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Huang Min (黄敏, born 1993) is a former member of Abstergo Industries scientist and technician working under Zhao Baozhai. She was also a member of the Templar Order, serving as a mole for the Preservers of Humanity, which were where her true loyalties lie.
Stationed at Abstergo's Foundation facility in Beijing, she oversaw Jin Chen's Animus session while he relived the genetic memories of the Assassin Takao Hayato in order to locate the Armor of Ares. From these sessions, she relayed information back to the Preservers - aiding her allies in also tracking down the Armos of Ares.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Min was a promising scientist and technician, having graduated college with the highest honors. Her work and expertise would garner the attention of Abstergo Industries, leading to her eventual employment and the highly valued company in Beijing. At some point during the 2010s, Min was assigned to work on a top secret project which would eventually lead to her discovering the existence of the Assassins and Templars.
However, due to Min's value and capabilities - Zhao Baozhai, a Templar and head of the Abstergo Foundation's facility in Beijing, managed to convince the Inner Sanctum to instead allow Min to join her ranks, saving her life. Against her will, Min was inducted into the Templar Order which she greatly resented.
Eventually, Min would come into contact with the Preservers of Humanity and found that she aligned with their cause. Still resentful toward the Templars and believing that the Assassins' cause was too dangerous to allow to come to pass, she secretly joined the Preservers' cause. Following her recruitment, she was assigned to remain within Abstergo as a mole in order to relay any intel she would learn of during her time there.
Manipulating Jin Chen[]
In 2022, Abstergo had rediscovered the existence of the Armor of Ares through their investigation into the Templar Lonan Kavanagh and his family. Abstergo began a prompt search into either locating the remains of the family members or Kavanagh's descendants. In June, Abstergo successfully located the Kavanaghs' last living descendant, Jin Chen, and quickly began making preparations to retrieve him. Min was made aware of this and she promptly notified the Preservers.
The Preserver field agents, Maria and Frederic would attempt to get to Chen first but both they and Abstergo would be bested by the Assassins.
A few weeks later, Baozhai would successfully locate one of Chen's allies Roberto Garcia and order his capture to serve him up as bait for Chen. Following this success, Jin offered himself up to Abstergo in exchange for his ally's safety and Baozhai would subsequently have Jin relive the memories of his Assassin ancestor and member of the Kavanagh family, Takao Hayato, in order to locate the Armor of Ares. Baozhai assigned Min to oversee and monitor his Animus sessions in order to make sure no harm would come to him.
Min seized the opportunity and gradually gained Jin's trust to the point he would eventually request her assistance. Jin desired to send Hayato's encryped memories to the Assassins so they can keep up to date with the search for the Armor. Realising Jin's proposal would also aid her, she agreed to assist him and provided him with the resources to hack and download Hayato's memories from the Abstergo Cloud. Following Jin's retrieval of the memories, Min assured him she would send these memories to the Assassins when in reality she had uploaded them to the Preservers' cloud.
Once Jin had fully synchronized with Hayato's memories and learned the location of the three Armor pieces, he once again hacked into the Abstergo Cloud and handed the downloaded memories over to Min. Min would send this information to the Preservers who would then send Maria and Frederic to retrieve her the following day. The next day, the Chinese branch of the Assassins would attack the Beijing facility in order to free Jin. Still unaware of Min's true alleigence, Jin brought Min with him during his escape.
Upon reaching the facility's outside grounds, Jin discovers that the Assassins had received no information on Hayato's memories and quickly learns Min's alleigence belongs to someone else. This is when Maria and Frederic attack Jin, Gina and the Assassins. Jin inquired to know as to why she manipulated him to which Min confessed to lying about Baozhai's involvement in his mother's death, admitting she only said this to gain his trust and revealed that the Preservers were actually involved in her death. With that, Maria orders Frederic to remain behind and eliminate Chen and Garcia while she escorts Min away. Following their departure, with the aid of Robbie, Jin manages to kill Frederic.
Searching for Ares' Armor in Japan[]
The following day, the Preservers enter a three way war with the Assassins and Templars for access to the Armor of Ares in Japan. Maria, Min and another Preserver arrive at where the Hashimoto estate used to be some time later in order to retrieve the pieces. There they find Garcia's Assassin cell and an Abstergo recovery team led by Baozhai. Maria successfully shoots and kills Baozhai following the Abstergo recovery team's elimination at the hands of the Assassins. Jin and Gina engage Maria and the third Preserver, during this Robbie manages to detain Min and knock her unconscious while the Preserver field agents are distracted.
Gina and Robbie manage to kill the third Preserver whereas Jin successfully eliminates Maria, leaving Min the last one standing. Following the Assassins' retrieval of all three Armor pieces, Jin and the others decide to bring Min with them in order to interrogate her and learn more about the Preservers.
Trivia[]
- The name 'Min' is a feminine Chinese name meaning "Quick, sensitive”. The surname 'Huang' is Chinese in origin which means "yellow, to fall through".