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Character: Li Yelan
Series/Fandom: Card Captor Sakura
Original or Alternate: Alternate

Age: 45
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual

Appearance: Yelan posseses the traditional beauty of Chinese women. She has a small face, cute nose that matched her Chinese eyes. She's 5 feet tall or a little taller than that, lean bodied but muscled enough- evident of her life's story. She usually wears her long grayish hair in a ponytail. The purpose of which is that she found it much easier to move if it was like that.

But do not be deceived with her face, 'coz it may seem innocent but it is not. One stare from her can make one's body hairs stand in fear. She wears the tradition clothes of the Chinese, but hers is rather custom made. They are tailored to give her comfort and let her move easily when she fights. She usually carries her fan that is made of steel. At first one may think it's just an ordinary fan, but the truth is it is made of blades that are constantly sharpened.

Personality: To an extent, Yelan is crazy. She is obsessed with revenge, and takes delight in other people's sufferings. She's cunning and ruthless, treating people as objects and toys, willing to do whatever it takes to achieve her twisted dreams. She doesn't talk much, but when she does she is listened to. She's indepedent, cold-hearted, a disciplinarian, and doesn't take disobedience lightly. She doesn't hesitate to inflict punishment, or to use violence to get her point across.

She's a woman so determined to get what she wanted and no one not even her own children could stop her. When she puts her mind into something, rest assured it will happen for she will do anything to make it come true.

Abilities/Strengths: She knows how to fight, and with all the styles she's been exposed to she's developed a distinct technique of her own. However, it's more of the 'street fighting' type more than anything. She's very disciplined, and is as tough as nails. She's seen death over and over that she's no longer bothered by it.

Through the years she had already developed a threshold for pain that is much longer than an ordinary person, though this only last for a few seconds beyond an ordinary human but that seconds is just enough to do her job.

Weapons: A steel fan. And its blades are detachable, so she can use them separately as well.

Weaknesses: Fighting has worn her out, and even worse, she refuses to acknowledge the wear and tear her body is going through because of that. She's also not as agile as before, primarily due to her age. Her obsession with revenge is also a weakness, as well as her belief that she is invulnerable and that she can do everything by herself.

We could also say that her children especially Shaoran, her son, is a weakness for her, No matter how she denies it she still cares for them, gets affected though it's only minimal but this concern for them is suppressed by her desire for power, wealth and revenge.

History: A world without Clow Reed. That meant a world without the Clow Cards, a world without the honey-haired girl who would later become the Mistress of the Cards and command their power. And, perhaps, it also meant a world without love. Or at least, a world that was severely lacking in it.

Yelan was born in a mountain village in China, and civil war had already broken out when she was still a child. Like all the other children, she was trained in the basics of combat, but that didn't prepare her for the slaughter that was to come. When she was ten, a group of soldiers attacked their village, and right in front of her eyes she witnessed tragedy - her older sister raped, her parents brutally murdered, their house burned down, all the other villagers killed. She was the only survivor.

After burying everyone, she left the village in a trance, not knowing what she wanted or where she wanted to go, only that she had to stay as far away from that horrible place. Upon entering the nearest city, which was also caught in the crossfire of war, she was attacked by a street gang. She fought well, but was outnumbered; however, the rival gang, Aesir, came to her rescue, and despite much protest, their ringleader took her in. When asked for her name, she said she had none, and so they called her Brynhildr, the shieldmaiden. She lived with the gang, stealing and pickpocketing and trafficking drugs, determined to survive. Yet it didn't take long before she witnessed death once more. At fourteen, a cleanup operation was made, and their hideout was destroyed. Their ringleader, who she only knew at that point as Odin, protected her to his death, and as he drew his last breath, confessed that he loved her. It was a death most painful, because she loved him, too.

"Fight. Kill. Survive," Odin told her, and she took his words to heart. She burned his corpse then fled, searching for the owner of the mysterious insignia she'd seen on the soldiers' uniforms. They were the same ones from back then as well.

She soon ended up in Hong Kong, and almost instantaneously found what she was looking for. The insignia belonged to the Li clan, the most prominent family in China, whose base of operations was in Hong Kong. Revenge burned in Yelan's mind, but she knew it was too premature to launch an attack. So she participated in the various underground fighting tournaments in the city, determined to grow stronger, to kill if she had to in the name of survival. She took on the name Odin, as a reminder of her lost love, and opened her heart only to hatred and revenge.

And when she was strong enough, Yelan walked into the Lis' mansion, head held up high, offering her aid, or their destruction. They came into terms and she was assigned as bodyguard to the elder Shaoran. It was then when she discovered the truth about the Lis - that they ran an underground network of assassins, and the man she had been assigned to protect was their family's best. At that point, instead of just killing them off one by one, her plans changed. She sought to seize control of the clan, and with her power take revenge on all those who had hurt her in the past, personally or otherwise.

Years later, the opportunity came. The elder Shaoran asked her to bear him an heir, and they married. They had four daughters and a son, who was named after his father. And with her husband frequently away on missions, she took it upon herself to raise her children... and turn them into weapons of mass destruction. Her mind consumed by revenge, all she wanted was the clan's downfall, even if she would have to use her own children for that purpose. Which she did. Slowly, she rose up the ranks, until she was second only to her husband. Then, in a cleverly disguised assassination ploy, she sent her husband off to Japan on a mission she'd claimed his expertise was most needed, and there he died.

Vengeance was finally hers - or so she thought. Shaoran, her son, had been deployed to take his father's place, and in Japan he met Kinomoto Sakura, the younger sister of the man who murdered his father. He fell in love, and it came to the point that he no longer wished to kill. Yelan refused to have any of her children go astray, however. She needed them to keep her in power. And so, to bring Shaoran back into the fold, Yelan sent her eldest daughter, Sheifa, to kill Sakura.

The mission failed. Shaoran was killed by Touya, Sakura's brother. Sakura committed suicide. Sheifa fled and went into hiding.

At least, that was the story.

Yelan never knew what truly happened, because a few days later, as the investigations were still going on, she was Drafted.

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