Karin

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**Karin** (花梨) is one of the protagonists of *Fena: Pirate Princess*. She is one of the Seven Samurai (being the only female member of the group) who assists and joins Fena Houtman on her quest.

## Appearance

Karin is a fit and athletic kunoichi fair white-skinned girl with waist-length black hair that has an asymmetrical fringe swept to the left side and brown eyes.

### Original Design

Prior to and upon meeting Fena Houtman along with the other six samurai ninjas, Karin wore a red long-sleeved haori with a grey obi, black pants and grey leggings that wrap the arches of her feet, and is barefoot like the other ninjas in her group present alongside with her at the time.

Soon after joining Fena as part of her new crew with the other samurai ninjas, she now sports a black ninja outfit with dark-brown leather arming garments on her chest and kote-like arm guards on her long black sleeves that extends up to her wrists and ring fingers. Her trousers is armed with two holster cartridge belts that store ammunition for her two pistols which are also stored in gun holsters on both of her legs, with another ammo cartridge belt wrapped around her right leg. She also has leg guards armed on the bottom half of her trousers, and is the only one in the group to not only wear belts unlike the red bows the other samurai have around their waistlines, but also black tabi footwear (a type of traditional ninja footwear that divides the hallux toe from the other toes) unlike the others, who all wear boots as part of their new apparel.

Unlike the other six male comrades in her group, she is the only one not to don a samurai helmet equipped with men-yoroi (menpo) facial armor yet being the only female of the group.

Her weapons consist of two pistols and a tanegashima musket rifle strapped around her back.

### Final Design

While not much has changed from her initial design in contrast to her appearance in the announcement, her arming garments on her chest and kote-like arm guards are now tinted fuchsia, and the ammo cartridge belts she adorned were now red instead of yellow. Her eyebrows, however, were smaller and shortened in contrast to her original design. The toe and heel areas (even on the soles) of her tabi footwear are colored grey underneath black garments from her pants that covers the arches of her feet.

Her casual apparel was changed as well, with her haori's color changed from red to magenta and her black pants now colored red, fashioned with five buttons. She also happens to wear small black boots as part of her casual wear, with her quarter heels being tinted dark magenta, rather than using sandals or going barefoot as presumed like a few of her fellow comrades; it is presumed that she sleeps barefoot despite this. She also has faint pink blushes on her cheeks, the same going with Fena.

It is unknown what her samurai helmet would look like if she wore one.

## Personality

The sole girl of the group, Karin has an assertive personality and doesn't let anyone get away with nonsense. Despite that commandeering presence, Karin has moments where she lets herself go too, especially when it comes to nerding out about weapons and history.

Karin has a fascination with technology, weapons and/or machinery, including her rifle, and is also presumed she would geek out or be enthusiastic on the subject aside from other attributes for her personality. While it is stated that she may be victorious and active while she feverishly tends to talk about her commitment to machinery and/or blacksmithery, she had shown loyalty with her fellow comrades as she devoted herself with her friends to join Fena's crew on her journey. Karin also has a serious demeanor as well as being spirited, formidable and tomboyish in contrast to Fena's feminine personality.

It is also stated in Karin's voice actress interview on the official Japanese website that Karin would be a funny yet cool character, casually talking to her fellow comrades and spending time and interacting with Fena as close friends (if not including many facial expressions for Karin throughout the series) outside of combat. Karin also seems to be short-tempered, fiesty and arrogant whenever she's annoyed or offended, but she goes easy on her friends despite this.

She has also shown ecstatic interest in rare items during her, Fena and their crew's time at Bar-Baral, getting excited over items like yakusugi cedar and a rhinoceros horn.

## Abilities

As the only female and the kunoichi of the Seven Samurai group, Karin has shown her ninja skills when dodging an enemy attacking her, wrapping her legs around his arm and leveling him to the ground.

Though she wields two pistols and a tanegashima musket rifle, she is presumed to be a gunslinger and markswoman along with her ninja abilities. It is shown that she keeps multiple weapons including two rifles and a black submachine gun engraved with the word "Flower" (花, *Hana*), which is also one of the two Japanese letters in Karin's name.

Due to her intellect, she crafted marksman weapons, invented things such as a lighter and an automatic hammer, and helped create a submarine pirate ship for her, Fena and the others to embark on across the seas during the journey, as she actually helped design the ship while her father constructed it.

## Etymology

* The name **Karin** means "Chinese quince" (花梨).
	+ It can also mean "flower, blossom" (花) (**ka**) and "pear" (梨) (**rin**) separately.

## Trivia

* Out of all the seven major samurai ninja characters in the show, Karin is the only female member of the Seven Samurai and also the shortest as the other six members are all male.
	+ She is also the only member in the samurai ninja group to not wear a samurai helmet with menpo facial armor which all the males of the group wear with their armor attire.