Mahou Shoujo:Roanapur:Xiahe

Wang Xiahe

• Katsue Picture, not quite the right hairstyle

Background: The daughter of a prominent Party Official from Shanghai, Xiahe's life changed forever when a demonic attack stole her hearing. Despite her handicap, she successfully pursued her studies, and officially works for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. She is nominally attached to the Chinese consulate in Songkhla, and does actually engage in legitimate consular work in Roanapur, a place not exactly short on people in desperate need of assistance. In reality, she is an intelligence agent, working not for the Ministry but for the Party, and is in Roanapur to investigate the Occult Underground.

Xiahe's place of work is a crappy one room office, with a kind of bell pulley arrangement instead of a door bell so that she can see when someone wants to get in. Office equipment includes an ancient Memorex 8086 PC, a phone/fax, and of course a shredder. She puts completed crossword puzzles and the like in the shredder, in order to make it harder for people to piece together actual confidential documents. And every night, or when she remembers, she takes everything in the shredder and burns it.

There's a reasonably prominently displayed sign saying in English and Chinese "I am very sorry to tell you that I am deaf. I can read your lips if you look at me and speak slowly".

Defining Moment: The demonic attack

Type: Kickass

Flavas: Ninja, Cinematic Disability (deafness)

Gear: In her magical girl form, Xiahe wields dual warfans, which count as a +2 Weapon, +1 Armor

Relationships

Yumi (Professional): Xiahe has had occasion to look for backup before, and prefers a mercenary to someone aligned with one of the syndicates. Also, Xiahe sympathises with her dislike of demon summoners, even if she doesn't know what underlies it.

Ingrid (Friendly): Xiahe met Ingrid after the attack on Schmitt Import/Export, and was impressed by her good humour. Xiahe has no idea that Ingrid is a Magical Girl, and thinks she's mostly uninvolved in the intrigues of the city, or at least as uninvolved as one can be in Roanapur. She finds it a relief to be able to talk to someone who's not in the game.

Noriko (Professional): Being the most reliable messenger in Roanapur is not a terribly high bar, but it is one that Noriko has surpassed, and Xiahe is grateful for small mercies.

Megan (Antagonistic): Xiahe was never very likely to want to get involved with members of the US military in the first place, and Megan doesn't want to deal with her either.

Faith (Antagonistic): Xiahe has worked with Faith before, and doesn't want to try it again. Xiahe thinks that Faith is a loose cannon, but more than that, Xiahe is convinced that Faith thinks she's stupid, and there's very little she hates more than being considered stupid.

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