Ruu Wakasa
Haruna Wakasa | |
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Description | |
Season | Season 3 |
Age | Unknown, speculated to be 8–10 |
Species | Human |
Hometown | Earth 12 |
Likes | Rii-nee-san, candy, bears |
Dislikes | Rainy days, zombies |
Trivia | Her older sister calls her "Ruu-chan" |
Status | Dead (prior to Airlocked!) |
- Ruu Wakasa is an offscreen human from Airlocked! season 3.
Haruna Wakasa (若狭 遥南 Wakasa Haruna), more commonly known as Ruu, is Yuuri Wakasa's younger sister. Well, was.
She was adorable.
Story
Backstory
Ruu is first mentioned in passing during Airlocked! season 1 and season 2, primarily alongside Yuuri. She is never named or discussed in much detail, instead being mentioned in reference to Yuuri snapping under the strain of their situation and beginning to treat an inanimate teddy bear as if it were her younger sister. It was left ambiguous if this "little sister" was a hallucination of a real person or something Yuuri had invented out of whole cloth.
When Yuuri regains her memories of Ruu, she is more forthcoming with information about their early lives together. According to Yuuri, the two of them were the parents of a busy couple who were not always present at home. Because of this, Yuuri was often expected to babysit her younger sister and the two became extremely close as a result.
It is also mentioned that she was prone to getting lost when she was younger. One instance involved her chasing her hat that had been blown away in the wind over to the next neighbourhood, where she was eventually found by Yuuri.
Season 3
Ruu is properly introduced as a character in season three, following Yuuri's induction as a Champion. Yuuri initially has no memory of her, though this is due to Yuuri herself blocking out the memories of her sister due to some trauma related to her. Upon regaining some of her memories following successful rose ceremonies, Yuuri reveals that she can only see the girl in her memories as a stuffed bear but remembers the name "Ruu-chan".
Yuuri slowly regains muddled memories of Ruu and the bear as the game goes on but remains confused as to the truth of their relationship until very late in the game. According to Yuuri, she had previously regained her memories of Ruu prior to joining the game and attempted to rescue her from the girl's elementary school where she believed her to be waiting. Exactly what happened in this school is never made fully clear, as Yuuri is never able to regain those memories, but the result traumatized Yuuri so deeply that she convinced herself that a teddy bear taken from the school was Ruu, who she had rescued.
The true nature of Ruu's fate is never made fully apparent. However, it is all but explicitly stated that the encounter that caused Yuuri to snap was coming face to face with the zombiefied Ruu, which would mean she is dead.
Related characters and concepts
- See also: Yuuri Wakasa
Notes
Trivia
- Like Yuuri, Ruu's name, when written in Japanese, contains a character meaning distant or far away. According to Yuuri, this was an intentional theme on the part of their parents, though the reason for this is unknown.