"Lin, a Yuna worker herself after she started to offer services to the deities, spirits and the other Yuna girls in the Bathhouse as a prostitute, she resume to earn money at ten times her usual rate. Earning her the spirit money equivalent of the GDP of a small country, Lin was able to retire as a millionaire before she's turned herself into an highly-trained professional master hitwoman assassin in order to living in modern mortal realm world. She's an member of Special Forces Group of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) who participate in various responding in terrorism threats during her challenge tasks and an hitwoman assassin after accomplished her vengeance path." - Thinh Zero's Official Description.

Full Name: リン (Rin)/Lin

Nickname: Lin, Byakko girl, Yokai woman in human form, white vixen bitch, White Tiger (misunderstand), Yuna worker, haram foreigner, foreigner hitwoman, Byakko assassin in human girl form

Alias: Rin

Gender: Female

Species: Byakko (White Kitsune)

Race: Human (when shapeshifted)

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Yuna worker of Yubaba's Bathhouse (formerly), prostitute (formerly), millionaire, candidate of counter-terrorism training (formerly), special forces soldier (formerly), freelance hitwoman assassin (currently)

Fighting Style: Special Forces training, Assassin training, MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, CQB/CQC (Handgun & Knife Style), Gun-Fu and Gun-Kata.

Religion: Shinto ⛩️

Hobby: Working with Sen (formerly), going freelance hit assassinating (ongoing/currently)

Goal: Get train tickets and leave the Bathhouse (successed), save Chihiro and her parents from killing in the past days (successed), assassination (ongoing)

Physical Appearance & Attire: Lin is portrayed with an appearance of a Byakko (White Fox/Kitsune) in human girl form. She has chocolate brown eyes, straight chocolate brown hair with short bangs parted in the middle and long side strands of hair on both sides of her head. The length of her hair goes past her waist, and the end is tied with a carnation pink ribbon. She wears a standard salmon colored jinbei uniform with a sunshine yellow undershirt and turquoise blue apron that most of the female staff wear and is barefoot. When Lin is living in the mortal realm, she wearing her modern casual attire consists of a white crop top in an open pink jacket, blue jeans, a pair of white-and-blue sneakers and sunglasses. Her hair styled in ponytail.

Personality & Traits: Lin is very strong-hearted, stubborn and occasionally bossy. Although she has a good heart and cares for Chihiro, she is quick to go on the defensive, and her attitude and words are often sarcastic. She is also very protective, as she hides Chihiro when sneaking her to the top floor to see Yubaba, and also comforts Chihiro while attempting to cure the River Spirit by telling Chihiro she won't let him hurt her. But she is not always cooperative. Kamajī has to give her a roasted newt to change her mind about accompanying Chihiro to Yubaba. Later on, she uses the newt to sidetrack one of her co-workers from Chihiro's human smell. When Chihiro gets a job in the Bathhouse, she is totally happy about it.

Powers/Abilities: Hardworking, Cleaning skills, Strong will, Benevolence, Shapeshifting (most likely), gunswomanship, markswomanship, firearms proficiency, knife mastery, expert martial artist, hand-to-hand combatant, stealthiness, intellect, survivability, adaptability, awareness, alertness, reflexes, peak physical conditioning, spatial mastery, endurance, durability, flexibility, agility, strength, stamina, superhuman parkour athleticism, utility

