Lin Daiyu

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“	Now I am unbound by the heavens, unbound by the dirt.	”
–Lin Daiyu, Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing

Lin Daiyu is a servant to the Xue family of Daguanyuan, and an old friend of Hong Lu. She is a supporting character in Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing.

Appearance

Lin Daiyu is a pale woman with an agile build and large blue eyes. She has long dark blue hair, tied in a high ponytail with a golden ribbon. She wears a black hanfu with dark blue detailing, tied with a belt of golden rope. Notably, she has a small mole on the left side of her neck. In combat, she wields a spear.

Personality

In her youth, Lin Daiyu was a cheery child who acted atypically of those in Hongyuan, much to Jia Baoyu's confusion. Despite this, she was kind to him and the two would become intimate friends.

By the time of Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing, she has become disillusioned with her friendship and solely worries about her duties serving Xue Baochai. She carries a guilt of being one of the sole survivors of the Kong family massacre, which leaves her awaiting a future of betterment idly, never acting on her own fate. This guilt and tension is only cleared as she comes to understand what Hong Lu went through, finally allowing her closure with the man.

Story

Prior to Limbus Company

In her youth, Lin Daiyu was incredibly close to Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan, acting as playmates as Huan's older brother watched over them. Lin Daiyu pushed Jia Baoyu to be more active in their playdates, urging him to reignite a love for toys and games, as his personality gradually decayed via the onslaught of terrible things he witnessed by Jia Mu's hand.

One day, Jia Baoyu warned her not to visit the Kong family's new invention, to which she listened after much convincing, while Jia Huan did not. After the deaths of those present at the celebration, Lin Daiyu was later found, cowering in a shed. She grew resentful of Jia Baoyu for having chosen only her as a survivor, never understanding the fact he attempted to convince Huan likewise, yet failed. This survivor's guilt would haunt her for the rest of her youth.

Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing

Lin Daiyu was first noticed by Hong Lu during the first round of the Family Hierarch Evaluation, where he spotted her in the crowd. While Hong Lu makes a friendly effort to greet her, Lin Daiyu creates space between them, and asserts her role as Xue Baochai's blade while expressing that she and Hong Lu weren't meant to meet again. She speaks poetically of the hurt she feels before making her leave. Notably, she described Hong Lu as someone she shared an intimate bond with, while Hong Lu only describes her as someone he'd had a brief connection with in his childhood.

During the second round of the Family Hierarch Evaluations, Lin Daiyu was separated from her faction by the closing walls, after which she spotted the nearby Sinners. Despite her initial distaste for the idea of an alliance, she joined Hong Lu in travelling due to the extra safety involved. Battling with her emotions the whole time, she attempted to understand Hong Lu's actions as a child, yet quiets herself in shame. While the group travels, she assists the group in combat, all the while viewing glimpses of Hong Lu's tormented past.

Suddenly realizing the reason for Hong Lu's changing personality, Daiyu's confrontation of him is short-lived as the group encountered Xue Pan, looking to get his revenge. After a short battle, his sister arrived which begins a new battle against Wang Dawei and Shi Yihua. Baochai willingly got left behind as she allows the Sinners to continue on with Lin Daiyu, acting as an extra set of hands to assist them. Finally witnessing the truth of the Kong family massacre, Lin Daiyu is left speechless over what her former friend had to experience. Even still, Hong Lu gave her empty platitudes about the changing state of the world.

While the group nearly made it to the central chamber of the battleground, a shot aimed at Hong Lu is blocked by Lin Daiyu, who leaped in the way. Gubo apologizes for the misfire, as Lin Daiyu is soon saved from the wound as Xue Baochai is eliminated, causing a Heishou Pack member to arrive and escort Daiyu out of the area, where she is given first aid.

After the success of the Sinners in the battle, and the emerging rise of Jia Xichun to hierarch, Lin Daiyu returned to meet the Sinners during the celebration, where Don Quixote and Gregor explain all that happened which she missed. As her master soon arrives to inform the group of the internal insubordination growing amidst the power vacuum, as well as the external forces, Lin Daiyu joined the working faction looking to save Jia Xichun from any threats aiming to eliminate her, taking to protecting Baochai from any threats.

As the Sinners engaged in brutal battle against Lei Heng, Jia Qiu arrived alongside Lin Daiyu, aiming to hold off the faction of the Thumb attacking the Tiekan Temple. When the Sinners return successful, the duo are exhausted, albeit able to defeat their enemies as Jia Qiu obliterates Lei Heng's skull. The group managed to flee, and later rightfully protect Hongyuan from the external factions and clans in disarray.

Days later, Lin Daiyu met with Hong Lu atop a pavilion. In a brief exchange, the two amicably came to understand one another and their past failings. Now, Lin Daiyu knows she can no long wait for change and truth to come to her, meaning she will soon likely leave Daguanyuan. Hong Lu, in a sense of newfound resolution, admits the day they flew kites together as children was his favorite day, to which Lin Daiyu agreed.

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Trivia

• Lin Daiyu is based on the character by the same name, Lin Daiyu (林黛玉，Pinyin: Lín Dàiyù), from Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
  • In Dream of the Red Chamber, Lin Daiyu was the reincarnation of a flower who had been watered by a deity. When the deity decided to experience the world of mortals and reincarnated into Jia Baoyu, the flower reincarnated into Lin Daiyu, saying she would return his favor of watering by giving him all of her tears. Daiyu is Baoyu's paternal cousin, a melancholic woman with a fondness for poetry, but insecure and prone to jealousy, and whose qualities compliment her cousin Xue Baochai's. In the novel, Daiyu has a special bond with Jia Baoyu, with whom she shares a love for music and poetry. Lin Daiyu is afflicted by a respiratory illness and fated to die young, while Baoyu is destined to marry Xue Baochai, although their union is an unhappy one, marred by Baoyu's persisting longing for Daiyu after her death.