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[b]Name:[/b] Katsuragi Rin
[b]Age:[/b] 14
[b]Physical Description:[/b] 
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Standing at a meek 5'3", Rin looks younger than she actually is. Her hair and eyes are a dull pink, and she wears it very short compared to girls her age. She wears loosely fitted clothing, and is never seen without her signature cat-ears beanie.  Always wears a pastel windbreaker due to poor temperature regulation, she gets cold rather easily. 

Though she looks childish, she wears a mean face to dissuade other students from bothering her, and it's worked so far. When approached for actual conversation, she tends to shrink into herself; crossed arms and minor slouch.

[b]Important items:[/b] 
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[*] Cat ear beanie
[*] Baseball bat
[*] Signed baseball
[*] Childhood shark plushie (hidden in school bag)
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[b]Short Bio:[/b]

Rin was the youngest born to a single mother. She had a lonely homelife to her hardworking mother--mostly absent due to having to provide to two kids. For convenience, her mother put her into online/home school as early as possible, while her older brother, Yoshida when to a physical school. With this, Rin grew up unsocialized, unsure of herself, and had a tendency to cling onto her older brother as her only friend. Whenever her brother came home or had a free moment, they'd play baseball together. It was Rin's only hobby outside of watching TV or reading whatever books her mother left behind.

Rin and Yoshida were an inseparable duo, and while Rin rarely left home outside of necessary doctor visits, she'd always convince Yoshida to tag alone or even shadow him. He was her anchor, a familiar face in the midst of unknown crowds outside of her mother.

And then, Yoshida had left for college out-of-state. He'd visit occasionally, of course, but Rin's anxiety only worsened as her mother's workload only increased. She was consistently left alone at home and she sure as hell didn't have the confidence to meet the neighbor's kids on her own or even use social media. Her mind was a mess.

The last time she saw Yoshida, he gave her a signed baseball from a famous Japanese player. A little after that, her mother struggled to tell her the news: her brother passed away. The specifics, she didn't say to spare her daughter more pain, but Yoshida was gone.

Forever.

Rin refused to leave her room for a month, until finally deciding that if her brother could live without her, then she could too! She'd try and be like him: she'd go to real school, meet people, and just be a normal kid!

Of course, she had no idea what that meant, and had no idea how to act around strangers her age, but she swore to try.

[B]Personality:[/b] 

A [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABniby%C5%8D]DQN chunibyo[/url] with severe anxiety. She always tries to act tougher than she really is, mainly to get out of awkward conversations and interactions. While she seems like a loner, she's desperate for actual friends and is constantly second-guessing herself. An impulsive, anxious overthinker; if you ask her to jump, she'll think on it for 5 minutes or more, try to convince you to ask someone else, before finally jumping.

Though, if her head is really in it, she'll jump in head-first, no questions asked. She has a reckless side that's only fueled by her anxiety and vice-versa; she's deathly afraid of the future and failure, but that constant fear and her never-ending thoughts is what drives her to act. Of course, when things inevitably go wrong, or if she hurts herself and another, she'll sink back into her anxious shell... and the cycle repeats.

Tends to speak overly loud and in short bursts due to a stuttering issue. Her stutter decreases when she's talking to or near people she's comfortable with.

She brings an emotional support shark plushie wherever goes in her bag--a hand-me-down from her brother. It quells her anxiety somewhat, though she'd never admit to having it. She'd rather keep the plushie a forever secret to keep up her "tough gal" facade.

[b]Skills:[/b] Her love for baseball as batter is her first and only major skill. She studies pro baseball players on TV, practices every day in rental batting cages while her mother is either watching or out, and she learned first-hand from the best baseball player she knew... her brother Yoshida. While she's not pro by any means, her love for the sport is what carries her to work her hardest. 
[sub]If anything, she's probably just average or a little above-average at the sport, she never really practiced against other people.[/sub]
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