Editing Min Tzo

Min Tzo was born into a Chinese, immigrant family in New Venice.  She grew up with her older brother, [[Jun Tzo]] by the waterside in the Chinese District.  Jun Tzo was in many ways perceived by her parents to be a failure, "clinging to their Chinese life" while her parents only seemed to want to "be American."  They were "poor in China" and New Venice offered them "new lives".  As a result of Jun's perceived delinquency she was kept on an especially short leash.  She earned good marks in all her classes under the watchful eyes of her parents, and excelled as an artist.  She is especially adept at playing mandolin and painting with watercolor, both of which she views as "small escapes".   

Min had one childhood friend of note, Benson Reed, who visited the public library as often she.  Her parents allowed them to spend time together never perceiving Benson as a threat.  Often they would spend hours alone together saying nothing, just reading, gardening, or painting in each others' company.  Eventually they would study Tai Chi together at Jun's, Dynasty Dojo.  

On her eighteenth birthday, Min was married under the strong advances of her ambitious father to Oliver Walden, a promising young bureaucrat, for whom she suspected she was being groomed for years.  She now lives a life of privilege in Uptown, New Venice, with a prominent husband who cares for her dearly.  She stopped playing mandolin the day she left the Chinese district.  Her paintings, much sought after, are sometimes criticized as being sad and nostalgic.   

Min Tzo, to the eyes that find her, appears plain, being small-statured, short, and quiet.  She has a barely perceptible, deep reservoir of emotion almost only manifested in her art.  She dresses simply, yet elegantly in the manner of the time.