Litchi Faye-Ling

""All I wanted was to reclaim those days... Spent with Roy, and the Professor... I wanted it back...!""

Doctor Litchi Faye-Ling (ライチ＝フェイ＝リン) is a revered medical practitioner in the district of Orient Town, in the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi. She formerly worked with Kokonoe under Sector Seven, and had been hunting down Arakune after its appearance, desperate to save Lotte Carmine. Litchi is well known in Kagutsuchi, becoming close to the Kaka and her assistant, Linhua.

Litchi is one of the original twelve playable characters who debuted in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. She is also the host of the Teach Me, Miss Litchi! miniseries in the main games.

Appearance
Litchi is a tall, houglass-shape Asian woman with purple eyes, black semi-rimless framed glasses, and very long black hair that is often in various updos all notably including her pet panda Lao Jiu. There are multiple jokes throughout the series at her expense about her large breasts.

Litchi has three main outfits she's seen in throughout the series. the first being what she wears in combat: A stylish red and gold dress with long black sleeves that's unbuttoned at her chest area, showing her black bra. Along with the dress she wears white and red heeled boots. The second outfit she is shown in is her doctor uniform, where she's wearing a red dress with white sleeves and a yin-yang brooch, along with white shoes with gold accents. Lastly while she worked at sector seven she wore a red dress a little bit similar to her combat dress with a white labcoat and at this time her glasses were red.

Personality
"Lacking a hidden side, one who is loved by everyone. Knowledgeable and familiar with the martial arts. Although normally very kind and feminine, alcohol causes her to act like a middle-aged man."

Outwardly warm and caring towards any of her patients and friends. Litchi is honest and straightforward, getting straight to the points of subjects but has been known to teeter around one depending on its sensitivity. It is her affable personality that has led to her warm reception in Orient Town and Lost Town, being one of the few humans who is openly loved by the Kaka. To this end, her willingness to help residents of both districts has made her a beloved figure who is admired by Linhua and Taokaka - Linhua's admiration is so strong that she wants to become a doctor like Litchi and has even begun growing her hair out to imitate her.

Underneath her maternal and kind figure, Litchi is haunted by her time in Sector Seven and her inability to save Lotte "Roy" Carmine from his fall into the Boundary. For a long time, she was under the impression that he had become Arakune, not knowing that the creature was preventing the man's soul from corrupting. To save him, Litchi abandoned her lucrative position at Sector Seven and chose to live in Kagutsuchi, a city known for its criminal activities. The wounds she tends to concerning the Kaka are mainly caused by Arakune's activity in the area, only making her guilt increase. To save him, she would do anything, including seeking out the Azure and Azure Grimoire. Her attachment to Roy is heavily implied to be romantic; Litchi, however, is seemingly oblivious to the advances of Bang Shishigami.

There is a darker side to Litchi, which mainly stems from her dedication to Roy. She willingly joined Relius Clover in order to reset the world just to save Roy, even though she was fighting with someone she hates. Litchi has a complicated relationship with Kokonoe, her former mentor, as the two do not sometimes see eye-to-eye; this is mainly because of Litchi's disdain with Kokonoe's hubris and questionable scientific ethic. Owing to her former profession as a scientist, Litchi is much smarter than she will often let others know, and is knowledgeable in the world around her, particularly seithr and theories surrounding it and the Boundary.

In her free time, Litchi plays mahjong, becoming something of a local legend as she remains undefeated by any Orient Town residents. This streak earned her the moniker "Mahjong Empress". After drinking too much alcohol, her favourite being shochu liquor, Litchi's behaviour changes to become sleazy and perverted; she does not seem to drink much for this to happen.

Powers & Techniques
Though her professions as a doctor and scientist would suggest that Litchi is not suited for combat, she can hold her own in a fight. In battle, she switches between her fists and her staff, Mantenbo. Litchi's acrobatic ability is unmatched, being able to effortlessly somersault across a battlefield and jump onto Mantenbo while demonstrating exceptional balance and martial prowess. To keep up with other powerful entities and individuals, Litchi uses Lao Jiu to directly stream power from the Boundary, seemingly amplifying her Ars Magus.

In gameplay, Litchi's Drive is , which allows her to switch stances between using Mantenbo and her fists. Each has their own benefits with the staff stance giving her longer reach while her other stance gives her more combo potential and overall moves at the cost of shorter reach. When activated in her staff stance, Litchi plants Mantenbo in the ground, and activating it again will swing the staff as a weak projectile.

