Lien Neville

Short Biography

Lien Neville is a buxom character from the SNK playmore`s fighting games series KOF: Maximum impact, part of the "Kinf Of Fighters" series.she also makes an appearence in the OVA "The King Of Fighters:another day".She conceptually began as the popular opposite to fellow KOF participents, Mai Shiranui.while Mai represents a "sexy and beautiful kunoichi", Lien represents another dounterpart:the sexy western femme fatale".he routfits are purposely designed to be "tight and contricting" to contrast Mai`s clothing.which is made to allow for easy and quick movements.her curled hair-also made to differ from Mai`s long and straight hair-need several retakes, along with a long trial-and-error process for the games modelers.to further the contrast between the two assassins, efforts were made to make Lien more serious and darker then Mai, despite being one of the heroins in the series.When she was ten years old, her parents were killed by Duke-due to her father trying to escape his terms with the Addes syndicate.though Duke was under orders to kill everyone on site, Lien was spared and then raised by her parents`murderer to become an elite assassin under his employment`deaths and make Duke her target of unrelenting hate-later with deeper feelings for him due to the time they spent together.under Duke`s orders, she fought Alba and Soiree`s mentor, fate, in a fair match that resulted with his death.when she hears that Jivatna had issued the orders to kill her parents, she redirects her vengeance to Addes.she was last seen to Duke during Maximum Impact 2`s credit.Lien is a cold woman who kills without remorse.this is the way Duke raised her and a part of her is thankful toward him, while another part intends on killing him.