#Nguyet

[rainboopz]

New chars! 🌜🎙️ A wannabe 70s singer dies and is lost in the afterlife till a demon offers him stardom in exchange for servitude. Little did he know this human's been CRAVING 👹 the spotlight- and now the biggest bolero monster musical show shakes up the spirit world! He's living the dream he damned deserved!!

Until there was a misstep, and he discovers a bygone dream he can't seem to let be.

closeups under the cut ✨

[heckcareoxytwit]

As the Assembly wake up from the brainwashing, they did not know what to do when they watch Spider-Woman fight Titan-Gremlin in a hopeless battle. Liberty points out that even if they are not fit to fight Gremlin in Titan suit, they could at least try to help Spider-Woman by waking the other supervillain inmates instead. While Spider-Woman and Gremlin are still fighting, the latter (Titan-Gremlin) explains to her how he (as Gremlin) survived the battle with Iron Man in the Armor Wars from long ago, how he joined Hydra and how he got the kids brainwashed into sleeper agents. When Moon Squire tries to darken the place, Titan-Gremlin scoffs that he knows his technique until Spider-Woman takes advantage in darkness by zapping Titan-Gremlin in the face.

Spider-Woman decides to focus on getting the Assembly Kids out of the battleground. Hellrune tells Spider-Woman that her teammates are distracting Quicksand, Icemaster and Zzzax so that they could lure them into fighting Titan-Gremlin. Then, as Titan-Gremlin emerges out of the wreckage, he gets distracted by the four elemental supervillains. Even though Titan-Gremlin makes a short work on the four supervillains, his armor starts to malfunction that he collapses. When Spider-Woman tears off the armor, Gremlin tells her that he would have the last laugh by doing the self-destruct on not only himself but also, he would blow up the whole prison. Spider-Woman knocks Gremlin out by zapping him. Thus, Spider-Woman works on getting the Assembly Kids and Angar the Screamer out of the prison before the place explodes.

Spider-Woman v8 #10, 2024

[peachnemnem]

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[cinder-no]

Quicksand - Pony Town

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Heyyyy I hope you are having a good time, I just found your blog and already I'm in love with everything such an Art indeed, I don't know if you accept request for now but can I ask for a specific web weaving about someone who used to be a close friend and now no one want to talk to the other because the first one choose to leave? And now you have to suffer with their negative existence and realizing how brutal they were towards you in the past...like you can't get them out of your mind but still hate every thought of them? I hope it's not complicated which is not it's me who can't explain...

hi !! i don't mind doing specific web weaves like this at all. i hope this is what you were looking for !!

when you come back, you will not be you. and i may not be i.

Sylvia Plath from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman written 1951; Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 / Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes / Uma Thurman / Reynier Llanes Stay / Nguyệt Lê Girl Memories Drawing / Margaret Atwood Shapechangers in Winter / unknown

[stepswowdsen]

【KHR AU】 XanLena Wearing Việt Phục ❤️💜🔥🪷

Doodle WIPs of Xanxus wearing Áo Dài and Selena in her main outfit

Intro Rambles

Nguyễn Selena (Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên) is my Viet NB KHR OC and beloved wifey wife 💜🪷

She's a calm and aloof assassin with a cheery personality who's a flower enthusiast (florist and gardener) with an interest in fashion and collecting traditional clothes, including lolita fashion, girly fashion, and historical fashion.

I mainly pair her with Xanxus, my fave KHR meow meow mf (my no. 1 KHR fave tied with Hibari)

I've been thinking about drawing XanLena for Xanxus' birthday on 10/10. Most of my midterms are after the 1 week break we get during mid October. I'll post it whenever I get started on the sketch. I'll probably post the whole thing on main whenever I get it done

I definitely want to draw XanLena in Việt phục ("Viet traditional clothing"). I'm either gonna go for Xanxus wearing Áo Dài ("Long dress") and Selena wearing Áo Tấc ("Ceremonial dress"), or Selena wearing some kind of Việt phục (Áo Tấc) with a big Nón quai thao.

