The Lynx

Yueliang Lì, usually known by her handle The Lynx (Shē lì) or simply "Lì" was a young Taiwanese girl who was subject to an experimental and highly inhumane training programme by a secret division of the Taiwanese government; the project, known as Project Lynx (天猫计划 - tiān māo jìhuà) that was designed to take highly intelligent children, especially those that possessed autistic tendencies, and hone their intelligence in military tactics and weapon training, turning them into the perfect killers though chemical brainwashing. The Lynx Serum was supposedly developed especially for those with high autism, in an effort to enhance certian useful wualities of their neurochemistry while dulling any negative effects of autism.

She was the youngest member of the Nighstalkers and eventually became a member of the Zodiac project.

### **History**

Born to Shūjuān and Wénxióng Li, who were both high-ranking military science officers a part of Project Lynx, a pseudo-military project created by the Li's with various secret government backers, by the time their daughter was 8, they believed that their own daughter had the highest potential as a savant so far, and even from an early age, had been teaching Yueliang about guns, combat and tactics. When the girl was chosen, she, like the other children as part of the project.

The Li family made a fortune training the kids, developing the Lynx Serum, a drink that made takers both more suggestive, receptive to information and more focused, and through years of manipulation and brainwashing Yueliang became the best of the best, particularly at long-range weaponry such as the sniper rifle. And all before she reached her 11th birthday.

When she was made to kill her pet dog as a show of mental strength, the girl refused, and slowly her brainwashing began unravelling as a serious mental health issue, resulting in paranoia and psychosis, plagued by nightmares and repressed memories.

Yueliang ran out of the country, eventually ending up in Japan where she was taken in by the Aoi family only refurring to herself as "Li", eventually becoming a Nightstalker, where she developed a strange, playful but often quiet personality, and spoke little of her past to anyone at first, eventually opening up and even doing missions for them under the codename "Lynx", though she usually stayed well-back and from hidden areas, the girl was nevertheless a very capable physical fighter.

After becoming relatively stable in the last few years she came into contact with both Talia Reid and Cerice Binks for various side-missions of her own, one of which was killing her own parents who were aiding a terrorist operation; Li felt they tortured her as a child and robbed her of a normal childhood and happily did the deed herself. Eventually Li quit the Nightstalkers and became a member of the Zodiac Department.

### **Personality**

Yueliang was originally a shy and somewhat reluctant young girl, testing highly for autism, as she came out of her shell she became more playful, particularly in her assassination jobs, that many saw her as treating like a game, but still retained a strange quietness about her. She is naturally and highly analytical at all times.

### **Appearance**

She was a short, young Asian girl of Taiwanese decent, likely descended from both Han Taiwan and Indigenous heritage, she would often ware hoodies with cat-like ears, and sometimes even a lynx-like mask in her later years where she did a few solo missions for the Zodiac and wanted her identity secret. She often wore loose-fitting shorts or trousers and vests.

### **Powers and Abilities**

#### Powers

While Lynx technically has no "superhuman" abilities per-say, her years of training from a very early age, and the ingestion of the Lynx Serum has pushed her mental amplitude to the absolute peak of performance, providing her with abilities considered near-superhuman.

* **Peak Human Mind:** Li's mind operates at the peak capacity possible for a normal human, and has demonstrated a number of highly advanced mental facets including her intelligence and mathematical skills, spacial geometry, perception and concentration.
* **Peak Human Senses:** All of her senses and general awareness, but in particular her vision, are highly developed, having perfect 20/10 vision, making her a genius markswoman.
* **Peak Tactical Awareness:** Lynx is an extremely skilled strategic genius and apply this skill to several objectives, able to intuitively create strategies and plans several steps ahead of the opponent. She can elaborate complex plans/strategies and apply them not only in battle but all activities.
* **Environmental Awareness:** She is naturally adept at understanding her surroundings at all times, which gives the the edge in finding hiding spots and unseen places.
* **Peak Human Strength and Fitness:** Despite her small frame, she is known for carrying heavy equipment and rifles over uneven terrain and rooftops more efficiently than many fully-fledged soldiers and is able to preform exercise for extended periods.
* **Peak Agility, Flexibility and Reflexes:** She has demonstrated that she is able to get into awkward or uncomfortable positions or spaces with ease, react almost instinctively and nimbly to various scenarios.
* **Enhanced Pattern Detection:** One of the potentially 'superhuman' aspects of her skills enhanced dramatically by the Lynx Serum pushed her ability to intuitively recognise patterns to extreme levels.
* **Fearless:** Through a mixture of training, Lynx Serum and her autism, Li has demonstrated a sense of utter fearlessness in the face of severe injury or death.

#### Abilities

* **Firearms Genius:** She has been training in the use of guns and rifles from a very early age and has become a savant, particularly long-range sniper rifles or her specialised sniper-crossbows.
* **Genius Tactician:** She is highly skilled tactical genius able to plan and pre-empt scenarios, analyse enemy movements or outwit opponents.
* **Genius Markswoman:** She has proven that she is able to pinpoint targets almost superhumanly so, whilst accounting for wind, spacial geometry and surrounding environment, and with a verity of weapons.
* **Knife-fighting Genius:** She is highly skilled in the use of daggers and small blades, this includes throwing them with uncanny accuracy.
* **Genius Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Although extremely rarely engaging in close-range or fighting, not actually liking to get close to people, she can and has defended herself from multiple opponents many times her size.
* **Parkour/Urban Exploration Expert:** She is highly adapt at moving through urban environments, scaling fences, walls and buildings with no fear.

**Tools and Equipment**

* T75 Pistol - A powerful pistol used as mainly a backup.
* Basilisk MK-NCB75-GODC Compound Bow - With a scope and modified to be collapsible.
* MK-RB010 Recurve Bow - Used mainly for practice but deadly enough to use in-mission in her hands.
* Modified Ravin R29X Predator - A powerful crossbow and her go-to weapon.
* Shēlì Zhīrèn - A bespoke large tactical crossbow she is developing with Talon employing CORE technology.
* JS 7.62MM- Her first weapon.
* T93 - One of her favourite weapons.
* Taiwan Military Combat Knife.
* Light body armour.

### **Weaknesses**

Yueliang's autism can sometimes be a drawback in some scenarios, in particular she hates eye-to-eye contact, often dosn't respond to her name, out rightly forgetting her real name at times.

She has suffered psychosis in the past that may resurface under the worst scenarios.

Her fearlessness can sometimes put her in scenarios that may be too life-threatening and has little sense of her own danger, this includes confronting enemies or potential attackers with no thought.

Li sometimes sees very serious missions as a game which may jeopardise a potential mission, although as of yet she has not done so.