Rimi Sakihata

Rimi Sakihata (咲畑 梨深, Sakihata Rimi) is a classmate and friend of Takumi Nishijou and Daisuke Misumi at Suimei Academy.
==Appearance==
Rimi is a teenage girl with long, pink-hair with a dark pink hair ribbon at her left side of her head. She wears the same Suimei Academy uniform as the other girls, wearing the bow version instead of the tie version. She has two dark pink eyes. While Rimi is quite cute and good-looking, she does not consider herself as good-looking as some of the other girls like Ayase Kishimoto or Yua Kusunoki, due to low self-esteem. Still, Takumi and Misumi are both attracted to her.
==Personality==
Rimi is shown as a cheerful and kind girl, acting as a friend and support for Takumi. Rimi’s original personality no longer exists, and her current personality is one that was born from a delusion she had when being tortured. She is kind and caring towards Takumi Nishijou and others, although the Takumi she cares about the most is not the delusionary Takumi Nishijou, but the prematurely aging Shogun. Though, in the True Ending she admits that she has fallen in love with the delusionary Takumi Nishijou.
She pretends to be dumb and not understand things, but she actually understands everything and keeps it secret. She also pretends to be cheerful, but that is also just a front and she is really suffering and has low self-esteem, and is not quite as kind and caring as she pretends to be. One of her main motivations is to prevent the delusionary Takumi from awakening, because she wants to protect Shogun and is devoted to him. Her Gigalomaniac powers give her the abilities of mind-reading and mind control, although her mind control can be blocked by Gigalomaniacs such as Takumi. She can also give other Gigalomaniacs delusions. Her mind-reading is more powerful and works on everyone, including fellow Gigalomaniacs. She uses her mind control abilities to become a student at Suimei Academy and friend of Takumi and Misumi, and to convince everyone besides her fellow Gigalomaniacs that she has been a student there and friends with them a long time. Since Takumi is immune to her mind control, she needs to take a more direct approach with him and persuade him through both conversation and her actions, as well as by manipulating others like Daisuke Misumi through mind control. She also constantly uses her psychic mind-reading powers during conversation, sometimes accidentally replying to what the other person was thinking, but thankfully for her, seemingly nobody figures this out.
Despite the warm, caring, somewhat ditzy personality she pretends to have, deep down inside she is actually fairly cold, calculating, and manipulative, in order to achieve her own goals. However, Rimi claims to be Takumi’s genuine friend and that she has always cared for him. She also has a habit of saying “Bishi!” (ビシィッ！, Bishī!), making it her catchphrase (translated as “Ten-hut!” or “Salute!”, which she says while saluting). “Bishi!” is a made-up catchphrase just like “Tutturu~!” and “El Psy Kongroo” are in Steins;Gate, and like those other phrases, it does not actually mean anything. She usually says it when Takumi is not feeling good, to try to cheer him up, and always salutes when saying it.
Rimi generally uses her psychic powers for good, after Ayase Kishimoto attempts suicide and Takumi realboots a flowerbed for her to land on on October 27, 2008/2009, and Ayase is taken to the hospital, Rimi uses her mind control powers on the doctors, nurses, and medics to make sure Ayase is given top-priority treatment, higher priority than all the victims of the Second Melt earthquake that happened the same day.
==DI-Sword==
Rimi's DI-Sword is shaped like the wings of an angel, representing her will to be free and see the blue sky.
==Background==
About six years before the events of ChäoS;HEAd, when Rimi was in elementary, her parents and her were involved in a car crash on their family trip, killing Rimi's parents and leaving her as the sole survivor, although heavily wounded. She apparently saw something that resembled a DI-Sword and was captured by N.O.Z.O.M.I. after she had talked to her doctor about it. 
In a basement at AH Tokyo General Hospital, Rimi was continuously tortured by Gen'ichi Norose to awaken her as a Gigalomaniac and gain a Gigalomaniac sample for Noah II. Not having any other relatives, no one missed her. To escape her pain, she fixated on the lights above her, to paralyse her vision so as to become blind, and time and time again created delusions of new identities that would replace her current self, the new personalities themselves retaining none of her old memories. A year later, when she awakened, Shogun managed to telepathise and synchronise with her which created a blue sky for both of them to see. With newfound determination to see the real sky, she endured the next few months with her current identity and was released when Norose took her sample.
Emaciated, Rimi found Shogun's hospital room right after her release and met Nanami Nishijou just as she was about to leave. Rimi decided to take care of Shogun and be there for him to repay him. To this end, she attempted to talk him out of creating the delusionary Takumi Nishijou to make him survive as long as possible, but he went against her wishes and realbooted Takumi, falling into an 18 month long coma as a result. She slept on his sofa in his room while taking care of him during this time. When he awoke from his coma, she went out of her way to make the life of the delusionary Takumi as pleasant and carefree as possible to hinder him from awakening as a Gigalomaniac, which would have otherwise significantly shortened the time Shogun would have left. She also did this since she pitied Takumi, whose existence was seemingly only conceived to prevent Project Noah from being completed.