The big hat is called Nón quai thao ("Wide flat palm hat with fringes/strap tassels"). It can be worn with any Việt Phục. I was thinking of having plants and lotuses on her big hat. Maybe her smol little cloud puppy could be resting on it too… That'd be cute.

Picking flowers for XanLena based on Flower symbolism is easy since Selena is Xanxus' cute florist assassin gf/wifey.

I want gifting flowers (based on their symbolisms in the Hanakotoba, Japanese Floriography, etc.) to be one of their love languages.

Like I imagine it starts with Selena gifting flowers to Xanxus because of her interests, and then he starts getting the servants to gift her bouquets of flowers she likes (and then also hands gifts personally to her himself, too) 🥰💘

I haven't decided on Selena's birthday yet.

Selena is a Central baby who was born in Huế, a city in Central Vietnam. Huế wa the former Imperial capital.

I want her birthday to be in the lotus blooming season in Huế.

Selena's Viet name is Liên, which means "Lotus" in Sino-Viet, and the lotus is Vietnam's national flower 🪷

XanLena Art Ideas

I had a couple different art ideas in my head. I usually imagine Xanxus wearing Áo dài ("Long dress") since the shape language of it suits him most. I think he'd also look nice in Áo giao lĩnh ("Cross collared dress"). Since Xanxus has a very masculine presenting appearance and mannerisms.

Examples of Áo giao lĩnh. I love the soft purple colours. Reminds me of Selena 🥰💜🪷

Admittedly Viet men's fashion isn't as diverse as Viet women's fashion so I'll have to think of ways to differentiate my masc meow meow mf faves' outfits from each other

I think GNC masc charas like Douman (FGO), Judar (Magi), Kuroha/Saeru (KagePro) would look nice wearing both masc and femme Viet clothes ^^

Selena's design is NB flag colours 💜🖤🤍💛

I would consider purple, blue, and pink to be her theme colours, but purple is her main one. Her main colour palette and main theme colours make up the NB and Bi flag colours. My Bi NB icon~ 💗

Selena’s main Flame attribute is Cloud (purple flames) ☁️

Her secondary Flame attribute is Rain (blue flames) 💙💧

Soft pastel purple is Selena's main theme colour 💜

Blue and pink are Selena’ secondary theme colours 💙 🩷

I consider pink to be her secondary theme colour since it's also the colour of the lotus flower. She looks great wearing soft pinks 🩷

Idea 1: Couple art with XanLena wearing Việt Phục where Xanxus wears a black Áo dài ("Long dress") with red accents and gold flame shaped earrings with a red gem, and Selena wears a pastel purple Áo Tấc ("Ceremonial Dress") and khăn đóng (purple headwear) with lotuses and flowers on it, while holding a lotus.

Xanxus could also be holding a fan. It’d be super pretty if they were wearing fairy style Áo Tấc with either semi-translucent sleeves, or a semi-translucent sash or outer coat on top...

I’d want Selena to have the flowers on her khăn đóng, or in her hair, because it’d fit her very well!

Idea 2: Selena wearing a purple Việt Phục with a big Nón quai thao ("Wide flat palm hat with fringes/strap tassels") that has lotuses and flowers resting on top of it. Perhaps her cute pom pom (pomeranian) cloud pupper could be lying asleep on top of it as well? Like dog, like owner, they both like falling asleep in random places 🥰

Selena has a tendency to fall asleep in random places like a cat cot, including in her own garden, so Xanxus orders his men to go fetch his cat gf like the overbearing bf he is 🐈‍⬛🦁 Black cat gf x lion bf. I love the look of the Nón quai thao sm… The hat varies in size!

