MINHWA (DONE!)

[Han Min-Hwa]

Name: Minhwa [Han Min-Hwa]
Age: Physically sixteen, though this is partly due to the fact that his passive ability 'Consume' was activated at that certain age thus disallowing physical aging; externally and internally. He is mentally in his early hundreds.
Gender: Male
Personality:

Minhwa is a strange individual, due to the fact that his face is always stoic and has never seemed to have smiled at all. Despite this, one can still hear maniacal laughter behind his closed lips which makes people seem afraid of him. He comes off as a rather eccentric and odd individual with virtually no emotional display.

The truth of the matter is, Minhwa is always thinking, about this and that and somethings which would rather make others vomit and/or laugh out loud. Contrary to his cold exterior, Minhwa seems to be rather active, pulling pranks and sometimes jokingly walks in an eccentric manner, all constituting into a comedic act, except his face. His body actually moves on its own regardless of what his mind is thinking. In this case, he has a detachment from physical and mental exercises that would make a lot of people wonder.

Minhwa is also a genius. With an IQ over 200, it makes sense that he has his eccentricities and oddities. He likes to collect 'memories' as he calls them and is extremely obsessed with pursuing 'human evolution'. He has hundreds upon hundreds of theories on the mundane and the senseless, but he never talks causing him to laugh at the irony. His laugh is another thing- it never reaches his mouth and yet the sound comes out. It is the weirdest thing as he can talk as well.

Another thing about him is his total lack of habits that would associate with human necessity. He does not eat, drink nor sleep and would constantly try to keep himself from blinking. He adamantly believes that if he blinked, he would miss something extraordinary and that would suck.

There are a few things he dislike, or more like there's only one thing he dislikes, and that is religion, which he believes dampens the human thought and prevents evolution. Since his supreme goal is evolution, Minhwa will go to great lengths to find the adequate people that would fulfill his criteria for evolution, mostly those with great ambitions. He would stick with them and practically follow them around. He seems to think he's in a giant laboratory and everything in it are his test subjects.

Appearance:

Minhwa stands at about five foot eight with a slender and thin figure giving him a rather feminine physical disposition. His body seems to be built for speed rather than power, but be warned, his punches hurt really bad. Despite his lithe figure, Minhwa is a master of tae kwon do and muay thai; with the training giving him compact muscles and a sense of awareness of his surroundings.

Though technically Korean, he sports a bleach blond hair, slicked back and tied into a knot. He wears blue contacts, and has several piercings: a ring on the right side of his lower lip, and five semi-circular ones on his left ear. Along with his feminine figure is a feminine face making him look beautiful despite being male.

His favorite get-up is a loose white A-shirt with the words 'F@#K IT!" printed on the front and a pair of black jeans folded at the hems showing off his designer brand sneakers. Strangely, he also wears a haori with no particular designs, colored black and is usually open on the front.

For some strange reason, whenever his silhouette is shown from the dark, a glaring ear-to-ear smile with a nice set of pearly whites can be clearly seen. It is a huge creepy clown smile and more creepier is that it is completely visible only in shadow and in his silhouette but never on his actual face. When he talks or laughs, the crack opens a little and cackles a bit as if amused.

Origin of Power:

Minhwa was born in the 1800's and thus has experience the two World Wars. Though nothing is clear, it is believed that his powers stem from the lives he took during those years of war and his so called 'PURPOSE' or his theory that human powers evolved from a particular purpose that person is carrying out. In his case, he believes his power comes from his 'PURPOSE' which is 'to assist humanity to the next stage of evolution.

Special Abilities:

Minhwa has a sense of knowing or the ability to perceive notions of importance in otherwise mundane and senseless events or actions. In simple words, he can view humanity as a huge chess game; each individual having his or her own distinct function that triggers events in the grand scheme. Likewise, this limits his ability to understand human emotions or motivations.

Minhwa is a master of tae kwon do, karate, greco roman wrestling, muay thai, jui-jitsu, judo, aikido, wu shu and several other martial arts.

He is also adept at using firearms and carries with him a Colt Single Action Army.

Powers First Stage:

His first and foremost ability, which he calls 'Absolute', is the power to conjure up realistic illusions by his will alone, able to fool the senses to the point that he can drive other people to insanity and death. In line with hist first ability which is creation, his second ability called 'Empty' allows him to erase matter by simply emitting a strange gaseous 'light'. And to complete the triumvirate, his third ability is 'Consume' which literally means to eat; in this case eating energy off his surroundings to replenish himself as well as amplify his physical abilities to an extraordinary level. He calls the three 'Troika' or threesome which gives him power to create, destroy and sustain.

Consume is passive and heals wounds QUICKER, NOT INSTANTLY. For example, he gets stabbed on the right shoulder, it would take an entire day to heal. If is an extremely severe would, what would take months to recover would only take weeks.

