Pao Pu-Zi

The series shares no real description of Pao Pu-Zi's appearance, noting only that he is born in 2021 and travels in his own spacecraft. He is remembered far more for his command of Feng-shui than for any physical trait.

Pao lives by an unshakable devotion to universal Feng-shui, a faith so total that it lifts him into the ranks of the discipline's few genuine masters. That same conviction estranges him from his wife, who reads his trust in the practice as an inability to believe in ordinary people. Yet beneath the mysticism stands a father willing to give up everything, severing contact with his family and staging one last meeting through the very art he loves so that they might be kept from harm.

As an ISSP officer in 2061, Jet Black is welcomed into Pao's home, and it is to Jet that the consultant turns for help slipping free of the Blue Snake syndicate, feeding him leaked information. Despite Jet's efforts, Pao knows too much about the organization's inner workings to ever believe true escape is possible. Three years later his wife, worn down by a husband who devotes himself to Feng-shui over people, leaves and takes their daughter Meifa; Pao lets them disappear without a word, aware that any contact would drag them into danger.

In 2071 he at last breaks with the syndicate. He hides one sunstone on Mars and uses its twin to fold himself into a hyperspace pocket aboard his ship while bound for Jupiter, and just before doing so he transmits a cryptic note to Jet, a plea to seek the holy beast of Ahnzahn where the four gods meet. Trusting that Feng-shui will draw Jet and Meifa together and keep her protected, he waits it out. As his oxygen dwindles, an opening in the pocket lets him glimpse the Bebop and speak briefly with the daughter he has not seen in years. Rescue lies beyond reach, and the pocket seals shut for good, taking him with it.