Also, Rin in the present of Yashahime looks the same as she did in the flashback episode (episode 15) where she had Towa and Setsuna as a teen. Would the trope Older Than She Looks be appropriate to add?
Yashahime was not written by Rumiko Takahashi. It was written by someone else. It is not canon.
I want to bring attention to the numerous edits made to the Teen Pregnancy trope for Rin. I admit that I also participated in these edits, as can be seen in the page’s history. However, I’m starting this discussion because I don’t think the Teen Pregnancy trope belongs under Rin’s entry. This is the terms of the trope per the Teen Pregnancy page:
“This trope is usually the result of adolescents fooling around without protection or not fully understanding the biology and mechanics at work, though in particularly dark works it may result from rape. Another possibility is that the girl gets pregnant from the very first time she has sex, driving home the message that even a single night of indiscretion can have far-reaching consequences.”
I feel that this trope does not fit here because, though Rin was a teenager when she gave birth to Towa and Setsuna, her situation does not fit the trope. Can we consider removing this trope from her page?
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After rereading the Teen Pregnancy trope page, it does appear that this trope does not apply to Rin because she was married when she had the twins. What I will do is remove the trope and quote the Teen Pregnancy page for why this trope does not apply. And if it is determined that this trope applies to Rin, then in this context the trope would also apply to Sango as she was also a teenager when she was pregnant with her first child
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The Mokomoko-sama is in fact his tail.
In a Shounen Sunday interview, Takahashi said, and I quote: "After he transforms into a dog and returns to his human body, the tail stays behind..."
The tail stays behind in his humanoid form. The fact that it bleeds and that he uses it as a third arm in both the manga and anime only gives further proof that its not "just" fur. (In the manga the mokomoko-sama is actually drawn as a tail.) After Inuyasha first used the Wind Scar on Sesshomaru, the only injury he had was a huge bloody gash in the mokomoko. He can be beaten, hacked away at, hell, he can have a sword run through his eye, arm cut off, even stabbed in the heart and he'll still muscle through and fight. But this one blow to the mokomoko-sama left him paralyzed for several days (the anime made it look like it was only a few hours). You're telling me that he can go through all that but one blow to the mokomoko-sama is gonna send him out of commission if it's not especially sensitive?
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The references to it as his tail appear to have already been removed, so there doesn't seem to be a need to address that.
However, I do have doubts about two other points.
1) "mokomoko-sama" doesn't seem to be an official term so much as an affectionate nickname. "Mokomoko" is not a noun, it's an Unsound Effect indicating that something is soft and fluffy, and "-sama" is an honorific used in addressing people, not objects or body parts. A more literal translation might well be "Lord Fluff-Fluff."
2) The argument for the fluff as an Achilles' Heel is very weak, especially since this is coming from anime/manga, in which massive injuries are commonly represented by one or two relatively superficial wounds or a bit of Blood from the Mouth. The fact that the only visible wound was on the fluff does not mean that was the only wound incapacitating him. It's simply a bit of visual shorthand.
If it were an actual weak point, I would expect to see other indications: dialog from Jaken or Myoga pointing it out as his weak point, efforts from Inuyasha or other characters to attack that point, Sesshomaru being required to protect his weak point, something. That Sesshomaru is incapacitated from a massive blast of energy which has the potential to kill a hundred demons in a single blow, and his injuries are subsequently represented by a wound on a conveniently nondescript and furry part of his body, is not enough basis to indicate that the fluff is an Achilles' Heel or weak point, particularly given that there are no other references throughout the series to it being a weak point.
I'm... inclined to yank the Attack the Tail bit, as it seems shoehorned in.
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I've left it alone because my previous cut of Achilles' Heel got reverted and I don't want to perpetuate an edit war. It and the entry for Glass Cannon seem very out of place, though, based entirely on the assumption that the gash to the fluff was the only injury received from an attack that canon at that point makes out to be extremely powerful.
Pulled it because the entry itself said that it's not a tail.
Glass Cannon I'm okay with, mostly because of his losing his arm so easily to a completely unempowered Tessaiga. Yes, that doesn't sound that bad, but given just how Made of Iron Inuyasha is and how plain unkillable Naraku is, that such a blow crippled Sesshoumaru for pretty much the rest of the series is pretty glaring.
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So, we know that anime characters tend to have Vague Ages, but with Inuyasha, Rin is particularly famous for this as of late. There have been many debates about her age, with people claiming she was 7-8 in the OG series, 11 in the Final Act, and 29 by the present of Yashahime.
While there are those who claim that there is no official source for Rin's age, "Inu Yasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler" has Rin at 7-8 years old. Even the wiki lists her ages as what I mentioned above. Should Rin's page be edited to fit this information or no?
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