Lili

Lili (リリ, Riri) is a Monaco native, a member of the upper class, and the only daughter of a wealthy and pacifistic oil magnate. She resides in a very luxurious suburban mansion with her father and her butler, Sebastian. Her real name is Emilie De Rochefort (エミリ・ロシュフォール, Emiry Roshufōru). At the age of twelve, Lili struggled violently to free herself from a group of kidnappers, and she unexpectedly took out one of her captors. At that moment, she first realized she took pleasure in defeating her opponents.

This does come with a setback, however. She only wants to please her good-hearted father, whom she knows loathes fighting because he wants his daughter to be a prim and proper lady and not a thug. Troubled by her situation, she tells herself, “I don't want Father to be upset with me... but I also want to fight.” Her desire to fight could not be controlled any longer, and for this reason, she uses her family's private jet to travel abroad to take part in worldwide street fighting tournaments, which she enjoyed immensely. This was done under the guise of a "simple vacation" from her homeland to calm her father's suspicions for the moment.

One day, after defeating an opponent in San Francisco (presumably Forest Law based on the in-game artwork), she acquired an invitation to The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Lili noticed that the sponsor of the tournament, the Mishima Zaibatsu, which had caused her father much trouble in the past. With the assumption of the Mishima Zaibatsu being a useful potential asset to her father, she was determined to take part in the tournament and win to put an end to her father's business troubles. Her in-game epilogue shows her happy that she won the tournament, thinking that she has in turn made her father ecstatic, but she has actually caused her father's oil company to file for bankruptcy after the split-up of the Mishima Zaibatsu with the company.

Lili thus participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 without telling her father. However, after losing to her rival Asuka, her chances of winning failed miserably, causing her to return home to Monaco in defeat. What's worse, her father knew of her involvement in the tournament (presumably thanks to one or both of the men in the black suits in one official artwork of Lili), and as punishment for her disobedience he forbade her from leaving the house until further notice, thwarting her chances of a rematch with Asuka.

After the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, the Mishima Financial Group seized the oil fields her family owned and profited from. Rochefort Enterprises went into bankruptcy, and Lili's father (who was forced to cope with the takeover) collapsed from overexertion. Lili, who was worried about her father's well being, believed that if she were able to reclaim her father's oil fields somehow from the Mishima Financial Group, she would without a doubt remove his anxiety. While she deeply thought how to best act, the Mishima Financial Group announced the opening of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6. Lili entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 for her father's sake.

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