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{{Quote|Since Rin’s arms are tiny stumps due to a severe birth defect and subsequent surgery, she uses her feet and occasionally her mouth to do everything, which includes painting. Because of her disability, using skirts is tough, so Rin is wearing a boy’s uniform at school. Her creativity is matched by her philosophical streak: Rin is fond of occasionally getting lost in thought and giving voice to abstract ideas about man, the universe, and other things that thoroughly confuse people|Official Description}}

{{Japanese|Rin Tezuka|手塚琳|Tezuka Rin}} is a highly talented artist in class 3-4 of [[Yamaku]]. Lacking arms due to a birth defect ([[RAITA]]'s original sketch labelled her as a 'Thalidomide Baby'), Rin uses her feet, and occasionally her mouth, for all daily tasks. This makes her ill-suited to wear the skirt and blouse of most female students at Yamaku, so she is permitted to wear the boy's uniform instead.

Rin is a slim girl of a slightly above average height, standing taller than both [[Shizune Hakamichi|Shizune]] and [[Emi Ibarazaki|Emi]]. She has close-cropped auburn hair and dark green eyes. She is usually seen wearing a school uniform, but unlike most girls she wears the boys' uniform with her sleeves tied up in knots, and a pair of black sandals. During [[Rin's route|her time in Sae's Gallery]] she's still seen wearing her usual school shirt underneath a pair of blue overalls.

Not much is stated about Rin's parents. However Rin's mentor and Yamaku's art teacher [[Nomiya]] is aware of how supportive they are when it comes to providing opportunities for their daughter.

Despite an apparent personality clash, Rin and [[Emi]] are best friends. They are supportive of each other, even if they do not wish to partake in the other's activities; Rin is happy to watch Emi's track meets and Emi helps with Rin's art, among other things. Because she lacks arms, Rin relies on Emi for many tasks-possibly the reason the housing department placed them across the hall from each other. Rin is also shown to be acquainted with Emi's mother [[Meiko Ibarazaki|Meiko]] as the two talk casually with one another.

Rin is also a member of the [[art club]], and presumably has acquaintances from the club (including a blind boy who she mentions in passing), though she is not socially active.

As an art club member, Rin interacts quite regularly with Nomiya, but exhibits an apathy towards him and his friends, such as [[Sae Saionji]], despite them being supportive of her artwork.

*Due to her inability at times to identify her own emotions and her trouble gauging the emotions of others, it is a safe assumption that Rin suffers from some degree of Alexithymia; a personality construct characterized by the sub-clinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.

*Rin is the only pursuable girl that the player can see with very noticeable tears flowing from her eyes on her sprite near the end of her route.

*The name Rin means "dignified, severe, cold," the last being the most likely relevant to her personality. (http://www.behindthename.com/name/rin)

* The second unlockable main menu picture for Rin's plot shows Rin in the pose of the "[[wikipedia:Venus_de_Milo|Venus de Milo]]" which has also no arms (Hisao's pose is the one of "[[wikipedia:The_Thinker|The Thinker]]")