Rachins Hoffman

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**Rachins Hoffman** (ラチンス・ホフマン), commonly known as **Chin** (チン), is a runaway noble who was one of the three thugs that attacked Subaru at the very start of Arc 1. He later joined the Felt Camp when Felt employed him after Royal Selection began.

## Appearance

Rachins is a man who has an unusual white complexion, black sanpaku eyes, and long, unkept grayish blue hair that has pink at its ends. He dresses in a tattered uniform, wears chains around his wrists and throat, maintains an large yellow earring on his left ear, and often sticks out his elongated tongue, which has a silver ring ornament on its right side.

## Personality

As a thug, Rachins acted cowardly, lustful, and impolite. He generally is prone to anger and is often viewed as a blockhead and hooligan. He tried to mug people with his two friends to get by when they resided in the slums, but they found a way to escape when a situation became unfavorable. He was also not above being lecherous and harassing Priscilla. Although Rachins makes the most decisions between him and his other two friends, he is also quite easy to sway.

In spite of Rachins’s many personality defects, he is a shrewd and clever man with some degree of bravery. As a runaway noble who was raised in the Hoffman family, he learned the broad knowledge of a royal advisor and is skilled at deceiving others into getting a desired outcome. However, he scorns his father and chose to cut ties with his family.

## History

Rachins Hoffman was born as a noble from the Royal Capital of Lugunica, to Rickert Hoffman and an unnamed woman. However, after unknown events, he left his family and began living in the slums. According to Gaston, he found Rachins in a back alley. Thinking he was like a ragged piece of cloth at the time, Gaston chose to extend Rachins a hand after being convinced to do so by Camberley.

Roughly 3 to 4 months before Subaru's arrival, Rachins, Gaston and Camberley met an Imperial traitor, who payed the trio and fifteen other thugs a fair amount of gold coins in order to tail a Divine General who was after his head. The thugs disobeyed the orders and lured the swordsman into a dark alley, wanting to attack, beat and rob the man. However, as they were dealing with Cecilus Segmunt–the strongest person from the Sacred Vollachia Empire and one of the three men who are about as skilled as Reinhard in terms of martial arts–they were defeated within a second, and left beaten half to death. Following their arrest by the Knight guards who rushed the scene soon after, the three thugs were then approached by Julius Juukulius, Ferris and Chisha Gold, who wanted to know about Cecilus' location. Upon being promised freedom, they spilled the beans and were subsequently freed, with the money they have gotten from Gramdart.

After the Royal Selection Ceremony, Felt recruited Chin, Ton and Kan to join the Felt Camp. They accepted her offer, thus became participants in the Royal Selection. Since then, Reinhard van Astrea started to train all three of them so they would grow stronger with the help of his Divine Protection of Training Mastery.

## Abilities

**Magic User** (魔法使い *Maho Tsukai*): Rachins is able to use Fire Magic.

* **Goa** (ゴーア): Rachins manifests a blaze of fire which incinerates a foe, though the flame was noted to be rather underwhelming. He primarily uses this attack as a signal for help–upon casting it, Reinhard appears in under a minute.

**Equipment**: Rachins carries a knife with him that he uses to threaten people. However, he hasn't actually killed anyone before, causing him to be shocked when he stabbed and killed Subaru in one of the failed loops of Arc 1.

**Training**: After being employed by Felt, he started to get trained by Reinhard and has developed considerable power.

## Trivia

* The nicknames of Ton, Chin, and Kan are a play on the Japanese word tonchinkan, which means irrelevant or inconsistent.
* According to the author, Ton, Chin, and Kan don't play an active role after Arc 1 until Arc 8.
	+ As the original plan for Arc 7 changed and it was split into two separate arcs, it can be assumed that this statement about Arc 8 now applies to Arc 9.

## References

1. ↑ *Presumably, Rachins was the one who made the most decisions out of the three. However, he was also the easiest to sway, so it seemed like the other two provided him with their support. Such was the nature of their relationship.* Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Felt-chan's Royal Selection Life from Zero, Section 4.
2. ↑ *“You’re one talkative woman alright. How’s it feel to be so fuckin’ condescendin’ talkin’ about someone else’s family he cut ties wit?”* The Golden Lion and the Sword Saint, Riot in Flanders 4, Section 6.
3. ↑ *“And even if we end up losin’, I couldn’t give two hoots ‘bout which way the house leans, so long as that bastard of a father is there.”* The Golden Lion and the Sword Saint, Riot in Flanders 5, Section 1.
4. ↑ *“...To think I’ve been convinced by you. That hasn’t happened since I picked up Rachins from the back alley. He was like a ragged piece of cloth back then.”* Re:Zero Tanpenshuu Volume 4, Felt-chan's Royal Selection Life from Zero, Section 4.
5. ↑ 2014 Q&A