Rin

Rin is the main character from the Shelter animation music video.

Rin is a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.

In the AWA fics, Rin was saved by The Author and Neptune and later become a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
As a child, Rin had brown hair and eyes, though in the simulation, both had grown to become a lighter shade of red. She also is shown to have worn a pink dress and a large white bow in her hair when she was younger; however, in the simulation she is seen to be wearing the same white bow and pink dress with a white overcoat. In reality, she is shown to be nude.

Background
Rin was seven years old when she was living in Tokyo, Japan with her father, a scientist and engineer named Shigeru. It had been revealed around this time that an unidentified planetary object was on a collision course with Earth, leading Shigeru to devote a large portion of his time to making a single-passenger life-support spacecraft for her while still maintaining her happiness through playing games, celebrating holidays, playing on swings, and going to fairs.

Years later, as the body was about to make contact, Rin was taken to the completed craft and connected to its simulation, then she was launched into space. More than 6 years had passed since her launch as of the time Shelter begins. In the description of the video, it is said that Rin is 17, and clues in the video show that she was 7 when the spacecraft was launched. This time gap has led many to believe that Rin somehow had contact with her father for 4 years before suddenly stopping, as well as to think that Shigeru had somehow managed to survive.

Trivia

 * Rin is the first character from Shelter to be introduced in the AWA fics.
 * In the AWA fics, Rin's father, Shigeru is confirmed to be alive by Lelouch Lamperogue.
 * In the AWA fics, Rin was adopted by The Author and Neptune. However, whether it was done legally is unknown.
 * Rin's surname is unknown, though potential candidates are included in the animation commentary book.