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| By King Bumis Heir | Part of the Avatar: Civil Strife continuity. |
| Juji's fine. He comes back to life in the end when the doomsday device shifts the polarity of the Earth. Oops. Spoiler. Sorry.
Warning! This page contains spoilers for Avatar: Civil Strife.
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| ""I didn't come all this way to have an ignorant man tell me that my name isn't feminine. The tedious process of changing one's name is far worse than getting a new identity from the Mother of Faces!" |
| — Nu Xing complained about the ignorant soldier from the barricades in Chapter 4: Of Conquerors and Guardians Part 2: The Fall of Guandi. |
Nu Xing Bian is an assassin under the employ of Gan; she's got a secret that no one but herself and a few others know. She's a minor character in Avatar: Civil Strife.
History[]
Bian Nu Xing was assigned male at birth, born to an Oma Kingsmen father and Fire Nationalist Mother in the province of Hou Tian. A noble family in a town seventy miles south of the capital city, Hou Tian. As a child, Nu Xing, wasn't much interested in masculine things like learning war, military, sparring with other boys. Nu Xing enjoyed spending time with her mother playing with her makeup when her parents weren't around, wearing specific pieces of her mother's clothing or even wearing a hairpin with feminine decorations on it.
Several years later, into Nu Xing's life she realized that her entire life was about living a lie. She didn't feel like a man, her thoughts, her desires, and interests were all feminine. Since she was a child she knew she liked all these things. Without the medicinal advancements during this time period she felt she was trapped in a body that wasn't something she wanted. When Nu Xing came out to her parents her father disapproved and said she would be the laughing stock of the entire town. While her mother Jin Qin was more supportive of what she wanted to achieve in life.
Jade Lotus Society[]
Throughout the years, Nu Xing's father Bian Men Huai, grew a part from his child when she came out as a transwoman. Hiding Nu Xing from public and denying that he had a daughter. When Nu Xing was in her early 20s her mother passed away unexpectedly. Jin Qin was the extrememly supportive of her daughter's desire to transition to a woman. She remembered the legends her mother would tell her about the Mother of Faces when she was younger. Her father kicked her out, and she found herself inside the Jade Lotus Society. An Oma Kingsmen Triad native to the capital city Hou Tian, while there she learned alchemy from her mentor an old woman who served as the healer, and poison maker for the triad.
Min Hua Mu in her younger years worked as a courtesan before she ran into the Jade Lotus Society, she was supportive of Nu Xing's walk of life. With Hua Mu, only being around for a few more years; she decided to make Nu Xing her apprentice teaching her everything she knew about alchemy and also charm, and how to communicate. Eight years after being with the Jade Lotus Society, Nu Xing, along with two others ventured to the Fire Nation her mother's homeland. Her mother Jin Qin came from the Island of Masaru part of the chain of islands east of the capital of the country.
Journey to a New Me[]
There was a legend of a forest or jungle in a valley about four days of travel near the southwestern region of the island. There according to legend, the area was connected to the Spirit World. It's supposedly known as being dangerous and a few who've entered never returned. An ancient spirit known as the Mother of Faces walks the valley near one of the three pools located inside the jungle. With her close friends she traveled to the Forgetful Valley as it was called. With a failed attempt during the first trip, luckily her second trip to the valley months later turned out successful.
When Nu Xing, encountered the elusive Mother of Faces, she gave her life story to the spirit hoping she'd give Nu Xing a new identity. While the spirit questioned her odd request, she understood what Nu Xing had gone through in life. The first time the Mother of Faces crafted a new identity for someone that changed their lives forever. Her new face blew the minds of her friends, members of the Society; she was grateful for her new life as a woman. Returning to Hou Tian, she has struggled to change her first and last name in rememberance of her mother. Now to remember her mother she wears the silver hairpin with a pink lotus in hairstyle.
Assassinating a Governor[]
Knowing Gan's skills Brigadier-General Yun requested that he pick four other individuals and assemble a team to infiltrate the city of Guandi and assassinate Governor Luyou Bei. Giving Gan four hours before he assaulted the capital with the army camped in the mountains. Gan chose four team members, Fen Mo Fu, Suo Pi Dao, Bian Nu Xing, and Chao Lin Xi. Each of the four had a unique skill set that would help him accomplish his mission.
Nu Xing met with Jian a former Yanzhao agent who relieved information to her about the Governor's steward an old man named Lao Piao, who frequented a cathouse named the "House of Ravishing Flowers". Her mission was to extract information from the steward about the governor, when she arrived to the establishment she discovered it to be a brothel. Only way to seek this was to gain employment here, after the inspection from the procurer and proprieter of the brothel, Zhe Caigou approved of her she was hired.
There she was introduced to Lao Piao a rich and powerful man, with high influence in the city. The procurer apologized to him, his usual escort Nu Ying another girl was really sick after their last session together. Caigou offered Nu Xing instead which is what she wanted, Lao Piao took the new employee to the largest room in the House. One where he took his favorite worker to everyday, he eventually got comfortable and revealed to Nu Xing, that the girl he bought daily was half her age. Presumably, fifteen or barely sixteen, disgusted by this revelation and what the old man shared Nu Xing allowed her feelings to get in the way of the mission and punished the steward.
Once extracting the information needed she branded him on the forehead with 'pervert' and as a final revenge from Nu Ying, she castrated Lao Piao. Abandoning him and heading for the estate of the governor where she waited for her team members to exit the estate. Nu Xing lighting the main wick with firebending began the timer for them to leave. After they escaped via carriage, and passed the House of Ravishing Flowers; the governor's estate blew up which alerted the watchtowers and placed the city on lockdown. After the four hours were up, Yun attacked the city in the wee hours of the evening leading to the city surrendering after losing their entire chain of command in the explosion.
Dismantling Li Jun County[]
Not done
Infiltrating the Sixfold City[]
Not done
Abilities[]
Nu Xing was born a firebender and learned through stolen firebending scrolls during her time in the Jade Lotus Society. Her mentor Min Hua Mu trained her in alchemy and expanded over the course of five to eight years before Hua Mu passed of natural causes. She learned communication skills, and how to use her charm from the old woman as well. Nu Xing learned to use a dagger while in the Triad from another criminal, eventually she became an alchemical expert using her poisons to drug men to extract information very rarely killing them.
Relatives[]
- Bian Men Huai (Father)
- Bian Jin Qin (Mother; Deceased)
Appearances[]
Avatar: Civil Strife[]
Book One: War[]
Trivia[]
- Bian Nu Xing means "to become different, (of gender) woman" in Cantonese.
- Nu Xing is the first trans character in The King's Heir Avatarverse.
- There are vague hints of Nu Xing's transition.
- Nu Xing is also one of the few characters in the AU that is of mixed descent; She's an Oma and also a Fire Nationalist.
- A fanon mini-series after Book 1 is completed or after ACS is completed is being planned for Nu Xing. Although details about it are simply bare bones.
- Her father's name is Men Huai (Mun Hu-Eye; 悶懐) which means "closed, mind" in Cantonese.
- Her mother's name is Jin Qin (Jin Chin; 近親) which means "close relative" in Cantonese.
- Her mentor Min Hua Mu (Min Wah Mu; 瑉 花木)'s name means "alabaster, flora" in Cantonese.
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