Ling Xiaoyu

Ling Xiaoyu is a character from the Tekken franchise.

Xiaoyu is a 16 year old girl and has returned in every subsequent release. Xiaoyu's fighting style was brought on with some influence from her master, Wang Jinrei. Her main goal throughout most of the series is to, through fighting in the tournaments, win so she can earn enough money to build her own amusement or theme park. However, in subsequent games of the series, Xiaoyu became more focused on the Mishima family's issues, in particular those of Jin Kazama.

Appearance
Ling Xiaoyu's age (sixteen) in her series debut was the result of the Tekken 3 development team wanting a younger girl in the game, as most of the game's female characters were "more than 25 years old". Her black hair is kept in pigtails throughout her series appearances, while her costumes have varied from a modified cheongsam in Tekken 6 to a kogal-style schoolgirl uniform in the 2011 computer-animated film Tekken: Blood Vengeance.

Personality
Xiaoyu has a frightening obsession with whatever currently catches her eye from amusement parks to Jin to time travel. She also doesn't seem to have any real ability to comprehend the level of animosity which the Mishima bloodline possesses.

In the starkly cynical fictional universe that is  Tekken, her apparent naïvete makes her come off as this. A short summary of her history includes stowing away on ships to build amusement parks, beating up a president of a park to build her a ride, becoming his bodyguard, trying to win the Tekken tournament to turn the world into a park, falling for Jin to the point of becoming his henchman, trying to build a time machine to stop the Mishima feud, and also riding a panda to school.

She has a thing for pretty boys.

Abilities
Xiaoyu's fighting style was brought on with some influence from her distant relative, Wang Jinrei. Mastering her fighting style in real life would require a constant flexibility (Ex. Art of the Phoenix, Phoenix Talon, Mistrust, Flapping Wings, Front/Back Layout) and maneuvering.

Trivia

 * Miharu Hirano, Alisa Bosconovitch, and Jin Kazama call Xiaoyu "Xiao", which is a shorter version of her name (which shows they're friends).
 * She shares some similarities with Jun Kazama in regards with their missions. Jun intended to stop Kazuya from evil in Tekken 2 and Xiaoyu entered Tekken 6 tournament to stop Jin.
 * Despite being 18 in Tekken 4, Tekken 5, and Tekken 6, Xiaoyu is still portrayed as a high school student when by this age, she should have finished high school already; however, at this point she could be in her last year and close to finishing. Also, Xiaoyu is often designed with a more cute/baby face appearance in order to emphasize her good-natured innocence.
 * Xiaoyu's name is written in Chinese as 凌暁雨/凌曉雨 (Líng Xiǎoyǔ), where in (凌 Líng) is the surname and (暁雨/曉雨 Xiǎoyǔ) is her given name. The Chinese characters for "surpass", "dawn", and "rain", respectively. "Ling" is actually her family name; "Xiaoyu" is her given name. This is witnessed in the English dub of Tekken: Blood Vengeance, where Ganryu pronounced her name as "Xiaoyu Ling". Also in Chinese culture the family name is given first and the given name is given second.
 * She is the only Chinese character who is called by the given name, as Lei Wulong, Feng Wei, Lee Chaolan, Wang Jinrei, are referred to as Lei, Feng, Lee, and Wang, respectively.
 * Xiaoyu stands at 157 cm which is the shortest official measurement of any human female character in the Tekken series.
 * Xiaoyu and Miharu's friendship does share a few similarities with May and April from Guilty Gear series.
 * Xiaoyu was the first youngest fighter in the series to enter the tournament, being 16.
 * However, when Lili was introduced in Dark Resurrection, she was also 16.
 * Despite being Chinese, Xiaoyu speaks only in Japanese, even to her master and distant relative, Wang Jinrei, in an interlude in Tekken 5, due to her time spent in Japan.
 * Xiaoyu's Tekken 3 and Tekken 5 endings are the only ones that use a mix of animation and CGI.
 * Xiaoyu's Tekken 3 ending is shown playing in Roger Jr.'s Tekken 5 ending.
 * There is a magazine with Xiaoyu on the cover in the prison from Death by Degrees. She also appears on the cover of various posters and a mousepad in the game.
 * A Maxim model named Krystle starred as Xiaoyu in the Tekken photoshoot for the Maxim magazine.