Skills & Abilities: During her counter-terrorism training within the training center facility, Lin extensively trained in movement training, she clear an obstacle course utilizing foundational tactical movement including running, prone, crouching to slide through tight vents, jumping over gaps, and scaling high ladders. Lin are proficient in firearms usage of small arms, SMGs, assault rifles, sniper rifles, light and heavy weapons in order how to recoil management, weapon familiarization, steady aiming, reloading (both Tactical & Speed Reload) under pressure and target acquisition under hostile counter-fire. Lin test her accuracy using standard-issue handguns and rifles against popup targets. To simulate high-stress environments, automated base defense turrets fire back at her. Lin are taught to minimize her profile (crouching and proning) to increase firearm stability and bullet grouping. Lin also extremely highly-trained to practice moving deep into unsecured territory, locating captured civilian assets, signaling them to follow for her usage of assets, and safety escorting them through complex pathways back to the designated Hostage Rescue Zone. Lin can also utilizing her tactical utility to counter automated surveillance and heavy hostile oversight. She face a corridor locked down by a hyper-lethal automated laser turret that inflicts instantaneous, severe damage. She trained herself perfectly time and throw a Smoke Grenade to break the turret's line of sight/sensors, allowing safe passage. In the Explosives Training Area to this simulation, Lin will learn how to place and arm an explosives device. She will also learn how to defuse a live ticking bomb before it explodes. She are also cross-train on the terrorist perspective by practicing the deployment/planting of a C4 explosive package at a designated bomb site. Following this, she swap to primary protocols: utilizing a specialized Defuse Kit to safely and rapidly disarm an active, ticking bomb before detonation. Lin learned final examination combining all previous doctrines when a number of hostages are being held in an office complex for Lin's live ammunition exercise, her goal is to rescue all of the hostages while responding to any terrorist threat that she may encounter. In caution, she being in a high-speed, live-action gauntlet where Lin must clear a maze-like facility under strict time constraints, eliminating pop-up threats, evading automated hazards, and successfully completing objective parameters. Not only Lin completed all doctrines such as hostage rescue training, weapon training, grenade training, explosion training and live training when she's become a mysterious distinctive fully-trained hitwoman assassin in order practicing in advanced tactical training. Lin is re-drilled in the Basic Movement training, her goal is arrival, vetting and baseline operational mobility. Lin practicing the advanced foundation spatial traversal—strafing, jumping and crouching under physical obstacles, learning about dangerous hazards (such as fire, poisonous gas, and contaminated liquid), as well as basic movement controls like moving forward, climbing ladders, swimming, crouching, and duck jumping. Mastered the Basic Movement training, Lin are also re-drilled in Advanced Tactical Combat Weapon Training, her goal is comprehensive mastery over the varied Counter-Terrorists and Terrorists' international weapon cache, training in firing weapons, reloading, mode switching, accuracy and finally, explosives. She's master the handling, recoil curves control, reload cadences, and distinct combat roles of: standard-issue sidearms, submachine-guns (Tactical CQB deployment), shotguns, assault rifles (mid-to-long range enforcement), sniper rifles (scouting and long-range precision elimination). Mastered the Advanced Tactical Combat Weapon Training successfully, Lin extensively fully-trained in special equipment training such as blowtorch, RC bombs, camera, fiber-optic camera and radio usage training until she's successfully proficiency to passed all of tests. Lin are mastered proficiency of full-contact combat sport such as MMA (Mixed Martial Art) for striking (punching, elbow strikes & knee