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Current Characters in Route: Aradia Megido & Mitsukuni Haninozuka!

Character
Name: Rin Nohara.
Series: Naruto.
Timeline: Pre-canon; directly post-death. Like a lot of the dead ninja, Rin's life is covered entirely via flashbacks.
Canon Resource Links: Here!
Personality:

Placed in a team with two rather loud boys - well, Obito was loud, while Kakashi always drew attention in a different way, by being a "genius", proud and stubborn (though both of them were that) - Rin was always a quiet counterpoint in her appearances. She spoke up, yes, and intervened on occasion, but she never really drew attention the way they did from their teacher. While Minato at one point had to intervene on Kakashi's jounin mission to scold both boys, Rin managed to escape the lecture free of any censure solely because she honestly didn't seem to be as hot-blooded and impulsive as either of the boys. And honestly, that would be a truthful assumption to make - but it's also not something that's very hard to accomplish, considering who her teammates are. Nearly anyone would seem pretty calm and reasonable next to Obito and Kakashi when the two were near one another, since they didn't exactly get on throughout that time period.

That said, Rin actually is level-headed and calm, even when on her own. She wasn't easily drawn into the arguments the boys had - in fact, she was never actually shown to get involved in the fights except to mediate them. And when she mediated the fights, she was excruciatingly fair. While Rin had (has) feelings for Kakashi, she was known to take Obito's side in an argument at times, or to "go easy on him", in Kakashi's point of view. When she was taken captive (...twice) she doesn't seem to have panicked past the initial "crap, I'm being taken captive" shock. She seemed a little surprised to see Kakashi and Obito the first time, when they came to rescue her, but smiled almost immediately after, perfectly willing to roll with the punches, as it were. When Obito requests she transplant his eye into Kakashi - at a time where she was certain Obito was going to die, was dying, because there was no way she could help him - Rin only takes a moment for surprise before wiping away her tears and calmly demanding Kakashi get over to them so she could start. She was also the one who relayed all that had happened to Minato, and after Kakashi woke up, Rin was standing alone doing nothing more than staring at the stars - apparently done with her tears. In the middle of a battlefield, with one teammate dying and the other injured, Rin was able to hold herself together enough to preform what had to be a dangerous operation with limited supplies, shortly after she'd been kidnapped and interrogated.

She also calmly assesses the worth of her own life in regards to the safety of the village, while fleeing from a number of pursuers, and even makes the decision to ultimately take herself out of the picture due to the threat she could pose - a decision that required a seriously calm head and a heavy dose of determination. Which brings us to the fact that Rin, despite being the mediator of her team, and despite being calm and level-headed? Is actually pretty darn stubborn. An enemy tells her while interrogating her under genjutsu (a ninja-magic enforced illusion) that she's "unexpectedly stubborn". While Rin was only a chuunin at the time, and no more than twelve years old, and while her captor was clearly an experienced ninja at least twice her age? She actually doesn't give away any information during her capture, despite the mind-infiltration tactics. She also argued with Kakashi about her own death, and refused to back down from the fact that she posed a serious threat to the village, and that she had been made into a pawn. When Kakashi refused to see her point (or, rather, insisted they'd figure something out) Rin stopped arguing about it and just went through with it anyway. The nice, friendly girl she seems to be - and is! - definitely masks a fair amount of steel - which shouldn't be too surprising, since she did choose to be a ninja.

And Rin is a very caring and helpful girl, which perhaps makes her specialization in medical ninjutsu no surprise (she's the Team Medic, to borrow a trope). It's shown to be something that was true of her even when she was very young. Back when they all first joined the Academy - "all" being Rin, Kakashi, and Obito, among others - Rin was the student who held onto Obito's entrance papers when he ran late, handing them over after he arrived with a smile. Though they probably hadn't known one another at that time, Konoha being large and Obito being from a bigger clan, she apparently had volunteered for that task. She also is shown various times patching up her teammates (...admittedly Obito more than Kakashi, as Obito tended to hurt himself more than the other boy did), and at one point scolds Obito for trying to hide injuries from her, saying that she was looking after them. She's clearly on good terms with Obito, and is shown to care a great deal about Kakashi, whom she seemed to get along with, even if they weren't close friends (due to Kakashi being...Kakashi). Admittedly her feelings for Kakashi probably played into planning a party to celebrate his becoming a jounin, but that's the sort of action that is very indicative of her personality - taking an active, genuine interest in the lives and achievements of her friends.

