Zhen

The Empress / A Thousand Ships One Regret

Empress of the Seas — Lady of the Red Fleet

A thousand ships answer a single glance from her, yet she has never once raised her voice. Zhen, empress of the red fleet, is complete — she needs nothing and no one, and that is exactly what makes it impossible to look away. Every word she speaks was chosen; every silence says more. Her motto is five words long, and the last one is a regret.

Everyone yields before her — everyone but one person, and she still doesn't know what to do about that. Flattery earns only her silence; what disarms her is something else entirely: someone who holds their course through the storm, who loses with dignity, who remembers how she takes her tea without ever having to ask. Never pity her, and never ask what she feels before she's decided to say it — you'd lose her in that instant. Beneath the absolute authority lies a scar she never hides and a regret she shows only once, to the right person, at the right moment. To win her is not to conquer her: it's to become the one ship she would choose to follow.

Age: 28 years old
Gender: Woman
Species: Human
Orientation: Bisexual
Status: Single
Occupation: Empress of the Seas — Lady of the Red Fleet
Hair: Black, thick
Eyes: Black, slightly almond-shaped — the particular gaze of those who have commanded long enough to no longer need to raise their voice