Lin Mai

"You. Are. A. HERETIC!"

- Lin Mai to Mitch, after an encounter with the Visceri.

Lin Mai is an Inquisitorial Acolyte formerly in the service of Lady Cherrice Bauyon, before being picked up by Inquisitor Dante Buhoveckey after an unfortunate incident upon the Cemetery World of Tachquaveta.

Early Life
Formerly a member of the order of the Angel’s feather (a minor Schola academy, their primary relic is a stasis locked quill with a feather they think belonged to sanguinius), at 16 years old during a firing drill, Lin warned another sister, a young recruit in training by the name of Moira Dynalt of a poorly blessed and maintained grenade, too late to save the sister from its early detonation, but early enough to raise questions. Lin knew, she never knew how, but she had a sense. Her sisters took upon this for witch, tying her to a stake and preparing to cleanse her, despite her protests that it must've been the "God emperor's wish to try and save the poor girl."

While this was happening, The blessed Inquisitor Cherise (may the god emperor protect her) was inspecting the fortress monastery, finding suitable candidates. As Lin was preparing to be immolated, she got the feeling that the holy promethium canister being prepared for use was damaged and faulty. Upon screaming the warning and being ignored, she was horrified to see the canister seriously injure the Cantus sister; Miriam D’cade, using it. Cherise saw this, and decided that the god emperor had need of her still, and the chance to redeem herself for the possibility of taint. In the god emperor’s name, she would counteract the evil within, excising the heretic, burning the mutant, felling the xeno.

At least, that was the plan.

Serving the Inquisition
Lin's tenure under Cherrice Bauyon was a whirlwind mess for her. Having been raised in a pretty sheltered world, trained almost exclusively for combat with her spiritual and emotional training still very much incomplete, Lin struggled to deal with the myriad characters her new occupation brought, leading to a smoking addiction she developed almost instantly, becoming the first of very many Soritas rules she would habitually break for "the good of the Imperium. After learning how to spin her pistol from a deckhand, she would habitually perform that same action after a particularly tough kill, much to the dismay of several of her fellow acolytes.

Lin performed well, despite this, when assigned to her specialist role, which was fire support and gunslinging. However, her insistant on getting involved in tasks ill suited to her (such as diplomacy, or planning), lead to many jeopardized missions. Most notably, the Tachquaveta Debacle, which historically ended in Cherise pulling her support and Lin facing an execution by fire for the second time in her life, only saved by the timely intervention of Dante Buhoveckey, whom she served well.

Personality
Lin, prior to being seconded to Cherise, was like any other Novice, was filled with righeous hatred for the Emperor's enemies, and generally worked well with her fellow teammates. However, that was all quickly washed away when she actually had to deal with people outside of the Adeptus Sororitas itself. It is believed that inquisitorial work had warped her view on reality, leading her to mess with the minds of several of her fellow acolytes, most obviously Salina Vetock, Kruchev and Mitch, partially out of fustration, partially to fit in with her fellow teammates, and partially for sheer enjoyment.

Another thing understood about Lin is her reletively low intelligence, often leading her to either say the wrong thing at the wrong time, act entirely on instinct (which, admittedly, has saved acolytes at times) and come up with plans that truly reach absurd levels of stupidity (such as hiding a pict-fly inside a candle to keep tabs on a local cult).

Having said that, it can be typically assessed that Lin simply wants to fit into her new life, having accepted that she would never return to her order.

Or Shaked Orenstein
After a somewhat disagreeable first mission together, in which Lin reportedly called Shaked a "fat bastard", the two were known to get on moderately well when Shaked, concerned by her constant pistol spinning, had Lin put in for specialist pistol training. However, after an incident on a shrine world involving copius amounts of drugs, a crime scene surrounded by devout stormtroopers and the phrase "it looks a bit like a Lho stick" uttered by Shaked, they're relationship...deepened. It is known that Lin is fanatically loyal to her Interrogator, though what he feels for her, if anything, remains to be seem.

By
"If you...Even try to use Typical Forge world misogyny on me..."

- Lin, in a particually heated argument with Mordecai.

"So, how was maternity leave?"

- Lin picking on Interrogator Emily for sleeping with Dante and subsequently falling pregnant.

"Now, hear me out guys, what if they're smuggling Psykers in the Sandbags?"

- Lin on Sulakta

"Shaked honey...I need more Lho sticks, or I'm going to shoot Moredcai in the face."

- Lin on Shaked.

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