Lin

Green eyes and a mane of brown hair set the look of this young enforcer, who is twenty-four years old during the events of the series. He carries the composed bearing of someone raised inside a criminal organization, presenting himself as a disciplined operative rather than a brute.

Devotion sits at the center of who Lin is. He climbs the syndicate ladder because he genuinely believes in the cause and gives his allegiance completely to whoever he has sworn to serve. That said, he leans toward restraint, favoring approaches that spare people from senseless bloodshed rather than reaching for force by default. Even when Vicious warns him that betrayal may one day be required, Lin still offers his loyalty in the name of the Red Dragon.

After enlisting with the Red Dragon Syndicate, Lin spent a stretch operating under Spike Spiegel before Spike walked away, at which point he transferred his service to Vicious. In 2071, a woman named Julia relayed an offer to trade Red Eye on Callisto, and Lin joined Vicious in laying the arrangement before The Van. Wang Long approved the run, and Lin was dispatched both to guard Vicious and to watch him for any signs of treachery.

On Callisto, Spike caught up with the pair and squared off against Vicious. Rather than side with his old ally, Lin planted himself between the two men. When Spike ordered him aside and he refused, Lin fired, though the round was only a tranquilizer that dropped Spike into unconsciousness, letting the two escape to finish the exchange. At a rooftop meeting, Lin verified the purity of the Red Eye and handed over a payment case rigged with a hidden bomb. The supposed courier, actually Gren himself, kicked the case back and shot it. The blast hurled Lin aside, and he used his final moments to shield Vicious from Gren's gunfire. Spike later remarks that Lin's soul was lost in dying for Vicious, hinting he may be the fallen warrior Laughing Bull invokes across the two-part Jupiter Jazz story.