Xiao Lin

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## Xiao Lin (小琳/曉琳)

* Base
* Kestrel
* Nest Keeper

* Base
* Rearm / Alt.

### Specialty

Dealing with high value targets (Kestrel)Analyzing the combat situation (Nest Keeper)

### Likes

Dark Network searching (Kestrel)Instructions from a competent person (Nest Keeper)

### Dislikes

Sordid people (Kestrel)Birds that can't leave the nest (Nest Keeper)

## CRF Assessment

* Base
* Rearm / Alt.

### Eternium Dependency

Efficient (Kestrel)Optimized (Nest Keeper)

## Prydwen Information

### Rearm

KestrelNestkeeper

**Xiao Lin** (Korean: 샤오린; Chinese simplified/traditional: 小琳/曉琳) is an employee hired by the Coffin Company and the sniper of ALT Squad.

## Collection Profile

* Base
* Kestral (Rearm)
* Nest Keeper (Rearm)

*As the youngest in her squad, Xiao Lin makes up for her small physique by mastering her position as a sniper. Her ability to control bioelectricity allows her to make precise shots no matter how fast the target is moving.*
*During an operation, she excels at the role of scouting enemy activities and collecting information. Her efforts are believed to have greatly contributed to ALT Squad's high mission success rate.*

*She mainly uses an anti-material sniper rifle to which she attaches a different accessory every time she completes a mission. She clams that it helps her improve her operational capabilities but considering how her rifle has been unnecessarily upgraded several times, it appears to be a secret hobby of hers.*
*Xiao Lin has further improved her bioelectricity-controlling ability, which she previously used for precise shooting. Her 4 electric support drones, which she controls through electric current, volley-fire at her target, eliminating the slimmest possibility of survival. Door Knocker, having been intensified by the mutual inference between her and her support drones, now makes a good siege method to resolve a stalemate on the battlefield.*

*The researchers have decided that Xiao Lin is the right person to help them test-drive Falcon Nest, a drone carrier in the technical verification stage. This drone carrier designed for base purposes uses swift small drones to clear enemies in the rear. The researchers expect Xiao Lin and Falcon Nest to show remarkable performance in taking the upper hand in battle together.*

## Abilities

### Powers

* **Enhanced physiology:** Xiao Lin some level of innate resistance to Corruption rays.
* **Bioelectricity control:** Lin can control electrical currents of any type. She typically uses this ability to manage her own body's electrical impulses, enabling her to make precise, accurate shots with her sniper rifle.

### Equipment

* **Anti-material rifle:** Lin's sniper rifle, modeled after the Barrett M82. Lin often customizes it with numerous accessories.
	+ **Door knocker:** A bullet imbued with special power that Lin uses in her Ultimate Skill. Strong enough to knock back targets.
* **Reliable Messenger:** A pair of communications earpieces that detect targets' weaknesses.
* **Support drones:** Drones that mark and stun their targets with electricity. Utilized in Lin's "Kestrel" form.
* **Falcon Nest:** A combat support drone that provides a barrier and fire support to Lin. Utilized in Lin's "Nest Keeper" form.
* **Falcon Flock:** Combat drones that attack their target. Utilized in Lin's "Nest Keeper" form.

## Personality

Xiao Lin is calculating and shrewd in her work, hence her expertise in sniping. She'll use whatever resources she has to ensure she gets the best possible results. Because of her prudence and wits, Lin has excellent leadership skills and is often the one leading ALT Squad whenever its captain, Seo Yoon, is absent.

Lin can be seen as a somewhat of a gun nut judging by her obsession with flamboyantly upgrading her sniper rifle with accessories (most of which don't actually appear in-game or on-screen)— while she argues that its simply to make her weapon more powerful and efficient, the lack of any real improvement the accessories add onto her sniping capabilities suggest otherwise.

On the surface, Lin appears stoic and aloof. She rarely engages into conversation with people outside her squad and maintains a mostly unemotional appearance. Usually, the only times she can be seen outwardly expressing herself is when she is with Eujin, whom she has a complicated relationship with; the two are typically mean-spirited to each other, with Lin frequently calling Eujin "pig" or "idiot" for her brutish and reckless behavior.

Deep down, Lin is more emotionally fragile than she lets on. Whenever she has to knowingly risk the lives of those close to her, she can become very reluctant to take action. Even attacking an enemy that was once a friend of an associate can make her feel immense guilt if it causes said associate great emotional pain. This is especially exemplified when she traumatizes Yoo Mina by killing her former best friend Shin Narae, the Replacer Bishop, right in front of her in order to save Seo Yoon's life (only to be revealed shortly after that Yoon would have been alright all along without the Bishop's death); this greatly affected Lin herself to the point where she could not bring herself to kill the Regenerated Bishop in front of Mina even when the world was at stake.

Lin used to have difficulty confessing her true feelings to anyone as she believes it would make the people around her take her less seriously. However, she has become a bit more open and confident since talking to her CEO through the Machine G.A.P.

## Gallery

* Skins
* Comics
* Miscellaneous

Xiao Lin — Together with Teammates | *I prefer the quiet and calm winter. It's even better if it's snowing Draw in the cold air until it gets warm, and lightly draw the trigger finger.*

Xiao Lin — Wedding Hall Watcher | *The ceremony of eternal bonding must not be interrupted. Here is a sniper who can keep all threats at bay. Although she's been secretly in love with someone, let's just pretend that we haven't noticed.*

Xiao Lin — Mystical Moonlight | *Is she a celestial maiden who has descended from the moon after sunset? While everyone else is making a wish on the brightly lit night sky, she stands before you, facing against the moon. This quiet, private moment between you was the very thing she wished for.*

*I shouldn't let my guard down when I'm out in the field, but I'll make an exception this night.*

*Loyalty and Lifetime Contracts*Xiao Lin's targets.Xiao Lin's clothes.

Coffin Company wallpaper
## References

1. ↑ Xiao Lin — Counter Case #5: [Record] Interview Details