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Seven (in Chinese: 伍六七), also known as Killer Seven (in Chinese: 刺客伍六七), is the titular main protagonist of the donghua series Scissor Seven.
He is an amateur haircutter living in Chicken Island and the 17,369th ranked assassin in the world. In truth, he is the former number one assassin of the Killer League who suffers from an amnesia, and wanted by the League. Once learning this, he is determined to find out about the truth of his past, which is slowly revealed over the course of the series.
He is voiced by series creator Xiaofeng He in Mandarin/Cantonese and Ronny Chieng in English.
Biography[]
Background[]
During the war between Xuanwu and Stan, the young man and the others are running for an assassin training program, but only for the former to passed that kind of program and was later chosen to become one of the Shadow Killers.
In the past, Seven was the strongest, most ruthless shadow killer of Xuanwu. At the age of 15, the boy was recruited into the Shadow Killers League and given the codename "Seven", which he accepts. At the rock valley, Seven was challenged by Redtooth for a fight, but he politely refused as he only took his mission until he insists as Redtooth keeps attacking him. During the fight, he was bitten on the shoulder and his sword was shattered into pieces, thus almost got his energy drained. Before Redtooth could attack him again, the Blue Phoenix arrived to stop the fight and advised to get a better sword if he want to survive, which motivates him into getting the Thousand Demon Daggers from the Millenium Dark Spirit of Shenduan.
It is mentioned by the Eyeless Mage that Seven has killed Xuanwu's most prized animal, which is what made him believe that he's a threat to Xuanwu.
Three years ago, when Jack was about to get paid with 50 million yuan from one of his clients, Seven arrived to kill him which ruins his chance of getting paid. In order to get back at him, Captain Jack tried to attack him, but only for Seven to easily defeated him while leaving his body getting scarred.
Two years ago, it is mentioned that he assassinated the King of Stan. When he was hunted down by a group of assassins, he single-handedly taking them down one by one. Then after that, he just coldly ignored an unnamed fearful assassin and walk past by him, but the assassin could do nothing but standing in fear looking at him.
Seven has taught under the arts of thumbs-up fighting technique from Ouyang Zan's master. However, he later witnessed Zan's master defending the Stan people from both Manjusaka and Shimen before he was killed.
After completing all of his missions, Seven decide to leave the Killer League to start his own journey without anyone telling him what to do, especially his former Leader whom he disobeyed. Unbeknowist to him, the Leader decide to formulate his plan to eliminate him by recruiting the girl in white into conspired with him, to take advantage of his feelings with woman.
When the young handsome man with a pink hair attempt to capture him with a woman being chained on a rock with a red dragon, Seven managed to freeing the woman and defeated the dragon before he went to make a charging move against the young man, causing him to undergoes a plastic and voice surgery following his defeat which led to him become an old man-looking and is hired as a Plum Blossom villa housekeeper.
While talking with the Girl in White after saving her from the group of assassins, he rebuffs her question either if he has someone to protect and says he doesn't have one yet.
When the Killer League Leader ordering to assassinate the girl in white, Seven was against it and defends her from the other assassins, but only to be stabbed by the girl in white. He later used his blade to destroy the stone bridge, sending himself and the other assassins falling down the river. This kind of events had led him to lose his entire memories. He was later washed up to the shore of the Chicken Island where he was found by Dai Bo and Xiao Fei and taken to the Miracle Doctor who miraculously healed him and owed him ¥100,000 for his hospital fees.
Seven was get used to living with Dai Bo and always get into arguement whenever it comes to bringing up about the money. While he's selling beef offals in front of Ruozhi Elementary School, Seven was enlisted by Dai Bo for a help to steal a diamond from Doctor Miracle. Later that night, after releasing a knockout fume inside the Doctor Miracle's clinic, Seven infiltrate the place inside where he accidentally open up a shelf that activates the trap door below which leads him to a secret underground where there are filled with jars. Despite the challenges and obstacles he ever faced, Seven managed to reach to the Doctor Miracle where the box's with him until Dai Bo joins in with him as well. Even though he was attacked by Doctor Miracle's furnace and pillars he ever faced, he refused to back down and determined to get the diamond for him, but unfortunately he wasn't able to get it for him.