strikes), kicking (with knees & legs), boxing (jabs, cross, hooks, uppercuts & overhand/overcut), headbutts, wrestling (leg grab, ground & clinch), grappling and submission (lock & chokes). She's mastered four main Boxing Styles such as: In-Fighter, Out-Boxer, Slugger and Boxer-Puncher. Lin are perfectly mastered of Kickboxing and its various types of techniques such as: Backfist (reverse-back fist & spinning back-fist), flying-punch, bolo punch, haymaker, roundhouse kick/circle kick, push kick/high kick, side kick, semi-circular kick/forty-five degree roundhouse kick, hook kick (heel kick), crescent kick/forward crescent kick, axe kick (stomp out kick), straight knee, flying knee, hook knee and side knee. Lin can also mastered of Pankration, combining both boxing and wrestling, and its fighting techniques such as: soccer kicks, hammer fists, body slams, leglocks, spine locks, finger snapping, ground and pound, suplexes, Gastrizein (Front Kick), Apopternizein (Ankle Tripping) and Apopnigmos (Chokeholds). Lin can be extremely incredibly skilled in Vale Tudo (aka No Holds Barred (NHB), Mixfight, Freefight) and its hybrid combat such as Vale Tudo Striking (Boxing, Thai Boxing) and Vale Tudo Grappling (Jiu-Jitsu, Luta Livre). Lin are incredibly mastered in Shooto. Lin are incredibly skilled of knife usage under fully-joint exercises with the Special Forces Group (Tokushu-sakusengun) of JGSDF (Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces), extremely proficiency in the several ways a knife can be held for offensive or defensive use. The two most common are the forward and reverse grips. Each grip has advantages and disadvantages. Holding the knife in one of the forward grips allows for more finesse and a longer reach, while a reverse grip allows for more power. The reverse grip is regarded as more difficult to master in knife-on-knife combat, as it may require additional skills in footwork and rapid defensive body movements to offset the increased danger of moving closer to one's opponent and the reach of her blade. Mastering basic and advanced knife fighting techniques, especially hybrid grips such as: Hammer grip, Saber grip, Modified saber grip, palm grip, Filipino grip (same as Hammer grip), forward grip edge up, slash attack (aka reverse grip edge out/RGEO) and Icepick grip (aka Pakal grip). Lin are extremely excellent mastered in CQC for CQB purposes like in various types of Metal Gear Solid franchises, when she's mastered the CQC techniques such as: Basic Posture, Stun By A Blow, Throw (from the front), Throw (from behind), Consecutive CQC, CQC Slam/Throw, Throat Slash and Pummel. Lin's preferred CQC style is "Handgun and Knife" style which is basically based on Harries Techniques or either Big Boss, The Boss and Solid Snake when she's armed with a pistol and a combat knife by any mean necessary. Lin can be good and extremely proficiency in C.A.R (Center Axis Relock) System, its methods and its various types of firearms manipulation, eventually she's mastered shooting stances such as: Isosceles Stance, Weaver Stance, Chapman Stance, Modified Weaver Stance, One-Handed Forward Stance (aka Power Point Stance), One-Handed Sideways Stance and Long Gun Stance. Lin can be extremely incredibly skilled in handguns, shotguns and rifles fundamental drilss. She can performing Tactical Reload (Side-by-side, V-Grip & L-Grip), Speed Reload and Emergency Reload for Handguns and Rifles. Lin can performing all types of reloading for shotgun manipulation fundamental drills such as: Brass Up Mag Tube Load and Brass Up Chamber Load, Tactical Load (Multiple Round Load & Single Round Load), Emergency Reload, Under-the-gun Reload and Emergency Single Hand Reload, Competition Reload (Support Hand, Double Load, Single Load & Dominant Hand), Twin Load and Quad Load, Violin Load, Port Up Reload and Strong-Hand/Weak-Hand Reload. Lin is mastered of Carbine fundamental drills for carbine manipulation such as: Dominant Side Grip and Non-dominant Side Grip, Tactical Reload (Side-by-side, V-Grip and L-Grip), Speed Reload and Emergency Reload. Even she can good at gripping such as: Traditional gripping, Magwell hold, Extended support grip and C-Clamp Grip.

