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a fragment of a script that got too big to record about rinko maybe being in love with hinako
spoilers for silent hill f, all endings, all documents, this is only worth reading if you've consumed all of the game's text. and honestly maybe not even then.
First, a disclaimer.
What I’m about to say is my own opinion and in some ways my own complete speculation on Rinko’s character. So if what I’m about to say feels incredibly wrong and stupid, just either skip this one or assume that I am brain-rotten in ways you are not.
Or maybe this will hit you as a completely mundane read on the situation, and you’ll wonder what kind of discussions I’ve been having with other people that I have to preamble this much to simply say:
Is Rinko in love with Hinako?
Maybe the most specific character beat in the whole game besides Hinako’s fear of marriage is the fact that Rinko has a massive crush on Shu, and hates Hinako over her obviously more intimate relationship with the man. Rinko’s profile, as written by Hinako, tells us that she and Hinako fight all the time.
Throughout the whole game, we find nasty notes from Rinko spread around the places she’s been— she wrote several anonymous hate messages toward Hinako and spread them around the school so Hinako would maybe find them, we find diary entries that get progressively more and more deranged over the course of the playthroughs about how much she wants Hinako to leave her and Shu alone, and a distorted version of her ultimately interrupts one of Fox Hinako’s wedding rituals in the Dark Shrine, trying to kill her to make sure she will never be happy.
But something feels a little off about that hatred, at least to me. On the surface, and through her dialogue in the Ebisugaoka sections, we know Rniko’s one of the people who treats Hinako like she should be considered dead after getting engaged, specifically when talking to Shu about how they can now be together. She even tries to replace Hinako’s role in their game of Space War, which… might be the single pettiest thing in the entire game, it’s bordering on lunacy, it’s so funny.
Still, in ending 1, this is Rinko. She’s a complete thematic opposite to Hinako— while Hinako longs for the days when she was younger and didn’t have to think about being a woman and getting married, Rinko yearns for skipping to the part of her life where she can marry someone and “be an adult”.
The more we learn about Rinko, the more we realize that she’s deeply insecure. Every action she takes is a reflection of how much she doesn’t believe she gets what she deserves: her friendships are opportunities to show how much better she is than other girls, her career as a student council president is an opportunity to lord over her classmates, buying her friends candy is a chance to show how much richer she is than everyone else, so on and so forth.
In that way, maybe even “loving Shu” is a way to show how much better she feels than Hinako, that she can take away even this platonic best friend who clearly wants to date Hinako. We read a note from her teacher that implies the adults in school realize Rinko isn’t exactly acting like people’s friend, but more as people’s superior, which means it's obvious enough that even people in the outside see it.
New Game+’s new cutscenes don’t quite expand on Rinko much; the only real difference we see with her is the fact that that the red lilies were present in the staircase she pushes Hinako from. This might symbolize Rinko as an agent of the patriarchy, like she’s clearly posed to be, so I always thought it was odd to not include those in the original playthrough in the first place.
The Red Lillies symbolize death and rebirth, and in the game, marriage and giving in to patriarchal demands is frequently equated to death, by Rinko herself even. To finally attack Hinako while under their presence has a different connotation than to do so without them.
However, we do get access to very important documentation regarding her feelings. While the first playthrough established how she felt superior to others, New Game+ has letters/diary pages written from the perspective of Rinko reaching some conclusions about herself:
I've wasted years of my life at school carefully putting on the good-girl act. Pretending I was perfect in every way. Basking in my own sense of superiority.
Back then, I sincerely believed I was better than everyone else.
But things are different now. I can see how I've been looking down on others just to falsely raise myself up.
I can't help but wonder, though... Has everyone else seen through my act this whole time?
Hinako. Sakuko. Even Shu.
Maybe they've always seen through me, straight to my rotten core. Maybe all this time, they were only pretending to be my friends.
(The handwriting is seething with unfettered hatred.)
But I'm not the one at fault! It's all because of that awful HINAKO!
If only you were gone, then I wouldn't be feeling like this!
Yet another document found in your second playthrough reads:
I should have never pretended to be something I wasn't. If I hadn't, then I would have been able to look Hinako in the eye. I could have told her what I really think of her. Put her in her place.
