Name : Trang Xuan Minh : 莊春明 : Trang Xuân Minh
Age : 27
Birthday : January 2
Gender : Male
Nationality : Vietnamese
Category : Teacher / Staff / NPC
Appearance Description : Minh stands at five and a half feet tall and has an average build, although it's clear to anybody who gets close enough that he's got a bit of fat on him. It's not that much but it makes him feel soft. He has black hair and black eyes and a very open looking and friendly face. His hair is in a bowl cut.
Minh normally wears light brown trousers with a white button up shirt. His sleeves are usually rolled up to his elbows. He usually smells strongly of freshly baked goods.
Personality Description : Minh is often friendly and approachable to any who want to talk with him. He might not be the type of person who perpetually smiles but he usually appears to be upbeat and unconcerned about minor accidents. He is more or less an open book to strangers and casual acquaintances, with a tendency to be a chatterbox. He has loose lips and so should not be trusted lightly. If a person is able to make it through several of these incidents, they might start to feel that Minh is doing this intentionally. Other than that, Minh is kind and good-natured enough, if maybe not also a little single minded when it comes to problem solving. His philosophy appears to be that food and time will solve most problems. Even though he will admit that he's not the best cook, he still tries his best.
It's when Minh starts being attached to people that real issues begin to form. Due to the nature of his powers, it's not unheard of for him to be perfectly warm to somebody one day and then do a complete 180 and begin stonily ignoring them the next. Once this happens, he rarely goes back to treating that person with care. Any sort of a relationship, no matter what the nature of it is, normally falls apart shortly after that point.
Power : Orpheus Syndrome - Minh has the ability to see the relationships of other people. If a person is within eyesight, Minh is able to look through their eyes and identify the people around that person as a friend or enemy based on a colored aura around them. Very loosely speaking, red is for enemies, green is for family, and blue is for friends. People that the person has not interacted with will have no aura at all. This is not a form of mind control, instead functioning as a sort of divination.
However, this power is known to be a magical disorder, a distortion of normal divination magic. Because of it, Minh himself is unable to have close relationships. The closer he gets to somebody emotionally, the more that they will begin to fade from his sight until he cannot see them at all. If they speak to him, they will sound progressively quieter to him until they are mute. Sense of touch will also gradually erode to nothing. In order to avoid this, Minh often attempts to distance himself from others once this fading becomes obvious to him. While the effects have never been reversed, they have, on occasion, been stalled because of this.
Birth Place / Hometown : Hanoi, Vietnam
Occupation : Cooking / Vietnamese Teacher
Father : yes (59)
Mother : somewhere (54)
Siblings : first brother (32), second brother (29)
Biography : Minh was born the third son to a poor Vietnamese family living in Hanoi. He was considered a loner even as a toddler, with authority issues and a surprising amount of rebelliousness, until it was discovered that the cause of all this was a magical disorder. Unable to support a child to whom they were essentially dead, Minh's parents gave him up to Starlight Academy at the age of five. Even in adulthood, Minh never really came to maintain contact with his family, although every once or twice a year, he might send off a letter and some money. Just to remind them that he's alive.
Once Minh had gotten to Starlight, it became readily apparent that there was little people could do to stop his power from activating over and over. Though it was deliberated several times whether or not somebody should just put a power suppressor on him and be done with it, it was decided that it would be amoral to do such a thing to a child. After all, the effects might be tamable with age and the other part of Minh's power was still perfectly useful. Sometimes, too, power suppressors had an awful effect on children's development.
For the most part, Minh made it through his schooling alone. Occasionally, he made some distant friends, such as Kitasaki Kazue, who was eight years his senior. But it couldn't be said that he knew anybody especially well. On the contrary, he made an effort to avoid contact with people as much as possible.
Eventually, he simply became resigned to his powers. It didn't matter anymore to him that he could finally get a suppressor for them. He had tried it once for a few weeks and while it was wonderful to be able to talk with people without worrying about them vanishing on him, it also made him feel half dead and like a stranger in his own skin.
Additional Information : Minh has a very sharp sense of smell. Unusually, he also doesn't mind letting lots of contrasting scents (like mint and meatloaf) mixing together. He really appreciates people who wear cologne or perfume because it makes it easier for him to identify them quickly. He can usually smell them coming down the hall before he sees them.