It's very clear that Rin is a devoted individual. Be it to her friends or her village, she seems to be loyal to her core - she also seems to fall more in line with Kakashi's original views, keeping to the ninja codes that hold the village above the individual, in certain cases (those being the cases which involve the village versus Rin Nohara). She's shown to have a certain amount of unwillingness to leave Obito after he's crushed by the rock. Until the last minute she holds his hand, and it takes him shouting at her and Kakashi reaching out for her to get Rin moving - and although after that she does so immediately, she still looks back at her friend as Kakashi hauls her out of danger. Later, when she's made into a tool to be used against Konoha, Rin's loyalty to Konoha compels her to end her own life. She was forced into being a Jinchuriki, which is basically a vessel for a demon. Rin figured out that Kirigakure was trying to use her as a living weapon against her home village, letting her and Kakashi get away in order to release the demon within Rin on the village. Rin didn't want to be a pawn and didn't want to sacrifice her village - and after Kakashi refused to assist her by killing her, she took another tack and timed it so that he had no choice. Which was...sort of a jerk move, but there you go.

Rin does have her faults, you see, like any other human being. And while they're sprinkled throughout the rest, let's clarify some of them here: Rin can be a bit brash, although it's a much more subdued version than either of the other members of Team Minato might display. If she had waited just a little longer, had listened to Kakashi about them figuring something out...if she had waited, Obito would have had time to get there, and to assist them, and maybe things could have been different. She's also apparently a little bit oblivious about certain things, despite being intelligent enough to learn advanced medical ninjutsu as a young girl, and figuring out the Mist's plan for her as a jinchuriki. Why? Apparently Rin honestly hadn't noticed that Obito had feelings for her until Kakashi spelled it out for her after Obito's "death". She even unintentionally led him on by asking her to meet up with her after Kakashi made jounin - it was actually a meeting for everyone in his Academy class to plan a surprise party, but Obito seemed to think it was something else. Whoops!!

Strengths:

• Level-headed.
• Fair; something of a mediator by habit as much as nature. She doesn't seem to allow her personal feelings to overtake what she feels is fair in a situation, when it comes to playing mediator.
• Medical training. While there was a lot of ninjutsu, there's also all the usual training a medic would receive sans that. She's probably going to have her hands full with keeping her teammates in one piece, and will be attempting to learn how to best help their pokemon.
• Intelligent.
• Although she specialized in medical skills and was shown to be a supportive fighter rather than an active participant (that is, she always handled the rear while the boys took the front), Rin was a ninja, and with that came all the basic skills and abilities. That's halved in Route, but even halved that's a level of competence at physical activities that isn't truly civilian.

Weaknesses:

• That said, Rin's physical abilities are halved, and she's actually not a very spectacular example of a fighting ninja. She's support, and focuses more on that.
• She just died. This will probably be a bit of an issue to get over, since she's nowhere near as blase about death as Aradia other people.
• She also has to sort of live with the fact that she used Kakashi to commit suicide, and now she has to face him about it. Which is awkward, especially since she'll have had more time to, you know, think about how that might have not been the most fair to him.
• Stubborn. Once she's decided she has the right idea about something, it's apparently hard to get her to budge.
• Passive in some respects; willing to put her feelings and needs on the backburner as required.

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer.
Starter: Audino.
Password: Ginger Snaps! Why do our passwords always make me crave whatever they are. :|

Samples
First Person Sample:

[ This post could take place anywhere. There's no defining shot of a background that's instantly recognizable - just trees, and sky, and Rin. If it weren't for the music - typical Route fair, but with a Johto-esque theme - it would be hard to pin down where she was even that far. It's habit as much as anything else to make certain of that much - though if she'd really wanted to be mysterious about it, she would have used the text function, so she doesn't actually mind being caught out, here.