But I've let everything sit and fester. And now, the wound has turned necrotic.
So even though this is the day all my wildest dreams are coming true, my heart still feels heavy.
(The handwriting is chaotic and full of violent energy.)
This is the bed I made, so I'll lie in it.
But I won't ever, EVER forgive you for what you did to Shu! How DARE you hurt him!
Shu may not cry or scream at you like I know he wants to, but I'll make you feel his pain all the same!
This, and other documents, feel like they’re being written just before Hinako’s wedding (as established in Ending 1), the “day all Rinko’s dreams will come true”; after today, Hinako is dead, after all, and Rinko can have Shu all for herself.
It feels like Rinko’s negativity toward Hinako has festered into something more vicious, even if we only take the part of the notes that isn’t “violently scribbled” into account. But it also seems like time has forced her to think about these feelings, rather than just let herself be guided by them.
It continues, in another document:
How arrogant I've been.
I realize now that the hatred and envy I felt towards Hinako for having a boy who loved her far outweighed my own love for Shu.
I really am stupid, aren't I? Hinako always said that she and Shu weren't dating. And yet…
I wasted such a valuable opportunity. I could have asked her so much about him. What does Shu like?
What does Shu care about?
What does Shu think about me?
I could have asked her all of this, but I didn't.
Instead, I stewed in my own jealousy. Like an idiot.
Do you see the shift in her perspective? Do you see how it now feels like Rinko doesn’t actually know Shu at all? Like now that she has an opportunity, since Hinako’s is getting married, she’s realizing that this crush is yet another superficial attempt by her to find some meaning in her life?
I argue all the documentation about Rinko, even the box puzzle letters, supports the idea that she doesn’t really care about Shu as much as she cares about separating Shu and Hinako. The depth of feeling she has is entirely one-sided toward Hinako, and Shu ends up just being a means to an end, even if she doesn’t realize it until a full playthrough. She knows nothing about Shu. I think you can argue they’re not even really close friends, not as much as the others are.
New Game++ gives us more insight into Rinko’s inner conflict, still seemingly in the same timeline where she’s writing just before Hinako’s wedding takes her from her friends’ lives altogether.
I've always looked down on Hinako and Sakuko. That's why I've never been able to expose my weaknesses to them. How am I supposed to share the depths of my heart with mere insects?
Maybe if I had treated them as equals, I could have actually told Hinako the truth. About my feelings. Or his feelings.
Maybe if we could have actually fought—really, truly fought—then I wouldn't have to feel the way I do now.
Tomorrow is Hinako's oh-so-special day.
But you know what? Maybe I'll give in.
Maybe I'll tell her how much I actually hate her.
(The handwriting here turns into a disturbing scrawl.)
You LIED to me. You BETRAYED Shu.
I will destroy you. I'm going to beat you bloody, then tear you limb from limb.
Why won't you just do everyone a favor and just—
We see this push and pull of Rinko realizing the problem lies within her, that her own insecurity has denied her true friendship with people who actually do appreciate her, and want to be with her regardless of her status. In the same breath that she talks about how she wishes she had been more truthful to them, she then bemoans them as insects again, as if she’s losing control of the narrative she’s told herself for years.
Yet she can’t even do that right. She keeps mentioning how she wishes she could have told Hinako "the truth about her feelings", about how she wishes their relationship had reached some sort of catharsis that made things make sense.
And she carried this up to the day of Hinako’s wedding. Rinko already treats the wedding like Hinako will die after it happens, telling Shu that "Hinako is dead" multiple times in every playthrough. And maybe by NG++ it’s starting to sink in that this means she won’t get to talk to Hinako again after it, either. That anything she has stuck in her throat is going to stay there for the rest of her life if she doesn’t say it now.
At this point, it comes out as strong, passionate hatred. Rinko is a spiteful person; her default emotion toward others is negative. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only emotion she’s capable of. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t know what she’s doing, and knows she has problems:
I'm sure the teachers have seen right through me. They know the truth—that I am friendless in the truest sense of the word.
I think I've been doing it unconsciously all this time. Looking for someone I can say that I'm helping, but am really just looking down on.
Hinako and Sakuko and Shu have never stopped calling me their friend. But I don't think I ever earned that...
