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Jiang Yanli | 江厌离 ([personal profile] lotus_heart) wrote2020-03-11 11:41 pm

INFO

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Jiang Yanli | N/A
CHARACTER AGE: ~23
SERIES: The Untamed (Netflix drama)
CHRONOLOGY: end of ep. 32
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: random

BACKGROUND:

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PERSONALITY:

Yanli is, at the center of everything, a kind, gentle, and caring young woman with an extremely forgiving heart. Despite her brothers’ misbehavior, mostly Wei Wuxian’s though he drags Jiang Cheng into it often enough, she always looks out for them both and believes the best in them. And in others, even after they’ve hurt her (in the case of Jin Zixuan breaking off their engagement.)

She is not, however, kind to the point of absolute forgiveness. And won’t let anyone walk over her siblings or anyone else she cares for deeply. If she cares for someone and sees them being treated unfairly, she will step up and confront someone about it. Although she doesn’t give her loved ones a free pass during this, her concern is with them and not with what relations might be marred by her anger. Though delicate of constitution, Yanli made up for it with the fierce love and protection a tiger might provide its cub.

Like Wuxian, Yanli believes in the good of the world and has a distaste of evil and cruel deeds. Fighting, genuine fighting rather than the mischief her brothers engage in, are far from the world she would surround herself willingly but she won’t shy from it if she has to. For her family, she’ll run into it.

Her life, short as it is, is filled with moments where she puts others before herself. To make Jin Zixuan happy, she makes no objection to the breaking of their troth. She searches for her missing brother, Wei Wuxian, and Lan Wangji when they disappear for a day and night, nearly making herself sick in the process. There was also one other instance of her becoming ill, most notably a dizzy spell, while in Cloud Recesses, in which she was treated by Wen Qing.

Though not often expressed, Yanli is extremely shy in the presence of Jin Zixuan. This is often overlooked as she suddenly becomes quiet and refuses to make eye contact with him.

Having two brothers, being a member of a great clan, and being betrothed most of her life to a member of another of the greater clans, Yanli has infinite patience. While most older sisters would lose that patience, Yanli instead lets it flow off her like water and instead tried to gently turn that devious energy to other purposes. Or distracts it with a good meal.

Through the course of the drama Yanli shows herself to be extremely diplomatic, disarming the tempers of her brothers and being capable of calming at least half a situation when Wuxian picks a fight with Zixuan. Though soft and delicate, Yanli is capable of holding herself and speaking in a manner that allows no argument or being gentle and calming tempers to diffuse a tense situation. She’s one of the few people who can get through to Wei Wuxian.


POWER:

1) Golden Core cultivation:
~Golden Core: Necessary for the use of spiritual powers as a cultivator. Yanli was not strong in general so MoM would expand on that and allow her to properly train to disperse, pacify, and cleanse spirits and demons and help them to move to the next world through talismans, music, incantations, and spells. This also allows for flying with swords, killing demons,
~ Enhanced healing: she heals faster than normal people.
~ Enhanced strength: not so strong as her siblings, or other cultivators, Yanli would still benefit from strength enough to fight someone at least twice her size.
~ Wuxia-style martial arts/acrobatics: basically, cheesy kung-fu flick acrobatics.
~Spirit restraint: can restrain people/spirits with a spiritually formed rope.

2) Healing energy: She can heal woulds, broken bones, poisoning, or even withered plants but the person/object needing healing must still be alive. Severe injuries would exhaust her more, fatal wounds can only be eased. This can be directed towards herself as well.

3) Encyclopedic Recipe Knowledge: If she hears about a dish, she immediately knows how to make the basic recipe. Or, with a bundle of ingredients in front of her, she’s filled with the knowledge of possible meals they would make.