Rin Tohsaka

is one of the three main heroines of Fate/stay night who acts as the Master of Archer in the Fifth Holy Grail War. She is the current head of the Tohsaka family and the biological older sister of Sakura Matou.
After the events of the Holy Grail War, she formally joins the Clock Tower and studies under the tutelage of Lord El-Melloi II in the El-Melloi Classroom. She appears in the The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II as a major character. As part of the El-Melloi Classroom, she is one of the many Masters of True Rider in the True and False Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake.
==Profile==
===Background===
Young Rin when she was child.jpg|Rin as a child in Fate/Zero.
Kid Rin framed photo.jpg|Rin before Sakura was sent away, wearing the ribbons she would give her.
Middle schooler Rin.jpg|Rin in middle school, witnessing Shirou's high jump attempt.
Two centuries ago, the Tohsaka House, in collaboration with the estates of Makiri and Einzbern, helped found the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars. The land of Fuyuki City, which possessed the second greatest spiritual power in all Japan, was owned by Rin's ancestor, Nagato Tohsaka; at the behest of the Einzberns, he provided his property as battleground for present and future wars. Nagato was a , as well as a pupil of Zelretch; these titles gave him considerable influence in both the Mage's Association and the Holy Church, allowing the Tohsaka family to participate in the Holy Grail Wars, free from harassment by either organization.
Rin was brought up as the successor to her family's magecraft, and was instructed by her father to prioritize magecraft over her own interests. Ten years ago, Tokiomi Tohsaka was selected as a Master in the 4th Holy Grail War, and Rin was entrusted to take care of the Tohsaka estate until his return. Her mother, Aoi Tohsaka, was left in a debilitated state from the war, so her care was left to her guardian, Kirei Kotomine. After her father was killed, Rin continued to improve her sorcery with some guidance from Kirei Kotomine. She also had a maid working since back when her father was alive, but left when Rin entered middle school, leaving her uniform behind.Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/11 - Streets - Adventures around the maid To divert attention from her private life, Rin has diligently strived to earn the admiration of her peers, even though she is secretly stingy, tomboyish, and a perfectionist. The rights to the Tohsaka lands were inherited by Aoi after Tokiomi's death, and subsequently inherited by Rin after Aoi's death. Kirei managed them as Rin's guardian, and because of his foolhardy and coarse management, the majority of profitable properties ended up in the hands of others. It is possible that he believed the wealth was bad for her upbringing due to following the principles of humility and poverty.
Although Rin resents the sacrifices she has endured for the sake of tradition, she is fiercely competitive and eager to prove herself as a skilled and capable magus. She was immensely disappointed at summoning Archer and ended up in a quarrel with him; however, the duo soon reconciled, set aside their differences and quickly got along.
===Appearance===
Rin is a young woman with aqua eyes and long wavy black hair in a two-side-up hairstyle, which consists of part of her being made into twin tails tied with black ribbons, while the majority hangs loose. During school, she wears the standard Homurahara uniform, which she sometimes accompanies with a long red coat. Her casual clothing consists of a red turtleneck, a black skirt and long black stockings under brown leather flats.
When she was young, she did her hair up in twin tails entirely, and her clothing consisted of a white shirt with a red necktie, a red skirt and long black socks, much like when she becomes older. In the fifth Holy Grail War, she prepared a plain skirt and shirt for Saber, though it was originally a birthday present from Kirei.
As an adult, she put down her hair. Two years after the Heaven's Feel route ending, she wears a long sleeve red shirt and a long maroon skirt. Her alternative costume is a long red jacket, a white polo neck jumper, a black mini skirt and long leather boots.
===Personality===
Rin is a perceptive, serious, resourceful, and very competitive person. Though she is widely admired at school as a prim and proper honor student, it is a front she puts up in order to prevent others from prying into her life. In private, she is notably loud, shrewd, stingy, and bossy but usually means well for those she cares about. She is known as a model student and idol of her school. Her manner of speech is often hostile and dismissive of other people, but deep down she has a caring, big-sisterly disposition. Her tendency of making trivial mistakes at the worst possible moment is a hereditary curse. Though she really is a lot nicer than she seems, she claims to always make her decisions based on cold, rational logic in the end. In her own words, it's "not a very cute personality". In fact, her choice in personal clothes is probably an overreaction to that. Despite claiming that she would do anything in order to win the Holy Grail War, no matter how underhanded, she has a deeply rooted sense of honor, seen refusing to dispose of Shirou despite numerous easy chances of doing so, simply because she owes him and deem disposing of him without clearing her debts to be cheap. In short, Rin is a tough, fiery, perceptive, judicious, mischievous, and considerably aggressive tsundere who shows both sides of the trope. 
During her childhood, she understood the Fourth Holy Grail War about as much as Shirou understands the Fifth, seemingly understanding while not actually comprehending it. She saw her father as a great magus who must be respected and loved, but failed to understand the negative aspect of his personality, the coldheartedness that accompanied such an ideal. If he had lived until Rin could actually understand his personality, it is likely that it would have greatly affected the development of her own personality. It is unknown if she would have opposed such inhumanity and left the path of a magus, or if she would have become a “perfect and coldhearted” magus like her father. Either fate for Rin would have been one far away from happiness. Due to Tokiomi's early and untimely death, she was not aware of the original goal of the Holy Grail War to open a “hole” beyond the World.
For the sake of her deceased father and her family's name, Rin seeks to obtain the Holy Grail, though she has little personal desire for it. Unbeknownst to her sister Sakura, Rin feels guilty and believes that she has abandoned Sakura after she is adopted into the Matou household, so much the guilt was what driven her to revive Shirou, Sakura's target of affection, at the brink of death. While Rin eventually admits that she has always watched Sakura from afar, she never realized how much Sakura suffered under the Matou and fooled herself into thinking Sakura was happy to alleviate her own guilt.
She spent just as much time quarrelling with Shirou as she did cooperating with him. She's a mischievous girl at heart, so she loves teasing serious people such as Shirou. However, Rin did want to kill him when she saw his Gradation Air in his shed, thinking that he lied to her. Although she claimed to be not interested in anyone, the Heaven's Feel scenario revealed that Rin has been attracted to Shirou after witnessing his stubborn attempts to finish a high jump that he had no chance of finishing when they were younger. Rin was very supportive of Shirou's relationship with Saber in the Fate route. In the Unlimited Blade Works, they became aware of their mutual crush and attraction which developed to love. In Heaven's Feel, Rin reveals her attraction to Shirou while giving advice for Sakura and their closeness makes Sakura jealous and resentful of Rin.
Her hobbies include admiring jewels. Although wealthy from her family's magical patents, that were crested by Tokiomi, who developed a magic formula that simplified magic, however it is becoming obsolete making Rin receiving less money than before.Fate/complete material II p.25 She feels somewhat ashamed of having to rely on the work of previous generations.
====Relationships====
;Shirou Emiya
:On the outside, Rin's relationship with Shirou is flippant from being comrades to rivals and vice versa. In the Heaven's Feel scenario, it is revealed that Rin had gained a secret attraction to Shirou after witnessing his stubborn attempts to finish a high jump that no one (not even him) had a chance of finishing when they were younger. In the Unlimited Blade Works (route), they became aware of their mutual attraction which developed into love; especially when they had to team up after Archer's betrayal. At the True End of the route, the two would officially start a romantic relationship and eventually move to London where he becomes her assistant at the Mage's Association. In the Good End of the route, aware of the attention Shirou gives to Saber, Rin keeps Saber as a familiar, and all three become mutual lovers after developing strong relationships with each other over the course of the route.
