RIN YUKII

NAME: Kim Ae-Rin, Yukii Airin

ALIAS: Yukii Rin

APPARENT AGE: 15

ACTUAL AGE: Unknown

BLOOD TYPE: Unknown

HAIR COLOR: Raven Black

EYE COLOR: Crimson

HEIGHT: 58.3 inches/148 centimeters

WEIGHT: 88 pounds/40 kilograms

HISTORY:

  She was born in Jejudo, Korea to Kim Yu-Jin, her Korean mother and Yukii Kyoushin, the former head of the Yukii household in Japan. At the time, their union was a taboo in both of their families, so for a while, they went into hiding so that they could live together peacefully. However, when Rin was four, Kyoushin and Yu-Jin were murdered at the hands of Yukii assassins. Rin was spared because she was such a young child, and the assassins supposed that she would die anyway. The tragedy left her mute and traumatized, and her eyes, which were brown, turned a dark shade of red.

  For the next month, she wandered aimlessly.  From time to time, strangers took pity on the child and would offer her food and temporary lodging.  Doing this, she ended up in Nagoya, and was eventually taken in by Inazuma Seigo and Ayumi, a famous couple known for their prestigious schools.  Seigo ran a training school for samurai, while Ayumi owned a school that taught etiquette, art, music, and dance to young girls. Slowly, as she became more comfortable with her surroundings, Rin began to speak again. At first, Ayumi was her only teacher.  However, even under Ayumi's strict tutilege, she was unnervingly obedient and focused, and she seemed to learn things quickly.  Because of this, Seigo began to teach her the basics of swordsmanship to see if she could handle it.  After the first lesson, she let Seigo know immediately that she wanted to pursue swordsmanship more seriously than simply learning it as a side subject.  Years would pass, and it seemed that the only thing that Rin enjoyed doing was learning, studying, and improving.  She was courteous towards the other students, but it was a cold, distant sort of courtesy.  Still, one student by the name of Kenta Kageyama seemed to take a liking to her and persistently tried to break through her cold exterior.  Eventually, he, and later, his two brothers, Yuuta and Naota Kageyama, would succeed in becoming the only people she could call close friends.  In this sense, she gained a new family, and though she did not forget what had happened to her parents, she nearly felt as though she could live her life peacefully.  She was nearly able to put her horrible childhood memories to rest.  Nearly.

  A few months later, disaster struck the Inazuma household, and Ayumi, along with nearly all of students attending the school at the time, were viciously murdered, and the schools were burned to the ground. Seigo, in response, committed seppuku because he wasn't able to protect his family and students. Rin, Kenta, Yuuta, and Naota were among five survivors out of fifty. The experience was a cruel reminder of what had happened to her in the past.  That day, she resolved to seek out the ones responsible for the tragedies that occurred in her life and claim her own personal justice.

MODERN SETTING

  Rin's modern equivalent has lived since the 1500's.  Some might call her a devil.  Some might call her an angel.  If you asked her to describe exactly what she was, she would simply reply, "It's unfortunate, however, I am a Yukii."

  By this time, Rin has eliminated about eighty-five percent of her father's family (in other words, the ones responsible for the tragedy she witnessed when she was young).  After an event that she refuses to retell, she agreed to leave the remaining fifteen percent alone provided that they do the same for her.  Their armistice is still in effect, however shakily.

  In the meantime, she goes between attending middle schools, high schools, colleges, and has even held full-time jobs.  However, every four or five years, she usually finds some way to transfer in order to keep up the appearance of being a normal human being.  Exploring different ways to live life is the only thing she finds meaningful about her existence.

PERSONALITY AND QUIRKS:

Rin's personality is difficult to place at first: she is extremely polite, fastidious, and cordial, and upon meeting her for the first time, it might seem like that is all that there is to her. Her appearance is always neat, tidy, and well-put-together. Though she is usually smiling, her smile is somewhat unreadable, and has a plastic quality, as if she were some sort of doll. Her smile and her mannerisms act as a wall to prevent people from getting too close to her. In truth, she is actually rather clever, calculating, and driven.  Her heart, however, is rather soft, which is a quality that she constantly seeks to suppress since she feels that it is a hindrance more than a positive quality.

Rin’s tendencies towards perfectionism straddle the line between particular and obsessive. Her apperance, as well as her living environment are always spotless. With Rin’s background in dance, music, and the like, she possesses an excellent sense of balance, and a natural, albiet unnerving fluidity is evident in every motion she makes, no matter how small: even mundane actions such as walking or cooking may appear as dancing when performed by Rin.

Rin has never sustained a serious injury and does not possess a single scar on her entire body.  Be that as it may, Rin almost always covers between fifty to eighty percent of her body in bandages. This is more to preserve decency during battle than anything else.


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