![]() Matched with the golden, nearly orange embossing on her hanfu, it’s a familiar but fresh look for her. In contrast to her Tekken 7 outfit, where her qipao had gone sleeveless, but gave her a long skirt and pants, she’s back to wearing short shorts, but with a glowing silver qipao. ![]() ![]() Xiaoyu also now wears what seems to be a decorative, informal hanfu over her qipao. ![]() If she seemed to get a little too tall in Tekken 7, that gets muted in Tekken 8, though she still has her signature twintails, now a little longer. It certainly makes more sense than the idea that Anna and Nina Williams hadn’t aged because of cryogenics. Interestingly enough, it can be interpreted that her inconsistent appearance matches the kind of bodily changes a teen goes through in adolescence so it kind of works. But they clearly had an intent to show Xiaoyu was growing taller, and was losing her babyish features throughout each game. Truthfully, Tekken Team hasn’t been consistent in the way they depicted their characters through the years. Xiaoyu was 16, literally a child, in the events of Tekken 3, and is presumably somewhere between 18 to 19 years old in Tekken 8, as she was 18 in the events of Tekken 7. While we now see radical redesigns of characters like Lei Wulong and Paul Phoenix, this has mostly been in Tekken 7 and Tekken 8. ![]() An interesting aspect of Ling Xiaoyu in the Tekken franchise is she is the one character who has most visibly aged compared to everyone else. ![]()
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