Mei Ling

Mei Ling NiHuan (née WuZhao) is a red panda who was born in Beijing, China. She loves doing ballet and contortion and cares about everyone and everything in the world around her, especially those who treat her well. She is voiced by Chipo Chung, who gives her a Chinese accent in the English dub.

## Mei Ling NiHuan

### Aliases

My dear (Alesya), Cutie (Kiki), Sweetie (quite a lot of individuals), Mei (for short)

### Relatives

Ling Xiao (mother), Yong Huang (father), Bao Ming (sister)

### Affiliation

unknown, presumably everyone who treats her well and various ballet and contortion companies

## Notable info

Mei Ling is the eldest child in her generation of her family and has a sister called Bao Ming, who is Mei Ling's only sister due to being born during the days of a two-child policy in China. Her mother Ling Xiao is a famous prima ballerina, while her father Yong Huang works in a factory. Mei Ling was introduced to ballet dancing by her mother when she discovered a ballet academy not far from where she lived. Mei Ling passed with flying colours in every ballet lesson from the stretches and the five basic positions as well as the advanced ballet positions and pointe techniques. Mei Ling first performed in Delibes' Sylvia in both the first and third acts at the age of ten. When her friend Alesya was born on 14th May 2015, Mei Ling moved to Great Britain and became a student of the Elmhurst Ballet School in Edgbaston, Birmingham where she soon became danseuse. Mei Ling graduated aged 17 and became a premiere danseuse that same day. A year after that, Mei Ling became a prima ballerina and performed as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the title role in Delibes' Sylvia and the lead role in Giselle to name just a few. Throughout this amazing voyage, she met Kiki Ivanova and Susan Renarde while learning contortion from Kiki as well. The cat, the fennec fox and the red panda are now friends and have performed in various ballets from the likes of Delibes and Tchaikovsky among others.

## Talents

Mei Ling is a very talented panda, being able to do ballet and contortion among other things.

Ballet dancing: Mei Ling is a prima ballerina with plenty of skill and grace. She has performed in various ballets from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to Delibes' Sylvia among others. When doing ballet, she wears a pink tutu, light pink tights, pink ballet pointes and a golden tiara with rubies in it on her forehead.

Contortion: Mei Ling is a very flexible contortionist, specializing in splits, frontbends, backbends, twists, dislocation and acrobatics to name just a few. Her toes are surprisingly flexible and prehensile too. One notable contortion pose that Mei Ling does is a face-sitting frontbend and split combo. She wears a fuchsia latex catsuit when doing contortion.

Gymnastics: Mei Ling is a skilled gymnast and even adds some contortion moves into the mix. She is a professional after all. Her leotard is almost identical to her swimsuit in some ways.

Swimming: Mei Ling is a great swimmer and can even hold her breath underwater for 15 minutes. She wears a fuchsia one-piece or bikini swimsuit when swimming, and sometimes wears her swimsuit when doing yoga.

Yoga: Mei Ling is able to do yoga and is surprisingly flexible. When doing yoga, she wears her latex catsuit, swimsuit or even a special yoga costume consisting of a fuchsia top and matching yoga trousers.

Figure skating: Mei Ling is as graceful on ice as she is on stage when it comes to figure skating. When doing figure skating, Mei Ling wears her ballet costume except that she swaps the ballet pointes out for some figure skates.