Season 1[]
While Seven is selling beef offals in front of Ruozhi Elementary School, his best friend/boss Dai Bo decides to train him to become an assassin in order to raise money to travel to the most technologically advance country Stan and help him recover his memory. Though his "training" isn't going very well, Seven is still given his first mission by cutting off the bride's hair on the wedding reception. When he infiltrates Chen and Li's wedding reception to cut off the bride's hair, he becomes tearful of watching the couple's past memories, wondering why doesn't he have past memories and what kind of a person he could be. Despite this, he succeeds in cutting off the married couple's hairs, which leads to him and Dai Bo getting chased by the crowds. As they split up, he later encounters with STAN the Robot and later a mysterious female assassin who asks why does he has the Killer League token, before he survives from the explosion resulting in the robot's self-destruction mode. Because of this, Seven decides to become one of the top 100 highest-ranking assassin list to get into contact with the Killer League while he and Dai Bo open up Dai Bo J Hair Salon as their new business and secret base of operation.
Everytime he is hired to assassinate his victims like Mad Bark, Underpants Man, Grannie Chen, Cola, Captain Jack and an unnamed fat guy, it ends up with either of him failing or sympathizing with their plights like helping Mad Bark reunite with Meow Kitty, defending Underpants Man from the Island Puritan Society, protecting Grannie Chen from being shot by arrows, helping Cola with her cancer treatment by taking her to Miracle Doctor, sending Captain Jack away from the Chicken Island, and finally giving up trying to assassinate a fat guy after he was defeated by He Dachun's Solid as Gold Seven-Day Lock. During his fight with Thirteen, the aforementioned female assassin, he instantly falls in love with her and attempts to hit on her, but of course it doesn't succeed. While having a heart-to-heart talk with Dachun, they witness an oncoming missile coming for the Chicken Island, which Dachun ends up protecting the Island from being blown up.
When he was confronted by the Prince of Stan, Seven wasn't clearly matched against him which he was forced to retreat. While on the boat, Dachun paid him to defeat the prince and save the island, which he accepts. Despite out of reluctance, Dai Bo decide to give him the broken blade and was about to tell him his origins, but only for him to flew off to fight against the prince, along with Thirteen and Xiao Fei joining in with him. When the prince used his combat mechanical suit against them, Seven used Solid as Golden Seven-Day Lock against the prince and used his Qi Controlled Scissors to penetrate against the prince, even if it means almost killing himself. However, he later awakened in his pre-amnesia self and managed to use the full power of the blade to defeat the prince and destroy his giant mechanical orb as well. Despite his victory, Seven began to fell unconcious and was taken to Doctor Miracle to be healed, turning him back to "normal" self again. With his new connection with Thirteen, he was given the new scissor from her.
Season 2[]
Following the defeat of the Prince of Stan, Seven is heard from He Dachun that four of the assassins have arrived at the Chicken Island to look for and killed him for ¥100,000 price, which he is forced to confront until he defeats them all one by one, with his final opponent Spring-Wind Ichiro finally has a change of heart following his defeat. After hearing from Thirteen that more assassins will arrive at the Chicken Island to look for him, Seven is attacked by Thirteen and the chase has begun throughout the entire Chicken Island until he is fed up and accepts her challenge, but promises to go on a date with her at the beach. During the fight, he manages to save Thirteen from getting attacked by her older sister Eleven. When Thirteen offers him his dagger back, Seven refuses since he prefers with his new scissors instead. So Thirteen gives a scroll contains the bounties of his friends, allowing him to discover Xuanwu's goal with the Chicken Island.
Seven and his friends are continued with their adventures in Chicken Island, such as teaming up with Mad Bark and Meow Kitty to defeat Meow Cai, playing with Cola before he was almost choked to death by Lee Zard, saving Dai Bo from being held hostage by Captain Jack and his two henchmen, saving Dai Bo from getting killed by King Pheasant along with Xiao Fei, and almost getting killed by Thirteen's older sister Eleven.
