Full Name: Yè Yī (叶一)
Alias: The Firstborn of the Void
Codename: Silver Sigil
Specialist ID: [CLASSIFIED]
Current Status: Active
Affiliation: Independent • Sworn Brother of Violet
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Nationality: Chinese
Core Trait: Disciplined Strategist
Art: Soul Arm (Undiscovered at the beginning of the story.)
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LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCY
Yè Yī rarely speaks more than necessary.
When he does, he prefers precision over volume.
Mandarin Chinese (Native)
Japanese (Fluent)
English (Fluent)
German (Basic)
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SPECIALIST CLASSIFICATION
Primary Arm: First Arm — Ice
Secondary Arm: Void (Dormant)
Battlefield Role: Controller
Clearance Level: Black — Tier 7.3 (Initial Assessment), Teal — Tier 8.5 (Later Evaluation)
Repeated observations indicate deliberate suppression of his true output.
Several senior Specialists privately believe he is capable of crossing Tier Nine.
Yè Yī has never shown any interest in proving them right.
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OPERATIONAL DESIGNATIONS
Codename: Silver Sigil
Recognized Title: Architect of Echoes
Among Specialists, another title follows him more quietly.
The Firstborn of the Void.
Very few know where it originated.
Fewer still are willing to explain it.
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PHYSICAL PROFILE
Height - 184 cm
Build - lean rather than imposing.
Years of combat have given him efficiency instead of unnecessary strength.
Hair - Black. Rarely styled beyond whatever keeps it out of his eyes.
Eyes - appears almost black under ordinary light.
During periods of heightened Arm activity, silver quietly overtakes the iris until only a faint trace of blue remains.
Most people remember something else first. Not his appearance.
His Presence - Yè Yī has an unusual habit of becoming invisible inside ordinary life.
Crowded rooms naturally move around him.
When he finally speaks, conversations stop without anyone consciously deciding to listen.
Clothing - Dark coats. Dark shirts. Dark trousers.
Nothing expensive. Nothing memorable. Exactly the way he prefers it. Despite being the richest in the group.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE
Calm. Reserved. Patient. Observant. Deliberately difficult to read.
Yè Yī almost never reacts immediately. He observes first, processes second, responds last. Many mistake this restraint for emotional distance. They are only half correct.
His emotions have never disappeared.
He simply refuses to let them make decisions before reason has finished speaking.
He possesses an unusually dry sense of humour that appears without warning and disappears just as quickly.
Those closest to him have learned that his sarcasm is often the closest thing he offers to affection.
His greatest habit is remembering —promises, conversations, small details others forget within days.
He carries them all. His silence has never been empty. It's always been storage.
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Emotional Burden
Since childhood, genuine emotional expression has become increasingly difficult.
Whether this is the consequence of the Ice Arm, something far older, or both... remains uncertain.
He does not avoid people because he dislikes them.
He avoids becoming dependent on losing them.
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Personal History
The only person Yè Yī ever truly called family disappeared without explanation.
No farewell. No letter. No body. Only absence.
He has never stopped waiting.
Even if he no longer admits that he is.
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ARM MANIFESTATION
First Arm — Ice
Most Ice Specialists create cold, Yè Yī creates stillness.
The distinction appears minor until combat begins; Temperature drops. Movement slows. Conversations become quieter. Even hesitation seems to linger longer around him.
Opponents often realize they have already lost only after discovering they can no longer move.
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Void Arm (Dormant)
At the beginning of the story... even Yè Yī does not know it exists.
Unlike ordinary Arms, the Void creates nothing. It removes; Distance, Matter, Meaning. Eventually... existence itself.
How such an Arm came to reside within him remains unknown.
Ancient records insist that Void affinity cannot be inherited effectively.
Yè Yī stands as the first contradiction.
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OBSERVED TECHNIQUES
Absolute Zero ( Silent Freeze)
The battlefield enters complete stillness.
Movement technically continues.
Those trapped inside simply fail to notice that time around them has already become motionless.
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Void Step
For a brief moment...
the world behaves as though Yè Yī never occupied the space at all.
Sight fails.
Sound fails.
Spiritual perception fails.
Even memory hesitates.
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Soul Echo
Fragments of intent separate from his own will and briefly assume independent form.
They are neither spirits nor illusions.
Something exists between both.
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Dimensional Lock
Constructs an isolated domain where escape loses its ordinary meaning.
Outside influence weakens.
Abilities become increasingly difficult to invoke.
Yè Yī rarely employs the technique due to its extraordinary cost.
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Soul Arm
Incomplete.
Hidden.
Perhaps unfinished.
Years before the story began, someone conceived an impossible idea.
An Arm not born from blood.
Not granted by the Forge.
Created.
The truth behind that experiment remains buried.
For now.
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Soul Carving
Shapes fragments of will into temporary manifestations.
Living constructs.
Weapons.
Echoes.
The Soul Arm obeys intention more readily than physical law.
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Arm Hybridization
The Void quietly integrates with other manifestations.
