Player Name: Ryuu Contact: Ryuu @ Discord Invited by: Saffy, a long time ago, and we have questioned ever since Other Characters: Jusis Albarea, Venti
Character Name: Dan Heng Canon: Honkai: Star Rail Canon History:Dan Heng, Imbitor Lunae, and Vidyadhara since that one's pretty important to why he is the way he is!
Canon Personality: 🌕 Dan Heng comes off as cold and reserved. He doesn't really like to talk about himself much.
🌕 He's very blunt, and can be passive-aggressive.
🌕 Dan Heng doesn't express his emotions outwardly to people for the most part. However, when he's alone or when a situation is dire, it's a lot clearer to see what he's feeling.
🌕 His main goal had been to run far away from his past and kin, but that's all changed. Instead, he's now facing his past to see what he can do to fix what his previous incarnation has done.
🌕 He harbors an intense anger towards being seen as Dan Feng rather than his own person. He hates that he has to bear Dan Feng's sins when he's not that person anymore, especially when his sentence of premature rebirth should mean that Dan Heng has a clean slate.
🌕 Dan Heng has a steely defiance within himself. Even his weapon ability, tailored to him as a unit, is called "Defiant 'Til Death." This seems to be at the core of him as a person, since there's an implication that defiance runs throughout his line.
🌕 He cares deeply for the people he befriends. Such as going onto the Luofu despite the fact that his status as an exile would mean he will immediately put to death if he's caught. He does this so that Dan Heng can keep his friends safe from a man who has been pursuing him with a killing intent (yes it's Blade).
🌕 Several characters express how he and his previous incarnation are cold and aloof, and sometimes they call him arrogant. However, there are a few who also express that he looks lonely and that he's never really been looked at like he's a person with feelings by most people.
🌕 Dan Heng holds the braincell for the Astral Express at all times.
AU Name: N/A AU Age: 27 (his age in canon is unknown, but speculated to be maybe 300 years old) AU Birthday: July 8th Faction: POKEGO (Archivist Maple)
AU History: Dan Heng's parents moved from China to Boston, Massachussetts when he was around a year old. A year afterwards, he was blessed with having a little sister to look out for. Growing up, he had very high expectations put on him to do well academically and also was pressured into picking STEM or law as his career paths. It was very difficult to maintain friendships as a kid because of how demanding his schoolwork became once he hit middle school. To help let off some steam and keep himself in shape, they let him choose what sport to participate in, and Dan Heng chose figure skating. At the very least, it wasn't a team sport, which was what he felt he'd not do very well in given his introverted nature.
By all accounts, he appeared to be excelling and meeting his family's expectations. He got straight A's, his competitions were going well, he was earning scholarships, and they were all very proud of him and his accomplishments. His dream was to become an archivist, and he was able to compromise with his parents by taking on a double-major in biology and archival science at university. The only negative was that Dan Heng didn't really have a social life. He worked well in a team environment, but friendship wasn't exactly easy for him. He preferred to keep to himself.
He was around 20 and in his second year of college when he started getting strange gifts left in his messenger bag. Dan Heng never really knew where they came from, but he threw them away when it became clear that his family had nothing to do with it. However, then he started getting notes that were probably romantic to the writer, but absolutely creepy to the recipient. Again, Dan Heng disposed of them and kept a much closer watch on both his surroundings and his belongings. After about six months of stalking yet never seeing the person's face, he made a mistake.
Dan Heng was walking back to his dorm from a study session that went very late. His guard was down for a second, but that was all his stalker really needed. He was threatened with a knife and was about to get dragged off to a more secluded section nearby. However, Dan Heng's instinct was to fight back instead of freeze up and comply. This would turn out to be an almost fatal decision. His stalker stabbed him in the heart during the struggle. Two things happened at once. The first was a strange, extremely vivid memory of something like this happening to him before, but with a sword instead of a knife. How he then transformed into his true self: a Vidyadhara with the power of storms seething in his blood.
The only difference between the two incidents was that instead of a person, Dan Heng transformed into a dragon. He'd been in a panic, completely unsure what was going on, and his powers responded to that. He couldn't quite recall the details of what had happened, but he knew that he was a fury of fangs and claws that severely injured the stalker. It was maybe a minute before Dan Heng managed to get control of himself enough to figure out how to transform back into a human. He called security, explaining what had happened... but left out the part that he was the one to cause the injuries. He simply told them that it was a wild animal. Unfortunately, by the time security and the paramedics arrived, the stalker had bled out and died. Dan Heng was arrested and taken in for questioning, spending three days in a cell. He was eventually released since they had no evidence to back up the murder, but it left him with yet another memory of being in a prison that was... much worse than the one he'd been put into.
