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{{Tab}} | {{Tab}}Hua Tian-shin was born and raised in Manhattan’s Chinatown, the middle child of a Chinese immigrant family. She spent her early years helping her parents run their bookshop and studying hard to make them proud. Her older sister was brilliant but wild, her younger brother obedient but academically mediocre. As such, she felt a great deal of pressure to achieve not only a high-paying profession, but one that would be of use to family and community. | ||
The entire family was thrown into chaos when the eldest child was revealed to be both transgender and a mutant with the ability to manipulate colors, then ran away. It would be years before any of them see him again, calling himself 'Tag'. Tian-shin, in the meantime became the de facto eldest child with all the responsibilities that entails. | |||
When her father’s business associates offered to pay her way through law school in return for her services after graduation, she jumped at the opportunity. It was only by degrees that she came to understand that her future employers were members of a criminal syndicate called the Chung Yu Tong, under the leadership of a man named Chung Ling-yin. | |||
After passing the bar, Tian-shin joined Li and Associates, a small law firm that primarily serves Chinese clients affiliated with Boss Chung. Though competent and well-regarded, she was uncomfortable with her continued involvement with the tong. It took learning that their father kidnapped Tag with syndicate assistance to make her quit. | |||
The aftermath found her brother free but unwilling to have much to do with the family. Their father went missing and is presumed dead. Tian-shin herself is now freelancing out of the family's home above the bookshop, seeking to establish herself as an advocate for mutants. | |||
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{{Tab}} | {{Tab}}Only recently manifested, Tian-shin’s power remains a mystery to her. Given the stressful and surreal circumstances surrounding her discovery of it, she does not feel confident she is even a mutant at all. She can catalyze chemical reactions, but only if she knows the underlying mechanism. So far she has only used it unintentionally, converting water spontaneously into hydrogen and oxygen. She is not immune to the harmful effects of the byproducts her reactions produce. | ||
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