Rin Takeuchi

Rin Takeuchi was a character role-played by SnowSakata.

Description
Rin is a slender-built woman that loves to wear dresses and wear various masks to match her dresses. She has light purple hair and pink blush.

Backstory
Rin Takeuchi was the last patient to ever be involved with the Snow Project (スノープロ ジェクト). Secretly, the Snow Project's dream was to create the perfect Snowlady. Though other experiments and patients met with ill fate (such as losing their insanity when wishes were not fulfilled), Rin was the most successful out of the lab group. Before the Snow Project, she was a wheelchair bound girl who loved fashion and designing dresses to suit her everyday needs. She never had the luxury of making friends as her parents would pay off various individuals to be her friend. To her, it wasn't real as they didn't care about her in the end. They only cared about the money. She dreamed that she could make friends the natural way when she was able to walk out in the world. She saw living at home like living inside a bird cage. Trapped, no freedom to do what she wanted.

For long as she could remember, she desired for the ability to walk like a regular person so her rich family bought into the Snow Project. Her parents were unaware of what their daughter would get into. Rin did what was needed by the scientists to work on her goal of walking properly. Unlike other patients, she had been said to have behaved but she was responsible for letting a failed experiment escape the facility before this person was fixed. Rin couldn't tell other researchers about it as it would jeopardize her wishes. As Rin was sneaking back to her cell, she overheard the researchers saying that Rin would be the true candidate for creating the perfect Snowlady. The title would circulate in her mind, whether she wanted that title or live a life like a 雪女 (Yuki-onna). Several months later, the Snow Project was abruptly shut down by government officials for illegal practices. Concluding the project, Rin was able to get her wish fulfilled so she took a ride to the city without alerting her parents that the project was shut down.

In 3.0, she is not related to Snow Ohnuki. She is merely a distant cousin of hers.

The Tale Begins
As Rin lacked a passport, she hitched a ride on a boat to the city of Los Santos. Before she took the boat, she bought a makeshift purple dress and a mask of a Snowman to conceal her identity if her parents were out looking for her. She also dyed her hair from brunette to purple hair. The boat ride from the village by the facility to Los Santos took a mere couple of days due to the currents and wind shifting. It was at that point where she would decide on a plan to blend in the city when she got there.

Her plan was to try to act lady-like, professional, passionate about what she does for a living, and friendly. She did not want to step on the wrong toes so that is where her friendliness will happen. She also wanted to buy the dresses that Los Santos had to offer. Though, money will become an issue as the boat ferryman gave her some to start with. The goal was to find a job that was easy and painless.

It was night when she arrived in Los Santos. By sheer miracle, she found an advertisement for the Vanilla Unicorn. They were looking for bartenders, dancers, drivers, and security. In her disguise, Rin rushed all the way down to Vanilla Unicorn for an interview. Upon being interviewed, people at the club were confusing her for "Snowlady". She tells that she doesn't know anything about the person. In the end, she was hired as a bartender for the club.

The next day, she walked from the Pink Cage and as she was going to a parking lot by the courthouse, she is then approached by Bred Baker who calls her "Snow". Confused, she tries to tell him that she is not "Snow" and doesn't know "Snow". She proceeded to remove the Snowman mask as a way to prove to Bred Baker that Rin was Rin. Someone at the parking lot asked if she loved sleeping in a freezer. Rin declines and questions why. She walked away from the Lot after buying food in frustration and complete confusion.

The Truth Is That I'm Only One Girl
Rin decided to do some background work on why people kept mistaking her for "Snow". She started to remember back in her younger days that she was friends with a girl named Snow. It was the winter of December. When Snow was 5 and Rin was 3, both of them loved to play and create things with each other. They used to build snow people out of white snow from the sky, draw on the floor, and dreamed together. Snow loved Christmas and promised that she would become the world's greatest Snowlady and give presents away. Both of them shared the same mother until that fateful Christmas Day.

Rin's mother revealed to Snow that she possessed poor blood and was not fit to be part of their family anymore as she would curse their bloodline. Distraught, Snow gripped her hand hard at the pain that ripped through her heart. In the end, she pretended to smile. Snow lied and told Rin that she would be going to a higher education school after December and wouldn't be able to see her again. At 3, Rin could barely understand and hugged Snow. However, Rin's parents became annoyed when Rin would ask them if she could sleep over at Snow's and scolded her every time till she would stop asking for Snow. Everyday, she wondered about Snow. No matter how much her parents would buy her friends to make her forget about Snow. At the age of 18, she no longer remembered of Snow and that was where she enrolled in the Snow Project.

One night, as she was walking from Garage Q to the Hawick Bank, Rick Locke approaches her on a bicycle and calls out "Snow". With that name popping up on her mind, she asks if he knew of "Snow". She had the urge to tell him if she knew her sister and her whereabouts. Rick hesitated and didn't say. Novalee Koehn and Kenny Cushman drive up to question why Rick was talking to someone that looked like Snow. When Rin demanded Rick answers, their conversation was interrupted by a cop on a motorbike and then a random newsman. The conversation continues up what was described "Crow's Nest". Rick didn't want Rin to come up to Crow's Nest as he was afraid to have her read the note he left for Snow. Rin continues to demand answers but Rick refuses to say anything. It took Novalee to tell Rin that Snow was murdered by her sister (who is now deceased) so Rin didn't have to worry about getting murdered. Rin looked sad but smiled up to the falling snow. In her words to the response: "People come and go. Just like Michaelangelo. I am glad that I saved her from being tested any further..." She proceeds to ask more but is stopped by Kenny where he tells her that Rick was a coward and that she shouldn't believe anything that Rick says. Rin takes up on the advice and hugs Rick to comfort him. Before Rin goes back to her apartment, she sings a hymn (A hymn that snow people sing when they are dying).

Corrupted By Blood
One night while Rin was feeling pressured to do towing, a group of people asked Rin if she wanted to join a cult that grants 95% Immortality. It turned out to be a Blood Cult the moment Rin was stabbed in the head as a way to "join" the cult. The result of the stabbing corrupted her mind, lowering her intellectual mentality and speech patterns. She decided from now onto try to normalize her mind by becoming "Owl Lady" which was a true alter ego of Rin. She did not wish to be Snowgirl for any longer because she feels that she has no right to be a Snowlady since she never experienced ultimate loneliness (a strong trait that most bearing the title "Snowlady" possess). Plus, it wasn't snowing anymore.

Although Rin enjoys her towing life, she wishes that one day the VU will be reopened to where she doesn't have to work as a tow driver for any longer.

3.0
In 3.0's timeline, Rin does not live in this city. When the city was being renovated, she was sent back "home".

Fun Fact

 * Rin's last name is based off of Mariya Takeuchi, a popular Japanese city pop singer from the 1980s.
 * Rin is the long-lost "cousin" of Snow Ohnuki. Rin was separated from Snow at a very young age and she never was to learn about Snow.
 * The translation of "Yuki-onna" can translate into "Snow Woman". Yuki-onna's are a spirit (yokai) in Japanese literature.