncouth, and snarky, but he'll follow you to the end if you convince him too.

He's appearance often gives off the look of lacking grace and elegance, like playing heavy metal in the middle of a classical orchestra. Zhou isn't afraid of what other royals would see as "dishonorable" or "disrespectful", only remembering a certain amount of social cues at any given moment. Zhou also tends to do hell-face turns on what he says on occasion, ignoring his own hypocrisy and flaws in his logic and can get a bit childish. But he does keep at least the look of a someone his age, just a bit... rougher around the corners. He's got style and he can have class, its just not the classy style expected of a royal gentleman.

Likes:
Talking to people and telling stories both true and false
His old crew/squad/groupie/gang/etc
Action movies
Basically doing whatever he wants
The wealth that comes with being royalty
Progressive politics
A wide variety of games
Really good seafood.


Dislikes:
"All work and no play"
"Noble Pride" (the "we're better than everyone else since we're nobles" thing)
Non-violence/Passiveness/Innocence
People who try to bring up/insult his past and the people he used to be with
Most types of alcohol (Zhou is actually surprisingly light headed)
People who try to push work on to him
Having to keep up with what he calls the "facade of nobility"
Tabloid magazines


Fears:
Having his past exclusively define what he is
No longer being of royalty and having the perks that come with it
Any situation that looks like it could be from a horror movie


Biography:
Zhou's story starts when his father and the uncle of Mai Mei, Ming Mei, was young and stupid and intoxicated and impregnated a woman. Once Ming had gotten word that the woman he impregnated gave birth, he had sent men to make sure that news would never get out and possibly besmirch his political chances. However, in her final hours, Zhou's mother hid her baby away and put him out of reach Ming's grasp, sending baby Zhou away on the Yellow River in a basket with a note that would explain everything, but what his actual name was. In her haste, his mother never gave him a proper name, just referring to him as just "prince".

In his basket boat, Zhou floated down river until he was picked up by not just anyone, but pirates and smugglers and criminals. The baby bastard prince had been picked up the the 54 Immortals, a group of pirates and smugglers who raided ships off the coast of Liang. There was an idea of ransoming the kid but then the leaders of the 54i came down, Ironhand Han. He took notice of the child who floated down river and how it smiled and reached out for him, even with his metal fake limbs. 

Taking immediate liking of the boy, Ironhand Han proclaimed that this new boy would be his son and named him Zhou as a genetic disorder prevented him from ever having a child of his own. He raised the prince as his own and took him, turning him into a fine pirate raider. However, Han always hid the note from his mother so that Zhou would never know where he was really from and turn him in.

Of course, fate has an interesting way with things and one day when Zhou was 15, his mother's letter had surfaced and come to his attention after a friend had found it while room cleaning. Upon discovering the letter, an intense shouting match between Zhou and Han ensued with the young Zhou standing his ground in the face of the much older man. Finally, at the urging of his crew, Han decided to let Zhou go and find the father who once wanted him dead as long he kept in touch and found a way to expunge their crimes.

Having wandered around China, picking up news and bits that he didn't hear before, Zhou was slightly shocked that his father had made himself king and decided it was time to pay him a visit. After figuratively and literally kicking down the doors to the throne room, Zhou demanded an audience with his father, now Emperor of Liang, to which Ming had allowed. After the revelation of Zhou having a half sister who was heir, Mai Mei, and half a day's worth of discussions, Zhou was declared a legal (if not bastard) prince but would not be heir to the throne. Instead, he was place at the command of the Imperial Navy and had hired the 54i as "mercenaries" effectively expunging them of their crimes so long they didn't go back to pirating.

Since then, Zhou has been getting used to the ins and outs of being royalty, enjoying the fruits of he new found wealth. He suspects that Mai thought that he was part of some great conspiracy but the two have since warmed up well to each other's presences. However, Zhou still finds her "royalty lessons" to be a pain in the ass.

Theme Song: 
Miiro - AKINO with bless4
(Translated)
At a loss for words,
I was just listening to the sound of the waves,
Feeling like the significance of my memories was being tested.

But even amongst the darkness I remember;
I'm moving onwards,
So watch me go!

<Snipped quote by ClocktowerEchos>

Ah, school blockings. The ones where they block one route to get something and completely ignore other software on the same computer that does the same thing?

I can't get my mind over one computer blocking a way to fix screen resolution through windows, and another guy simply going to the intel driver and doing it...@ArenaSnow

Unfortunately, my school has done a pretty good job of blocking things by category and stuff like that. They even blocked Chrome extensions since they found out we were using Chrome VPN add-ons and the like. Its limited my capabilities of various things on this computer to say the last.

I guess I'm lucky enough to basically be the only person on this site lest they find out a high amount of user traffic and blcok RPGuild too ;-;

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