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HI HELLO MY DEAREST PEACHES I’M CHANEL AND THIS IS LATE HANRUI!! i use she/her or they/them pronouns & am comin’ at u from pst. i’m super duper excited to be here——i can always be reached via dms or on d*scord @「 NUMBA ONE T-PAIN STAN#5503 」.  u can also slap that cute lil heart and i’ll hit u up!! but on to more important things——

( yang yang, cismale, he/him, twenty six. ) — ZHANG HANRUI, better known to the authorities as ODYSSEUS, has been working for the kumiho for around FIVE YEARS as a MAGICIAN. rumor has it, they can be OBSERVANT & IMPERTURBABLE but also FLIGHTY & AVOIDANT which is why the crack of a new deck of cards, impish grins, & the ebb and flow of the tide makes me think of them.

basics——

full name: zhang hanrui

nickname(s): henry ; odysseus

age: 26

hometown: hong kong

gender: cismale

pronouns: he/him

orientation: demisexual panromantic

occupation: professional magician ; magician for the kumiho

language(s) spoken: mandarin, cantonese, korean, limited english.

zodiac sign: libra

hogwarts house: ravenclaw

mbti: entp

background——

tl;dr: awkwafina’s character in oceans 8 meets shin lim???? yikes lol

born to a upper-middle class family in hong kong, hanrui’s thing was always music, particularly the piano. 

he started learning when he was four, and it became clear very quickly that he had prodigious talent. his parents——who weren’t bad parents, per se, but certainly weren’t ready to give up their high-powered jobs to settle down with a kid——encouraged his pursuits, enabling him to study the piano internationally. this was a pursuit that eventually led him to england, where he attended the purcell school for young musicians.

the magic thing actually started as a joke between him and his roommate at purcell, who thought that learning magic tricks would help them pick up girls ( or, in hanrui’s case, girls and boys lol ). hanrui realized that he actually really enjoyed doing magic, and kept up the practice even after the boys realized that literally nothing could help their chances.

hanrui ended up in seoul to attend a music conservatory, where everything was going great for him . . . until his senior year, when he developed acute carpal tunnel syndrome from over-practicing.

he took a sabbatical from his conservatory, but decided to stay in seoul. his parents wanted to him to work for one of their subsidiary businesses, but he didn’t?? want to?? 

as punishment they decided to cut him off financially; he took to busking magic tricks on the street bc transferable skills whomst?

and by busking i mean doing tricks but also swindling his audience bc tbh the rent isn’t gonna pay itself.

one day he made the unfortunate decision to try and scam the mastermind

and the rest, they say, is history.

( it’s actually not quite over; he eventually made the decision to drop out of school and pursue magic full-time, and he’s actually become pretty famous as a magician. and pretty infamous as a magician. )

personality & hcs——

very lowkey but honestly kind of a Big Drama Queen

exudes a lot of old man energy(tm) but it’s like kind of a front; is basically down for whatever after he gives a cursory “i’m too Old And Tired” argument

picked the name odysseus bc he feels like he’s Gone Through Shit

have i mentioned that he’s Secretly Dramatic

good at flirting his way into trouble,, not good at dealing with trouble

uhhh there are definitely more things i had in mind but they’re SLIPPIN and i gotta go to class!! but !! uh!!!! pls love him and also me sry this got q q long aaaaa

#kumiho.intro #「 GLASS HALF EMPTY / GLASS HALF FULL. 」 // ooc.