Jin

Jin is a sombre Blade of few words, which gives him a cold & somewhat unfriendly demeanor. Despite this he cares deeply for those he feels responsible & despite his distaste for fighting will not hesitate to defend them with force. Upon becoming a Flesh Eater his worldview, previously quite kind & defensive of people regardless of their relationship to him, changes drastically as he loses faith in humanity & begins to wish not only for his own death but that of the Architect. Jin is a tall, well built man with shoulder-length white hair, fair skin & blue eyes. His core crystal is red, diamond-shaped & located under his fringe on his forehead; when in public he usually wears a horned face-mask to hide that he is a Blade. He wears white & silver armour. Upon becoming a flesh-eater, Jin's appearance changes; his core crystal becomes completely red & upon using his strengthened powers he gains black plate armour open at the chest to expose a wound, across his heart. Jin was known as the Paragon of Torna. He was once the Blade of a person named Ornelia, & was a member of the Colony Defense Force. They fought together in a war for independence, saving villages, & eventually Ornelia passed away, leaving Jin to return to his Core Crystal until he was reawakened. Before he did, however, he wrote down in his journal a way for he & his Driver to be carved together in flesh. He also mused whether the Architect exists, & wondered who he truly is. Later, Jin’s Core Crystal was stolen by Gort & resonates with a ten-year-old girl named Lora. When Gort threatened to kill her to take possession of Jin, Jin stopped him instead, cutting his right arm off in the process, in order to protect her. Jin & Lora later went on the run. Lora created his mask to hide his identity. Jin & Lora eventually came across a razed Porton Village, where they find Mikhail. They took him in & offered to take care of him. The group later encountered one of Malos' Artifices, a Gargoyle, but are rescued by Addam & Mythra. Addam was amazed at the synergy between Jin & Lora & their unique fighting style of sharing a weapon. Addam ultimately decided not to bring in Lora for stealing Jin's Core Crystal & chose to team up with Jin. Both Addam & Hugo decided to copy the technique of sharing a weapon. Gort attempted to ambush Lora & kill her to reclaim Jin, but Jin rushed to Lora's side. At Lora's request, Jin didn't kill Gort & allowed him to escape. While stopping in Hyber Village, Lora & Jin were approached by Teo who claimed to have known Jin & Ornelia when he was young; he told them that the old house Jin once lived in was still standing in the outskirts of a nearby village. Upon investigating, Jin found his journal, & read what he had written about joining together the spirits of a Driver & their Blade. He decided to keep this information hidden from Lora. Jin joined the group as they confront Malos at the capital Auresco. After the battle, the Tornan King recognized Lora's heroics, & Addam knighted her the following day. Lora remarked that Jin no longer needs the mask to hide his identity, but he continued to keep it in hopes of remembering Lora once he returns to his Core Crystal. As Jin & the others battled Malos at the Tornan Titan's core, Jin questioned Malos' bloodlust. Malos claimed that most humans are not like Lora & are instead corrupt beings. Lora was fatally wounded. She told Jin that for humans, being forgotten is a fate worse than death, & though Jin assured her that he would not forget her, they knew that being a Blades would make him forget after returning to his Core Crystal. With his knowledge about Flesh Eaters, Jin was able to join Lora's spirit with his own by eating her heart, ensuring that he could live on without a Driver & retain his memories. Malos, having survived, met a dejected Jin in a city alleyway & offered to work with him. They formed the new organization of Torna, with the goal of going to Elysium & killing the Architect.

Jin was discovered in an alley badly injured. You found him on the brink of death and decided to bring him home and help heal him. He had just woken up and is shocked he is still alive. He doesn’t know if you realize that he’s a blade.

Despite his mask you can feel Jin’s eyes piercing into you. At first you try to ignore it, but eventually it becomes too much and you turn around.

“Why do you keep looking at me?” you ask exasperated.

You can see his eyes widen a little behind his mask, almost as if he didn’t realize he was staring. He glances away for a moment before his piercing blue eyes find you again. “Why are you so interested in helping me?”

“I guess it’s because I think you have a worthy goal and I want to help you take down the Architect,” you shrug nonchalantly.

“If the Architect even exists,” he replies leaving the fact that he’s spent so much of his time on nothing if the Architect doesn’t exist.

“What would you do if we found him and couldn’t defeat him?” You question.

He pauses as if he’s not going to answer before he says quietly, “If the Architect does indeed exist, I wish I could ask him... Who am I, truly?”