Disclaimer: Fate/ Stay Night is the shared property of both Type Moon and Nitro Plus.
Ah, Rin Tohsaka...
From just one first glance at her one might think she is an example of the perfect woman: prim, proper and polite. But the truth of the matter is that Rin is this way to a fault.
Above all else she's harsh, mean spirited, competitive, and just plain nasty towards me. She believes I have no real power as a Magus, though to be fair my father didn't really have time to teach me much apart from the basics. I have no idea why she's this way with me, other than the fact she thinks my hopes of saving everyone are futile at best.
She was nice enough to help me out with the Holy Grail War and with general house work, but she always has this bad attitude with me no matter what I did. Even if I do things correctly she'll fly off the handle and snap my head off and when I goof up then all Hell breaks loose. Nobody at school really sees this side of her other than me and I oftentimes wonder if she hates me for what I am or what I try to be.
There's some half baked theory that she just may like me as more than a friend, but I have yet to see that idea have any grounding to it. Rin is difficult to be around with as her temper is not something you want to be on the receiving end of and yet I have been yelled at so much that I'm beginning to think she's unstable.
In her defense I never hear about her father or her sister that I overheard her talk about in her sleep. Could it be that she's had such a horrible childhood that she feels the need to project her anger out at the world to cope with her awful family life? I don't know for certain and I don't dare ask her for risk of setting her off on a violent rampage.
Losing Archer was a huge blow to her and I fear that she's repressing a lot of negative emotions from that traumatic event. We were never close, but Archer always seemed so upset with me for reasons only he knew. Now that he's gone we'll never know what it was about me that caused him to dislike me so much.
I've heard of the "Tsundere" type from anime boards online and the idea of someone being mean and spiteful towards someone they love is an alien concept to me. If I really have to label Rin I'd say that she's mentally unwell and should seek aid for her anger issues.
What is Rin really? I guess I may never fully understand her and that's probably the way she likes it. Distant and aloof. I can't help but pity her now that the Holy Grail War is done with and she has no real path in life. Maybe she'll see this letter I am writing now and think about her life.
She's not a evil person. She just needs help.