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FULL-SIZE IS A MUST!

Hurray! Obscure character!
Li Li is a minor character, as you could have guessed. A boss, but a minor character netherless. I'm playing Shadow Hearts again, and beaten her again yesterday, so I decided to have some fun and drew her. I didn't know which version to draw (her regular ghost-self or the powered-monster), so I kinda 'merged' both.

Li Li is a girl from the Chinese village of Dalian, daughter of an old and crude fisherman and... I'm going to paste her story , straight from the game (except the awkward onomatopoeia), told by the local adept and magic user, known as Sea Mother.

" Fifteen years ago, there was a
sudden tornado that sank many ships, Li Li’s father was on one of them. He was
her only blood relative. She stood on the docks, praying fervently for his
homecoming… She waited and waited, but still her father would not return. So
she called out to the stormy sea. “Blue Dragon! God of Fishermen! Anyone!
Please save my father’s life. I will do anything!” At that moment, a massive
bolt of lightening struck the water, and the ocean suddenly became calm. Her
father’s ship returned safely, but the gods were cruel… They had taken away
her voice. But that was not all. Her voice had become switched with her
father’s . His rough, fisherman’s voice. The father now spoke in Li Li’s
sweet, dulcet tones; from that day on, he refused to ever speak again. Sigh…
That year, a traveling theatrical troupe visited the village. Such bad timing,
it was… Li Li fell in love with one of the actors… I tried everything to get
her voice back, to no avail The only way was to kill her father. One fateful
night, Li Li came to me, speaking n her father’s voice. “Sea Mother, give me
that dagger. The blade you use in your rituals. I’ve made a decision…” It
was shameful, but… one look into her eyes, and I froze completely.

She didn’t kill her father right away, though. She couldn’t. Every night she
would go to her father’s bedroom and stand beside his bed. She would lay the
dagger n her father’s bearded throat. But still, she couldn’t commit the final
act. She would just stand there in silence for awhile, and then leave the room
with tears in her eyes. Every night, the same routine. But actually, her
father was not asleep. He was ready to die if it meant his daughter could have
her beautiful voice back. The daughter, standing at her father’s bedside. The
father, pretending to be asleep while his daughter places a dagger to his
throat. My heart aches every time I picture the scene.

And finally, the troupe was ready to move out of the fishing village the next
day. Li Li made up her mind and entered her father’s bedroom again. But the
bedroom was empty! Her father knew she’d leave the village with the theatre
troupe, so he thought, “I’ll send her off with a little something.” And he had
gone out to sea to find some fish you could only catch on the night of the new
moon. But irony of ironies, that very night a storm rolled in and the seas
raged wildly.

The next day, the sun reappeared and rose high overhead, but there was still
no sign of Li Li’s father. It was just like that night some while ago. Then,
as the sun was going down again, the debris of a fishing boat washed ashore
from the crimson red ocean. Everyone knew her father was dead. Li Li cried
and cried in despair. Now neither her father nor her voice would ever return!
Her cries echoed all over the village, cries like a wounded beast!
The young man from the theatre troupe went to Li Li’s house to console her, but
she would not let him in. Of course, he never knew that the hideous cries
coming from the other side of the wall were Li Li’s own. Late that evening
after the sun had gone down, the cries came again.
Li Li’s voice had grown hoarse from her endless wailing, making it sound even
more fearsome. But then, another very strange sound joined in.
It was like… a wet, sloppy piece of meat slithering across the ground. The
sound was coming from the harbour, and it was getting closer and closer.
And then the gulls began to screech, too, perhaps because they wanted that
meat!
The sound stopped right in front of Li Li’ house. Soon, the door began to
open…

When Li Li opened the door that day…
Well, it’s just as you might have imagined. She saw her father, back from the
dead… he was in a terrible state. He returned to let Li Li take his life. He
returned to give Li Li her voice back.

Yuri: He came back as a drowned corpse… to be killed by his own daughter?

Alice: And did she? Did she kill her father, who had finally returned?

Sea Mother: No. She came to return the dagger. Then, with her father’s
drowned corpse on her back… she walked on towards the ocean, staggering under
the weight… That’s the last time anyone ever saw them. We couldn’t find their
bodies, either."

That's Li Li's tale. Many thx to gutterfiend and his game script at gamefaqs.
Even she's Chinese, she got all the concepts of a true Japanese yuurei (tragedy, a onnen thing going on, curses, hate...) Oh well, better I stop now.

Black & White
Mechanical Pencil 0.7mm with green graphite + Stabilo Pen 0.4mm

Description
FULL-SIZE IS A MUST!

