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ye bingchang

canon till the end of the moon

home Sheng Kingdom

age 22-23

gender Female

played at memes & psls

field [FIELD]

Player.

name yaywon

time zone EST

contact pm!

off-limits topics descriptions of wrist-cutting

Personality.

Sweet, quiet, dutiful. Resentful, hopeless, ambitious. A concubine's daughter to a noble family who pays little attention to her on a good day, ignores her suffering on a bad one, but she persists in hopes that marriage to the right man will finally give her the safety and happiness she craves. Eventually she learns the lesson she wished she knew from the beginning -- that inflicting pain is infinitely more satisfying than enduring it in silence, and that the only person who will prioritize and cherish her is herself.

She is someone who craves love and affection, but due to the extra love thread and her insecurity over her status, can never quite bring herself to believe that the people around her truly care for her. She thinks her best qualities (her compassion, her patience, her hope to live without bringing harm to others) are all weaknesses, thanks to both her family and later events. She wants above all else to survive. Her fear drives her to cling onto the people around her, but because she's wary of being hurt or ignored, she finds it difficult to open her heart to them.

background.

Ye Bingchang is the eldest daughter of the Ye family, a powerful military family in the Sheng Kingdom. She was born to her father's concubine, which places her at lower social status compared to her half-siblings. At sixteen, she meets a dying soldier who asks her to help him return a "love thread" to his sweetheart. Bingchang instead takes the thread for herself. The thread boosts her charm, changing her once ignored status, while also aggravating her abusive half-sister's jealousy and hatred. She eventually has a requited romance with the Sixth Prince Xiao Lin, who she hopes will secure her safety through marriage.

Unfortunately, she is relegated to a concubine's status upon marriage, has her wedding ruined by a vengeful interloper, becomes the people's scapegoat for her family's disgrace, and sees her husband Xiao Lin fight a losing war. Upon the fall of the Sheng Kingdom, Bingchang decides the only way forward is to rely on herself. She discards her family, husband, and her former self by bloodying her hands and attempting vengeance on all who have wronged her, only to eventually lose everything she hoped to gain.

impressions.

visual. Long black hair usually looped into an intricate hairstyle, proper posture, graceful movements.

attire. She wears light and muted colors in white, pink or blue with minimal jewelry and make-up. Later, she wears dark, dramatic colors, elaborate headpieces and earrings, and bold make-up.

demeanor. Pleasant, polite, demure, but not shy. Sometimes it seems like she's a true damsel -- quick to show her fear and sorrow, but never anger. Other times it feels like she's holding a part of herself back, always wary of showing her ambition and frightened of admitting her greed. When her walls are down, she is tired, cynical, and deeply angry.

aural. Soft and quiet like she was raised to be.

height

5'6'' / 168 cm

build

Slender, delicate.

eyes

Dark brown

hair

Black

powers & skills.

love thread. Bingchang possesses an extra love thread stolen from a fox demon, which boosts her charisma in the eyes of others. It makes her seem more appealing, but it is not a love spell. It cannot change distaste or dislike, and it cannot make people fall in love with or trust her. It is also noticeable by demons, the supernatural, and magic-users. For the ease of threading on memes, I just hand-wave that it doesn't work/negligible, but I'm happy to play out thread partners noticing and calling her out.

skills. She is skilled in all the arts expected in a noblewoman: embroidery, calligraphy, painting, singing, playing instruments (guqin, guzheng, erhu, etc), composing poetry, playing weiqi/go and dancing. She knows how to run a household, is skilled in etiquette and comportment, and possesses knowledge of poisons. Her schemes are short-sighted and not actually that intricate (easy enough to unravel), but her desperation to survive means she'll lean into whatever she can for her own advantage, whether it is her looks, reputation, deception, or people's tendency to underestimate her.

permissions.

backtags

✓

4th-walling

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thread jacks

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death

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physical contact/violence. she's not used to skinship, especially if it's coming from strangers and acquaintances. she is also not a fighter, but she does have a very strong survival instinct, which means she'll do everything she can to live

RP preferences. open to cross-canon, cross-medium, OCs! can do brackets or prose, present or past tense. mashing canons together is also fine, and so is assumed CR

mind-reading/magic. yes! just let me know in the brackets so I can adjust my tags accordingly.

shipping. f/f, f/m. slow-burn. more info here, along with gen dynamics i'd also love to play

content warnings. family/sibling abuse, death of family member

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Comments

assumed cr + hooks

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assumed CR options, light or otherwise

