Kuon Ohara

* Linne as Kuon - Visual Novel
	* real Kuon - anime

**Kuon Ohara** (御原 玖音, *Ohara Kuon*) is the mother of Rinne Ohara , a shut-in and always covered with a hood; she also communicates with a note that has a heart mark. She often act as a sort of mentor to Setsuna, giving him advice about Rinne or trivial matter by discussing with notes.

## Plot

### Anime

Kuon was a shut-in and always communicated to Setsuna Sanzenkai by writing notes instead of talking. She couldn't get outside because she had the syndrome which would kill her if she took the light of the sun a bit longer.

When Rinne died because of drowning in the sea for having sailed during the storm, Kuon was furious at Setsuna for not able to save her properly. But after remembering that Setsuna was from the future, she used the capsule which actually kept Rinne's body during her disappearance for five years on him, so Setsuna could find the one who created the time machine and take him back to the past to change Rinne's fate.

After Setsuna returned to the past, helping Karen and Sara with their problem, and succeeded in preventing the death of Rinne to meet her first Setsuna by going to the island she had gone to before the storm, he learned that Kuon had the very same ring as the girl he had sex with when he was living in the future and the one who sent him, Rinné O'hara through the history photo file from Sara.

It was revealed that Kuon Ohara was a taken name from the deceased true Kuon Ohara and she was Rinné. Setsuna also learned that he had actually gone to the new past version because the capsule he used to go to the past was never able to send the user to the past and he went to the current era due to the returning of the Earth's period after reaching a certain date.

She followed Setsuna by using the first cold sleep capsule, not the one she invented but she woke up 23 years earlier. Things were complicated for her because she also had memory loss and regained it slowly. During her new life, she was taken by Ohara's family to work as a maid, almost had her Rinne in her womb to be aborted because it would give a cheating scandal despite Rinne's plea that the baby is from her husband from the future, and had her safely born because of Ohara's family disaster. After Norimasa's real wife had died, Rinné took her name as Kuon and gave her name to Rinne after she was born, living in the shadow as Kuon, until Norimasa had died.

The fact that Setsuna forgot about her had hurt her so much but she wanted to at least have her daughter to live happily with him. Setsuna refused and begged Rinné to be with him again, especially after Setsuna learned that Rinne is his daughter. Rinne helped Setsuna to convince Rinné, and the latter finally accepted Setsuna back and was relieved that she could have her happiness back. They had their official marriage with Rinne as the host. Afterward, they had their proper honeymoon and Rinne was last seen to be with Sara and Karen.

**Visual Novel**

While the other facts remain true, the ending for Kuon in the true ending is quite different in the Visual Novel.

After Setsuna went in her room to make up with her, Kuon was mad with him for not being her the last 23 year when she suffered alone with her daughter (a somewhat misplaced anger because he couldn't wake up from cold sleep due to her own setup), and for not remembering her right after his arrival, because she was resolute to forget about him the rest of her life, when she remembered everything. They soon make up by discussing the blueprints of the time machine that Kuon was working on, retrieving her true personality she had lost due to the harshness and loneliness of her life on Urashima, and repairing to a certain extent her broken bond with her lover. At the end, she continues to work on the time machine while Setsuna goes to the Ice Age again, both staying true to Kuon's wish to save the world by creating a true time machine.

## Etymology

* The name **Kuon** means "beautiful black jewel, nine" (玖) (**ku**) and "sound" (音) (**on**).
* Kuon's surname **Ohara** means "honorable" (御) (**o**) and "field, plain" (原) (**hara**).

## Trivia

* Kuon claimed as she had syndrome probably a lie to keep herself shut in from Setsuna Sanzenkai before he learned her true identity
* At the end of the anime, Kuon's true identity as Rinné Ohara is revealed.
* Kuon takes her name from the real Kuon Ohara, who died in the sea years prior the beginning of the story.
* As long as her identity is hidden, she acts upbeat and friendly with Setsuna, even wanting him to date his and her own daughter several times.