Jinlin

Jinlin (ジンリン) is a human resident of Chun-Nan who appears on the PS3/Xbox360 version of Sonic Unleashed. She is the only daughter of Lin, the wife of Wang and the mother of Hualin. Jinlin is the next in line to take over her family's meat bun making business and she is very eager to further develop the art of meat bun cooking. Together with her mother, Jinlin tries to train Hualin to take over the meat bun business when she retires herself.

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''Lin's only daughter, who has recently been initiated into the family meat bun business. Since then, she has been busy every day, churning out one bun after another. Jinlin's goal is to further evolve the craft before passing the shop down to her own daughter, Hualin.''

History
According to Jinlin, she "went through a lot" when she was about Sonic's age. As she became older, Jinlin followed the family tradition and was thus trained by her mother to take over the family's meat bun shop. Though she had many hardships to overcome, Jinlin accepted her role as a meat bun maker and dreamed of using the time where she owned the shop to evolve the craft of meat bun making even further. Over time and after overcoming many obstacles and much training, Jinlin became a capable meat bun maker and came to love making meat buns.

At some point in her life, Jinlin met Wang. She eventually married Wang, and the two of them eventually had a daughter they named Hualin. As Hualin came of age, Jinlin was pressured by her mother to pass on the family recipe to Hualin since she was meant to take over the meat bun shop after Jinlin. Together with Lin, Jinlin then began training Hualin in the art of meat bun making, and had Hualin work with her in the kitchen. Training Hualin proved to be a difficult task for Jinlin, however, as her daughter had very little interest in learning how to make meat buns, much to Jinlin's dismay. A short time before the events of Sonic Unleashed, Jinlin had complete her training and finally took over her family's meat bun shop from her mother and became the next meat bun maker in the family.

During the events of Sonic Unleashed, Jinlin learned that the village elder Zonshen had gone missing when he went out to find the village's treasure. Having great respect for the elder, Jinlin became very worried about Zonshen's well-being. When she later met Sonic and Chip upon their first trip to Chun-Nan, Jinlin explained to the duo why the village was in an uproar and what had happen to Zonshen. When Sonic and Chip later returned with Zonshen, Jinlin expressed to the duo how relieved she was that the elder was safe, and said that they were the village's heroes for finding him.

Not long after Sonic and Chip had saved Zonshen, however, Jinlin and the rest of her village faced a new threat when Eggman's robots began roaming outside the village. Perturbed by the machines, Jinlin was left so afraid that she could not sleep at night, Fortunately, Sonic and Chip soon returned, and Jinlin explained to the heroes about their situation and expressed her fear that the robots would never leave. Sonic and Chip managed to drive Eggman's robots away, however, and as they returned, Jinlin told them that the village looking much safer now. After telling that her and the village owed Sonic and Chip this safety for helping them, Jinlin decided to celebrate her newfound peace by seeing how many meat buns she could make.

While peace had returned to the village, Jinlin soon faced new problems at home, as Hualin became even more reluctant about making meat buns, and Jinlin found it harder to train Hualin. Jinlin would then often talk to Sonic about the troubles she had with Hualin and her family business, and about how her hardships made her a good meat bun maker, possibly drawing a parallel to Hualin's troubles.

Eventually, Hualin had enough of about Jinlin's and Lin's attempts to teach her how to make meat buns and ran away from Chun-Nan, despite Jinlin's protests. Jinlin was at first rather calm about the situation, as she believed that it was just a phase when Hualin would not listen to her, and thought that she would soon return home As time passed and Hualin did not come home, however, Jinlin became increasingly more worried about Hualin. Both confused and not pleased about the state that the world was in at the moment, Hualin hoped that Hualin could stay out of trouble.

Things only became worse for Jinlin when she heard that Empire City had been overrun by Eggman's robots, and she feared for Hualin's safety if she went there. As she tried to figure out where Hualin would go next, Jinlin would spent the nights pleading to that her little girl would come home soon before she got too lonely.

Jinlin's fears were eventually put to rest as Hualin finally returned to Chun-Nan. She was also happy to hear that after her travels, Hualin had finally decided to become a part of the family business and learn the secret family recipe for meat buns, to which Jinlin concluded that Hualin had learned a lot on her travels. As Jinlin and Lin resumed Hualin's training, Jinlin was glad that her daughter finally showed some effort, but as Hualin continued to butt heads with each other, she feared that it was going to be a long road ahead for them all.

Trivia

 * Jinlin's name in Chinese ("金林") means "Golden Forest".