Devil-Tiger of the Green Tigers wu

Like many of the Green Courts’ young jina, Kim Jisun took the Second Breath about fifty years ago, during the Korean War. Her husband and two sons both died in the fighting and Jisun was left alone in a refugee camp. She became a communist guerilla fighter, where her capacity for ruthlessness surprised even her. Eventually South Korean forces captured and tortured her for information about the communist underground. In the end, after she broke down and told them everything she knew, they lined her up with other prisoners against a wall and executed her on a firing line. For Kim Jisun, Hell came as little surprise, since she embarked on its road long before her death; the way she died, however, was bitter. She held on to the desire to avenge herself against her enemies and it sustained her. She freed the fierce and ruthless side of herself she’d discovered, and even Yomi could not hold her for long. Clawing her way out from the ditch where she’d been buried, Jisun took revenge on the soldiers whom she hated more than anything in the world. It wasn’t long before the Kuei-jin of the Green Courts noticed Jisun’s presence and came for her. They offered her the first shelter she’d known since her family died, and they encouraged her ferocity. She chose the Howl of the Devil Tiger as her Dharma. Few who knew her in life would recognize Jisun in the fierce and determined warrior she became after the Second Breath. The war ended, as wars do, leaving the land and its people scarred; the Green Courts went on, however, and Jisun dedicated herself to protecting them. Jisun learned the secret ways of the Parallel Path, and how the arrogant Kuei-jin of other lands depended on the Green Courts for subtlety and protection. It brought her dead heart moments of grim pleasure watching others brought low, but also in helping them survive another night. She helped root out akuma and dealt with any threats to her home. In time, her wu, the Green Tigers, became renowned for their combat skills as well as their subtlety and stealth. Jisun quickly adapted what she had learned as a guerilla fighter and adopted modern wisdom from similar sources. So it was that the Green Courts’ Ancestors chose the Green Tigers to act on their behalf in North America. Jisun accepted the assignment with relish. It would be a pleasure turning the Quincunx’s arrogance against them, forcing them into a conflict they couldn’t win. In the end, she would watch the stragglers and survivors turn to the Green Courts for aid when they needed to disappear from the world for a time. Let them pose all they wanted. The Green Courts will have its desires.

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