;Archer
:Rin is initially dissatisfied with Archer since he is not a Saber and he apparently doesn't remember who he is. She is still able to work well with him as a team. They disagree most on Rin's alliance with Shirou and it is only in the manga and Unlimited Blade Works (route) that Rin finds out who Archer is and why he detests Shirou. It is also in this route in which Archer betrays Rin just for a chance to fight Shirou. Rin is initially frustrated with Archer, but comes to care for him as her Servant and promises she will prevent Shirou from suffering a tragic future like Archer. Rin always sheds tears upon Archer's death. In Fate/EXTRA, No Name is familiar with Rin and this complicates his relationship with Rin's look-a-like.
;Kirei Kotomine
:Rin had disliked and felt distrust towards Kotomine since childhood. Under his care and tutelage, Rin had to rely on Kotomine for guidance and seemed to accept him enough to learn bajiquan from him. However, she continued to resent Kotomine and always suspected him of doing bad things. She was also one of the few people to know that Kotomine was far more resilient that many people expected, which is why she did not believe Caster had successfully killed him in the Unlimited Blade Works (route). In that same route, Rin also discovers that Kotomine was her father's murderer and her hatred for him increased.
;Sakura Matou
:Rin is Sakura's older sister, but the two were forced to live apart by their father, Tokiomi. Rin once had a good relationship with Sakura prior to their separation, evident by a ribbon Sakura always keep. Rin later convinced herself that Sakura was living a happier life with the Matou family than she was living as the Tohsaka family heir, and this delusion blinded her to the knowledge that Sakura was only barely keeping her own sanity in check due to constant suffering. Rin went as far as to try to preserve Shirou's life for what she thought was entirely Sakura's sake. Rin had also decided that she would kill Sakura in the events of the Holy Grail War if it came down to it. However, ultimately, she could not bring herself to do it and took the blow without harming her.
;Saber
:Rin had wanted a Saber-class Servant but got Archer instead. Her first meeting with Saber involves nearly getting killed by her while simultaneously becoming stunned by her beauty. Rin generally gets along with Saber in most instances, and they share nearly the same concern for Shirou's reckless selflessness. Rin also enjoys teasing Saber, particularly when it comes to Shirou. In Unlimited Blade Works, she forms a contract with Saber to become her Master in a shared desire to save Shirou. In the Sunny Day ending of the route, she makes Saber into her familiar following the destruction of the Grail, and they live together with Shirou.
==Role==
===Fate/Zero===
Rin appears as a minor character in Fate/Zero. She first appeared when Kariya Matou visited her and her mother Aoi. During Kariya and Aoi's conversation, it is revealed that Sakura was sent to the Matou family, an incident which deeply upset Rin and she avoids speaking of it. Shortly before the war begins, Rin's father Tokiomi acquires Kirei Kotomine as a student. Despite her father's confidence in his abilities, Rin is wary of Kotomine, going so far as questioning him to determine if she can trust him to protect her father, and decides she just can't like people like him when he doesn't give her the response she wants to hear. Ironically, Kirei would be the one to murder her father later on.
Throughout the Fourth Grail War, Rin and Aoi reside with Rin's maternal grandparents outside of Fuyuki City for their own personal safety. When children begin disappearing from Fuyuki City as a result of Ryuunosuke Uryuu and Caster kidnapping them, Rin sets out on her own to find one of the missing children, a girl named Kotone whom Rin was friends with. Using her elementary magic skills and a magical compass from her father, Rin's attempt goes awry and she winds up lost and in danger of being attacked by Caster's monsters. Her mother finds her shortly after Rin is saved by Kariya, though Rin fainted soon after seeing the terrible changes to Kariya's face. The anime expands Rin's short adventure, resulting in her meeting Ryuunosuke Uryuu in person and freeing the children he kidnapped. While escaping, she is attacked by Caster's Horror, though she is saved by Kariya. The incident concludes as it did in the novel, where Rin faints and Kariya brings her to a park where Aoi finds them.Fate/Zero Anime - Episode 10: "Rin's Adventure"
When Tokiomi visits his wife and daughter one last time before the conclusion of the war, he presents Rin with a book, as well as advice and encouragement for her to become a powerful magus. The meeting would be the last time Rin ever saw her father before his death. Prior to his demise, Tokiomi arranges for Kotomine Kirei to become her guardian and teacher until she comes of age.
Rin's final appearance occurs in the epilogue of the series, during the funeral of her father. Thanks to Tokiomi's careful preparations, she has already obtained most of her family's crest and has become the next head of the Tohsaka family despite her young age. Rin shows no visible distress at her father's death, even as she is forced to care for her mother, who suffers from brain damage and still believes that Sakura and Tokiomi are with her, leaving Rin to feel lonely within her own home. Kirei, in hopes of eliciting an unhappy reaction from Rin, gives her the Azoth Sword, telling her that her father had given it to him but omitting that he had used it to kill Tokiomi; to Kotomine's secret delight, Rin is overcome with emotion and weeps.
===Fate/stay night===
Rin-Tohsaka-fate-stay-night.jpg|Rin in the Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works].
Rin checking on Shirou (Ufotable).jpg|Rin checking on Shirou as he lays dying on the floor.
Rin about to use her pendant to heal Shirou.jpg|Rin using her pendant to heal Shirou's damaged heart.
Saber pointing her sword at rin UBW Manga.png|Saber holding Rin at swordpoint.
Saber and Rin UBW Manga.png|Rin admiring Saber.
Rin is the protagonist of the prologue of Fate/stay night, detailing her first three days involved in the 5th Holy Grail War. In her dialogues, she reveals to her Servant Archer that she is only participating in the war out of her own competitive desire to become the winner. She also expresses dissatisfaction with Archer, for she was attempting to summon a Saber-class Servant, though she quickly grows accustomed to him.
After scouting out Fuyuki City, Rin. is caught off-guard at Homurahara Academy by Lancer, who then engages in battle with Archer. This fight is interrupted, however, when Shirou Emiya is discovered and fatally wounded by Lancer; Rin, who felt sympathy for Shirou - and Sakura (in UBW) -, used her family's treasured pendant, which possessed a strong concentration of Mana, to repair his heart. After she returns home, she realizes Lancer will continue to hunt Shirou when he discovers that Shirou is not dead, prompting her to sprint toward Shirou's neighborhood. It is here that she first encountered Saber, and the three Fate/stay night scenarios branch off. In all three scenarios, Rin helps and allies with Shirou.
By the conclusion of the prologue, Rin would have used two Command Spells on Archer; the first is to force him into submission after he acts insubordinately to her after he is summoned. The second is to force him into ethereal form before he is killed by Saber, except for the Unlimited Blade Works path where Shirou uses a Command Spell to stop Saber's attack instead. In all scenarios, her position as protagonist is given to Shirou.
====Fate====
Rin acts as an advisor to Shirou, dutifully attempting to school him in traditional sorcery in light of his powerful Servant, Saber. Although Shirou's recklessness results in the death of Archer, she bears Shirou no ill-will, though she hides bitterness at her loss of both her Servant and her chance at winning the war. Rin is later badly injured by Kotomine in Shirou's home while trying to protect Illya, though she is saved by the arrival of Shirou before giving him the Azoth Sword which she got from Kotomine as a child ten years prior (which he got from Rin's father and used it to murder him in turn with). Ultimately, she survives and ultimately leaves for London after the war to become a true magus (although she stays in Fuyuki to train in the anime).
====Unlimited Blade Works====
Fate-unlimited-blade-works-23.jpg|Rin in the Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works movie.
RIn (UBW Ufotable).jpg|Rin in the Ufotable adaptation.
After learning that Shirou is a complete novice, Rin takes him to Kotomine Church and introduces him to Kirei so that he can have the Holy Grail War explained to him, believing she owed him that much. Upon leaving, they are attacked by Ilya and her Servant, Berserker, forcing both teams to work together. The fight leaves Shirou wounded, and Rin helps Saber get him home, staying to make sure his injuries are healed before making to leave. When Shirou tries to thank her, she reminds him that the Holy Grail War is a fight to the death and the next time they meet, it will be as enemies.
