Sunray

Pan Ling-Ling (潘玲玲) also known as Sunray, or the Warrior of the Sun, is a character in the MYverse She is a martial artist and the only daughter of an owner of a Chinese restaurant who obtains the power of sunlight. She is part of the BeatDown tournament, being the only two Chinese fighters alongside her best friend, Ci Lang.

## Biography

### Personality

Ling Ling is known for being funny, loud and energetic. She can be annoying at times, especially with Ci Lang. In the BeatDown, Ling Ling takes fighting seriously, but is not willing to be pitted against the biggest fighters, such as a certain someone with a fighting style similars to hers. This shows that she is one of the fighters with the best sportsmanship and behavior in the tournament.

### Appeareance

Ling Ling has pale skin, black hair, brown eyes and she has a 5"3 height. She often wears a blue-and-yellow two piece Chinese-style outfit, with a pair of navy blue loafers. Most of the time, she wears pigtails, buns or a ponytail. But her signature hairstyle is pigtails.

## Story

### Background

She is a 19-year old woman who was revealed by her grandmother to be descended from Xihe, a solar goddess and the mother of the ten Suns that, in ancient times, nearly destroyed the Earth. She has no idea where did those powers come from, but she tends to take advantage of it while cooking food in her family's restaurant. Sooner or later, she decides to use her powers for good by applying them to martial arts practices and combat use. She first discovered she has powers during an argument with her mother when she was 11. She joined the BeatDown tournament to make extra fortune for her own goal to expand her family's restaurant into a chain.

She was born in China, and her family moved to the US as immigrants when she was 5 years old. Most of the time, she worked as a part-time chef in her family's restaurant, owned by her grandfather, who was a first-generation immigrant. The restaurant was open since 1958. Her and her family currently live in San Francisco, California. And that's where she met Ci-Lang for the first time.

### Blood Vengeance

She was taken by Lady Lawless and turned her into a spy, but she resisted many times until she ran away with her soon to be target, whom she later dated. Later, she got into a fight with her best friend, and was stopped by some force that leads them into getting the friendship back. When Avenging Angel gets shot by Lady Lawless' crossbow, she almost died in Sunray's arms, but she managed to save her.

### Present Day

Sunray is currently a Twitch streamer, playing Valorant and Overwatch. Apart from that, she often talks about her favorite K-pop groups, especially BTS. She went to a BTS concert and vlogged the experience on Twitch.

One day, there's a turning point that ruined her life. She was doing her Valorant stream, until she was hacked by an anonymous figure by a pornographic deepfake video of her. She gained more following and more credits from that, but sadly, people did not realize it was fake. There are some people, including her friends, who stood up for her in social media.

## Abilities & Powers

### Martial Arts

Born into a family of martial artists, Ling Ling fights using the Pan family's traditional martial arts, that involves techniques and elements of Baguazhang, Bajiquan and Northern Shaolin Kung Fu.

### Energy Blast

One of her signature attacks is the energy blast that resembles the power of the sunlight, and is given from the Goddess Xihe.

### Fireballs

Ling can blast out fireballs in all sizes. Sometimes, Ling can project out multiple hands that shoot out small-sized fireballs, like the said goddess from her source of power.

### "Rising Phoenix" form

During attacks, she has the ability to turn herself into a solar-powered, fiery, yellow figure called the Rising Phoenix, and it is obtained from the Goddess Xihe.

## Character Relationships

### North Star/Jian Ci-Lang

Ci-Lang and Ling Ling are best friends since childhood. They went to middle school together, and he was the only older kid that she gets along with. When Ci-Lang was bullied in middle school, Ling Ling decided to stand up for him, but however, Ci-Lang got a suspension while Ling Ling was just left behind. They separate their ways during high school, but they reunite together in the BeatDown tournament, as fighters who are supposed to go against each other. They have a lot in common, and it is them being demigods because Ci-Lang has obtained his powers through Guan Yin.

It is clear that Ling has a slight crush on Ci-Lang, however, Ci-Lang prefers to mind his own business rather than date girls by now.

### Avenging Angel

They are rivals in the ring, and best friends outside the ring. This causes Ling-Ling to complain to stop pitting the two against each other. They hang out with each other outside the tournament but after Angel became a replicant hunter, they tend to lose contact. But they're still in touch with each other.

## Trivia

* Ling-Ling is a first year student of San Francisco University.
* Her shift is usually weekends, or the summer.
* Ling Ling is often called "The Fighting Chef" because of her culinary background.
* Unlike her best friend, Ling Ling doesn't have an English name.
* Her favorite foods are Mongolian beef, fried noodles, dumplings and baos.
* She is a huge fan of the Korean pop group BTS