Idea 3: Selena wearing Áo Nhật Bình ("Square collared dress"). The Áo Nhật Bình is one of my favourite Viet traditional clothings because the patterns are SO gorgeous. The traditional Áo Nhật Bình is usually in red, but there's all types of colours! I recently bought pastel purple and traditional red ones with gorgeous patterns. The pastel purple one has coincidental trans flag stripe colours~ 🏳️‍⚧️ She'd look so pretty in it!

Iirc, this dress was worn by women of high status/royalty (princesses)

Selena falling asleep in flowers like harvest mice 💐🪷

In my KHR AU, Selena falling asleep in giant flowers is based on harvest mice (field mice) falling asleep in flowers like tulips. Xanxus who goes like (Huffs) whenever Selena loses track of time and falls asleep in her flowers/garden and has to send his men to fetch her

She's like a cat so she can fall asleep even in random places (her giant semi conscious plants will make a plant/flower bed for her). Selena being very eepy is sooo cute. It's always a good time for a nap to her. Xanxus who goes overbearing bf mode whenever Selena falls asleep in random places… It’s his own way of looking after the sleepy gf~~ She’s basically this cat. Snork mimimimi 🐈‍⬛😴💤

You can read more under the cut!

Old Arts of XanLena

Doodle WIPs I did back in 2023

I drew this Selena wearing Áo Tấc before back in 2023!

I love the colours of this one, especially the purple and pink gradient of the Áo Tấc, but I wanna redraw it to make it consistent with my current style cuz I've improved a lot since then

I also wanna update the old XanLena chibis I drew in 2023 to make it consistent with my art style too.

I did this super messy XanLena sketch back then of Selena giving him a bouquet of flowers 🪷

Trưng Sisters (FGO) by Takegarou

It's based on Takegarou's chibi style, one of the main Pokémon artists for Pokémon Sun and Moon, Sword and Shield, Legends: Arceus, and Scarlet and Violet.

Take is the character artist for the Trưng Sisters, known as Hai Bà Trưng ("Two Ladies [Named] Trưng") in FGO.

I love Take's aesthetic sense. Take's sense for picking colours and designing is fantastic. You can very clearly see the Viet traditional clothing inspirations~

Áo Nhật Bình

I recently got pastel purple and red Áo Nhật Bình. I'd LOVE to wear it sometime. The colours and patterns are so gorgeous!!!

Purple and red are XanLena colours 💜❤️

Art Rambles

When I do an initial sketch, I just focus on making the face + eyes look good so I tend to draw multiple versions of each, and then choose the best one. I refine my doodles many times, making the sketch neater everytime. So I just clean up my sketch. I just realized I hardly get to colour and properly render cuz I need a cleaner sketch to guide my colouring. Hopefully I can change that and get the opportunity to colour more

I remember a bunch of times in 2020 - 2023, my friends had sentiments like "I hardly get to see you colour, but I love your aesthetic sense in picking colours."

I love picking colours! I can try leaning into a messy painting style…

Oh and just if people are curious. I'd call myself Yume (lit. "Dream") and Yumejin (lit. "Dreaming person") since I do Canon/OC content for my KHR AU, and prefer gender neutral terms as someone NB.

Misc KHR Rambles

Just gonna put the context for mutuals who don't know much about KHR but wanna tune into my rambles

Xanxus was named for his flame as a kid (the Flame of Wrath), since he was born on 10/10, so he has two of the Roman numeral X's in his name, and so believed that he'd become Vongola 10th boss.

As my friend Cinna said, "Xanxus' sheer existence was made for rising on top of the mafia. He was born, named, and raised, to be a leader."

Xanxus' name has the roman numeral X for Decimo = 10, having dreamed to be the Vongola 10th (Decimo) since birth. He was named for that very reason. He was also born on 10/10.