Dan Heng went back to his parents' home instead of his dorm. He wasn't sure how someone even went about processing all of that, but he started by making sure all of his work in classes were turned in electronically. However, the incident caught the attention of The Black Order, and they sent a Guardian to attempt to recruit him while he was visiting his family. However, instead of recruiting him, the Guardian actually advised that Dan Heng accept an invitation from the scientific organization, POKEGO. He wasn't sure what to think of that, especially when the person didn't even tell him a goddamn thing of value, but he was convinced into accepting the arrangement.
Given the circumstances of his 'awakening' to his past life, the first thing they did was allow Dan Heng to choose his Pokémon partner. He was basically adopted by an Altaria and she wasn't about to budge from her new human, so he named her Cirrus. She was trained diligently to essentially be a therapy animal, since she was already showing signs that she had a high compatibility for that kind of training. This would help Dan Heng greatly since he developed a disassociation disorder. They both became protective of each other during this training.
While with POKEGO, Dan Heng managed to somewhat move on from the incident and gained his Bachelor's in Biology and Archival Science. Instead of taking a break, he launched into earning his Master's in Archival Science and a PhD in Biology. At the same time, Dan Heng would join certain research expeditions for both practical credit and as a guard for the researchers, given his skill with a spear he abruptly came into owning. On one of those expeditions, he reluctantly made friends with one of the researchers. His new and possibly only friend understood that he was prioritizing school, and supported him where he could. Dan Heng was grateful for it. He felt like he'd found something he'd been missing, even if he didn't say that aloud.
When he was 25, his friend approached him to ask about whether he would be interested in a project that Professor Willow was working on. Dan Heng declined, stating that he was far too inexperienced in the research biology department to truly add anything of value. Though his friend argued that point, he seemed to respect Dan Heng's decision and never asked again. It was only a short year later that he found out what this "project" was. He was devastated by the loss of his friend, and he was forced to take a semester off in order to grieve. Perhaps Dan Heng should've taken the entire year off, but he threw himself back into his studies with single-minded determination. If nothing else, Dan Heng wanted to make sure that his friend could be proud of him for graduating, no matter his sins. Even though it brought back painful memories from his past life.
Dan Heng was in his last semester before graduating from college when he was asked to join the team in Kaisou. He decided to agree so long as he could finish school online, and his request was granted. He promised to put all of his effort into research once he had his degree. He was also able to get a job to help himself financially, at least a little bit. Dan Heng would be a professor of biology at Kaisou University upon graduation, and would start teaching classes in the spring.
AU Personality Differences: 🍁 While Dan Heng's willing to work with a group, he doesn't go out of his way to make friends. Mostly because he doesn't know how, and also because he lost the one friend he did have.
🍁 Remembering his particular past life can make a guy feel like he's dissociating, so he'll probably have some similar issues as Dan Feng used to have (for example, Dan Feng felt that his face was like a mask he can't take off rather than his own).
🍁 Although he can't physically run from his memories, he's instead developed a similar way to cope by burying himself in work. His memories can't catch him if Dan Heng's busy trying to figure out the biology of a Dedenne!
Vidyadhara High Elder -Shapeshifting (can go between his human form, Vidyadhara form, and dragon form) -Eyes that glow during dramatic moments -Draconic horns and tail (tail can be dismissed and summoned at will; having his tail out also makes his horns a lot more draconic) -His Vidyadhara form -Pupil aesthetic in his human form -Extended lifespan (typically living somewhere around a thousand years) -Reincarnation (details aren't known to the exact process, but Vidyadhara are all capable of returning to an egg and hatching from those eggs into a new life. high elders are unique in that they can start to remember their past lives in dreams, and they also look exactly the same as the first high elder's incarnation.) -Mara curse (might not come up, but being mara-struck is basically the opposite of Genshin's erosion: it's an accumulation of memory and emotion that builds up into a poison over time. Vidyadhara are immune to this due to their reincarnation cycles, but that doesn't mean something can't induce it.)