Rin confronts Shirou.jpg|Rin confronting Shirou for not heeding her warning.
Rin uses Reinforcement to jump to a railing.gif|Rin trying to shoot down Shirou.
The next day, Shirou shows up for school as he normally would and angers Rin, who feels he's ignored her warning. While looking for the source of the school's barrier, she comes across Shirou again. She immediately switches her attention, deciding to make good on her threat on sight. Rin launches her assault, relentlessly pursuing Shirou with the intent to kill him unless he surrenders Saber's Command Spells. She is interrupted at the last moment by the sudden appearance of Rider, who attacks a student. Shirou and Rin promptly team up to drive Rider away and call a truce. Forming an alliance, they begin searching for possible candidates for Rider's Master.
Shirou finds himself whisked away to Ryuudou Temple by Caster, who also wishes to take away his Command Spells. Archer interrupts and saves Shirou while Saber confronts Assassin. It is at this moment that Shirou starts to get even more irritated by Archer, who has looked down on his ideals. Archer then attacks Shirou, but is stopped by Saber and Assassin. While they are fighting at Ryuudou Temple, Rin begins to have dreams about Archer and his past as a hero who was betrayed by his ideals. After she finds out about Archer going to the temple to kill Shirou, Rin apologizes to Shirou for Archer's actions and tells him that she used a Command Spell to order Archer to never attack Shirou.
The following day, Shinji Matou reveals himself as Rider's Master when he has her use Blood Fort Andromeda to attack the school and everyone in it. A second Servant attacks at the same time, and Saber is summoned. While she fights the Servant, who turns out to be Caster, Rin and Shirou fight their way through golems to get to Rider and stop her. They arrive only to find she's already been killed, though Shinji runs away without telling them who killed her.
With Rider defeated, Rin and Shirou's focus shifts to uncovering the identity of Caster's Master, suspecting that it has to be someone else from the school. When it seems that it might be a teacher, Souichirou Kuzuki, Rin takes the lead and plans an ambush to reveal his identity as a Master or not. Since Archer had suggested they ally with Caster instead of Shirou, Rin decides to leave him behind and only bring Shirou and Saber, not wanting Archer to be around Caster and thinking Saber would be more than enough to handle the situation. The plan works initially, confirming Kuzuki's role as Caster's Master, but things quickly sour when he and Caster fight back. Nearly overwhelmed by their combined strength, they are saved only by the surprise of Shirou's projection attacks and Kuzuki's call to retreat rather than fight further. In order to make it easier to plan and strategize, Rin comes to stay at Shirou's house.
Gb8Bw76.jpg|Rin on the date with Shirou and Saber.
Rin and Archer jumping off a building (Ufotable).png|Rin and Archer jumping off the building leaving Shirou behind.
In response to a conversation they had the night before that made Rin realize Shirou doesn't do anything for himself and his own enjoyment, Rin takes Shirou on a date packed with fun-filled activities the next day, bringing Saber along. Upon returning home, they find Caster holding Taiga as hostage. When Shirou tries to follow her demands, Caster releases Taiga and strikes Saber with Rule Breaker, transferring Shirou's Command Spells to her. Against her will, Saber is forced to attack Rin and Shirou is stabbed through the shoulder when he tries to protect her. At Saber's urging, Shirou and Rin leave; in the anime, Archer arrives to help them, and with his aid they are able to get away without further incident. With his Command Spells gone, Rin declares that she will fight Kuzuki and Caster with only Archer, despite Shirou's protests.
Shirou follows Rin and witnesses her confronting Kuzuki and Caster in Kotomine Church, their new base of operations. To her shock, Archer suddenly betrays Rin and attacks her. Shirou saves her and, although she is reluctant, she eventually thanks him and accepts his help again. With Archer gone, both decide to ask Ilya and Berserker for their help. Unfortunately, they arrive too late and find that Shinji and Gilgamesh have already killed them. Lancer shows up shortly afterwards, however, with orders to help them take down Caster if they are willing to cooperate together. Out of options, they accept.
Rin beating up Caster (Ufotable).gif|Rin using Kung Fu to hit Caster.
Rin creating a new contract with Saber (Ufotable).gif|Rin establishing a pact with Saber so that she can save Shirou.
They return to the Kotomine Church, where Lancer fights Archer again. Archer admits defeat and retreats into the church. Meanwhile, Shirou and Rin team up to fight Kuzuki and Caster, ending in a stalemate until Rin turns the tables, attacking Caster not with magecraft but Martial Arts, and nearly killing her. Kuzuki prevents her from delivering the final blow, and Caster tries to use a spell to completely dominate Saber and send her against Shirou and Rin. But before she can, Archer arrives and attacks Kuzuki, killing Caster when she takes the strike for him.
Even with both of them defeated, Archer is still not on their side, however, and he reveals his true motives and intent to kill Shirou. Rin makes a new contract with Saber, thereby making her Saber's Master, to stop him. Archer then kidnaps Rin and takes her as a hostage to Einzbern Castle. There, Shinji tries to rape her, despite her warnings that he is just being manipulated. Further, Kirei arrives and reveals his plot to kill Rin and turn her body into the vessel for the Lesser Grail, finally revealing to Rin's fury that he murdered her father as well. She is ultimately rescued by Lancer, who kills Kirei and drives off Shinji before dying himself.
Rin makes her way out of the basement and to the upper hall of the castle just in time to see the conclusion of Archer and Shirou's fight. Moments later, Gilgamesh appears and attempts to kill Shirou and Archer both. Archer saves Shirou by pushing him out of the way, falling under the full assault of Gilgamesh's attack and disappearing before Rin's eyes, much to her grief. Gilgamesh reveals the true nature of the Grail to her, Shirou, and Saber, along with his plans to use it to eradicate mankind.
File:Rin struggling to escape with Shinji.jpg|Rin struggling to escape with Shinji.
File:Rin using her last Command Seal on Saber.jpg|Rin using her last Command Seal on Saber.
Shirou, Rin and Saber go back to the Emiya household to make a plan to stop Gilgamesh and deal with the Grail. After giving Shirou enough mana to access his Reality Marble, they set out and reach Gilgamesh's new hideout, Ryuudou Temple. Rin saves Shinji, who had been used as the Grail's core, fighting off its manifested curses and attempts to pull him back in, even as it tried to swallow them in a mass of flesh. Upon escaping, Rin uses her final Command Spell to order Saber to destroy the Grail.
Meanwhile, Shirou successfully defeats Gilgamesh. However, Gilgamesh tries one last time to make him the new incarnation of the Holy Grail. Fortunately, Archer, who also appeared to help Rin at the same time, comes to Shirou's aid. Rin bids her Servant goodbye as Archer tells her to take care of his younger self, hoping that her care for Shirou will change the future and grant his wish to save Shirou from his ideals. In the end, Rin finally sees Archer with a genuine smile, the same one as Shirou's.
In Rin's True Ending, she heads off to the Mage's Association after she graduates, and asks Shirou if he would be willing to travel with her to London as her apprentice so they can stay together and she can watch over him, though they both know he would say yes. Its also established in this ending that they have officially entered into a romantic relationship following the end of the 5th Grail War.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - True End: Brilliant Years
In Rin's Good Ending, she keeps Saber as her Servant, and Rin and Shirou live a normal happy life as a couple. Rin is the Winner of the 5th Grail War in this route.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Good End: Sunny Day
====Heaven's Feel====
Rin using the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch (Ufotable).gif|Rin using Zelretch to destroy Sakura's shadow Giants.
