Rinne Ohara

* Visual novel
* Anime

**Rinne Ohara** (御原 凛音, *Ohara Rinne*) is one of the daughters of the three wealthiest families and a recluse who lives a nocturnal lifestyle that she goes out of the house only at night. While blunt and curt to a fault, she romantically considers herself a "princess." Five years ago, she was taken away by spirits, and she has never told anyone.

## Appearance

Rinne is a teen girl with white hair, tinted a pale lilac color. She wears a a sailor hat and a blue white hoodie. she has pale amber eyes. She greatly ressembles her mother, Kuon.

## Personality

Rinne is a bit of a recluse, and lives a nocturnal lifestyle. She's stubborn. She pays particularly close attention to other people's ages.
Not much else is known about her: she remains a mystery even to her fellow islanders. She also is quite positive and shows a more childlike side over time. She especially is more natural around Setsuna, easily showing her emotions from anger to affection.

## Story

### Pre-Island

When Rinne was 18 years old, she had a fight with her father as he pushed away the current timeline Setsuna. Rinne and the first Setsuna were drowning and somehow were dragged on a mysterious island. The first Setsuna would later be found as a dead corpse. It would later be revealed that the first Setsuna sealed Rinne inside another time capsule for five years as he died from starvation, happy that he had saved her. The first Setsuna and Rinne's first love was in fact the son of Norimasa and the original Kuon, and was rejected by his family because they wanted a daughter to continue the lineage. He also had soot blight syndrome.

### First Island

Rinne met Setsuna at night and hired him as her waiter when she learned that he was a time traveler. Rinne also believed herself as a time traveler and had lost her memories a very important person.

She believed that she had Soot Blight Syndrome and refused to go outside during the day, which was false as her mother knew the truth, because none of her parents had it. But later, with the efforts of Sara and Karen, she was finally able to leave the house during the day, although she still carried a parasol with her just in case.

However, she later realized that she had her first and strong love of her first Setsuna after she regained her memories. During a storm, she set sail and drowned to give her place to Setsuna on the boat as he failed to hold her hand on the way back. Setsuna then uses the island’s cool sleep machine that Kuon gave him to travel to the Never island.

### Midsummer (second Island)

In the new timeline, she repeated things from the first Island incident when she encountered Setsuna again, but Setsuna helped her to leave the house faster this time around and to have Rinne overcome her fear of sunlight sooner. Now able to convince Rinne and help her regain her memory of the first Setsuna, he prevented her death by visiting the Island before the storm had come. Rinne was devastated to learn that her first love had died, but now she was able to let him go. Her development towards Setsuna was as strong as the first Island moment and she decided to have him as her new lover.

But then, Setsuna felt unease whenever he wanted to go further with his relationship and learned a terrifying truth Rinne is his daughter and Setsuna himself never went to the past, but the new version of the past because of the future will return to its previous state and continue to the same cycle whenever it reached a certain date. Rinne was initially shocked and heartbroken to learn the truth, but she finally decided to accept the truth and begged Rinné (Kuon) to live together again with her long lost husband and stop using her fake name.

She later became host of Setsuna and Rinné's marriage and was last seen together with Karen and Sara, bidding them for they leave for their honeymoon.

In the Visual Novel, in her ending, she get married with Setsuna with the benediction of a crying Kuon, finally happy that her daugther and treasure can have her own happiness at last, keeping the secret of Rinne's father. In the true ending however, Setsuna chose Rinné over Rinne.

When Setsuna learned the truth by piecing together all the informations he had, namely that Rinne was Kuon biological daughter, but her father couldn't be Norimasa because Kuon is a fake and Rinne doesn't have soot blight, Rinne is implied to have noticed the change within Setsuna in behavior and to understand the truth as well, crying in her back to go to her mother, staying in the homeroom. In the end, she is seen on boryujima bidding her father farewell alone with the scientist Momoka.

## Etymology

* The name **Rinne** means "dignified, severe, cold" (凛) (**rin**) and "sound" (音) (**ne**).
* Rinne's surname **Ohara** means "honorable" (御) (**o**) and "field, plain" (原) (**hara**).

## Trivia

* According to the Visual Novel, Rinne's hobbies are reading Japanese and foreign books.