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Lin Daiyu
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–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 and energetic child. As a member of a small family, Daiyu always knew her fate would be to serve one of the greater houses, and she feared being left alone in the vast expanses of Daguanyuan. Instead, Daiyu enjoyed the simpler things in life: she treasured the time spent playing together with Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan, she enjoyed composing poetry and held a love for transient things like flower petals, as they reminded one of the passage of time and the importance of living every moment. Additionally, Daiyu was proud of her strength, enjoying physical games and dueling, and demonstrated a protective side towards her friends.
Daiyu's behaviors would confuse Baoyu, who couldn't relate to her worries and her passions, while Daiyu would at times be frustrated by Baoyu's mild demeanor, and she would attempt pushing him to share his thoughts and preferences with her.
After the fall of the Kong Family and the death of Jia Huan, Daiyu's friendship with Baoyu started to deteriorate. Left one of the few survivors of the massacre, Daiyu began carrying a great sense of guilt and a feeling of hopelessness, as she could do nothing but carry on without being able to inquire on the truths of that day. Daiyu attempted to reach out to Baoyu, wishing to be free of this weight, but as the years passed and he continued smiling and dodging her questions, her feelings towards him turned to bitterness, to the point that when he informed her that he would be leaving Daguanyuan, she expressed her wish to not meet him again.
By the time of Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing, Daiyu has grown into a disillusioned woman, wishing to focus on nothing but her duties to Xue Baochai, and carrying rancor and disappointment towards Hong Lu's apathy. Despite this detached appearance, Daiyu has a dedicated nature that can cross over into impulsivity, and often ends up letting herself get carried away by her deepest emotions. During the second round of the Family Hierarch Evaluations, despite her earlier claim that their meeting was a mistake, Daiyu forgoes her priority of finding her master, instead choosing to stay with Hong Lu and the LCB in order to see into his memories and finally understand the unspeakable truths of that day. Afterwards, Daiyu reconciles with Hong Lu, regretting the hatred she had carried for him and expressing a desire to atone for it. Later on, despite knowing Hong Lu's wounds could be rewound, Daiyu shields him from a deathly blow, driven to act without thinking due to her wish to not see him in pain anymore.
By the end of the Canto, Daiyu is able to let go of the grief and resentment of her past. Having finally reconciled with her old companion, she is determined to live her life fully, expressing her desire to travel and see the world and not intending to let Hong Lu hold her back, but acknowledging and accepting his friendship once more.
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 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's belonging to a minor family in Limbus Company, causing her life to be dictated by the will of the greater houses, reflects the role of Daiyu from Dream of the Red Chamber, as an orphan and an outsider to the Jia family, as well as a woman of fragile health, which makes her an inadequate potential wife for Baoyu.
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