Hf53iz0.jpg|Rin embracing Sakura
In the "Heaven's Feel" scenario, Rin reveals to Shirou that Sakura is actually her biological sister who was adopted into the Matou family. Despite her cold words that Sakura must be killed to prevent the Shadow inside her from killing more people, Rin is actually reluctant to kill her sister. In the climax of the route, Rin uses the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to fight Sakura; during the fight, the sisters are finally able to admit how they truly feel towards one another. Though Rin is stabbed, Sakura realizes her sister's love for her and manages to regain control of herself long enough for Shirou to trace Rule Breaker and free her from the Shadow's control.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 16: FINAL The sisters reconcile in both the Normal and True Ending.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Normal End: Cherry Blossoms' DreamFate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - True End: Return to the spring
===Fate/hollow ataraxia===
In the beginning of the game, Rin is away to London to appear before the Mage's Association in a court hearing, for her experiments with Second Magic in the Einzbern Castle.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Other - A moment in the morning She asked Archer to 'guard' the city in her place.
After Sakura sends a letter to Rin (in which Shirou also asked for Rin's help inside),Fate/hollow ataraxia - Night - Airmail she suddenly returns to Fuyuki. She is the first person that helps Shirou with his suspicion of the 4-day loop.
In the final loop, she and Archer fight together in the Fuyuki bridge to stop the horde of shadows from reaching Shirou/Avenger.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Last Interlude - Broad Bridge
In her Eclipse scenario, Beginners, Rin invites Shirou into her home to escape the rain. As they are both alone in an empty house, they decide to have sex. Rin establishes "rules" to control the safety of their intercourse, but clearly uncomfortable, the mood quickly gets off to a sour start. But Shirou, learning from their previous failures where he got too rough or carried away, becomes determined to make this a pleasant experience for her. Rin's response to the foreplay is immediately positive, with Shirou taking his time to get her into it.
His tenderness eventually breaks past her barriers, and uncovers the misplaced fears Rin had that made her too nervous and tense to enjoy their sex in the past. This results in a heart-to-heart that only brings them closer, the mood dramatically improved as they move onto making love. Enjoying it like never before, Rin becomes mushy, confessing her love to Shirou again and again whilst breaking all of her own rules. Upon breaking the last one - the most important one - Shirou fears unwanted conception and Rin's anger turned at him, but is surprised by a fully positive and loving reaction from her. No longer caring about anything else from then on, the happy couple embrace each other, sleeping side by side until the morning. Shirou wakes Rin with affectionate kisses, which she returns, before dashing off to make breakfast and hoping to share more tranquil mornings like these together in their future.Fate/hollow ataraxia - Eclipse - Beginners
This side story is implied to take place after Rin's True Ending.
===The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II===
Rin is around 20 years old in The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II and now a full-time student of the Clock Tower. Shirou came to London with her.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Interlude 
With former troublemakers Svin and Flat being separated after Svin's graduation, Rin has become the new cause of chaos in the El-Melloi Classroom. In addition to Lord El-Melloi II's Modern Magecraft classes, Rin also takes classes in the Mineralogy department. 
====The Man Who Devoured God====
Rin The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II.jpg|The Consultant revealing herself.
Rin and Waver tea time.jpg|Rin having tea with her professor.
Rin traveled to Singapore for her summer vacation away from the Clock Tower. While in Singapore Rin used magecraft to find the locations of sunken ships, rallied crews to salvage the ships, and then sold what she found. While doing this she came across Ergo drifting in the ocean and called for Lord El-Melloi II to come meet him.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 1
Lord El-Melloi II made sure to keep his apprentice Gray out of the classroom whenever Rin had a class, and so until this meeting in Singapore the two had never met. Rin knew about Gray, and mistakenly thought that Lord El-Melloi II or Gray had something against her when Gray kept avoiding her. When they meet, Rin freezes after getting a look at her due to her resemblance to Saber.
Rin's pirate crew is actually comprised of orphan children. Upon seeing how she has taken them in, Lord El-Melloi II comments on how Shirou is rubbing off on her. When he asks if they are in a relationship Rin is flustered and denies it with "O-of course not! Give me a break!"The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 2 Part 2
====The Devil of the Wandering Sea====
ElMelloi festival.png|Rin, Ergo, El-Melloi II, and Gray at a festival.
Ergo Rin Tokyo.png|Ergo and Rin in Tokyo.
Pseudo-Edelsteine.jpeg|Pseudo-Edelsteine: Fünf Sterne im Umlauf.
The group travels to Tokyo to find a cure for Ergo's condition. While there, Rin and Ergo run into Bai Ruolong from the Wandering Sea.
Rin feels powerless going up against Servant-level enemies like Wuzhiqi and Bai Ruolong, and laments that she wishes she had the Jeweled Sword Zelretch with her. After talking with El-Melloi II, he comes up with a plan for her to get stronger in a short time, but she calls it insane.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 4 Part 3 Together they develop the Pseudo-Edelsteine technique, where Rin uses Projection to create five gems (one of each Element) so that she has five spells prepared to instantly counter an enemy with a spell of the appropriate Element. Because the Projected gems need to only last for a few seconds, the Magical Energy cost is extremely low. The gems need to only serve as catalysts to polarize her Magical Energy toward a certain element. Rin also reveals that she has developed her own version of Rho Aias, though it costs a year's worth of her savings to use.
====Legacy of the Alchemist====
Adv5 Luvia Rin Sion.jpg|Luvia, Sion, and Rin in the Library of Alexandria.
Rin El-Melloi vol4.png|Rin on a train in Egypt.
In Egypt, Rin and Ergo are confronted by Sion Eltnam Sokaris who captures Ergo and uses the god Set inside of him to access the Library of Alexandria.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 4: Legacy of the Alchemist (Upper) - Chapter 3 Rin follows them, and the three run into Luviagelita Edelfelt who snuck into the library on her own to plunder it.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 4: Legacy of the Alchemist (Upper) - Intermission Rin and Luvia fight Karmaglyph Meluastea Deluc, the Lord of the Department of Mineralogy in which they are both students.
====Fem's Casa====
Rin vs Bear mage.jpg|Rin facing a Morte mafia magus turned bear in combat.
Royal Circuit.jpg|Rin and Luvia using Royal Circuit while fighting against a Hydra.
In Monaco, El-Melloi II's party learns that Shirou recently won a gambling game against the casino owner Van-Fem but left without taking his prize. Van-Fem refuses to let a winner go without their rewards, and in his men's search for Shirou they learned that he had been kidnapped. El-Melloi II tasks Rin and Luvia with looking for him.
While searching Monaco Rin and Luvia encounter Bai Ruolong, who had been sent by Ziz to kidnap Shirou and learn the secret to beating Van-Fem. However Ruo wasn't the one who took Shirou, as the Morte mafia got to him first as he is suspected of killing some of their men.
===Fate/strange Fake===
FSF anime El-Melloi photos.png|Rin's photo in the Fate/strange Fake anime.
FSF Rin and Luvia.png|22-year-old Rin and Luvia in Fate/strange Fake.
FSF El-melloi Class.png|The El-Melloi classroom assembles.
Rin is first mentioned by Lord-El Melloi II and Flat Escardos when discussing where Flat learned the incantation for Heroic Spirit Summoning.Fate/strange Fake Volume 3, Chapter 7: "The Canon of the Demigods" Later, Gray wonders if she couldn't help Lord El-Melloi II in helping Flat survive the True and False Holy Grail Wars. El-Melloi II rejects Gray's suggestion, and says that Rin might storm off to America herself if she is told.Fate/strange Fake Volume 5, Bridge Chapter: "Rondo of the Outsiders"
Rin battled Doris Lusendra for the right to control the Rider-class Servant Hippolyta in the True and False Holy Grail Wars. After she won, the Command Spells passed to Verner Caesarmund, one of her classmates in the El-Melloi Classroom.Fate/strange Fake Volume 8 - Bridge Chapter: "Puddle" Verner then used his Papilio Magia magecraft to spread the Command Spells among all their classmates, making Rin and roughly thirty of her fellow students of Lord El-Melloi II all shared Masters for Hippolyta. Rin and the rest of the class then traveled to Snowfield after the death of Flat Escardos and the emergence of Thia Escardos.Fate/strange Fake Volume 7 - Bridge Chapter: "Beginning of the End"
===Dismantling the Greater Grail===
Ten years after the end of Fifth Holy Grail War, Lord El-Melloi II arrived in Fuyuki and together with the head of the Tohsaka family, Tohsaka Rin, set out to completely take apart the Great Grail.Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order, ACT-3: Second Owner The Association was planning on bringing back the Great Grail, so the two sides were completely opposed. After the end of the great turmoil of the same magnitude as the Grail War, the Great Grail was completely dismantled and the Grail Wars of Fuyuki came to a complete conclusion.