Dan Heng | Honkai Star Rail | POKEGO AU
Player Name: Ryuu
Contact: Ryuu @ Discord
Invited by: Saffy, a long time ago, and we have questioned ever since
Other Characters: Jusis Albarea, Venti
Character Name: Dan Heng
Canon: Honkai: Star Rail
Canon History: Dan Heng, Imbitor Lunae, and Vidyadhara since that one's pretty important to why he is the way he is!
Canon Personality: 🌕 Dan Heng comes off as cold and reserved. He doesn't really like to talk about himself much.
🌕 He's very blunt, and can be passive-aggressive.
🌕 Dan Heng doesn't express his emotions outwardly to people for the most part. However, when he's alone or when a situation is dire, it's a lot clearer to see what he's feeling.
🌕 His main goal had been to run far away from his past and kin, but that's all changed. Instead, he's now facing his past to see what he can do to fix what his previous incarnation has done.
🌕 He harbors an intense anger towards being seen as Dan Feng rather than his own person. He hates that he has to bear Dan Feng's sins when he's not that person anymore, especially when his sentence of premature rebirth should mean that Dan Heng has a clean slate.
🌕 Dan Heng has a steely defiance within himself. Even his weapon ability, tailored to him as a unit, is called "Defiant 'Til Death." This seems to be at the core of him as a person, since there's an implication that defiance runs throughout his line.
🌕 He cares deeply for the people he befriends. Such as going onto the Luofu despite the fact that his status as an exile would mean he will immediately put to death if he's caught. He does this so that Dan Heng can keep his friends safe from a man who has been pursuing him with a killing intent (yes it's Blade).
🌕 Several characters express how he and his previous incarnation are cold and aloof, and sometimes they call him arrogant. However, there are a few who also express that he looks lonely and that he's never really been looked at like he's a person with feelings by most people.
🌕 Dan Heng holds the braincell for the Astral Express at all times.
AU Name: N/A
AU Age: 27 (his age in canon is unknown, but speculated to be maybe 300 years old)
AU Birthday: July 8th
Faction: POKEGO (Archivist Maple)
AU History: Dan Heng's parents moved from China to Boston, Massachussetts when he was around a year old. A year afterwards, he was blessed with having a little sister to look out for. Growing up, he had very high expectations put on him to do well academically and also was pressured into picking STEM or law as his career paths. It was very difficult to maintain friendships as a kid because of how demanding his schoolwork became once he hit middle school. To help let off some steam and keep himself in shape, they let him choose what sport to participate in, and Dan Heng chose figure skating. At the very least, it wasn't a team sport, which was what he felt he'd not do very well in given his introverted nature.
By all accounts, he appeared to be excelling and meeting his family's expectations. He got straight A's, his competitions were going well, he was earning scholarships, and they were all very proud of him and his accomplishments. His dream was to become an archivist, and he was able to compromise with his parents by taking on a double-major in biology and archival science at university. The only negative was that Dan Heng didn't really have a social life. He worked well in a team environment, but friendship wasn't exactly easy for him. He preferred to keep to himself.
He was around 20 and in his second year of college when he started getting strange gifts left in his messenger bag. Dan Heng never really knew where they came from, but he threw them away when it became clear that his family had nothing to do with it. However, then he started getting notes that were probably romantic to the writer, but absolutely creepy to the recipient. Again, Dan Heng disposed of them and kept a much closer watch on both his surroundings and his belongings. After about six months of stalking yet never seeing the person's face, he made a mistake.
Dan Heng was walking back to his dorm from a study session that went very late. His guard was down for a second, but that was all his stalker really needed. He was threatened with a knife and was about to get dragged off to a more secluded section nearby. However, Dan Heng's instinct was to fight back instead of freeze up and comply. This would turn out to be an almost fatal decision. His stalker stabbed him in the heart during the struggle. Two things happened at once. The first was a strange, extremely vivid memory of something like this happening to him before, but with a sword instead of a knife. How he then transformed into his true self: a Vidyadhara with the power of storms seething in his blood.
The only difference between the two incidents was that instead of a person, Dan Heng transformed into a dragon. He'd been in a panic, completely unsure what was going on, and his powers responded to that. He couldn't quite recall the details of what had happened, but he knew that he was a fury of fangs and claws that severely injured the stalker. It was maybe a minute before Dan Heng managed to get control of himself enough to figure out how to transform back into a human. He called security, explaining what had happened... but left out the part that he was the one to cause the injuries. He simply told them that it was a wild animal. Unfortunately, by the time security and the paramedics arrived, the stalker had bled out and died. Dan Heng was arrested and taken in for questioning, spending three days in a cell. He was eventually released since they had no evidence to back up the murder, but it left him with yet another memory of being in a prison that was... much worse than the one he'd been put into.
