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What in the world just happened? The crane moved all by itself, and then that big iron ball fell all by itself. It started raining all by itself, and then an umbrella came down all by itself. *gasp* Oh my goodness! Don't tell me I have psychokinetic powers!

—Lynne

Lynne is the deuteragonist of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. She is a rookie detective and one of the first characters Sissel meets, as well as the first one he saves from death.

WARNING: Spoilers follow!

She is determined to solve a murder case involving her hero Detective Jowd, which saw him getting sentenced to death for a crime he confessed to, but did not actually commit. While Lynne was at first distrustful of Sissel despite him saving her life twice, she eventually agreed to work together to accomplish their respective goals. She ended up becoming Sissel's close friend and partner, protecting her from harm with his powerful Ghost abilities.

Appearance[]

Lynne is easily identified by her brilliant red hair that is shaped to somewhat resemble a rooster's comb and its tied with a grayish colored hair piece. She also has big brown eyes.

She wears an equally brilliant yellow jacket with a navy blue dress underneath. Attached to her dress is her detective badge. Around her waist is a belt the same color as her hair adorned with a diamond-shaped buckle. Lynne also wears a pair of knee-high red colored boots; judging by the difference in skin color between her face and her legs, it appears she wears leggings as well.  

She is also considered attractive by many of the characters, as Ray says, "it is a shame such a pretty girl had to die". Many of the officers seem to have crushes on her, as one of them calls her his "sweet angel", and another refers to her as "My Lynne", though it doesn't seem like she has a relationship with him. Though not manipulative or even seemingly aware of her own beauty, it seems to work to her advantage, as the same officer honored her wish not to report her for her call to the prison office he worked at.

Personality[]

Lynne is characterized by her boundless determination and loyalty, which is evidenced by her intense desire to prove Detective Jowd, whom she looks up to, innocent. Whenever confronted by a seemingly hopeless dilemma, Lynne remains steadfast, confident that a solution exists (which is often Sissel). Despite her quirkiness, Lynne can be very serious, and always seems to understand the gravity of certain situations. Lynne also has a habit of taking on other people's problems and quite caring since she did show concern for others like Jowd (after being taken hostage), Yomiel (upon seeing his corpse before spotting Jeego) and Kamila (when she lost consciousness in the Yonoa). Lynne always tries to look on the bright side of people and never seems to bear any grudge against anyone, not even against Yomiel before he revealed his story (but after she discovered his identity).

Lynne has a voracious appetite, capable of consuming large amounts of food and drinks in a short amount of time. Several characters, such as Sissel and Memry, have taken note of this.

Prologue[]

Prior to the beginning of the game, Lynne attempted to go to the junkyard in a hurry, as she was leaving the precinct, she comes across the Police Chief who was going to her celebration dinner since she got promoted to a detective (Lynne requested to do that instead of making "some stuffy speech") but she didn't want to come to her promotion celebration considering that the redhead herself is going somewhere else. The chief questioned her about it but rescheduled because he just remembered that his wife asked him to take out the trash before she got home. Then, Lynne heads to the very same junkyard with the bad feeling she had increasingly getting worse.[1]

Plot[]

Lynne is first seen in the very first tutorial chapter in the game. She was shot dead by Jeego, one of Sith's hitmen, when Sissel was just learning his own abilities. Under Ray's tutelage, Sissel learns to turn back time to four minutes before her death and saves her by dropping a wrecking ball on Jeego.

She is a crucial part of Sissel's success in regaining his memories as she investigates leads on saving her hero, Detective Jowd, from being executed for a crime he did not commit. She's also a assassination target of Commander Sith seemingly because of her investigating.

After she calls the police and stays to watch over Yomiel's body, she was taken into custody on suspicion of his murder, where she died a second time right in front of Cabanela. This time she was killed by Tengo, another of Sith's hitmen, but Sissel manages to save her yet again later on by dropping a crate on him.

Lynne then escapes through the basement of the superintendent's office where she was being held, but not before dying a third time to a Rube Goldberg "killing machine" in the basement that is triggered by the basement's light switch. This machine was later revealed to be a replica of Kamila's birthday surprise for her mother. Sissel interrupts the mechanism and saves Lynne again, and the two make a pact to use each other. Kamila is the one under her supervision after this incident and was accompanied by Missile at Lynne's apartment.

