Mǎngshé

by **DianeDaMoon** February 24th 2016, 1:24 am

Mǎngshé
"Money, fame, power. All useless, if one does not know the art of self-preservation.”

Basic Biography

Real Name: Sheng Wu
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Mǎngshé
Title: Hand in the Shadows
Alignment: True Neutral
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race: Chinese
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6’7
Weight: 141 lbs
Blood type: AB

The Looks

Spoiler:

The Legacy

Personality:
Sheng is an inherently nervous man. His unique form of osteoporosis has led him to becoming vastly wary of any dangers. He has few allies, and many potential enemies due to his lack of trust. Still, his close friends are ones he truly values, if not so they won’t feel the need to betray him. A friend made in Sheng Wu is a friend he will work to protect and make appeased and happy.
His intense paranoia has however also led to a need for an analytical mind. When one opportunity presents itself, Sheng immediately starts to run through all negative outcomes.
Still, not all of Sheng is made of jitters and nerves. He has a certain fondness for fine literature, and also spends his earnings on what he calls ‘culture’. Lavish furniture, original paintings, you name it. The lair of the Mǎngshé is one to truly behold.
History:
Sheng’s childhood was largely spent in medical isolation. Put in his own quarantine wards at times, he was subjected to experimental treatment after experimental treatment to try and rid his body of the curse of toxins. Writhing in pain for hours as drugs coursed in his veins and failed to cure him, he suffered a cycle of high fevers.
In these dreams of sickness, he saw countless visions of his own demise. Choking on his next meal, being shot through his hospital window, a bungled surgery. Any of these things could mean his end.
One full year after these horrible visions came to him, he had one that finally broke him. That made him leave his treatments at the age of seventeen, and go down the road of a survivalist.
The dream featured the room he was in burning. A man in the mask of a plague doctor slowly approached him, and revealed a hand with claws extending from it. He taunted Sheng for the miracle of biology that he was.
“It would go to waste, staying in that weak body.” was all he remembers the figure saying, before it killed him.
Despite being repeatedly told by many he has spoken to that no such figure exists, Sheng lives in fear that one day, the man in the mask will come for him. And so, he fights and trains every day to prevent that grim dream from becoming a reality.

The Powers and Weaknesses

Powers

Power 1:
Poisonous Pores:
Among the medical maladies plaguing Sheng’s body, chief among them are the poisons running through his body. While immune to his own body’s brew, it is toxic in moderate amounts to other humans. The dosage will determine just how much the poison affects them. A single strike that ends up infecting someone would lead to mild nausea, and perhaps dizziness. However, by the time of a fifth strike, hallucination begins to settle in. And, although hardly necessary, should he get a liter’s worth of his poison (around 30 full strikes), death will be imminent should the subject not receive treatment.

Among other things, the poison in Sheng’s body grants him antibodies towards common poisons, such as cyanide, iocane, and weaker snake venoms. More exotic or artificial poisons are able to harm him, however.

Power 2:
Hollow Bones:
Similar to a bird’s skeleton, Sheng’s body is light enough that he may physically flap his body and sustain himself in the air, like a hummingbird. However, he cannot fly indefinitely, and is subject to stamina. Typically, the length of the distance between two close rooftops is his maximum, and it usually should be used only for repositioning or escaping.
Additionally, keeping his arms outstretched gives Sheng the ability to glide slowly down from great heights to the ground.

Minor Power:
Lowered Calcium:
When Sheng’s bones break, he only requires a period of days equal to the number of hits that broke his bones to regenerate them, due to a lowered need for his body to produce calcium. His bones are still considered broken until fully healed.

Weakness(es)

Weakness 1:
Brittle Bones:
Chief among the medical maladies affecting Sheng are his brittle bones. While the typical human body’s skeleton can take a lot of punishment, he is a total exception. Anywhere upwards of 3 medium strikes run the risk of shattering one of his bones, and forcing him into retreat, while also greatly harming his ability to fly.

Weakness 2:
The Midas Touch:
Sheng’s physical conditioning and poison body make him unable to have prolonged physical contact with others. While direct attacks easily poison targets, there is still an inherent danger in touching Sheng’s body without any kind of protection. Therefore, he will refrain from touching non-hostile people, or objects that someone may come across and then become incidentally poisoned. It is less about morality, and more about decreasing his chances of hurting the wrong person and becoming someone’s subject of wrath.

Minor Weakness:
Even Poison Has Limits, Bubby:
Sheng’s body’s poison cannot harm constructs, metals, armors, or anything such as those. Additionally, it proves useless against alien organic systems, and redundant or self-healing organs.

RP Mechanics

RP Mechanic(s):
Lavish Lair:
Sheng’s base of operations is well-hidden in the back of a local laundromat, only accessible via secret passage known only to Sheng and his close associates. In the lair are walls adorned with beautiful original artworks, tiger skin rugs, and an always-roaring fireplace.
He will typically retreat here from battle, unless he knows it has been compromised.
It has all the average utilities of a home, with no particular extravagances.

Fight Club Reputation:
In underground fighter circuits, Sheng is known for being a particularly nasty opponent to be matched with. In the darkest corners of the underworld, where all things are considered ‘legal’ in a fight, he thrives, and makes an easy living betting on himself in fights with non-powered criminals and thugs. He is usually only referred to by his title as ‘The Hand in the Shadows’, but anyone streetwise enough could ask around and learn more about him from there.

Items/Minions
Sharpened Nails
Sheng possesses filed nails, easily capable of cutting into flesh and helping administer his poisons. They are not capable of harming anything much stronger than organic flesh, but are extremely durable on their own.

Physical Priority

Agility 1
Endurance 4
Reaction 2
Strength 3

by **Danny The Sphinx** February 25th 2016, 4:22 am

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