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As the Eternal Cauldron Project progressed, she captured and raised many Apemen from [[Pale Blue Planet]] with [[Jiequan]]. While tending to the crops with Apemen workers, Goumang took particular interest in duo of them, who she later used as part of the Jiangshi soldier project, while also considering and preserving them as her children. |
As the Eternal Cauldron Project progressed, she captured and raised many Apemen from [[Pale Blue Planet]] with [[Jiequan]]. While tending to the crops with Apemen workers, Goumang took particular interest in duo of them, who she later used as part of the Jiangshi soldier project, while also considering and preserving them as her children. |
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=== Present === |
=== Present === |
Latest revision as of 13:52, 13 October 2024
Goumang (勾芒) is one member of the Ten Sols of the Tiandao Council and responsible for managing agriculture on New Kunlun. She is an expert in the genetic modification of plants and other biology, and is the boss of the Greenhouse zone. She carries the Sol Seal of Equality.
Appearance
Goumang has dark black fur, and long lop ears. Her head has a yellow gem at the center of her forehead, and her ears are adorned with two yellow bell earring with tassels. Two hexagonal rings float above her head like halos.
She has many harpie-like features in several spots on her body. Primarily, her hands seem to end in feathered wings, and her legs have long, metallic talons appear to be prosthetic, because her hometown is so barren and run-down that residents there evolved their bodies like birds with genetic modification technology to make it easier to collect fruits from high branches.
Her current appearance was achieved as the Eternal Cauldron Project progressed. Before the project, she had the same body as the other characters. She wore something similar to the outfit she is currently wearing, but with different sleeves and pants.
Story
Past
In her Soulscape, her life leading up to her time as a Sol is shown. Goumang was born in the Yumin Kingdom, but she had a childhood plagued by cold and hunger due to the dilapidated and barren conditions, which motivated her to take up researching radical plant growth methods through genetic modification to advance agriculture. When Goumang grew up as a great biologist, she met Lady Eigong, who took interest in her knowledge to better feed the people of Penglai, and was crowned one of the Ten Sols in the council.
As the Eternal Cauldron Project progressed, she captured and raised many Apemen from Pale Blue Planet with Jiequan. While tending to the crops with Apemen workers, Goumang took particular interest in duo of them, who she later used as part of the Jiangshi soldier project, while also considering and preserving them as her children.
Her greatest wish was once Tianhuo would be cured, she hopes to feed all Solarians - so that no one may ever go hungry again.
Present
500 years later, Goumang wakes up from her dormancy by Yi's rebellion. Yi encounters Goumang in the Empty Grotto of Scriptures. She attempts to dispose of him through locking him in the elevator, and instructs her Jiangshi soldiers to do so for her. But they don't really understand her command and rather they fail ridiculously by crash and drop the elevator into the Yinglong Canal below.
Later, Yi encounters her in the Agrarian Hall. When Yi criticized the Council's behavior of deceiving people by lying for the cause, goumang argues, "Just as endangered species can be preserved through human hands, the weak can be comfortably protected in a greenhouse if they sacrifice freedom and personal will and follow the will of a strongers like me." But when Yi sarcastically turns to her and says, "On what grounds do you think you can dominate people? You're just more tired of just continuing to plan to achieve your goals," Goumang exposes Teacher Eigong's inferiority complex by criticizing Yi's personality and not being chosen as her love interest because of Yi.
Soon after, Goumang declares to Yi that in the most primitive way, she and his superiority and inferiority, And she using her bell, she revives her Jiangshi soldiers and commands them to attack Yi. But When Yi defeats them, Goumang flies off of her chair and rings her bell again. Seeking this opportunity, Yi attacks Goumang and defeats her by breaking down her bell and prosthetic leg.
Goumang says that she would have been able to make Penglai fit again before 1000 years, according to the farming methods she has established, and she is angry at Yi's betrayal, breaking down in defeat and trying to accept her death. But when she hears a mockery from Yi, "You should practice the theory you've built," the device that controlls the brainwaves of the Jangshis is filled in her bound by Yi, and she comes to an end where her head is brainwash and she can't rendering her immobilized.
It can be inferred that Goumang has perished after Yi sacrifices himself by exploding the infected Primordial Roots.
Personality
Goumang is arrogant and self-righteous, always justifying her decisions with excuses. Her beleaguered past has hardened her heart to prioritize ruthless efficiency, even if it means sacrificing other species during so. She is very racist towards Humans and deems Solarians to be the higher race, but secretly has soft spot for her two Human soldiers despite mind controlling them. Despite her well intent on ensuring Solarians never having to be starved, her methods are at the expense of other individuals, rendering her amoral regardless of her intention.
In addition, Goumang is proud of herself as she was acknowledged by Eigong after her constant efforts, and she respects Eigong very much for recognizing her talents. However, Yi is more talented than her and developed his abilities with the support of Eigong, who favors him more. Feeling inferior as a result, Goumang hates Yi to the extent that she is blatantly jealous, hostile, and disrespectful towards him as junior, even though Yi had politely treated her as senior.
Trivia
- The deity Goumang, also known as "Jumang" or "Gou Meng," was an assistant deity to the mythical Fuxi - although he was male rather than female. With the body of a bird and a human face, he rode two dragons. Jumang is the god of spring, wood, and Jupiter, responsible for the growth of vegetation. This befits Goumang's role in being an expert in agriculture.
- Prior to the release of the game, Goumang makes a minor appearance in the Shanhai 9000 Prequel Comic, where she gave Chien some food. She also commented that a robot having a child was none of her business, but sent someone to keep an eye on Chien and Shanhai 9000 regardless.