Empty and Absolute cannot be used at the same time, but he can switch between the two instantly.

Powers Second Stage:

The 'Troika' all culminate to one single 'truth'; in this case Minhwa's PURPOSE which is human evolution. In the end, he forces his body to evolve and turn into somewhat of a divinity, not human. In this form, a dark foreboding light is emitted from his body and he is able to use both Empty and Absolute at the same time. He is incredibly fast and powerful in this form due to the fact that Consume absorbs ten times the energy from his surroundings, so much so that the effects become visible through cracks on the ground, the wilting of plants, the dying of small animals or the lack of air and the clear disappearance of moist. (in this case, he need not breath).

Skill Level: Special Items: Intermediate
Skill Level: Swordsmanship: Intermediate
Skill Level: Speed and Agility: Advanced
Skill Level: Hand-to-hand: Advanced
History/Background:

Though he had long forgot about it, Minhwa was born in the late 1800's. It has been so long that his memory has refused him vision of the times of that era. And so, he deduced that he must have been quite bored then as not to remember. All he knows is that his first power, 'Consume' manifested when he was just fourteen. All he remembered on that day was that there was a celebration of sorts and hundreds of people lay dead at his feet; all of whom seemed to be bowing to him as they died. He was confused and went about in a aimless manner before his eyes laid upon a beautiful chrysanthemum. As he went to pluck it, it wilted before his hand could reach it and he felt a wave of content wash over him. It was then on that he wanted to feel that feeling forever, and thus born his ability.

In the few years that followed, Minhwa has been raped, beaten and robbed. Since he had nowhere to go, he would join traveling circus troupes where he would have free food and shelter, but of course, not all the time. Pleasantly enough, it was through these travels that he reached Europe, and he instantly fell in love with it. But by the time he had reached Champ de Mars and witnessed the completion of the Eiffel tower, he had lost his normal voice and his face could no longer move. It was also then that he acquired a second voice, a voice that came out of his mouth when he tried to speak. It was not of a child though, and sounded sinister and dark, enough to scare a merchant. He had decided not to speak unless needed from that day forward.

It was also his time in Europe that Minhwa ascertained his fascination for the western culture and thus adopted blond hair and blue eyes, just about the time when the German scientist Fick perfected the first contact lens. He was happy and content with what was happening.

He still worked for the circus part-time and that was when he discovered his second ability, which enabled him to create visions, illusions if you will. He can create almost anything his mind wants and that shocked him to say the least. He did not even notice that his earlier ability was gaining strength as well, forcibly extracting more life force or reiryoku as well as reiatsu and reishi from his surroundings and people. The more he used the ability the more he became mesmerized by it and soon, he had grown to rely on it immensely. He used it to woo women and men alike, get anything he wants, and even kill anyone he wanted. Yes, kill. And he was extremely happy, though his face never showed it.

Journeying north, he reached Simbirsk, Russia. This was his first encounter with an ambitious individual named Vladimir Lenin and Minhwa was entranced. As a Marxist himself, every night to feed Lenin's growing appetite, Minhwa would appear in the shadows and whispered overpowering words into the air and straight into Lenin's sleeping ears. He was feeding him, nourishing him, raising him to become something more that he should be. He stayed a few years in northern tundra before moving on, having mastered the Russian martial art of Sambo.

Minhwa had actually forgotten the few years of his travels, as this was the time moved to China to learn martial arts and to acquire the wisdom of the Chinese philosophers. It was then that he uncovered several interesting things in Tibet, gradually shifting his belief that they were the 'superior' race or was the superior race. He stayed several more years and mastered several styles of martial arts. It was also this time that he had noticed something peculiar. It seemed he did age after all, and he believes it took fifty years for him to age a year. Physically, he was fifteen.

For some strange reason, he journeyed back to Germany, in time to meet a young Austrian upstart named Adolf Hitler and once again, he was entranced. The sheer ambition and charisma of the young man drew Minhwa to him. It was then on that Minhwa decided that Hitler was someone he should assist, guide to a better tomorrow. Every night while the young Austrian slept, Minhwa lurked in the shadows and again began whispering empowering words, words that would later shape the history of Europe. He molded Hitler into the perfect machine, the machine for evolution. But in the end, Hitler was a failure. He failed Minhwa, and so Minhwa left.

In his brief time in Germany, he had yet acquired another ability, the ability to erase and destroy. His discovery was by mistake as he was busy watching Hitler make his last mistakes and in a twist of error, killed him. No one knew of course as he immediately created another 'Hitler' that would later die. But, it was only an illusion, and as real as it gets for them. Truthfully, he liked his ability and it made him happy.

Troika, his abilities were the perfect trio for shaping this world into the next stage of evolution. And somewhere, some way he would find another candidate, one that would fulfill all his wishes and all his dreams.

[Hiro Arjan]

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