Xiao Zedong

Age: 20 Personality: Cheerful, Teasing, Mischievous, Hedonistic Job: Waitress Full Time Residence: Basement apartment in ABB territory Wealth: Keeps about 5k in reserve, spends the rest Dreams: Never go back to China Loves: Anything Fun, Good Food Likes: Drinking, Spending time with people Dislikes: Being Alone, Tradition Hates: Pushy customers, the Yangban

Xiao is one of the few Chinese civilians capable of escaping the CUI while being a parahuman. Having managed to actually sneak out of the country using tinker gear she managed to secretly scrap together, abandon when she got to the next country over, and managed to earn enough money in order to get to America. It had been a tough few months but she'd made it and eventually ended up with a large group of refugees in Brockton Bay. She's been around since before Lung and works at a small restaurant catering to the Asian community. More specifically for the Asian gangs in the area and then for the ABB.

She's making a fair amount of money, due to the fact that she typically works in a skimpy outfit, acts flirty and teases the customers who are typically high-ranking ABB members with a lot of cash to burn on tips. As well as the fact that the restaurant serves to launder money which helps her pay as well. Xiao lives a sort of hedonistic lifestyle where she spends money as fast as it comes in, with the exception of a small emergency fund that she keeps just in case.

Despite her being a tinker, she spends more time living lavishly, buying clothes, eating, and enjoying herself in ways that she couldn't and wasn't allowed over in China. Considering she's used to dealing with an early curfew, strict rules and laws, and harsh punishments the fact that she can get away with so much in America is still something of a novelty for her.

Her tinkering is mostly put to the side considering she doesn't have the space or equipment to really start tinkering with her specialties being exo-robotics and enlarged prosthetics. Such as the two giant robotic hands that she eventually made for protection. She spends more time putting together and taking apart electronics that would eventually form the brains of a large exo-suit that she has extensive drawings for but no tools to build.

She likes America and while sometimes the ABB members annoy her by attempting to proposition her for sex when she's working; she's mostly fine with them currently considering that her employer is one of the few female lieutenants in the ABB and protects her girls from the more misogynistic members fiercely.