Twilight of the Gods: A Metahuman RP (OOC)

[CoraSpia]

grand, will work on the 3 brothers now.

[CoraSpia]

Name: Josiah Kelvin
Alias: none
Alignment: faltering dynastic
Age: 32
Appearance: Josiah doesn't look like one of the most powerful people in the world. He stands around 5 ft 10 with a perpetually hungover look on his lined face and signs that he doesn't really have the time or energy to properly take care of himself evident wherever you look. He would be handsome if it wasn't for this: the face although carewoarn is handsome with proud noble features and the greasey hair that frames it naturally hangs long and straight. He tends to sleep in his clothes and skips a lot of meals and showers, leaving him looking like the local homeless guy his brothers picked up off the street.
Additional physical features: will start the story with a broken arm from a bar fight
Personality: Josiah's personality is at odds with his physical appearance and those who play close attention to the goings on in America will realise that he is the one that pulls most of the strings. He is calculating and methodical in his thinking and even the difficulty that he has in looking after himself is highly exaggerated so that people will naturally underestimate his abilities. He cares deeply for the people that he rules over, even if they do think far too much, and the only people he really has negative thoughts for are some of the other metahumans who stand in his way of making the world what he sees as a better place.
Abilities:
- Telepathy: Josiah is one of the most powerful telepaths on the planet, although sometimes he wishes he was not. In its natural form, his powers manifest themselves as an unintelligible stream of overwhelming sounds and images that fill his mind with more than even he can cope with. It is only with the help of various drugs, most notably alcohol, that he is able to gain some control of his powers to read and communicate with the minds he wishes to. This power also gives him the ability to subtly nudge rooms of people towards the conclusion he wishes them to go as well as coordinate battles.
- Psychic attacks: Josiah Kelvin killed his mother. His brothers know it, those who are highly placed in the world's governments know it, and at the end of her life his mother knew it as well. He did this by constantly overloading her brain with debilitating psychic attacks that left her unable to think clearly and in constant agony: at the end, once he had finished toying with her, a final one finished her off. Josiah spent the first few years, once he was provided with a chemical that allowed him to gain some control of his powers, in a long and ruthless assault on the minds of his brothers. Although he is unable to directly control minds, when you live your life in close proximity to someone while being able to read every thought that passes through their minds, you can mould their minds and personalities by carefully making sure that bad thoughts cause agony and good thoughts cause happy sensations. Gabriel and Isaac almost certainly don't remember this careful moulding or believe it happened naturally, however what Josiah tells them to do gets done almost instantly.
Biography: Josiah Kelvin was born to Juliana and Mathius Kelvin in Austin Texas, the first of 3 triplets to emerge on that day. Although for the first 5 years of his life it appeared that he didn't have any powers at all, his powers really began to manifest themselves at the age of 5; luckily however he was quite good at explaining what was going on inside his head. A combination of drugs helped to dumb them down however it was only when he turned 13 and discovered alcohol that he was able to gain real control and direct his powers to their true end.
His role on new years eve as a young and relatively untested metahuman was low-key and minor: it was his job to convince the staff of a national news network that any rumours they heard were untrue, a task he was more than equal to.
His mother upon taking power found a whole new use for her son however, and essentially used him for relentless unpaid labour. He was expected to be almost omniscient, directing her attempts to change the continent and coordinating her very real and determined war effort against the resistance. Of course Josiah was not omniscient in the slightest, which was the reason that the resistance existed without really having to wory about north American forces.
The plan to kill their mother came from Isaac rather than Josiah, however he signed onto it without hesitation, slowly increasing his mental attacks to a point at which her tired brain simply gave out.

In the years that followed, under Josiah's directorship North America flourished, especially its technological enhancement program. Humans gained access to cybernetic enhancements that dramatically increased their senses and physical abilities. The economy continued to power ahead and once again everyone went on with their lives. As the final mission to destroy the resistance came closer however, worrying words have begun to come out of North America. It seems that the brothers want peace talks, the word 'coexistance' has even been floated.
Additional information: Josiah is capable of speech however prefers to speak in the minds of his intended audience. Additionally, he exaggerates how debilitating coping with his powers are: he is not above appearing close to death, strapped to a wheelchair with tubes leading to machines at meetings if he feels it'll seem more convincing. Away from prying eyes though, him and his human friends like to drink heavily, smash up bars and get into massive fights.

[Naval Monte]

House Ashwood Coat of Arm

Family name: House of Ashwood

Dynastic head: Alexandria Ashwood, Thaumarch of the Thaumatarchy of Albion

Other members:

Elizabeth Ashwood: Chimerical daughter of Alex and Heir of the Thaumatarchy, age 8

Bones: Big Friendly Fluffy Doggo and Familiar Spirit, age 10

Territorial claim: The British Isles

Political philosophy: The main doctrine of House Ashwood and the Thaumatarchy is of Transcendence, the ultimate result of The Awakening plan. They believe that mankind is now on a transition to become a more superior and enlighten species, a transition that all can become a part of instead of a chosen minority. As such they support transhumanist policies and technological development as well as research into magic and magitech. This philosophy has it that all of humanity will transcend into an equal level as metahumans, unlike the usual belief of most metahumans who wish dominate none metas. As such, within the Thaumatarchy mundane people not only enjoy a greater degree of freedoms, they also can rise through the ranks in their occupation, even being allowed to join in both military and civil services. But higher roles such as Manus is only reserved for Metahumans.

The Thaumatarchy is a mago-technocratic and meritocratic regime. Ones knowledge and skills are what determines one's place in society, all other considerations are ignored. This not only creates a socially liberal society but one where mundanes can move up in society and one where metahumans can move down if their performance is found lacking. However metahumans of a mystical nature tend to be the most dominate. Core values of this society are the pursuit of knowledge, self improvement, advancement in all things, and equality of opportunity. Other policies the state follows includes efficiency, self sufficiency, and collectivism.

Brief history: A strong member of NATO, the European Union, and a decaying empire, the United Kingdom was always searching for means to maintain their power and prestige.With the growing power of the two superpowers and the unveiling of the first artificially made metahumans the UK would naturally pursue to create their own metahumans to maintain the empire and protect themselves. This search would make the UK work with the Ashwood family. A minor noble family with a long history attached to the occult and with many connections, their cooperation was instrumental in creating their first Metahuman, Captain Britain. However this cooperation would grow sour by the time Alex was old enough to explore the world as the UK would make increasing demands on using their magic to keep their empire from falling while they imposed more regulations and restrictions on both magic and metahuman activities. It was becoming more clearly that many in charge of the UK saw metahumans as tools that they can control. This sentiment and her seeing the plight of the working class due to policies made by the likes of Thatcher would convince Alexandria to join the global rebellion to make a new state.

