Robin Lincoln

* Mistral
* Vale

**Robin Lincoln** is a student from Haven Academy and the leader of Team RAIN, as well as a main protagonist of the RAIN comic. Her team consists of Akane Amaranth, Irving Hawthorne and Nyssa Noirette.

Robin's weapon of choice is Wolfshead, a bow-and-arrow/sword hybrid capable of utilising dust. During the "From Ashes" Arc, she acquires a shield named Wolfsbane.

She first appeared in the "Umberquest" Arc following her team's loss during the doubles round of the Vytal Festival Tournament. The team then pursues a mission to locate and apprehend rogue huntsman Otso Umber, though it turns out the mission was fabricated by the mysterious Braith Family to deceive a team of huntsmen into fighting one of their experiments - an attempted Grimm-Human fusion. Robin, Akane and Irving barely escape, with Nyssa having fled prior, and commit to taking on the Braith family once they recuperate in Mistral.

Robin reunites with her girlfriend, Marron Armona, and after an unsuccessful attempt to recruit huntsmen or fellow teams' aid against the Braith family, journeys to her ancestral home of Knothole to recruit the Lincoln Clan. En route it is revealed that Robin was exiled from her family for unlocking her aura - as the clan believes aura to be a crutch - but the Lincolns eventually make peace with her.

The Braiths, led by the eldest sister Kamala Braith, attack Knothole and succeed in killing Robin's father, as well as capturing her mother, Artemis Garland, and eldest brother, Roderick Lincoln. Robin also loses an eye defending Marron from one of Kamala's attacks, and falls unconscious.

When the group return to Mistral, they reunite with Nyssa Noirette - but Robin blames Nyssa for leaving them in the lurch with Otso and later not being there for her at Knothole. Tension rises in the team, with Irving siding with Nyssa and Robin falling into depression after the loss of her eye, as well as the existential question of why she does what she does. When everyone heads out to defend Akane's family from the Braiths, Robin remains behind to look after her niece, Maylis Lincoln. It is only when Maylis runs away to help the others that Robin finds herself able to fight again, and dives into battle - maiming Sterling Braith.

Robin, Nyssa and Irving reconcile before the latter two head to Avon to help Irving's family, and Robin remains behind in Mistral to recuperate.

## Appearance

Robin is of average height, with blue eyes and light brown hair tied back in both a ponytail. She is biracial, her father having a more tanned skin tone while her mother appears more light-skinned.

### Current

She wears a white blouse with a brown laced vest over the top, a green skirt, brown knee-high boots and elbow-length brown fingerless gloves. Over this she has a green cloak with heavy brown furs over the shoulders.

Following being blinded in one eye, wears a brown eyepatch over her right eye, and forgoes the cloak as it was left behind at Knothole.

### Original

She wears a green scarf/hood with a zipper down the centre, a white shirt laced up on the right breast, and a green skirt secured with both a belt and a fastened bow. She also wears brown, elbow-high fingerless gloves and thigh-high boots.

## Personality

Robin's most notable trait is her mischievous personality. Though she had a hardy youth in a backwater environment, her playful and upbeat personality offsets this - even if it gets on the nerves of her teammates and Professors alike. Her upbringing brought with it diminished social skills, leaving her dumbfounded at simple interactions.

Robin also possesses strong strategic and combative instincts, making her the perfect leader for her team. However, she has trouble looking at the bigger picture, sometimes neglecting anything peripheral in favour of her ultimate goal. She occasionally uses this focus as a coping mechanism to avoid thinking about something that troubles her. Her twin sister, Marina, believes that she puts on a happy-go-lucky front to hide inner vulnerability.

Despite a very open personality, Robin has been observed to hold back great trauma as she does not want people to make her worry and believes she needs to be strong for those she cares about. This is shown with how secretive she is regarding her leaving her family home, as well as the trauma she endured at the hands of Otso Umber's semblance and its lasting effects on her psyche.

Robin has expressed attraction towards both males and females. Her sexuality is clarified in the third page of the comic, where she draws what she believes to be the Team's greatest desires - depicting herself with both a man and a woman swooning over her. While she is currently in a relationship with Marron Armona, previous romantic encounters have been alluded to - such as Blaine and Aurelia Besart. Robin is greatly supportive of her partners, applauding Marron's progress with aura and semblance, but is also very protective - telling Marron to stay back in dangerous situations, trying to prevent her from getting into them in the first place and ultimately taking a near-fatal shot for her.

