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Yingpei Recinos
Design Notes
5'11, he's fairly athletic from years of tennis, but has a softer looking face.
Hair is usually in a low ponytail but it can be let down whenever.
Wears traditional clothes by habit, but has lots of modern street wear. Has good fashion sense.
Likes
Short hair on others
Folk music
Sugarcane
Charm collecting
Tennis
Dislikes
Cities
Cantaloupe
Babysitting
Rushing
Nail biting
Greatest Strength
Overall very calm and level headed, with his ability to see the supernatural, he doesn't allow it to interrupt his daily life. Some spirits fear him because he's so lax, thinking he's just modest and powerful.
Greatest Weakness
To some degree his cousin Gingko holds him back; he has great concern over her like a sibling would, and would easily risk his safety over hers, but he's also a little jealous of her ultimately more gratifying life and feels he may not accomplish the personal happiness she's been able to.
Tennis
A sport he's done since he was a student, playing competitively as he got older. Were he not the heir to his family's property and practices, he would've liked to play Tennis internationally.
Cleaning
He's really quick and precise at cleaning, perhaps due to living by himself. He'd rather clean immediately than let a mess pile up, also being neat to begin with.
Note taking
He thinks everyone is constantly learning, and still tries to learn all kinds of things in his freetime. Recently he's interested in learning about foreign history, previously invested in theatrical history for no reason.
Positive Traits
Frankly he's a personable goody two shoes, so he works hard to be on others' good sides. It's mainly the way he was raised in a strict family, but he still sticks to it as his good deeds are often rewarded and easy to calculate.
Neutral Traits
He's not good with kids at all, finding them difficult to handle. If a child asks him something he'll awkwardly enable them, which he wishes he could say no to, but in the end he's well liked by kids as a nice person that lets them do what they want. The Pandoras especially see him this way.
Negative Traits
He's traditional in his lifestyle, at first raised with a handful of conservative opinions that he's grown up leaving behind, working towards being open minded. Basically his family's worst views didn't stay with him, so all he shares in mindset is simple superstitions like "this and that means bad luck" that's untrue. Seeing coincidences makes him really believe some folk rumors.
Others' Perception
Loved Ones
Yingpei's loved ones respect him and know he'll always extend his kindness without being asked to. Some old family think he's the way he is because they did something right(not really.)
Strangers
Strangers just know him as a religious person, but are surprised that he's young as well.
Enemies
There's a few rumors going around that he just plays a pious role for inheritance, and some do believe it. Gossip is gossip though.
Yingpei is obedient, he was as a child and even now. Maybe because his parents were the same towards their matriarch grandmother’s orders. Their devotion up to their untimely death may be why Yingpei’s grandmother was more lenient towards him than towards other relatives, including Gingko. Being a child who saw his parents listen to such a stern old lady, he was pretty easy to convince and sway. Yingpei didn’t get scolded, occasionally seeing his grandmother scold and chastise those around him, but his cousin and her parents were outliers in the amount of animosity they received. Yingpei’s respect for his grandmother had faltered since he was perhaps 8, concealing those feelings as he continued to receive her praise for a few more years.
He had also concealed the ordeal of being able to see the supernatural, a byproduct of living in a spiritual atmosphere for years. When his grandmother passed away, he was amazed at how easily his relatives left their shared home. While he could hear through thin walls that many did not like their matriarch, with sayings like “This house will be much more peaceful without her”, no one disputed that Yingpei would inherit all she had considering he had no living parents. While she wasn’t the best influence, his grandmother did raise him like a son. He had recently turned 18 then, an heir to a temple he was genuinely interested towards, while most of his family had feigned it because they couldn't see the world the way his eyes allowed him to.
As he wrapped up school, he did consider doing tennis professionally one day until his grandmother's passing. It was a dream he'd given up in respect to his family, sure his parent's wouldn't have wanted him to leave everything in the wrong hands. His cousin Gingko married a tennis player, the two travelling the world for her wife's games, while Yingpei could only hear stories of their endeavors within the same walls he grew up in. Still, he'd begun to see some new things around him, mostly in his dreams.
For a while, he'd heard the chiming of bells around the temple halls, but he never knew where it'd come from. Following the sounds, he'd go to bed as usual, but those nights he'd have terrible nightmares. Tormented by visions or war, of malice, he wasn't sure if it was some kind of stress affecting him, but the dreams were vivid and strong. When it'd keep him up long enough, he decided to invite Gingko and her wife Ijus over to help, far too exhausted to fight it alone. When the pair arrived, he'd then see a mysterious girl in his dreams, warding off the nightmares occasionally, but things still got out of hand.
The nightmares were the doing of an evil God named Ephialtes, one who became stronger through the bad dreams and fears of humans. Lurking around the temple to look for an old comrade sealed away on the grounds, Yingpei was simply sustenance for them as they searched. When they lured Ijus into unsealing the urn their comrade was in, they whisked Ijus away and left Gingko and Yingpei behind in surprise. Too late to seal the Evil Gods who revealed themselves, a girl named Eden appeared, the same person Yingpei met in his dreams.
Introduced to Eden, the Hope left behind in Pandora's box, Yingpei and Gingko were taught about the Miseries, evil Gods from the original Pandora's box scattered about. While they were encouraged to leave the ordeal to the Gods and Pandoras who tracked the Gods, Gingko and Yingpei insisted on becoming involved given they could see things regular humans couldn't, and to save Ijus. Yingpei was uncertain, afraid of what lied beyond them even, but he didn't want Gingko to lose her loved ones as he had. She was always stubborn not to go along with her predicaments, a strength Yingpei didn't have, so if she was going to fight her way through the world of Gods and spirits, he was going to help her.
∙ He doesn't like cantaloupe or melon because Gingko once said it sort of tastes like nail polish and he was unable to forget it everytime he ate it. She must've said it to get his share.
∙ He's shy with kids because he doesn't know what having little siblings is like. He just stands there awkwardly and follows along to what they want to do, the pandoras especially.
∙ His english is practially fluent from years of studying it in school and meeting many english speakers at tennis tournaments.
∙ His handwriting is very messy because he tries to write things down fast. It often confused teachers because it was illegible to all but him.
∙ He's a pen and nail biter, a habit since he was little. He prefers long sleeves so he doesn't show it to others or get tempted to bite.
Close Box
Never say goodbye
ALI (music box)
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