===Fate/unlimited codes===
RinUCopening.jpg|Opening.
RinUCending.jpg|Ending.
ArcherUCending.jpg|Archer's Ending.
LuviagelitaUCending.jpg|Luviagelita's Ending.
She is given the title in Fate/unlimited codes.
===Fate/tiger colosseum series===
RinTCending1.jpg|Rin's Ending.
RinTCending2.jpg|Rin's Upper Ending.
Kaleido-RubyTCending.jpg|Kaleido Ruby's Ending.
SakuraTCupperending.jpg|Sakura's Upper Ending.
AssassinTCending.jpg|Assassin's Ending.
In Fate/tiger colosseum Upper, Rin can transform into and she is part of a group called .
===Fate/EXTRA series===
In the Fate/EXTRA world, Rin shares the name as the Rin Tohsaka that appears in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War. They are different people but they are relatives part of the same lineage. Presumably, Rin is the relative with the face obscured who played with the other Rin when she was a child.
Due to Moon Cell fluctuations in Fate/EXTRA CCC, Rin and Archer appear as an optional boss. Her codecast skills are:
* - Causes magic damage and stun status.
* -
* - Causes magic damage.
===Carnival Phantasm===
Rin has an active role in Carnival Phantasm due to being one of the heroines of Fate. Her tsundere personality is comically exaggerated and she seems to be obsessed with winning and having more money than she already has. She is also hopeless with electronics to ridiculous lengths. Her alter-ego is the magical girl Kaleido Ruby.
===Today's Menu for Emiya Family===
Rin makes frequent appearances in Today's Menu for Emiya Family, and occasionally cooks the food featured in an episode. Rin's romantic relationship with Shirou is occasionally noted, as seen in Episode 7.Today's Menu for Emiya Family Anime Episode 7: "Refreshing and Easy to Eat Chilled Ochazuke"
===All Around Type-Moon===
Rin appears in the manga series All Around Type-Moon. In one chapter, her inability to handle electronics leads her to accidentally summon Nero Claudius directly from the Moon Cell. Later on in the chapter, she also accidentally summons several more characters.
===Other appearances===
She appears in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA, as a major character. Her counterpart recruits Illya for help.
A parallel world version of TYPE-MOON might tell Rin's story in London. In the Apocrypha timeline, the Tohsaka gave up on the Greater Grail. Rin end up becoming the founder of a "completely new martial arts that combines magecraft and Chinese Kenpou" by the time she becomes a high school student.
Great Luvia vs Dynamite Rin 01.jpg|Dynamite Rin tackling Great Luvia.
Great Luvia vs Dynamite Rin 02.jpg|Dynamite Rin kicked by Great Luvia.
Great Luvia vs Dynamite Rin 03.jpg|Both fighters drop kicking and knocking out Referee Matou.
In Type-Moon's April Fools' Day 2008, she is a super heavyweight wrestler star known as the in the . She is the boss of the Fate Wrestling Federation and the leader of the IWGP tag team. Rin is a talented woman who leads a western-style puroresu group. After learning fighting techniques and management at GGG. Rin furthered her knowledge in the field. Rin tends to favor strikes instead of throws. While she is skilled, Rin prefers to turn the fights into a simple match of power vs power, turning the spectacle into a royal road of proresu. As someone who knows how to work the crowd with microphone performances. Dynamite Rin represents the best qualities of proresu. Her fight with Great Luvia came to a draw as the Referee Shinji Matou was knocked out by the two fighters powerful drop kicks.
Rin makes an appearance in Fate/Grand Order as a Craft Essence card. She appears as the illustration cover for and , and .
====Non in-universe appearances====
DG Rin 1.png| as she appeared in Collaboration.
DG Rin 2.png| as she appeared in Collaboration.
DG Rin 3.png| as she appeared in Collaboration.
DG 着物姿の魔術師：遠坂凛.jpg| as she appeared in Collaboration.
==Abilities==
Rin was born capable of manipulating all five great Elements, an extremely rare trait for a Magus. Her potential is such that she will eventually be considered as one of the top one hundred ranking magi throughout the entire history of the Mage's Association. Compared using simple numbers, someone with an abnormally high potential like Ciel is at one hundred, someone who is eternally at apprentice-level like Shirou is at ten, and Rin falls from seventy to one hundred.
As the successor to the Tohsaka family, Rin excels in Conversion of power, which includes storage of Magical Energy in objects, typically jewels for Jewel Magecraft, as they are easy targets to transfer Magical Energy into due to being 'places' that easily store people's thoughts. Additionally, crystals that have been in the ground for a long time carry strong Nature Spirits. She uses them as disposable, limited-function Mystic Codes.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 7: Sword & Magic (I) - Lectures on magic by Tohsaka-Sensei. What a Magic Crest is.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 7: Ghostwaltz - Tohsaka Rin (IV)Fate/stay night Prologue - Day 1 Because the amount of Magical Energy a Magus can release at one time is restricted by bodily limitations, giving them unused excess of Magical Energy at the end of the day, Rin has been able to accumulate all of the Magical Energy generated by her body during her seventeen years of lifetime through jewel crystallization, using a syringe to draw out her blood and drip it onto jewels to accomplish the process. As with practicing of magecraft, charging these jewels has become a daily process for her turning them into powerful bullets. However, in the end, they are merely disposable items. Because their magecraft reduces expensive jewels to ash after a single use, the Tohsaka Magi are fated to be chronically afflicted with a lack of funds. When Rin's stored power is needed, she can utilize the jewels for an instantaneous release of A-rank magecraft capable of countering a spell from Caster's magecraft from the Age of Gods,Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 14: knight stay night - Rin's clever attack or taking one of Berserker's lives by using five jewels.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 11: DragonSlay - Twelve Labors Their speed of release is great enough that it can match Caster's High-Speed Divine Words. 
When she gets older, Rin is able to take advantage of her Average One status and Jewel Magecraft to be able to imitate Flat Escardos's magical hacking using a giant pentagram with jewels at each end: being an Average One means that, unless her opponent had one of the rare, weird Elements, Rin would be elementally compatible with anything a Magus could have. She has the ideal talent for magecraft hacking, even though she doesn’t have any reliable way to read the opponent’s wavelength and formula yet and needs Lord El-Melloi II to assist her in finding the enemy's data on the Luxcarta.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 4 Part 2 She further evolves as a "counter-based fighter" when she devises the counter-spell with Lord El-Melloi II's help. She can also use small statues of amethyst in form of as familiars for reconnaissance purposes.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 11: WitchCraft - Interlude 11-2: Witch's plan
Gandr shot 1.jpg|Gandr as depicted in the original game.
Gandr shot 2.jpg|Idem.
Gandr (Anime).gif|Rin firing Gandr in the anime adaptation.
FGO Gandr.png| in Fate/Grand Order.
Her most common offensive spell is a Finnish technique known as , which concentrates Magical Energy into Rin's forefinger, resulting in a hazy black orb to be subsequently fired like a bullet. Originally intended to be a Curse, Rin's variation on Gandr takes on an unusual, corporeal form. Additionally, Rin has bypassed any need for a verbal component to initiate this spell due to having inherited and infused Magic Crest of her family, and she can fire as many Gandr shots in an instant, even set up a barrier and rain them on an opponent if she so chooses. Since Rin's Gandr Shot was particularly violent, capable of punching through and disintegrating a large portion of a concrete wall with just a single shot, it could be considered on the level of Finn Shot, or Finn Gatling Gun.