The New Year Rebellion wasn't a quick victory like it was for most nations as she was caught in the 5 year British Civil War. Once the war was done she was given the free reign to rebuild the nation as she saw fit. This period however wasn't so easy as not only did she need to rebuild a war torn formerly United Kingdom, but she found that other metahumans wished to take her position as they refused to accept her as the new leader of the UK, a sentiment shared by humans who still fought against the metahumans. These early years saw strict rationing, martial aw, and other harsh measures to stabilize the isle as she reform the state.

These times of reforms saw the establishment of the Manus system, the creation of the Magister Council and the various Spheres of Influences that each Magister controls, and many other policies to establish the magical technocracy that Alexandria wish to see her state become. One ambitious project was completely remaking London itself into a magical city.

[Britanania]

House Ashwood Coat of Arm

Family name: House of Ashwood

Dynastic head: Alexandria Ashwood, Thaumarch of the Thaumatarchy of Albion

Other members:

Elizabeth Ashwood: Chimerical daughter of Alex and Heir of the Thaumatarchy

Bones: Big Friendly Fluffy Doggo and Familiar Spirit

Territorial claim: The British Isles

Political philosophy: The main doctrine of House Ashwood and the Thaumatarchy is of Transcendence, the ultimate result of The Awakening plan. They believe that mankind is now on a transition to become a more superior and enlighten species, a transition that all can become a part of instead of a chosen minority. As such they support transhumanist policies and technological development as well as research into magic and magitech. This philosophy has it that all of humanity will transcend into an equal level as metahumans, unlike the usual belief of most metahumans who wish dominate none metas. As such, within the Thaumatarchy mundane people not only enjoy a greater degree of freedoms, they also can rise through the ranks in their occupation, even being allowed to join in both military and civil services. But higher roles such as Manus is only reserved for Metahumans.

The Thaumatarchy is a mago-technocratic and meritocratic regime. Ones knowledge and skills are what determines one's place in society, all other considerations are ignored. This not only creates a socially liberal society but one where mundanes can move up in society and one where metahumans can move down if their performance is found lacking. However metahumans of a mystical nature tend to be the most dominate. Core values of this society are the pursuit of knowledge, self improvement, advancement in all things, and equality of opportunity. Other policies include efficiency, self sufficiency, and collectivism.

Brief history: A strong member of NATO, the European Union, and a decaying empire, the United Kingdom was always searching for means to maintain their power and prestige.With the growing power of the two superpowers and the unveiling of the first artificially made metahumans the UK would naturally pursue to create their own metahumans to maintain the empire and protect themselves. This search would make the UK work with the Ashwood family. A minor noble family with a long history attached to the occult and with many connections, their cooperation was instrumental in creating their first Metahuman, Captain Britain. However this cooperation would grow sour by the time Alex was old enough to explore the world as the UK would make increasing demands on using their magic to keep their empire from falling while they imposed more regulations and restrictions on both magic and metahuman activities. It was becoming more clearly that many in charge of the UK saw metahumans as tools that they can control. This sentiment and her seeing the plight of the working class due to policies made by the likes of Thatcher would convince Alexandria to join the global rebellion to make a new state.

The New Year Rebellion wasn't a quick victory like it was for most nations as she was caught in the 5 year Second British Civil War. Once the war was done she was given the free reign to rebuild the nation as she saw fit. This period however wasn't so easy as not only did she need to rebuild a war torn formerly United Kingdom, but she found that other metahumans wished to take her position as they refused to accept her as the new leader of the UK, a sentiment shared by humans who still fought against the metahumans. These early years saw strict rationing, marshal law, and other harsh measures to stabilize the isle as she reform the state.

These times of reforms saw the establishment of the Manus system, the creation of the Magister Council and the various Spheres of Influences that each Magister controls, and many other policies to establish the magical technocracy that Alexandria wish to see her state become. One ambitious project was completely remaking London itself into a magical city.

Gotcha

[Union Princes]

Family name: de Villeneuve
Dynastic head: Marie de Villeneuve
Other members: Alice, Charlotte, Eve, and Irene
Territorial claim: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Rhineland
Political philosophy: The Napleonic Code
Brief history: The family of Villeneuve were the dark horse of seizing power in the coup. There was a genuine worry for the patriarch that his schemes and true nature as an opportunistic human to come to light. Which it did, much to his horror, when the betrayal came from his own eldest daughter.

It was then Marie was able to confirm that she was part of a set of quintuplets. The only time she thought she was going crazy when she first came across her sisters. Under normal circumstances, her four sisters would be considered part of the nobility but they are normal humans, therefore internally exiled from holding office. Yet, they were at least able to travel around the empire incognito.

But for Marie, her greatest ambition had yet to be revealed as thousands of people are being drained for their blood to be used for the ritual

[Britanania]

Family name: de Villeneuve
Dynastic head: Marie de Villeneuve
Other members: Alice, Charlotte, Eve, and Irene
Territorial claim: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Rhineland
Political philosophy: The Napleonic Code
Brief history: The family of Villeneuve were the dark horse of seizing power in the coup. There was a genuine worry for the patriarch that his schemes and true nature as an opportunistic human to come to light. Which it did, much to his horror, when the betrayal came from his own eldest daughter.

It was then Marie was able to confirm that she was part of a set of quintuplets. The only time she thought she was going crazy when she first came across her sisters. Under normal circumstances, her four sisters would be considered part of the nobility but they are normal humans, therefore internally exiled from holding office. Yet, they were at least able to travel around the empire incognito.

But for Marie, her greatest ambition had yet to be revealed as thousands of people are being drained for their blood to be used for the ritual

Noted

[CoraSpia]

Other apps will come tomorrow, got to sleep.

I would imagine that the brothers would be able to find common ground with Alex. Has the special relationship between Britain and America survived the new years resolution?

[Britanania]

Other apps will come tomorrow, got to sleep.

I would imagine that the brothers would be able to find common ground with Alex. Has the special relationship between Britain and America survived the new years resolution?

All of the Dynasties have a certain understanding of each other, but as Britain itself is a vassal of a great House the old power dynamics are obviously different. With a few exceptions, the metahumans don't define themselves by their ethnic or national identities so much as they do by their status as metahumans and their place in the Dynastic System.

[Union Princes]

Heh, Marie and the Holy French Empire is one exception to that principle. I suspect diplomacy is very hard when it comes to her.

[Menschenfleisch]

Oh yeah to answer a question regarding how many metahumans there are, they are as common as the number of mutants and other superhumans in the Marvel comics, for instance.

Should I revise my app, given that my character ostensibly kills/detains a couple of metahumans every year? (Among other things)

[Britanania]

Oh yeah to answer a question regarding how many metahumans there are, they are as common as the number of mutants and other superhumans in the Marvel comics, for instance.

Should I revise my app, given that my character ostensibly kills/detains a couple of metahumans every year? (Among other things)

Probably unnecessary, honestly.

