#((bio drops but i came mostly for the trivia oops))

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Bio drop in list format bc I can’t take myself seriously enough to write in paragraphs rn - 

Her father was a duke posted to the northern border and took her mother, a jianghu healer, as a second wife, because she saved his life after a particularly tough siege. She has an older brother and a few other younger siblings, and before everything bad happened she would’ve been happy to live out life just like that.

Then the emperor decided that their family held too much fame and military power in the far reaches of the country. They were a threat. So her father was wrongfully accused of colluding with foreign powers and committing treason after a lost battle, and her family was taken, imprisoned, and eventually executed.

She was spending the summer with her maternal grandfather, the head of the largest medicine sect in jianghu, at the time. Having escaped the massacre, her grandfather raised her as if she never had ties to court in the first place. She doesn’t remember much of her previous life, only that she loved her family dearly. 

Once she was old enough to understand...she thought about revenge. She doesn’t know how she feels about it or how she intends to do it, if she does want that, yet, but she figures building a name and a living for herself first can’t hurt.

She grew up learning the medicinal arts that her grandfather had developed over the years and traveled with him everywhere from one place to the next,  helping with treating patients as her grandfather’s assistant. Develops a special interest in acupuncture and some fame among female patients who she took care of mor conveniently.

When she comes of age, her grandfather finally gives her permission to travel on her own - and the silver needles that have been passed down in their family through the generations.

She’s been on her own, drifting around jianghu ever since, building up a patient base,  saving strangers and making herself a little bit famous. Though she pokes her nose into most of the cases she runs into because she can’t help it and anonymously gifts prescriptions to treat widespread diseases to different pharmacies throughout the country as she’s going past, if a patient is coming to her specifically, she’ll only take the case if she deems it to be interesting enough / a challenge.

Fun trivia things!!

Most of the time she customizes prescriptions and oversees their making herself. She especially likes to (and it becomes a staple in her clinic/style) make the medicine into candies - because medicine c a n be sweet, so why shouldn’t it be, especially when the ill are miserable enough already? Also, she likes sweet things  - the dosages of the medicines are adjusted taking into account the added sugar.

Please tell her she’s clever. She doesn’t absolutely live off praise ok maybe she does a tiny bit but she gets very giddy/perks up a l o t off of it.

She loves!!! Good patients!! If you take your meds on time and follow doctor’s order you have now become Her Favorite Patient!!! She’s very agreeable toward good patients!!

Ok she may just be very agreeable in general. When she’s thinking about other things / her mind is occupied / she’s very pleased, she’ll blurt out honest answers to almost any question / agree to almost anything before her mind catches back up. 

Her favorite nickname is Tang Tang (it is a homonym for candy).

Not an innocent baby who could be taken advantage of by any means - but sometimes she plays it up. One of her advantages is looking relatively harmless and like she could be intimidated. 

In truth the girl is fearless and slippery and lives by the motto “if you can handle the consequences of your action then you can do your action.”

Doesn’t know martial arts / can’t really f i g h t but has cultivated a very thick qi base since she was very young, which she lends very freely to those who need it and those who c a n actually fight in the necessary circumstance. Will and has joked previously that she’s like a “qi bank.”

Also knows the right acupoints to temporarily paralyze people to buy herself enough time to run -

Has studied meridians since a very young age. Has self-devised a set of acupoints to preserve and stabilize the heart and meridians and can generally hold a patient out of th clutches of the reaper for a few hours in case of emergency, though it’s a tricky and intensely laborious process.

Her older brother survived! I don’t know how yet but I’m faintly interested in him so I may pick him up as an oc later too but fjaklsfj;lksf he’s gone back to court with a false identity and made his way up to be one of the heads of the emperor’s secret service. His plans include...toppling the empire.