Rin Lancer

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### Epithet

Lancer-san (By Yuma)
 Alice Sugawara`s Controller (By Kuroo)
 Silver Huntress (By various in anime)
 Little Kouhai (By her upperclassmen)
 Dragon Empress (By various in anime)
 Lancer-senpai (By her underclassmen)

### Also Known As

Lancer-san (By Yuma)
 Alice Sugawara`s Controller (By Kuroo)
 Silver Huntress (By various in anime)
 Little Kouhai (By her upperclassmen)
 Dragon Empress (By various in anime)
 Lancer-senpai (By her underclassmen)

### Age

16-17 (High School 2nd Year) (2012)
 22 (Nov 2018)

## Background Information

### Family

Guila Lancer (Mother)
 Hansuke Lancer (Father)
 James Lancer (Younger Brother)
 Hayato Ikejiri (Cousin)

### Goal

Go to Nationals
 Win Nationals
 Support her underclassmen & upperclassmen

## Professional Status

### Occupation

High School Student (2nd Year, Class 3)
 University Student (Current)

### Teams

Chidoriyama Junior High (*Former*)
 Alexandra Military Academy (*Former*)
 Queen`s Court University (*Current*)

### Position

Middle Blocker
 Setter
 Pinch Server

## Seiyu Information

### Voice Actor

Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese)
 Juliet Simmons (English)

### English Actor

(Undisclosed)

**Rin Lancer** (Japanese: **ランサー 凛** *Ransā Rin*) was previously a member of the Alexandra Military Academy volleyball team. For the majority of the series, she was a second-year student and a wing spiker on Alexandra's team and its up-and-coming ace. After graduating college, she started her own catering company and married Kōrai Hoshiumi. She is in the top three in terms of the Middle Blocker position, considered to be the three-most-powerful.

## **Appearance**

Rin is a beautiful young woman with bluish gray hair that she keeps tied with a small knot in a ponytail style, her eyes being the same color as her hair, with light peachy colored smooth skin. She wears a white blouse and a leaf-colored knee-length long skirt, with a slightly long half apron around her waist and complimented by brown boots worn over her black stockings. She is average in height and has a lean, but strong build, presumably as a result from playing volleyball and exercising all of the time.

## **Personality**

Rin shows a cheerful and kind demeanor, normally as she is lightly mischievous, and at times, scary. She enjoys teasing Yuma and others close to her, but is weak to getting teased herself, which usually ends up with her blushing beet red. She is kind, but tends not to show what she is truly thinking, as to avoid getting hurt. She has a calming and iron-willed demeanor, as she refused to give up on Yuma Miya, even when her other teammates gave up on him. Determined, fierce, and poetic, Rin is an empowered young woman who disregards the opinions of other people, if they are negative. She is described as a person who marches to the beat of her own, and does what she pleases, with most actions that she does for the betterment of the team to improve them. Said to be the person who controls Alice Sugawara, one of the first-year wing-spikers, her calming personality helps calm Alice down.

## **Background**

During her high school years, she attended Alexandra Military Academy and was once one of the top three aces in the nation, before being cut out of the top three for unknown reasons. She appeared to be very popular among her school-mates as many came to cheer her on in her games.

## **Plot**

### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Rin is first mentioned during the BBQ by Kuroo, who is describing the top three aces of the country to Hinata and Lev.

#### **Karasuno vs Johzenji**

October 25th comes around soon. Alexandra goes to Sendai City Gymnasium again for the Representative Playoffs. As they are walking, they bump into Yūji Terushima and his entire team. Spotting their female manager, Rin hurriedly shoves Yuma behind her but is too late as Yuma begins to tremble so much, that he runs down the hallway. Now extremely worried about Yuma`s condition, she goes running after Yuma to catch him before he does something. Unfortunately, Yuma has run to Alexandra`s rivals, Riverstone Military Academy. Upon noticing one of Alexandra`s players running at them, Daichi pushes him back, before Rin comes running down the hallway. She then drags him back to the rest of his teammates by the back of his jacket. After the team’s settled in, Rin volunteers to go with Yuma when he decides to go to the bathroom, to keep an eye on him and protect him from any unfamiliar females. As he`s preparing to open the door, Hinata runs down the hallway to the bathroom and catapults Yuma into the bathroom, earning a groan from him, and a horrified face from Rin. Shoving Hinata aside, she knocks on the door and asks Yuma if he`s alright, with Yuma opening the bathroom door with a pissed look, and glaring down at Hinata. Rin then shoves him back into the bathroom and tells him to hurry up before turning around. Just as Rin shoves Yuma back into the bathroom, Oikawa and Iwaizumi approach them, being met with Rin`s deadly glare and Hinata`s uneasy look. Iwaizumi tries to compliment Hinata for defeating the 2m guy, but the latter’s unnerved and ends up replying incoherently. While Hinata is running away, Rin is seen round-house-kicking the bathroom door breaking it by accident, and drags Yuma by the back of his team tracksuit out of the bathroom, where he was washing his hands, watched incredulously by her teammates from around the corner.