[Menschenfleisch]

Should I revise my app, given that my character ostensibly kills/detains a couple of metahumans every year? (Among other things)

Probably unnecessary, honestly.

Alrighty then. The infanticide remains ;p

[Naval Monte]

Other apps will come tomorrow, got to sleep.

I would imagine that the brothers would be able to find common ground with Alex. Has the special relationship between Britain and America survived the new years resolution?

Yeah that old deal most likely would have to be renew which would depend largely on their ideals. Though both do share common grounds with their interest of transhumanism. Alex would make deals regardless what the Morrigan will say.

[Union Princes]

I don't think anyone would elect Marie to serve at the council but at the same time, I don't think she would care.

[Britanania]

I don't think anyone would elect Marie to serve at the council but at the same time, I don't think she would care.

It's possible she might have been elected as a counter-balance, but once the IC is up, i'll decide who is serving on the Council and all that stuff

[CoraSpia]

I don't think anyone would elect Marie to serve at the council but at the same time, I don't think she would care.

It's possible she might have been elected as a counter-balance, but once the IC is up, i'll decide who is serving on the Council and all that stuff

Would mine be represented by all 3, or would it be only one of them?

[Britanania]

It's possible she might have been elected as a counter-balance, but once the IC is up, i'll decide who is serving on the Council and all that stuff

Would mine be represented by all 3, or would it be only one of them?

One of them would be one the Council, whichever one is the head of the dynasty

[CoraSpia]

Would mine be represented by all 3, or would it be only one of them?

One of them would be one the Council, whichever one is the head of the dynasty

Could create issues given how they work, with Josiah feeding the other two what to say as the meeting progresses while being effectively mute himself. Perhaps they could be 3 representatives with 1 vote, since none of them are officially higher than the others?

[Britanania]

One of them would be one the Council, whichever one is the head of the dynasty

Could create issues given how they work, with Josiah feeding the other two what to say as the meeting progresses while being effectively mute himself. Perhaps they could be 3 representatives with 1 vote, since none of them are officially higher than the others?

They would need to choose one to represent all of them at the Congress and Council meetings.

[CoraSpia]

Could create issues given how they work, with Josiah feeding the other two what to say as the meeting progresses while being effectively mute himself. Perhaps they could be 3 representatives with 1 vote, since none of them are officially higher than the others?

They would need to choose one to represent all of them at the Congress and Council meetings.

Okay I'll work this out.

[Skylus]

Name: Alexander Cormick

Alias: N/A

Alignment: House of Ashwood

Age: 19

Appearance: tenor voice, green eyes, ginger hair, wears dark clothing, on the lanky side

Additional physical features: N/A

Personality: Quiet and soft spoken, polite, doesn’t like to raise his voice, will look for the easy way out to most situations, will try to seek out non violence in fights

Abilities:

Magnesis - can lift and throw metal objects, the size rarely matters for said objects
Telepathy - not his strongest suit, Alexander realized he had this power only just very recently, and is of course untrained with it
Healing - Alexander can heal minor wounds, perhaps if trained, he could heal even the most of severe wounds
Shapeshifter - Alexander can transform himself into a dragon (four legs and wings, very small, only eight feet in height when rearing up on hind legs, scales are red)

Biography: Alexander never knew his parents, instead living on the streets of London for as long as he could remember. He was, for all intents and purposes, a normal human, until he was taken by surprise by a local gang one night when he was fourteen, and his magnetic powers were revealed, using a nearby metal pole to crush the leader of the assaulting group. Alexander ran off into the night and didn’t stop running until he had reached the wilderness.

Five years later, Alexander wandered upon a massive manor, than happened to be the House of Ashwood. Knowing that they took in Metahumans, Alexander decided to see if they would take him in.

Additional information: N/A

[Britanania]

Name: Alexander Cormick

Alias: N/A

Alignment: House of Ashwood

Age: 19

Appearance: tenor voice, green eyes, ginger hair, wears dark clothing, on the lanky side

Additional physical features: N/A

Personality: Quiet and soft spoken, polite, doesn’t like to raise his voice, will look for the easy way out to most situations, will try to seek out non violence in fights

Abilities:

Magnesis - can lift and throw metal objects, the size rarely matters for said objects
Telepathy - not his strongest suit, Alexander realized he had this power only just very recently, and is of course untrained with it
Healing - Alexander can heal minor wounds, perhaps if trained, he could heal even the most of severe wounds

Biography: Alexander never knew his parents, instead living on the streets of London for as long as he could remember. He was, for all intents and purposes, a normal human, until he was taken by surprise by a local gang one night when he was fourteen, and his magnetic powers were revealed, using a nearby metal pole to crush the leader of the assaulting group. Alexander ran off into the night and didn’t stop running until he had reached the wilderness.

Five years later, Alexander wandered upon a massive manor, than happened to be the House of Ashwood. Knowing that they took in Metahumans, Alexander decided to see if they would take him in.

Additional information: N/A

Gotcha, I assumed this was agreed with naval.

[Nagakawa]

Name
Ryugo and Ryuju Saeki
(冴木　竜剛, Saeki Ryūgō)
(冴木　竜柔, Saeki Ryūjū)

Alias
“The Twins”
“The Bastards”
“The Boar” (Ryugo)
“The Serpent” (Ryuju)

Alignment
The highest bidder
Lei Family (former)
Hikawa Clan (former)

Age
Both 20 (both born 25 December 2000; Ryugo is the older twin by 40 minutes)

Appearance
Despite being twins, Ryugo Saeki and Ryuju Saeki differ significantly in physical appearance. Ryugo Saeki stands at 183cm (6ft) tall and bears a large and bulky figure, weighing a total of 84kg (185lbs) and sporting a buzz cut and unshaven five-o-clock stubble, with one scar running down the left side of his head as well as another running down his back covered by a thorny helix tattoo; in contrast, Ryuju Saeki bears a smaller and leaner figure, with a height of 171cm (5ft 6) and a weight of 70kg (154.5lbs), with his most distinctive features being a mane of unruly black hair and a snaggle tooth. Nevertheless, both of the brothers do have one trait in common, namely, their eyes, which are of a striking icy blue colour but which possess an inner amber ring- a hybrid, perhaps, of the Hikawa Clan's blue eyes and the Lei Family's golden eyes.

Additional physical features
As a result of their regenerative ability, it is all but certain that both twins will, at some point or another later in their life, develop cancer of some sort. This is a trait that was observed by Lei Tjin-fei in the family of his first wife, from which this metahuman ability arose - all members of his first wife’s family bearing the regenerative gene developed aggressive cancers to which they would eventually succumb quickly by the time they were in their mid 30s. This trait is known to the two brothers.