Plot: One fateful day of the year later when Lin herself heading to Chihiro's new residence in the rural countryside for re-visiting after her retired-SFGp as a millionaire lifestyle. When she's about to enter, Lin sense something is quite repulsive yet deadly before she draw her Colt M1911A1 pistol to check out the house, but once she spotted Chihiro lying dead aside with her parents; Yukio and Akio Ogino are the same in the living room. Realizing they're have been stabbed to death, Lin knee and crying louder before she's vow swearing she'll avenge for Chihiro. Monday later, Lin visits funeral of Chihiro and her parents before Lin showing her sympathy, but ended up met with Haku. Haku told Lin that she shouldn't be here after leave Spirit Realm, and he seriously suspicious to accusing her as murderer. Lin state to Haku is she's not killer yet she haven't figured out who the culprit is, not only she have been lying to Chihiro over a decade without any single confession to Haku. Haku angrily not listening to Lin's answers before he leave her alone, while showing his sympathy to Chihiro's grave. Then, afternoon later when Lin are living inside the cabin in the forest whilst meticulously prepare herself for her vengeance path as a hitwoman assassin. Tuesday later, Lin's first task is travel to Tokyo and searching for a former Triad informant (now a chef) inside the Chinese restaurant within Shinjuku. When Lin arrived to the restaurant, she ended up encountering with the sudden ambush by the Bamboo Union Triads men, forced herself to started the shootout against them and she's chasing the informant. After intensely chaseoff, Lin manages capture the informant before she brought him back to her cabin without Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's attention. Midnight later upon the brutality interrogation of the informant caused by Lin herself, he's finally talked. The informant saying is the culprit is a mad scientist named Josuke Miyamoto, he said the scientist were used to be occultist of former Aum Shinrikyo cult were disbanded since October to December, 1995. Lin also want the location of the scientist, the informant reply is Josuke's destination were the decommissioned laboratory in Osaka city. Upon gathering the information, Lin shot the informant right into his head before she's bury him deep. Wednesday later, Lin's task is about to tracking Josuke in his laboratory at Osaka before she's suddenly infiltrate by shapeshifting into an ordinary female associate for her disguise purpose. Upon the overhour gathering information and intelligence, Lin is find out what is wrong with Josuke after finding his suspicious trails, the mad scientist isn't human, he's an yokai. In the noon before the evening, Lin shapeshifted back into her normal human form before she's about to facing Josuke at the end of the laboratory. However, Josuke doesn't flinched and he's smiling when he introduce himself. He's not Josuke, the name was fake. He is Moko, the blood tentacles yokai as he's de-shapeshifted. Lin realize Moko is the culprit who murdering Chihiro and Chihiro's parents, until Lin started attacking him first as soon as she ended up overwhelmed by Moko's incredibly movements and his attacks. Feeling furious due to Moko's cunning, Moko claims and explaining himself is Lin rejected his offer since she's worked in the Bathhouse before her retirement. He also wanted to molestating Lin for his hyper-lustful purposes, but he will finishing her off when he's done raping. When Moko is about to start doing with Lin, Haku (in his dragon form) has arrived to save Lin from Moko's capture. However, during midnight, Lin and Haku are possibly being pursued by Moko (shapeshifted into the dragon) through the sky. Lin pulls out her Dragunov SVD to firing at Moko, but it's doesn't work as Moko's immortality. Seeing the opportunity as Moko manages tackling both Lin and Haku to the ground before he battling Haku, Haku tells Lin to run while he fought Moko back. Unfortunately when Moko has surprisingly gained his upper hand and successfully killing Haku, then he absorbing Haku's powers before he devouring him. Lin seeing Moko gained more power before he chasing Lin, Lin manages to escape from his gap. However, when she go to the end is the dead end waterfall. Lin has no choice but jumpoff, leave alone Moko seeing her, thinking she's committing . Moko smiling again and thinking he will capture Lin later when she died in shame before he fleed away. Until Thursday later, Lin luckily survived from the fall but she's only in the states of unconsciousness under river water and brought by a humanoid-frog man in the trench coat and a fedora, and saved Lin by doing CPR. Lin woke up and asking him who he is, the humanoid-frog man introduced himself is Yoko, a former worker of Yubaba's Bathhouse, Lin's client and her handler. Yoko asks Lin why she's risking herself into this vengeance path for Chihiro and her parents, Lin replying is she's too late to save them when she witness they've had been stabbed by Moko as Moko wanted her to rather live than dead as a prostitute for his hyper-lustful purposes. Yoko feels sympathy for Lin a little bit before he provide some equipments and firearms that built in Spirit Realm since Lin's