Rinko has several types of notes. She has regular diary pages, semi-anonymous origami cranes where she vents, and a secret diary. New Game++ is the playthrough where we get a lot of the more important secret diary sections to understand her character beyond the superficial hatred she exudes:
I've been blessed with an easy life. Happy, with kind parents who are well-off. I never doubted myself. Not even once.
But then one day, I met you, lost and alone as you were. And then I felt contempt. Irritation. Disgust. Envy.
Now that I think about it, you taught me all the emotions children are supposed to learn during childhood. If not for you, I might have stayed a big fish, content in my happy little pond.
Now, I've outgrown Ebisugaoka. That is the gift you gave me. So today, what I really want to say to you is, thank you.
No, I can't read this in front of other people. Start over.
It seems like she’s writing something to read at Hinako’s wedding, or maybe at their graduation. Some event that has to do with Hinako, at least. Regardless of what it is, this seems to be Rinko’s attempt at closure, at trudging through her own negativity and trying to find what it is that she actually wants Hinako to know about her. About them.
We also have the Folded Letters of the scarecrows you face near the beginning section of the game. The letters not only change with every difficulty, but they also change for every difficulty in subsequent playthroughs. The description says that they reminds Hinako of Rinko’s handwriting. A combination of repetition and playing on New Game+ gives us these letters:
Hinako, I like you so, so, so much!
I love you, I love you, I LOVE YOU!
You better not go anywhere! Don't you DARE leave me behind!
I love you and Sakuko SO much!
I think I'd die if you ever left!
Sakuko and I would probably bite off our tongues, gouge out our eyeballs, and use gardening shears to chop off all of our fingers, one by one!
Shu also loves you oh so very much!
He said he's so in love with you, every other girl to him is just a parasite that doesn't deserve to live!
I wonder if he's going to kill me too... Hinako, if you leave Shu behind, he's going to kill the rest of us girls.
Please, Hinako... Save us! I love you, I love you, I LOVE YOU!
I've gotten on your nerves at least one time, right? I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry!
Is that the reason you don't want to stay with us anymore?
What can I do to make you forgive me? What can I do to make you love Shu?
Hinako, I like you so, so, so much!
I love you, I love you, I LOVE YOU!
Sakuko, Shu, and I, we all love EVERYTHING about you!
So please, don't listen to that creepy guy! You can't believe a single word he says!
These are clearly deranged messages not meant to be taken completely literally. Considering every document in the game to be factual is a problem, because some of them are clearly being corrupted by the Dark World. But I don’t think that necessarily means they’re lies, I just think they’re exaggerations.
We see evidence for most of everything that is written in similar deranged form, both from Rinko and from Sakuko. These are usually just their normal feelings turned up to eleven, to violence and anger that the girls may never truly feel, but that they could if they were pushed hard enough.
I also believe it’s important to understand where you find these folded notes. The scarecrow enemies in Silent Hill f are called the Ayakakashi, a word that essentially identifies them as scarecrow-like figures; things pretending to be scarecrows to lure you in and kill you. And this is reflected in the gameplay mechanics— you can’t ever tell which Ayakakashi is real and which one is just decorative until you’re close enough that they can hurt you, and, during the Rice Fields puzzle where you find these letters, you must correctly identify the Ayakakashi that won’t hurt you in the middle of a bunch of them that will.
Except, the one you need to identify is different from the others, not just in behavior. A letter contextualizing the puzzle reads:
The field that's all misty is really scary.
I keep thinking someone's there but it's always just a scarecrow with a creepy face.
But there's one scarecrow that's not actually scary.
The only reason it's making a scary face is because it's got a thorn sticking into it and it's hurt.
So all you have to do is take the thorn out and it'll tell you which way to go.
The only way to get access to these letters is to find a scarecrow that is hurting because something is stuck inside him, and to get it out. But the scarecrow is not actually scary. It’s not actually an enemy, and it doesn’t actually want to hurt you. It just wants to stop feeling pain.
