Rin Tezuka

To attempt to describe Rin Tezuka is to attempt describing an impossible color. She does not embody chaos though she sows it. She does not revel in confusion though she causes it. She is not understood though she craves it. Simply put, she is Rin.

She is a stalwart friend to those she thinks may or may not understand her and maybe validate her existence. She spent a lot of her time at Yamaku Academy as a semi-permanent piece of furniture in the art room and under the tutelage of the Art Program Instructor Shinichi Nomiya. For better or worse.

## Background

Rin Tezuka was born in 1988 to a currently unknown father and mother. What is known is that she was born with severe birth defects. Her severely shortened arms were deemed a hindrance and amputated at the elbow. It is unclear if her unique mental state is directly linked to her birth defects. She's lived her entire life completely adapted to her disability, only needing a pair of arms in a scant few instances.

She is drawn to art, viewing it as her best chance to be able to communicate as the normal avenues have failed her most her life. From an outsider's perspective, Rin Tezuka is talented and a prodigy in abstract and expressive oil painting. She disregards those labels at best and resents them at worst considering they never got her any closer to being understood.

## History

### Yamaku Academy

Rin spent most of her time at Yamaku in the art room, painting and working with the art program. She became friends with the Instructor Shinichi Nomiya through sheer exposure. She did various projects for herself and the school, offering some paintings to place around the school. In the middle of her third year, she painted a broad expanse of wall over the course of several days at a piece for the school festival. She befriended Emi Ibarazaki, her second half of a whole pirate. Emi would serve as Rin's arms for day to day activities that necessitate them. She would also take on a somewhat protective role with Rin but never to the point of overbearing as both had an understanding of her needs.

In comes Hisao. They met when Rin was painting the mural for the festival. Hisao took notice of her uncommon logic and style of painting and decided she was interesting to be around. They spent the next few months being around each other and acclimating. Acclimating being a strong word because this is the start of Hisao getting short with people for the way they are or the way they talk. Unbeknownst to Rin at the time, Hisao was constantly getting dunked on in the shadows by the Dark Spirits of the schools two directors for being a dick weasel. Also during this time, Emi dealt drugs to Rin who proceeded to get high af fam. This drew the ire of Dark Spirit Optimus Prime who gave her a lecture on the importance of being drug-free, and then proceeds to clothesline Emi for being her dealer. Rin also has a penchant for inadvertently saving Hisao from the literal Angel of Death, considering he's easily distractible and she is a hell of a distraction.

### Art Exhibition

Nomiya, full of piss, vinegar, and bright ideas decides for Rin that she should put on an exhibition because it will launch ~~his~~ her career. Rin, confiding in the human equivalent of a poisoned well, Hisao about the development and he also decides for her that this will be great. It was not great. To get enough proper pieces for the exhibition, she was trapped in an atelier for several days leading up to the event to pump out mad amounts of emotional spew. Hisao decides he's also made of good ideas and visits with some regularity.

After several instances of Rin and Hisao coming closer over the last few months, Rin has a minor breakdown over her art. She tries to relieve her stress, but Hisao accidentally interrupts. Rin asks him to help finish to which he agrees. In Hisao's first pass through this timeline, Hisao gets frustrated at the no man's land he finds himself in and takes it out on Rin specifically during a vulnerable moment. Rin rightfully tells him to piss off and never come back, leaving her to do things she's slowly learning to hate. Hisao was later flagellated in the Gravel Dimension.

Hisao's second time through, he stops his good idea lobe from interjecting and decides to let things lie. Rin's art exhibition goes off without a hitch, which is almost as bad as her getting thrown out. Rin was unable to keep up with all the wrong kinds of attention she was getting and leaves. Hisao catches up and engages his patented maneuver of fucking things up and tries to help Rin through it. His position is that she should be happy at the attention and praise because so far he has completely skipped to step of making sure she wants attention and praise. Rin says she uses art to be fundamentally understood. Hisao informs her that that's impossible, which is something she needs to hear right now at this exact moment when she's vulnerable and not some other time. Rin internalizes this and decides to break it off with Hisao and take up an art scholarship in Tokyo. Hisao tries to rebut but has his own words turned against him. Get dunked on.

Hisao's third time through (after liberal beatings and reflection), decides to let her go and digest her art exhibition experience. He catches up with her later and defends her from Nomiya who was raising hell that his exploitable child is no longer wanting to be exploited. In the same stroke, Rin and Hisao finally have a heart to crippled heart where he is finally able get across that being understood is great but even without perfect understanding, life can still go decently well. Later, during their first true time together, Rin demonstrates she is capable of waylaying the Angel of Deaf as well, owing to his also easily distractible nature.

### Post Yamaku

Rin joins the other Yamaku Heroines in joint Hisao custody and serves somewhat as his guardian angel/good luck charm. She continues her art but is more willing to accept that communication is not perfect and communication through art even less so.

## Relationships

### Emi

Emi is Rin's metaphorical and literal pair of arms when she actually needs them. Their's started as a relationship of convenience and then grew into companionship as Emi started to seek out Rin and in some cases look over her. Emi is very hands-off when taking care of her however, only stepping in when needed or if Rin asks.

### Hisao

Rin values Hisao because he seems to actually listen with intent and is so far the only person that's taken real strides towards understanding her. Even if that is a Sisyphean pursuit, Hisao was able to help her feel validated in other ways. Ultimately, Hisao is a caretaker, confidant, friend, and lover all rolled into one.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Below Average Strength:** Rin is a hill of beans on a generous day and is almost incapable of lifting slightly heavy objects.
* **Above Average Agility:** Rin is quite agile due to acclimating without hands. There are some things beyond her due to the mechanics of it all but the things she can do are dexterous.

### Powers

**Deaf/Death Immunity:** Rin's ability to confuse and distract most anyone she talks to helps her keep a cloudcuckoolander air about her. This happens to be incredibly useful against the various siblings of Death who can't keep up with her and never get the bright idea of just killing her.

## Trivia

* Rin is the only heroine to initially turn down the confession only to accept it later on