Lynne asks Sissel to check Jowd's schedule, and she heads for Chicken Kitchen at 10pm, a place and time that she got from a note she found on Yomiel's body. There she dies for the fourth time as she saves the undercover Detective Memry from Detective Rindge's van as it crashes into the restaurant, killing him and dropping Chicken Kitchen's giant chicken replica over Lynne's head. Sissel fixes that too when he came back from his mission, and Lynne hears of Jowd's execution being carried forward from dawn to 11pm from Rindge, who was kind enough to let her go.

Lynne runs off to plead with the Justice Minister, while Sissel goes off to stop the execution and break Jowd out of prison. However, Lynne arrived at the Justice Minister's office to find him dead of a heart attack brought on by his own stress, and Sissel, after his own mission fails at the hands of Cabanela, arrives yet again to save another unfortunately dead person. Though the Justice Minister's mind is not changed until Sissel manages to get Amelie to call, proving her safety.

Lynne returns to the superintendant's office to see the injured Cabanela who had earlier been coerced by Yomiel into calling the Minister, demanding that the execution go ahead. After learning that Kamila and Yomiel is now aboard Sith's submarine (thanks to a tracking device) she heads there with Jowd. Lynne is attacked by the Yomiel-possessed Kamila and dies again when a torpedo impacts their detached section of the submarine. Sissel and Missile makes it aboard to resurrect her again and the four manage to escape with the help of Yomiel who had been betrayed by Sith.

Lynne helps the three ghosts reach the submarine where they travel back in time, four minutes before Yomiel's own death, ten years prior. They meet the pre-teen Lynne who is taken by the hysterical Yomiel as hostage to hold off Detective Jowd. With the three ghosts combining their powers, the fated Temsik meterorite leaves a injures Jowd but spares Yomiel's life. Yomiel then saves Lynne from a falling monument and accepts defeat. Sissel Lynne thanks Jowd who gives her a detective badge, inspiring her to become a real detective like him and Sissel who was revealed to have been a cat is taken in by Jowd. With Yomiel's fate averted, the game's timeline is negated.

In the new timeline, Lynne has a celebratory party of her detective promotion with Kamila, Alma, Jowd and the immortal Sissel whom she recognizes from ten years before. She is Missile's owner in the new timeline.

Death(s)[]

Lynne's multiple deaths (and subsequent revivals) gives her a strong impression of a phoenix, a mythical species of bird that dies in a great fire when it expires and is imminently reborn from the ashes of the fire. Lynne's outward appearance (bright red, feather-like hair and bright yellow jacket) support this vision. Her name sounds like 'Lin', the name of female power in Chinese mythology, which is represented by a phoenix as well.

In a single evening, she was:

  1. Killed by Nearsighted Jeego with a shotgun
  2. Killed by One Step Ahead Tengo with a sniper rifle
  3. Killed by the contraption in the basement of the junkyard superintendent's office
  4. Crushed by the Chicken decoration while rescuing Memry
  5. Knocked unconscious and crushed by the debris in the Yonoa Submarine due to the torpedo

Other appearances[]

Lynne appeared in the mobile game Street Fighter ✕ All Capcom.

In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Lynne is the base for one of Maya Fey's alternate colors.

Gallery[]

Lynne/Image Gallery

Trivia[]

  • According to Sissel, science is "apparently something Lynne doesn't like very much." In a similar vein, she doesn't seem to know what a microscope is either.
  • Lynne has said that she used to play at Temsik Park a lot when she was little, but promised to never set foot there again (probably after Yomiel's escape attempt happened). It's unclear however if Lynne lived near the same park, considering that she was at that location without any sort of supervision until Jowd showed up to protect her.
  • Lynne's name is spelled in katakana as Rinne, a word that can refer to the Buddhist cycle of death and rebirth which is fitting for a girl who dies repeatedly and comes back to life.
  • Lynne is incapable of swimming. She admitted so when she was trapped in Sith's sinking submarine with Sissel and Kamila.
  • In the Ghost Trick section on the official Capcom website, Missile's past was revealed in the "Meeting Missile" page. She had met him at Pet Shop Bocci around two years prior and decided to adopt the pomeranian, by the time Kamila fell hard for him.[2]

References[]

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