- In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.
Ma Yanlin (Chinese: 馬豔琳; pinyin: Mǎ Yànlín; Japanese:
Appearance[]
Yanlin is a young Chinese woman with a skinny build, pale skin, and dark-colored hair styled into a jaw-length bob cut. She wears a light-colored scarf around her arms and a strapless dress. Additionally, she also wears a black cloth neck bracelet.
Gore Gore Girl history[]
Volume 3[]
In Volume 3 of the spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl, Yanlin was away from Hong Kong and had been watched by Mister Chang, who had accompanied her at home in Roanapur in between her overseas filming locations. On her second-to-last night before she had to return to Hong Kong, Yanlin had been eating dinner in public when she saw and overheard Lotton playing a tabletop role-playing game about mermaids with several people, becoming interested in him and his game's theme. The next morning, Yanlin informed Chang about her wish to be escorted through town by Lotton on her last day left in the city. Having to fulfill wishes from the mainland, Chang agreed but advised her to also take two more escorts, but Yanlin was adamant in being guided solely by Lotton.
That day, Chang summoned Lotton, Shenhua and Sawyer to his office, apologizing to them on such short notice. As Yanlin sat on the couch and smoked a long pipe, Chang introduced the beautiful actress to the three freelancers and explained to them the backstory of his job and Yanlin's relation. Pausing, Chang told them about her request to have Lotton be her sole escort, shocking Shenhua. Getting up from the couch, Lotton knelt down to Yanlin, introducing himself and saying that he would risk his life to protect the "princess." Smiling, she greeted the Wizard and left with him to begin her tour as Chang warned the other two women that he and they would be in big trouble if Yanlin was put in danger.
Soon, as Yanlin began walking through town with Lotton by her side, Shenhua and Sawyer spied on them from a distance. Turning his head, Lotton himself admitted that he thought he had met her before, and the Hong Kong actress lightly laughed and responded that she had met him every time that she had been born again and again, confusing the surveilling Shenhua as to what she was saying. Lotton tried to remember, but Yanlin laughed again and assured him it was all right, saying that they should enjoy their current fate in this world. At that point, several people approached Yanlin and Lotton, and one man asked the latter why he was with a beautiful woman. The man then amicably put his arm around him, telling him that their TRPG the previous night was fun and thanking him for being a great gamemaster. While Yanlin smiled and watched, the happy tattooed man advised Lotton to be careful and added that he was always waiting to game. After the man's group had left, she requested Lotton to take her to the sea since she knew Roanapur had a harbor and wanted to see the sea. Arriving at a rocky cliffside overlooking the sea, she waved her fingers through her hair and complimented the atmosphere. Breaking her silence, Yanlin clarified to Lotton that they had indeed met at sea.
Figuring that he probably did not remember, a brief flashback was shown of a mermaid Yanlin rescuing a small, sinking Lotton, informing him that she saved him from drowning after falling off a ship when he was a child. Lotton's eyes widened as if he remembered, and Yanlin continued explaining that after the incident, she was arrested in Shanghai and moved from place to place until becoming a servant of the Triad. Gleefully smiling, she commented that mermaid meat was the elixir of immortality. Turning her back to the cliff, Yanlin thanked Lotton and requested that they meet again in the sea. Letting herself fall off the cliff backwards, she smiled as Lotton quickly dashed forward and caught her by her lower back, preventing her fall.
Peacefully smiling, Yanlin lamented that she had failed to be free once more. As Lotton continued to grasp her wrist, she rhetorically asked if his TRPG that he played was about mermaids, confessing him that she got the idea for her story last night while overhearing his game in a nearby seat. Laughing joyfully with a blushing face, Yanlin declared that she managed to make him believe her. Recommending that they leave, she stated that she was hungry as Lotton opened his own hand and saw several mermaid scales. Much later after Yanlin had returned to Hong Kong to Chang's relief, Shenhua and Sawyer watched the VHS tape of her mermaid movie, which was not a drama but instead a slapstick comedy wherein a clumsy Yanlin spilt food, cartoonishly fell over a cliff, and was spun around after her dress's cloth was pulled.[1]
Trivia[]
- Her name is erroneously spelled with a combination of a simplified Chinese character and shinjitai as «马艶琳».
- Her given name Yanlin means "bright jade."