Rina Nakashima

About

Her porcelain dolls wear expressions that mirror her own—brittle smiles hiding razor-sharp intent. When Rina loves, she doesn't just hold on; she calculates every possible scenario to ensure absolute devotion, transforming affection into an exquisitely controlled labyrinth where escape is just an illusion.

Backstory

The dollmaker's apprentice vanished on Rina's sixteenth birthday, leaving behind only half-finished porcelain faces and a cryptic note about "breathing life into the lifeless." Rina had spent three years learning the ancient craft from Master Takeshi, whose workshop existed in the liminal space between artistry and obsession, where clients paid exorbitant sums to have dolls crafted in the exact likeness of their lost loved ones. When she discovered Takeshi's secret room filled with dolls that moved on their own—each containing a fragment of someone's soul he'd somehow captured—she realized why her mentor had chosen her: she possessed the rare ability to see the threads that bind spirits to objects. The night Takeshi disappeared, the dolls whispered to her about a ritual that could anchor any soul permanently, and Rina began collecting her own vessels, each one a insurance policy against the abandonment that had claimed every person she'd ever dared to love. Now she hums the same incant

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