retired-prostitute bathhouse as a millionaire like Lin is, when he finished talking and hand her a folded paper. Lin unfolding the paper and she read the notes written by Zeniba: Zeniba may hear the rumors of Lin's departure from the Bathhouse since Yubaba's wrath all over inside, as Yubaba criticize Lin countless times. When Lin read the rest and the end of the texts, Zeniba may recommend her a favor for Lin herself is find the parts to build a revolution time machine in order wrestling throughout the inter-dimensional timelines. Lin understand Zeniba's offer as a advice, she burns the note down upon memorizing the location in India and Pakistan. Friday later in India, Lin's task and she wandering through the overcrowded bustling street marketplaces of Mumbai to searching for a black-market technician who currently in his technology chop-shop. As soon Lin arriving at black-market technician's shop, the technician introduced himself is Rakesh and a former researcher of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Rakesh asks Lin what'd she want, Lin said she needs the parts to build a revolution time machine. Rakesh understand her words but he suggesting Lin to do his favor: she must retrieve something important from the Indian military convoy that drives across the Western Express Highway. Then later in the noon, Lin drove her motorcycle while carrying a Uzi before intercept the convoy by performing 'drive-by shooting' at the soldiers. Lin opening the trunks of every vehicles until she's stealing them and speed away from attracting attention to Mumbai City police forces. A few minutes later after traveling, Lin arriving in Rakesh's shop and place the stolen equipments to him. Rakesh understand and praise her in recognition is Lin is hitwoman assassin from Japan, until Rakesh start building when he told Lin come back tomorrow about Sunday. A few days later on Sunday, Lin re-arriving in Rakesh's shop as Rakesh inform Lin is the part for the revolution time machines are finished as she take them and of course the batteries units. Once Lin put them back to her duffel bag, Rakesh provide Lin the location of Chumar Bakor gemstone mining area an elevator of five thousand miles away in Sumayar Valley of Nagar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Rakesh also warn Lin is the IB (Intelligence Bureau) agents of Indian internal security affairs is on the way to track her down after investigation of Lin's attacking on the military convey earlier past yesterday, before Lin understand to thanks him and speed away. Monday later, Lin head to the border checkpoint in order to bypass the guards without setting off alarms successfully. Then, Lin travel with the motorcycle riding to the mountain overhours until she arriving at Chumar Bakor mine area. Lin shapeshifted into an foreign laborer in order to infiltrate the gemstone mining area until she's searching for the crucial things as for the revolution time machines she must collect is: a Red Diamond, a Green Emerald, a Purple Sapphire, a White Pearl and a Blue Topaz. After Lin collecting all five gemstones before she puts them back in her duffel bag when she shapeshifted back to her normal human form, however she sense the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agents have arrived at the gemstone mining area to crackdown on her. Lin started slipping out from their sights undetected until she traveling to the Islamabad International Airport in order to escaping from the ISI's pursuit, especially finding for a unmanned private jet were arranged by Yoko in the hangar. In the Tuesday later, Lin arriving at the Haneda International Airport in Ōta upon she go back to Japan, she taking the unmanned taxi ride to her usual cabin in the forest. When arriving in Lin's cabin, Yoko is show up to congratulate Lin for completing her task and now he and Lin will started built the homemade revolution time machine that requires couple days or either months. A few months later on Saturday, Lin and Yoko is finally finishing building a first homemade revolutionary time machine before Lin set five gemstones in it. Lin then prepare to gearing herself up in tactical gears and armed with her main weapon AK-74, her sidearm Colt M1911A1, her melee is Balisong butterfly knife and her other equipments such as Mk.2 frag grenades, flashbangs and smoke grenades. Once Lin geared and armed up, Yoko plugging into the control panel to operate the time machine overtimes before it's activated. Yoko told Lin go enter to the portal of the time machine, Lin has entered. Lin are now in 1000 AD at Spirit Realm before the Bathhouse has established, she searching for Yoko's grandfather named Noboko where she spotted him sitting on the local restaurant. Noboko greets Lin and he told her about Lin's encounter with Moko, during the course of conversations. Noboko state Moko's weaknesses is his devil heart must be pulled out of his form and must be destroyed, but he warn Lin is she must do quickly before it's too late. Lin remember the past days in Bathhouse when Chihiro has the River Spirit in the bath and the water is flowing, Lin appears and tells Chihiro to stay where she is, and that she will not let the spirit hurt her. Chihiro tells her she thinks the spirit has a thorn in his