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_CHARACTER'S NAME: Rin Okumua
_CANON: Blue Exorcist
_CANON POINT: End of Chapter 64 (so most recent)
_CHARACTER'S PHYSICAL AGE: 15
_CHARACTER'S MENTAL AGE (IF DIFFERENT): Also 15
_CHARACTER'S HAIR COLOR: Black
_TANAGURA (elite) OR MIDAS (mongrel)?: Midas
_HOUSING PREFERENCE: Whatever room is Area 5 of Neal Darts.
_LINK TO TEST DRIVE THREAD: here
_HISTORY: here is his wikia page and this is the character page for the series on Wikipedia.
_ABILITIES: The core of Rin’s abilities, especially as they pertain to combat, come of his heritage. Both he and his twin brother are the offspring of Satan (their father) and a human woman, though Rin is the one who inherited the bulk of the demonic traits. Because of plans set in place by his adoptive father many of his powers were sealed within the demon-slaying sword Kurikara, and even though the overall seal is broken if the sword is drawn or not still serves as a soft cap on Rin’s ability to use his powers / assume his “full” demonic form.
In his normal form aside from a few physical markers (lightly pointed ears, slightly elongated canines, and of course a tail) his primary asset seems to be super strength. Even un-transformed Rin has been shown to be able to lift up a car and single-handedly pull a heavy stone lantern on a cart, among other things. In this form he does also still have access to his ability to survive and heal from great injuries (it’s a little unclear, actually, if being transformed makes them heal faster or not, but regardless he’s been shown to fairly quickly recover from (among other things): being impaled with demonic claws through the stomach, having his leg impaled with a broadsword, being burnt, and being tossed dozens of yards into solid objects). Additionally, while it’s much more limited in this form, he can still access his flames.
The flames are the cornerstone of Rin’s abilities – his greatest weapon as well as arguably the thing that puts him at his greatest risk. In Blue Exorcist Satan’s flames are blue in color (more white at the core of them) and are capable of burning anything (it’s been shown to be capable of taking large chunks of a forest into ash, burning/melting metal, immolating demons, etc). Additionally, Satan’s flames have a unique properly to be capable of simultaneously burning the physical and metaphysical at the same time: so the flames are capable of burning spirits, souls, and the demons that are possessing am object in the human world in addition to the object itself (which is mostly important for the mechanics of the BE world but it bears mention here too).
The flames present several inherent weaknesses too, though with training Rin has worked to improve upon a lot of them. Mephisto claims at one point that the flames are Rin’s “demonic heart,” and in other demons their hearts are the double-edged sword which presents the most vulnerable part of them, but also are used to activate the apex of their power. It’s still currently unknown what this means for Rin, but on a practical levels there have been instances (most notable in the Impure King arc) where Rin describes losing control as being like the flames were going to burn everything around him and he himself, including his very soul. Additionally, their power means that he needs to keep fine control of his flames. Currently, as long as he’s able to focus at all, Rin can control what his flames burn (things he has designated not burning just get a lurkwarm sensation) and where they go to some extent. Additionally, he had trained himself in two techniques using his flames: using the mas a concussive (solid) projectile shot out of his sword (“Satan Slash”) and using his flames as an explosive (“Satan Boom”). He’s also been seen to use the flames in tandem with his sword and strength to cut through objects that might have otherwise been difficult to, such as a solid stone statue.
As mentioned, he is capable of using all of these powers to limited extents while in his normal form, but when he draws his sword (and thus breaks the seal on his powers) he transforms into his demonic state. In this state, Rin does seem to be even closer to that knife’s edge of losing control (particularly if he gets angry – it’s been seen a few times that if pushed to the edge he can be reduced to mindlessness), but in return for that almost all of his powers are intensified. Whilst transformed (and actively fighting – recently he’s been able to transform without being quite in “battle mode” his body tends to be bathed in the blue flames, with concentrated points on his “horns,” tail, and around his sword. His flames can also be shot out at, light up around, or otherwise spread to a much larger area: He’s been shown to be able to immolate a kraken, a large disease-monster the size of Godzilla (with help from a god) and set the larger part of a forest ablaze. He’s also much faster and much stronger: he’s shown to be able to make standing jumps twenty or thirty feet up into the air and keep pace with a powerful demon king and accelerate enough to look like a blue rocket.
