Yan

Yan during her first meeting with Liang.

**Yan**, voiced by Elaine Tan as an adult and by Sumalee Montano as a child, is a character in LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, appearing as the deuteragonist in the first season episode titled "*Good Hunting*".

## Biography

Yan is met for the first time by Liang while he and his father, Renshu, are trying to hunt down and kill Tsiao-Jung, Yan's mother. She talks with Liang for a while and stated that a human can love a Huli Jing without magic. At the end of their conversation, her mother comes out to warn her about humans until Renshu beheads her to collect the bounty. Liang was asked by his father if there was any pups, Liang lies to Renshu, allowing Yan to escape.

Years later, Renshu passes away just before the colonized modernizing of China, while Liang and Yan are now friends.

Six years later, Yan has lost her ability to turn into a fox due to magic fading away and becomes the personal prostitute of a rich businessman in the city. The businessman drugs her wine and forces her to undergo full-body cybernetic surgery to satisfy his sickening pleasures. Yan violently ends up killing him soon after.

Yan meets Liang at his apartment asking for help. After showing him her mechanical body, Liang decides to help her by getting her powers back along and upgrading her body.

After her upgrade, Yan tells Liang that she is ready and consumes a bowl of coal. For the first time in six years, she is able to transform once more into a chrome fox.

She leaps onto the balcony and bides farewell to Liang. She then leaves to go on and fight for justice in the city, where she finds three British men sexually assaulting a woman, and attacks them.

## Appearance

Yan is an Huli-Jing, a spirit able to change her appearance into the one of a fox or a human. In her animal form she appears as a regular fox, even though her fur is white and seems to emit a slight glow. From her fox state she can turn into a human. The transformation doesn't seem to be immediate, as she gains her human traits gradually until she reaches a sort of half form state, where she resembles the appearance of a beautiful girl, even though she still has fox ears and a long tail. In her half form state she has dark hair and eyes, while her skin maintains her white color and the slight glow. She doesn't wear any kind of clothes, appearing completely naked.

When years pass and she becomes a friend of Liang she remains blocked in her full human form, appearing as a normal young woman. She also acquires the customs and habits of the humans, wearing a traditional Chinese dress and high heels instead of going around nude.

## Quotes

"A man can fall in love with a Huli Jing, just like he can with a human woman."

## Gallery

Yan meets Liang for the first time.Tsiao Jung warns her daughter about the danger of humans, just before she is killed by Laing's father.Liang feeds and takes care of Yan.Yan is forced to go under robotic surgery by the rich business man.Yan and the rich businessman.Yan and the rich businessman, just before she brutally kills him.Yan transforms into a fox once again thanks to Liang's surgey.Yan, in her new form, roaming the streets of Hong Kong.