Isuzu Sohma

## Voices

**Isuzu Sohma** (草摩 依鈴, *Sōma Isuzu*), more commonly known by her nickname **Rin** (鈴, *****Rin*****), is the Horse of the Chinese Zodiac. A cold, stubborn, proud, and fiercely independent woman who despises the way the other members of her clan submit to Akito Sohma, Rin is very closed-off as a result of her abusive and traumatic past. Since she was rejected by her parents, Rin lives with Kagura Sohma and her family.

Rin had a romantic relationship with Hatsuharu Sohma prior to the beginning of the series, but she later breaks up with him.

## Appearance

Rin is a very beautiful slim young woman with a light complexion, sharp, dark-brown eyes (sometimes depicted as black), and a tall stature. Tohru Honda mentions that Rin has a nice and voluptuous figure.

Rin initially has straight, hip-length, jet-black hair which she wears in a hime-cut; with long, loose strands of hair freely framing her face and evenly-cut bangs covering her entire forehead and framing her thick eyelashes. She occasionally wears her hair in twin-tails or ponytails when she wants her hair out of the way.

Rin usually likes to wear dark-colored, revealing clothes, some of which have a goth influence to them. The accessories she wears are handmade by Haru. She is at times seen in her school uniform, which consists of a white tailored sweater and yellow ribbon with a black shirt underneath, a short, white skirt, long, black stockings, and brown loafers.

She also has heavy scarring on her back, which she received from being pushed out of a window by Akito.

Horse form.
## Persoanlity

Rin used to be a sweet, happy, and outgoing girl when she was young. However, after suffering from abuse and abandonment from her parents, her self-worth and trust in people (aside from Haru) were destroyed. She blames herself for her own suffering and believes that her parents wouldn’t have hated and abandoned her if she wasn't “bad”. She also grew majorly depressed, but thanks to Haru, she retained her sweet and kind personality.

However, after facing Akito’s wrath, where the latter convinced her that someone damaged like herself doesn’t deserve someone like Haru to love her and threw her out of a window, Rin underwent a major change and became the aggressive, emotionally distant, jaded, sardonic, and unkind young woman she is during her debut, sharp-tongued and wielding words as a weapon to lash out at the world for the cruelty she experienced. Haru mentions that Rin doesn’t hesitate to say things that will hurt people, but she doesn’t say anything to protect herself either. Due to her traumatic past, Rin finds it incredibly difficult to open up and bond with people. She is often uncomfortable with displays of emotion; reluctant to show herself as vulnerable, as well as being cranky and self-conscious and suffering from painfully low self-esteem. She hides her vulnerability behind a rude and bad-tempered demeanor, and uses her perceptiveness to keep others from seeing her mentally and physically scarred.

Rin is also a lone wolf who prefers to depend on herself and herself only, and is determined to find a way to break the curse without the help or interference from anyone. Behind her uncaring and aloof front, however, Rin is deeply loyal and passionately emotional, and is tremendously self-sacrificing and selfless, as her entire reason to breaking the curse is to free Haru and find his true happiness, even if it would mean that she would be left with nothing in her hands. Although it initially appears that Rin dislikes kindhearted people like Tohru Honda, she, in reality, respects them deeply— but believes their compassion makes them gullible and unable to protect themselves, and thus doesn’t want them to get hurt or suffer. She also feels like kind people remind herself of how weak she is and how badly she craves acceptance from those kinds of people who she can depend on and cling to. But exactly because of that, she avoids kind people since she is unwilling to let herself become a burden.

As time goes on, Rin begins opening up more, especially after she breaks down in tears in front of both Tohru and Haru on two different occasions. Although she still doesn’t like to show herself emotionally open and her distant and hostile personality remains, she grows openly protective towards Tohru, mellows down to a slightly gentler person, has come to depend on others more, and Haru makes her promise him that she won't ever try to do everything alone again. She is also noted to be quite dishonest with her feelings, rarely shows her feelings of happiness, can have somewhat of a *tsundere* personality, especially towards Tohru. After the curse is broken, although she feels horrible about it, she refuses to forgive Akito Sohma for not only the pain she had inflicted on her, but everyone in the Sohma family. She also reveals that she'd hoped all of her pain and emotional issues would go away once the curse broke, but they didn't.