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Applicant Info

◎ Name: Pikari
◎ Journal: moes
◎ Contact:

( AIM ) hightouches
( PLURK ) endlesseight

Character Info

◎ Character's Name: Rin Tohsaka
◎ Character's Canon: Fate/stay night
◎ Character's Age: 17
◎ Canon Point: After "Brilliant Years", the true end of Unlimited Blade Works.
◎ Background/History: Wiki + Unlimited Blade Works
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? Rin is a very talented magus, so she is able to sense other magi and supernatural beings, like Servants, if they are not cloaking their abilities. She can also sense boundary fields and the set-up of one; again, if it's not concealed.

◎ Personality:

At a glance, Rin Tohsaka is shown to be the ideal woman: a model student; intelligent, elegant, and perfect in every single way. However, the true form of the girl named Rin is something completely different. In fact, the idea of Rin being someone who is ideal, perfect, is just a facade -- it is a front that she puts up in order to protect other people from finding out the type of person that she truly is. And that truth is that on the other side of the coin that is Rin Tohsaka, there lies a secret that could kill a man if found out by any ordinary person. And that fact is that she is actually a magus, or in Rin's words, "heretics who hide ourselves from the world."

❝ ...Well, it's not something I can brag about.
Actually, I can't speak openly about it at all.
Oh, by the way, I, Tohsaka Rin, am a magus.
Who on earth can I brag to like that? ❞

Ever since she was little, Rin was estranged from the rest of the world for being a magus. After all, she was no longer considered a "normal person", nor could she do so, no matter how hard she tried. And as a magus, she had to follow the old traditions -- she could not tell anybody who isn't one about her magic or else they would be killed, and because of that fact alone, Rin found herself without many true friends, and this lasted for quite some time. As not only the daughter to the Tohsaka family, a family that takes their customs rather seriously to the point where it affects how Rin acts around people, but as the heir to their magic, she has to follow everything to the point, which is actually one of the biggest conflicts that she faces.

Because she's unable to show her abilities to the world -- she's not allowed to stand out, instead, she's forced to blend in with the others, yet all the while considering herself as "abnormal". After all, a magus is unable to live a normal life, no matter what. And although Rin does not hate the fact that she is a magus, that she has these, powers that she has to hide from the world, there is a part of her that gets hurt by these laws and rules and obligations that every single magus has to go through; she can't live her life freely and the way she wants, even if she tried. But what hurts the most is that she knows that being a magus means death is eminent, especially when you're in a Holy Grail War.

❝ Magic is the culmination of lifetimes of work,
handed down from parent to child, for generation after generation.
The instant a child is born into a magus family,
that child becomes heir and successor.
That's the reason we're born,
and it's what we die for. ❞

One of the things that Rin gets rather upset about is being unable to have friends or family; it's painful because her father had always treated her not as a daughter, but as a student -- a magus. However, Rin herself understands all too well that is exactly what a magus is all about. But because of these hardships, she decided that it would be best to harden her heart in front of everyone, to the point where she can be rather cruel to others, to the point where she would seriously kill the person she loves just so she can win.

To Rin, winning is everything. The reason why the Holy Grail is important to her is not only due to the fact that it's actually personal for her, but also because she outright hates to lose.

◎ Powers/Abilities:


Magic — Rin's magical affinity as a magus is that she is able to use all of the elements: water, fire, earth, wood and metal. Since she is a magus of the Tohsaka family, she is proficient in conversion of power, though she specifically puts her prana into jewels for jewel magecraft. She mostly uses them as powerful bullets, though they can also be used for other purposes - for example, she uses it to open Shirou's Magic Circuit so he can switch it on and off.

Gandr — Rin's most common offensive spell is this, a Finnish technique that was originally used as a curse to cause people to get ill. However, in the way Rin uses it, she concentrates prana onto the tip of her forefinger to use a gandr shot like a bullet. And because of the Magic Circuit that she inherited from her family, she is able to use multiple gandr shots repeatedly without having to cast a spell.

Bounded Field — Rin is able to create a bounded field, or rather, a barrier surrounding an enclosed space to trap people in it, though it can be broken rather easily.

Reinforcement Sorcery — She can use this to reinforce any part of her body, primarily her legs and arms to strengthen her physical attacks as well as her speed.

Martial arts — Rin is able to use Chinese martial arts that she learned from Kirei Kotomine to protect herself. She can combine this along with her reinforcement sorcery in order to become rather powerful.

Geis — Although not used often due to the fact that she cannot use it readily, as one of the worst curses out there, Rin is able to use this to bind someone to bind them to their command, though it cannot be used to cause them to do anything to themselves.


◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

• Jewels. Although she used plenty of them during the fights, she still has some left over - although not plenty - she practically carries them around with her all the time. Though where exactly she puts them is a question to behold. I'm assuming that she has about three to five left on her, if that's okay.
• Her casual clothes.
• Her school uniform.
• Her father heirloom. This is also a jewel, but it's nearly out of power and cannot be used for magic by any means. However, it can be used as a necklace.


CEREALIA-Specific

◎ Element: Fire.
◎ Sense: Sound. A lot of things that happen to Rin coincide with sound - the fact that she wakes up to alarm clocks to the fact that she hears the screams of someone early on in Unlimited Blade Works, and even later on to indicate that there's a battle going on, too.
◎ Seven Character Traits: ( confident, perceptive, honorable ) | ( stubborn, cold, perfectionist ) + intelligent

Samples

◎ First-Person Sample: one, two

◎ Third-Person Sample:



◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? Nope.