Alias: The Hollow Core
Affiliation: Factor IV (formerly ET Project subject)
Arm Type: Earth
Origin: American-born (Amerasian heritage), genetically modified through ET's Specialist lineage experiments
Current National Identity: Appears and identifies fully Chinese
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Physical Description:
Face: Porcelain pale with sharp, symmetrical features. Delicately sculpted, refined bone structure; traditional Chinese features with soft elegance.
Eyes: Steel-gray, often described as "soulless" at first glance. Hidden beneath the clinical gaze is a flicker of confusion and budding awareness.
Hair: Long, straight raven-black hair, typically bound in low-maintenance styles — a sleek braid or tucked under a Factor IV cap.
Skin Tone: Pale porcelain, untouched by sun, giving her an artificial, laboratory-raised glow.
Style Accents: Subtle preference for purple accents — gloves, a pendant, lining in her uniform, or the inner seams of her jacket. Purple is the only color she has ever personally chosen.
Aura: Reserved elegance, distant but never weak — a statue poised to move.
Tells: Rarely blinks. Head tilts slightly when encountering emotional behaviors she cannot process.
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Personality:
Surface: Distant, blank, observant. Mù Xiāo Xiāo sees the world through a practical, mission-driven lens.
Core: Fragmented. She is emotionally stunted not due to trauma—but design. She wasn't made to feel, only function.
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Background and Origins:
Creation: Born of a scientific union between Amerasian parents recruited by the ET Project. Their goal was to engineer Specialists with enhanced genetic synergy with Elemental Arms.
Escape: Ān Tiān Kuo discovered her during a covert mission, recognizing what she was — and more importantly, what she wasn't yet.
Rebirth: He defied his orders and took her to Factor IV. Though she was met with suspicion, her potential earned her a place.
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Specialist Abilities and Combat Style:
Arm Specialty: Earth
Primary Abilities:
Seismic Pulse: Can channel tremors through the ground, shattering terrain.
Geo-Shielding: Forms walls or armor from surrounding stone and metal.
Tectonic Recall: Pulls minerals from deep layers of the earth to weaponize.
Combat Style: Defensive and grounded. She immobilizes enemies, adapts the battlefield, and supports with fortification.
Flaw: Emotion-reading. She cannot yet anticipate attacks fueled by rage, desperation, or illogic.
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Relationships:
Ān Tiān Kuo: Her anchor to reality. She obeys him with almost childlike deference. He sees her like a daughter
Ān Siblings: Siblings and fellow coworkers.
Violet, Yè Yī & Qiū Huà Bǐ: Yet to be revealed
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Current Role in the Narrative:
Functions as a neutral Specialist under Factor IV. She is often deployed in joint missions and operates as a walking experiment.
Some in the organization question her loyalties — to Factor IV, to the ET legacy, or to something else altogether.
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Symbolism & Themes:
Symbol: Petrified Tree — beautiful, ancient, and slowly changing.
Theme: What is born hollow may not remain so forever.
Personality & Visual Contrast: Her quiet, eerie beauty is at odds with her expressionless demeanor — her stillness unnerves others, but not out of malice.
She is the embodiment of nature artificially copied — and now, slowly rebelling against the sterility of her programming.