Hualin

Hualin (ワーリン) is a human resident of Chun-Nan who appears in Sonic Unleashed. She is the daughter of Jinlin and Wang, and the granddaughter of Lin. As a part of her family's business and tradition, Hualin is meant to inherit the family's meat bun restaurant and learn the family recipes for meat buns once her mother retires. Hualin, however, is reluctant on taking over the family business, as she would rather out and see the world than being stuck in her "boring" village, making meat buns all her life.

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''Jinlin and Wang's daughter. Hualin was born into a family of bun-makers, and as you might imagine, she is thoroughly bunned out. She has switched to an all-vegetable diet ("for my complexion!" she says) in hopes of reversing a lifetime of meat bun damage while still of marriageable age.''

PS3/Xbox360
Hualin was born as the daughter of Jinlin and Wang several years prior to Sonic Unleashed. Born into a family of meat bun makers, Hualin was meant to take over the family's meat bun shop as part of family tradition. As Hualin got older, her mother and her grandmother trained her in the family's art of meat bun making and taught her all the skills she needed to be a successful meat bun chef, with Jinlin often having Hualin work with her in the kitchen.

Hualin herself, however, had very little interest in becoming a meat bun maker; being surrounded by the aspects of meat buns all life had made Hualin thoroughly tired of meat buns, and she came to dislike the idea of spending her life as a meat bun maker, a lifestyle she found boring and unfulfilling. Eventually, Hualin came to have a great distaste towards meat buns and eventually switched to an all-vegetable diet to escape the damage dealt by living off meat buns while she could still get married. Though Hualin would often express her dislike of meat buns to her mother and grandmother, they insisted she followed the family tradition and became a meat bun maker, especially her grandmother, with whom Hualin continuously butted heads due to their stubborn behavior. As the same time, Hualin felt trapped in her small, quiet mountain village and she longed to see more of the world and experience what it had to offer. Along with the job of making meat bun forced down on her, Hualin feel overall sealed up in her home.

As she got older, Hualin got only more rebellious and firm in her refusal of making meat buns, making it only more difficult for Jinlin and Lin to teach her how to make meat buns, especially when they tried to teach her their family's secret meat bun recipe.

During the events of Sonic Unleashed, when Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip first came to Chun-Nan, Hualin noticed that her village was in a uproar, though she did not understand why. It turned out that the village elder Zonshen had gone missing when he went to look for Chun-Nan's Treasure, but Hualin only understood that everyone was panicking about the elder not coming back or something. While during this frenzy, Hualin met Sonic and Chip when they first arrived in Chun-Nan and told them what she had heard about the village's crisis. When Sonic and Chip later returned from outside the village, having save Zonshen from the Dark Gaia Phoenix, Hualin told the duo how amazed she was at them pulling this off. As Sonic and Chip then said they still had to fix the planet after its shattering caused by Dark Gaia, Hualin thought it was a big thing for them to do and asked them if it was a dangerous task.

Not long after Zonshen had been saved, however, Hualin and her village was invaded by Eggman's Robots who were lurking outside the village and keeping Hualin completely confined to her village. When Sonic and Chip returned to Chun-Nan shortly after, Hualin told the duo about how it sucked for her being stuck in the village. Later, after Sonic and Chip returned from dealing with the robots, Hualin heard from them how they managed to drive them off and was surprised. Hualin then commented that Sonic and Chip were unbelievable and asked them how they managed to do that since the robots looked pretty tough. Later, when Sonic and Chip was about to go back to Spagonia to report to Professor Pickle, Hualin told them how she wanted to see this city someday.

With the crisis over and the village returning to normal, Hualin was glad that everything was starting to calm down, but also admitted to Sonic and Chip that she now found her village too boring, since the robot invasion was probably the only exciting thing that had happen in her village. This passed-by thrill, however, made Hualin long more than ever to see the world outside her boring village, and she told Sonic and Chip that she had had to get out of her village soon. She later told Sonic and Chip about how her mother and grandmother were nagging her to make meat buns and she told them how much she thought it would suck.

Following the recent event, Hualin only became even more passionate about her refusal to learn how to make meat bun and to learn the family recipe, much to Jinlin's dismay. Soon after, things came to a boil for Hualin when she was having an argument with her grandmother; while Lin told Hualin to go help her mother make meat buns, Hualin yelled at her in anger, telling her that she hated meat buns and her village, before saying that she had decided to leave the village. While her family had their doubts, Hualin stood by her words and not long after ran away from her village, intending to see the world that she had longed to experience.

