Zexiang

Zexiang is a fenghuang residing in Leinedom and one of the the founders of dark magic. He strolls alongside the Kyodai for the sake of being promised free bamboo shoots and sometimes to help fight against corruption.

Personality
Zexiang is brash, arrogant, selfish with hints of delinquency. He is extremely lazy and wishes to sleep in all day, going so far as to threaten violence and attack his colleagues in the Kyodai if disturbed. He keeps his distance from everyone else, but does his job as needed – protecting the Kyodai and fulfilling his task for the mission, even with many complaints being strung alongside.

He speaks with an accent and tends to make his words full of the latest, harshest slang.

Despite being a fenghuang, he hardly has any discipline and will to work alongside his family in the Ethereal Kingdom, avoiding any talk of them, but positive conversations in particular.

Zexiang pushes people away if they try to get close for fear of turning them 'dark'. His own element is overcoming him, and he wishes to leave with no ties attached to him, stating: "it'd hurt more if you knew me inside."

Appearance
Zexiang has jet-black hair styled into an overgrown mullet, turning teal at the tips. Beneath his red-coloured eyes are three markings: two dots, followed by a line streaming down his cheeks. On his ears are tassel earrings, coloured red and teal with gold wire holding the ruby stone in place.

His outfit varies, but he tends to wear a black shirt with red/teal/gold embroidery and jewellery, with pants to match. The shoulder pads of his shirt extend down into ribbons that follow alongside him on the ground, akin to his signature shadows.

Backstory
In Zexiang's childhood, he was close with his siblings and they got along splendidly. In particular, he was close with the fenghuang of light. Despite Zexiang being much younger than them, they bonded quite well, spending most of their time with one another. The fenghuang of light would tell Zexiang about how he would always be one with the darkness, and he should rely on only them to be accepted by the rest, claiming they would assist Zexiang in saving him from his powers.

They would muse to Zexiang how he should indulge in his darkness, because they would always be there to show his light, when in actuality: continuing his behaviours was slowly killing him on the inside.

Later on down the road, as they got older, their relationship remained the same, however most of the other siblings grew to despise Zexiang. Zexiang had no kingdom of his own to overseer, 'nor a worthy place in the Ethereal meeting grounds, which caused the other fenghuangs to slowly stop including him in their activities, considering him to be only a replacement for a sibling's eventual passing.

Tired of the obviously harsh treatment, Zexiang parted ways with the rest of the fenghuangs, hesitating when saying his goodbyes to the fenghuang of light, and started wandered aimlessly around Leinedom until he met the Kyodai, who won him over to join their party.