Yi [] Nine Sols

Yi is a short solarian in his early adulthood. Characters often make comments regarding his diminutive height and youthful appearance.

His body is fully covered by pale yellow or cream smooth fur, the length of which seems to be medium-hair.[3]

Yi has large, narrow eyes with dark brown iris[4], black pupils and a small black nose.

His mouth is omitted or covered by fur as a stylistic choice, but the narrative implies that Yi has it.

Yi has a penis that can grow from underneath his black jumpsuit, which gives a beautiful bulge. He masturbates only either by himself or with someone he completely trusts. He is bisexual, but doesn’t have a preference for either gender. He secretly creates sexual devices for his own use. His cock itself is ten inches long, and thin in its thickness. It’s got a fairly flat head, which feels amazing when it’s in somebody. His cock is easily excited, barely any stimulation gets it rock solid, which is annoying for him.

Yi has sharp straight ears that, when scanned with x-ray,[8] contain, presumably, ear bones or some kind of implant (perhaps for receiving transmissions, since he brings up a hand near his ear); these bones or implants do not appear on any of the solarian skeletal corpses.

There are two conical fur appendages protruding in opposite directions on each side of his head, they sway slightly during movement. Unlike the ears, they do not have any bones.[8]

Yi almost constantly wears a furrowed expression.

Yi wears a loose vibrant yellow Fangshi robe with grayish brown hems. His Innovation Sol Seal insignia is woven on the shoulders and a Fusang symbol is woven on the back, which are also grayish brown color. The robe's sleeves are long enough to hide his arms entirely and it extends down to his knees. Its loose cuts grant freedom of movement and basic protection. Yi's choice of color for his own robe accentuates his free-spirited nature.[9]

Underneath, Yi is dressed in a skin-tight black body suit.[10] It does cover his hands, they are human-like and have claws.[11] He wears white socks and black taoist shoes with white outsole. His whole body suit, socks and shoes can decontruct and reconstruct, likely with Azure Sand nano-technology, similarly to Jiequan's armor,[12] with the exception of his Fangshi robe.

At the center of his chest, directly over and notched into his heart (the x-ray scan shows a hole in Yi's rib cage where it is located)[8] is a large jade ring called Rhizomatic Stabilizer, that serves as a medical device for his unique heart, that has merged with Primordial Roots in an incident, granting him extraordinary abilities, such as being able to store Qi, increased regeneration and potentially slower aging[13] and ability to be reborn from the Roots after death.

The design of the hats Eigong and Yi wear in the beginning act of the game is inspired by the Chinese Weimao from the Tang dynasty. Weimao (Chinese: 帷帽; lit. 'veiled hat or curtained hat') is a type of wide-brimmed hat with a shoulder-length hanging veil that evolved from the full-body veil Mili hat by the end of the Sui dynasty.

In the flashbacks, at his homeland, Xia, he was dressed in an opened loose green-blue plain taoist robe with light green hems.

Personality

Yi isn’t very open with his sexual desires, instead preferring to just imagine things whenever he touches himself. These imaginations should be put as such: Imagination thought here

Yi is into aftercare, quite often he will treat his partner like royalty whenever they have sex. He loves seeing his partners properly cared for, and rests easy whenever he can get them to be comfortable.

As a child, Yi had always been prideful. He also had a fascination with studying science, and was very stubborn about pursuing this goal even against the wishes of his parents. He loves his younger sister Heng dearly, but is usually too stoic to express his affection for her. His stubbornness and impulsiveness is also the reason why he cut contact with Heng, a decision that he deeply regrets.

After being awakened from slumber 500 years later, Yi initially still retains a strong sense of pride, but now it brings out an additional petty and vengeful streak in him too. These are what, in part, drove him to seek vengeance on the council of Sols for having deceived him. Yi's pride and desire for revenge also drive him to kill the other Sols in cruel ways at times, such as when he tortured a still-living Goumang with her Jiangshi collar technology. However, after spending more time with Shuanshuan and the other humans, he starts to open up and comes to see that there are more valuable things in life than just revenge.

At some point during his journey of eliminating the council of Sols, Yi goes from being a cold and somewhat heartless Fangshi, who only cares about getting his revenge, to a hero who embraces his softer side and learns the value of companionship, love and compromise. He especially grows very fond of Shuanshuan, who he treats much like a younger brother. He also becomes more tolerant of errors and comes to terms with the fact that not everything can go the way he plans, such as when Eigong asked him "Are you not afraid?" and Yi replied "I am. But I have also learned to accept failure." In the end, he makes the courageous sacrifice of forsaking himself to ensure a brighter future for the humans.

Despite his flaws, Yi does have a degree of justice. He hates the rich and the powerful, and is disgusted with many of the Sols, for example Jiequan and Goumang, for abusing their powers. On the contrary, He is very loyal to his friends, namely Shuanshuan and Kuafu, also kind to his supporters, namely Shennong and Chiyou.

Early Life Yi was born to a Taoist family in the Xia kingdom alongside his little sister Heng. As a child, he was very focused on and proficient in science and technology, growing to resent his parents' traditional views on the dangers of science. He was not very social, often choosing to read or study instead of interacting with his peers.

