Shaoying

Shan Shaoying (善韶櫻) is the daughter of Shan Aiming. A rare Heaven-defying talent, possessed of great potential indeed, for her spiritual root is of 1 in 108 million, but such potential comes at a price. The young mistress has long and silken black hair and milky grey eyes. Shaoying stands short and petite with a pleasingly curvy and svelte physique, and though she may be sick and frail, the look only seems to make her extremely alluring. And while her assets are technically modest, on her they are shapely and well-endowed. She has a soft voice that sounds moments away from shattering. Shaoying wears an elegant white daopao. She carries around a masterwork jian that looks carved from ivory and has quite the spatial ring on her person, for when things get truly dire. She's not sure what's in it, but her mother has cautioned her that it should only be used for utmost emergencies. The sect princess is meek, demure, shy and even perhaps emotionless. Placid and detached, contemplative and intelligent, skilled but ill, Shaoying derives depression and self-loathing from the woe of a clear prodigy being laid waste to by her own body, which has caused her to cultivate a perfectionist and standoffish bent to her personality. She is what could be called an "ice queen," thinking it better to conceal what's inside rather than show it off outside. But the thing about ice is that it thaws, and though spring may have not yet come for her icy exterior, such self-repression has led to moments where the wall falters to give way to incredible passion and explosive representation of what she suppresses, in all of its positive and negative glories. After all, winter is a very beautiful season, but it's also a very deadly one. Shaoying has an extreme yin physique. This has made it exceedingly easy for her to cultivate yin qi and all affiliated with it, but has come at a cost. Though her constitution makes her extremely beautiful and makes it extremely easy for her to cultivate yin qi, it has also made her extremely sickly. Her body is absolutely saturated with yin, which has caused no small amount of issues. Her affinity with ice and winter yin qi makes it so that her body is regularly hypothermic, as just one example of the maladies she suffers. And most alarmingly, the energy of which she is of utmost attunement to? Deathly yin; perfect for demonic cultivation, the opposite of her own path as a righteous cultivator. Of course, this could be corrected through an influx of greater yang qi, but Shaoying is afraid of what that would entail, never mind what would happen to her body if her extreme yin physique was corrected. Thus she focuses on ways to keep the benefit of her constitution while negating the drawbacks in addition to her cultivation. Lady Shan is very skilled with the 108 Golden Palms Art, but her cultivation and implementation of the method is invariably yin-aspected, unsurprisingly. Comprehension of the yang sides of the elements of metal and earth are particularly hard for her, which while not a problem yet, may prove a bottlecap later on in her cultivation if not dealt with, given the method she practices. Shaoying is a peak Foundation Establishment realm cultivator. Shaoying is most commonly escorted by Xingzhao, who has acted as a sort of caretaker and attendant for much of the young lady's life. The Scarlet Fang General acts as a strangely whimsical, impulsive mentor figure to her, supplementing the aid she gets from both the sect and her mother. In a sense, she sees Xingzhao like a sort of aunt and trusts in her greatly, even despite her eccentricities as a yaoguai. But honestly? She wouldn't have it any other way, even if she would like her to act a bit more like an elder. Not that she'd admit it.

Xianxia setting in the Eight Mountains World.