Personality
Both brothers have a happy-go-lucky attitude to the future and to life in general, preferring not to care too much about the politics of the world around them, and being content with earning enough money through their admittedly shady means in their line of work as mercenaries and contract pirates to enjoy the finer things in life. Perhaps as a result of their cognisance of their own ironically shortened lifespan as a result of their regenerative ability, Ryugo and Ryuju both have a rather nonchalant and almost flippant attitude to life’s miseries and inconveniences, and often come across as very optimistic and intent on enjoying the good things as they come, preferring to live and let live rather than hold grudges.

Though prone to pranks and mischief, Ryugo and Ryuju are also highly professional on the job, cutting no corners and always endeavouring to complete the assignments issued by their clients.

Abilities
Both Ryugo and Ryuju are metahumans born with the ability to generate ice and frost, with their palms being the parts most conducive for channeling this ability (Ryuju’s ability is far more potent than Ryugo’s, requiring him to wear a pair of gloves everywhere so as not to accidentally freeze everything around him); this ability is inherited from Toyokatsu Hikawa, son of Toyonari Hikawa, head of the Hikawa Clan and ruler of Japan. In addition, both brothers have a second metahuman ability, namely, a superhuman recovery potential that allows for extremely quick recovery from injuries and even exercise. This ability is inherited from their mother Lei Chen-hsin, the disowned eldest child of Lei Tjin-fei, ruler of China, and manifests far more potently in Ryugo than in Ryuju, in turn allowing Ryugo to take levels of punishment beyond what is bearable by normal human beings and to build up his strength and endurance to superhuman levels.

Aside from their metahuman abilities, both of the twins are skilled in martial arts, Ryugo having training in karate and wrestling, and Ryuju in judo.

Biography
The twins Ryugo and Ryuju Saeki were born on Christmas Day of the year 2000, nearly one year to the day when Columbia and Hammer first proclaimed the new world order of metahuman supremacy and inspired revolution around the world. Their birth was the result of a brief and ultimately failed experiment by Lei Tjin-fei and Toyonari Hikawa, the metahuman rulers of China and Japan, at forging a political alliance with blood ties, with one twin to take the Hikawa name and the other, the Lei name- shortly before the birth of the two brothers, relations between the Lei Family and the Hikawa Clan quickly soured, and the alliance was cast aside. As the alliance was quickly abandoned by the two metahuman nations, between whom acrimonity and hostilities were quickly growing, so too were the two brothers quickly forgotten; their father Toyokatsu Hikawa, third son of Toyonari Hikawa, disappeared in the early hours of New Year’s Day of 2001, and their mother Lei Chen-hsin, eldest child of Lei Tjin-fei, was declared persona non grata by her own father, and shortly thereafter went missing. The two warlords, however, took pity on the twin boys, and unwilling to see them share the same grisly fate as their parents, arranged for the renowned former mercenary Yusei Saeki to take them in under his wing.

At the time, Okinawa had remained independent from the control of any metahuman in particular, serving as a sort of neutral trade hub, and had become something of an independent state of its own, even as Honshu and Hokkaido came under the thumbs of Toyonari Hikawa and most of China, the northern parts of the Korean Peninsula, and Kyushu under Lei Tjin-fei. Yusei Saeki was a well-respected retired Okinawan hitman and mercenary who had recently retired and through family, former clients, and associates, boasted ties with the Hikawa Clan, and who had long wanted children, but could not have any as a result of his wife Shizuko’s infertility. As a final act of friendship before the complete breakdown of relations between China and Japan, perhaps, the two metahuman warlords agreed to let the baby twins live, and arranged for the Saekis to take them in; though no effort was made to conceal the identity of the boys (aside from them dropping their influential surnames), it was unlikely that they could, from where they had been left, climb into any position of influence in the upper echelons of the Lei Family or the Hikawa Clan, at least not by dint of their heritage. And thus, the two nameless twins became commoners- the older twin was named Ryugo - ‘the strong dragon’ - and the younger twin, Ryuju - ‘the gentle dragon’.

Aware of their metahuman powers early on, Yusei Saeki (himself a metahuman) endeavoured to have his new adoptive sons enter the mercenary business from which he had recently retired. He trained them from an early age in various skills such as disguise, stealth, and driving, while also sending them for training in martial arts, for which both twins showed great aptitude. From as young as 15, they began to work on small-time mercenary assignments, making a name for themselves through their efficiency and no-nonsense approach to their jobs, and working for progressively higher ranking clientele as the years went by. By the time they turned 19, both twins were essentially flying around the world year round for their jobs, leaving behind their Okinawan nest.

Additional information
The two twins have wildly different tastes in music, with Ryugo enjoying classical music and opera, and Ryuju, glam rock.

Name
Lei Tjin-fei
(雷進飛 Léi Jìnfēi)

Alias
“The Thunder God”

Alignment
Lei Family

Age
68

Appearance
Lei Tjin-fei stands at 180cm tall and weighs 76kg. He has a lean, muscular frame, and a shaved head, with a penchant for expensive three-piece suits with flashy designs. In recent years, he carries with him a jian everywhere he goes.

Lei's most striking feature is his amber, almost golden eyes- a trait seen in all members of the Lei Family.

Additional physical features
Lei Tjin-fei’s body is covered in tattoos; on his back, he bears an intricate depiction of Lei Gong, the Chinese God of thunder, in a traditional style of Chinese tattoo; down his sternum, he has the phrase 龍鳳呈祥 (“the dragon and phoenix bearing great prosperity”) inked in a bright scarlet colour; and on both his forearms, he has a winged stiletto wrapped in thorny tendrils.

Personality
Originally said to be a charming and charismatic man with a playful yet still fatherly demeanour, Lei Tjin-fei has become more and more reclusive over the course of the past twelve years, following his conquests which expanded his empire to its present extent. He rarely, if ever, leaves his lavish residence in Fuzhou, Fujian, and interacts only with his highest-ranking lieutenants, with even his wives living separately from him. Those close to him, however, attest to him still being a kind and friendly man, despite his increased paranoia and neurotic behaviour as of late.

Abilities
Lei Tjin-fei has the ability to manipulate electricity and summon thunderstorms, attacking others with bolts of lightning and with bursts of electricity. He himself is immune to electric attacks, and can thus, theoretically, go wild with his power without any risk of harming himself.

Lei is also an incredibly strong man for his age, despite not possessing any metahuman powers related to strength- for close to 10 years, he has been on a regimen of performance enhancing drugs and hormone replacement therapies in order to prolong his youth and vitality beyond what is naturally

Biography
Lei Tjin-fei was born in the Republic of China in 1952 not as a metahuman, but as an ordinary human. He enlisted into the army at the age of 18, and upon being deemed suitable, underwent conversion to a metahuman, in a clandestine programme conducted by the ROC Armed Forces to create a special forces unit consisting entirely of metahumans as a last resort in the event of a full-scale invasion by the People’s Republic of China. Upon the conclusion of the programme, Lei, who had been unusually physiologically receptive to the conversion process, became one of the most powerful individual metahumans in the ROC army, which combined with his charisma and his leadership abilities (and his connections to the underworld, which allowed him to quietly get rid of inconvenient people) led to a quick rise through the ranks. At the same time, eager to pass on his metahuman powers, Lei would marry multiple times, choosing women with powers he deemed desirable, so as to create children of immense strength.