Dan Heng went back to his parents' home instead of his dorm. He wasn't sure how someone even went about processing all of that, but he started by making sure all of his work in classes were turned in electronically. However, the incident caught the attention of The Black Order, and they sent a Guardian to attempt to recruit him while he was visiting his family. However, instead of recruiting him, the Guardian actually advised that Dan Heng accept an invitation from the scientific organization, POKEGO. He wasn't sure what to think of that, especially when the person didn't even tell him a goddamn thing of value, but he was convinced into accepting the arrangement.
Given the circumstances of his 'awakening' to his past life, the first thing they did was allow Dan Heng to choose his Pokémon partner. He was basically adopted by an Altaria and she wasn't about to budge from her new human, so he named her Cirrus. She was trained diligently to essentially be a therapy animal, since she was already showing signs that she had a high compatibility for that kind of training. This would help Dan Heng greatly since he developed a disassociation disorder. They both became protective of each other during this training.
While with POKEGO, Dan Heng managed to somewhat move on from the incident and gained his Bachelor's in Biology and Archival Science. Instead of taking a break, he launched into earning his Master's in Archival Science and a PhD in Biology. At the same time, Dan Heng would join certain research expeditions for both practical credit and as a guard for the researchers, given his skill with a spear he abruptly came into owning. On one of those expeditions, he reluctantly made friends with one of the researchers. His new and possibly only friend understood that he was prioritizing school, and supported him where he could. Dan Heng was grateful for it. He felt like he'd found something he'd been missing, even if he didn't say that aloud.
When he was 25, his friend approached him to ask about whether he would be interested in a project that Professor Willow was working on. Dan Heng declined, stating that he was far too inexperienced in the research biology department to truly add anything of value. Though his friend argued that point, he seemed to respect Dan Heng's decision and never asked again. It was only a short year later that he found out what this "project" was. He was devastated by the loss of his friend, and he was forced to take a semester off in order to grieve. Perhaps Dan Heng should've taken the entire year off, but he threw himself back into his studies with single-minded determination. If nothing else, Dan Heng wanted to make sure that his friend could be proud of him for graduating, no matter his sins. Even though it brought back painful memories from his past life.
Dan Heng was in his last semester before graduating from college when he was asked to join the team in Kaisou. He decided to agree so long as he could finish school online, and his request was granted. He promised to put all of his effort into research once he had his degree. He was also able to get a job to help himself financially, at least a little bit. Dan Heng would be a professor of biology at Kaisou University upon graduation, and would start teaching classes in the spring.
AU Personality Differences: 🍁 While Dan Heng's willing to work with a group, he doesn't go out of his way to make friends. Mostly because he doesn't know how, and also because he lost the one friend he did have.
🍁 Remembering his particular past life can make a guy feel like he's dissociating, so he'll probably have some similar issues as Dan Feng used to have (for example, Dan Feng felt that his face was like a mask he can't take off rather than his own).
🍁 Although he can't physically run from his memories, he's instead developed a similar way to cope by burying himself in work. His memories can't catch him if Dan Heng's busy trying to figure out the biology of a Dedenne!
Element: N/A
Purchased Powers: Vidyadhara high elder (8 points), Cloud-Piercer (3 points), horse-sized dragon transformation (4 points), weapon hammerspace (1 point)
Vidyadhara High Elder
-Shapeshifting (can go between his human form, Vidyadhara form, and dragon form)
-Eyes that glow during dramatic moments
-Draconic horns and tail (tail can be dismissed and summoned at will; having his tail out also makes his horns a lot more draconic)
-His Vidyadhara form
-Pupil aesthetic in his human form
-Extended lifespan (typically living somewhere around a thousand years)
-Reincarnation (details aren't known to the exact process, but Vidyadhara are all capable of returning to an egg and hatching from those eggs into a new life. high elders are unique in that they can start to remember their past lives in dreams, and they also look exactly the same as the first high elder's incarnation.)
-Mara curse (might not come up, but being mara-struck is basically the opposite of Genshin's erosion: it's an accumulation of memory and emotion that builds up into a poison over time. Vidyadhara are immune to this due to their reincarnation cycles, but that doesn't mean something can't induce it.)
Starting Pokemon: Altaria (Female, named Cirrus)