Rin using reinforcement to enhance her legs.gif|Rin using Reinforcement magecraft to enhance her legs to get away from Lancer.
Rin uses Reinforcement to jump to a railing.gif|Rin using reinforcement to jump to a railing while chasing Shirou.
Rin knows the "popular spells", being able to make a Bounded Field the size of a classroom. Rin is also proficient with Reinforcement magecraft, allowing her to strengthen her legs so much that she can run over one hundred meters in less than seven seconds, fast enough to be perceived as a blur to a regular human. She is also able to use it on herself for a few seconds to deal critical damage to even a Servant like Medea with physical blows in a situation where Rin has her off-guard. She can also make use of one of her jewels for a large amount of protection, and by placing it on her stomach to form a protective cover, she can even last a long duration of time being crushed in Berserker's grip.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 12: Interval Level4 - So, it's strong With two gems protecting her, she can wade through the Mud of the Grail and wading through a lake of fire would be no problem.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 16: EDEN - Gift She can also use Healing Magecraft to a degree, curing a girl who had her Life Force drained by Rider,Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 5: Bonnie And Clyde - Hanging Death healing Shirou's dead nerves,Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 12: moonlight (II) - Warm dinnertime and treating her own wound sustained from Kirei,Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 15: Utopia - Return home but unable to heal the wound made from Saber running Shirou through.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 11: WitchCraft - Withdrawal She can also repair Shirou's broken window, hide her presence, and has knowledge of runes.
Rin beating up Caster (Ufotable).gif|Rin defeating Caster.
Rin vs Luvia.gif|Rin using her martial arts against Luvia Edelfelt.
Luvia vs Rin.gif|Idem.
Rin practices pseudo-karate as a form of self-defense. Her instructor in martial arts is Kirei, and his teaching was responsible for the sequence of moves she used to corner Caster. Thanks to her combat expertise, she is able to do things like sneak up on Gray despite her enhanced sensesThe Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 1 Part 2 and throws a punch in 0.2 seconds that might have fractured Shirou's cheekbone. As she gets older, Rin also mixes her martial arts with her use of magecraft, with each and every of her movement having a purpose in adjusting the flow of Od inside her and preparatory steps for an explosive drive on her joints and muscles. And in the alternate World of Fate/Apocrypha, she invents a style of martial arts that combines magecraft and Chinese Kenpou.
While statistically superior to Kirei Kotomine, he would win eighty percent of the time by psychologically exploiting her past traumas to keep her from fighting at her full potential. Even without such knowledge, Kirei would still have a substantial combat advantage over Rin due to possessing over ten years of experience as a professional killer of Magi. If Bazett Fraga McRemitz had been able to participate in the war, she would have ended up being a threat to Rin.
===List of spells and incantations===
Minuten vor Schweisen.gif|Rin's glass repairing spell.
Crest transfer.jpg|Rin transferring part of her Crest to Shirou.
Despite being Japanese, all of Rin's incantations are recited in German, because the first head of the family, Nagato Tohsaka, was a pupil of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, hence why the family still uses German today. When‌ ‌Rin‌ ‌uses‌ ‌Jewel‌ Magecraft,‌ ‌she‌ ‌uses‌ ‌incantations‌ ‌to‌ ‌designate‌ ‌the‌ ‌gemstone‌ ‌and‌ ‌effect‌ ‌to‌ ‌be‌ ‌activated.‌
*Abzug Bedienung Mittelstand: To eliminate Bounded Fields, notably Blood Fort Andromeda.
*Acht: Used with a jewel to block Caster's plague wind.
*: Flips open Rin's Magic Circuits.
*: Healing spell.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 1 Part 3
*: Rin deploys jewels around her, and simultaneously with her declaring "Anfang" Magical Energy of multiple attributes appears in the space between the gems. The light continuously reflects inside the gems, expanding their Magical Energy. Magical Energy of multiple attributes then shoots forward as several beams. It first appeared as her super move in Fate/unlimited codes, and is Summer Ishtar's Buster attack in Fate/Grand Order.
*. , : Creates a soundproofed Bounded Field.
* (! !): When forming a contract with Magical Ruby to become Magical Girl Kaleido-Ruby.Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/09 - Streets - Mimic Rin/Tohsaka Lvl 3
* / : Summons chains of darkness.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 2 Part 1
*: Used in conjunction with a topaz to blow up Dragon Tooth Warriors in an explosion of blinding white light.
*Eins, zwei, RandVerschwinden: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.
*Es befiehlt. Mein Atem schließt: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.
*Es erzählt Mein Schatten, nimmt sie: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.
*: Lightens her body, even to the point of being light as a feather, and adjust gravity. Can be shortened to Es ist groß. In the anime adaptation, it is shown to also apply Reinforcement to her legs.
*Es läßt frei. Eilesalve: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.
*Es läßt frei. Werkzeug: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 16: FINAL - Interlude 16-3: Gem Sword Zeltretch
*, : Fires Gandr shots without pause over a wide range, like a machine gun.Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 5: Bonnie And Clyde - Panic sonic roller coaster
*Fünf, Drei, Vier. : She unleashes a barrage of jewels (Jewels 5, 3, and 4, as well as a fourth one in synergy) to penetrate Caster's Magical Energy.
* ( / / , / ): The magecraft Rin perfected under Lord El-Melloi II’s tutelage. Taking the form of five floating jewels disposed in the shape of a pentagram, this technique, taking advantage of Rin's Average One nature, allows her to rapidly and casually cast spells attuned to particular Elemental Affinities, initiating magecraft pre-deployed in the jewels in response to enemy spells and ensuring her attack will always have the upper hand in any compatibility interaction.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 4 It is essentially a trick to fight and defeat opponents beyond her league, making her capable of contending against spells with superior Magical Energy through Advantage, and equivalent in standing to the sort of spells a Brand could cast. Normally, being a dedicated counter-based fighter in the World of Magecraft doesn't work for two reasons, namely options being limited by Elemental Affinities and, even as an Average One, having not enough time to analyze a spell a devise a counter-spell in the time it takes to cast it. By casting her spell through Pseudo-Edelsteine (although she doesn't need to always cast Pseudo-Edelsteine first), Rin solves that issue by making its circle of temporary gemstones double as both telescope and laser cannon, with the five elemental jewels all preloaded with Rin's spells, so all she needs to do after figuring out what she's against is to quickly swap the lens and pass the metaphorical "light" (Magical Energy) through it. Basically, analyze the enemy's move through the viewing lens, pick an already active option, and respond immediately. The weakness of Fünf Sterne im Umlauf is that, while it is practically invincible against constructed magecraft that will eventually dissipate into the World, it is powerless against real phenomena connected to the world, for example Shirou's permanent Projections, the El-Melloi's Volumen Hydragyrum, or just someone running at her with physical force. Rin's mobility is also limited while using it.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 5: Legacy of the Alchemist (Lower) - Chapter 5
*Gebühr, zweihaunder: Using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch to cast powerful attacks of light able to cut down Dark Sakura's Shadow Giants.
*Gewicht, um zu Verdoppel ung: Used in conjunction with obsidians stones to make silver lights come down from the sky.