Rin herself looks native for a given value of native, too. She's swapped out to the extra set of clothing in her pack - "lass" - and instead of a hitai-ate, there's a plain blue headband. There's also a smile. ]

Hi! So, to preface this, let me say I did read the guides given to me at the start of this. [ That's brisk and matter-of-fact more than anything else. And Rin had. She'd done that first thing, because information was key. ] But what I'm most interested in wasn't really covered there. The warnings about berries were helpful, but...

[ Not really the most complete informational packet, and she'd definitely like more to rely on, if at all possible. It was her job to know this sort of thing. "This sort of thing" being... ] Does anyone have any tips on what other poisonous substances we might encounter here? Or any pointers on keeping your pokemon healthy? I do plan to learn what I can from the centers, but we're a bit between places right now, so it's not really practical.

[ There's a little sigh. ] I am trained in first aid and medicine, and I presume a lot of it will work on them, but I'm not...entirely sure how the different physiologys might change how that works. So - I'm all ears. And thanks in advance. [ Signing out. ]

Third Person Sample:

It couldn't be a genjutsu, but it couldn't be anything but a genjutsu. So what was it? If not an illusion - impossible, because none of this made sense in the context of the real world - and if not truth - impossible, because she was dead and she couldn't feel her chakra (so maybe this wasn't impossible, and this was just what happened after) - then what was it? It couldn't be anything but one of those two, unless there was information she simply wasn't privy to...

So, okay. Information. That was something Rin could focus on, more than the memories of dying, of Kakashi, of the thing that had been inside of her. That was something she'd been trained to gather and analyze, and it was practical enough to serve two purposes. First, it would allow Rin to better understand what was going on. Second, it would keep her busy.

What did she know so far?

Not much. The woman who had called herself "Mom" had pushed her out the door without much warning, and Rin hadn't been able to persuade her otherwise. The...thing who accompanied her - the "Pokemon"? - seemed pleasant enough and was clearly smiling and humming happily. Even now, as Rin slanted a glance sideways. She'd found a shady place to sit down and gather herself - secluded, good vantage point, hard to sneak up on - and the thing had followed, and she'd let it. It was hard to turn down any company at all, just now, and she didn't have the hear to try to dissuade something so gentle.

She didn't seem to have access to her chakra. Her strength also seemed to be diminished somehow - and while Rin would never claim to be taijutsu expert or a front-line fighter, she'd been a ninja - and every single weapon she'd had was gone. Most of what she'd had was gone, save for a few scraps in her pockets.

So what did she have? Well, the thing following her. A bag, given to her by the "Mom" character. Clothes that fit in better - she'd changed the first chance she'd gotten, figuring that not knowing where she was did not happen to be a good reason to not act as though she belonged - and a manual she'd read. "Pokemon" seemed to be the main theme, there, without any of the information Rin would have deemed most important, such as "why am I here and what is going on". Some food (not much, but she'd be able to find more and this would do for now), supplies for camping (also not much, but that was easy enough to remedy later), and what she determined was some sort of communication device.

Considering that she'd gotten all she could from the guides, and that Rin wanted a little more to go on before she started speaking to the natives, she went with investigating the communication (?) device over going to mingle with the townfolk. After all, a communication device generally meant there were two sides to something, and she didn't have to use hers actively in order to get something from it, right? She could just listen, right?

At least, if this was some sort of communication device instead of a useless hunk of metal. But Rin was choosing to be optimistic, for the moment. "Let's see, if we just..." Ah. At least she'd been expecting it to do something - a nebulous expectation, and admittedly one that gave her a decidedly cautious and skeptical expression - or Rin might have dropped the pokegear when it began to speak.

No, not speaking - rather, that wasn't a human voice, but some sort of...recording. She'd accidentally aimed it at the Pokemon - sorry, the Audino, which explained what the Audino had been saying (was it narcissistic or just incapable of saying anything else on some other level?) - and suddenly...

Well. "Audino, hm." It didn't seem to be a name for this specific creature, but rather the species... "I can't call you what you are, though." So what did you call what equated to an animal summon? Rin had never given it much thought. "...Let's go with Konoka, for now. And with that...I think we'd better move on to a more active tack of investigation, right?"