Editing Iron Seraph (section)

===== Personal Life =====

We´ve been touching that [[Jin Shen]] upbringing before, right? This might be the time to mention that they are an offshoot from the [[Heaven Sword Clan]] some time in the far past - following a little demon hunting-related accident, only that when we say "accident" we really mean "our ancestor killed an elder of the clan who had gotten himself possessed by a demon, and a dozen or so clanmembers who somewhat misguidedly wanted to protect him, and then everyone got all tense and stuff so she split". This is detailed in the custom [[Demons in Zhen Zhou]].

Anyway. The Jin Shen are a rather traditional bunch, so Seraph´s upbringing made him into a very serious young man with some serious emotional issues and performance angst. Being raised and trained by [[Seraph´s Elder Uncle]] didn´t really help matters - the old man was a warrior of immense skill before he was injured, and as time went by he became extremely bitter. Think about those hockey parents who put everything into their kids becoming professional hockey players because "they never got the chance"? Yeah, it´s like that - only with the added lethality of being raised to fight demons by someone for whom your accomplishments are never enough and who thinks that letting you fight your first demon when you are six years old just so you´ll learn quickly is an acceptable pedagogic method.

You´ll notice that we haven´t really mentioned Seraph´s parents? Well, that´s because they are dead. Instead, he was raised both by Elder Uncle and his two [[Seraph´s aunts|aunts]], those women being colorful characters of their own. One of them a Daoist, the other a Confucianist, both of them predictionists and high-caliber gossips. It was they who discovered Seraph´s great destiny in the year when he entered [[Black Crane High]] - how this was the year when he would meet his true love!

This was, of course, when the "gossips" part kicked in... so now *everyone* knows about the prediction - and predictably enough, this has made the boy´s life more complicated than it ever was. Seraph is not happy.