Name: Huang Yan Liu (黃鹽 劉)
Birthplace: Fouken, China
Current Residence: USA [Own Langauge: Chinese]
Age: 37
Sex: Male
Occupation: Doctor/Parapsychologist/Con Artist
Drive: Curiosity, and Boredom
Pillars of Sanity:
Scientific Progress of Man
Personal happiness
Nihilistic morality
Sources of Stability:
- Parents—Memories of his parents often gives him the will and determination to live his life to the fullest and never look back.
- Mrs. Winston-Rogers—She was an affluent and rich individual that he had become acquainted to through scamming a large and select number of the wealthy to believe that Eastern Medicine is synonymous with magic. Her existence is a near-constant reminder to himself that he is still capable of feeling empathy.
- Tobias Jerkins—A friend of his that has inspired him to walk down the path of medicine with a deeper commitment than a con-man really needed.
- Himself—His narcissistic love of himself can often motivate him to do what's he feels is the best for himself.
Backstory: Huang Yan has lived a tough life. His parents had died in poverty as they were selfless and kind to a near-unreasonable level to the poor and the impoverished around them. Their faith in the Buddha and their naïveté had eventually led to their death, and forcing
Huang Yan to vow to never walk down that path and repeat the same mistake as his parents did. During his early life, he convinced a Taoist Priest to teach him Feng Shui and other such esoteric arts of eastern occult as he had briefly earned his riches at "Exorcising Ghosts".
As he earned enough money to go to college, he had went and studied both the traditional Chinese herbal medicine as well as Western Medicine after cheating on his entrance exam to Peking university and, as one thing led into another, he had quickly scammed a scholarship to the United States from the Chinese government as he had bribed teachers to alter his exam scores and used plenty of other dirty tricks as he completed his formal education and earned a medical practitioner's license. He 'completed' a PhD in Massachusetts, and quickly befriended a private investigator by the name of
Tobias Jerkins, who he had met in a library once and developed a rapport with after discovering that both of them shared similar literary preferences. It was
Tobias who had truly inspired him to develop his much more fervent passion of the sciences.
In America, the land of freedom, he had intentionally advertised his "exotic" origins and exaggerated the effects of Eastern Medicine to con gullible rich people out of their cash. While, admittedly, he was a good doctor, but he was far more talented in the art of scamming people out of their hard-earned cash. Of curse, his scam was exposed after two years of conning America's richest to believing acupuncture and herbal medicine will make them live till they're 300 years old through elaborate rouses, Chinese folk legends, and a carefully cultivated 'exotic' accent.
He legged it to Mexico City during February of 1930, as he saw the looming shadows of the Great Depression rear its ugly head, fearing the worst, he learnt Spanish and made an acquaintance of
Mrs. Winston-Rogers, after a series of incidents persuaded her to endorse his medical talents. She is of a select group of people he is genuinely friendly with.
Investigative Abilities:
Interpersonal
*Assess Honesty 4
*Bargain 1/2
*Bureaucracy 4
Credit Rating 3
*Flattery 3/4
Interrogation 1
*Oral History 3
*Reassurance 2/3
Streetwise 3
Academic
Biology 1
*Law 4
Library Use 2
Medicine 2
Occult 3
Languages 2 (English and Spanish)
Technical
Evidence Collection 3
Locksmith 1
Outdoorsman 2
General Abilities:
Sanity 12
Stability 9/12
Health 9
Disguise 6
Driving 4
Firearms 4
First Aid 6
Preparedness 2
Scuffling 4
Sense Trouble 9