Lin

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Lin Lee Koo
Official art used in the Definitive Edition
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Age	13
Japanese VA	Mariya Ise
English VA	Cassandra Lee Morris
Appearances	Xenoblade Chronicles X Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Lin Lee Koo (リンリー・クー) is a playable character in Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Appearance and personality

Lin is a short 13-year-old human girl with pale skin. She has black hair cut just below chin-length, and blunt bangs. She has darkly-outlined dark grey eyes. She wears a hair clip on each side of her bangs that resembles the Monado.

In the Definitive Edition, Lin's bangs are thinner on the right and she only has one hair clip, which is pulling back her hair on the right side. Her eyes are purple with gold highlights.

In her first appearance and in promotional material, Lin sports the Light Wear gear from Sakuraba Industries.

Personality-wise, Lin is a bright and cheerful girl, always ready to crack jokes at Tatsu. She is well-mannered and treats the older members of BLADE with respect, especially apparent in the Japanese audio where she speaks using polite language with everyone, although she uses casual speech when speaking with Tatsu.

Lin is also a brilliant engineer, being able to develop the Skell Flight Module despite being so young. She is shown to be somewhat stubborn and very passionate when it comes to engineering and everything related to Skells, to the point she is willing to forego eating in order to fix machines deemed important to NLA's maintenance, even if the issue doesn't require immediate action.

Character Bio

Lin is a genius mechanic whose skills extend to Skell tech and beyond. She has a bubbly personality, treating everyone with equal warmth. Though young, she bears a passion for justice and a fierce will to live.

Battle Style

Though small in frame, Lin wields a massive shield to valiantly engage foes up close—a hallmark of her standard Shield Trooper style.

Story arc

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Lin serves as the narrator for the game during its prologue and ending cutscenes. She describes how the Earth was caught in a war between two alien forces, and how humanity was warned of the oncoming battle and prepared Project Exodus, which involved the Earth Coalition Government launching colony ships from "every major city on Earth", but the White Whale was one of the few that even made it past the atmosphere. After the White Whale is attacked and crash lands on Mira, and the surviving humans have begun to adjust to life on a new planet, Lin described New Los Angeles as a "beautiful lie" the last of humanity has told itself to cling onto the hope of survival.

Lin is introduced in person during the events of Chapter 1. As Elma and the player first enter NLA, a Skell is seen crash landing by the West Gate and pursued by Lin in a buggy. She is testing an experimental flight module for the Skells with Doug as a pilot, and runs diagnostics on the crashed Skell to find she missed a leak in the fuel exhaust. She then offers to assist Elma in giving a guided tour of NLA to the player, leaving an annoyed Doug to clean up the crashed Skell.

Lore

• Lin narrates the introduction to the game, as well as various cutscenes in the prologue and final chapter of the game.
• Lin is currently working on some Skell fan fiction which she rarely show to others.
• Lin's parents who were design engineers died in an engine accident aboard the White Whale before the invasion.

Super Smash Bros. series

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Lin appears as a support Spirit. When equipped, Lin takes up one slot and grants the skill "Energy-Shot Resist ↑".

Lin is obtainable through the Spirit Board, where she is represented by a Grab-type Daisy using her eighth costume on the normal version of Shadow Moses Island with the BGM Xenoblade Chronicles Medley. In this fight, she is accompanied by Mega Man and R.O.B. (representing Lin's love for Skells) and she starts the fight with both a Drill and a Back Shield. Only Daisy has to be defeated to win this battle.

As a party member

Main article: Lin/Gameplay (XCX)

Recruitment

Lin is automatically recruited after reaching New Los Angeles in Chapter 1.

In Battle

Lin is recruited as a level 5 character as a rank 3 Shield Trooper. Her melee weapon is a Shield, while her ranged weapon is a Gatling Gun. Like Lao, Lin has three skill slots at her disposal.

As an NPC

Lin
Race	Human
Gender	Female
Age	13
Occupation	BLADE (Outfitters)
Points of Note	A young Outfitter and genius mechanic whose skills extend to Skell tech and beyond.

Whenever Lin is not in the party, she can be found in the BLADE Barracks cooking food. As per story reasons, Tatsu will always be next to her and will always joins the party whenever Lin is recruited.

Heart-to-Hearts

Heart-to-Hearts

Affinity	Name
♥♡♡♡♡	Flight Time
♥♥♡♡♡	Old Dogs and New Tricks
♥♥♥♡♡	The Popular Girl
♥♥♥♥♡	Dinner Discussion
♥♥♥♥♥	Passions

Affinity links

Towards other characters

Source	Link Message	Target
Lin	Food Precious family	Tatsu
Lin	Mr. Nagi	Nagi
Lin	Dedicated Skell test pilot Demands 10 hot cocoas	Doug
Lin	Team leader Reliable team leader	Elma
Lin	As young as I look! No need to apologize! Please come back alive I will stop him!	Lao
Lin	Will keep doing my best!	Vandham
Lin	Mr. Nagi	Nagi

From other characters

Source	Link Message	Target
Tatsu	Tatsu not tasty! She is like my wifeypon	Lin
Isobe	Stubborn girl Saw parents' dream through	Lin
Bart	Be a full-time mechanic!	Lin
Nagi	Brilliant mechanic	Lin
Doug	Dedicated mechanic Roger!	Lin
Elma	Team member Reliable mechanic Proud colleague	Lin
Lao	Young and gifted Reliable Promises to return Stop me	Lin
Vandham	Great job Genius parents' daughter	Lin
Nagi	Brilliant mechanic	Lin

Missions

• All Story Missions
• The Repair Job
• A Girl's Wings
• To Serve Nopon

Miran Archives

Something of a child prodigy, Lin's engineering expertise and contributions to Skell development have made her indispensable to Elma's team in her role as chief mechanic.

Trivia

• In the western release of Xenoblade Chronicles X, all of Lin's revealing outfits were covered up, these changes are carried over in all versions of the Definitive Edition.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Lin	—
Japanese	リン
French	Lin	—
German	Lin	—
Spanish	Lin	—
Italian	Lin	—
Chinese (simplified)	琳
Chinese (traditional)	琳
Korean	린

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Lin Lee Koo	—
Japanese	リンリー・クー	Linli Ku
French	Lin Lee Koo	—
German	Lin Lee Koo	—
Spanish	Lin Lee Koo	—
Italian	Lin Lee Koo	—
Chinese (simplified)	琳莉·柯	Linli Ke
Chinese (traditional)	琳莉‧柯	Linli Ke
Korean	린리 쿠	Linli Ku

Gallery

Artwork

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  Official art in Xenoblade Chronicles X.

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  Alternative artwork

Concept art

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Screenshots

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  Lin explaining how Tatsu will be cooked.

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  Lin realizes Tatsu is not food (yet again).