Shang-Chi
 The Master of Kung-Fu |
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| Name: | Xu Shang-Chi | ||
| Superalias: | Shang-Chi | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Occupation: | Task Rabbit / Martial Artist / Valet | ||
| Citizenship: | Chinese | ||
| Residence: | Gotham City | ||
| Education: | Specialized Training / High School | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (FC) | ||
| Groups: | Bat Family, Gothamites | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 28 | Actual Age: | 28 |
| Date of Birth | 03 September 1993 | Played By | Simu Liu |
| Height: | 5'10" | Weight: | 175lbs |
| Hair Color: | Black | Eye Color: | Brown |
| Twitter: | ShaunChee | ||
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Contents
Character Info
Profile
Shang-Chi is one of the world's greatest martial artists, commonly referred to as the "Master of Kung Fu". He's well known in the martial arts circles and even has some potentially known connections to the Ten Rings and the League of Assassins. He's mostly known around Gotham City as a reliable Task Rabbit but also as a man that's available to help those that need it most. When he's not kicking and punching for justice, he can be found in karaoke bars singing his heart out. All in all, Shang-Chi is just another man trying to live and escape the past he never wanted.
Timeline
Timeline:
- 1993: Xu Shang-Chi is born to Xu Wenwu and Ying Li.
- 1994 - 1997: From a young age Shang-Chi is trained and schooled at Wenwu's Ten Rings compound in China. Shang-Chi witnesses the birth of his sister, Xialing.
- 1998: Wenwu's Ten Rings Compound (China) is attacked while Wenwu is away. Ying Li hides Shang-Chi and Xialing to keep them safe. Shang-Chi is forced to watch as his mother is murdered and the compound is destroyed. Wenwu eventually returns to collect his children and retreats to another Ten Rings compound.
- 1999: At this new location, Shang-Chi's training also shifts as he begins his training to become a master assassin designed for the sole purpose of becoming the Ten Rings greatest weapon and eventual heir to his father's throne.
- 2000 - 2009: Shang-Chi spends this entire section of his life training to become a masterful assassin. Techniques, martial arts, weapons training galore. By the time he's sixteen, Shang-Chi is an incredible threat to the world at large.
- 2010: Wenwu tasks Shang-Chi with a test to prove himself as the one that will take over the Ten Rings someday. He is given the task of going to the United States to wipe out a cell of the League of Assassins. Shang-Chi hesitates but ultimately completes the assignment. Shang-Chi stands in the center of that League safe house, bloody and surrounded by seven bodies; six trained assassins and one unplanned for civilian. Shang-Chi is traumatized by what he's become.
- 2011: Shang-Chi turns his back on his father, the Ten Rings, and even his sister (who he promised to return for) in order to disappear. He reinvents himself as Shaun Chee and moves himself to Gotham City to further his disappearing act. He also meets the girl that is to become his best friend, Katy Chen.
- 2012 - 2020: Shaun and Katy are inseparable for this next stretch of time. Most of their days are spent hanging out, working valet, karaoke, and just living their lives. Occasionally, Shaun moonlights as a martial artist vigilante to stomp the criminal element but mostly he's just been living life. Shaun keeps this double life from Katy.
- 2021: After one particularly fun karaoke session, Shaun and Katy are attacked by the League of Assassins. Shaun reveals his fighting prowess to protect Katy and she finally finds out about this double life that he's been leading. Later this same year, Shang-Chi and Katy pool their money to open their business: Freelance Restorations; a car customization shop that can double as a base of operations for Shang-Chi's heroic antics. Katy's idea, of course.
- 2022: Shang-Chi sets up shop as an official agent of good in Gotham, allying himself with others seeking justice, to fight for the new city that he calls home. Between hiding from his father, trying to run a business, being hunted by the League of Assassins, helping the hopeless, seeking justice with his hero allies, and karaoke nights, Shang-Chi's world can't get any more complicated. Can it?
