Character:Daoji

Daoji

Daoji (a main Character in Peritia)

née Wong Shya, born on 1955 (74 years old), pronouns he/him, farmaceutical lab technician and kung fu teacher, of Chinese (Hong Kong) background.
A Problem: sadness
A Want: enlightenment

A Need: loosen up

Personality

• Solitary: lacks social skills; lacks common interests; too serious
• Traditional: gives a lot of importance to his chinese culture
• Judgemental: puts high standards on other people; can't forgive himself for his mistakes
• Relentless: wants to abolish capitalism; wants to achieve his goals no matter the consequences; wants to fix the world’s problems
• Vegan: believes humankind will be at peace once they stop consuming dead meat
• Unemotional: analyzes every aspect of his behaviour mathematically; lacks vulnerability
• Inflexible: he is truly proud of himself, not being able to negotiate with other personalities; believes strongly that his way of thinking is the absolute truth

Struggles

• Lonely
• Indifferent to people who don't share his beliefs
• Unable to have fun
• Stuck in his past
• No interest in finding love. He’s a widow.
• Overthinking

Source of pain

• he wants to repair the loss of his family
• he feels very strongly he can save other people from harm
• he doesn't like to talk about himself, would mean to open up about his past
• he is very wise, but he's not able to share his wisdom most of the times

Needs

• ACCEPTANCE: of self, of circumstances, of reality
• FAITH: in oneself, in others, in the world, in a higher power
• TRUST: in oneself, in others, in the unknown
• SELFLESSNESS: including sacrifice, altruism, heroism, and overcoming greed
• RESPONSIBILITY: including duty, standing up for a cause, accepting one’s destiny
• REDEMPTION: including atonement, accepting blame, remorse, and salvation

Wants

His goal: to become enlightened.

• wants Peritia to succeed, and is eager to start the “mitosis”
• wants to achieve enlightenment
• wants redemption
• wants to make amends for his past mistakes
• wants to disassociate with his past but resists letting go

In pursuit of her goal (be in control), he's been active about:

• thinks by creating a new society, without violence... his pain will go away
• became a Kung-Fu teacher to help young kids defend themselves
• was one of the first people to become interested in the Peritia project

Roadblocks to achieving his goal:

• he carries a lot of pain from the past, and tried to avoid it for too long, but now, the past has got to him, and all his “peace” was disturbed
• he tried to follow his Peritian therapist advices, but ended up thinking too little of her
• he's confronted by someone from his past, and he struggles maintaining his invulnerability.

Desires

Desires feeling happy, and a world free from suffering.

Background

• Currently Kung-Fu teacher at Peritia
• Laboratory technician from 1979 to 1990 at Teva Pharm
• 65 years old (born the 14th of September 1955)

Family tragedy: his wife and daughter were killed by burglars, as they were coming out of a violin concert in 1988 (Xiao was 9).

• Daoji was meant to be at his wife's violin concert, but missed the event while staying late at the lab that night. He carries the guilt of not being there that night; Yu Yan and Xiao were waiting for him outside the theater
• the necklace Yu Yan was wearing that night (what she was killed for) was a gift from Daoji for their 10th anniversary
• he quit his job, lost everything and move to Queens to start over
• he began teaching the art of Kung-Fu to young kids in an old gymnasium every night
• at the same time, he was investigating his family murder, since he thought the police department was full of useless employees
• in late 2005, during a stormy night, Daoji found himself making justice by his own hands, seriously injuring a young man and his brother (responsible for the death of Yu Yan and Xiao); when he came back to his senses, ran away from the scene and chose to get out of town
• as years went by, Daoji lost hope for humankind, until he stumbled upon Peritia, which is his whole life now

Family

• from Chinese (Hong Kong) descent
• one sibling
• his wife, Yu Yan, was homemaker and a violin teacher on her free time. She was an elegant, educated woman
• his daughter, Xiao, was a school student

Research

• Chinese surnames
• Wong is the Cantonese and Hakka romanisation of the Chinese surname Huang (黃; pinyin: Huáng; literally "yellow"). The use of Wong as a surname started in 648 BC when the Huang Kingdom located in Henan Province of China was sacked.
• Teva Pharm
• Yu Yan name