*Name: Rui Ling [Roo-ee Ling] (Rui means Sharp intellect in Chinese, Ling means delicate.)
*Age: 9
*Gender: Female
*Physical Description: - Left. White haired, dressed in black (Blue eyes):
Goals:Personality: Rui is a rather solitary girl who always seems to keep to herself. She tends to be quiet, shy and reserved unless something particularly annoys her.
*Occupation: *Skills: Both Rui and Mai are Empaths, and are able to naturally sense someone's emotions, even if they try hard to hide them. Both twins also possess some small amount of Precognitive abilities, though whilst Rui's visions tend to appear when she is awake, Mai's occur in her dreams.
*Type of Alchemist: Idk
*State Title: None
Alchemic Field of Study: Alkahestry
Race: Xingese
Other: Rui loves to be outside and especially loves it at night, when the moon and stars shine brightly in the dark sky. Rui is also a skilled violin player despite her young age, as she took lessons whilst living with her foster parents in Amestris.
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*Name: Mai Ling [My Ling] (Mai means Dance in Japanese, Ocean or elegance in Chinese. Ling means delicate.)
*Age: 9
*Gender: Female
*Physical Description: - Right. Black haired, dressed in white (Brown eyes):
Goals:Personality: In contrast to her twin, Mai is almost the exact opposite. She is hyperactive and bubbly and hardly misses the chance to show off to people, especially since she's become fairly skilled at using Amestrian Alchemy while she's lives in Amestris.
*Occupation:*Skills: Both Rui and Mai are Empaths, and are able to naturally sense someone's emotions, even if they try hard to hide them. Both twins also possess some small amount of Precognitive abilities, though whilst Rui's visions tend to appear when she is awake, Mai's occur in her dreams.
*Type of Alchemist: Idk
*State Title: None
Alchemic Field of Study: General Amestrian Alchemy
Race: Xingese
Other: Mai is similar to her twin sister in the sense that she loves to be outside, whether she be lying on the grass staring up at a cloudy sky, or setting up tents whilst camping. Mai also loves sand and wishes she could visit a beach somewhere, someday.
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History/Background:Rui and Mai are twins, though one might not believe it at first glance. They were born into the one of the fifty clans that make up the population of Xing, though at the time, their parents had an unknown illness. Instead of organizing for the twins to be taken in by another Xingese couple when they died, Rui and Mai's parents organized for a group of traveling merchants to take them to Amestris, where they could live with a kind and loving foster family instead of having to live through the constant battles to become heirs to the Xingese throne.
Despite their parent's hopes, Rui and Mai were separated and taken into two different families. The family that took Rui in lived in East City, but the family who fostered Mai lived in Central City.
In the five years they spent with their foster families, Rui and Mai pursued different avenues of Alchemy, unbeknownst to each other. Rui, after reading up about the Xingese people and the culture she would have grown up in had they stayed in Xing, had taken to learning how to use Alkahestry, whereas Mai, who wasn't really into reading books, discovered Amestrian Alchemy and began to learn how to use that.
Knowing that the twins were related, the two families organized to get together for events, festivals and the like so that Rui and Mai could still spend time together each year and wouldn't be eternally separated from each other. However, at one of these such family gatherings, the large house they were using for the celebrations that year accidentally caught fire because of a careless move in the kitchens. Many people who couldn't escape in time either dies in the flames, or died because they inhaled too much smoke. Rui and Mai were lucky, for as the house caught fire, they had been outside watching the dull clouds wander across the night sky.
Since the tragic accident, they have managed to fend for themselves, though not without the help of local townspeople. They manage to make a small amount of money to buy food by fixing things using Alchemy, and healing simple things like small scratches using Alkahestry. Since the fire though, it seems that bad things keep happening to the people they are around if they stay around them for too long, and it is because of this, that the twins have begun to think they are cursed.
Kitsune~Kun
(I know Ling Yao is called Ling but I just love its meaning and it suits the characters. Plus I used it as a surname not a first name. Hope you dont mind xD)