She is a beautiful
young student of Kung Fu and Tai Chi with exceptional raw skills.
Lotus is confused and unfocused due to her lack of discipline and the
hormones raging through her body. She too is on a search for
self-discovery and fulfillment. She has been on a personal search
for Nirvana for years and is hoping that Sifu Ben Zen will be able to
enlighten her as well as to teach her the ultimate in Martial
Arts. When she was a child she was abducted by a stranger and
molested. She has never been able to forget the incident and the
awful painful memories. The past has permanently closed off her
heart to men and love in general. The worst part was that no one
believed her abduction story. The molester released her not far
from her home. This made her a loner and distrustful of
everyone. She is using Nirvana and all that it involves to hide
behind and block out the ugly past.
By being the
top student of Ben Zens school she gets to be by his side more than
most of the other students. Kung Fu is an extremely demanding and
physical discipline. The way that Ben Zen has taken to
instructing her is by sparing at half speed. In these one on one
sparing matches she tries to beat her master to the next move. It
is similar to chess in that every move has a counter and then a counter
movement to that counter and so on until the last move, which is a
checkmate. There is a lot of sweating and continued body
contact. The technique Ben Zen is famous for is called dodging
the bullet. It involves knowing exactly how to set up your
opponent to think of his next move, then dodging it.
Once during one of
these personal sparing matches she actually checkmated Ben Zen because
her intense physical beauty and especially her soft inviting eyes
distracted him. There was a long pause when she was in this
dominant posture and for that instance they were one. Of course
it passed as an embarrassing fluke but the other students started to
whisper things and this started to undermine the foundation of the
school. Lotus was much loved by fellow students but since the
incident she was starting to cause a rift between those that thought
she was lucky and those that were rightly afraid of the school breaking
up.
She is also at crossroads in her life and doesn’t know which way to go. She knows that pursuing her feelings for her Sifu Ben Zen will end the existence of the school with all her true friends that she loves so much. Her choice is to find love with this unique man or to continue looking for the pathway to Nirvana.