Born on 10/10 to be a 10/10~

Easy to remember: Hibari: 5/5, Mukuro: 6/9, Xanxus: 10/10

I'm gonna be real honest like these three are the only KHR birthdays I remember just cuz they're easy to remember. I always find out about others after their birthdays pass like oops 😭

5/5 = Children's Day in Japan

6/9 = His fandom number is 69 (Ro (6) + Kyu (9) = Roku) -> Rokudo Mukuro

10/10 = The man with two X's in his name. Roman numeral X = 10

[wistrea]

there's something to be said about me playing games like lethal company and dead by daylight when i hate being chased and get lost constantly...

[stepswordsen]

【KHR AU】 XanLena Chibi Commission by Hika ❤️💜🔥🪷

XanLena (Xanxus/Selena) Chibi Icon Commission by Hika (@/onigiwi2namayo)

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Hika's VGen: (X)

In accordance with Hika's Terms of Service (TOS), editing, using, or reposting these arts, in any way, is prohibited without explicit permission from Hika, and me, the commissioner.

Intro

I commissioned Hika to draw my beloved XanLena ❤️💜🔥🪷

Selena is my beloved KHR OC and wife 💜🪷

Her name is Nguyễn Selena, and her Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên. Her Viet name, Liên, means "lotus" in Sino-Viet 🪷

She is a Viet NB assassin with a calm and aloof personality, who's reserved and mainly keeps to herself, but cheerful around people she's close to. Her design is NB flag colours 💜🖤🤍💛

She has an interest in gardening (collecting flowers, plants, learning about different types of poisons), and fashion (collecting clothes, including traditional clothes) 💐👗

Xanxus/Selena matching cheebs ❤️💜 The little Xanxus and Selena... I'm SOOOO happy!!!

My friend Snow and I used Hika's XanLena chibi icons as matching PFPs on Discord for a bit 🥰 They're just that cute 💘

Rambles

WAHHHH THE XANLENA CHIBI ICONS ❤️💜🫶 OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO CUTEEE MY BABIES!!! 🥺💗

THEY'RE SO CUTE IN HIKA'S STYLE… REALLY ADORABLE OMG I LOVE THEIR EXPRESSIONS 🥰💞💘🫶

Selena's smiley :D and Xanxus' grumpy pouty >:|

The round lines and shapes... OMGGG ✨ I love the colours too!

I love how Hika drew Selena's eyelashes and underlashes with the dots...

I asked Hika to draw TYL Xanxus' design since I felt like his TYL (Ten Years Later) design would be easier to draw.

Hika originally chose a dark blue BG colour for the both of them, but changed it to yellow and red respectively to make them stand out more!

The blue ones were nice, but omg the final versions Hika went with, do reflect their actual colours better. These fit them better! Matching eye colors (plus it makes their hair stand out from the BG more)

Since Selena and Xanxus are toned with blue/purple in Hika's colours, the new BGs have more visual contrast!

Hika was very accommodating with minor colour edits and revisions as well! 🙏

I wanna commission Hika to draw JuAli and IdaTatsu with my headcanon designs of them in the future 🥰💘✨

My Message

This was the message I left for Hika!

The finished commission arts are wonderful! Selena and Xanxus look so cute in your art style ❤️💜🥺 Really adorable~ I'm very happy with how it turned out!

I love their expressions 🥰🫶 The thick round lines and shapes in your chibi style are great. I love how you draw dot eyelashes in your chibi style!

The colours are amazing! The orange~ish red and blue tones you chose for Xanxus has such nice visual contrast!

I love how the background colours you chose match their eye colours too~ It really brings out their designs' overall colour schemes and hair ❤️💛

Thank you for being very quick and accommodating with colour revisions as well! I look forward to commissioning you again sometime in the future! 🙏 👍

Read more under the cut if you're curious!

Misc Rambles

XanLena doodles by Sen (@/stepswordsen)

I feel like the KHR ani style goes for a much more generic art style, compared to Amano's unique art style.

For Xanxus' late manga design (Rainbow arc Xanxus), Amano improves the shape of his hair and makes it more wavy and easier to draw.

