Rin Tezuka

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"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

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 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.

Appearance

Rin is a slim girl with a slightly above average height, standing taller than both Shizune and Emi. She has a short reddish brown hair and her eyes are dark green. She's seen mostly wearing a school uniform but unlike most girls due to her armless condition she wears a male uniform with her sleeves tied in with a pair of black sandals, during her time in Sae's Gallery she's still seen wearing her usual male polo shirt excluded with her tie and wears a overall maroon denim pants.

Personality

As an artist, Rin is an extremely creative person, and equally philosophical; it is not uncommon to spot her lost in thought, or giving voice to abstract opinions on man, the universe, and so on. She is not particularly skilled with words, and has difficulty conveying her ideas to others. For Rin, art is the preferred method of communication, and she uses her work as a visual display of her thoughts.

Relationships

Family

Not much is known and said 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 opportunities for their daughter.

Students

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, amongst 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 a member of the art club, and presumably has acquaintances from there, though she is not socially active.

Staff

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 their supportiveness of her artwork.

Trivia

• Due to her inability at times to identify her own emotions and her trouble distinguishing 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 romanceable girl the player can see with very notable 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)
• Her surname Tezuka is a reference to japanese animator/manga artist Ozamu Tezuka.
• The second unlockable main menu picture for Rins plot shows Rin in the pose of the "Venus de Milo" which has also no arms (Hisao's pose is the one of "The Thinker")

Plot

See Rin's route for the full plotline.

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