Look, all cards on the table: you can obviously, and I feel like the game does expect you to, read Rinko as just kind of an asshole who was way too insecure as a kid, and over time came to regret how she treated people. That she’s a woman who thought her life as someone looking to get married needed her to put others down, and that when Hinako came around embodying a lifestyle that didn’t require anyone else to tell her how to feel or live, Rinko snapped and panicked and became her worst self.
Because it meant her life could be different, and the voices in her head were wrong. It meant she didn't have to live in a cage, slowly boiling over lava while everyone else sees her from the outside, and she tries reminding them of how perfect her life is.
I am not saying this read is not the case textually, and, without anything else that I'm arguing for, it still makes Rinko a compelling character that you only get to know if you play through the game carefully, and piece together enough information from documents and clues the game provides you.
Yet I can’t stop thinking about that scarecrow, and about those NG++ messages, and about all this pussy-footing around her “feelings about Hinako”. I can’t stop wondering about what would a woman in rural 1960s Japan do if she realized the heteronormative pressures of her society were crushing her in a way that no one else seems to be crushed.
Sakuko has some letters that imply she’s got some unresolved problems with attachment, but every reference to Rinko’s feelings toward Hinako feels like overcompensating, and then like regret. Like mourning something that died before you fully got to know it. Realizing the red lilies of death are here, but you're not ready.
Queer readings of characters in distress who are aggressively heteronormative is nothing new, and I realize that if the game wanted to explore Rinko’s sexuality, they probably would have done so explicitly. Even if the story takes place over half a century ago, the game was published in 2025, and we can talk about things like this out in the open now.
But I also think Silent Hill f is about womanhood in all facets, and I think Rinko’s horrified rejection of what she feels for another woman would fit the totality of her documents better than simply presuming she had some more generic, high school drama stuff to work through.
I think the multiple references to her repressing her emotions, being unable to put a name to how she should act toward Hinako, and the threat Hinako’s philosophy represents to her internalized way of seeing herself as a woman, was simply too much for someone with no space to explore herself and no understanding of how things could be different.
I think that letter she “wanted to read in front of people” got restarted over and over again not because she kept insulting Hinako, or because she kept coming off mean, but because she didn’t know exactly how much of herself she wanted to put into it. Because that would be her real self, not the carefully curated experience she crafted for men to fawn over her and women to want to be her.
Regardless, in the version of the letter we got to read, she did say Hinako showed her another way to live. That without Hinako, she would be in Ebisugaoka forever. That she outgrew her place of origin because of the woman, and that is genuinely more than any other character in the game, maybe except Kotoyuki, can really say they figured out.
Despite this growth, Rinko isn’t exactly a good person in Silent Hill f. She’s mean, manipulative, jealous, and actively tries to harm Hinako in both the real world and the Dark Shrine. But I think a big theme of the game is also that we are more more than the worst moments in our lives, more than decisions we make while in distress and not seeing a way things could be better.
And I guess I should say it now: my final piece in the puzzle is the joke ending.
The joke endings in Silent Hill are never something you should take extremely seriously. I don’t think any of them actually trigger in full playthroughs, and they’re obviously not canon to anything but themselves. But the one in f has the kids— all of them, even, including Sakuko— trying to figure out if they’re really who they say they are in the midst of an assumed alien invasion of Ebisugaoka.
Hinako and Rinko immediately start trying to prove they’re themselves by revealing embarrassing things about their lives— Hinako forgot her underwear at camp, Rinko tried a love spell on Shu, that sort of thing. They bicker and fight like we know they always do.
But then, ultimately, the joke is that Sakuko starts to reveal that, as we all know, Shu is a bit of a creep. He ripped pages out of porn magazines and glued pictures of Rinko and Hinako onto the models’ bodies, and, when it’s his turn to try to prove he’s really himself, he reveals that he knows exactly when all the girls started to wear bras.
The girls gang up and beat the shit out of him, because this is obviously the best ending of the game, and the last beat before we start the setup for the incredible cameo of the Iconic Silent Hill Dog is the fact that Hinako and Rinko both agree that, despite not finding an alien with this method, they “found an enemy to all women”. That is, Shu, and men like Shu. Or men in general.
And this might literally be the singular time when Hinako and Rinko agree on something, and treat each other well. When they’re punking on Shu and men like him. God, even in the joke ending he sucks, but at least he gets to be the thing they agree on: they really don't need him.
