Credits
Shaman king (duh) - Jun and her family were created by them
My Own family - (I'm going off on a tangent so if you don't want to read about my family you are welcome to skip the italicized part. )
A lot of the inspiration for this was from my dad, who faithfully reads my sister Chinese stories every night before bed and my Father's father's own childhood. He is 80 and still mows the lawn!
My dad's stories are simplified versions of stories told by ancient Chinese story tellers. They have lots of stuff about great warriors, honorable bandits (This is not logical. Don't try and figure it out), spell castors, demons, and Emperors (who for some stupid reason are always being tricked by the bad guys O.o). Do not be fooled by books written by Americans. The legend of the five rings books are very good but I think they are overly saturated with unnecessary romance (There is little or none in the really thing. For one thing there are usually no women. For another thing, if there are, they are usually caught up in fighting as well) and are not as much full of magic. This helps when I'm trying to write action stories about Chinese people.
My grandpa (father's father) lived in HuBei (I don't know if that's what it's called in English. It's a province.), Mainland China. He was a little kid during WWII. He and my grandmother tell how the Japanese always attacking made life very difficult.
My grandmother (father's mother) lived with her grandmother who she loved very much and who loved her very much. They were really poor (I mean really poor). When my grandmother was in school, she and her classmates had to keep going different places to keep away from the fighting. My grandmother's grandmother would follow them to watch my grandmother.
My grandpa was also really poor.
He once told me a story that some Japanese soldiers attacked their house but one felt bad for my grandfather because he was only a little kid and told him to run for it.
My mom's dad was poor.
My mom's mom was not poor but then after the communists (curse them 100,000,000,000 times) took over, they hated rich people so then she became poor.
I guess all this stuff really has nothing to do with the fanfic but I think communists are evil. Very evil. Mao Zhe dong is even worse than Saddam Hussein. He should die many many times. O.o he's already dead.
Anyway, a long time ago in china. People would have these rooms with plaques with the names of the ancestors on them hung on the wall. The communists came and destroyed these rooms. They also had family history and stuff written down. This got destroyed too.
When my grandfather was young, it was his duty to write our family history and family tree. He wrote a new copy each year. All that got destroyed, though.
My grandfather has amazing memory. When he came here to America, he wrote it all again. I have a copy of it. I'm so proud of him!
I am a girl like Jun. My name is not on the family tree page. It is on the page as one of my father's children. My brother's name is. I have two sisters. My father's older brother has three daughters and one son but one daughter and one son died. My father's younger brother just got married and he is going to have a son.
Myself - I did the storyline and I put myself in Jun's shoes. Our personalities are similar… I think.
I speak Mandarin pretty fluently. I can only read a little bit of Chinese and write even less. I am trying to learn Japanese and Cantonese (my grandmother speaks this dialect but my grandfather speaks Hu Bei dialect but they both speak mandarin. It's weird. My sisters and I have a Cantonese accent and my brother has a Hu Bei accent.)
Digimon/Toei - This is not really direct but I sort of have Jun treat Bailong the way Makino Ruki (digimon tamers) treats Renamon in a way.