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Personality
Disciplined:
Shang-Chi is extremely self-disciplined. If he sets goals and schedules for himself, he doesn't need any encouragement or incentive to follow and/or pursue them. He trains relentlessly, takes care of himself and others, and has no reluctance whatsoever about doing chores that others find monotonous or unpleasant. He also has excellent control over his emotions (most of the time) and can carefully school his outward reactions and body language to maintain the appearance of complete calm. For all the chaos that can infect his life, he is a very orderly individual. Though a good part of being disciplined also involves being patient enough to understand that things will not always go according to plan.
Humor:
Shang-Chi is a naturally humorous person, at least in this new life that he's created for himself. He likes to have fun and attempts to live a mostly relaxed and uneventful life. He spends almost all of his time being a 'nobody' as it should help him stay off the radar of the dozens of people that want to find him. This also extends to the world of quips, banter, playful teasing, and sarcasm. Shang-Chi enjoys a good joke!
Kind:
Shang-Chi is a genuinely kind individual and is often quick to offer aid to any that seem to need it. Whatever community he is in he can likely be counted upon to help out in a multitude of small, seemingly inconsequential ways. He is a believer in karma and tries to build up as much positive as he can because he knows that unleashing his skills often veers into the negative, even if utilizing them for "good" reasons. Either way, unless provoked Shang-Chi is usually a polite and "nice" individual, if not always the most gregarious.
Loyal:
Shang-Chi's most unwavering personality trait is his loyalty. To his friends, to the idea of his family, to justice. Perhaps even to his own detriment, Shang-Chi believes that even those that have become his enemies can be saved. His loyalty pushes far deeper than just wanting to be there for others or assist them in battle. He truly forms a bond with people and that loyalty is very hard to break, even if it becomes one-sided.
Peaceful Warrior:
Shang-Chi desires little more than a peaceful life, and always seeks to find nonviolent solutions whenever and wherever possible. That said, when innocents are at risk, or great injustice has been revealed, Shang-Chi will not hesitate to use his skills to protect those who cannot defend themselves, or to seek justice for those that might otherwise have no means of combating those that have inflicted injustice upon them. It may take more than most to convince him to fight, but once he has committed, he does not hold back.
Values Life:
Shang-Chi places a strong value on all life and seeks to avoid taking it. He is almost always inclined to show mercy when it is possible, and only very rarely strikes to kill. That said, he does have a threshold, and if he strongly believes that taking one wicked life might save a great many innocent ones, he can cross that line. He always very carefully considers this act, though, and seeks to avoid doing so in the throes of strong emotion, especially as that latter might cause him to lose some of his center, making many of his Ki manipulation abilities difficult to use.
Character Sheet
Powers
Elemental Ki Powers:
Shang-Chi is very much his mother's son as he has inherited her ability to manipulate the element of Air. Shang-Chi has only had very limited practice in training to access this facet of his Ki and most of it remains locked away behind a wall of untrained potential. However, there are moments like when he's under extreme duress or feeling overly connected to his mother and her memory, that Shang-Chi seems to tap into his Elemental Ki for very brief moments of use. These small feats are caused by allowing him to manipulate the air in limited ways.
External Ki Powers:
In addition to manipulating his own Ki within himself, Shang-Chi can externalize it in different ways as well as having a limited degree of ability to manipulate it in others. Most commonly, he can sense the structural weak points in inanimate objects allowing him to strike through stone and steel with bare hands and feet at times. He can sense the Ki of others, making him difficult to sneak up on. He can, in rare moments, actually emit a short-range kinetic blast that can with enough force to put a fist-sized dent in a steel plate. Like his internal abilities, his external Ki powers are dependent on him having a clear mind, particularly his energy blast, which is virtually impossible if he feels "off center."