For several years leading up to 1999, Lei worked in secret to expand his influence over the military and, subsequently, over the government and even facets of society itself. When the coup of 31 December 1999 came, he used his authority in the military and his connections in the underworld and seized the opportunity to take control of the armed forces, and subsequently, the Taiwanese government itself. Over the course of the next few years, he expanded the territory of his new nation, until it reached its present extent in early 2003.

Additional information

Name
Toyonari Hikawa
(氷川　豊成, Hikawa Toyonari)

Alias
The Ice King

Alignment
Hikawa Clan

Age
69

Appearance
Toyonari Hikawa is a small and frail old man, standing a mere 160cm tall and weighing 50kg. He has slicked back thick white hair, and often wears yukata and other traditional Japanese clothing. He is usually seen smoking cigarettes.

Hikawa's most striking feature is his icy blue eyes, a trait seen in all members of the Hikawa Clan.

Additional physical features
Hikawa carries a tanto with him hidden in his belt at all times.

Personality
Reflective and melancholy, Hikawa does not project the image of a feared yakuza boss, instead coming across more as a frail old man in his twilight years. A man of few words, Hikawa speaks softly and lives frugally, residing in a small house in Tokyo, where he spends his free time playing chess and reciting poetry. Little is known about how he thinks of things and how he really feels.

Abilities
Toyonari Hikawa possesses the metahuman ability to create and manipulate ice, being able to do so on a colossal scale if he so desires, despite his frail physical appearance- he can use his ability to varying degrees, performing actions as simple as freezing atmospheric water to lower the temperature in a room, to creating massive glaciers and blizzards with which he can attack his enemies.

Biography
Toyonari Hikawa was born in Sapporo in 1951 to unknown parents, who were supposedly former test subjects of metahuman experiments conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. Little is known about his early life, and Hikawa first appeared in the public consciousness in 1984 as the young leader of the Koori-gumi, an organised crime syndicate. Through a series of shrewd political manoeuvres, along with his reputation as a fearsome and brutal leader with immense power, Hikawa would by 1994 control most of the Japanese underworld, running what was in effect a country underneath a country.

In 1999, when Hammer and Columbia proclaimed the new world order of metahuman supremacy, Hikawa seized the opportunity, and marched upon the government in Tokyo, ousting the Emperor and the Diet and declaring himself ruler of Japan. The Hikawa Clan, his family, had in effect formed a new imperial government. Hikawa’s dominance over all of Japan was to be short-lived, however, as an attempted alliance with the Lei Family of China would soon turn sour, leading to a protracted conflict in Kyushu that ended with the island coming under the control of China, a major blow to Hikawa.

Since then, Hikawa has remained hidden in his residence in Tokyo, surrounded perpetually by his bodyguards and interacting only with one or two friends each day, as well as a messenger who conveys his orders to his lieutenants. Talk of a coup within the Hikawa Clan stirs, flattened only by the threat of the man’s immense power.

Additional information

Family name
The Lei Family (雷氏家族)

Dynastic head
Lei Tjin-fei (雷進飛 Léi Jìnfēi) is the founder and head of the Lei Family, the single largest and most powerful of the Chinese metahuman dynasties that rose to power at the turn of the century on 31 December 1999. Formerly a senior officer of the Republic of China Armed Forces and privately the leader of the Thunder Society triad, the charismatic Lei quickly rose to prominence through his tremendous ability to manipulate lightning and electricity, and amassed a large following both among the public and in the underworld that allowed him to overthrow the government of the Republic of China in the weeks following the 31st of December 1999 and, over the course of the next two years, conquer large swathes of the eastern Mainland, parts of the Korean Peninsula, and Kyushu, becoming de facto leader of Greater China by early 2003.

Twenty years after the metahuman revolution of 1999, Lei, now 68 years old and becoming increasingly paranoid, has become a reclusive figure, ruling for the most part through his children and through the leaders of the Lei Family cadet branches, while constantly searching for metahuman concubines with abilities of interest, in an attempt to produce more children who can inherit his power.

Other members
The Lei Children: Despite having fathered over twenty children with fifteen different wives, Lei Tjin-fei shows clear favouritism for three of his children in particular, due to their age as well as the power of their metahuman abilities inherited from him.

• Lei Tjun-bin (雷俊斌, Léi Jùnbīn)- Lei Tjun-bin is the oldest son (and second child) of Lei Tjin-fei. Born in June 1989, he inherited his father’s metahuman electric powers as well as his mother’s power- a latent ability to recover from injury at a superhuman speed. He is the governor of the Fujian region.
• Lei Wen-bin (雷文斌, Léi Wénbīn)- Lei Wen-bin is Lei Tjin-fei’s oldest child with his second wife. Born in February 1991, he inherited his father’s metahuman electric powers as well as his mother’s power- the ability to telekinetically move any object within a 30 metre radius of himself. He is the governor of the Guangdong region.
• Lei Hui-yee (雷惠翼, Léi Huìyí)- Lei Hui-yee is the second child of Lei Tjin-fei with his second wife. Born in June 1993, she inherited her father’s metahuman electric powers, as well as her mother’s power to telekinetically move any object within a 30 metre radius of herself. She is the governor of the Zhejiang region.

Territorial claim

• Several Mainland Chinese provinces
  • Fujian
  • Guangdong
  • Zhejiang
  • Jiangsu
  • Anhui
  • Jiangxi
  • Shandong
• Taiwan
• Some northern parts of the Korean Peninsula
• Kyushu

Political philosophy
The Lei Family itself adopts a laissez-faire approach to governance, being content with leaving the subjects of their territories be so long as the status of the Lei Family as the ruling dynasty is not compromised.

Brief history
Lei Tjin-fei’s rise to power was all but certain, given his almost celebrity status in the Republic of China as one of the most decorated military officers in the ROC Armed Forces and one of the strongest metahumans (and, unbeknownst to the public, one of the most influential figures in the underworld). However, few expected the global metahuman coup of 31 December 1999, and fewer still could have foreseen that Lei would, with his command over large factions in the military and over significant underworld elements, take the bold move of overthrowing the ROC government.

With Mainland China in disarray, as several warring metahuman factions tussled with each other for control over the splintered empire, Lei Tjin-fei organised a large-scale invasion of the Mainland, leading the charge himself, and conquered large swathes of territory, before finally shifting his base of operations from Taipei to the nearby Fuzhou in the mainland and plotting to eventually conquer Japan, which had come under control of the metahuman Hikawa family.