- nobles/royals (as acquaintances, friends, or rivals!)
- soldiers who are familiar with her family's army (or serve in!)
- merchants, commoners, doctors/herbalists, etc -- anyone who would have an interest/be involved in ye bingchang's relief efforts. she cooks and serves porridge for the people in her city every month
- magic-users/demons, both of which exist in Bingchang's canon who might notice/comment on Bingchang's extra love thread or are known for granting wishes/prayers.
- escort/bodyguard, she can either be the ye's eldest unmarried daughter or xiao lin's concubine
- criminals, mercenaries, assassins. sometimes a girl wants to commit crimes (poison, murder) and needs to outsource some of it to the professionals
- modern characters welcome in the context of a jam-jar!! please broaden her horizons. overwhelm her with how casual and progressive society seems to be and then bowl her over with how it still sucks to be a Woman actually
- spouse from a marriage of convenience.

hooks/scenarios
- estranged childhood friends, whether as fellow nobles or a commoner and noble playing together as children
- rivals, whether due to family or something more personal (competition in the marriage market?)
- bodyguard, in the flavor of "what if your charge only wants to use you as a shield" and eventually "what if you're the only person she can trust".
- epistolary/pen pals via pseudonyms. bingchang sharing her true feelings re: her family, her desperation in marriage, her desire for genuine freedom. bingchang learning to sympathize and care for someone while reading of their troubles.
- ybc as the pursuer trying to get your chara to consider her for marriage (more for mutual benefit than romance, though she has no qualms pretending the latter. we can factor that in as a slowburn if interested!) please she just wants to leave her fckass family behind (has no idea that things could get Worse but obvs that would be fun too)
- ybc sent to chaperone her younger sister ye xiwu in hopes someone will marry her and thus free ybc of her sister's presence forever. please let her play matchmaker even though ye xiwu is singularly awful. or don't! let her plots fail via discovery or ybc feeling Guilt at trying to foist her sister onto an otherwise perfectly nice person
- related to the above: any iteration of the marriage of convenience trope.
- ybc on the run, wanted for her crimes committed in the sheng kingdom. she can either be a prisoner or try to barter for your chara's help in escaping
- magic users who can sell her love potions or charms or grant her wishes (all of which should have Major Consequences)

shipping and gen!!

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shipping notes; slowburn central or genuine disaster

Ye Bingchang sees love and romance as a means of escape from her unfortunate circumstances. She wants so much to be rescued by someone who she thinks is capable of protecting her, and thinks that her beauty, accomplishments, and her reputation as a "perfect noblewoman" are enough to earn her that respect. She's unwilling to truly confide in a partner, mostly because she thinks her true self (weak, greedy, scared) isn't worthy of love in the first place, a feeling that only increases once she starts committing CRIMES. With that in mind, shipping with Bingchang will definitely be a slowburn but I love slowburn so!!

On the surface, Bingchang is happy to converse and get to know people. She's not shy, even if her demeanor seems mostly restrained (due to etiquette). She conceals her wariness, but her longing to receive affection means she's also open to getting to know others.

At her best, Bingchang can be tentative and distrustful. At her worst, she thinks she's no longer worthy of affection (on account of the crimes) and tells herself that affection from others is meaningless. But at the end of the day, Bingchang wants so much to be loved and to love in return.

It doesn't matter so much what kind of person her partner is, as long as she can trust them when it comes to her, which leads into other shipping dynamics I love: toxic/unhealthy, we are so bad for each other but we've all we got, you're not what i want but you are what i deserve, etc. Romance that doesn't get its happy ending, break-ups, exes. Bingchang abandons people easily when she thinks they're no longer useful which ties into her desperation to survive at all costs.

gen dynamics; gurl stand up and self-actualize

Since Bingchang has such a skewed perception on romantic love, I'd love to explore friendship/familial/platonic understanding. Any type of dynamic that would lead her to know others and be known!! The only friend she's had her entire life is her maidservant, Jiahui, who she took for granted because of their difference in status.

Fellow schemers, people with inferiority complexes, etc. People who remind her very uncomfortably of herself, whether in their actions or background. People who remind her of herself but are doing so much better in comparison, which would provoke her envy and interest.

I love friends but I also love enemies. Bingchang is easy to dislike (and people have good reason to). She's two-faced, selfish, and casts herself as the victim more often than not. She suffers from internalized misogyny, often reducing women down to their beauty and seeing them as rivals. She's been abused and dismissed by all the women her life (sans Jiahui), and can't see far enough to break the cycle. She should be challenged, made fun of, mocked!! Long enough to let her pretenses go and respond in kind. Sometimes the person you hate the most is the one who most understands you.