Internal Ki Powers:
Shang-Chi possesses the ability to manipulate his Ki in a variety of ways that affect him personally: He can increase his speed and reaction time to move superhumanly fast for bursts of a few seconds, and to react quickly enough to achieve such feats as deflecting bullets and energy blasts with his wristbands, or dodging them at point-blank range. He could likely even catch bullets in his hands if he tried. He can increase his durability, by redistributing kinetic force directed against him across his entire body, allowing him to withstand tremendous degrees of blunt trauma, up to and including strikes from superhuman foes of significant (Class 50+) strength, though he can really only take ONE such strike, and it does still make him a giant walking bruise.
Shang-Chi can give himself mild regenerative capability, allowing himself to heal about 10 times as fast as a normal human, and he has control over many of his bodily functions, allowing him to slow his heartbeat to reach a "death"-like trance, or regulate his internal temperature His stamina can be increased, allowing him to fight for hours or even days on end before needing rest and recuperation. He can make himself resistant (though not immune) to disease, poison, and aging, and in conjunction with his meditation skills can provide powerful resistance to mental and emotional manipulation, even through Psionic means (though he has to be at least mildly prepared for or aware of the manipulation to counter it). All of Shang-Chi's Ki manipulation requires him to be focused and centered.
Skills
Acrobatics:
Shang-Chi is exceptionally graceful in movement and is both evasive and highly mobile, with a superb sense of balance. He is well versed in tumbling, gymnastics, and acrobatics, and can move through terrain with the ease of a master parkour artist. If it comes to rooftop running, Shang-Chi can generally keep up with the best of them.
Investigation:
Shang-Chi is well versed in investigation techniques. He knows how to analyze a room, put together clues, and is particularly adept at recognizing signs of a struggle and "reconstructing" the struggle in his mind's eye. While not as skilled in the technical/forensic aspects, he is very good at "reading" a room and even more so at reading people, particularly since his skills include analyzing the body language of people, useful in both combat and out of it, making him a fairly effective interrogator when need be.
Karaoke:
Shang-Chi is a master at the art of Karaoke. Pick any song and he can put in some serious performance work. Twice as good when he's performing with his best friend, Katy.
Laying Low:
Shang-Chi, being generally ascetic in mindset and humble in character, Shang-Chi is very good at finding places to hide away from the world without completely separating himself from it, as well as "living off the grid." Be it a valet driver, a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant, or an odd jobbing task rabbit type, Shang-Chi has no difficulty trying to hide in plain sight as far as his whereabouts. In short, when he doesn't want to be found, he can be surprisingly difficult to locate, especially as he doesn't leave much of a digital trail.
Martial Arts:
Shang-Chi is very much a top contender for the "greatest martial artist in the world" title. He is THE Master of Kung-Fu. Every branch and sub-style of that particular Martial Art is his to command, but his skills do not end there. He is fluent in every major martial arts form and more than a handful of minor ones. His arsenal includes striking, grappling, evasion, nerve strikes, joint locks...the whole gamut. His skill is so great that he has unlocked the secrets of manipulating Ki, a feat that is relatively rare among Martial Artists. The list of those that can truly match him in pure hand-to-hand skill can likely be counted on one hand and possibly have fingers left over.
Martial Arts Lore:
Hand in hand with knowing how to perform the vast array of martial arts Shang-Chi knows is knowledge of the history and culture surrounding those arts, as well as being able to recognize fighting styles in motion. Shang-Chi can often tell what styles a person has been trained in within a few moments of either seeing them in a fight or battling them himself, and has a surpassing knowledge of the origins of the various martial arts styles.
Martial Arts Weapons:
Shang-Chi is extremely skilled in the use of weapons common to the various martial arts styles, most specifically Kung Fu. This includes the staff, nunchaku (his favored weapon), fighting sticks, chain, various swords, spears, and polearms, and generally anything you might see someone using in a "Kung Fu" movie. While he generally feels his empty hand techniques surpass his weapon skills, he is still a master of such weapons and trains extensively in their use.