Amano has an amazing art style, and really detailed lineart and inking. She's one of the biggest inspirations for me. Her style was honestly very inspirational for me...

I started drawing everyday as a kid (at 11) BECAUSE of KHR, so KHR is very important and personal to me. I first watched KHR and read the manga at 11.

Amano's style is honestly defining to my style - It shows in the way I draw faces and eyes.

I'm not big on the KHR ani's art style, but I do appreciate what it gave us with the chibi interviews, character songs, etc. It's also cuz of the KHR ani that we (somehow) get endless KHR merch.

I prefer the manga designs, but I prefer the ani's colours for the charas because the KHR ani generally gave the KHR cast more skintone variety (when everyone was pasty in the original manga)

The KHR ani did such a great job by giving the KHR charas more skintone variety... Even pale charas in the KHR ani have different skin tones from each other.

Original vs. My Edit

I headcanon Xanxus to have tanner/warmer skin.

Xanxus with darker skin (olive skin in the KHR ani, and either olive or tan skin in certain KHR ani merch arts), literally just looks better from a character design perspective, imo. That's just facts 📠

His design has much better colour contrast with the ani colours. Like the black and red colours in his design contrast better with darker skin. Also against his blood/wine red eyes. It has more colour harmony and cohesiveness in terms of the colours

Xanxus with pale skin has less cohesiveness in terms of the colours

Xanxus, Yamamoto, and Ryouhei's designs just look so much more boring, pale, imo.

For KHR, I go manga design + ani colours + my own take on the ani colours.

Since I have a tendency to saturate colours with my own arts.

As a personal HC, I think Xanxus has a very mixed ethnicity.

My Italian American friend Feuri said Southern Italy and namely Sicily has a more mixed population.

The ani colours provide a good base for me to work off of for me to improve the colours :3

I do colour edits for fun. I like playing around with colours (editing official arts to see how the colours work together) to help guide my arts. I either do colour edits first or just immediately start picking colours for my arts

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I usually hand artists a Drive folder filled with XanLena's art refs (including my own doodles) and write some notes on their design details since this makes things easier for the artists I'm commissioning.

Selena is Vietnamese/SEAsian with light tanned skin. She has black hair with a long ponytail that goes down to around the same length as her long front hair strands, and wears a white blouse with frills and a black seam with white buttons. She wears a black pleated skirt with a white line near the ends, and black thigh highs with horizontal white diamonds, and black doll-like shoes.

Since Xanxus wears a brown fluffy accessory, red feathers (that may be dyed red -> orange -> yellow), green strings with red beads, I don't mind if the artists I comm simplify these details.

So, whenever I commission artists, I ask for them to draw my HC versions! I'm very glad that all the artists I've commissioned have been very accommodating! 🙏💖

The XanLena chibis Hika made are being used for Hika's Chibi Icon samples 🥺 Wahhhh

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The modern remakes of old 90s - 2000s animes have such boring and bland dull colours to me.

I seriously fear that if they ever do a KHR remake or reboot, that they're gonna take away the OG KHR ani's better colours and make everyone look pasty pale (just like in the manga) just for "manga authenticity" and "loyalty to the source material" even though everyone looks so much more boring pasty pale!!! 🧍

[purplesimmer455]

Cece and Hanh bring Lily home, and show her off to her grandparents and great-auntie. Needless to say, all three of them get sappy as heck and spend time with Lily. Nguyêt is ecstatic to have her baby sister here and she walks around the crib, trying to peek in at Lily and asking her moms why she’s so small. Cece’s younger sister Cam calls to congratulate her and Hanh too. She’s currently on a flight to Mt. Komorebi, Japan for a vacation her friends and girlfriend so she can’t be there in person. Still, she asks Cece to send lots of photos and says she can’t wait to come back in a couple days and meet Lily in person. Once the family leaves and Lily is put to bed, Cece makes sure to spend time with Nguyêt.

