User:Kirkburn/Mei Ling

Mei Ling was part Solid Snake's support team during the Shadow Moses incident. Mei-Ling had always wanted to be a pilot after falling in love with jets in the movies. She majored in aerodynamics in college, planning to join the military to perform battle damage assessments (she didn't want to kill people.) Her dreams of being a pilot were crushed after she learned that there weren't any pilots who do just Battle Damage Assessments. Sometime after graduating from MIT, she turned her intellect to the field of technology, where her talents blossomed as she invented the Codec communication system, and the Soliton Radar that both Solid Snake and Raiden used during their missions.

History
Mei-Ling was very well versed in many forms of literature, frequently quoting everything from Shakespeare to Chinese proverbs. She says that "it helps her keep in touch with both sides of her heritage" as she was born Chinese but raised in America. She purposefully read up on topics outside of her major in college, including that of famous literature around the world as she didn't want to limit herself to field technology, explaining to Snake that she wanted to become a "well-balanced engineer".

She's currently a member of Philanthropy, illegally appropriating equipment from the U.S Army Soldiers Systems center, a research and development center for the U.S Military.

Current status: Unknown

Behind the Scenes

 * According to Yoji Shinkawa, Mei Ling was originally designed after the likeness of Japanese actress Shinobu Nakayama.
 * Mei Ling makes a voice-only cameo in Metal Gear Solid 2; if the player saves the game on thirteen separate occasions in the Tanker section, Mei Ling offers a proverb in place of Otacon.
 * In the original Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid, Mei Ling only quoted Chinese proverbs. The decisions to add Western quotes in the English version was based on a decision between Hideo Kojima and translator Jeremy Blaustein.

Appearances

 * Metal Gear Solid
 * Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
 * Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
 * Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (Non-canon)