Hello, hello? Yes, this is Zhang Mei Lin!

☛ Who are you?

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​☛ Catallena~

` first face claim | Byeon Seo Eun
` second backup face claim | Jin Kyung
` blood type | A
` height  | 163cm
` weight | 54kgs. (Her profile says 42kgs though.)
` style     | Mei Lin has a very trendy chic type style.

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​☛ Let's Talk About You

` birth name | Zhang Mei Lin (Jang Mae Rin)
` nicknames  | 
+ Mini Sica (in her last year of training it was given to her by other trainees due to having a lot of similarities to the SNSD member. After debut, the fans picked up on it as well, especially those who are/were sones.)
+ Rinnie/Linnie (a cute version of her name)

+ Archer (She is a sagittarus and her last name means to draw a bow, archer, ect. It's a fan name) 
+ Mei Guo (Her name mixed with dog, which just means puppy mei. It's a fan name)

` birthdate    | Decemeber 3rd, 1989
` age                 | 24
` birthplace   | Shanghai, China
` hometown   | Beijing, China
` ethnicity      | Chinese
` languages    | Mandarin (First language, Fluent) Korean (Second Language, Fluent) Japanese (Third Language, advanced.) English (Fourth Language, Conversational)  Cantonese (Basics, she can sing in the language fine, she is still learning the language, she has good pronuciation.) She needs a translator for Japanese, Cantonese, and English on shows, but she can hold her own when replying in the languages. She just needs a little help when it comes to understanding. Except Cantonese. She needs a translator period.
 

☛ Good to you~

` personality | Mei Lin isn't one of the first members you would notice amoungst the group. She's is more so active behind the scenes. Mei Lin is extremely careful with her words, she has a large vocabulary and will use it. She has a strong sense of empathy, in which allows her to understand others well. Mei Lin loves to read, you wont see her without a book, she is always carrying one around. She prefers paperbacks over any other kind, just because they are more portable. She is extremely down to earth, and fairly humble, though she'll occasionally joke about being arrogant. On stage, and to others who don't know her well, Mei Lin could be seen as graceful and elegant, everything she does is well thought out, but to her fans, members and close friends, she's a graceful dork. With her thoughtful nature comes her hard work. Mei Lin is extremely hardworking. She wants to achive perfection, and will work until she gets it. An obsesive perfectionist is what the other members often call her. often she will stay at rehersals to perfect the dances and even work on some others so she seems well rounded. She is extremely schedule oriented, and will rarely deviate from it. Everything is planned, every word, step, glance, smile, ect. until the cameras are off and she is by herself. Rarely ever is she relaxed around cameras, she is very shy around them, prefering to devert the attention to one of the other members. When the cameras are off is where you'll see the graceful dork. She is described as a puppy, cute and cuddly. Mei Lin loves skinship, and you can see that anywhere, on or off camera, it is just more obvious off camera. It calms her down to know that somebody else is around her. Like an anchor. She isn't neccisaruly the funniest in the group, but she loves word play, playing with words. Most of her wit comes from that, which is why she has some pretty awesome one liners. With her father being a politician, she obviously is a very good speaker, getting it from him. She is an amazing story teller, whether they be made up or just incidents from the past, she can have you hanging on the edge of every word she says. She is very much an introvert and needs time to recharge, she can only be around so many people before she feels exhausted. Often to do so, she'll play piano, or just listen to music. Or play on her piano app on her phone. She finds it easiest to express herself through her piano, the music is a story in itself, she has been playing since she could remember, she could easily play on cue, to most any song. Playing by ear is one of her talents. Perfect pitch her mother called it.

` background | Mei Lin was born in Shanghai on a vaction her mother and father were taking at the time. She was definitely a surprise at the time. She was born two weeks early. Being born to a concert pianist and an ambasador did definitely influence her in her life. She started playing the piano at the age of five, and had started singing around then as well. In her summers she would go with her father whenever he would have to go to Korea on trips, She didn't bother learning the langugae until she was about ten, when she would watch TV with out her dad, she couldn't understand what they were saying, so she asked her dad if she could start learning. He complied, wanting a well rounded child, and the fact that he was in korea so often, it made things easier on him. That was also around the same time he saw her dancing along to Shinhwa, being a huge fan of the group from their debut. During her school years, Mei Lin was a good student. She got good grades, but she always excelled in music, especially in piano and singing. In her last year of high school(2007-08 ish), she participated in her school's talent show, with a lot of encouragement from her mom and friends. It was her mom and some of the family friends who helped her prepair her performance which was just a piano and vocal cover of Alicia Key's song Fallin. She placed fifth in the competiton, mainly because she had trouble controling her brething, and she was more focused on the piano. (clip of performance) In 2004, some of her old school mates wanted to audition for SM Entertainment, they wanted her to join them as well, mainly because she could speak korean, and could help them with their singing, beings that she could play piano very well, and had taken singing lessions. She didn't know if she wanted to join them or not, she asked her parents anyway. Both of her parents felt the same way, but they decided if she wanted to do that they will help her. In the end she went with them, originally not planning to audition, It was fun to watch her friends audiontion, and to cheer them on, but by the end, she wished she could have. It wasn't until 2008 that the opurtunity presented itself for her to audition again, well more like SM annouced that they would be holding auditions in beijing in 2009. She spent the time before that prepairing for the audition, with the help of her mother and some family friends that her mother worked with, she worked on a more technical version of the song she performed at her school's talent show. One that would show off her vocal capabilities. As for dancing, she had no idea what she was going to do, until Mid may of 2009 came around when her friends were freaking out about the newest boy band. (She was still a big fan of Shinhwa. Didn't really pay much attention beyond that, until 2005 when Han Geng debut in Super Junior, but didn't keep close tabs on them) Juliette by SHINee was released, and that was when she came up with the idea of dancing to that song. When auditions came around in august, she was ready this time and knew what was going to happen. Already ahead of the game against most of the people auditioning, she could speak korean. She sung her song, and danced (10:00). All that was left was to wait to hear from SM. In the begining of 2010, she got a call saying she was accepted into the company, to which her family celebraited. She flew out in late Feburary to begin training with SM.
` likes | Piano

• Reading
• Singing
• Dancing
• Linguistics
• Sour Candy
• Road Trips
• Traveling
• Classic Art
• Musicals (Beijing Operas, Cantonese Operas, Broadway, ect.)

` dislikes  | Chaos

• Off Key singing
• Ignorance
• Most Candy and sweets. She doesn't really have much of a sweet tooth
• Horror movies/anything scary really.
• Frosting/Cake
• Stupidity
• Surprises

` hobbies | Piano

• studying other languages
• reading

` habits     | When she sings, she tends to move her hand according to pitch. 

• She tends to push her fringe out of her face when she is talking, a sign of nervousness
• She chews on the ends of pens when thinking.

` trivia      | She can wiggle her ears

• She can be considered a Polygot (a person who speaks many languages
• She is a morning person, and tends to be one of the first up in the morning.
• Bb3-E6 vocal range (which is why she is also know as Girl with giant lungs)
• If asked to show off her voice, she will usually sing part of Whitney Houstan's 'I Will Always Love You' (starts around 1:40)
• A huge fan of Justin Timberlake and Shinhwa 
• Zhang Liyin, Lay, and herself are apart of the fanmade/self proclaimed Zhang family.