And finally, while his largest weakness is the risks associated with his own control, there are some others: he’s only an “okay” swordsman despite needing to use a sword as his primary weapon. If the sword ends up in the hands of the enemy (and the scabbard) they can control if he is or isn’t transformed, and also potentially make for greater risks to him (we don’t, for example, know what would happen to him if Kurikara were broken or damaged). As a demon, he is burned by holy water, and various binding verses are able to be used on him, such as the one Shura uses along with the ring at the base of his tail to make him docile. A demon’s tail is a weak point as well – it’s quite sensitive and seems to hurt a lot if grabbed with force. In Blue Exorcist, most demons have a “death verse” – a line of scripture from some religion which will banish their back to Gehenna. It’s unknown if Rin has one, but given that he was born on Assiah (and his having a proper Assiah body appears to be why Satan wants him) this seems unlikely.
_PERSONALITY: In all honesty, Rin is not a very complicated young man.
Driven by a strong desire to do right by his friends and family, as well as help all those around him if he has the power to do so, Rin Okumura is a fairly prototypical shounen hero. He often leaps long before he looks, moving out before he considers what the consequences might be, sometimes with serious consequences, such as when he transformed and confronted Suguro over looking down on his father only to end up in custody. Other times, his performances have really saved the team, such as when he rose up to directly confront Amaimon in defiance of his brother’s order or in the most recent arc where he’s repeatedly rushed right in to try and assist Izumo. Of course, those last ones can highlight how, at times, his actions can hold consequences for others as well – a lesson he’s been forced to learn several times, such as when him, Shiemi, and Yukio ended up in an undersea cave during the kraken battle. It’s not always quickly, because his heart is far bigger than his mind is sharp, but in his training to become and Exorcist, Rin isn’t stupid.
That said, he is poorly educated. He only barely finished middle school, and until the death of his father and his proclamation he would become an exorcist – thus meaning he would transfer into True Cross Academy – he wasn’t even planning to attend high school, instead searching for a job. Rin is difficult to motivate towards anything productive, ignorant, dense, and has a poor vocabulary on top of all that, having been shown to repeatedly straight up forget words and come up with a “viable” substitute which happens to sound similar. Despite this, it also isn't totally fair to call him stupid. Many characters in the series have rejected the notion that he is. Rin actually is fairly intuitive, able to pick out the bare bones of an emotional situation if he has the right context for it, such as when he empathized with Neuhaus or when he took Shiemi to dance with his brother together with him, effective demolishing what could have been a love triangle. But he also isn't the brightest - he's very dense, prone to missing the point in situations and filled with a general lack of social grace born partially out of his isolation and partially just because of his nature. Kind or not, Rin is also quick to resort to violence, quick to argue, and puts himself into bad situations because of it.
This same isolation has a variety of causes and a variety of affects on Rin’s life and personality. It’s shown that from a young age he not only was strong enough to break a grown man’s ribs in kindergarten, but he also had a temper foul enough to terrify his peers and his teachers, who called him a “monster.” While love an affection from his family saved him from going down a dark path entirely, Rin hasn’t completely failed to internalize those values. He wears a punk persona on himself, complete with unnecessary chains on his belt, a brash attitude, and a willingness to lose his cool and be the fall guy in situations, because who would expect anything of him in the first place? This can be seen in the first chapter repeatedly, he’s well known for getting into fights and when the bullies he’d beaten up over animal cruelty seek retaliation against him, he doesn’t even find them unjustified until they insult his brother. Rin has developed a very distinct sense of self-depreciation.
While he can bluster and be filled with visible bravado, particularly towards his brother, whom he has many disagreements with, he self-admonishes himself for being "stupid," acknowledges that studying doesn't suit him, and at his worst – namely, when he was slated for execution during the Impure King arc - rationally concludes that his own existence is such a liability to the people around him that it might be better off if he died. While he puts on a show of being tough or smiling through things, Rin's self-esteem is a cesspool of dour conclusions only kept in check by the fact that he has a great willpower and drive towards his goals. Namely, that he wants to be better than he is. He wants to be strong enough to not put other people down and to be a cool guy.
"Willpower" is very important for Rin. With so little else going for him, much of his bluster comes out of a knowledge that he has no other path left to him other than to become an exorcist. And even there, the meaning has subtly changed over time: immediately following his father’s death, he swears to become strong enough to defeat Satan. Later, more and more reasons stack up for him: to stand beside his brother, to become Paladin and clean his father’s name, to help the helpless who are hassled by demons, and to help his friends who are training right along sight him. The journey to those conclusions hasn’t always been smooth: while Yukio and him got along very well whilst Rin was ignorant of demons, they get into very pitched arguments after, largely born out of different values and opinions on how to live their lives.