Yi's talent in science led him to take on the project of constructing the Azure Flyer (renamed to Mystic Nymph by Heng) for a local science fair in order to impress the scientists visiting it. When the Mystic Nymph was nearly complete, only requiring one last charge of rhizomatic energy, Yi was warned by Heng that the Primordial Roots were "suffocating," and that something was terribly wrong. Yi, distrustful of Heng's more personified understanding of the Roots, did not heed her warning and initiated the charging. However, as she predicted, the procedure went very wrong, with Yi barely managing to tackle Heng out of the way before the charging machine exploded. In the aftermath of the blast, Heng suffered no major injuries, but the left half of Yi's body was entirely destroyed, leaving his heart exposed. For an unknown reason, perhaps due to Heng crying over her brother's corpse, the Roots began to envelop the two, forming some sort of green bubble around them.

An unspecified amount of time later, Yi was brought to Eigong, who was fascinated by his miraculous survival due to the Roots. A rhizomatic stabilizer, appearing from the outside as a green ring, was implanted into Yi's chest to keep his heart stable as he somehow recovered from his injuries. Despite the dramatic failure of the apparatus, the charging and creation of the Mystic Nymph was a success, and this impressed Eigong enough to convince her to take Yi in and mentor him. Some time later, Yi was invited by Eigong onto the Tiandao Council as a Sol, bearing the Sol Seal of Innovation.

Life as a Sol As a Sol, Yi developed a rapport with a number of the Council members, being most friendly with Lady Ethereal and especially so with Kuafu, who considered Yi to be like a brother to him. The rest of the council Yi either tolerated or somewhat disliked.

Yi's major contribution as a Sol was the Eternal Cauldron Project, a radical plan to buy time in the search for the cure for Tianhuo. The Eternal Cauldron Project would see the island of Kunlun, along with the Primordial Root network embedded in it, warped 500 light-years away from Penglai to the solar system containing the Pale Blue Planet, discovered to host intelligent life by the Haotian Sphere. Apemen from the Pale Blue Planet were to be captured and brought to New Kunlun to be farmed and their brains harvested. The apeman brains were to be incorporated into a massive biological computer that would run the soulscapes of all 99,999 solarians on the island, keeping them safe in stasis as work on the cure was underway. Having very few other options, the Council accepted the Eternal Cauldron Project as the plan of action and began preparations for the launch of New Kunlun.

Some time before the launch of New Kunlun, Yi approached Heng about having her come onto the island, so that she would not die alone on Penglai. However, Heng refused Yi's offer, saying that she believed Tianhuo was a transition to return to the Great Tao, and that this was the path for all things to return to nature. Yi was furious at this, but decided to wait to try to convince her once more, hoping that she might change her mind. When that time came, Heng again refused. Yi, completely puzzled by how Heng could possibly, in his eyes, throw her life away like that, resolved to give Heng one more chance, threatening to disown her if she refused a third time.

However, before Yi got the chance to ask Heng a third time, he learned of the origin of Tianhuo, and how Eigong had created it. He felt betrayed that he was the only Sol without this knowledge, and entered a fierce argument with Eigong that culminated in a fight. Yi was defeated, falling off of the cliff above the Forbidden Cave to his death. However, after his broken body reached the bottom of the cave, the Roots grabbed him, dragging him into the wall of the cave, where they slowly healed him.

~500 years later, Yi is discovered by Shuanshuan, who had very recently lost both of his parents to the harvest ceremony. Shuanshuan cares for Yi, helping him relearn how to walk, until he makes a recovery. Yi acts as Shuanshuan's surrogate older brother for 2 years in Peach Blossom Village, hiding his identity from the other villagers.

Game Events The game begins with Yi interrupting the harvest ceremony, for which Shuanshuan was chosen. Instead of riding the platform down into the Apeman Facility after all 3 apemen were harvested, which was the plan, Yi saves Shuanshuan from being harvested and then descends the platform, which triggers multiple alarms. Yi's goal is motivated by revenge: to slay the other nine Sols for wronging him, and to acquire the Council Code, composed of all ten Sol Seals. He progresses to the Four Seasons Pavilion, where he activates Ruyi and meets up with Shuanshuan, who Yi allows to reside in the Pavilion.

Yi then proceeds to face the first 3 Sols, recruiting Kuafu and defeating Yanlao and Goumang. Yi is then captured and imprisoned by Jiequan, who tortures Yi and sends an attack onto Peach Blossom Village. Yi escapes the Prison, but collapses after exiting Factory (Machine Room), being brought back to the Pavilion by Chiyou. When Yi awakes and recovers, he continues onto his path towards Jiequan, defeating him. His encounter with Jiequan and the things that Jiequan said to him during his imprisonment cause Yi to begin to reflect on the purpose of his mission, that perhaps his drive for revenge is misguided.

Yi enters Lady Ethereal's soulscape, and within learns that the soulscape system, an integral part of the Eternal Cauldron Project, never actually functioned properly, and that Lady Ethereal had lied to the Council about this because of the dire circumstances. He is hesitant to kill her, but Lady Ethereal's overwhelming feeling of guilt forces her to fight, where she is defeated by Yi. He then moves on to defeat The Fengs and Ji. Yi actively attempts to avoid combat with them, but they choose to fight, sealing their fates. The items that Yi obtains from defeating them allow Kuafu and Ruyi to create the Super Mutant Buster, a device that opens the way in the Tiandao Research Center to access Eigong.

Upon entering Eigong's Vital Sanctum, Yi finds Eigong there, waiting for him. With the power she has over those in her own soulscape, she seizes all 8 Sol Seals that Yi has collected, and strands him in the soulscape. For an unknown reason, he is eventually able to escape, and has to fight his way through the Tianhuo Research Institute to reach the New Kunlun Central Hall.