[Characters] Ouyang Buwei

[Stray]

Defenses: Hardiness 4, Parry 6, Evade 4, Stealth 7, Wits 8, Resolve 7
Key Skills: Arm Strike: 1d10, Throw: 1d10, Light Melee: 1d10, Medium Melee: 1d10, Small Ranged: 1d10

Muscle: 2d10, Speed: 3d10, Athletics: 1d10, Endurance: 1d10

Command: 1d10, Persuade: 1d10, Deception: 1d10, Empathy: 1d10, Reasoning: 1d10, Detect: 1d10

History (Era of the Demon Emperor): 1d10, History (Era of the Righteous Emperor): 1d10, Places/Cultures (Chezou River Valley): 1d10, Places/Cultures (Suk): 1d10, Institutions (Sects): 1d10, Institutions (The Imperial Bureaucracy): 1d10

Language (Daoyun): 3d10, Language (Hai'anese): 1d10, Language (Yanli): 1d10

Read Script (Feishu): 2d10, Read Script (Purple Cavern Sect): 1d10

Classics (Sayings of Kong Zhi): 1d10, Classics (The 26 Stratagems of Jiang Laozi): 1d10

Qi: 1
Max Wounds: 3
Flaws: Enemy, Fated
Weapons: Jian (4d10 Attack, 3d10 Damage), Stick (2d10 Attack, 3d10 Damage), Dagger (1d10 Attack, 2d10 Damage), Dagger (1d10 Attack, 2d10 Damage), Sleeve Blade (1d10 Attack, 0d10 Damage), Sleeve Blade (1d10 Attack, 0d10 Damage)
Equipment: Clothes, Fine cricket fighting champion (Wei), Calligraphy brush, fine, Ink and paper
Combat Technique: Medium Melee - Deflect
Kung Fu Techniques (Waijia 1, Neigong 1, Dianxue 1, Qinggong 1): Sword Stance, Leap of the Swan, Crawling Tiger, Iron Body, Plum Blossom Palm, Blasting Blade

[AsenRG]

Note: I'm thinking of switching the Qi bonus point from Parry to Hardiness to avoid being too squishy. Though he'd need to boost his defences anyway, especially Evade, so it's probably better to leave him as a close combat specialist, for now.
Also, I'm posting here because I can't edit the sheet in your post. Hope you don't mind.

Name: Ouyang Buwei
Sex: Male (and hetero ) Human
Talent: 1-1-1-1 Imbalance 1
Reputation: Loyal, Adaptive
Martial Name: TBD in play.
Family: Ouyang, Black Sheep Branch (see below)
Primary skill groups: Defenses, Knowledge
Defenses:
Hardiness: 4
Parry 6+1 (1 Qi)
Evade 4
Stealth 7
Wits 8
Resolve 7

Combat:
Arm Strike 1
Throw 1
Small Melee: 1
Medium Melee 1- Specialisation (jian)
Small Ranged 1

Specialist:
Medicine 1
Divination 1
Meditation 1
Talent (Caligraphy) 1
Survival (cities) 1
Ritual (x) 1

Physical:
Athletics 1
Speed 1
Muscle 2
Endurance 1

Knowledge:
History (Era of the Righteous Emperor): 1 (Demon Emperor): 1
Places/Cultures (open): (Chezou River) 1 (Suk) 1
Institutions (Imperial Bureaucracy): 1
Languages (native-Daoyun?): 3 (Hai'anese): 1 (Yanli): 1
Martial Disciplines (Waijia): 1 (Neigong) 1
Read Script (Feishu): 2 (Purple Cavern Script-own sect): 1
Classics (26 stratagems): 1 (Sayings of Kongzhi): 1

Mental:
Command: 1
Persuade: 1
Deception: 1
Empathy: 1
Reasoning: 1
Detect: 1

Flaws:
Enemy, Fated

Technique: Medium Melee - Deflect

Kung-Fu:
Sword Stance
Leap of the Swan
Crawling Tiger
Iron Body
Plum Blossom Palm
Blasting Blade


Equipment:
Jian (free)
Clothes (free), including a hat to hide the fact that his hair is kinda reddish, possibly due to a Northern grandgrandfather.
Staff, because you don't pull a jian on some random dogs
2 daggers
Sleeve blades
Fine cricket fighting champion (he named him Wei).
Calligraphy brush, fine
Ink and paper

 

A martial hero from the North joined the Majestic Lions and later founded the Ouyang family. A "black sheep" of that family left and joined the Golden Dragons; he also founded this branch of the family that Ouyang Buwei belongs to.
However, his family has consisted of scholar-officials for three generations now as the grandson of that hero believed that in the coming era of the Righteous Emperor there's no need for martial arts!
The generations of scholar-officials gives them some benefits. But not martial ones.
That has changed to a degree. From what young Buwei knows, some of his siblings have taken up the mantle of xia. And the main branch of the family is resurfacing, and those have kept the tradition alive!

 

The main branch of the Ouyang family still sees his branch as Black Sheep, for starters. Even if only a few of them are in the Dragons today...

Hhis mom had a grudge with her sister. His mom kinda won, marrying his father which both of them wanted... but the sister went on to become a xia. Who knows where she might be met, some day?

And there's the mandatory competition for best dumplings between grandmothers!
And the grandfathers competed in building the more beautiful garden, too!
Not to mention the contest for best calligraphy...all the members of the Ouyang family have to participate. Even if they're not quite proud of their achievements this year.

 

However - and this one is firmly part of his background - the little Buwei witnessed a battle once, on a neighbouring rooftop. It seemed that a jian-wielding chick was fighting her lover/former lover and trying to get him back in some sect. She praised the destruction of all life, and the power to kill beautifully.
The man used a Kushen saber (I might add it to Ouyang's pack) and told her he's leaving, and that a simple peasant is greater than her sect. Because life triumphs by establishing succession.
Then he died, refusing to harm her. Maybe she cried, Ouyang couldn't see. But later, he went and took his saber. Which bears an old inscription which he has had translated, and read "pull me not without danger, sheathe me not without killing".
Amusingly, he also believes that the two didn't speak, as such, and he probably couldn't hear them anyway. But he understood everything they said.
The lesson he drew from this encounter, however, was simple: life is indeed more glorious, but sometimes you need to kill to preserve it! And the saber (which might have remained behind or not) with its inscription only hardened his resolve.
Well, that, and he learned that a more slender blade can be just as lethal. Though he's still trying to get better with sabers, too, he has found that a jian fits better a wrist trained for caligraphy!

 

...and you don't have to tell me which one it is!

-А scholar who was suspected of being in league with the Empire. Buwei spoke in front of the people against his suggestion of submitting to the Glorious Emperor and thriving under the benevolent rulership that provides security and puts a leash on brigands (a.k.a. xia)!

-A member of the Beautiful Clothes clan (the supplement 1, I don't know whether you're using them, but they're hilarious) who is after Buwei due to being rejected. In his defense, he found her too prone to squabbling to make for a potential good match!
OK, that is the more comedic option...

-A member of the Golden Dragons, who is actually also Ouyang, but believes a member of the "black sheep" family joining a heterodox cult sullies the name of his family!

-Other (but I hope not a Majestic Lion, those guys are too hardcore when it comes to grudges and killing off one just angers a dozen of his relatives).

[Stray]

No problem. This is a workshop thread. I just loaded your stats into the app for fun.

[AsenRG]

Yeah, me too...though I also wanted to link him in my profile.