He’s also repeatedly had to be reminded that his friends are there for him – during the Impure King arc, Suguro’s faith in him is what allows him to make the pact with Usshusma. During the battle against the painting, Konekomaru names Rin the exwires’s “trump card,” and even if he could save the day single-handedly currently, he needs to allow the others to do their part for when he can’t. Shura, through the use of the candle training and other more brutal methods has impressed on him his current weakness and his need to self-improve. Rin has taken all of these lessons to heart, because even if he is a headstrong punk with strong moral convictions, he isn’t ignorant of the lessons his friends can teach him, even if he might not always agree.
While the relationship with his friends and his mentors have been touched on here, of particularly great importance to his personality are the relationship he has with his teo family members: his adoptive father (Shiro Fujimoto) and his younger twin brother (Yukio Okumura). Shiro, especially once Rin learns more about who he really was posthumously, is everything that Rin aspires to be. Having failed him by allowing Satan to possess him (thereby leading to his death) and rejected him in his final minutes, Rin wants to make amends for that, and he also has tried hard to emulate the man he is fairly certain his father was, a strong and courageous man willing to allow him to survive, because he was also kind. Meanwhile, his brother has lived with the reality of who their father was far longer than Rin. Yukio has a very pragmatic approach to the world, often seeming too cold for Rin’s tastes – such as when they confronted each other on the Phantom Train – or seeming too arrogant, such as during the Kraken arc. Yukio struggles to accept that Rin’s been brought into what he sees as a dark and dangerous world, but that same worry chafes at Rin, who simply wants to stand beside his brother, even when they aren’t getting along. Also, sespite Yukio having pulled a gun on a him a few times, Rin has sworn he would never hurt his brother, and this has stood thus far, never even throwing a punch at the guy (though Yukio has punched him).
So in essence, Rin Okumura is a kindhearted punk who has a very foul temper and is generally a delinquent, but wants to do right by his father, his brother, and his friends. However, he is also a troubled youth who does not want to saddle his friends with the "burdens" associated with being his friend, such as dealing with the fact that he is an extremely powerful half-demon, the son of Satan himself. He's forthright and honest for the most part, but also prone to taking all the suffering of a situation onto him personally. He's a good kid, if a lot rough around the edges.
_ITEMS: His sword (Kurikara), it’s sheath and the clothes on his back. Additionally, his exorcist uniform (which is basically just a school uniform, so two sets of clothes)
_CHARACTER'S NAME: Rin Okumua
_CANON: Blue Exorcist
_CANON POINT: End of Chapter 64 (so most recent)
_CHARACTER'S PHYSICAL AGE: 15
_CHARACTER'S MENTAL AGE (IF DIFFERENT): Also 15
_CHARACTER'S HAIR COLOR: Black
_TANAGURA (elite) OR MIDAS (mongrel)?: Midas
_HOUSING PREFERENCE: Whatever room is Area 5 of Neal Darts.
_LINK TO TEST DRIVE THREAD: here
_HISTORY: here is his wikia page and this is the character page for the series on Wikipedia.
_ABILITIES: The core of Rin’s abilities, especially as they pertain to combat, come of his heritage. Both he and his twin brother are the offspring of Satan (their father) and a human woman, though Rin is the one who inherited the bulk of the demonic traits. Because of plans set in place by his adoptive father many of his powers were sealed within the demon-slaying sword Kurikara, and even though the overall seal is broken if the sword is drawn or not still serves as a soft cap on Rin’s ability to use his powers / assume his “full” demonic form.
In his normal form aside from a few physical markers (lightly pointed ears, slightly elongated canines, and of course a tail) his primary asset seems to be super strength. Even un-transformed Rin has been shown to be able to lift up a car and single-handedly pull a heavy stone lantern on a cart, among other things. In this form he does also still have access to his ability to survive and heal from great injuries (it’s a little unclear, actually, if being transformed makes them heal faster or not, but regardless he’s been shown to fairly quickly recover from (among other things): being impaled with demonic claws through the stomach, having his leg impaled with a broadsword, being burnt, and being tossed dozens of yards into solid objects). Additionally, while it’s much more limited in this form, he can still access his flames.
The flames are the cornerstone of Rin’s abilities – his greatest weapon as well as arguably the thing that puts him at his greatest risk. In Blue Exorcist Satan’s flames are blue in color (more white at the core of them) and are capable of burning anything (it’s been shown to be capable of taking large chunks of a forest into ash, burning/melting metal, immolating demons, etc). Additionally, Satan’s flames have a unique properly to be capable of simultaneously burning the physical and metaphysical at the same time: so the flames are capable of burning spirits, souls, and the demons that are possessing am object in the human world in addition to the object itself (which is mostly important for the mechanics of the BE world but it bears mention here too).