While selling beef offals at the park, Seven and the others witnessed the fight between Chairman Jiang and Redtooth. During the fight, he was forced to kiss Jiang in order for her to activate White Lily Blossom. With Jiang's technique activated, Seven was clearly surprised by her beauty. When Redtooth managed to gained the upperhand on him and the others, Seven had a hard time dealing with him, even after the Blue Phoenix arrived and gave him the Thousand Demon Dagger back. After the Blue Phoenix killed Redtooth, Seven was given back his old blade and is warned to leave the Chicken Island if he want to save everyone before the Blue Phoenix removed the barrier around them, making everyone believed that he won the fight and killed Redtooth.
Season 3[]
The next morning, Seven goes back to his normal daily life once again as he continues with his job as a hairdresser and beef offal seller. However, when more assassins are invading the Chicken Island to look for him and their victims, he decides to leave to Xuanwu to kill the Leader while bringing his old outfit with him as well.
When he reachs to Dali Island, he is imprisoned at the dungeon below where he reunites with former enemy Meow Cai, and they team up together to defeat the Prince of Beauty to save the Island from him with the help of Dai Bo and Xiao Fei, who go along with him. The trio reach to the Rock Hard Country where Seven is challenged by Chen Bobi for a fight after Dai Bo insulted his people. While the first two challenges don't go so well with him, Seven manages to defeat him in the third one while also standing up for He Dachun after he discovered his true backstory. While the trio are at the Superpower Country, he first encounters the three children with superpowers and reunite with Cheap Life Hua as well. When the Prince of Stan arrives at the country, he goes to protect the three children from the prince where Cola is injured during the fight.
With the help of Cheap Life Hua, the trio are finally reached to Xuanwu where both Seven and Dai Bo infiltrate the Tianlong Mansion to retrieve the Black Jade Healing Paste from the penthouse on top of the building. After sending Dai Bo and Xiao Fei away for them to bring the medicine to Cola to heal her, Seven goes off to the Eagle Statue alone where he is stabbed in the Dark Frost Blade by Thirteen out of shock, which leads to him awakening his Beast Mode during his fight with the Eyeless Sorcerer. At the woods, he is on the run from the five assassins and goes on a hiding in the abandoned store. Thirteen also joins in to sheltered with him and they have a heart-to-heart conversation. The next day, Seven goes off of his own again and ends up in a giant statue where he is pursued by both Manjusaka and Shimen. When Black Bird appears and attacks Thirteen, he wants to help her but ends up succumbing to the Dark Frost Blade's effects and goes unconcious where he remembers his past memories of his interations with the Girl in White. After regaining his conciousness, he uses the Thousand Demon Daggers to protect Thirteen from Black Bird.
Season 4[]
While Black Bird is holding Thirteen hostage, Seven goes up towards him and saves Thirteen from his grip. Despite all the struggles he has while fighting Black Bird, Seven manages to take advantage of his weakness against the sunlight and defeats him by stabbing in the chest, but only for him to be almost getting stabbed in the head by Black Bird's wings. However, it turns out that he only survives due to the Thousand Demon Daggers absorbing the darkness from Black Bird's body. After Black Bird's death, he is eventually knocked down by Manjusaka, who hits him with Spider Lily flowers until Dai Bo and Xiao Fei finally arrive and save him and Thirteen.
Seven is eventually brought back to Superpower Country where he is taken to be recuperated by Akso, but he can't be able to regain his conciousness due to the effects of Dark Frost Blade until he awakens. While he is worried for Thirteen, he is contacted by White Fox, who tells him that he'll be waiting for him return to the Chicken Island for a fight or else he'll kill everyone in here including his loved ones. He accepts White Fox's challenge, but he's in no condition of going back in action. After discovering from Shennong herbalist that the poison inside his body gives him a critical condition, he later realizes that someone with a powerful qi that can help him cure him from the poison is none other than Cheap Life Hua which he eagerly accepts, even if it means getting his old memories back.
Season 5[]
With the help of Cheap Life Hua, Seven is able to get inside a helmet-like ship and manages to get pass the obstacles and challenges inside. Inside the ice cave-like place, he is attacked by a canine beast before he tricks the creature into breaking a golden lid for him, until he lands into a stone bridge-like place where he fights against a mysterious cloaked creature (who is his own past memories) and manages to defeat it with the help of Hua. After he opened the gate, he is confronted by his past self until he is awakened and ready to return back to Chicken Island.