## **Statistics**

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Rin is considered by many to be a blocking expert and is excellent at pressuring opponents. She possesses fine-tuned techniques and is recognized as the paramount of Alexandra`s defensive tactics, seeing as she leads the middle blockers of the team in blocking, while in the front. Besides, Rin is an amazing all-rounder, essential to Alexandra in both offense and defense, despite being only a second-year. Even though a middle blocker is usually rotated out with the libero, Rin has shown the ability to play back-row capably after Yale is taken out due to injury. She is also currently the only starting member to have a power-based jump-serve which emphasizes power-over-ball-control.

#### **Skills**

* **Masterful Blocking**: Rin is a skilled read blocker and is capable of stopping Irene's spikes, despite the latter being one of the top five spikers in the country. Rin`s expertise in blocking is mainly derived from her firm grasp of the nuances, such as the proper posture, timing, and jumps. When jumping to block, Rin would stop and jump straight up instead of sideways. At the same time, she tries to match her blocking timing with the moment the ball is spiked downward. This allows Rin to block spikers taller or stronger than her.
* **Jump Serve**: Her jump-serve is considered a move that emphasizes power over ball-control, leading to her muscles being some-what strained after using the move multiple-times-in-succession. Due to that, she constanally ices her shoulders, so that they don`t cramp-up after using her jump-serve.

## **Relationships**

### **Alexandra Military Academy**

* **Yuma Miya**: Rin has known Yuma since they were young; Since he grew up in a lab, he was cold and held impersonal relationships. To this day, Rin is the only person that has succeeded in getting close to Yuma, and becoming a "pillar" for him, acting as a terminal for Yuma to voice his thoughts around unfamiliar people. Their bond of trust is so close that Yuma tosses to Rin out of habit when he is in a pinch, knowing that she can get him out of a pinch in a instant with a tactical spike. Yuma affectionately referred to as "Yuma-san" by the latter, is usually seen attempting to smile around Rin or even attempting to express himself properly whenever he`s in the vicinity of Rin. The bulk of their communication with each other is generally utilized through code words, that only they know the meaning of, or even small smirks at each other.
* **Alfred Lancer**: Her older brother, Rin is not on close terms of him and is often annoyed by even, even round-house kicking him in the gut when he annoys her enough. This has led to her being called the **Dragon Empress** due to terrifying anybody and taking care of annoying people in a very violent way.
* **Alexandra Military Academy**: She is highly-respected among her upperclassmen in the club, and is often seen as the person who keeps her fellow first-years underneath control, seeing as she is able to terrify even Wakatoshi Ushijima into submission, with a simple death-glare. She is quite popular among her classmates, and has succeeded in becoming the leader of Alexandra`s defense, known as **The** **Meddlesome Middle Blocker** for her ability to block even the most difficult and strongest of spikes. Despite being only a first-year, she has a cool and collected nature that doesn`t falter underneath pressure, allowing her to work easily underneath a lot of pressure. The team`s pinch servers, and three libero`s trust her defensive tactics, and even respect her drive and determination to refine her skills as a blocker even more.

### **Other Schools**

* **Riverstone Military Academy**: She is respected among their rivals at Riverstone for her powerful blocks, and she received her alias of the **The** **Meddlesome Middle Blocker** from their volleyball club`s members. In fact she is so well-known among their community that even graduates from Riverstone came to watch the practice match between Riverstone and Alexandra, which ended in a land-slide victory for Alexandra. In fact, she even taught blockers from Riverstone how to use all types of blocks, so that Riverstone has a chance at facing Alexandra at the Nationals. As one of the former top three aces in the nation, having been the only first-year of the former top three aces, her reputation as a powerhouse blocker is fairly well-known and she appeared in the stands watching the Shiratorizawa vs Karasuno match.
* **Nekoma High**: Due to her reputation as one of the former top three aces of the nation, Nekoma High has knowledge of who she is. She appears to have good relations with the team, seeing as she came-out to watch their games, having run through directly after her team`s games are finished to watch Nekoma`s games. Her many interactions with them, has always led her to tease the captain, Tetsurō Kuroo seeing as they play the same position. Despite that, they genuinely care for each other, with their respective schools seeing each other as rivals.
* **Hayato Ikejiri**: Her cousin who attends Tokonami High, Rin cares deeply for him and genuinely cares for him, behind her friendly personality. Due to their shared love for volleyball, Rin gets angry when somebody mocks him, once getting into a fist-fight with one of his male classmates who was harassing her cousin. Hayato in turn, cares deeply for Rin and dislikes when she gets into fist-fights with his classmates, when they harass him.
* **Tsukishima Kei**: Though they are both Middle Blockers, Rin is somewhat disturbed by his lack of motivation for the support, and generally doesn`t hold a high opinion of him, saying that "somebody like him, is useless and I wouldn`t even bother with him."