Hurray! Obscure character!
Li Li is a minor character, as you could have guessed. A boss, but a minor character netherless. I'm playing Shadow Hearts again, and beaten her again yesterday, so I decided to have some fun and drew her. I didn't know which version to draw (her regular ghost-self or the powered-monster), so I kinda 'merged' both.

Li Li is a girl from the Chinese village of Dalian, daughter of an old and crude fisherman and... I'm going to paste her story , straight from the game (except the awkward onomatopoeia), told by the local adept and magic user, known as Sea Mother.

" Fifteen years ago, there was a
sudden tornado that sank many ships, Li Li’s father was on one of them. He was
her only blood relative. She stood on the docks, praying fervently for his
homecoming… She waited and waited, but still her father would not return. So
she called out to the stormy sea. “Blue Dragon! God of Fishermen! Anyone!
Please save my father’s life. I will do anything!” At that moment, a massive
bolt of lightening struck the water, and the ocean suddenly became calm. Her
father’s ship returned safely, but the gods were cruel… They had taken away
her voice. But that was not all. Her voice had become switched with her
father’s . His rough, fisherman’s voice. The father now spoke in Li Li’s
sweet, dulcet tones; from that day on, he refused to ever speak again. Sigh…
That year, a traveling theatrical troupe visited the village. Such bad timing,
it was… Li Li fell in love with one of the actors… I tried everything to get
her voice back, to no avail The only way was to kill her father. One fateful
night, Li Li came to me, speaking n her father’s voice. “Sea Mother, give me
that dagger. The blade you use in your rituals. I’ve made a decision…” It
was shameful, but… one look into her eyes, and I froze completely.

She didn’t kill her father right away, though. She couldn’t. Every night she
would go to her father’s bedroom and stand beside his bed. She would lay the
dagger n her father’s bearded throat. But still, she couldn’t commit the final
act. She would just stand there in silence for awhile, and then leave the room
with tears in her eyes. Every night, the same routine. But actually, her
father was not asleep. He was ready to die if it meant his daughter could have
her beautiful voice back. The daughter, standing at her father’s bedside. The
father, pretending to be asleep while his daughter places a dagger to his
throat. My heart aches every time I picture the scene.

And finally, the troupe was ready to move out of the fishing village the next
day. Li Li made up her mind and entered her father’s bedroom again. But the
bedroom was empty! Her father knew she’d leave the village with the theatre
troupe, so he thought, “I’ll send her off with a little something.” And he had
gone out to sea to find some fish you could only catch on the night of the new
moon. But irony of ironies, that very night a storm rolled in and the seas
raged wildly.

The next day, the sun reappeared and rose high overhead, but there was still
no sign of Li Li’s father. It was just like that night some while ago. Then,
as the sun was going down again, the debris of a fishing boat washed ashore
from the crimson red ocean. Everyone knew her father was dead. Li Li cried
and cried in despair. Now neither her father nor her voice would ever return!
Her cries echoed all over the village, cries like a wounded beast!
The young man from the theatre troupe went to Li Li’s house to console her, but
she would not let him in. Of course, he never knew that the hideous cries
coming from the other side of the wall were Li Li’s own. Late that evening
after the sun had gone down, the cries came again.
Li Li’s voice had grown hoarse from her endless wailing, making it sound even
more fearsome. But then, another very strange sound joined in.
It was like… a wet, sloppy piece of meat slithering across the ground. The
sound was coming from the harbour, and it was getting closer and closer.
And then the gulls began to screech, too, perhaps because they wanted that
meat!
The sound stopped right in front of Li Li’ house. Soon, the door began to
open…

When Li Li opened the door that day…
Well, it’s just as you might have imagined. She saw her father, back from the
dead… he was in a terrible state. He returned to let Li Li take his life. He
returned to give Li Li her voice back.

Yuri: He came back as a drowned corpse… to be killed by his own daughter?

Alice: And did she? Did she kill her father, who had finally returned?

Sea Mother: No. She came to return the dagger. Then, with her father’s
drowned corpse on her back… she walked on towards the ocean, staggering under
the weight… That’s the last time anyone ever saw them. We couldn’t find their
bodies, either."

That's Li Li's tale. Many thx to gutterfiend and his game script at gamefaqs.
Even she's Chinese, she got all the concepts of a true Japanese yuurei (tragedy, a onnen thing going on, curses, hate...) Oh well, better I stop now.

Black & White
Mechanical Pencil 0.7mm with green graphite + Stabilo Pen 0.4mm