The flames present several inherent weaknesses too, though with training Rin has worked to improve upon a lot of them. Mephisto claims at one point that the flames are Rin’s “demonic heart,” and in other demons their hearts are the double-edged sword which presents the most vulnerable part of them, but also are used to activate the apex of their power. It’s still currently unknown what this means for Rin, but on a practical levels there have been instances (most notable in the Impure King arc) where Rin describes losing control as being like the flames were going to burn everything around him and he himself, including his very soul. Additionally, their power means that he needs to keep fine control of his flames. Currently, as long as he’s able to focus at all, Rin can control what his flames burn (things he has designated not burning just get a lurkwarm sensation) and where they go to some extent. Additionally, he had trained himself in two techniques using his flames: using the mas a concussive (solid) projectile shot out of his sword (“Satan Slash”) and using his flames as an explosive (“Satan Boom”). He’s also been seen to use the flames in tandem with his sword and strength to cut through objects that might have otherwise been difficult to, such as a solid stone statue.
As mentioned, he is capable of using all of these powers to limited extents while in his normal form, but when he draws his sword (and thus breaks the seal on his powers) he transforms into his demonic state. In this state, Rin does seem to be even closer to that knife’s edge of losing control (particularly if he gets angry – it’s been seen a few times that if pushed to the edge he can be reduced to mindlessness), but in return for that almost all of his powers are intensified. Whilst transformed (and actively fighting – recently he’s been able to transform without being quite in “battle mode” his body tends to be bathed in the blue flames, with concentrated points on his “horns,” tail, and around his sword. His flames can also be shot out at, light up around, or otherwise spread to a much larger area: He’s been shown to be able to immolate a kraken, a large disease-monster the size of Godzilla (with help from a god) and set the larger part of a forest ablaze. He’s also much faster and much stronger: he’s shown to be able to make standing jumps twenty or thirty feet up into the air and keep pace with a powerful demon king and accelerate enough to look like a blue rocket.
And finally, while his largest weakness is the risks associated with his own control, there are some others: he’s only an “okay” swordsman despite needing to use a sword as his primary weapon. If the sword ends up in the hands of the enemy (and the scabbard) they can control if he is or isn’t transformed, and also potentially make for greater risks to him (we don’t, for example, know what would happen to him if Kurikara were broken or damaged). As a demon, he is burned by holy water, and various binding verses are able to be used on him, such as the one Shura uses along with the ring at the base of his tail to make him docile. A demon’s tail is a weak point as well – it’s quite sensitive and seems to hurt a lot if grabbed with force. In Blue Exorcist, most demons have a “death verse” – a line of scripture from some religion which will banish their back to Gehenna. It’s unknown if Rin has one, but given that he was born on Assiah (and his having a proper Assiah body appears to be why Satan wants him) this seems unlikely.
_PERSONALITY: In all honesty, Rin is not a very complicated young man.
Driven by a strong desire to do right by his friends and family, as well as help all those around him if he has the power to do so, Rin Okumura is a fairly prototypical shounen hero. He often leaps long before he looks, moving out before he considers what the consequences might be, sometimes with serious consequences, such as when he transformed and confronted Suguro over looking down on his father only to end up in custody. Other times, his performances have really saved the team, such as when he rose up to directly confront Amaimon in defiance of his brother’s order or in the most recent arc where he’s repeatedly rushed right in to try and assist Izumo. Of course, those last ones can highlight how, at times, his actions can hold consequences for others as well – a lesson he’s been forced to learn several times, such as when him, Shiemi, and Yukio ended up in an undersea cave during the kraken battle. It’s not always quickly, because his heart is far bigger than his mind is sharp, but in his training to become and Exorcist, Rin isn’t stupid.
That said, he is poorly educated. He only barely finished middle school, and until the death of his father and his proclamation he would become an exorcist – thus meaning he would transfer into True Cross Academy – he wasn’t even planning to attend high school, instead searching for a job. Rin is difficult to motivate towards anything productive, ignorant, dense, and has a poor vocabulary on top of all that, having been shown to repeatedly straight up forget words and come up with a “viable” substitute which happens to sound similar. Despite this, it also isn't totally fair to call him stupid. Many characters in the series have rejected the notion that he is. Rin actually is fairly intuitive, able to pick out the bare bones of an emotional situation if he has the right context for it, such as when he empathized with Neuhaus or when he took Shiemi to dance with his brother together with him, effective demolishing what could have been a love triangle. But he also isn't the brightest - he's very dense, prone to missing the point in situations and filled with a general lack of social grace born partially out of his isolation and partially just because of his nature. Kind or not, Rin is also quick to resort to violence, quick to argue, and puts himself into bad situations because of it.