Meditation:
Shang-Chi is well-versed in many forms of meditation, from simple breathing exercises to Tai Chi and virtually everything in between. This tends to give him a great deal of self-discipline, focus, clarity of thought, and emotional reserve. It also boosts his ability to largely ignore discomforts like lack of food or sleep, pain, or environmental conditions.
Multilingual:
Shang-Chi is fluent in all the major dialects of Chinese as well as Japanese, Korean, Thai, Tagalog, and of course English.
Philosophy:
Shang-Chi is a dedicated student of Zen Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. He has a strong knowledge of these schools of thought as well as their histories and practice.
Quick Study:
Shang-Chi has shown that he's an incredibly keen mind when it comes to training and learning. Once he manages to get out of his own way, he's capable of learning new martial arts techniques and mastering them in record time. This learning curve extends towards other things that are not particularly part of his natural skill set. He learns knowledge, skills, and tasks with incredible ease.
Stealth:
Shang-Chi is very capable of stealthy movement and avoiding being seen. While not his strongest skill, he's generally proven capable of sneaking around heavily guarded and secure places without getting spotted, and his agility and other abilities often make him capable of avoiding many types of security systems, though he has no particular skill for disabling them through technical means.
Teacher:
Shang-Chi has a genuine gift for passing on his knowledge, most particularly where the Martial Arts are concerned. His students tend to learn very quickly and efficiently, and he even has the insight to see when someone's superhuman abilities might be combined with the martial arts and teach them to better incorporate them into their fighting styles, despite not possessing those abilities himself.
Resources
Freestyle Restorations:
This is the hole-in-the-wall car customization shop that Shang-Chi and Katy are putting their savings into. While it does serve the actual purpose of letting Katy do some pretty epic auto detailing, there is a secondary purpose of being a base of operations for Shang-Chi to operate out of. A place where people can come if they need help. Technically, the shop is Katy's and it's her business and Shang-Chi is a silent partner.
Katy Chen
Shang-Chi's best friend is Katy Chen. She's his business partner, karaoke partner, and companion for all things. They have each other's backs to the very end.
Kicks
Shang-Chi doesn't have many guilty pleasures but sneakers are one of them. Whether it's Jordans, Chuck Taylor Classics, or something else, Shang-Chi stays with some of the freshest kicks on his feet. They always seem to match his outfit too. True Sneakerhead.
Loft
Shang-Chi's Loft is a former lair of a has-been Gotham Rogue that went up on the market at a steal. Shang-Chi paid cash for it and has since converted various rooms in the location for his own uses: a Meditation Chamber, a Training Area, a Weapons Stash, and most importantly, a Sneaker Room.
Loot
Shang-Chi's constant battles with various criminal elements that find their way to crossing his path often leave him as the victor and to the victor goes the spoils. Weapons, gear, and other things are often collected by Shang-Chi and repurposed, destroyed, or sold to serve a greater purpose.
Reputation
Shang-Chi has a bit of a reputation around Gotham City. While he doesn't advertise himself as a person that helps those in need, he does help those in need. He's around when trouble's afoot and helps. He's also just helpful in general. He carries groceries for people, plays basketball with kids on the street, etc. He's a bit of a 'known' fixture around the city, for as much as he wants to stay off the grid.
Task Rabbit
Shang-Chi, well Shaun Chee, is one of the highest-rated users of the Task Rabbit app in Gotham City. He's often available to do odd jobs and tasks, ready to perform them with a smile on his face. This keeps him with a modest and comfortable income.
Weaknesses
Atoner:
Shang-Chi believes strongly in the sanctity of life. He is ashamed of what he did when he first came to America, the taking of human lives the way he did, and that day continues to haunt him constantly. He lives with that guilt and seeks to atone for his actions with every fiber in his being. This is also why he fights so hard to show mercy and never again give in to his assassin mindset. He can never give back the lives he's taken but he can try to make the world a better place in exchange.
