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| “ | I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WANT! NOBODY CARES ABOUT WHATEVER ROTTEN LITTLE THOUGHTS POP INTO YOUR HEAD, OKAY!? THIS ISN'T! ABOUT! YOU! WHAT ABOUT WHAT I WANTED!? DID YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT!? I WANTED A NICE, NORMAL DAUGHTER... A DAUGHTER WHO'S NOT SOME AUTISTIC FREAK! | „ |
| ~ Rin Takahashi to Mari in the former's rage-breaking point, revealing her true feelings towards her own daughter. |
Rin Takahashi, or most commonly referred to as Mom, is the main antagonist of the OMORI AO3 fanfiction Time to Disinfect. She is the mother of Mari and Sunny Takahashi.
Behind a ruse of a strict, yet well-meaning and patient parent and being a departure of her original counterpart, she's an emotionally and later physical abusive parent to Mari, also largely dismissive of Sunny and unfairly abuses her for not being "normal" and instead with her autistic disorder she dismisses as "difficulties", "ruining" her public image she's obsessed with keeping perfect for Faraway Town, using it and her personal wants as an excuse to keep abusing Mari so she could finally become the "nice, normal daughter" she wanted.
What Makes Her Despicable?[]
In General[]
- Unlike her original counterpart who meant little-to-no ill intentions towards her children and was rather well-meaning, Rin Takahashi is shown to be the opposite of her original character and while keeping the mentioned before, she uses it as a ruse to hide her true self as an emotional abusive parent towards Mari and a dismissive, uncaring one to Sunny as well.
- It's shown throughout the story that she was solely responsible for Mari's internalized ableism and severely low-esteem issues as she had emotionally abused and manipulated her for a decade when she found out that Mari was on the autistic spectrum, instilling in Mari the idea that nobody would love her or want her around due to her disability.
- Speaking of which, instead of understanding Mari's situation and not taking out any aggression, she does the latter and develops a burning hatred for her own daughter for not being a "normal" daughter she wanted, unfairly explaining her abuse targeted towards Mari. She even manipulated her into a delusion of thinking that she loved Mari despite her actions proving otherwise.
- She doesn't care for her children's wants and needs and instead only cares about her public image she wants to keep perfect and only herself, and possibly her husband as well. She personally sees her job as a mother as a higher-being over Sunny and Mari, expecting them to do as she says and unfairly punishing them, Mari specifically, if they didn't and end up making mistakes that would make them less perfect and "messes up" her public image.
- As a bonus, she forces Mari and possibly Sunny to do things they aren't most uncomfortable with at certain moods, such as forcing the former to maintain eye-contact with her in conversations and chastising her for doing imperfect actions.
Certain Actions[]
- Chapter 3: She unfairly grounded Mari and Sunny for a week after the failed recital, forces them to apologize to their next-door neighbors for wasting their time, and then emotionally abuses Mari into thinking that it was her fault that the recital had been ruined. It showed that instead of caring about the mentality of her own children, she simply dismissed it aside and chose to care more about the failed outcome of the recital and use it as an excuse for her behavior.
- Chapter 4-5: While not as bad as mentioned above and later, she chastised Mari simply for trying to drink a galloon of juice instead of getting a cup for it and later scolding her for missing the time she was supposed to get home after returning from Kel's house.
- Chapter 9: Uncaring about Mari's mental stability after a recent mental breakdown, she tore down on her for forgetting about her unfair grounding again and after extending it to 2 weeks, called her off for being unable to control her "difficulties". When Mari understandably talked back at her, she bore down on Mari once more, not even caring about her own daughter's mentality growing more and more worse, blaming her for the times she had "made her look bad", possibly saying that Mari was an embarrassment, and giving her a severe slap when she tried to talk back again. To make matters worse, it was the cause of Mari later self-harming after their argument.
- Chapter 12: Instead of taking responsibility for her actions against Mari, she bribes her with breakfast so she could manipulate her own daughter into forgetting about what had happened that day and covers her actions behind a lie. Also, when Mari fakes being sick, even if she actually was, Rin simply still wanted her to go to school and was forced to oblige, only since she didn't have any prep classes.
- Chapter 16: She unfairly grounds Mari from going out with her friends that Halloween, using her unfair extended grounded time as an excuse, and becomes enraged just with Mari not wanting to do a redo of the failed recital and accusing her for manipulating Sunny to join her side, recommending a hard decision at the end before Mari shouted back in a panic. Out of anger, she voluntarily punctured her nails into Mari's skin while berating her for talking back and blaming her for "making her do this" when she was met with an accidental headbutt. What happens next reveals her true colors as she screams at her own daughter in her rage-breaking point and physically abuses her, ending it off with screaming at her her that she wanted a nice, normal daughter and not an "autistic freak".
- Chapter 18: A flashback shows a moment from when Mari was eight years old, where she was overwhelmed during a crowded church service and started crying. Rather than showing any kindness or sympathy, Rin harshly dragged her outside by the arm and berated her. She accused Mari of embarrassing their family in front of the whole town, and cruelly told Mari that "sooner or later nobody will ever want you around", something she knew Mari (who hates being left alone) was terrified of.
- Chapter 22: Her actions in chapter 16 led to Mari fleeing the house to get away from her abuse, eventually ending with Mari falling and injuring herself at the park, and suffering from hypothermia because she was outside in the freezing rain, needing to be hospitalized. Despite this, Rin still doesn't show any regret when she shows up at the hospital, blaming Mari for the whole ordeal. She also threatens to hit Sunny when he yells at her for acting rude and cruel. When her neighbor Mrs. Rodriguez confronts her over her abusive behavior, she lies and tries to claim the whole situation was actually just Mari manipulating people to make her look bad, even accusing Mari of being "sociopathic" rather than admitting that she'd done anything wrong.
- Chapter 23: Mari's doctor reveals that, when Mari had previously broken her leg a few years before the story, the doctors recommended to her parents that she be given a course of physical therapy to help her recuperate. But Rin refused and instead had Mari discharged from the hospital as early as possible. This resulted in her knee not healing properly, and it's shown causing Mari severe chronic pain throughout the story. It also meant that her knee was weakened, causing her to break it a second time when she fell, and this time the injury was bad enough to require a surgery that would leave Mari walking with a cane for the rest of her life. All of that was Rin's fault for not letting Mari get the treatment she needed.
- She's overall not just a horrible abusive parent both emotionally and later physically, but she possibly deserves to be noted as one of, if not, the worst parents from the OMORI fandom as her actions and behavior towards her own children and her preference of herself and her public image over them show who she really is behind a mask of a strict, yet well-meaning parent and a complete departure from her original counterpart who didn't have a major role in the original story, yet had been shown to be at least caring.
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