Now finally freed from her village, Hualin decided to travel the world to see all the different places and make all new experiences. After leaving Chun-Nan, Hualin first traveled to Spagonia to finally see the city that she wanted to visit for so long. While in the city, Hualin ran into Sonic and Chip, who was just passing by, and she told them she left her village and stated firmly that she was never coming back. She also told them that her mother and grandmother could keep their meat bun shop and stuff it.

After spending her time in Spagonia, Hualin traveled on to Mazuri, where she met Sonic and Chip again. As they talked together, she told them that she found it so hot and humid here that she thought she could die and that she did not know places with such bad weather. She then said that she felt hungry and that she thought that she should take a load off and get something to eat.

Hualin eventually had enough of Mazuri and decided to travel to Shamar as her next stop on her world tour. While there, she met up with Sonic and Chip again and told them that it was hot here as well asked why. She then apologized to Sonic and Chip for asking them this, as they did not control the weather, but she nevertheless found this weather to be bad as well. Just like in Mazuri, however, Hualin started to feel hungry and she decided joyfully to take a load off while getting something to eat.

After having seen Shamar, Hualin moved on to Empire City, just as soon Sonic as restored its continent, where she met Charles. During a conversation with him, Hualin mentioned that Zonshen, who she refered to as "gramps", was the world's best doctor. Charles, however, could not believe the world's best doctor would live in the boonies and asked Hualin if she lied. Hualin, however, said that she was telling the truth and, despite her own opinion about her home, told Charles that is was really rude of him to refer to her home in such a manner, though she agreed with him just a little. After mentioning a little more about Zonshen, Hualin tried to change the subject and asked Charles what the local cuisine was since she was starved, to which Charles suggested she should try out a hot dog.

The next stop on Hualin's world travels was Apotos. While there, she met up with Sonic and Chip again and told them how gorgeous it was here. She also expressed her pride in herself for traveling all this way on her own, before saying that all this excitement had made her hungry and decided to take a load off while getting a bite to eat.

After having seen Apotos, Hualin eventually discovered that all her traveling had eventually satisfied her life-long thirst to see the world. Also, after having seen so many places and people, Hualin had come to see how amazing her own village was and thought how great it was that her village held onto the past and still moved toward the future. With these realizations and her desires satisfied, Hualin finally felt ready to become the next meat bun maker in her family's business, and returned home to Chun-Nan, where her family was happy to have her back and to hear that she was now set on taking over the meat bun business.

However, despite being ready to learn how to make meat buns, Hualin still had arguments with her grandmother, as Hualin proved to be somewhat of a klutz in the kitchen. When Sonic and Chip later made a visit in Chun-Nan after that, Hualin asked them hypothetically if her grandmother knew about filial respect and such, and then said, though somewhat pleased, that she would properly never understand the people in her village.

Later on, during Sonic and Chip's battle with Dark Gaia, Hualin witnessed the local Gaia Temple rise from the ground. Hualin later watched on in horror with the rest of his village while she protected Yilin, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but later rejoiced with Yilin when the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.

PS2/Wii
Hualin first appeared ín the PS2/Wii version of Sonic Unleashed when Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip first arrived in Chun-Nan. Hearing that they traveled the world, Hualin said it had to be very hard on them travelling so. She then decided to give them Soundtrack 41 to make the trip worthwhile and said it would be nice if they bumped into someone.

After Sonic the Werehog and Chip saved Zonshen from the Dark Gaia Phoenix, Hualin was given a Sun Tablet by Zonshen, and was told to give it to Sonic and Chip once she saw them. When Hualin later found Sonic and Chip, she told them they were awesome for not only saving the elder, but also for trying to fix the whole planet. Hualin then remembered the Sun Tablet and gave it to Sonic and Chip. While Hualin was sure the Sun Tablet was very valuable, she was sure they could trust Sonic and Chip with it.

When Sonic and Chip returned to Hualin after receiving the Sun Tablet, she told them it was so stimulating being around them, like a little pick-me-up, and that she hoped they would by again. Later on, when Sonic and Chip met up with Hualin again, she said that Sonic had a real fire in his eyes that looked cool, before she asked if they did not change color, referring to his Werehog transformation.

Later on, during Sonic and Chip's battle with Dark Gaia, Hualin witnessed the local Gaia Temple rise from the ground. Hualin later watched on in horror with the rest of his village while she protected Yilin, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but later rejoiced with Yilin when the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.

Trivia

 * Hualin's name in Chinese ("華林") means "Blossom Forest".