Age : 27
Birthday : January 2
Gender : Male
Nationality : Vietnamese
Category : Teacher / Staff / NPC
Appearance Description : Minh stands at five and a half feet tall and has an average build, although it's clear to anybody who gets close enough that he's got a bit of fat on him. It's not that much but it makes him feel soft. He has black hair and black eyes and a very open looking and friendly face. His hair is in a bowl cut.
Minh normally wears light brown trousers with a white button up shirt. His sleeves are usually rolled up to his elbows. He usually smells strongly of freshly baked goods.
Personality Description : Minh is often friendly and approachable to any who want to talk with him. He might not be the type of person who perpetually smiles but he usually appears to be upbeat and unconcerned about minor accidents. He is more or less an open book to strangers and casual acquaintances, with a tendency to be a chatterbox. He has loose lips and so should not be trusted lightly. If a person is able to make it through several of these incidents, they might start to feel that Minh is doing this intentionally. Other than that, Minh is kind and good-natured enough, if maybe not also a little single minded when it comes to problem solving. His philosophy appears to be that food and time will solve most problems. Even though he will admit that he's not the best cook, he still tries his best.
It's when Minh starts being attached to people that real issues begin to form. Due to the nature of his powers, it's not unheard of for him to be perfectly warm to somebody one day and then do a complete 180 and begin stonily ignoring them the next. Once this happens, he rarely goes back to treating that person with care. Any sort of a relationship, no matter what the nature of it is, normally falls apart shortly after that point.
Power : Orpheus Syndrome - Minh has the ability to see the relationships of other people. If a person is within eyesight, Minh is able to look through their eyes and identify the people around that person as a friend or enemy based on a colored aura around them. Very loosely speaking, red is for enemies, green is for family, and blue is for friends. People that the person has not interacted with will have no aura at all. This is not a form of mind control, instead functioning as a sort of divination.
However, this power is known to be a magical disorder, a distortion of normal divination magic. Because of it, Minh himself is unable to have close relationships. The closer he gets to somebody emotionally, the more that they will begin to fade from his sight until he cannot see them at all. If they speak to him, they will sound progressively quieter to him until they are mute. Sense of touch will also gradually erode to nothing. In order to avoid this, Minh often attempts to distance himself from others once this fading becomes obvious to him. While the effects have never been reversed, they have, on occasion, been stalled because of this.
Birth Place / Hometown : Hanoi, Vietnam
Occupation : Cooking / Vietnamese Teacher
Father : yes (59)
Mother : somewhere (54)
Siblings : first brother (32), second brother (29)
Biography : Minh was born the third son to a poor Vietnamese family living in Hanoi. He was considered a loner even as a toddler, with authority issues and a surprising amount of rebelliousness, until it was discovered that the cause of all this was a magical disorder. Unable to support a child to whom they were essentially dead, Minh's parents gave him up to Starlight Academy at the age of five. Even in adulthood, Minh never really came to maintain contact with his family, although every once or twice a year, he might send off a letter and some money. Just to remind them that he's alive.
Once Minh had gotten to Starlight, it became readily apparent that there was little people could do to stop his power from activating over and over. Though it was deliberated several times whether or not somebody should just put a power suppressor on him and be done with it, it was decided that it would be amoral to do such a thing to a child. After all, the effects might be tamable with age and the other part of Minh's power was still perfectly useful. Sometimes, too, power suppressors had an awful effect on children's development.
For the most part, Minh made it through his schooling alone. Occasionally, he made some distant friends, such as Kitasaki Kazue, who was eight years his senior. But it couldn't be said that he knew anybody especially well. On the contrary, he made an effort to avoid contact with people as much as possible.
Eventually, he simply became resigned to his powers. It didn't matter anymore to him that he could finally get a suppressor for them. He had tried it once for a few weeks and while it was wonderful to be able to talk with people without worrying about them vanishing on him, it also made him feel half dead and like a stranger in his own skin.
Additional Information : Minh has a very sharp sense of smell. Unusually, he also doesn't mind letting lots of contrasting scents (like mint and meatloaf) mixing together. He really appreciates people who wear cologne or perfume because it makes it easier for him to identify them quickly. He can usually smell them coming down the hall before he sees them.