*Gib dem wandernden Vogel das Trinkwasser, der vom langen Weg kommt. / Benutz den Vogelrahmen, in dem der Schlüssel nicht angewendet wird. / Ich spinne den Regenbogen in neuem selbst. / Heites Wetter, Regen, Wind, Schnee, Krieg, Ende, ununterbrochen.: Incantation used to transplant part of her Magic Crest to Shirou Emiya.Fate/stay night Réalta Nua - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 15: After image - Memories in the Ocean
*: Uses emeralds to summon a powerful storm.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 4 Part 3
*: Three-Count spell to continuously fire Gandr shots.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 1: The Man Who Devoured God - Chapter 2 Part 4
*: To repair glass. After reciting the spell, she cuts the tip of her finger and puts a drop of her blood onto the glass.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 3: long day, long night - Tohsaka Rin (II)
*: Used on Bai Ruolong but nullify by his Magic Resistance. This spell is made especially to counter the mages hunting Ergo down. Rin had used her favorite jewels: a sapphire that used thorns to extract the Magical Energy inside Magi, and a ruby that used the Magical Energy extracted into a binding spell. Combined, they should have been able to neutralize enemies much stronger than herself.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 2 Part 4
*Neun, Acht, Sieben. Stil, schießt Beschießen, Erschießung: Ice spell, creating three giant icicles shaped like spears with enough Magical Energy concentrated in them to blow away a whole mansion, and able to freeze one of Berserker's arms.
*Open it, Schweirnog. To the place I desire, the way I desire. Here we go, Sesam, offne dich: Used to open Zelretch's Treasure Chest using Magical Ruby.
*: Pseudo-Edelsteine is a new spell developed by Rin years after the Fifth Holy Grail War. It applies Projection Magecraft to create short-lived gemstones lasting a few seconds expended as catalysts for the purpose of polarizing her Magical Energy quickly. If the jewels are going to be spent immediately, they only need to last a second, and they can be composed with one hundredth of Rin's magical energy if they don't need to last: the result is that that she can rapidly cast spells without having to burn through actual precious jewels.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 4
** / / : Used to cast a wind drill spell through Pseudo-Edelsteine.
** / / : Used to cast a lightning rod spell through Pseudo-Edelsteine.
* / : Divides a Gandr bullet into multiple colored ones.
*Rho Aias ( / ;　 ; / ; ): After the Holy Grail War, Rin has devised an imitation of the Noble Phantasm Rho Aias. With a six-verse incantation, it takes the form of a flower with five petals, instead of the seven petals, though it could more appropriately called a canopy than a shield. It's a defensive spell Rin holds in reserve, as it makes use of a year's worth of her savings.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 3: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Lower) - Chapter 6
*Royal Circuit: A spell Rin can use in tandem with Luvia, similar to the magecraft the latter uses with her sister or the magecraft of the Pentel twins. They both cast three jewels into a shared magic circle, turning them into magical energy supplies for each other. By making their gems into external Magic Circuits for each other, hence the name, the two can perfectly analyze each other's spells and choose a spell that adds to what the other built up or covers up the previous composition's shortcomings. In short, power multiplied by positive synergy.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 8: Fem's Casa (Lower) - Chapter 5
* / 　 / / Peitsche. / : Formula for Rin's Geis contract with Shirou.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 9: RAIN - Bad End: Geas
*Schließung. Verfahren Drei: To erect her house's Bounded Field.
**In the manga adaptation of the Unlimited Blade Works route, the incantation is slightly modified into .Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works Manga Chapter 1
**Different incantations are used by Shirou Emiya in Fate/hollow ataraxia: Abzug Bedienung Mittelstand to disable it, Anfung Mittelstand to reactivate it.Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/09 - Streets - Cleaning alone
*Sechs. Ein Fluß, ein Halt: An unspecified attack against Caster.
*: Makes rubies explode in powerful explosions, likely as powerful as a rocket-propelled grenade.
*Sieben: Used with a jewel to block Caster's electrical spell.
*Stark Groß zwei: Chanted to nullify one of Caster's spell. In the anime adaptation, it is changed to a spell activating a jewel used as a flashbang to blind Caster.Fate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] - Episode 17: "Dark Sword Bares Its Fangs"
*(I announce to the Command Spell! By the order of the Holy Grail, give the law of obedience to this one, my Servant!): Using one of her Command Spells to force Archer to be obedient.
*Vier Stil Erschießung: Multiple magical attacks with an impact close to that of a high-caliber pistol.Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 3: long day, long night - The Strongest Enemy
*Vierzehn, neun, acht. Drei Schwerter, Synergie, eine Mulde!: Attack spell consisting of superimposed gemstones creating a spiral made of overlapping light. It is said to be the highest amount of power a modern mage could hope for, reaching the realm of forbidden magecraft.
* / / : This spell is Rin's replication of Flat Escardos's magical hacking using her Average One status and Jewel Magecraft. As a result of her unique magecraft affinity, she is elementally compatible with anything a magus could have and thus can interfere with their magecraft, provided she has the assistance of something like Observation Sphere Luxcarta to identify the wavelength and formula of the magecraft. To do so, she needs to it inside a pentacle with her jewels at each of the five points.
*: To have the Jeweled Sword Zelretch self-destruct in an explosion of light powerful enough to destroy Shadow Giants.Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 16: FINAL - Sisters (VII)
===Equipment===
Rin has inherited everything that belonged to her father, including heirloom jewels, jewels inherited from Zelretch, and the wares and knowledge to manage her workshop, the basement of the Tohsaka household. She originally would have had possession of all the commercialized spiritual lands that brought in more money than most Second Owner families elsewhere, but Kirei's mismanagement as her legal guardian has caused the most valuable properties to have been lost to others. She still obtains royalties from magical patents held by the Tohsaka family, "*0,000,000 yen" annually without including additional revenue, so she can be considered relatively wealthy. She obtains jewels for her craft through exclusive channels used by her family, leaving her each day wondering "whether she could've gotten a better price from the buyer if she had just become friends with that lady."
In preparation for the Fifth Holy Grail War, Tokiomi left her a special inheritance in his will that requires her to solve a special puzzle to find and open a box of his effects. The most prominent items are a pendant and the catalyst, having been smashed at some point in time, he had used to summon Gilgamesh.Fate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] - Episode 0: "Prologue" Opening it also causes all the clocks in the household to immediately become set one hour fast as a bit of playfulness as if to say, “if she can’t even notice a slip-up as trivial and close to home as this, it’s too soon for her to fight in the Holy Grail War.”
====Azoth Sword====
====Compass====
Mana Compass (FZ).png|Compass in the Fate/Zero anime.
Mana Compass (FGO).png|Compass in FGO.
When she was younger, Rin was gifted a by her father on her birthday. It looks like an ordinary compass from its shape and structure, but it doesn't point towards the north, instead pointing towards the direction where strong amounts of Magical Energy emanate out instead. She uses it to locate places with high-mana footprints in order to find her disappeared friend Kotone.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 8 Part 4 -105:57:00 Even years later, she still uses it, albeit one she made herself from scratch.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 2 Part 3The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 3
====Jeweled Sword of Zelretch====
====Jewels====
Rin's Jewelcraft1.jpg|Rin's use of her jewels as depicted in the original game.
Rin's Jewelcraft2 (VS Berserker).jpg|Rin using her jewels against Berserker.
Rin jewel prison.gif|Rin using her jewels to imprison Berserker.
Rin jewel shield.gif|Rin making a shield out of her jewels against Illya's bird familiars.
Flashbang gem.gif|One of Rin's jewel used against Shirou.
Ein Körper.gif|Spell: "Ein Körper ist Ein Körper".
Rin jewel block.gif|Rin using her jewels to block Caster's spells.
Rin jewel nullify.gif|Spell: "Sieben".
Rin jewel attacks.gif|Spell: "Fünf, Drei, Vier! Der Riese und brennt das ein Ende!"
Rin jewel flashbang.gif|Spell: "Stark Groß zwei".
Rin lightning emeralds.gif|Rin's emeralds eletrocuting Rider.
Rin other jewel shield.jpg|Rin making another shield to protect her and Shirou.
Jade familiar.jpg|Rin's jade familiar in the anime.
Jade bird familiar.gif|Idem.
Owl familiar.gif|Rin's owl familiar in the Deen UBW movie.
Pseudo-Edelsteine.jpeg|Pseudo-Edelsteine.
