Litchi Faye Ling

**Litchi Faye Ling** (ライチ＝フェイ＝リン*Raichi Fei Rin*) is a renowned doctor living in Orient Town, located in the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi. She is a playable character in the *BlazBlue* series.

## Appearance

Litchi is a tall, young and attractive Asian woman with long black hair tied into a bun, pink eyes, pink lipstick, and large breasts. On top of her hair is her pet panda, Lao Jiu. She wears a stylish Chinese doctor uniform with long white sleeves, a yin and yang brooch ribbon, a red vest, and a skirt dress that exposes her thighs. When in battle, she wears a slightly similar outfit: her hair is tied into a ponytail with Lao Jiu sitting on top with a yin-yang hair accessory at the end of the ponytail. She also wears an unbuttoned red vest that shows her black bra and breasts with separate black sleeves, a long red skirt, black thong and red shoes which are in a Chinese sort of style.

When she used to work for the 7th Agency, her hair was styled the same way as the style she uses for combat. While performing medical work as a doctor she used wear China-red glasses with a styled white lab coat. When she was younger, her hair was as long as her back, and she kept it tied with a deep green bow. She also wore small glasses, along with a sleeveless red shirt, white tights, and red slippers. When Amane Nishiki uses his Astral Heat on her, this look is retained, but Litchi is with Lao Jiu.[1]

In *BlazBlue: Alter Memory* during the hot spring scene in Episode 5, Litchi is seen wearing a strapless white bikini while she lets them tastes the water from the Kaka tribe hot springs.

## Personality

Litchi, at first glance, can be perceived as the perfect woman – courteous, sexy, and intelligent. Being a doctor and former scientist, she is a kind person who is willing to help those in need. She is good friends with the Kaka tribe, acting as their teacher both mentally and, in Taokaka’s case, physically. She has a one-sided, rather awkward relationship with Bang: Litchi likes him as a friend, while Bang is infatuated with her, but does not know how to express his love.

In her heart, however, Litchi hides a deep guilt for not being able to help her colleague Lotte, who became the being known as Arakune. In secret, she has searched for a way to cure him through any means necessary. It is through this that she is manipulated by Hazama to work for the Control Organization.

However, she did not take any joy in the act, only taking such path because she has tried other paths to no avail such as asking Kokonoe, but was refused. She also realized that she had to use the cure for herself, as leaving it alone will not make her own corruption go away by itself, as seen in her Bad Ending. It also shows her unwillingness to give up or taking the easy way out to live in ignorance of her own condition when there’s so much she could do for the benefits of others.

Despite working with the Control Organization, however, she never did become as low as her other co-workers are nor completely focused on saving Arakune and forgetting everyone else. Litchi remains a compassionate, courteous soul with a kind heart. Lastly, she has two obsessions, Peking duck and cosplaying smaller girls when she is drunk (due to accidentally buying clothes that are too small for her size and wishing to see what they would look like on a person).

## Powers and Abilities

Litchi has the ability to mentally control her staff, Mantenbō, from a distance. It is usually seen floating behind her and it will thrust forward as she punches and kicks before returning to its neutral position. She can also throw it so it lands, erect and upright, far away from her, and she can later make it fly back to her, twirling rapidly like a wheel so that it hurts anyone in its way. The staff seems to be able to do some small amount of shape-shifting. Her staff can split into three parts or briefly double itself to attack from two angles or even become a “stick man” that marches forward as it wildly flails at an opponent.

Litchi herself is clearly skilled in martial arts, even without her staff, and is a skilled athlete. Many of her attacks involve split kicks or ornate gymnastics, and she can easily balance on one leg on the tip of her upright staff and still generate enough power to kick downward at an enemy. She also can perform what appears to be some chi-based attacks as well. Her formidable fighting skills, combined with her independently attacking staff makes her capable of attacking from many different angles at once.

Litchi’s Drive is **Mantenbō** (萬天棒, Myriad Heavens Pole). Pressing the button will have Litchi place the staff wherever she is currently standing and pressing it again causes it to fly and spin off screen before returning to her, hitting the opponent if they happen to be in the way. Depending on whether the rod is placed, her moveset changes accordingly and is able to stand on it to attack from an overhead position. Her Overdrive is **The Great Wheel** (大車輪 *Daisharin*), which has the Mantenbō stick with her at all times while constantly spinning. She is able to direct the Mantenbō to attack in all eight directions as a battering ram by simply pressing the Drive button with a directional input.

Most of her powers come from her panda hairpin Lao Jiu, who lets her channel the power of the Boundary. This actually works like a double-edged sword, as while it gives her great flexibility and control over her staff, it slowly erodes her mind, and overusage may end with her turning into something like Arakune.

In *BlazBlue: Alter Memory*, Litchi is able to analyze Ragna’s medical conditions merely by placing a hand over him; supporting the claim that she is able to detect a person’s physical status. Later, she displays some knowledge and use of basic Magic Formula by summoning Mantenbō from a circular, purple portal similar to her character crest (similar to a Distortion Drive attack), when first confronting Noel.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Litchi helps Donnie with chemistry and usually flirts him while giving advice to get April's heart

## Trivia

Naming
* Her name in Chinese version is localized as **Lychee Faye Ling** (莉琪菲琳 *Lìqí Fēi Lín*).
* Many of Litchi’s moves are named after Mahjong hands, reflecting her interest in the game.
* Litchi’s **Tsubame Gaeshi** (燕返し, Swallow Returning) move is an famous reference to Kojirō Sasaki, the sole creator of the Tsubame Gaeshi technique. Her **Kote Gaeshi** (小手返し , Small Hand Reversion) is named after an aikidō technique of the same name.
	+ However, in this case due to Litchi’s mahjong motif, there exist two mahjong techniques named as such.
* In one of her voice sets, when performing Kote Gaeshi, Litchi will yell out “Genbu”, “Byakko”, “Suzaku” and “Seiryū”. This is a reference to the Four Symbols in the Chinese Constellations, being the Black Tortoise/Occult Martial, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird and the Blue Dragon, respectively (read in Mandarin/pinyin as “Xuanwu”, “Baihu”, “Zhuque” and “Qinglong”).

Other
* Litchi’s birthday, July 7, is also the date of the Chinese Qi Xi, or the Japanese Tanabata.
* In *BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger'’s arcade opening, her name is written as “Litchi Feye Ling”. In this game’s Network Mode, her name is misspelled as “Litch” on player cards.*
* In *BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger* and *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift*, if Litchi fights a mirror match, she is the only character to acknowledge that she is fighting herself: “Huh? What?! A… a lookalike?” (え、あれ？私の….そっくりさん？ *E, are? Watashi no… sokkuri-san?*).
* Litchi makes a reference to the Guilty Gear character Chipp Zanuff during the Teach Me Miss Litchi episode “Good guy 1, Slacker 0”.
* In the 1.0.0 version of *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, Litchi is mute in certain dialogues. This was fixed in later updates.