==Plot ==
===In ChäoS;HEAd===
:Main article: ChäoS;HEAd NoAH/Plot
When Takumi Nishijou was walking back home one day, he saw a mysterious pink-haired girl at the scene of the third New Gen crime, the Cruc-affixion, in the process of fixing the body to the wall with sharp metal stakes. At that time, she was wearing Suimei Academy’s uniform and appeared to recognize Takumi. She called him by his name and told him she had wanted to see him very much, and Takumi ran away, screaming. A few days later, she appeared at Suimei Academy as a student (the first time Takumi met her and talked to her after seeing her at the crime scene in the anime, but the second in the visual novel, since in the visual novel, she introduces herself to him at his base prior to the first time Takumi saw her at school).
Although Takumi had no memory of her at all, all of the other students recognized her and accepted that she had always been part of the class. She also claimed to be very close friends with Takumi and Daisuke Misumi, the latter agreeing with her story (in the visual novel, this is via a phone conversation with Misumi when Takumi and Rimi are at Takumi’s base, while in the anime, this happens at school in person). Naturally, Takumi was extremely frightened of her, to the extent that he called her the “Demon Girl” (悪魔 女, Akuma Onna). He even believed her to be a literal demon and told that to the police (specifically Detective Yasuji Ban who had Detective Mamoru Suwa with him at the time).
Even though Takumi was afraid of Rimi and thought she was the New Gen killer, he gradually warmed up to her and learned to trust her after she saved him in the Shibuya Crossing when he spaced out and could see nobody but Shogun there, and after a while their friendship became genuine. But then later in the story, she revealed that she was a Gigalomaniac and that she was very close to Shogun and that he was the original Takumi Nishijou, and that Takumi was just a delusion. She and Takumi end up teaming up to defeat Gen'ichi Norose and stop Project Noah from happening.
==Quotes==
* “Bishi!” (ビシィッ！, Bishī!) — Rimi's catchphrase.
* “Well... if you're scared of being alone... I'll stay at your side. So you won't have to be. [...] We'll go to school in the morning... Talk about whatever comes to mind in between classes... Eat together at lunch time... Then at the end of the day, we'll head back home... sometimes stopping by a shop or two on the way back... Then when we do get back, we'll chat for a bit in your room... And then, when we're all tuckered out, we'll say goodbye with a nice wave and a 'See you tomorrow!' [...] I've always wanted to be that person to someone.” — Rimi's promise to Takumi Nishijou.ChäoS;HEAd (visual novel) & ChäoS;HEAd NoAH — Chapter 5
* “...Is that... the sky? That sky... Why is it so blue that it makes me want to cry? [Shogun: Because someone wished for it to be.] I didn't wish for it... [...] Who... are you? [...] How did you come here? This is the inside of my heart. Here... there's never been anything but darkness. The only light... was the spotlight shining down on me. And yet... the moment you arrived, the darkness vanished... and the sky appeared. [...] I've... never seen... the real sky. When this current me was born... the current personality... I had already been locked in a dark room. There was nothing but darkness, both inside and outside my heart. I've never been allowed to leave that place. Just now... I... was trying to die. To make my heart... kill itself. [...] But, since you brought the sky to me... would it be okay... if I carved this scenery into my memories? That way, the next me can envision it... [...] That sky... where is it?” — Rimi to Shogun when he shows her a synchronised delusion of a blue sky.
==Trivia==
* Rimi appears as a Main Character in Chaos;Child Episode 0 and in some flashbacks during the series Episode 10.
* Rimi likes being free and standing soba noodle restaurants, but she dislikes horror movies, sweet food, cockroaches and studying (particularly English).
* Rimi's birthstone is the ruby.
* During her spare time, Rimi likes to look at the sky.
* Rimi appears in 5pb.’s fighting game Phantom Breaker and its enhanced edition Phantom Breaker: Extra as a secret playable character. In order to unlock her, you have to get 15+ stars in battle situation mode using Gaito.The other secret playable character in this game from the Science Adventure Series is Kurisu Makise from Steins;Gate, and a fun challenge for fans of the Science Adventure Series is to get Rimi and Kurisu to fight in the game.
* Rimi has another name in the game files, Kae Hishii (菱井 香絵, Hishii Kae), supposedly her original name in the story. This is likely a placeholder name though.
Minor spoiler for Steins;Gate 0:
* Rimi was referenced in Episode 15 of the Steins;Gate 0 anime as a plushie.
Minor spoiler for Anonymous;Code:
*During Anonymous;Code Chapter 10 an anonymous message appears in @channel "Wow! It's just like Gigalomania. Hahaha!" This message was probably sent by Rimi herself.
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===Etymology===
*The name Rimi means “pear tree” (梨, ri) and “deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen” (深, mi).梨深 - Jisho.org
*Rimi's surname Sakihata means “blossom, bloom” (咲, saki) and “farm, field, garden, one's speciality” (畑, hata).咲畑 - Jisho.org
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