Rin buys a variety of jewels, and those she utilizes in combat can reach prices of 500,000 yen each. Those that are made of crystals that are naturally able to easily store mana are made of precious metals and come with a very high price. She usually visits high-class pawn shops in the shopping district's back alleys for old gems that have been released by their former owners.Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/08 - Emiya's - Iris' storehouse As of the beginning of Fate/stay night, her savings consists of twenty jewels containing the energy she has saved for over ten years,Fate/stay night Prologue - Day 3Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 11: DragonSlay - Dawn in the ruinsFate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Day 15: limited. - Gem sword creation each costing ten million yen to create in total. She uses ten during Archer's summoning ritual, and uses the remaining ten during the battles of the three routes. Among the jewels she uses, she is shown using a topaz for a wind spell and to blow up Caster's Dragon Tooth Warriors,Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 7: Ghostwaltz - Command Spell, second time obsidians to create blinding silver lights,Fate/stay night - Unlimited Blade Works route - Day 3: long day, long night - VS Berserker amethyst to make owl familiars and jade to make bird familiars,Fate/stay night- Heaven's Feel route - Day 14: servant eater - FoolishFate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] - Episode 12: "The Final Decision"Fate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] - Episode 22: "Winter Days, A Long Way Home" and a ruby and a sapphire releasing thorny vines to physically and magically restrain an opponent, with the sapphire's vine draining Magical Energy from the target and using it to power the binding spell on the ruby.The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 2: The Devil of the Wandering Sea (Upper) - Chapter 2
====Rin's Pendant====
Rinspendant.png|Rin's Pendant.
Rin using her pendant to repair Shirou's damage heart (Movie).gif|Rin using the pendant to repair Shirou's damaged heart.
 is a powerful, one-of-a-kind jewel pendant left to Rin as part of her inheritance from her father, which she considers to be her father's memento. It is a one hundred year old Tohsaka family heirloom that is the greatest jewel within the household, far stronger than anything else with the equivalent of ten years worth of Rin's Magical Energy. As one of the best artifacts of its class that she believes Tokiomi left to allow her to win the Holy Grail War, Rin decides to utilize it as a last resort, believing anything to be possible with the amount of Magical Energy it possesses. It contains enough Magical Energy to revive a human being on the verge of death, which she uses early in the war to revive Shirou Emiya by restoring his damaged heart. She lacks the skill or ability to perform such a feat on her own, so it requires using the great Magical Energy of the pendant to make up for that. She creates a new heart to use as a substitute, believing the feat exemplary enough to be accepted to the Clock Tower instantly.
After it is drained, it loses much of its weight and only retains a small amount of Magical Energy, less than her ten remaining jewels for battle. She leaves it by Shirou by accident, deciding not to retrieve it because it has no true worth without any remaining magical energy. It is simply an ordinary, expensive jewel like that, even though it has some value to her as a memento. Shirou picks it up after regaining consciousness, keeping it as a memento of his unknown savior. Archer, a future version of Shirou from another timeline, kept the jewel all his life, making it a catalyst that connects him to his summoner. The jewel she holds during the ritual has no worth as a catalyst, but the jewel held by Archer allows for him to be summoned. It is one of the objects materialized with him, allowing him to give her his own pendant after they arrive home with Rin not knowing the difference. The pendant held by Shirou has a small amount of Magical Energy left, not even enough to use a single Reinforcement spell according to him, while the one held by Archer has none.
The connection is never discovered during Fate. Both pendants are revealed during Unlimited Blade Works after Shirou finds Archer's pendant at Rin's house and tells her of the one he kept, allowing for the connection between Shirou and Archer to be deduced due to that there should only be one such pendant in existence. Shirou eventually connects it to Rin during Heaven's Feel when thinking that she is the only person who could have saved him at that time. He brings it with him to the final battle with Sakura, later saving him by allowing Rider to use it as a landmark to locate him.
==Development==
She had the most screen time out of every character in Fate/stay night.
===Creation and Conception===
Kinoko Nasu's original story of Fate, Rin's original archetype was Misaya Reiroukan, she was designed to be a villainess and original master of Lancer in the novel. When Takashi Takeuchi convinced Nasu to change the setting of the story, Rin's role as a villain was eventually changed to one of the selectable heroines of Fate/stay night.
Both Takashi Takeuchi and Kinoko Nasu thought 's voice is too cute and they thought "Should we look for another possibility for Rin's voice? How about making Rin act overly proud with a cute voice? However it could be risky." In the end they dared to make Rin's voice cute.Dengeki Online - Fate/stay night for PS2 interview
Kana Ueda figured out how to play Rin in the anime adaptation when she played the original Fate/stay night game, she understood Rin had to put away her feelings a long time ago. When Kana was recording the radio show for Fate /stay night, Takeuchi made illustrations of Rin on colored paper for her. Even though Kana had been selected for the part, when it came to voicing the character for the real thing, she could not imagine Rin coming out of her voice. For a long time she had this sense of incompatibility. She normally don't feel that sense of incompatibility when she play characters from other works. Kana was half in doubt so she ended up asking Nasu if it was really okay for her to play Rin. He said it was fine, but she wondered if it was all right. Kana also thought maybe she should not say that in front of the scenario writer. While playing Rin in Fate/stay night, several other spinoff and related products. She tries to make her match the pace of the story she is in. There are a lot of very delicate, minor changes. In the Studio Deen adaptation TV series, Rin decided to watch over Shirou and Saber. When they recorded the voices for the PS2 game Realta Nua, Rin was a lot more emotional than she was in the show. Kana has to adjust her acting carefully within that kind of field.
===Reception===
Gen Urobuchi thinks the true heroine of Fate/stay night is Rin because in the Unlimited Blade Works route, it was an equal relationship with a woman who's become stronger than most men is depicted. Rin and Shirou mend each other's weaknesses with their own unique strengths, and he think it makes it a very nice relationship.
In response to what Gen said Nasu stated that "It's true that Rin is different from Saber. Rin is written as a completely different gender. She also has a sort of pride in the fact that she's a beautiful girl. With a girl like that by his side, even an unsociable person like Shirou loses his presence of mind."TYPE-MOON Ace 7 - 10 year Anniversary interview: Nasu Kinoko X Takeuchi Takashi X Urobuchi Gen
Takeuchi commented how impressed he was with how Rin turned out. Stating that the idea of making a villainous character that everybody had a low opinion of into a major heroine was initially largely frowned upon by the staff and it was a huge risk. However, after successfully finishing the game, the character became a success, and was greatly well liked.
 (Voice Actress of Rin) thought of her as a commanding and imperious young girl, like her name implies. Although hidden within that image of a girl who always tries hard is someone who is also childish and playful. Rin has both of these aspects, and she's charming because of it. Kana Ueda has played the role of Rin for such a long time that she really like the Master and Servant pairing of Rin and Archer now. Kana compared herself to Rin, she think she's a little more excitable than Rin, and she make more mistakes. Kana tries not to let it show, but she doesn't mind if you see them because she's a clumsy girl. Personally speaking, she wanted to continue with another story set in the Fate main timeline. She thinks it'd be great if she gets to play Rin again.TYPE-MOON 10th Anniversary Phantasm - p.162-164
*In the Fourth character popularity poll in 2003, Rin was ranked 93rd.
*In the first Popularity polls of Fate/stay night in 2004, Rin was ranked 2nd. Tsuku Rin (Tiger Dojo) was ranked 33rd. Loli Rin was ranked 55th.
*In the second Popularity polls of Fate/stay night in 2006, Rin was ranked 2nd. Kaleidoscope & Magical Ruby was ranked 14th. Zhuge Rin was ranked 40th. Rin Tohsaka of a parallel world is ranked 46th. Hetare Rin was ranked 68th.
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Rin from Fate/stay night was ranked 4th and the third most voted female character. Rin from Fate/Zero was ranked 130th.
==Notes==
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