The event was so traumatic that Rin became a silent and emotionless girl. Rin, who had been folding paper cranes incessantly in the hopes that Aki would recover if she made enough of them, was at her mother's side during her last moments. Though normally shy around strangers, she immediately warmed up to Reiji Kokonoe (Rin's first cousin once removed) when he moved in with them after being orphaned, and accepted the relationship that developed between her mother and him. Her joy at finally having a complete family to call her own, however, was short-lived: Aki was diagnosed with lung cancer, and, while she tried to stay alive long enough to see her daughter enter first grade, died several months later.

Rin bears a striking resemblance to her mother Aki Kokonoe as they both share the same hair color and eye color.īorn and raised by Aki Kokonoe (Rin's single mother) for the first five years of her life, Rin was an affectionate and happy child. Rin is a cute girl with knee-length ochre-colored hair that is usually tied in twin pigtails by four pink beads (two on top and two at the bottom) with bangs hanging over her forehead while she has shoulder-length (or chest-length) hair strands hanging on either side and brown eyes.

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