Personality

[Positive] Affectionate, Attentive, Responsible, Honest
[Negative] Defiant, Overprotective, Short-tempered, Bossy
 

Because of her raising by Shaolin Monks, Chen turned out to be a person that holds her responsabilities very seriously and that also doesn't tolerate wrongdoings and lies. And despite the fact that she was teached to control her emotions, this couldn't hold her true affectionate nature. The years of hardship and the ephemeral life of humans made her value the people around her, so she's very open about her feelings and she likes to help people. She will be always open for their needs, and this is also something that she inherited from the monk's ways, the altruism.

But also because of everything she saw and went through, she turned out to be overprotective. She doesn't want ther loved ones to hurt themselves, or to go throught the same things she did (specially her son) and she also tends to be bossy if she thinks her ways will protect those she care about. Although she can also be bossy when it's related to something of her work, specially if they are on field work and in dire situations, she usualy knows the best way and she will be the pain in the as* if this keeps everyone alive. Part of her demonic heritage also shows up in her personality, making her short-tempered (something that she learned to control a lot better after all those centuries) and defiant. She has some problems in abide by orders, so usualy she needs to be the one in charge and if not, she will be defiant and fight for her way.

background

She was born in 1624 as the youngest of Queen Inyeol's child, in Joseon dinasty. The Great Demon Yanluo had taken the form of King Injo while he was still away taking care of the Manchu invasions, and the Queen didn't even question the weird events of her king not remembering of making love with her in that specific night (although they made it after too). It was only when the baby was born and the Queen saw all the tiny green-ish scales that adorned the infant's knees and elbows that she understood that something was wrong. She panicked. She knew couldn't show this little monster to the king, so with the help of her maids she exchanged the baby girl for a baby boy that was also born in that night from a servant. He was then named Yi Gon, the Grand Prince Yongseong, but he had a short life of only five years.

On the night of the exchange, the Queen sent away the baby girl and the servant that had given birth to the baby boy, sending then to chinese territory since they had a good relationship with the Ming dinasty. After many weeks the servant reached the Shaolin temple in Henan and presented the baby to the monks, imploring them to take care of her. She colapsed short after and died some days latter from exaustion. So the baby girl was raised by the monks and was named 'Chen', because she arrived at the temple at the Dragon hours (7AM to 9AM) and it seemed appropiate considering her tiny scales and her eyes.

Chen was raised kind of genderless and was raised and trained as one of the pupils in the temple (so she had shaved head and all). The monks considered her some sort of signal from the heavens, and thus they did their best to raise her in the right path of honor and compassion.

When she was 17 the temple was attacked because the monks supported the Ming Dinasty, and who survived flew to the southern, and way more hidden, Shaolin temple in Fujian. She lived there until the beggining of the 1700s, when the Northen Temple was restored by the Qing Emperor.

It was also during the attack and the following escape from the temple that Chen first discovered her powers. Until them she deemed everything as the inner energy the monks always told her about, but when she created a blast of pure magic that burned her enemies and allowed them to escape, she knew it was something else. In the end it was good that they went into hiding in the Wuyi mountains, because she spent most part of the next century studing, training and aprimorating her powers. At first she managed to just control her inner power, but she only advanced in spell knowledge when another warlock arrived at the temple and shared with her his knowledge. His skin was yellow-ish and he had monkey-like features such as a long monkey tail, golden-brown fur covering many parts of his body and monkey feet. He spent decades with Chen but never shared his name, telling her to call him only "Master". She started to call him "Master Wu Kong" because his physical features made her remember of mythical Sun Wu Kong. He never said anything against it, so until this day she wonders if he was the real Sun Wu Kong. After she moved back to the Northen Shaolin Temple, she never saw him again.

She stayed some more years in the newly reconstructed Temple, helping everyone settle in, but soon she felt like her home had changed too much, and that she needed to see the world for herself. All of her masters and brothers were dead at this point, human life showing how ephemeral it could be, so around 1720 she left the temple and adopted the name "Long Fu Chen". The heads of the temple promised her that she would always have a home there, if she ever needed it. So since them she started her peregrination around the world, selling her services as a Warlock and making a name for herself. During her travels she met many other downworlders, as a certain cat-like warlock named Magnus that she keeps in contact until this day. She also learned who her father was during her travels and her services, and she was close by when his nest was destroyed and he went rampage on the Shadowhunter family that run the Shanghai Institute. She didn't arrived in time to try to stop the bloodshed, but she took care and watched over the surviving boy until the other Shadowhunters arrived. She also helped to deliver the drug that he needed to stay alive. She also didn't cry when she received the news that Yanluo was killed, after all, she had never met him.

By the end of the XIX century she met a troublemaker fledgling that would later mature into the love of her life, and she went through all the world wars with him. During her life she saw truly dark periods, of war, violence and famine, and while she survived throught all of this and became stronger, it also made her more gratefull for the little things in life.

trivia

- Although she doesn't does it often, only when she's really mad, she can swear like a sailor, because, well, she learned how to swear from sailors lol 

- She has a pet iguana and she named him Shenlong.

- Her house is fully decorated with dragon motifs of all kinds.

(adoptive) Son / Long TaiHang / 22 / Warlock / Laidback, Mischevious, Cheeky, Affectionate /
Long Tai Hang, also known by his korean name as Yong Tae Hyung, is a young warlock way too laidback, probably because of his mother's position as a powerful warlock. He was adopted by Chen 22 years ago after the Seoul Institute contacted her to say that there was a baby with a white fox's tail that was dropped at their doorstep. At first they wanted her just to check if she could find who the baby was or who his parents were, but by the time the Institute decided they would take him in, Chen had already talked with her partner and decided they would adopt him. She named him Tai Hang and his -adoptive- father chose 'Taehyung' as his korean name. Tai, as everyone calls him, was raised as a mundane (he went to mundane schools and had mundane friends too) but was always aware of the other side. After all, he had to learn how to control his powers and how to cast the glamour to hide his tail by himself. He also is truly his mother's son, because they share not only the same worldview, but they are also both very affectionate people, and you can frequently find them kissing each other's cheeks, hugging and tickling each other. Outside people that don't know them (specially mundanes) oftem mistake them as a couple when it's just the two of them.

skills

Combat: 5?: She is a Wu Shu master, after all, she was raised by Shaolin monks. She's specially good at the Serpent style.
Weaponry:?: The only weapon she managed to master is the Gun (a.k.a that long wushu stick), because her warlock master helped her with it. All the other weapons the monks tried to teach her, she ended exploding it accidentaly.

Q - What species are you?
A - I'm a Warlock. Pretty easy to see that by the eyes and scales.

Q - What do you think about Shadowhunters?
A - Something along the lines of a "necessary evil"? Or maybe an "annoying necessity"? They keep peace and protect humans, but we know how much trouble they can also create. Just look at the poor law abiding vampires that were killed "for sport" during the time Bram Stocker's 'Dracula' made success. Or the Dark War. Although I know to not judge everyone by a single person, so if they don't screw it, they can keep my trust. Besides, I did helped on Shadowhunter's matters more than once when the Institute called for help. I prize peace and order too, you know?

Q - What do you think about Downworlders?
A - As same as the Shadowhunters, when you can't judge everyone by a single person, Downworlders are even more diverse, since they change not only between species, but also from individual to individual. All in all, I'm also one of them, so I can't discriminate, but I judge someone by their actions, not by what they are.