[ashrifts]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄ㅤ➞ㅤㅤ𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

if you leave offerings at a certain shrine in kannazuka, you will receive protection from the trickster serpent brothersㅤ───ㅤor so the saying goes. no one has dared to try and bring chaos there for a long time now, after all, and many attribute this to ran and rindou's watch over the land. where the uwabami are mostly known to keep away from civilization, the haitani brothers are the blatant exception: they're celebrities in kannazuka, perhaps in all of inazuma, and are mostly spotted strolling around at night during the frequent festivals celebrated in their honor.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ➞ㅤ𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐂:

ㅤㅤ››ㅤi was THIS close to making him a tengu because of this pazuribe ran but decided to stick to his snake motif...

ㅤㅤ››ㅤtheir favorite offering is sake, but ran likes getting sweets too.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤhe's an electro catalyst. received his vision at 13, when he and rindou were defending the island from bandits trying to take over who were planning to use it as their new base and extort the villagers. the sight of a little kid brutalizing the leader made the people both fear and respect him, and this is how they gained their complicated reputation. some see the brothers as their very own yokai protectors, guardian deities with their best interest in mind, while others as simply another pair of tyrants exerting control over them. neither make the effort to make clear which one it is.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤolder folks will say they saw with their own eyes as the electro vision emerged from the man's mangled corpse like a heart being ripped from its ribcage, glowing red instead of purple with the blood coating it. ran had grasped it in his hand and laughed with lips stained in blood not his own.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤlikes to ominously imply he does, in fact, eat humans. "haha nice joke man" "😊" "...you are joking, right?" "😊"

ㅤㅤ››ㅤthe people of kannazuka are less people he wants to protect and more things he owns and is territorial over simply for the fact that they live in what he perceives to be his land. kannazuka is known as a place where no gods reside and has been continuously disputed over by the shogunate and the sangonomiya, but ran thinks himself and rindou as its gods.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤsome hundreds of years old, still young for an uwabami.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤaids the watatsumi resistance here and there when he feels like it, and is particularly fond of terrorizing the shogunate army stationed at kannazuka. he does not care for their war of faith or for the gods they worship, but he opposed the vision hunt decree because it'd strip him of his freedom and his god-given right to bear a vision.

ㅤㅤ››ㅤno one asked but his ascenscion mats are: dendrobiums (because they're also called blood orchids), coral defenders and specter drops (because they're super annoying to farm and i know ran would love that for me).

[asbestieos]

WHAT DO UOU MEAN MY FAVE VIET VTUBER GRADUATED….

[mattithecatti]

no way old woman yuri

[heckcareoxytwit]

After learning the ugly truth of the "new heroes", Spider-Woman and Liberty fly to Alcatraz Island where they could find Angar the Screamer and break him out of the cell. Spider-Woman figured out that Angar's hallucinatory scream could undo the brainwashing on the rest of the Assembly like he did to Liberty. As they reached the island, Spider-Woman and Liberty had to go on cloaking mode with the help of the latter (Liberty) so that they could get past from the guards. While Liberty goes to the control room to deactivate the security system of the prison, Spider-Woman goes up to Angar's cell to talk to him. However, they get interrupted by the Assembly who break into the prison, angry over Liberty leaving the team without their permission. Liberty releases the other prisoners from the cells to distract the Assembly but they could not hold them off because they have the inhibitor collars on them. Since the Assembly are distracted, Liberty was able to reach Spider-Woman and Angar to disable the inhibitor collar from the latter. With the collar off, Angar screams at the Assembly. Though the kids of the Assembly wake up from brainwashing, Titan was left standing as he wasn't affected from Angar's scream. Titan swats Angar aside and advances on Spider-Woman to grab her neck. Spider-Woman fries Titan with her venom blast and learns that he is a robot. (Though little did she know that he is a robot controlled by Kondrati Topolov a.k.a Gremlin). Titan gloats at Spider-Woman that she would die at the hands of the man who turned her child into a Hydra assassin.