Family name
The Hikawa Clan (氷川氏, Hikawa-shi)

Dynastic head
Toyonari Hikawa (氷川　豊成), a yakuza leader and leader of the powerful Koori-gumi headquartered in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, is the leader of the Hikawa Clan which now rules Japan

Other members

• The Four Cadet Branches are four subordinate families of the Hikawa Clan which are tangentially related to Toyonari Hikawa himself, and which serve as proxy rulers of the various regions of Japan.
  
  The Four Cadet Branches are:
  
  • The Urayama Clan (浦山氏), led by Shimon Urayama (浦山　史門)
  • The Ashihara Clan (葦原氏), led by Kunikazu Ashihara (葦原　邦和)
  • The Nagatomi Clan (永冨氏), led by Yoshiro Nagatomi (永冨　義郎)
  • The Higuchi Clan (樋口氏), led by Junya Higuchi (樋口　淳也)
• Yukari Shinazugawa (不死川　紫, [i]Shinazugawa Yukari[/b]) is an assassin and the chief enforcer of Toyonari Hikawa. She is rarely ever seen, and little is known about her, except that she possesses two abilities, namely, the ability to phase through walls and other solid objects, as well as a phoenix-like ability to quickly recover from injuries that are fatal to most other people without the ability (though this ability is limited, in that she can be killed if mortally wounded multiple times in quick succession.)

Territorial claim

• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Shikoku

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Political philosophy
The Hikawa Clan does not particularly care what its subjects do, so long as they do not threaten the Clan’s rule over its territories. Though there are no elections, the Clan generally leaves its subjects to do as they please, though there are instances of people being ‘disappeared’ at times.

Brief history
The Hikawa Clan was the leader of the Koori-gumi yakuza based in Sapporo, which expanded its base of operations into the rest of Japan and absorbed various other groups to become the single most powerful organised crime syndicate by the mid 1990s. Upon the coup of 31 December 1999, Toyonari Hikawa seized the opportunity to utilise his vast underground network and his private armies of metahumans (i.e. the Four Cadet Branches) to overthrow the Japanese government and install himself and the Hikawa Clan as the new leaders of Japan.

His rule over unified Japan would prove to be short, as a breakdown in relations with China, ruled by Lei Tjin-fei and the Lei Family, would lead to a two-year war that resulted in the loss of Kyushu, which fell under Lei’s control. Despite this humiliating loss of territory, the Hikawa Clan remains one of the two major powers in East Asia, alongside the Lei Family, and though Toyonari Hikawa himself grows old, the Clan as a whole still maintains ambitions of conquest and expansion beyond the island that they lost.

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Name
Ryugo and Ryuju Saeki
(冴木　竜剛, Saeki Ryūgō)
(冴木　竜柔, Saeki Ryūjū)

Alias
“The Twins”
“The Bastards”
“The Boar” (Ryugo)
“The Serpent” (Ryuju)

Alignment
The highest bidder
Lei Family (former)
Hikawa Clan (former)

Age
Both 20 (both born 25 December 2000; Ryugo is the older twin by 40 minutes)

Appearance
Despite being twins, Ryugo Saeki and Ryuju Saeki differ significantly in physical appearance. Ryugo Saeki stands at 183cm (6ft) tall and bears a large and bulky figure, weighing a total of 84kg (185lbs) and sporting a buzz cut and unshaven five-o-clock stubble, with one scar running down the left side of his head as well as another running down his back covered by a thorny helix tattoo; in contrast, Ryuju Saeki bears a smaller and leaner figure, with a height of 171cm (5ft 6) and a weight of 70kg (154.5lbs), with his most distinctive features being a mane of unruly black hair and a snaggle tooth. Nevertheless, both of the brothers do have one trait in common, namely, their eyes, which are of a striking icy blue colour, a characteristic of the Hikawa Clan, from which both were expelled shortly after their birth.

Additional physical features
As a result of their regenerative ability, it is all but certain that both twins will, at some point or another later in their life, develop cancer of some sort. This is a trait that was observed by Lei Tjin-fei in the family of his first wife, from which this metahuman ability arose - all members of his first wife’s family bearing the regenerative gene developed aggressive cancers to which they would eventually succumb quickly by the time they were in their mid 30s. This trait is known to the two brothers.

Personality
Both brothers have a happy-go-lucky attitude to the future and to life in general, preferring not to care too much about the politics of the world around them, and being content with earning enough money through their admittedly shady means in their line of work as mercenaries and contract pirates to enjoy the finer things in life. Perhaps as a result of their cognisance of their own ironically shortened lifespan as a result of their regenerative ability, Ryugo and Ryuju both have a rather nonchalant and almost flippant attitude to life’s miseries and inconveniences, and often come across as very optimistic and intent on enjoying the good things as they come, preferring to live and let live rather than hold grudges.

Though prone to pranks and mischief, Ryugo and Ryuju are also highly professional on the job, cutting no corners and always endeavouring to complete the assignments issued by their clients.

Abilities
Both Ryugo and Ryuju are metahumans born with the ability to generate ice and frost, with their palms being the parts most conducive for channeling this ability (Ryuju’s ability is far more potent than Ryugo’s, requiring him to wear a pair of gloves everywhere so as not to accidentally freeze everything around him); this ability is inherited from Toyokatsu Hikawa, son of Toyonari Hikawa, head of the Hikawa Clan and ruler of Japan. In addition, both brothers have a second metahuman ability, namely, a superhuman recovery potential that allows for extremely quick recovery from injuries and even exercise. This ability is inherited from their mother Lei Chen-hsin, the disowned eldest child of Lei Tjin-fei, ruler of China, and manifests far more potently in Ryugo than in Ryuju, in turn allowing Ryugo to take levels of punishment beyond what is bearable by normal human beings and to build up his strength and endurance to superhuman levels.

Aside from their metahuman abilities, both of the twins are skilled in martial arts, Ryugo having training in karate and wrestling, and Ryuju in judo.

Biography
The twins Ryugo and Ryuju Saeki were born on Christmas Day of the year 2000, nearly one year to the day when Columbia and Hammer first proclaimed the new world order of metahuman supremacy and inspired revolution around the world. Their birth was the result of a brief and ultimately failed experiment by Lei Tjin-fei and Toyonari Hikawa, the metahuman rulers of China and Japan, at forging a political alliance with blood ties, with one twin to take the Hikawa name and the other, the Lei name- shortly before the birth of the two brothers, relations between the Lei Family and the Hikawa Clan quickly soured, and the alliance was cast aside. As the alliance was quickly abandoned by the two metahuman nations, between whom acrimonity and hostilities were quickly growing, so too were the two brothers quickly forgotten; their father Toyokatsu Hikawa, third son of Toyonari Hikawa, committed suicide in the early hours of New Year’s Day of 2001, and their mother Lei Chen-hsin, eldest child of Lei Tjin-fei, was declared persona non grata by her own father, and shortly thereafter went missing. The two warlords, however, took pity on the twin boys, and unwilling to see them share the same grisly fate as their parents, arranged for the renowned former mercenary Yusei Saeki to take them in under his wing.

