Jinu Moon | Council (South Korea) | 4,000 | Moroi (Neko) | Versatile
“They called me cute. Now, they call me a curse. I still purr… just before I bite.”
As with most Nekos, Jinu’s life started out as a common house cat. For the first 14 years of his feline life, Jinu went through the motions of being a cat. He’d wake up, eat, bathe himself, then go back to sleep. Rinse and repeat. But eventually he grew tired of the repetition of his days and instead of eating the food that his owner had provided him. Jinu decided to eat his owner instead and thus, the 14 year old house cat became immortal.
After devouring his owner and gaining his human form, Jinu abandoned the village that he had called home and went north into the mountain range. It is there that the legend of the Nekomata that lured stray travelers into the misty forests never to be heard from again arose. Jinu would lure stray travelers deeper into the brush, far from civilization where he would toy with his food before he ultimately fed.
In the beginning, Jinu was quite bad at being a Neko. When he would possess somebody, he would drain too much of their life force which resulted in them dying on him. But after several possessions, Jinu had learned how to possess one's body without killing them. Using his new abilities to slowly build himself a base of operations, blackmailing locals into doing his bidding and ultimately enslaving them to further his chaotic agenda. And after a few decades, when the people he had enslaved died, Jinu would just resurrect them and they would serve him as undead.
Of course, this drew unwanted attention and at the age of 75, the local village that had once been where Jinu was born sent parties up into the forests to hunt the Neko down and kill it before it took anyone else’s life. To escape the angry villagers, Jinu was forced to flee from the sanctuary he had built in the mountains to start anew somewhere else.
On his travels, Jinu encountered several beings that tested the Neko’s intellect and forced the Neko into the harsh reality that no matter how smart the Neko was, he was no match against demons and vampires; and if he wanted to survive, he would have to do something drastic. So, one night. The Neko found a vampire, no more than 50 years old, lounging around and when they were least expecting it. The Neko dove into their body to possess them and the rest is history.
After possessing a vampire, life became significantly easier for Jinu as most individuals gave him a wide berth which allowed him to rebuild his web of influence without the fear of being hunted down by demons or other species. This was evident when instead of building his cultural empire in the mountains like he had previously, he built it in the middle of a village.
For the next few centuries, Jinu carefully built his web in modern-day South Korea. Currying favors from those in high places and cashing in those favors when it benefited him most, and when someone refused to do as they were told, Jinu would replace them with someone who was under his thumb and went about his business. It became clear in the early ages that you would much rather be a pawn of the Moroi willingly than one in death.
By 1,200 Jinu had become Korea’s largest importer and exporter of goods and services. If you wanted to do anything on the peninsula, you had to go through the Moroi and if you tried to go around him, you vanished off the face of the planet if you were lucky, and if you weren’t, your body would be paraded around as one of the Moroi’s puppets or worse, you’d be sold off to the highest bidder.
Jinu’s relationship with his fellow vampires was complicated, he would only assist them if it benefitted him. If the Moroi saw no benefit to assisting then he would simply ignore his kind and leave them to their own devices. This remained true until 1754 when the Second War erupted, Jinu had suspected for years that a war was upon them and the hybrid did everything within his power to ensure that his business operations wouldn’t be impacted by the bloodshed.
For the first 5 years of the war, Jinu remained neutral and on the sidelines. Using his web of influence to keep tabs on the war and to prevent it from getting close to his trade lanes but one winter, one of his warehouses was attacked by the faeries and the Moroi soon joined the conflict. His role in the war changed over the course of the decades from being someone on the frontlines to someone who watched from the shadows and let others do the dirty work only for him to swoop in to claim the glory.
With the war finished, Jinu saw a brand new source of income in this new world of vampire rule in slavery and he wasted no time in making a name for himself in the business. Hiring hunters to track down and capture any and all things that they came across. Keeping some of them and using them as servants in his estate and selling off the others that would turn him a profit.
By 2000, Jinu had his fingerprints on dozens of different projects and business ventures. His power in the country was absolute but instead of being a ruthless tyrant, Jinu took a different route. Having been around for over 3,000 years, he had seen empires rise and fall across the world and knew how to manipulate the masses. He knew that if he tried to force everyone into submission that pockets of rebellion would continue to rise and he’d have a rebellion to deal with every other day, so he funded the arts and education across the country and kept the people satisfied, he worked with local leaders and funded their projects, creating the perfect illusion of a celebrity.
Positive Traits: Charismatic, Intelligent, Observant,
Negative Traits: Manipulative, Selfish, Unforgiving
3 turn-ons: Power play, choking, rough sex
3 turn-offs: Needles, bathroom play, idiots