Even after he was recovered, Seven begins to recover his past memories as he holds the Thousand Demon Daggers. But suddenly, he is contacted by both Cola and Uncle Chen that White Fox has already been defeated. When two scientists from Stan Country arrive to capture Akso for their experiments, Seven tries to exterminate them both until it is stopped by Hua, which leads to a fight that almost kills him. After he is freed from the Daggers' dark influence, Hua warns Seven not to use the Thousand Demon Daggers too much or it'll risk his own body until he dies before he and Dai Bo are sent back to Xuanwu to find Thirteen.
Seven and Dai Bo are taking on a flying giant sword-like transportation to get to the Plum Blossom Villa, but only to get challenged for a fight by Ouyang Zan, who wants to find out what happened to his master. Despite struggling to fight against him, Seven decides to use the technique that Zan's late master has taught him before against Zan. However, their fight causes both transportation crashes into each other in front of the mountain. While they keep fighting, Seven throws aside any people to tree branches to save them from falling, which makes him earn Zan's respect and they promise to continue settle their score.
After they are blacklisted from the "Flying Swords" for fighting against Ouyang Zan, Seven and Dai Bo go to an inn to look for more information about Thirteen's whereabouts and the Plum Blossom Villa, only for them to get surrounded by group of assassins since he's on a wanted poster. However, they are later saved by Meow Cai's master, who uses Demonic Sound Binding against the enemies and plays an emotional song about the love story of Seven and Thirteen. When the musician knows that he is Meow Cai's friend, he decides to help both Seven and Dai Bo get to Plum Blossom Villa by taking them to a ride on his tortoise with a carriage.
Once they reach to the Plum Blossom Villa, he and Dai Bo enter to greet the master, but only to find Dachun restraining its housekeeper with Eleven tied in his Rope of Divinity. Seven attempts to cut the rope to free Eleven, but gets caught and tied up instead until Dai Bo joins later on. When days has passed, he is surprised of seeing the Plum Blossom Villa master for the first time and the return of Thirteen. He attempts to offer the villa master a fruit and Dai Bo as gifts for him, only to get tied up in a back mountain cave along with Dai Bo and He Dachun with the housekeeper guarding them all.
But fortunately, Seven manages to freed himself, Dai Bo and Dachun from being tied up with a Thousand Demon Dagger hidden inside Xiao Fei. However, he is challenged by the housekeeper to save Dai Bo from being chained to a rock above the sculpture he made with electricity without getting captured by his Rope of Divinity. Though initially fails to use the fake Thousand Demon Daggers that is swapped with a real one by Dai Bo out of concern for his well-being, Seven manages to free his scissors with Dachun's Indestructible Virgin and uses it to free Dai Bo from being chained and later Dachun from being tied up. Before leaving, Seven tells the housekeeper just to accept for who he is and let go of his past, including his hatred towards him. Despite learning that Thirteen has left the villa all by herself, Seven refuses to back down and still wants to find her no matter what.
After they're almost hunted down by the waiter and the group of assassins and escaped from the inn, Seven and Dai Bo go to visit a wooden graveyard of the fallen Xuanwu people, including the Girl in White whom the former visited. However, he is encountered with the Eyeless Sorcerer again, who tells him the entirety of his past, causing him to regain back his memories but choose to abandon hatred and vengeance and put them aside. This leads the Eyeless Sorcerer to change his mind about killing him and decide to leave peacefully. He later admits to Dai Bo that the Girl in White's betrayal has made him change into who he is and feels grateful of what she has done to him.
Trivia[]
- Seven's hair resembles Dai Bo and Xiao Fei's chicken combs.
- The shading under Seven's eyes is meant as a reference about the animation industry, especially about the joke that animators (and manhua artists) consistently suffer from lack of sleep.
- Seven's Chinese code name ,Wǔ Liùqī (伍六七), is a pun on "Five Six Seven", Wǔ Liù Qī (五六七).
- One interesting thing to note is that Seven's name is considered the lucky number, and his rival-turned-love interest Thirteen's name is considered the unlucky number by Christians, further adding to their contrast.
External Links[]
- Seven on the Scissor Seven Wiki
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