At the time, Okinawa had remained independent from the control of any metahuman in particular, serving as a sort of neutral trade hub, and had become something of an independent state of its own, even as Honshu and Hokkaido came under the thumbs of Toyonari Hikawa and most of China, the northern parts of the Korean Peninsula, and Kyushu under Lei Tjin-fei. Yusei Saeki was a well-respected retired Okinawan hitman and mercenary who had recently retired and through family, former clients, and associates, boasted ties with the Hikawa Clan, and who had long wanted children, but could not have any as a result of his wife Shizuko’s infertility. As a final act of friendship before the complete breakdown of relations between China and Japan, perhaps, the two metahuman warlords agreed to let the baby twins live, and arranged for the Saekis to take them in; though no effort was made to conceal the identity of the boys (aside from them dropping their influential surnames), it was unlikely that they could, from where they had been left, climb into any position of influence in the upper echelons of the Lei Family or the Hikawa Clan, at least not by dint of their heritage. And thus, the two nameless twins became commoners- the older twin was named Ryugo - ‘the strong dragon’ - and the younger twin, Ryuju - ‘the gentle dragon’.

Aware of their metahuman powers early on, Yusei Saeki (himself a metahuman) endeavoured to have his new adoptive sons enter the mercenary business from which he had recently retired. He trained them from an early age in various skills such as disguise, stealth, and driving, while also sending them for training in martial arts, for which both twins showed great aptitude. From as young as 15, they began to work on small-time mercenary assignments, making a name for themselves through their efficiency and no-nonsense approach to their jobs, and working for progressively higher ranking clientele as the years went by. By the time they turned 19, both twins were essentially flying around the world year round for their jobs, leaving behind their Okinawan nest.

Additional information
The two twins have wildly different tastes in music, with Ryugo enjoying classical music and opera, and Ryuju, glam rock.

Name
Lei Tjin-fei
(雷進飛 Léi Jìnfēi)

Alias
“The Thunder God”

Alignment
Lei Family

Age
68

Appearance
Lei Tjin-fei stands at 180cm tall and weighs 76kg. He has a lean, muscular frame, and a shaved head, with a penchant for expensive three-piece suits with flashy designs. In recent years, he carries with him a jian everywhere he goes.

Additional physical features
Lei Tjin-fei’s body is covered in tattoos; on his back, he bears an intricate depiction of Lei Gong, the Chinese God of thunder, in a traditional style of Chinese tattoo; down his sternum, he has the phrase 龍鳳呈祥 (“the dragon and phoenix bearing great prosperity”) inked in a bright scarlet colour; and on both his forearms, he has a winged stiletto wrapped in thorny tendrils.

Personality
Originally said to be a charming and charismatic man with a playful yet still fatherly demeanour, Lei Tjin-fei has become more and more reclusive over the course of the past twelve years, following his conquests which expanded his empire to its present extent. He rarely, if ever, leaves his lavish residence in Fuzhou, Fujian, and interacts only with his highest-ranking lieutenants, with even his wives living separately from him. Those close to him, however, attest to him still being a kind and friendly man, despite his increased paranoia and neurotic behaviour as of late.

Abilities
Lei Tjin-fei has the ability to manipulate electricity and summon thunderstorms, attacking others with bolts of lightning and with bursts of electricity. He himself is immune to electric attacks, and can thus, theoretically, go wild with his power without any risk of harming himself.

Lei is also an incredibly strong man for his age, despite not possessing any metahuman powers related to strength- for close to 10 years, he has been on a regimen of performance enhancing drugs and hormone replacement therapies in order to prolong his youth and vitality beyond what is naturally

Biography
Lei Tjin-fei was born in the Republic of China in 1952 not as a metahuman, but as an ordinary human. He enlisted into the army at the age of 18, and upon being deemed suitable, underwent conversion to a metahuman, in a clandestine programme conducted by the ROC Armed Forces to create a special forces unit consisting entirely of metahumans as a last resort in the event of a full-scale invasion by the People’s Republic of China. Upon the conclusion of the programme, Lei, who had been unusually physiologically receptive to the conversion process, became one of the most powerful individual metahumans in the ROC army, which combined with his charisma and his leadership abilities (and his connections to the underworld, which allowed him to quietly get rid of inconvenient people) led to a quick rise through the ranks. At the same time, eager to pass on his metahuman powers, Lei would marry multiple times, choosing women with powers he deemed desirable, so as to create children of immense strength.

For several years leading up to 1999, Lei worked in secret to expand his influence over the military and, subsequently, over the government and even facets of society itself. When the coup of 31 December 1999 came, he used his authority in the military and his connections in the underworld and seized the opportunity to take control of the armed forces, and subsequently, the Taiwanese government itself. Over the course of the next few years, he expanded the territory of his new nation, until it reached its present extent in early 2003.

Additional information

Name
Toyonari Hikawa
(氷川　豊成, Hikawa Toyonari)

Alias
The Ice King

Alignment
Hikawa Clan

Age
69

Appearance
Toyonari Hikawa is a small and frail old man, standing a mere 160cm tall and weighing 50kg. He has slicked back thick white hair, and often wears yukata and other traditional Japanese clothing. He is usually seen smoking cigarettes.

Additional physical features
Hikawa carries a tanto with him hidden in his belt at all times.

Personality
Reflective and melancholy, Hikawa does not project the image of a feared yakuza boss, instead coming across more as a frail old man in his twilight years. A man of few words, Hikawa speaks softly and lives frugally, residing in a small house in Tokyo, where he spends his free time playing chess and reciting poetry. Little is known about how he thinks of things and how he really feels.

Abilities
Toyonari Hikawa possesses the metahuman ability to create and manipulate ice, being able to do so on a colossal scale if he so desires, despite his frail physical appearance- he can use his ability to varying degrees, performing actions as simple as freezing atmospheric water to lower the temperature in a room, to creating massive glaciers and blizzards with which he can attack his enemies.

Biography
Toyonari Hikawa was born in Sapporo in 1951 to unknown parents, who were supposedly former test subjects of metahuman experiments conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War. Little is known about his early life, and Hikawa first appeared in the public consciousness in 1984 as the young leader of the Koori-gumi, an organised crime syndicate. Through a series of shrewd political manoeuvres, along with his reputation as a fearsome and brutal leader with immense power, Hikawa would by 1994 control most of the Japanese underworld, running what was in effect a country underneath a country.

In 1999, when Hammer and Columbia proclaimed the new world order of metahuman supremacy, Hikawa seized the opportunity, and marched upon the government in Tokyo, ousting the Emperor and the Diet and declaring himself ruler of Japan. The Hikawa Clan, his family, had in effect formed a new imperial government. Hikawa’s dominance over all of Japan was to be short-lived, however, as an attempted alliance with the Lei Family of China would soon turn sour, leading to a protracted conflict in Kyushu that ended with the island coming under the control of China, a major blow to Hikawa.

