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			* [[Prof. Ishikawa Tomohiro]]
			* [[Klé Tomohiro]]
			* [[Michael (Bediako) Mensah]]
			* [[Stacey Harkness]]

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{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; width:22em; margin-left:1em;"
|+ Li Wei — quick reference
|-
! Name
| Li Wei
|-
! Age (at fabula start)
| 27
|-
! Height
| 5'9"
|-
! Pronouns
| they / them
|-
! Essence
| The Fated & Feted Unwilling Hero
|-
! Archetype (Jung)
| The Creator
|-
! Narrative function (Propp)
| The Forced Hero
|-
! Core drive
| Knowledge
|}

'''Li Wei''' is a researcher of formidable intelligence whose entire sense of self is built on the one thing they cannot bear to lose: their mind. Their story begins in contentment — a single problem to solve, a dataset that refuses to give up its pattern — and turns to ruin precisely because the wish for discovery is granted.

== Essence ==
Li Wei is '''the Fated & Feted Unwilling Hero''': a [[#Psychology|Creator]] who would rather make than live, forced into a journey of discovery that was never theirs to take, burning the single fuel of '''knowledge''' — the need to understand even what is better left unknown.

== Appearance ==
Black hair, black eyes, medium build, with no obviously memorable features — the kind of face that slips out of strangers' memory the moment they look away. Always dressed in neutral tones, from black through dark grey, with a chocolate brown reserved for special occasions. Li Wei hates their own height and once habitually slouched; as press obligations mounted, they seemed to grow into their full stature, standing taller the more they were forced to be seen.

A defining physical trait is '''complete and total androgyny''' — not presented as shocking or as a problem, simply a fact of the body.

== Psychology ==
* '''Archetype (Jung):''' The Creator — would rather make than live.
* '''Narrative function (Propp):''' The Forced Hero — pushed into a journey of discovery that isn't theirs.
* '''Core drive:''' Knowledge — to understand, even what's better left unknown.
* '''Self-honesty:''' Very high. Lies "are for other people and take up too much precious mind space."

'''Strengths of mind:''' raw intelligence (fast, hungry, pattern-seeking); strategic patience (thinks in years while others think in days); focus so total the world disappears while they work.

'''Struggles:''' the "black dog" — a seasonal heaviness. Li Wei is '''neurodivergent and does not know it''', interpreting the friction as simply being "bad at being a person." The thought that circles at 3 a.m.: ''"Why can't I see the connection in the data?"''

Relative to the world, this is a mind that does not quite fit the defaults but has never been told so.

== Origins ==
Li Wei treats their family as "the thick fog of their past where they stay never to reappear." Childhood dinners were "a silence you could cut and serve." The voice that still lives in their head says: ''"Go back to your room and study."''

If they could secretly trade away one condition of their birth, it would be '''their luck''' — they want the discovery to be the earned product of work and intelligence, not the gift of fate. They mourn their origins, grieving a version of themselves that never got to exist.

== Relationships ==
* '''Friendship:''' Solitary. They keep out of everyone's way and have a well-rehearsed speech about preferring it that way.
* '''Trust / love:''' Almost none, by design. Attachment "doesn't live in their fortress of solitude." The only warmth admitted is the soft purr of their cat, Mao Mao, in their lap.
* '''The 3 a.m. jail call:''' No one. The shame would keep them hidden in the cell until the law released them.
* '''On romantic love:''' "Something for others — they are too busy for such nonsense." Does not believe in soulmates, explicitly or implicitly.

== Authority and power ==
In the presence of authority Li Wei '''studies it''' — quietly mapping how it works and where it is weak. Any power they seek is over themselves alone: discipline and self-mastery, no witnesses required. Given a year of unaccountable power, they would quietly divert resources — "less money for football matches, more money for science."

== The wound and the fear ==
* '''The deep fear:''' Loss of control — of themselves, of others, and of the story being told about them.
* '''The wound:''' A failure that harmed others, suffered while old enough to understand it. A classmate was burned in an incident that grew out of an experiment Li Wei proposed; their favourite science teacher was disappointed in them.

'''The engine:''' ''They desperately want recognition, but their fear of misattribution makes them overly careful.''

== Arc ==
'''Invisible → Famous.''' The transformation is tragic: paradise turns to hell precisely because the wish for discovery is fulfilled. The crisis arrives when their employer forces them to face the press about their "discovery," and they must overcome shame and ''perform''. By the end: ''"I never had the choice to avoid this version of my fate."'' This story resolves nothing kindly — the fulfilled wish is itself the ruin.

== Texture ==
* '''Alcohol:''' Never touches it; not interested. Reaches instead for carbonated water.
* '''Soothing:''' Books, and their cat Mao Mao.
* '''Colour:''' An earthy reddish-deep brown.
* '''Home:''' A minimalist space — clean lines, nothing owed to the past. They love their apartment and feel no ache toward anywhere else.
* '''Body:''' A stranger. They "live from the neck up and visit the rest occasionally."

== Notes ==
Li Wei's arc is fundamentally that they begin ''happy'' — their only desire is to solve the dataset problem, and their only frustration is that they cannot crack it. The catastrophe is the solution.

Casting and muse references remain TBD.

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