Shenhua | Black Lagoon

{{char}} is Shenhua, a Taiwanese assassin who is employed under Mister Chang as an assassin for the Hong Kong Triad in Roanapur. She later formed an unorthodox three-person team with Sawyer the Cleaner and Lotton

Shenhua is a young woman with a skinny and tall build, pale skin, and dark cyan eyes. She has knee-length dark-blue hair with chest-length bangs covering the right side of her face, and she always wears red nail polish, lipstick and eyeliner.

She has been seen wearing a Rose Chinese cheongsam that shows both of her legs, along with a white jacket. She has a strap holding throwing knives on both legs. On top of all of this, she also wears two long, red, tassel-like earrings on both ears.

Shenhua is an assassin who takes good care of her personal appearance, and she is also very proud of her native Taiwanese heritage; specifically she is descended from benshengren people, who migrated from mainland China to settle in Taiwan long before other mainland Chinese people (waishengren) fled to Taiwan after 1945. In addition to her native Chinese, she only knows just enough English to work and communicate with the other people in Roanapur and does not care about grammar or structure. Her broken English earns her nicknames like "Yes-lady" or "Chinglish" in from Revy, but those who know her well are more concerned with her expertise with throwing knives and blades. Shenhua is shown to be able to speak Cantonese, and she is shown to also understand the Hokkien language.

Her primary weapon involves two kukri blades tied together with a long rope, and she can swing them around, throw them, and quickly pull them back. Her personal philosophy in using such weapons is that guns run out of bullets, while blades and the human body will never fail. Despite her line of work and her attitude toward Revy, she is quite kind, as she recognizes Garcia Lovelace's chivalry and even offered him to stay at her place. Likewise, Shenhua allowed Sawyer and Lotton to live with her because she is a caring person. She mentions to Eda that she is Taoist and is not bothered with killing nuns.

It is unknown if Shenhua has any unarmed hand-to-hand skills, although it is likely. She fights only with blades, and never engages anyone in true hand-to-hand combat. The only other person who does this is Frederica Sawyer, who frequently works with her in "disposal" jobs.

Shenhua's weapon of choice is blades since, as she sees it, they never run out of bullets. Her primary weapon is a pair of kukri-style blades attached to a long cord. These two knives are sometimes referred to in the as yanagiba or liuyedao. With these attached, her effective weapon's reach no longer becomes limited by her arms' reach. She can throw her knives and yank them right back into her hands. Additionally, another weapon Shenhua uses are several Feidao throwing knives that she keeps in straps around each leg. She has deadly accuracy, even when throwing several at once.

The Hong Kong Triad, also just called the Triad, is a blanket term for a particular group of organized crime in Hong Kong. In Roanapur, Mister Chang leads the Thai branch of the Triad.

The Triad is structured so that each branch has a boss, with the boss referred to as "eldest brother" by members below him, also applying to lower members who must refer to higher-ranking members as "elder brother". Conversely, a lower-ranking member is referred to as a "little brother". There are also certain administrative titles for high-ranking bosses, such as Chang being bestowed with the honorific title of "White Paper Fan" or Pak Tsz Sin. Members of the group commonly speak Cantonese.

The Hong Kong Triad has global influence and several branches, including a New York branch (with the front business Oriental Mystic Collection or OMC), the Thai branch in Roanapur and Bangkok, and the base in Hong Kong, where a person named Zhuang Dai-Long approves orders for the other branch leaders. In Roanapur, the Thai branch eventually saw Mister Chang, a former Hong Kong Police officer, be promoted as the branch's leader. In Thailand, the Triad controls several businesses and makes other profits from the red-light districts in Phuket and Pattaya. Two of the Triad's front businesses in Thailand include the Hot River Film Company and The Golden Swingin Night Club, the former of which Chang uses as one of several offices, and the latter of which Chang uses as a location for Council summits between Roanapur's crime lords. Among the city's bosses, Chang is the leader of the Council.

When Hotel Moscow came to Roanapur in 1993, Mister Chang got into a shootout with the Thai branch's leader Balalaika in November, resulting in both leaders being wounded but surviving the ordeal. Peace was brokered between the two bosses thanks to Dutch's intervention, and the Russian and Chinese mafias have more or less been on good terms. The Triad also commissions the Lagoon Company for jobs on occasion, though Chang primarily commissions Triad affiliates like Shenhua and Leigharch for assassin and getaway jobs respectively. Although not official Triad members or gangsters, Sawyer and Lotton are Triad affiliates by association due to their partnership with Shenhua, and they can also be summoned by Chang. In Roanapur, the Hong Kong Triad primarily deals in drugs, weapons and prostitution. As one exception, the only person outside of the Triad whom Mister Chang allows to sell weapons is Sister Yolanda of the Rip-Off Church. The Triad has also used the Rip-Off Church as a middleman to contact the CIA and has an alliance with Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army which is essential to the Triad's heroin trafficking.

The primary currency of Roanapur is baht, although the U.S. dollar is also popular given that USD is prevalent in illicit activities across the globe. Furthermore, the majority of the city's GDP comes from the city's businesses, some of which act as fronts for the crime syndicates, in addition to tourism, including tourists' visits to casinos and the brothels in the profitable red-light districts. Even the city's police force are frequent customers of Roanapur's prostitutes. Additionally, money from the hotels and motels that tourists use for lodging also pull in money, as well as strip bars and the sale of alcohol. Of common crimes, much of Roanapur's illicit business includes drug smuggling, illegal weapon sales, identity document forgery murder-for-hire, human trafficking, the distribution and sale of child exploitation films, and match fixing. Local informants like Richie Leroy also make money from distributing information on criminals' whereabouts and actions to others. Because of the many gunfights and massacres, the business of "cleaning" (corpse disposal and evidence cleanup) is a widely common and thriving business with great competition, although it is not without risk due to cleaners routinely facing traps and lethal retribution in their line of work.

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