![[Meri Lin]](merilin.jpg)
Meri Lin LingTHE PHYSICAL:
Vitals: Long, thick, straight black hair with wispy bangs, often done up in a thick braid or left loose. Small, upslanted brown eyes with an almond shape. Chinese features and smooth, light golden-brown skin. Mid-forties (but looks younger), very petite, a little above the ideal weight.
Other features: Fairly low, smooth voice. Very guarded with her emotions. Wears comfortable, feminine clothes, almost never pants—likes to wear no sleeves if the weather cooperates. Rarely wears jewelry.
THE PERSONAL:
Talents/Abilities: Technical-minded, methodical, and fiercely protective of her children. Speaks very intelligently. Good at cooking and arranging flowers.
Weaknesses/Shortcomings: Stubborn and sometimes seems unemotional. Sometimes too strict or harps on things that are of little consequence.
Interests: Writing, research, literature, and her children.
Other information: Works at home on a variety of projects that occasionally bring in money. Registered Democrat. Agnostic. Common law marriage with Fred Fisher. Besides her daughter Ivy (originally named Amanda), has a son, Ben, and a close sister, Lissa Lee. Parents now live in China. She and her sister can still speak fluently in Mandarin, though they rarely do so.
THE STORY:
Meri Lin and Fred were together from an early age, but their parents disapproved of their marriage and they weren’t afraid of defying convention, so they just never got married. When they had their first child, they thought her looks were a little strange, but it didn’t seem an issue until Meri Lin caught strange things happening in her bedroom and thought the house had a poltergeist. After figuring out the real root of the trouble, she and Fred decided to keep their daughter’s power a secret until they’d taught her how to control it. She resisted their efforts and flew away, lost to her other life for years. Meri Lin saw an article about a “mysterious flying child” in a tabloid one day, and realized Ivy might do something else worthy of notice that would at least get in one of these silly magazines. She obsessively kept up on tabloid news for years until finally she found the article she’d been looking for. She invited Ivy back into her life and they’ve been trying to figure out the ropes ever since.
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