Estranged Family:
Given his heritage versus his character, Shang-Chi has what can at best be called a highly complicated relationship with most of his family, and at worst can be called completely hostile. Considering the long lifespan his father has enjoyed and his proclivity towards trying to create more heirs, Shang-Chi has encountered many half-siblings that are far more in-tune with their father's views than his, and suspects there may well be several more he has yet to meet, many of whom would probably prefer Shang-Chi come to a bad end if he cannot be swayed to their designs. Beyond that, the emotional toll that not being around his immediate family, both Xu Xialing and even Xu Wenwu weighs heavily on his heart. He would love nothing more than to reconcile with them both but who knows what the future holds. All that said, they are still his family and despite even his best judgment, Shang-Chi will always try to save or protect them. Even from themselves.
League of Assassins:
Due to the nature of and presence of the League of Assassins, and perhaps even a bit of his father's influence in him, Shang-Chi has sworn an allegiance against the League of Assassins. To this end, he feels he cannot refuse any request to counter the actions of the League of Assassins and their leadership. While he is quite likely to involve himself in other matters of general injustice and trouble (particularly if innocents are endangered), the involvement of the League will ALWAYS get him to take notice and risk himself to stop them.
Reputation:
Shang-Chi is well-known in the circles of elite martial artists as one of the best there is. This means there are more than a few people who are inclined to seek him out to test their skills against him. The best of these are fellow masters looking for someone to spar with that's at or slightly above their level. The median are brash youngbloods looking to make a rep for themselves, which is annoying but usually not terribly harmful. The worst are psychotically obsessive types determined to prove their superiority by killing whoever they perceive as being "above" them in the hierarchy of fighters. Which usually means a bit more than an "annoyance."
Ten Rings:
Shang-Chi is one of the heirs to the Ten Rings organization and for as much as he doesn't want to be involved with such things, sometimes one must face the past in order to have a future. Shang-Chi wants to be rid of his Ten Rings affiliation but can one ever really be free of their past?
Role-Play
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Kung Fu Car Chase | May 19th, 2022 | Batfam and Guests stop a drug theft with a high speed chase. The Uber gets a really good tip. |
| Everybody Was... | April 28th, 2022 | No description |
| Karaoke With A Twist | March 31st, 2022 | A gathering at the Sing Sing is interrupted by a bout of gang violence. |
| What The Chels | March 13th, 2022 | Shaun is hired to do some driving for a St. Croix. They chat about life, fashion, and Jordans. Five Stars! |
| A Long-Expected Meeting Pt. 2 | May 14th, 2020 | Round 2: FIGHT!!! And also the tea is ready. |
| A Long-Expected Meeting Pt. 1 | May 13th, 2020 | Lady Shiva pays a visit to the Master of Kung-Fu, with precisely the request you might think. |
| The Tolling of Silver Clockbells | May 3rd, 2020 | Shang-Chi, Catwoman, Nightwing and Batman foil the Clock King's latest caper. |
| Winds of Change: Gorilla City Part Three | April 22nd, 2020 | Grodd is defeated and taken into Wakandan custody! Boca is released from her mind control and seeks her missing husband, the true king of Gorilla City. |
| Winds of Change: A Broken Clock | April 22nd, 2020 | Gotham is rocked as many people turn into dinosaurs and gorillas! What will the BatFamily do to stop this? |
| Winds of Change: Gorilla City Part Two | April 22nd, 2020 | The Bat Family members and Shuri make their way into Gorilla Grodd's palace! |
| Hand Vs Foot | April 17th, 2020 | A rumble between Hand Ninja and Foot Clan goes horribly wrong as a few heroes(?) rush in to apprehend them. Mayhem ensues! |
| Bro Bro Bro! | April 14th, 2020 | Some bad Bro Bro Bros shake down a nice old couple. A handful of good Samaritans save the day! |
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