Outside of combat, Litchi is medically trained, being able to use both traditional medicine and Ars Magus, although she prefers administrating the former. Her knowledge on traditional herbal remedies and their usage helped with her acceptance into Sector Seven, and she is no stranger to the usage of alchemy as she was taught some of it by Roy. Litchi's most impressive scientific feat, however, is her liquid theory of seithr, a theory which could ultimately lead to the creation of a Black Beast or Nox Nyctores; this has been applauded by both Relius and Kokonoe, who see it as her magnum opus. In her quest to save Roy, Litchi became an Observer, but her abilities as one are weak, meaning that she has to amplify her ability using both machinery and an Overdrive.

Ultimately, Litchi is not as strong as others in the cast, having lost to Makoto Nanaya and Bang in battle. By herself, Litchi was not able to qualify as one of the chosen and only managed to become one thanks to Lao Jiu, the latter of which is slowly killing her each time she chooses to employ the power of the Boundary. The more Litchi continues to use Lao Jiu's power, the closer she leans to becoming like Arakune.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Official Site Profile
''A female doctor working in the downtown of Orient Town, located in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi. As a doctor, and as an understanding person, she is an indispensible presence around town. She herself also loves the town very much, so much that she forgets her own goals. ''

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Official Site Profile
''A practitioner of medicine working in the middle-class district "Orient Town" situated in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi. In order to save her former colleague Arakune, she wrote a letter asking for help from a scientist of Sector Seven, Kokonoe. When she failed to receive a response, she decided to go visit the scientist herself. ''

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Official Site Profile
''A practitioner of medicine working in the middle-class district "Orient Town" situated in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi. Although she was once part of Sector Seven, in order to save her former colleague Arakune, she decided to collaborate with the NOL. To accomplish "something", she begins to act. ''

BlazBlue: Central Fiction Official Site Profile
''A female doctor working in the downtown of Orient Town, located in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi. As a doctor, and while being very understanding, she is an indispensible presence around town. When she hears of the appearance of the "Grim Reaper," she begins to search for the "Azure Grimoire."  Lacking a hidden side, one who is loved by everyone. Knowledgeable and familiar with the martial arts. Although normally very kind and feminine, alcohol causes her to act like a middle-aged man. ''
 * Story
 * Personality

BlazBlue: Central Fiction Library Entry
''Formerly a member of Sector Seven's research team, she was also Kokonoe's apprentice.
 * Litchi Faye-Ling

''With her abundance of knowledge, she opens a clinic in the lower levels of the 13th Hierarchical City Kagutsuchi to help those who need treatment, as well as collect information about her former colleague, Arakune. It is her life-mission to save him.

''A sophisticated woman, whose personality and sense of humor is loved by everyone she meets. Even the Kaka Clan, known for their distaste of humans, trusts her deeply. However, when it comes to matters surrounding Arakune, she becomes so focused, she ignores everything else.

''She's also an avid and rather good gambler, and isn't afraid to pound the drinks hard. Although, when the drinks start flowing, she tends to dispense life advice to anyone around.

''After discovering the secret to saving Arakune lies within the Azure, she decides to work in conjunction with the NOL… the organization she once opposed.

Appearances in other Media

 * The mobile game Mabinogi Duel stars Litchi as a playable card.

Trivia

 * In the BlazBlue 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Litchi placed 28th out of the 84 candidates. She scored one place above Susano'o and one place below Kazuma Kval. She had 782 votes.
 * Litchi's movelist is named after various mahjong hands.
 * Litchi is also said to be fantastic at mahjong, being unbeaten in Orient Town.
 * Litchi's birthday is Tanabata.
 * Litchi was born in Shanghai, which is the only known surviving city in the BlazBlue world, and the only known city that is not a Hierarchical City.
 * Lotte Carmine taught Litchi how to use the fundamentals of alchemy.
 * Both Kagura Mutsuki and Litchi share a fondness for alcohol.
 * The first time that Litchi and Lotte met, she could not stop thinking about how handsome he was.
 * According to Toshimichi Mori, Litchi has the biggest breasts in the series and he does not intend on creating a character with a bigger bust than hers.
 * Litchi is one of the few characters who will notice that she's fighting herself in a mirror-match.