Emilie De Rochefort

**Emilie "Lili" De Rochefort** (エミリ・ド・ロシュフォール*Emiri do Roshufōru*?), commonly known as **Lili** (リリ *Riri*?) for short, is a character in the *Tekken* series. Along with Sergei Dragunov, Lili is one of the two new characters who were introduced in *Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection*.

A Monegasque high school student, Lili is the daughter and only child of Mr. Rochefort (first name unknown), a wealthy oil magnate. She resides in a luxurious suburban mansion with her father and their butler Sebastian.

## Biography

### Personality

Even though Lili appears selfish and stuck-up, she is actually a very gentle and sweet young lady. However, like her rival Asuka Kazama, she revels in fighting despite being beautiful. This is proven throughout Scenario Campaign if the player chooses her. In almost every stage, it is shown that she sees most of the fighters as "toys to play with" and also in her stage if the player plays as anyone except Lili, Asuka, Jin orLars. In fact, if they play as Nina and enter Lili's stage, she describes Lili as "having a screw loose" and a "brat who should be in bed by now".

Lili has a very caring attitude which belies her snobbery. She strives for grace and poise with every movement — particularly during fights. Lili is very confident in her fighting abilities - as shown by her winning and pre-match quotes - even though she lacks formal training in any personal combat style. (Her father, who loathes violence in any form, refused to let her attend the local *savate* studio. Ergo, young Lili had to settle for ballet and gymnastics, both of which figure prominently in her brawling.)

Lili's efforts to sate her fondness for hand-to-hand combat are checked by the deep loyalty and affection she shares with her father. As an example of the latter, before fighting her Stage Four sub-boss Ganryu, Lili says that he has robust eyebrows...just like her father's.

## Gameplay

Lili has tons of versatile moves and easy-to-use, effective attacks, which benefit from great range and reach thanks to her long legs. Her damage output is surprisingly high, her counterattacks, juggling and wall fighting will all eat away at her opponent's health. That said, some of her more popular strings are easily recognizable (and spammable), and may leave her wide open to punishment. She's also somewhat slow and virtually almost all of her attacks can be sidestepped, as she lacks many homing attacks. She makes up for this however with her ranged attacks which can be used at mid to long range to keep an opponent from moving in. Her lows aren't the best however and are predictable which can make it difficult for her to open up opponents.

Lili also has quite a handful of attacks that involve her jumping which can avoid lows, and she has a deadly okizeme ground game, which makes it scary to deal with Lili when she successfully knocks you down. She also posseses a attack reversal, as well as a wall throw.

### Fighting Style

Lili's fighting style is characterized by Gymnastics moves combined with many dancelike, acrobatic maneuvers - graceful and versatile spins, cartwheels, handstands, tumbles and pirouettes.

This fighting style is self-learned and self-developed by Lili herself, since her father, who dislikes fighting, would probably never allow her to even practice any sort of formal martial arts training. This is probably why some of Lili's moves often reflect her background and personality.

## Character Relationships

* Mr. Rochefort - Her pacifist father.
* Asuka Kazama - Her arch-rival, ever since *Tekken 6* and her official tag partner in *Street Fighter X Tekken*. And additionally, they fought each other in *Tekken 7*.
* Eliza - Imprisoned by the De Rochefort family safely from the Archers of Sirius and is allegedly Lili's sister.
* Sebastian - Her butler.
* Lars Alexandersson - She gives him her old SUV for him to travel in, during the Scenario Campaign story.
* Alisa Bosconovitch - She was with Lars when Lili gave him her old SUV.
* Jin Kazama - Jin claimed the oil fields owned by Rochefort Enterprises, causing Lili's father to collapse.
* Hwoarang - She teamed up with him in a battle against Jin Kazama/Devil Jin in the *Tekken 6* E3 2006 trailer (non-canon).[1]
* Lee Chaolan - She's a member of Violet Systems girls team (non-canon).
* Leo Kliesen - Her personal assistant in *The Online Tekken Comic* (non-canon).

## TMNT X Pokemon

Lili believes she is above everyone as she is rich. She's friends with Chloe B., Sabrina, and Nami as the four often go shopping together in really expensive shops.

