Hsien-Ko
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Hsien-Ko (Lei-Lei in Japan) is a video game character in the Darkstalkers series.
Story
Hsien-Ko was born around the 1740s with a twin named Mei Ling (Lin-Lin in Japan). During this time, ghosts and spirits of the dead arose from their resting places and attacked a rural Chinese village. After her mother was killed by a powerful demon (was said to be Demitri), she and her sister decided to use Tensei no Jutsu to save her, but they used a prohibited sub-division of this technique, Igyo Tenshin no Jutsu, and fight to release their mother's soul from the dark.
This turned the twins into a Kuang-Shi, or a type of Chinese Zombie. This however, also gave the two unusual abilities which the two use to fight for their purposes. Mei Ling is actually the ward paper on Hsien-Ko's hat. Hsien-Ko's powers cannot be fully controlled unless Mei Ling does so herself when she becomes the Ward-Paper. If she separates from Hsien-Ko, many of Hsien-Ko's abilities no longer work, so they essentially fight as one. Hsien-Ko is the "body", and Mei Ling the "mind." Once in a while however, Mei Ling does come out to team up with Hsien-Ko as seen by their Dark Force ability in Darkstalkers 3.
The two fight many battles during Night Warriors, and eventually win the freedom of their mothers' soul, but at the cost of their own lives. Before death however, the spirit of their mother claims she will not let oblivion become their reward, and the twins' souls are reborn as infants in a new life.
As of Darkstalkers 3, the two live a happy, normal life in their reincarnation. However on their 16th birthday, weird things begin to happen to them. They have the same dream and the next night, they fall into a coma and their souls were transported to the Dark Realm, which called to them. They found themselves in weird costumes, and although their memories of their past life are sketchy, things begin to slowly come back to them. They regained their unique power of transformation they had lost during the death of the life preceding this one. Now as saviors and hunters once more, they must find their way home to Earth Realm.
Trivia
- Hisen-Ko's odd stance and movements are attributed to her being a Kuang-Shi (or Quang Xi), which are also known as Hopping Vampires.
- Hsien-Ko has an enormous variety of weapons she carries within these sleeves. These include a saw, knives, a sword, a chain, a giant gong, a mace, and variety of other weapons. She also once in a while throws some cameo items such as a statue of Akuma, Vega's claw, and Chun-Li's bracelets.
- In Pocket Fighter, Hsien-Ko and Mei Ling were trying to find some money in the newspaper. They found out about a Russian wrestler named Zangief who was looking for a performer and decided to find him. After defeating Zangief as a test, they were put as circus performers and became famous.
- Lord Raptor seems to have an infatuation with Hsien-Ko since she is undead like him. Unfortunately, she does not love him no matter what he does as it shown in Namco x Capcom.
- In Namco x Capcom, Hsien-Ko teams up with Regina from Dino Crisis and Bruce and Fong Ling from and hands them a variety of firearms from her sleeves for a special team attack called a Multiple Assault.
- Mei Ling is dressed in a long predominantly yellow Taoist robe with baggy pants. She has long brown hair and her appearance is much more human looking than that of her sister.
- Hsien-Ko is an unusual character in that she excels at setups. Her huge variety of weapons gives you impressive reach, but also make her highly unpredictable making her an excellent punish and pressure character. She tends to fare quite well at tournaments.
- Hsien-Ko appeared in an episode of the Darkstalkers (U.S.) animated series, only she did not have blue skin. However, she had a grudge against Demitri Maximoff.
Appearances
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge / Vampire Hunter: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1995)
- Puzzle Fighter (1996)
- Vampire Savior: Jedah's Damnation / Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (1997)
- Vampire Savior 2 (1997, Japan only)
- Pocket Fighter (1997)
- Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service (2000, Japan only)
- Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower / Vampire Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (2005)
- Namco x Capcom (2005)
Cameo
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