1/2 Prince

is a Chinese manhua by Yu Wo and illustrated by Choi Hong Chong. The story takes place in year 2100 A.D. where humans have developed highly realistic virtual reality games. The protagonist, 19 year-old female college student, Feng Lan, is challenged by her twin brother, Feng Yang Ming, to play the newest popular virtual reality game - Second Life - without using the advantages of being a female character in game. She decides to play as a male character and prove her skills as a swordsman. In the game, she makes many friends and her adventures begin.

Plot

1/2 Prince is about Feng Lan, a wistful yet cheery 19 year-old girl who shares the same interest as her 19 year-old twin brother, Feng Yang Ming, to play virtual reality games. After being challenged by her brother, she is determined to become a male elf swordsman in Second Life and prove her swordsman skill to her brother without using "female benefits" in game.

Characters

Main Characters

• Name: Feng Lan/Xiao Lan
• In-game name: Prince (a.k.a Blood Elf)
• Race: Elf
• Job: Warrior
• Team: Odd Squad (Team Leader)
• Pet: Meatbun (dropped from Wolf King)

After her brother declares that she can never make it as a guy in the game world where girls are given special treatment (HP boost, free equipment from other players, easier to level up), Feng Lan starts playing Second Life, a new virtual reality game as Prince, a warrior class, and wields a rather unique black sword. Being 30% better looking than her real life self she makes for a really attractive pretty boy, and grabs the attention of every female in-game. She is the leader of the Odd Squad.

• Name: Ming Ju Wen
• In-game name: Guileastos/Gui
• Race: Elf
• Job: Bard
• Team: Odd Squad
• Pet: Fire Pheonix (won from a bet in the tournament)

One of the members of Odd Squad. Upon first meeting Prince, he kissed his (Prince) hand in front of many people in Star City. He "appears" to be gay. As a result, Prince killed him. On his second meeting, he helped Prince and the Odd Squad kill zombies and since then he has joined the team. He enjoys harassing Prince and getting beaten by him but later he realizes his love for Prince without knowing Prince's true gender/identity.

In reality, he is 26 years old and works as a professor at the university that Feng Lan and Feng Yang Ming attend and teaches literature in one of Feng Lan's class. Rumor has it he is a genius with and IQ of 200. He became a professor at the age of 22 and got his PhD at the age of 25. By the age of 26, he is one of the most sought-after lecturers by all universities in the country.

• Name: Zhuo Ling Bin
• In-game name: Wicked
• Race: Elf
• Job: Warrior
• Team: Dark Phantom (Team Leader)

A very skillful warrior and the leader of Dark Phantom. After meeting Prince, he accepts him and his team as his sworn enemy. When he found out that Prince's real identity is Xiao Lan, he becomes protective and possessive around her. Zhuo Ling Bin is jealous of Gui because he heard from his younger brother - Zhou Ming Bin - that Prince and Gui have a very "strange" relationship. Later, he admits that he has been in love with Xiao Lan for 8 years. As a promise to Xiao Lan, he keeps her identity in-game a secret, especially from her brother, Feng Yang Ming.

Before playing Second Life, Zhuo Ling Bin played The World, another virtual reality game. There, he met Xiao Lan and married her.

He is Feng Lan and Feng Yang Ming's childhood friend. He has known Feng Lan since she was 8 years old. He refers to Feng Lan as Xiao Lan. When Feng Lan was 12 years old, he had to move away to follow his family. He made a promised that he will marry Feng Lan in the future.

• Name: Feng Yang Ming
• In-game name: Feng Wu-ching/Heartless Wind
• Race: Human
• Job: Warrior
• Team: Dark Phantom, formerly Rose

Feng Lan's twin brother. He dared his sister to play Second Life as a male. He has gone to the same elementary, middle, high school, and now university as Feng Lan.

He hates Prince for stealing his women in-game, and doesn't know that he is his real sister. He holds a grudge against him. He switches to Dark Phantom team after Rose joins the Prince Fan Club.

• Name: Un-known
• In-game name: LoliDragon
• Race: Elf
• Job: Thief
• Team: Odd Squad

At first, Feng Lan believed LoliDragon was an NPC but it is revealed that she works as one of Second Life's hidden game moderators and has a character in-game. She knows Prince's real identity. With the help of Second Life's headquarters, she granted Feng Lan's wish to be a male warrior. She also the one responsible for handling Prince's character creation process.

She is a very agile and fast character that specializes in back stabs and stealth attacks. She is known to have stolen millions of game currency and items from other players and she is a thief class.

• Name: Lee Tian Lang
• In-game name: Ugly_Wolf (Wolf-nii: called by Prince)
• Race: Beast
• Job: Priest
• Team: Odd Squad

At first, he thought of becoming a magician but gave up and became a priest instead. He helped Prince and LoliDragon when they were in trouble and later joined their team. Even though he looks like a fierce beast, he has a very gentle personality. In-game, he marries another of Odd Squad's members, Yu Lian.

He works as a doctor at Feng Lan's university. From Feng Lan's point of view, he has a very caring personality both in and out of the game.

• Name: Unknown
• In-game name: Magical Doll/Doll
• Race: Human
• Job: Soul Sorcerer
• Team: Odd Squad

Another of the Odd Squad's members. She is a human soul sorcerer who can summon the undead from hell but is afraid of them instead. She claims that although she may look like an evil magician, she is as good as an angel, although she uses "black magic" to summon her undead pets. Her favorite quote is "Love and Justice."

Although she has a weird and childish personality and the looks of a 12 year old girl, Doll sometimes can be very mature. She admits that she comes from a wealthy family in real life.

• Name: Unknown
• In-game name: Yu Lian
• Race: Human
• Job: Wizard
• Team: Odd Squad

She joined Odd Squad when she overhead that they needed a wizard on their team. At first, her actions make LoliDragon suspicious because, according to LoliDragon, many female players want to join their team because they were attracted to Prince's and Gui's looks. After being questioned by her, Yu Lian told the team that she is attracted to Ugly_Wolf instead. Later she marries Ugly_Wolf in-game.

Though she may look like a shy and gentle girl, Prince believes that that is just a facade. She is a wizard that specializes in elemental magic. She specializes in fire, with a sub-specialty of wood.

• Name: Zhou Ming Bin
• In-game name: Miwa
• Race: Human
• Job: Wizard
• Team: Dark Phantom

One of Dark Phantom's members who has a violent personality. Mistaken as a girl by Prince, Miwa holds a grunge against Prince and his team, Odd Squad. Like Yu Lian, Miwa is also a wizard and he specializes in elemental magic - lightning.

Miwa is the younger brother of Wicked/Zhuo Ling Bin. Feng Lan describes Miwa as a spoiled, violent brat.

Other Characters

Members of Dark Phantom:

• Playboy - thief
• Marksman - archer
• Dark_Rose - priest

Members of Team Rose:

• White Rose/Ou Yang Mei - Wizard (Feng Lan's cousin)
• FairSky/Qing Tian - Wizard
• Priest - Priest
• LilStrong - Warrior
• Duan Jian - Warrior

External links

• http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=11314 - 1/2 Prince Fan Club