⟨ chen feiyu. cismale. he/him. 23. ⟩ We just saw Liu Yu entering King's College London. I heard through the grapevine that they are a post-grad student / hacker. Although they are civilian, they can sometimes be arrogant, imprudent, or even petty but I’ve also heard some people say that they were intelligent, meticulous and quite daring.
Statistics.
name: liu yu aliases: ph4ros, the london underground age: twenty-three d.o.b: december 16th gender: cismale pronouns: he/him orientation: heterosexual place of birth: wuhan, the people's republic of china current residence: london, united kingdom nationality: chinese religion: agnostic occupation: post-graduate, hacker/activist affiliation: none family: liu chao (father, deceased), liu hua (mother, deceased), mei taylor (aunt), arthur taylor (uncle-in-law), elliott taylor (cousin), louisa taylor (cousin) languages spoken: mandarin chinese, english
Biography.
{tw death during childbirth, poverty}
Liu Yu was born on a cold winter's morning though his mother never got to see her new son, dying ten minutes after he was born due to complications. Liu Chao was devastated by the loss of his wife, but vowed to keep going for her son, taking Yu home a few days later and quickly throwing himself into trying to care for a new born while trying to juggle his job as a software developer.
But he struggled, they were never a well-off family to begin with, but after Hua's death, money was even tighter than usual. Most nights, Chao went to bed with an empty stomach, putting most money towards trying to keep the lights on and making sure his son had enough food not to cry through the night.
Yu grew up with very little and when he was old enough to go to school for most of the day, his father took on a second job at a convenience store to try and make some extra money. It was clear his father was exhausted most days, but he tried to always have a smile, not letting his son know that he was struggling. It only became clear how bad his father was running himself into the ground just to survive when he ended up in hospital after collapsing at work.
Five days later, his father passed away when Yu was just fourteen years old.
He was taken in by his Aunt and her husband and two kids, Yu finding himself on the first flight over to the United Kingdom. It was a bit of a culture shock. Being in Devon was the first time Yu had ever seen the ocean before and for awhile he struggled with the language, making very little friends in his new school. So, it was no surprise he found solace in the online world, spending most of his time outside of homework learning the ins and outs of computer code, learning how to break things down and fix them up again. It wasn't long before he was quite proficient at it.
Over the years he grew more confident, getting to grips with English and scoring high in his tests. He was sixteen and in his last year of senior school when he hacked the school servers for the first time, exposing the Principle of his school for cheating on his wife. And the attention it brought caused Yu to become quite bold, turning his eyes on exposing even more secrets, taking enjoyment in taking down politicians and celebrities for their blatant lying, leaking data to the press and exposing them on social media.
He moved to London for university when he was 18, soon after setting up his new social media online presence as The London Underground. And from there he has grown from strength to strength, spending most evening trawling through the internet and hacking into servers to uncover all the dirty secrets of London. He's determined to take down every corrupt politician, celebrity and police officer he can dig up the dirt on, giving the public the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Headcanons.
While studying for his masters degree, Yu fixes computers for a little bit of extra cash on the side. It's not something he advertises very much, only when he needs the extra money.
He has splashed out on his own private anonymous server to run his 'london underground' accounts from, making them untraceable and giving him an extra layer of anonymity.
When in the zone he pays very little attention to anything but what's in front of him. You could be trying to have a conversation and it'll be like talking to a brick wall because he absolutely won't even register you're talking to him in the first place.
Though he is now fluent in English, he absolutely still pulls the 'I'm Chinese I don't understand' card when he wants a quick exit from a conversation or to get out of trouble. He even pulls it with people who know damn well he speaks English just fine.
He always had headphones in listening to music or podcasts. Yu just can't go without any kind of background noise when he's working.
Incredibly petty. Like incredibly. He's the sort of person to hack your PC and changed your home screen wallpaper to something stupid if you steal some of his food.
He rarely writes in English, still preferring to write in Chinese. The only written English is his media posts and his coursework. Notes and everything else are always in Chinese.
