Rin Sohma Quotes

Rin is the horse, and the reboot introduces her as the one zodiac member who is trying to break the curse by force rather than waiting for it to lift. She has been hospitalized, she has been thrown out of a window by Akito, and she says this about the bond the rest of the family speaks of in the language of a blessing. The sentence is aimed at Tohru, who has just started asking questions about ending the curse and whom Rin regards as a tourist in other people's suffering. That is the argument the series needed and had not had until she arrived: the 2001 anime, with no Rin in it, could present the curse as sad but beautiful. Rin calls it a chain and refuses the beauty, and the story is better for having one person in it who is simply angry.

The standard reading is that Rin is being cruel to Kagura here, and Kagura's own tears in the scene support it. But Rin is the only person in the family who says out loud what the writing has been showing since the first Valentine's Day: that a girl who beats a boy through walls and calls it devotion is not in love with him but with the story of being in love with him. Kagura will confess exactly that a few chapters later, unprompted, and Kyo will thank her for the playing anyway. So the cruelty is accurate, which is a different thing from kind. Rin's own attachment to Haru is possessive to the point of self-harm, and she knows it; she is diagnosing a disease she has. The line is not an insult from a bystander. It is a warning from someone further down the same road.