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Chun Li was born in a small town in China. Her mother died from disease when Chun Li was born. Her father, a police investigator, could not care for her and work at the same time, so young Chun Li was sent to attend a Wu Shu school nearby. Chun Li grew up living and breathing Chinese acrobatics and learning the Wu Shu martial forms.
Chun Li saw her father only one day out of every week, when he would come to visit her at her school. Chun Li always looked forward to each visit from her father, and grew to love him dearly despite their frequent separation. Every week, she showed her father her newest acrobatic maneuvers and told him all about her academic studies.
One fateful day, Chun Li's father failed to arrive on his appointed day. Chun Li waited for nearly a week before she sought permission to leave school and travel to her father's home. She was denied permission to travel alone, so she ran away from school that night.
She hiked back to her father's town in the middle of a moonless night, only to discover her father's home completely empty. She cried herself to sleep on the doorstep.
In the morning, she asked the police where her father had gone. They sadly told her that he had been involved in a murder investigation and had spoken of how he was closing in on the killer. He knew that the man had a tattoo of a phoenix. The next morning, he had disappeared, but there were signs of a struggle in his home. The police suspected he had been taken by the killer, who was likely a member of a secret organization. They were searching for him, but there were no signs yet. They told Chun Li to return to school; they would inform her as soon as they heard anything.
Chun Li was reprimanded when she returned, but she was such a prized pupil that her teachers allowed her to leave school two days each month to look for her father. Chun Li swore that she would learn the methods of an investigator so that she could find her father.
Chun Li grew to womanhood under the cloud of her father's disappearance. She has turned investigation into a profession, and has worked with both the Chinese government and Interpol as a private investigator. The loss of her father also gave her the drive to excel in Wu Shu until she became the national women's Wu Shu champion of China.
Her Wu Shu also helped her when she tracked down the first clue to her father's disappearance. She discovered the man with the phoenix tattoo in a bar in Shanghai. When the man refused to take her interrogation seriously, Chun Li showed him the business end of her Lightning Leg kick. The man told her of Shadoloo, the evil organization run by M. Bison. The tattooed man had once worked for Shadoloo. Chun Li swore she would continue to search for him if she had to fight M. Bison himself.
Chun Li entered the Street Fighter circuit to track down others responsible for her father's disappearance. She endured the tournament circuit in search of clues, and along the way rose to World Warrior status. She will not rest until she finds her father.
Playing Chun Li: You are a girl that was forced to grow up too soon. You will do anything to find your father, even if it means entering one of M. Bison's tournaments. You are feisty and free-willed by nature, but good company, good humor or even a good victory will bring out the little girl in you.
You are attracted to Ryu, but you are both such fierce competitors that even romance has been unable to break down the walls between you.
Appearance: Chun Li is a beautiful young woman. She wears the traditional outfit of a Chinese acrobat and keeps her long hair bound in braids. She wears two imposing spiked bracelets on her wrists.
