An aging Chinese martial arts master and former legendary assassin. Is silent, precise and wise who takes fighting very seriously and prefers to take on formidable, honorable warriors, such as Akuma. Elderly though he is, Gen's temperament is extremely sharp, his speech patterned with a weathered and biting coarseness. With a tendency to muse over death he is also not hesitant to speak of such dark matters regarding the inevitable passing of all things. he seeks to die as he has lived fighting.