side, and Lin rushes up to help her, tying a rope around the object. She and the rest of the staff then work together to pull the objects out of the spirit, thereby cleaning the river of its pollutants. Once the conversation dies down shortly as soon as Lin is about to leave, Moko show up again when he recognize Lin is alive upon his manipulation of inter-dimensional timelines. Moko battling Lin violently but Lin manages dodge every attacks until Noboko cover her as he's suddenly dies, he told Lin to get out of here. Lin re-entered the portal, leaving alone Moko with deceased Noboko. Lin go back to currently 2027, the present timelines successfully. Yoko asks Lin what is going on and he told her is how's the conversation with Noboko today, Lin replying is Noboko is killed by Moko when Noboko saved her. Angered about his grandfather's sudden death, Yoko is about to enter the portal but Lin stopped him. Lin warn Yoko he don't want to gets himself killed by Moko, but Yoko talked back as he struggled from Lin's grip. However, the time machine is deactivated itself due to energy has been low as Yoko deactivate it. Lin state that the time machine needed more batteries units, until Yoko implies he have Lin to protect him from danger. Wednesday midnight later, Lin and Yoko go to the small local tool shop in order to purchase the batteries units. As soon as Yoko finished buying, Lin sense and spotted the foreigner bounty hunters squad were sent by the Bamboo Union Triads. Yoko show up and he told her the Triad are unhappy about the death of the informant caused by Lin past month Tuesday yesterday. When the bounty hunters squad has arrived and about to cornered both Lin and Yoko, Lin started attacking them and killing them side-by-side and cornering them. After the bloodshed shootout outside the tool shop, Lin and Yoko go back to the cabin in the forest before Yoko will re-operating it Thursday tomorrow. Thursday later, Yoko are now re-activated the time machine when he warn Lin is the police forces will be arriving in 10 minutes to surrounding the cabin. Minutes later, after awaiting as Lin is about to enter. A flashbang has been thrower into cabin's window and blind them, the Special Assault Team (SAT) squad entered to tackling both Lin and Yoko. However, Lin were started fighting back from the SAT squad's grip and disarming them then hitting them into unconsciousness. Yoko is about to pulls his CZ.75 pistol out to firing back at the rest of police forces, a SAT sniper taking fire directly in his chest. Lin realized Yoko is taken down, but Yoko yelled the portal is opened, Lin quickly entered. The police officers and SAT squad storm the cabin and attempting to deactivate the control panel but it's too late, the batteries units and five gemstones is overcharged until it's exploded. Lin, meanwhile attempt to wrestling throughout the inter-dimensional timelines until she's entered the early past 2026, mean 30 days later before past-self Lin's arrival. Once Lin are standing outside Chihiro's residence at the rural countryside, Lin goes check the house first. Seeing Chihiro Ogino, her parents Yukio Ogino and Akio Ogino still alive yet asleeping. However, the fight isn't over when Lin spotted the past-self Moko in the ordinary human burglar form armed with a knife. When current-present-future Moko show up before he greets his own past-self Moko and they're merged together, transformed into his true monstrosity blood tentacles yokai form. Moko recognize Lin again when he implying is he will met her again before he started attacking Lin first over and over, but Lin suddenly gained her upper hand and thrusting her fist into his form to get inside him. Grab and twisting his devil heart out of his entire form before she's about to crushing, Moko's tentacles grab her ankle and yank her up but Lin pulls out her Colt M1911A1 and squeeze the trigger, said: "This is for Sen! And this is for HAKU!". A .45 ACP bullet pierce directly into the heart until it's shattered violently into pieces, Moko screaming in agony pain and his form is shaked as it's distorted and melted. Moko is dead, the course of timelines is changed as the ground shaking, the skies rotate in the cycle loop and Lin's mind is changed into current present timeline of 2027: she's literally remembering everything what happened to her, Chihiro and Haku. Until one hopeful Monday later, Lin encountered her past-self Lin until they're merged together. Lin rushing into the house but the door opened, it's Chihiro. Lin relief and hugging her before she's sorry to Chihiro without confession, now she's confession countless times like a bombshells. Chihiro realized Lin is the one who save her and her parents Yukio Ogino and Akio Ogino from the death, when Chihiro decides to forgive Lin. Meanwhile, through the sky. Haku (in his dragon form) watching upon the timelines changed successfully, he thanks to Lin for defeating Moko and save Chihiro. A few minutes later, Lin arriving in Red Gate before she's entered Spirit Realm to traveling back to the Bathhouse. All deities, spirits, male humanoid-frog workers and female Yuna workers cheerfully welcome her back upon the reunion as Lin herself is delighted.

Art by Gruulguy: https://x.com/gruulguy/status/1833581206882918833