I just find it fits if she's into girls even a little, is all. Nothing much to it. I think the game gives enough evidence that Rinko at the very least doesn’t quite understand why she feels so strongly about Hinako one way or another. I think the concept of misunderstood crushes that turn into confusing emotions is pretty universally understood. And I think a game about womanhood can in fact include some woman-loving, for morale.
All this to say, yes, toxic yuri would have saved her. Write more fanfiction, god damn it.
Silent hill f/ Chizuruya gang, but make it shojo romance from Rinko's pov. I actually just wanted to draw ~sparkly shojo eyes~ so it was initially supposed to be just Rinko and Shu, and then i drew everyone else....
I am influenced a lot by Rinko's actress, Yuka Iijima, and Rinko has become my favorite sh f character, so part of me kinda wants to reimagine the story from her pov. Rinko's actress feels like someone who came out of a shojo manga, so I like to draw her whenever I want to experiment with shojo art styles. I also read a few showjosei manga that reminds me of the human drama and themes of sh f, which is another motivation to why I want to draw in a more "feminine" manga style.
hey i'm curious does anyone have any theories on this???
like, it's noted to be Rinko's handwriting and she mentions everyone except Rinko so it's pretty safe to assume it was written by her- she mentions everyone except herself while screaming how much she loves her. while i'm still going to imagine closeted bi or lesbian Rinko because of this i kind of wonder what it's meant to signify because while Ryukishi07 might be saying "to at least some extent she wants to kiss girls" i kinda doubt that's the whole case
there's a theory that the entire Head Priest boss fight is a manifestation of an absolutely devastating actual fight Rinko and Hinako had in the real world before Hinako left Ebisugaoka where they both just screamed all their frustrations about the other which was traumatizing enough for Hinako to manifest as a formidable foe- some of the banter between them in the Head Priest boss fight and even Hinako's "I'm glad we could finally tell eachother how we really feel-" don't fully match what's going on in the fight either.
is this some kind of letter Hinako wrote afterwards? she begs her not to marry that "creepy guy" (presumably Kotoyuki) and asks if this is why she doesn't "want to stay with us anymore." was this like some kind of mental projection of a letter Rinko desperately wrote to try to smooth things ever realizing she had burned her bridges with one of her only friends?
just curious what others thought of this bc i'm having trouble make sense of it's meaning personally
I have a headcanon that the creature is transfeminine… there’s an allegory there for me that I connect with a lot. Being created as and expected to be one thing, and just… not being that at all. Maybe I just watched the movie with a transgender eye but it just feels so fitting to me.
YOU'RE NOT ALONE ANON PUT HER THERE 🤝🤝🤝 i've been on the nonbinary creature train since i first read the book about a decade ago but it took the 2025 film for me to really see the transfeminine possibilities. there's this bts photo (hi robert englund!!) of the fake bodies they used for victor's construction of the creature and some of them are women plus there's this quote from the artbook where oscar isaac says: "This is at the core of the film and of course the book: the feminine energy swirling within all of it. There was something beautiful and feminine about the way Jacob moved, the way he operated.”
then of course there's the white streak in his hair which to be fair is supposed to show that the creature is literally made from different people but also i don't think it's that much of a stretch to suggest that it's also meant to evoke elsa lanchester as the bride.
frankenstein in all its media iterations—whether intentional or not—has always carried some sort of transgender allegory or metaphor or not even subtext but actual text. for me what makes gdt creature so beautiful is that i've seen people apply literally everything to him whether it's a nonbinary, intersex, trans, or genderqueer reading. because while he is continually searching for his own identity despite being "the other" (a concept which a lot of queer people have and still relate to) he's also meant to reflect us the audience. which is why the final shot of the film is mirrored; the creature saw himself in the people he interacted with, meanwhile the audience sees themselves in him.
adding onto this point in terms of the film, i saw someone suggest that he gravitates more to mimicking women like elizabeth, the medusa head in the tower, the little girl in the cottage, even the old man can be seen as tiresias the blind prophet of apollo who is depicted as both a man and a woman. i LOVE this analysis and agree with it to a point since the creature is also able to mimic the men in his life like victor who is manic and aggressive and short-tempered. of course this ties into the main theme of the film which is how we end up taking after our parental figures (everything good and bad and it's up to us whether we want to continue the familial cycle or break it) however i think you can also make the argument that the creature struggles with his inherited toxic masculine traits along with him being more open to healthy femininity.
