Shaoshao Li
Shao-Shao Li (李 蛸燒, Lǐ Shāo-Shāo) is an athletic Chinese kung-fu girl that hates bugs and ghosts.
She is Kiss Partners with Hot Rodimus, but doesn't like to kiss him after he's been fishing because of the fishy stench. She also wishes he'd take her fishing with him once in a while.
Dengeki Hobby Magazine writes "Shāo-Shāo" as "蛸焼", whereas Figure King magazine writes it "鮹焼". Both mean "octopus dumplings".
Voice actress: Yui Kano
Li's parents ran a Chinese restaurant in New York. It was there that she met Marissa Faireborn and the two became friends. Later, concerned about Marissa's romantic attachment to Optimus Prime, she joined the anti-Transformers Earth Defense Command in Japan and was partnered with the Autrooper designated "Ne 4" (the 4th unit of "Ne" squad) as a Kiss Player, under the command of Amaou.
Li quickly became known as one of the E.D.C.'s most skilled Kiss Players, able to power up her Autrooper partner to levels far beyond those of her teammates. The other squad members respected her abilities greatly, and at least one, Ringo, developed a crush on her.
On one mission, Li was sent to investigate a Transformers-related subway explosion. Following the incident, while still merged with her Autrooper partner, she happened upon a Legion member menacing a frightened young woman. She was able to briefly repel the attack before her Kiss Player time limit was reached and she was ejected from the Autrooper, unconscious and naked apart from her signature padlocked collar.
Badly damaged by the Legion's tube-shaped projectile tongue, the Autrooper turned to the young woman, Atari Hitotonari, and demanded that she kiss it or die, guilt-tripping her with the possibility of what would happen if she failed to act. Atari did indeed kiss the Autrooper, merging with it and swiftly beheading the Legion. The E.D.C. determined that Atari was an even more powerful Kiss Player than Li and promptly recruited her.
Some time later (it is not yet clear whether this immediately followed), Li awoke to find herself suspended in a tube beneath a severed Legion head. She was bound with straps, naked apart from her collar and squad armband, and her stomach had been scrawled with "Ne 4" and the number "2045", which also appeared on the Legion head above. Noticing that nearby tubes held similar heads and the partially-eaten bodies of Kiss Players from other squads, she panicked as the Legion head above her woke up and began to drool with hunger.
Fortunately, Hot Rod arrived just in the nick of time to rescue her!
Now, partnered with Hot Rod, Li roams Japan. Together, they battle Legion, the E.D.C. and Optimus Prime, while taking time out for fishing and martial arts practice. Although she despairs of Hot Rod's lack of discipline and his obsession with kissing her, Li admits to greatly enjoying the sensation induced by kissing her robot partner.
