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Character Name: Rin Kaenbyou ( Orin ). Canon: Touhou Project. Age: In the hundreds. Gender: Female.
Canon Point: post Symposium of Post-Mysticism. History:☯☯. Personality:
For a youkai, Rin is, perhaps, one of the more ominously cheerful of the bunch. While it's only natural for youkai, residents of Gensokyo and otherwise alike, to prefer wreaking havoc upon the human world and humans themselves, Rin is more laid-back and nonchalant towards the whole chaos-and-destruction deal, preferring instead to sit around in the hot caverns of Former Hell and do what it is she loves and does best: chilling with the bodies of the dead. Fitting for her childish appearance, she's extremely carefree and oblivious to most of the more serious matters going on around the world, and her scope of what's worth paying attention to and what isn't is usually restricted to her immediate vicinity and the same old goings-on within Hell.
Due to living in the Underground, Rin lacks a good deal of understanding about the rest of Gensokyo, which only furthers her nonchalant attitude. Because of this separation, though, her love for her home and the people around her has been tempered over the years, instilling her with a strong sense of loyalty and love for her companions and the simplicity of her own life, even if it does mean that she's missing out on a lot. Catastrophes could be occurring above the ground, and Rin wouldn't bat an eyelash; if something happens within the Underground, however, she's quick to leap into action, albeit naively so. When her good friend, Utsuho Reiuji, became heavily unstable after gaining nuclear-based powers and wished to take over all of Gensokyo, Rin's immediate concern wasn't protecting the welfare of the entirety of the rest of the world from Okuu's wrath, but rather how their master, Satori Komeiji, would react to the sudden change in temperament. In reality, Satori admitted that she wouldn't have chastised Okuu too harshly for her actions; Rin was just worrying too much and letting her devotion to looking out for her friend cloud her judgement, since she should have known better than to doubt Satori's understanding.
Rin has a rather morose sense of humour, which is only to be expected from someone who mixes being silly and flighty and somewhat immature with living within Hell and being obsessed with swiping the dead from funerals. When challenged, she jokes that Okuu's power will kill anyone who tries to stop them, but she doesn't mind that idea because Reimu falling in battle will just give her an opportunity to add another human to her collection. She'll also cheerfully let her opponents know that, having wandered into Hell, it's likely that they'll just end up burning to death due to the ever-raging fires spread throughout the area -- but, that's okay, too, because she promises to look after their bones and souls once they're gone. It's no wonder that she's been completely desensitized to the idea of death and those around her dying, as it's been her duty to cart the dead to Hell for hundreds of years, and she admits that there's nothing she finds more entertaining than being able to hang around spirits and corpses for as long as she wants.
Due to her strong connection with the dead, Rin doesn't particularly care about the living unless she's prattling on about how great it would be if she got to play with their corpses. Her only friends are Okuu and Satori, whom are 'special cases' due to being residents of Hell as well, but she doesn't mind being left in solitude while knowing that everybody above the ground gets to spend time together and party and get drunk and whatever else the youkai get up to. This doesn't detract from her cheery personality; while she won't exactly make an effort to sit down and entertain small talk with someone she comes across, she isn't rude, either -- except for instances when she's making a few less than stellar comments about being incinerated or rotting underground. She's actually decidedly friendly, for a youkai, referring to others as "sis" and holding no bad feelings towards anyone who defeats her in battle, unlike many other youkai who value their pride quite a good deal more than she does.
She's described as living in the present and being very straightforward, which is partly due to her life spent as Satori's pet. The Komeiji family is renowned for their psychic abilities, with Satori being especially powerful, so Rin has been raised seeing no need to lie or cover up her thoughts or feelings. This, of course, makes it so easy for her to share her enthusiasm for her job, but it also means that she's inherently trustworthy and won't hesitate to blurt out any and all information that she's asked for. The only times when she does try to hold her tongue and dabble in deception is during Okuu's freakout, when she's too busy worrying about Satori's assumed punishment to rat her friend out, instead taking things into her own hands instead of just being upfront about the issue.
She doesn't do it often, but when she does keep things to herself, Rin is the sort who will do anything she can to patch up a situation, even if doing so is technically beyond her capabilities. Knowing that she stood no chance against Okuu's new powers, she sent a series of angry spirits to the upper world, in order to draw youkai down to Hell to find the source -- a trap, of sorts, so that she could find someone strong enough to knock sense back into Okuu. This ended up causing a good deal of trouble for the youkai who had to deal with the spirits, but Rin was only concerned with calming her friend down, even if that meant inconveniencing a few other people.
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Spell Cards: Within Gensokyo, the residents use a certain type of energy-fueled magic bullets to attack others, known as danmaku. In order to ensure that both youkai and humans can fight on the same level, a number of rules were imposed for use within danmaku fights, with Spell Cards being one of the measures taken to even the playing field. They resemble small sheets of paper with the seal of the Hakurei Shrine, which, when used, unleash the type of attack inscribed upon their surface. As well as danmaku, Spell Cards can also include their users using non-magical means to attack; Mononobe no Futo, for example, uses sake cups in her Throwing Dishes card.
Rin is a kasha, a variety of demon bearing a feline-like appearance with a love and penchant of stealing the bodies of the dead ( usually those who were sinful during their lives, or are especially disliked by the public ) and carrying them down to Hell. She's usually seen with a wheelbarrow, its contents covered with straw, which is, more often than not, filled to the brim with corpses en route to the Hell of Blazing Fires deep within the core of Former Hell in Gensokyo.
She maintains two primary forms: that of her ordinary, youkai appearance, wherein she's an ordinary, red-headed young girl with a pair of cat ears, and the form of a pure black, two-tailed cat, which Marisa claims is infested with fleas. While in cat form, she can't communicate vocally with humans, but, presumably, other creatures possessing psychic abilities or particularly spot-on intuition would be able to understand her.
She can control and communicate with the spirits of the dead, though the extent of her control isn't shown. For the most part, she prefers to hold conversations with the dead, rather than animate them for her own use -- except in cases where the spirits might lend a hand in conjunction with her spell cards.
Rin isn't much of a fighter, so she has no need to keep access to her Spell Cards nor her danmaku, and her communication with/control over the dead will be dulled down to next to nothing. As for shifting between forms, doing so will be something she'll have to learn to do all over again, and even if successful, maintaining one form over the other won't last for more than a few minutes.
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Character Name: Rin Kaenbyou ( Orin ).
Canon: Touhou Project.
Age: In the hundreds.
Gender: Female.
Canon Point: post Symposium of Post-Mysticism.
History: ☯ ☯.
Personality:
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