I know Sakura knows Rin loves her. Didn’t she confess that Rin greets her every morning, and comes to the dojo? In UBW and the beginning of HF, we learn that Rin quite literally stalks Sakura…hence why she always knows Sakura comes to Shirou’s house, and why she was outside when Gilgamesh was there in UBW.
I think a lot of people also forget that in the prologue when Rin saved Shirou after Lancer kills him, she doesn’t do this because she likes Shirou. She literally does this because Sakuralikes Shirou. Sakura was only happy around Shirou, and often went to his house. Rin gave up her possibly trump card in the war, her prized possession left from her father not because of some altruistic need to save another or because she liked the boy who was killed, she did it all for her sister.
It’s why I get so annoyed when people tell me Rin is toxic to Sakura. Yeah, her relationship right now isn’t great, but let’s stop putting her in Shinji’s level. Rin has always loved Sakura. She even asks Shirou in UBW that if a person was adopted out, would they be happy? She wanted to know for Sakura, but also because she herself was lonely. I think a lot of people also forget Rin, as capable or incapable (however you want to see her as) is still just a 17 year old girl. She can’t do a lot of things, and she still doesn’t know a lot of things.
There’s also the fact that I can’t fault Rin for her actions and conflictions of being a magus and a human. She’s been on her own, alone, lost her teacher, mentor and the person she looked up to in the last war, her mother essentially went insane and she probably had to care for her mother at the age of 7, lost her sister that she had to act like was a stranger, the last remaining family she had, and on top of that is raised by Kirei who we see doesn’t actually raise her at all. She isolated from society and humans already because she was a magus so the whole magus heart over human is so ingrained in her that she feels like she has to.
Anyways, I really like that Shirou encourages Sakura to bridge the gap between the sisters. One of my greatest pet-peeve of romance in media is when the love-interest has 0 involvement in the personal growth of a relationship outside of their own or growth of their love interest as a person. So it was sweet seeing this.
This is cute.
I can’t believe Nasu said he doesn’t think Rin is a tsundere. She’s clearly a tsundere.