Spider-Woman v8 #9, 2024

[probably-unreliable]

Cleaning up herself before going to the gala.

[woroti]

Orochi who considers love and devotion a sin, making a world that is devoid of justice and titles to allow people to act and feel freely: All I'm saying is love is love

Seimei: No you're not-

[crypticbeliever123]

Parent-child characters of mine from a novel I'm working on. Parent left. Child right.

Left: Vuong Nguyet (they/them; agender) 46 years old, former captain of the space mission Hestia II which resulted in alien abduction of the whole crew, leading to Nguyet orchestrating a rescue mission for their crew after which they remained in space to lead a sect of a space rebellion, fell in love with an alien from the very same race of planetary conquerors they were fighting against, had twin children (Chien being one), then after the apparent death of one of their kids left Chien with Nguyet's father in the hopes he would grow up safe and loved

Right: Vuong Quy Chien (he/him; cis-male) 16 years old, very much did NOT grow up safe and loved as he was immediately kidnapped by a group known as the ETIA (Extra-Terrestrial Intervention Agency) who killed his grandfather to do so, taken to Area 51 where he was stripped of his name and heritage, redubbed Hunter Valtune (Valtune being the surname of the general in charge), and abused and molded into a child assassin to hunt alien life on Earth. His first kill was at the ripe old age of 2, a time at which he did not understand death fully beyond "OMG I just hurt this person badly" and he did not stop killing people until escaping the ETIA at 13. He then befriended a character named Jorge whose abuela took him in and lied to the ETIA about having seen him to protect him. As of the start of the novel he now attends a prestigious space academy for young prodigies (16 and up) that was founded by his human grandmother and which has statues built in both her honor and Nguyet's (Chien found out about his heritage shortly before escaping the ETIA and now looks up to his parent, though he is unaware of his parents' relationship and assumes, like the ETIA do that he is the product of rape and this HATES his father, an alien who has spent the last 16 years mourning the loss of his love and two children as Nguyet couldn't bear to face him after losing their child and giving up their son in a failed attempt to protect him). Chien's nose also looks like that as a result of numerous breaks from getting hit in the face either by enemy aliens or by the ETIA and is now permanently crooked.

Nguyet is a side character who first appears in book 2 whereas Chien is a main character of the series (technically the MAIN main character).

Both are of Vietnamese descent while Chien is half reptile on his dad's side, hence the red slit eyes which he hides with brown contacts. Chien also has three horns on the upper back of his head that he shaves down with a metal file and covers with a hat to better pass as human. His eyes also have translucent secondary lids, can see in infrared, and he can spit acid. On top of all this Chien, having been born on his father's planet with a higher gravity in addition to his alien genetics, has a denser muscular structure meaning he has superhuman strength and speed which when paired with the human stamina and fat retention means he has a tremendous difficulty burning calories because every movement for him is as effortless as a human being lifting a feather on the moon. He is also described as lukewarm blooded meaning he has a greater tolerance for extreme heat than humans but less so than a Zakiid (father's species), but also a greater weakness to cold than a human but less so than a Zakiid (he would start to hibernate if he gets too cold, hence why he's always wearing a turtleneck and a jacket, [also another reason for the hat to preserve body heat] except in hotter climates where he forgoes the leather jacket he usually wears). His blood type is A-/ZY+ (ZY is not the actual Zakiid type but rather the closest way of describing it in human language).

Chien also wears makeup to hide his numerous facial scars. He has scars all over his body from years of combat as a child soldier and also medical abuse at the hand of the ETIA's mad doctor Yolanda Miller who treated him as a lab rat to experiment on and study given his unique physiology. The only scars he has not from this period of his life are the self harm scars he has on his wrist from after he escaped and started punishing himself for all the deaths he's caused (his kill count is 1,183).