## Trivia

**General**:

* Her first name, **Emilie**, is of English origin, and the meaning is "*rival*". Her surname, **De Rochefort**, comes from Old French, and the meaning is "*from fortress of rock*".
* Her self-taught personal combat system is a hybrid of street fighting, rhythmic gymnastics, and ballet. It was originally nicknamed "Monegasque-style Gymnastic Street Fighting" by fans.
* Lili's hair ingame differs from her CG movie appearances and CG renders; in renders and movies she's shown to have shoulder length side locks that sit above her chest, however in game and in certain CG scenes they are absent. Its possible they intentionally omit the side locks to make it easier to render her ingame hair.
* Her primary outfit represents the Monegasque flag (white and red).
* Lili is the youngest (human) playable character, as of *Tekken 6,*afterLing Xiaoyu.
* The official language of Monaco is French; yet, while Lili speaks fluent English in both *Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection* and *Tekken 6*, she speaks French in *Tekken Tag Tournament 2* and onwards.
* Lili is similar and often compared to Karin Kanzuki from the *Street Fighter* series.
	+ Both are (apparently) selfish and stuck-up young girls who come from very wealthy families with companies/businesses being threatened in their main storylines.
	+ They both have street-fighting schoolgirls (Asuka and Sakura respectively) for rivals. Lili and Karin declared their rivals so after they were defeated by them; Lili was defeated by Asuka at the fifth King of the Iron Fist Tournament while Karin was defeated by Sakura after a challenge.
	+ Their butlers are present during their winning poses; Karin is shown with her butler, Ishizaki, while Lili asks her butler Sebastian if he can find a better person to fight than the person she defeated.
	+ In their latest appearance in their respective games, both Lili and Asuka remain dislike with one another while both Sakura and Karin became friends afterward and their fight is more of a friendly rivalry.
* Lili's move-list has a lot of similarities with Cammy's (also from *Street Fighter*)...including her Cannon Spike and Cannon Strike.
* Lili's behavior somewhat resembles Rachel Alucard from the *BlazBlue* series. Both of them also have a butler. Her butler Sebastian and Rachel's butler, Valkenhayn, are now playable in their respective series.
* Lili is the first *Tekken* character with Lolita fashion.
* In January 2018 Harada revealed a early concept art for Lili back in 2003 in which she had a sleeveless dress. It also revealed her codename to be just "Manaco".
	+ This also reveals she may have been planned for the original Tekken 5 but got put on hold untilTekken 5: Dark Resurrection.

**Tekken 6** and **Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion**:

* In *Bloodline Rebellion*, Lili has a console-exclusive extra outfit designed by Ito Ogure, a well-known Japanese manga artist, known for creating the manga series *Air Gear* and *Tenjou Tenge*. This outfit resembles a wedding dress, consisting of an abdominal corset connected to skin-tight chaps, and a flowing lace veil. It can be customized with a tiara instead of a veil, with different colors, and with a set of "drill knuckles."
* Her ending is a counterpart of Asuka's *Tekken 6* ending.
	+ In Asuka's and Panda's endings, as well as in her own, Lili wears her customized (mini-skirted) Monegasque school uniform.
	+ Lili's hair is shorter in her own ending.

**Tekken Tag Tournament 2**:

* This is the first game in which Lili speaks French, her native language, as opposed to English in the previous games.
* Lili can also be customized to resemble Sailor Moon from the *Sailor Moon* series, and Alice from the Disney animated film *Alice in Wonderland*.
* She has a special win pose with Asuka, where both girls high-five each other hard...then recoil from the pain of the impact.
* To date, among all the human characters in *Tekken Tag Tournament 2*, Lili has the widest selection of character-specific costumes (three of them).
* Curiously, Lili's "Fluffy Skirt" DLC Customization item was removed in the Wii U version of the game; it cannot be unlocked at Ghost Battle, Team Battle, Survival, Combot Tuning, or even at the Wii U-exclusive mode called "Tekken Supporters".
* Her ending is the second scene among the interconnected finales between her rival Asuka, Miharu, Kuma,Panda, Alisa, and Xiaoyu.
* Lili is portrayed by Corissa Furr in the "Girl Power" trailer.

**Street Fighter X Tekken**:

* Lili is referred to as the "Platinum Grace" in *Street Fighter X Tekken*.
* Although it is stated in *Street Fighter X Tekken* that Lili enrolls at Asuka's school, the game is not canon to the main series.

**Tekken 7**:

* One of Lili's new moves are based on one of the characters of Pokken Tournament like Gardevoir.

**Other**:

* Lili's Femme Fatale, Heavy Languish and Divine Step were used in the fan-made series *Dead Fantasy* by*Final Fantasy* character Yuna in the second episode.
* Lili appears in the *Queen's Gate* gamebook series and is featured in the Playstation Portable game*Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos*, she is voiced by Rina Satō.
	+ It is hinted several times that she is a lesbian in the game. However, this has never been acknowledged by Namco at any point, and she and Asuka are presented more as rivals than anything else.
* Lili appears as a guest character in the Playstation Portable game, *Digimon World Re:Digitize*. In the game, Lili is addicted to the online game Digital Monsters and will challenge players with her trained Numemon called Catherine, a Monzaemon who strikes opponents with Lovely Attack, and the Demon Lord-type Lilithmon. Her butler Sebastian also gets in on the action with his trained Angemon. In "*Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode*", her story is expanded, and she now is in the Digital World, instead of playing the videogame from home. She is a pivotal character in "The Scheming Demon Lord" storyline.
* Lili is left-handed in *Dark Resurrection*'s Tekken Bowl.

* In *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*, Lili's dossier is briefly seen when Anna Williams opens a file containing dossiers of various persons of interest.
* A model named Natalie portrayed Lili in the "Tekken Maxim Photoshoot" for *Maxim* magazine.
* In the mobile game THE iDOLM@STER: Million Live!, an HR card has been released with the idol Iori Minase dressed as Lili. Harada himself is featured in this card, cheering Iori.
* Lili speaks Japanese in the Pachinko Tekken games. Her VA isn't anyone listed above however.[1]