Since then, Hikawa has remained hidden in his residence in Tokyo, surrounded perpetually by his bodyguards and interacting only with one or two friends each day, as well as a messenger who conveys his orders to his lieutenants. Talk of a coup within the Hikawa Clan stirs, flattened only by the threat of the man’s immense power.

Additional information

Family name
The Lei Family (雷氏家族)

Dynastic head
Lei Tjin-fei (雷進飛 Léi Jìnfēi) is the founder and head of the Lei Family, the single largest and most powerful of the Chinese metahuman dynasties that rose to power at the turn of the century on 31 December 1999. Formerly a senior officer of the Republic of China Armed Forces and privately the leader of the Thunder Society triad, the charismatic Lei quickly rose to prominence through his tremendous ability to manipulate lightning and electricity, and amassed a large following both among the public and in the underworld that allowed him to overthrow the government of the Republic of China in the weeks following the 31st of December 1999 and, over the course of the next two years, conquer large swathes of the eastern Mainland, parts of the Korean Peninsula, and Kyushu, becoming de facto leader of Greater China by early 2003.

Twenty years after the metahuman revolution of 1999, Lei, now 68 years old and becoming increasingly paranoid, has become a reclusive figure, ruling for the most part through his children and through the leaders of the Lei Family cadet branches, while constantly searching for metahuman concubines with abilities of interest, in an attempt to produce more children who can inherit his power.

Other members
The Lei Children: Despite having fathered over twenty children with fifteen different wives, Lei Tjin-fei shows clear favouritism for three of his children in particular, due to their age as well as the power of their metahuman abilities inherited from him.

• Lei Tjun-bin (雷俊斌, Léi Jùnbīn)- Lei Tjun-bin is the oldest son (and second child) of Lei Tjin-fei. Born in June 1989, he inherited his father’s metahuman electric powers as well as his mother’s power- a latent ability to recover from injury at a superhuman speed. He is the governor of the Fujian region.
• Lei Wen-bin (雷文斌, Léi Wénbīn)- Lei Wen-bin is Lei Tjin-fei’s oldest child with his second wife. Born in February 1991, he inherited his father’s metahuman electric powers as well as his mother’s power- the ability to telekinetically move any object within a 30 metre radius of himself. He is the governor of the Guangdong region.
• Lei Hui-yee (雷惠翼, Léi Huìyí)- Lei Hui-yee is the second child of Lei Tjin-fei with his second wife. Born in June 1993, she inherited her father’s metahuman electric powers, as well as her mother’s power to telekinetically move any object within a 30 metre radius of herself. She is the governor of the Zhejiang region.

Territorial claim

• Several Mainland Chinese provinces
  • Fujian
  • Guangdong
  • Zhejiang
  • Jiangsu
  • Anhui
  • Jiangxi
  • Shandong
• Taiwan
• Some northern parts of the Korean Peninsula
• Kyushu
• Lào Cai Province, Vietnam
  
  Political philosophy
  The Lei Family itself adopts a laissez-faire approach to governance, being content with leaving the subjects of their territories be so long as the status of the Lei Family as the ruling dynasty is not compromised.
  
  Brief history
  Lei Tjin-fei’s rise to power was all but certain, given his almost celebrity status in the Republic of China as one of the most decorated military officers in the ROC Armed Forces and one of the strongest metahumans (and, unbeknownst to the public, one of the most influential figures in the underworld). However, few expected the global metahuman coup of 31 December 1999, and fewer still could have foreseen that Lei would, with his command over large factions in the military and over significant underworld elements, take the bold move of overthrowing the ROC government.
  
  With Mainland China in disarray, as several warring metahuman factions tussled with each other for control over the splintered empire, Lei Tjin-fei organised a large-scale invasion of the Mainland, leading the charge himself, and conquered large swathes of territory, before finally shifting his base of operations from Taipei to the nearby Fuzhou in the mainland and plotting to eventually conquer Japan, which had come under control of the metahuman Hikawa family.

Family name
The Hikawa Clan (氷川氏, Hikawa-shi)

Dynastic head
Toyonari Hikawa (氷川　豊成), a yakuza leader and leader of the powerful Koori-gumi headquartered in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, is the leader of the Hikawa Clan which now rules Japan

Other members

• The Four Cadet Branches are four subordinate families of the Hikawa Clan which are tangentially related to Toyonari Hikawa himself, and which serve as proxy rulers of the various regions of Japan.
  
  The Four Cadet Branches are:
  
  • The Urayama Clan (浦山氏), led by Shimon Urayama (浦山　史門)
  • The Ashihara Clan (葦原氏), led by Kunikazu Ashihara (葦原　邦和)
  • The Nagatomi Clan (永冨氏), led by Yoshiro Nagatomi (永冨　義郎)
  • The Higuchi Clan (樋口氏), led by Junya Higuchi (樋口　淳也)
• Yukari Shinazugawa (不死川　紫, [i]Shinazugawa Yukari[/b]) is an assassin and the chief enforcer of Toyonari Hikawa. She is rarely ever seen, and little is known about her, except that she possesses two abilities, namely, the ability to phase through walls and other solid objects, as well as a phoenix-like ability to quickly recover from injuries that are fatal to most other people without the ability (though this ability is limited, in that she can be killed if mortally wounded multiple times in quick succession.)
  
  Territorial claim
  
  • Hokkaido
  • Honshu
  • Shikoku

Political philosophy
The Hikawa Clan does not particularly care what its subjects do, so long as they do not threaten the Clan’s rule over its territories. Though there are no elections, the Clan generally leaves its subjects to do as they please, though there are instances of people being ‘disappeared’ at times.

Brief history
The Hikawa Clan was the leader of the Koori-gumi yakuza based in Sapporo, which expanded its base of operations into the rest of Japan and absorbed various other groups to become the single most powerful organised crime syndicate by the mid 1990s. Upon the coup of 31 December 1999, Toyonari Hikawa seized the opportunity to utilise his vast underground network and his private armies of metahumans (i.e. the Four Cadet Branches) to overthrow the Japanese government and install himself and the Hikawa Clan as the new leaders of Japan.

His rule over unified Japan would prove to be short, as a breakdown in relations with China, ruled by Lei Tjin-fei and the Lei Family, would lead to a two-year war that resulted in the loss of Kyushu, which fell under Lei’s control. Despite this humiliating loss of territory, the Hikawa Clan remains one of the two major powers in East Asia, alongside the Lei Family, and though Toyonari Hikawa himself grows old, the Clan as a whole still maintains ambitions of conquest and expansion beyond the island that they lost.

Gucci.

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How possible would a free blade type meta be? Or probably better formatted, how viable in this RP?