(i don't have the book on hand with me at the moment but i'm pretty sure there's a page where the creature tells victor that he essentially reflects and gives back what humanity shows him. if he's treated with love and kindness, then he's loving and kind in turn. if he's treated with nothing but violence and loathing, then he gives that violence and hatred back in spades)
NOW obviously the film is not trying to say "men bad, women good". it's tempting to jump to that conclusion but it also suggests a weird gender essentialism and doesn't really engage with the film below a surface level reading. yes victor's mother was loving and gentle but she's also the sole proprietress of the frankenstein name which had financial stakes in slave plantations presumably in haiti.
william takes part and thrives in a system that is held up by imperialism, industrialization, and warmongering without ever questioning it but he's also literal sunshine in a human body who loves his brother and treats elizabeth as an equal (and is a bit of a pushover understandably so).
elizabeth is the first to empathize and understand the creature but she also comes from a place of privilege (despite acknowledging the wrongdoings of her family) and doesn't see anything disturbing with victor's experiments at first until she realizes that one is being mistreated and abused by him. she also treats smaller undesirable and misunderstood creatures like insects with care but is gleeful when she suggests to victor that they trap a butterfly.
then there's the old blind man who should be the patriarchal figure of his family but we see him as more of a gentle and patient caretaker to his granddaughter than her own parents.
keep in mind that all of these characters are shown from the perspective of victor and the creature—who both have their own biases, misconstrues, and lapses in memory—but it shows that human beings have complicated, multifaceted, and contradictory personalities regardless of biological gender. a man can embrace his child, tend to his wounds, calm him down, and educate him but he can also physically beat him when he doesn't behave the way he wants him to (something that unfortunately A LOT of queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people can relate to...) or a woman can be nurturing but also benefit from privilege built off the backs of human exploitation.
that was a bit of a tangent lmao BUT the creature can absolutely be viewed as transfeminine. you can also apply a transgender reading to the rest of the frankenstein trio!! victor constantly wearing his mother's gloves and her colour after her death, elizabeth feeling trapped and lacking personal choice ("the one gift god granted unto us") then only managing to find that connection through mutual scientific interests with another man then followed by someone who could be a man but appears odd and disquieting like herself. i've also always seen elements of mary shelley in all three, especially victor and the creature.
this is my extremely long winded way of me saying that i agree with you anon!! and i love that by the end of the film, 2025 creature is able to embody healthy masculine and feminine traits based off the people he had in his life. hopefully in his immortal life he can finally transition 🍁
Listen, I am not saying you need to ship Hinako with any of the men she is given in the game. She makes it very clear she doesn't feel like women are completed by marrying a man, which is still very true. Even at the end when she is talking to the fox part of her who wants to propose to Kotoyuki, her other side just wants to find something to be passionate about.
But people balking at the fact that people ship Kotoyuki and her, saying they're romanticizing abuse??? Hinako spends 2 endings talking about how Kotoyuki is someone she grew to genuinely like because of his kindness (something not forced upon him by a god), so she warmed up to the idea of marrying him despite her fears of turning out like her mother and father.
Marriage was not the enemy of Hinako. Her trauma and fear of change clouded her from seeing the subject with nuance. Kotoyuki and her confrontations with the other characters throughout the true ending made her deeply reflect on the concept of marriage. He helped her envision a future with a partner that could be bright, could be with a man who would actually make HER happy. Not just used as a mute doll to serve a man.
Only Hinako can decide if she wants marriage to be a part of her life, and all the struggles and complexities that come with it. And Kotoyuki respects that, unsure of the idea himself by the end as well.
Hinako starts off thinking marriage should be avoided at all costs, then ends with her being more open to it. Kotoyuki starts off thinking marriage was something to desperately pursue, then ends with him putting it aside to focus on his own desires for once.
Idk I feel like seeing this ship as only toxic and abusive is a direct misreading of their characters, which takes away from the complexities of the narrative
