Rin Ayanokōji

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Rin Ayanokōji**
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**Rin Ayanokōji** (綾小路凛, *Ayanokōji Rin*?) is one of the female protagonists of *Shokugeki no Soma*. She is the daughter of Shirou Ayanokōji and Ei Ayanokōji, both of her parents being members of the extremely illustrated and respected Ayanokōji Family; a family of the patrician rank, making Rin a scion of the Ayanokōji Family and thus it's heiress. A 92nd Tōtsuki Generation alumnus and a former resident of Polar Star Dormitory.

The michevous and sly childhood friend of Sōma Yukihira, the two having grown up together, Sōma was part of the events that led to Rin becoming the heiress of the Ayanokōji Family Conglomerate instead of her physically abusive older brother Kakeru Ayanokōji.

## Appearance

Rin is a young teenager girl with yellow eyes and flax colored hair. Her casual wear consists of a blue collar with a ribbon, a blue dress, black tights, blue leggings, blue shoes, white arm covers, and a blue scarf tied around her right arm. Rin’ cat like appendages, resulted from a mutation in her biological makeup, and due to the gender surgery's aftermath on her body. It has been shown that Rin has had these cat like appendages as far back as elementary school.

## Personality

Despite hailing from one of the most prestigious and illustrated patrician families, Rin is not as highly privileged and pampered as most people would believe at first glance. Though born into a highly privileged family, she displays a warm and gentler personality, enjoying being rather sly at baiting people among her friend group into cooking challenges by lightly insulting them and at watching the cooking challenges between her childhood friend Sōma Yukihira and his father Jōichirō Yukihira, simply for the enjoyment of watching them both in their natural element - the kitchen - a place of dreams for chefs. Highly admired throughout Tōtsuki for her talent, looks, and her family's name, heralded as the world's most prestigious medicial food and spice conglomerate in the entire world. Sōma Yukihira, her childhood friend labels her as a "troublemaker" though says she only causes trouble, in order to gain enjoyment.

Much of Rin's personality is due to Sōma Yukihira and his father Jōichirō Yukihira fostering a sense of kinship with her, due to her parents being often away on business trips. She also developed a liking for disgusting dishes and even participated in their worst dishes competition, happily serving as their sampler.

A perfectionist of the most prodigious talent of the illustrated and celebrated Ayanokōji Family Conglomerate, Rin revolutionized many modern techniques of growing, drying, cutting, and utilizing spices from her family's conglomerate in Michelin starred resturants, which has granted her and her family much fame.

Her prespective on cooking was shaped by the positive influences that she experienced underneath the guardianship of Sōma Yukihira and his father Jōichirō Yukihira.

## History

### Childhood

Born into one of the most prestigious, illustrated, and celebrated families in the whole of Japan; the Ayanokōji Family, Rin is gifted with "God's Senses", the ability to accurately discern all manners of spices, condiments, and sauces utilized during the preperation or utilized on the dish after it is completely finished to the highest degree. Since her gift became well known, most of her baby food was made by professional chefs to satisfy her incredible smelling and visual appearance abilities. As a young girl, Rin had somewhat of a cold and ruthless rivalry with her older brother Kakeru Ayanokōji, who was physically and mentally abusive towards her. Rin, at age 3, refused to allow Kakeru to cook her anymore food and thought that the food that he cooked was only worthy enough to be fed to pigs. During Rin's 4th birthday, she encountered Sōma Yukihira for the first time and asked him to become her assistant in the kitchen. Sōma bluntly refused, calling the young Rin to cry. Later, as her older brother Kakeru was hitting and beating her, Sōma Yukihira and his father Jōichirō Yukihira saved her from Kakeru. Around this time, she became friends with Sōma, pledging all of her efforts to aid Resturant Yukihira.