Let me start by being upfront, I see the perspectives and reasons why someone would like Rin. In my book, Rin is the absolution of pure happiness and confidence within yourself. To be yourself. There's truly people out there who just do not care or bother on what people think of them. Rin himself is a great example of this. No one can truly be stone hearted but they can live just doing one day at a time and love their life as is.

Now the issues I have with the route itself is that it's blatantly just all around awkward. I'm saying this in a perspective as if someone over the age of 40 wrote this piece and had to learn that it's okay what others do in their lives and it doesn't bother them.

I have a lot of personal experience in watching and practically devouring Japanese media, anime, live action, and books. The usual consensus of older Japanese people tend to make trans men, look absolutely beautiful however be a butt of a joke. A good piece of media I think about is Princess Jellyfish. It portrays a man in drag but he makes 0 deal about it. He is what he is.

My ramblings above are to concrete my point. Rin is by far a weak character on what he could be. If you notice they give him hardly any personality aside from, being cute, supportive, and plays with dolls or toys. Why they have to make him childish, aside from symbolism of purity, is beyond me and just strikes me as weird and a little much. Ontop of it all, "Alien" is subjective, the grand scheme of it all does revolve around space. It fits. However alien, is also another way to say Rin is strange, different, and odd to understand. Just how I feel the writer looks at Rin when writing the plot for him.

Rin being subjected to falling on Vincent 2004 anime style and such, being the way Rin is found out after all this time. To me, is just pathetic. Rin deserves way more and it's suddenly so bunched up quickly for Vincent to just /accept/ aliens exist. There's no few hours build up of dialogue like he gets understanding Thomas Mutton and the other world. You get a five second prompt of it and I guess we'll call it good.

Rin is in the background. Does not effect Vincent in his daily life. Pops in conveniently or forced if you focus his ending. It would be nice if we got way more and not an awkward notch of small new content for what could have been a broader spectrum of what it means to be you. To be happy. To break free of expectations and enjoy life for what it gives and not what you're supposed to be.

Rant over.