Ice becomes silence.
Space becomes absence.
The longer the battle continues...
the less ordinary his techniques become.
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Temporal Reverie
By sensing lingering echoes within an opponent's aura, Yè Yī briefly perceives where their next movement intends to become.
He is not predicting the future.
He is reading momentum before it arrives.
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Void Embrace
Creates a field where supernatural phenomena steadily weaken.
Within its boundaries, power itself feels reluctant to exist.
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COMBAT ASSESSMENT
Yè Yī does not overwhelm opponents.
He outlasts them.
Every step has purpose.
Every retreat prepares another angle.
Every silence gathers information.
Rather than forcing victory...
he quietly rearranges the battlefield until defeat becomes the only remaining outcome.
His greatest weapon has never been his Arm.
It has always been patience.
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THREAT ASSESSMENT
Threat Level: Medium-High (at beginning)
Not because his battles are spectacular, but because they are efficient.
Long engagements overwhelmingly favour him.
The longer an opponent remains inside his battlefield... the more the battlefield begins resembling his mind.
Calm. Ordered, and Inescapable.
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KNOWN LIMITATIONS
Iceback Syndrome - Extended use of the Ice Arm steadily lowers his internal body temperature.
At first, the symptoms appear harmless;
Cold hands, Slow pulse. Pale skin.
Eventually... emotion itself begins freezing alongside the body.
Veteran Specialists describe the condition in remarkably similar words.
"It feels less like dying..."
"And more like watching someone else continue living in your place."
Yè Yī is fully aware of the risk. He continues fighting anyway.
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BACKGROUND
Official records describe the Yè family as historically insignificant. The records are false.
His so-called great-grandfather constructed an entirely fabricated ancestral history for reasons no archive has successfully uncovered.
Only one relic survived untouched. The old Yè Family Plaque. It resonates only in Yè Yī's presence. No one has successfully explained why.
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The Soul Arm - Long before the events of the novel... The creation of an entirely new Arm. One assembled from human will instead of inheritance.
The experiment disappeared before history could record it.
Most Specialists believe it never existed.
Most Specialists are wrong.
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RELATIONSHIPS
Violet - If Yè Yī is silence... Violet is one of the few people capable of answering it.
Their conversations rarely sound affectionate.
Most resemble philosophical disagreements disguised as ordinary conversation.
Neither has ever seemed particularly interested in explaining the difference.
He trusts her more readily than anyone else.
Which, for Yè Yī... is another way of saying everything.
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Qiū Huà Bǐ - Qiū Huà Bǐ is loud enough to exhaust entire buildings.
Yè Yī tolerates him anyway. Behind every complaint sits a quiet instinct to protect him.
He often describes Qiū Huà Bǐ as reckless.
He has never once abandoned him because of it.
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Chūn Lěng Fēng - Yè Yī has often wondered whether silence can suffer from headaches.
Chūn Lěng Fēng has unintentionally spent years trying to answer that question.
One speaks only when necessary.
The other appears determined to compensate on behalf of both of them.
Against all reasonable expectation... they work surprisingly well together.
Yè Yī has never admitted whether he enjoys Chūn Lěng Fēng's company.
He has also never told him to leave.
For him... that already says enough.
Mù Xiāo Xiāo - Neither of them speaks very much. Neither seems particularly interested in filling silence with conversation.
Oddly enough, neither finds the silence uncomfortable.
Most people find Mù Xiāo Xiāo difficult to understand. Yè Yī has never appeared to share that difficulty.
She answers exactly what is asked. He rarely asks more than necessary. Yè Yī quickly realizes that Mù Xiāo Xiāo never wastes words, while Mù Xiāo Xiāo notices that Yè Yī never asks for unnecessary ones.
Most conversations between them are remarkably short.
They also tend to understand each other with surprising accuracy.
Others occasionally mistake this for familiarity. It isn't. It is simply the rare comfort of meeting someone who doesn't require silence to be explained.
The quiet between them has never felt awkward.
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Violet — the one who understands his silence.
Qiū Huà Bǐ — the one who constantly interrupts it.
Chūn Lěng Fēng — the one who accidentally weaponizes noise.
Mù Xiāo Xiāo — the one who simply exists beside it.
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SYMBOLISM
Associated Colours
Black and Gold.
Darkness that chooses restraint.
Gold that refuses to shine for attention.
When Yè Yī's Arm manifests, black and gold appear together—not in opposition, but in quiet balance.
Personal Relic
The Yè Family Plaque.
Its age predates recorded Specialist history.
Its purpose remains unknown.
Recognized Title
The Architect of Hollow Things.
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Personal Relic - The Yè Family Plaque.
Its age predates recorded Specialist history.
Its purpose remains unknown.
Recognized Title - The Architect of Hollow Things.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
Yè Yī is a contradiction.
He appears cold because warmth became expensive.
He appears detached because attachment has always carried consequences.
People often mistake his silence for emptiness.
It isn't.
Silence is simply the language he learned after losing the words he once needed.