## Background

Robin is the third child and eldest daughter of Orion Lincoln and Artemis Garland, as well as the sister of Roderick, William, Marina and Lilliana Lincoln, with whom she was raised at the secluded settlement of Knothole, located within the Free Territories of Anima. Given her weaponry, it is likely Robin was trained from a young age by her mother, an archer, and her father, a swordsman, as well as her elder brother Roderick. In her youth she briefly shared a relationship with Finch Vogel.

When she was thirteen, Robin watched Helia Vines win the 38th Biennial Vytal Festival Tournament in Vacuo and became an instant fan of the huntress.

At the age of fourteen, Robin was exiled from the Lincoln Clan due to unlocking her aura - a quality that is frowned upon within the Free Territories due to both the potential destructive force of repressed aura being unlocked, as well as the belief that aura is a crutch in combat. Finch would accompany her. Despite exiling his daughter, Robin's father allotted her a notable fund upon which she still survives.

Early in her teens Robin briefly attended Sanctum Academy in Argus. During this time she shared brief relationships with both Blaine and Aurelia Besart, affirming her bisexuality. She also worked at a Fried Chicken restaurant alongside Finch - during this time she dated Finch again, as well as a girl named Satin, a 'Rooster Guy', Finch a third time and finally a 'Rat Boy'.

When she turned 17, she enrolled in Haven Academy. Following her initiation she was cast as the leader of Team RAIN, leading her team partner Akane Amaranth, as well as Irving Hawthorne and Nyssa Noirette. During her first year at Haven she dated a girl known only as the 'Motorcycle Girl', followed by Marron Armona, who worked at the nearby CCT as an intern and remains Robin's partner to this day.

Robin lead her team in the 40th Biennial Vytal Festival, winning the Teams round. She and Akane ascended to the doubles round, but lost against Arvin Armand and Krista Dunn of Team ALMD.

## Abilities and Powers

Robin's fighting style relies heavily on agility. She is unfazed by close-quarters combat, and is similarly skilled at a distance given her bow. Her strategic prowess aids her greatly when directing teammates, but she tends to falter when facing a foe herself. Robin is well trained in the use of both aura and dust, acting as a mentor for Marron in regards to the former, and utilising many types of the latter with her weaponry. She has been observed using ice, fire and lightning dust thus far.

She seems quite reliant on her semblance, using it to dodge attacks that her opponent clearly telegraphs.

### Semblance

*Main article: Fate*
Robin's semblance lets her to perform at her physical peak at critical moments, which allows her to accomplish astonishing feats such as jumps or dodges that could only be made if she was at her absolute best. While her semblance makes her a hard target, it relies on her level of awareness - meaning she has to consciously identify a threat she needs to avoid or a feat she needs to achieve, meaning that feigned or multiple attacks or actions can catch her out.

When used in conjunction with Marron's supercharging semblance, Robin is able to exceed her natural peak human abilities and act even faster than is naturally possible.

### Weaknesses

The chink in Robin's mindset is her tendency to focus on a single aspect of a battle while ignoring all outside factors. This means that her allies can be relegated to simply defending her. She also sometimes forgets to even identify a threat and puts others in the line of danger, such as when her father had to barge her out of the way of a shot she clearly should have recognised.

Robin's current key weakness is that she has lost most of the eyesight in one eye thanks to a blast from Kamala Braith's Vindicatress. This temporarily left her in a volatile state of mind, causing her to lash out against her allies - particularly Nyssa Noirette. While her temperament eventually healed, her eye did not. While the superficial damage is less evident, her vision is still exceedingly blurry and ringed with darkness.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Robin alludes to the fairy tale character Robin Hood.
	+ They share a forename.
	+ Robin prominently wears Lincoln Green as her outfit, a colour worn by Robin Hood - this is also reflected in her surname.
	+ Robin uses a bow and a sword, weapons which were both used by Robin Hood.
	+ Robin's companions Akane, Irving and Nyssa loosely share a secondary allusion to the Merry Men.
	+ Robin studies at Haven Academy, under Professor Lionheart. Robin Hood was a supporter of King Richard "the Lionheart".
	+ Robin is from a medieval-esque swampland area similar to Sherwood Forest. Her home citadel is Knothole, which sounds somewhat similar to Nottingham.
	+ She is dating Marron Armona, who alludes to Maid Marian - Robin Hood's love interest.

### Colour Naming Rule

* Robin's forename is a reference to the red chest of a Robin, the same birds seen in her emblem.
	+ Despite having a heavily green outfit, Robin's aura reflects her forename in that it is red. This was later changed in Arc 2, making it green.
* Her surname alludes to Lincoln green, the colour worn by Robin Hood.

## References

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