Li Fugui
"Those bas-bas-bastards of the Wulin Alliance, they'd never guess we'd come from the town, pinch-pinch-pinch, pinch~ pinch ── damn it!"
A rising star of the Beggar Sect who, beggar though he is, was named Fugui, "Wealth and Honor".
He is the orphan of the Old Faction Elder Thousand-Gold Elder, and also the Adoptive Son of the New Faction leader and Gang Leader Wang Erzhuang.
He stutters when he speaks, but he is not actually stupid.
Biographies
Before his father joined the Beggar Sect, he had held official rank and had only one son, Li Fugui, whom he doted on beyond all reason. Li Fugui never studied and never worked, and before he was even five he was lifting young ladies' skirts.
Later, when the Thousand-Gold Elder scattered his fortune and joined the Beggar Sect, Li Fugui stayed as arrogant and willful as ever, borrowing his father's face to bully others in his shadow, until Wang Erzhuang struck the Thousand-Gold Elder dead with his palm, seized power, and took the Gang Leader's seat. With no one left to hold an umbrella over him, Li Fugui finally reined in his temper, changed his name, and acknowledged Wang Erzhuang as his father, meaning to assassinate him.
Little did he know that Wang Erzhuang saw through every bit of his scheming. Wang Erzhuang even thought the boy might endure hardship and bide his time, a promising child. But Li Fugui could not hold his patience for even a moment, and tried the assassination the very night he was acknowledged, and of course failed utterly.
Punishment there had to be, but not beatings, scolding, or killing. Instead he was forced to read and to train in martial arts, to break his mind and torment his body.
Later, when the Thousand-Gold Elder scattered his fortune and joined the Beggar Sect, Li Fugui stayed as arrogant and willful as ever, borrowing his father's face to bully others in his shadow, until Wang Erzhuang struck the Thousand-Gold Elder dead with his palm, seized power, and took the Gang Leader's seat. With no one left to hold an umbrella over him, Li Fugui finally reined in his temper, changed his name, and acknowledged Wang Erzhuang as his father, meaning to assassinate him.
Little did he know that Wang Erzhuang saw through every bit of his scheming. Wang Erzhuang even thought the boy might endure hardship and bide his time, a promising child. But Li Fugui could not hold his patience for even a moment, and tried the assassination the very night he was acknowledged, and of course failed utterly.
Punishment there had to be, but not beatings, scolding, or killing. Instead he was forced to read and to train in martial arts, to break his mind and torment his body.
Wang Erzhuang
- His feelings toward Wang Erzhuang are rather complicated. He both respects and worships his Adoptive Father, and wants to avenge his murdered father.
- In the final battle of the Jiangling siege, he stabs Wang Erzhuang in the back. Killing a kinsman for the greater good was 's own wish. He did not want to do it, but there was no turning back once he was in the saddle, so he did it.
- Though belongs to the New Faction, in truth, because of , he belongs to the Old Faction.
- On the surface, Wang Erzhuang holds him hostage to keep the Old Faction Elders in line, but in truth he hopes that when Li Fugui becomes Gang Leader, he will mediate between the New and Old Factions and ease their infighting, and once all the Old Faction Elders have passed away, unify the Beggar Sect.
Notes
- In the first version his name was Ma Fugui, but because it seemed to be entangled with the question of Wang Erzhuang's original name, his surname was changed to Li.
- Feeling guilty over the Beggar Sect and 's rampage in the Outer Fort, he stayed there to help with the repairs.
- He took odd jobs everywhere to raise money for the Outer Fort's repairs.
A beggar who works and earns money, can you still call him a beggar? - The Flying Stone Gang foreman says he is strong as an ox, able to do the work of three men, a real bargain.
- When you go Down the Mountain, you often run into him asking for water.
Brother, got any water? - He can roast simple wild game, and the Beggar's Chicken passed down directly from .[1]
- With Affinity ≧2★ and Beggar Sect Affinity ≧2, he offers the Tang Clan advice and leads to the Western Wulin ending.
- The "Startled Snake Staff" in the final battle of the Clan Extermination route is arguably the strongest crowd-control skill, and players grind their teeth over it.
- He is terrified of . He drops to his knees on sight, not out of courtesy but because his legs give out. Under a shouted interrogation, not only is his stutter cured, he even says things he should not, and frightens himself unconscious.
- Not implemented:
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