Floral Shorts

Floral Shorts is an early Pride guild party leader whose poor coordination, self-serving loot policy, and retaliatory attack bring him into conflict with Zhang Yang. (Chapters 13–19 and 31–32)

Biography

Rebirth and White Jade City

Floral Shorts recruits Zhang Yang to complete a ten-player dungeon party but proves unwilling to manage it effectively: he orders an attack, ignores focused-target instructions, and prioritizes stabbing enemies from behind while aggro scatters across the group. When Zhang Yang's leadership stabilizes the run, Floral Shorts still claims party-leader privilege over loot and favors his Pride guildmates, then objects when those members are removed after disrupting the boss strategy. Resentment carries outside the dungeon, where he joins three Pride allies in trying to kill Zhang Yang back to Level 0. Their numerical advantage fails against Zhang Yang's defense, leaving Floral Shorts unable to inflict meaningful damage and frightened by the possibility that their victim is camping their bodies. (Chapters 13–19 and 31–32)

Appearance and personality

The corpus does not describe Floral Shorts's physical appearance. He is arrogant, partisan toward his guildmates, and evasive about responsibility: he praises an ineffective tank, asserts loot priority for himself, and ignores coordination that would improve party survival. His anger after removal leads him to escalate a dungeon dispute into open-world PvP. (Chapters 14–19 and 31–32)

Abilities and gameplay

Floral Shorts fights with two swords and can use Stealth to disappear before attacking from behind, identifying him as a Thief-style melee player. His attacks cannot penetrate Zhang Yang's 64 Defense and deal only minimum damage, while reflected Block damage harms him substantially. The corpus names no other skill, passive, cooldown, level progression, or equipment tier for him. (Chapters 14 and 31–32)

Relationships

• Zhang Yang: Floral Shorts recruits him, resists his superior dungeon leadership, and later attacks him in revenge. Zhang Yang defeats the Pride group decisively. (Chapters 13–19 and 31–32)
• Kindling Chest Hair: A guildmate whom Floral Shorts protects as the nominal main tank despite weak aggro control, including by arguing for preferential loot. (Chapters 13–17 and 31–32)
• Prideful Precepts: A fellow Pride member who ignores Zhang Yang's focus orders and joins Floral Shorts's retaliation party. (Chapters 13–19 and 31–32)

Items

• Twin swords: Floral Shorts uses two blades for rear attacks, but their names, tier, and attributes are not stated. No other personally significant item is established. (Chapters 14 and 31)