This same isolation has a variety of causes and a variety of affects on Rin’s life and personality. It’s shown that from a young age he not only was strong enough to break a grown man’s ribs in kindergarten, but he also had a temper foul enough to terrify his peers and his teachers, who called him a “monster.” While love an affection from his family saved him from going down a dark path entirely, Rin hasn’t completely failed to internalize those values. He wears a punk persona on himself, complete with unnecessary chains on his belt, a brash attitude, and a willingness to lose his cool and be the fall guy in situations, because who would expect anything of him in the first place? This can be seen in the first chapter repeatedly, he’s well known for getting into fights and when the bullies he’d beaten up over animal cruelty seek retaliation against him, he doesn’t even find them unjustified until they insult his brother. Rin has developed a very distinct sense of self-depreciation.
While he can bluster and be filled with visible bravado, particularly towards his brother, whom he has many disagreements with, he self-admonishes himself for being "stupid," acknowledges that studying doesn't suit him, and at his worst – namely, when he was slated for execution during the Impure King arc - rationally concludes that his own existence is such a liability to the people around him that it might be better off if he died. While he puts on a show of being tough or smiling through things, Rin's self-esteem is a cesspool of dour conclusions only kept in check by the fact that he has a great willpower and drive towards his goals. Namely, that he wants to be better than he is. He wants to be strong enough to not put other people down and to be a cool guy.
"Willpower" is very important for Rin. With so little else going for him, much of his bluster comes out of a knowledge that he has no other path left to him other than to become an exorcist. And even there, the meaning has subtly changed over time: immediately following his father’s death, he swears to become strong enough to defeat Satan. Later, more and more reasons stack up for him: to stand beside his brother, to become Paladin and clean his father’s name, to help the helpless who are hassled by demons, and to help his friends who are training right along sight him. The journey to those conclusions hasn’t always been smooth: while Yukio and him got along very well whilst Rin was ignorant of demons, they get into very pitched arguments after, largely born out of different values and opinions on how to live their lives.
He’s also repeatedly had to be reminded that his friends are there for him – during the Impure King arc, Suguro’s faith in him is what allows him to make the pact with Usshusma. During the battle against the painting, Konekomaru names Rin the exwires’s “trump card,” and even if he could save the day single-handedly currently, he needs to allow the others to do their part for when he can’t. Shura, through the use of the candle training and other more brutal methods has impressed on him his current weakness and his need to self-improve. Rin has taken all of these lessons to heart, because even if he is a headstrong punk with strong moral convictions, he isn’t ignorant of the lessons his friends can teach him, even if he might not always agree.
While the relationship with his friends and his mentors have been touched on here, of particularly great importance to his personality are the relationship he has with his teo family members: his adoptive father (Shiro Fujimoto) and his younger twin brother (Yukio Okumura). Shiro, especially once Rin learns more about who he really was posthumously, is everything that Rin aspires to be. Having failed him by allowing Satan to possess him (thereby leading to his death) and rejected him in his final minutes, Rin wants to make amends for that, and he also has tried hard to emulate the man he is fairly certain his father was, a strong and courageous man willing to allow him to survive, because he was also kind. Meanwhile, his brother has lived with the reality of who their father was far longer than Rin. Yukio has a very pragmatic approach to the world, often seeming too cold for Rin’s tastes – such as when they confronted each other on the Phantom Train – or seeming too arrogant, such as during the Kraken arc. Yukio struggles to accept that Rin’s been brought into what he sees as a dark and dangerous world, but that same worry chafes at Rin, who simply wants to stand beside his brother, even when they aren’t getting along. Also, sespite Yukio having pulled a gun on a him a few times, Rin has sworn he would never hurt his brother, and this has stood thus far, never even throwing a punch at the guy (though Yukio has punched him).
So in essence, Rin Okumura is a kindhearted punk who has a very foul temper and is generally a delinquent, but wants to do right by his father, his brother, and his friends. However, he is also a troubled youth who does not want to saddle his friends with the "burdens" associated with being his friend, such as dealing with the fact that he is an extremely powerful half-demon, the son of Satan himself. He's forthright and honest for the most part, but also prone to taking all the suffering of a situation onto him personally. He's a good kid, if a lot rough around the edges.
_ITEMS: His sword (Kurikara), it’s sheath and the clothes on his back. Additionally, his exorcist uniform (which is basically just a school uniform, so two sets of clothes)